The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 3, 1929 Page: 4 of 8
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THURSDAY, October 3, 11*39.
PARACHUTE WHIMS
Being of a very conservative
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very
nature there’s another thing we do
not intend doing for a number of
years yet, and that's risking our-
selves to the whims of a parachute.
The next generation may drop in
to tea via them,
a little to unconventional as yet.
For instance there's the girl
who jumped three weeks ago, and
had the exciting experience of
having the chute open just in time
to save her an awful smashup.
Even then there were broken ankles
and a sprained wrist, ail of which
must be very unpleasant. percy
Brooks, jumping at the International
Air Circus at Kansas City Friday
had to use a great deal of persuasion
on his apparatus, and it was only
after a desperate battle far above
the earth, that he succeeded in
unwinding the ropes to force the
parachute to open. William Weber,
jumping a short time
3,000 feet before his
Great Minds
You don’t have to preach honesty
to men with a creative purpose. Let
a human being throw the energies
of his soul into the making of some-
ii may oioi' ‘“jthing, and Ihe instinct of workman-
lUt' 1 4 I't’S|ship will take care of his honesty.-—
| Walter Lippmann.
Book love, my friends, is your pass
to the greatest, the purest and the
most perfect pleasure that God has
prepared for His creatures. It lasts
when all other pleasures fade. It
supports you when all other recrea-
tions are gone. It will last you until
your death. —Anthony Trollope.
Far away there in the sunshine
are my highest aspirations. I may
not reach them, but I can look up
and see their beauty, believe in
them, and try to follow where they
lead.—L. M. AJcott.
I believe in boys and girls, the
later fell I men an^ women of a great tomorrow
opened’ just j that whatsoever the boy
tho-s
in time to save him. Lucky,
fellows, but there must be an aw-
ful nervous strain attached to suen
incidents. Of course, there was j
Helen William’s parachute that
didn’t open—but that’s
story.
the
shall reap.—Edwin
soweth
Osgood
the man
Grover.
It is right and necessary that all
men should have work to do which
shc*il be worth doing, and which
another should be of itself pleasant to do.—
William Morris.
Judge Williford joined the local Mrs. O. B. Utley and son
hole in one club when he holed out j “Spookey” visited in Kirven Tues-
on his private golf course, Monday, day.
Meet Your Friends
at
Tate Drug Company
Ice Cream, Cold Drinks, Candies
Bus Station
By S. Kirgnn
There was some- criticism recently
in Fairfield regarding the fact that
the History Club had placed Julia
Peterkin’s “Black April,’’ a novel
dealing with life of the colored
people in the south, on the shelves of
the public library. The book was
condemned on the grounds that it
contained indecent and immoral in-
cidents, and was therefore, detrimen-
tal to Ihe young people into whose
hands it might fall.
The History Club selected “Black
April" from u group of the beat
books named by an authority in
contemporary literature, and few of
them had read the book even at the
time the criticism was launched
against it. They regretted the in-
cident, particularly since they had
made an effort to put the best of
reading matter in the library, and
through strenuous efforts were at-
tempting to build a library for
Fairfield of which the town might
be justly proud, a thing that they
have accomplished.
What then, of this “Black April”
and the woman who wrote it. Julia
Peterkin is a quiet educated south-
ern woman, who has spent all her
life on a great plantation surround-
ed by all that breathes of refine-
ment and culture that the south of
another day knew. Each day she
watched the colored people come
and go, each day she saw the
trend of their lives, their tragedies,
their disappointments, their folklore,
their strange beliefs, and one diay
the idea came to her to put it all
in print.
That is what she did. That is what
“Black April” is—no more, no less
than a record of the colored man—-as
no other person has ever written
or conceived it.
It is not certainly the book for a
child in the grades, because he
would have no conception of its
beauty of expression, its splendid
sympathy and understanding, but
it is the sort of book that is of vital
importance and necessity to older
minds in the south, where under-
standing and sympathy between the
two races Ls the only means of a
satisfactory relationship.
As Others See It
BURGER’S SHAME
The situation at Burger and
Hutchison County is a disgrace up-
the entire stale of Texas, and
one which every decent law-abiding
citizen should resent. It is hard to
conceive that any man with a shred
of decency about him, could enter
office for pcaco and enforce-
ment and “sell” himself, thereby
drugging through the mire his name
and position, and bringing defama-
tion upon the government of his
country.
Yet, authorities, after investigat-
ing the situation at Borgcr, have
made the following announcement:
“The law is not being effectively
enforced by the existing officers.
We find that this is not the fault
of the judiciary but of peace of-
ficers.
“Peace officers are for some
reason failing to suppress crijne and
bring criminals to justice.
“We have information that wit-
nesses who have been questioned
concerning law violations have been
threatened and run out of the
country."
It is little wonder that criminal
record of our country grows more
ghastly each day, and that each daily
paper continues to reveal new at-
rocities. We need men to fill the
positions of peace officers in Texas
now—not unprincipled, weak, shilly-
shallying imitations, who sell out
for a few jingling dimes, but red
blooded men, with honor and faith
and loyalty to themselves, their
country and their God; men who
believe that order can come out of
chaos; men that are willing if need
be, to lay down their lives in a de-
fense of the law of the land.
