The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 9, 1939 Page: 4 of 8
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*»AGE FOUR
THEVAIRFIELD RECORDER, FAIRFIELD, TEXAS, MARCH 9, 139
THE COUNTY PAPER
The Fairfield Recorder
THE COUNTY PAPER
Published Each Thursday at Fairfield, Texas, Freestont
County, Where the Great Highways of Texas Cross.
Entered as second class mail matter at the Postoffic
•t Fairfield, Texas, under Act of March 6, 1879.
L. C. KIKGAN Editor
RAMON It. KIRGAN. --- ------------------Publisher
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Tributes of Respect, Obituaries and Cards of Thanks.
1 cent a word. Privilege of omitting all poetry reserves
by this paper.
Thursday. March 9. 1939
Lead me. O Lord, in thy righteousness because of
mine enemies; Make thy way straight before my face.
—Psalms 5:8.
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An Oklahoma barber has been arrested five
times for charging twenty-five cents for a hail
cut when a law was passed by the state barber
bord saying the minimum price should be forty
cents. The federal government makes illegal an
agreement between members of a trade who
seek to set minimum prices or agree what prices
shall be, yet a group in a state can accomplish
the same thing and the courts uphold it. Where
is the difference whether a group accomplishes
a control of prices within itself or goes through
the state legislature to accomplish the same
thing? If anything, the establishment of mini-
mum prices by a legislative enactment is more
binding than a simple agreement among mem-
bers.
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The Institution of Public Opinion took a vote
recently on the Florida Canal and the Passama-
quoddy projects. The vote stood 25 per cent fa-
voring the canal and 75 against, and 27 per cent
favoring the Passamaquoddy project and 73
against. The two projects will call for $200,000.-
000. In Florida the opinion is sharply divided on
canal. Many citizens of the state feel that the
canal, while it would benefit a few, would result
in injury to many more.
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In our opinion the smartest move that has
been made by the United States is the sale of
airplanes to France and England. The sale of
planes makes possible the greater development
of the industry in this country, the establish-
ment of mass production, the training of work-1
ers, and the stimulation of the industry. On the
other hand the better prepared England and
France become the less likelihood there is that
there will be a European war.
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It used to be considered good politics for a
candidate to promise the tax payers lower taxes.
It is no longer necessary. There are so few tax-
payers that what they think no longer makes any
difference. The short cut to more votes is more
and bigger pensions.
AMERICAN HOMES BEST
Grapeland Messenger
The advantages enjoyed by the average
American citizens are more impressive to B. C.
Forbes, the well-known American writer on busi-
ness subjects, whenever he visits Europe. He
was born in Scotland and he knows his way
about in Europe. He relates some interesting
conclusions in favor of our home conditions.
Telephones are rare, and newspapers do not
have the wide circulation they have here, where
they are regarded as a necessity in the average
home. In a typical English boarding house he
visited he found only one ordinary workman
wearing a spotless shirt, collar, and tie. and that
workman was an American.
Furthermore Mr. Forbes reports that lit
found no labor-saving devices in the home, which
have become so widely adopted in this country.
The living standards of the average Euro-
pean family are so much lower than the ave-
rage American family that the contrast is re-
markable. Mr. Forbes points out that anyone
who goes into the home of the average European
and observes its great lack of such equipment as
is common in America to ease the burden of the
housewife and to make living simpler and more
economical, becomes thankful that he lives in
the United States instead of in Europe.
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It used to be that when a student made ex-
ceptionally good grades in school a brilliant fu-
ture was predicted for him in the business world.
The predictions did not always materialize and
everyone wondered what was the reason. It has
been discovered that there is a difference be-
tween knowing Latin declensions and the Greek
alphabet and interpreting the knowledge into
terms of living. Education should teach young
people how to live and make a living in a democ-
racy. If it fails in this it has missed its purpose
regardless of the excellent grades the individual
has attained.
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The Wagner labor act does not hold labor
equally responsible with capital. There is no pro-
vision by which the employer can appeal to the
board against the unfair practices of labor un-
ions. By taking such a position the law tacitly
assumes that labor can do no wrong against an
employer, a thing for which there is ample dis-
proof. There can never be harmony under such
a law nor any inducement for those in industry
to expand it.
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It is reported that James Farley will resign
as Postmaster General the first of March. He
will retain the chairmanship of the Democratic
National Committee and of the New York state
committee. It is rumored he has presidential as-
pirations. This he denies. As far as we are conr
cerned he could have resigned the first day he
accepted leadership in the Democratic Party.
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The man who is always looking for a pull to
get along in this world usually spends most of
his life just looking.