LEGION POST TO
MAKE BANQUET PLANS
The Wilbur A. Harrison Post of
the American Legion will hold a
meeting Thursday evening, October
3, at the city hall.
Officers will be elected at this
meeting and plans will be made for
the entertainment of F, C. Cox,
state commander of the legion, who
is to speak at the annual banquet
November 11.
Surprised By uuiti
Mr. and Mr*. G. C. Cooper of
Ward Prairie were taken by suipris*-
late Saturday evening when their
children and grandchildren arrive.)
to spend Saturday night amt Sunday
with them. They were: Mr. and Mrs.
L. T. Cooper and son of Houston,
Mr, and Mrs. W. C. Cooper and s*'-1'
of Teague, Mr. an|i Mrs. J. M. C(fO
and two sons of Freestone, ai
a Recorder want ad.
Mrs. Willie West of Mexia.-
buted.
Recorder want ad.
Oontrn
nev-
any-
FIVE MISTAKES IN LIFE
1. The delusion that individual ad-
vancement is mad^ by crushing others
down.
2. The tendency to worry about
things that cannot be changed or cor-
rected.
3. Insisting that a thing is impossi-
ble because we ourselves cannot ac-
complish it.
4. Attempting to compel others to
believe and live as we do.,
5. Neglect in developing and re-
fining the mind by not acquiring the
habit of reading fine literature.—
Garland News.
THE spender
er succeeds in
thing he undertakes
and never fails to
place the blame for
his lack of success
upon others.
Fairfield State Bank
Fairfield, 7 ex as
OFFICERS: T. J. Hall, Pr*i.| C. H. W.t.on, Vic-
P«■•».; F. E. Hill, Jr., Cukitri C. E. Childs, Asst. Cashiar;
E. F. Glazenar, Asst. Cashier.
DIRECTORS: F. E. Hill, Sr.,
Watson, T. J. Hall. F. E. Hill, Jr.
H. J. Cannon, C. H.
i
H-E-A
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Floyd L. Hawkins
In Pentacostal Revival
At Fairfield Tabernacle
Meetings Every Night at 7:30
Sunday Night’* Subject: “The Second
Coming of Christ.”
Good Singing—Instrumental Music
Everybody Come
“French Cotton Increases Yield,”
runs a headline in a recent isue of
the New York Times. But when
the article underneath is examined it
is found that the entire yield of
French African possessions where
their cotton is growing is “close to
9,000 tons,” or 36,000 hales in our
system of calculation. If the ton
referred to is the metric ton, the
figure for bales would be 39,600.
Alarm over French-African com-
petition need not be acute at this
time. Thirty-nine thousand bales is
less cotton than Dallas County alone
grew last year. In an ordinary year
from thirty to forty Texas counties
yeild that much each. Some coun-
ties grow three times as much as all
French Africa. Included in the es-
timate, apparently, is some native
cotton which is not up to grade for
general textile use.—Semi-Weekly
Farm News.
I A veteran policeman who has serv-
I ed years in uniform, and in efforts to
curb crime, says he has never yet
taken a young man in crime who
was well trained in some trade or
profession. Now men in trades or
professions do commit crimes, some-
times. There is no denying that. But
it is plausible, the statement that
men who are busy at a job or some
profession, are not led to corrfmit
crimes. Idleness is responsible for
most crimes; and ignorance is back
of idleness. Men who know how to
do things usually have jobs that sus-
tain them. That policeman is per-
haps speaking very near the truth.—'
The 1‘alestine Daily Herald.
Reporternian notes that over at
Alto in East Texas, farmers are
not worrying about the short cotton
crop because of the fact that they
sold over $300,000 worth of to-
matoes in Jun nnd arp prepared to
they believe is sure to come after
the speculators think thuy have
bought it all up.—The Rockdale
Reporter.
Fire Prevention Week is designat-
ed in Texas as October 6th to 12th.
We hope Fnmkston will get busy
and observe the week in a fitting
way. If we need to give our atten-
tion to any one thing above another
:t is our f re protection. That is
why our fire insurance rates are
almost. prohibitive because the
hazard ia so great.—The Franks ton
Citizen.
Mlaa Evelyn Harding viaR.d
Wortham ths past week-end.
K* B. Steward, bar baby
Ann, sad Vlas Lydia Kilty,
nt tba past “*
Fattens,
Gives En,
Costs Less
Saves Almost
half the feed
bill.. Use more
Substitute
and
SAVE!
Use
More
COTTONSED
MEAL
And
Cottonseed
HULLS
Feed two pounds
of Cottonseed
Meal and Six
pounds of Cot-
tonseed Hulls
daily to Horses
and Mules and
reduce their
grain ration by
six pounds.
Safe and Economical
for Horse*, Mules, Cat-
tle, Poultry and Hogs.
Ba sure to Talk It
Over With Us
20 Per Cent to
40 per cent hun-
dred weight of
the ration can
be made up of
Cottonseed Meal
with good
results
Munger Oil &
Teague, Texas
Cotton Company
Mexia, Texas
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Kirgan, Lee. The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 3, 1929, newspaper, October 3, 1929; Fairfield, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1106737/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fairfield Library.