Two Minute Sermon
By THOMAS HASTWELL
HE ALWAYS WINS; Last year
100,000 persons witm-vd the annual
500 miles Memorial Hay automobile
race on the great oval brick track1
at Indianapolis. A score of speed j
demons raced for five hours in this
the world's greatest sporting event.
Every car entering the race was
built of the finest material modern
engineering could produce. Before
entering the race every detail was
cheeked to be sure that nothing was
lacking in this terrific endurance
test of steel and human stamina.
The cars roared on for five hours,
their drivers courting death every
second. And for what? Merely to
set a new speed rco i d. If all this
care and expense and vigilance is
necessary merely to win an automo-
bile race, how much more important
to the young woman who must face
ami solve the complex problems of
Democracy tomorrow that they have
a clear mind, steady nerves, and
staminn of steel, unblurred , and un-
dullcd by alcohol. An automobile
that crashes over the wall can be
replaced. It is merely so much me-
tal and rubber and a few hours of
labor, but a boy or girl who crashes
in life because they have been des-
troyed by alcohol their balanced hu-
man mechanism cannot be replaced.
They have destroyed the God given
machine that would have carried
them to their goal, and the stamina
that gives the last ounce cf endur-
ance necessary to win has been des-
troyed. In the race of life no young
man or young woman has ever been
smnrt enough, or wise enough, or
strong enough to enter the race
against old man Alcohol and defeat
h:m. The only way to defeat him is
to leave him alone.
Farm Families
Have Own
Five-Year Plans
There is a five year plan for Tex-i
as agriculture, but it is one worked .
out by farm and ranch families by!
themselves with the help of their!
county agricultural and home demon-
stration agents, and adopted and fol-
lowed voluntarily.
Under the "whole farm demon-:
stration” plan, now in its second year
of operation in the state, families
make plans for farm and home im-
provements, changes in farming op-
erations, and set income and debt
retirement goals. Every phase of
farm and home life and every enter-
prise "from the front gate to the
back fields” is included.
Preliminary reports from 239 de-
monst ration* in 97 counties indicate
that considerable progress was made
in 1938, acording to Louise Bryant,
home management specialist of the
Texas A. and M. College Extension
* Service.
In accordance with their improve-
j merit schedules, 70 families made de-
tailed plans for landscaping their
farmsteads, while 84 set out trees
and shrubs, 198 families leveled
their yards, 65 sodded their lawns,
and 19 painted their houses.
Inside the homes, 17 families ad-
ded electricity, 75 remodeled their
kitchi ns, 37 added water systems,
39 built ventilated pantries and other
storage places for food, and 29
either remodeled, built , or ninde
definite plans to build homes.
Health and income were served
with home food production ns 75
families improved or begun new or-
chards, 58 built up their poultry
flocks, 14 built frame gardens, and
carried "Ut similar improvements in
.accordance with prearranged plans.
Women Learn
To Prepare
Balanced Meals
More than 50,000 womdn and
girls have learned to prepare and
serve better quality food to their
families as a result of the food pre-
paration work offered by Texas
county home demonstration agents,
according to figures in the annual
report of Nora Ellen Elliott, special-
ist in food preparation with the Tex-
as A. and M. College Extension .Ser-
vice.
Around 23.000 families are serv-
ing better balanced meals than for-
merly and 14,000 families have made
and followed a meal plan based on
the Texas Food Standard, Miss El-
liott said, while more than 18,000
women and girls have organized
tested recipe files and storage of
staple foods in the kitchen.
Altogether, women in 128 Texas
counties are being offered some
phase of food preparation work that
aims to help them learn to plan nnd
serve wholesome appetizing m< als,
prepare nnd serve quality tested re-
cipe files, and plan storage of staple
foods. Members of 4-11 girls’ clubs in
127 counties added production and
preservation studies to the food [ re-
paration work.
The garden a ndvogetable cookerv
phase is most popular with the girls,
while cakes, fruits, and yeast breads
are the most interest to farm women,
Miss Elliott stated.
The 4-H girls alone prepared and
served more than 229,000 dishes for
their families.
With nothing to do when he got there
He jumped the light with a rush
The other drivers rounded him up
And left him, a pile of mush.
T-
What We Think
By FRANK DIXON
'ownership and operation of a small
business.’’ “I am tired,’’ he said, “of
the uneven fight, of the lack of ap-
preciation for honest effort, and of
I what I feel is the injustice of it all.”
There has never been a period in
the history of this country when
there has been so much legislation
unfriendly to business ns has been
enacted in the past six years. I have
a conviction that recovery has been
definitely retaided by this policy.
To my way of thinking it does lit-
tle good to wheedle and coax busi-
ness to cooperate in the plan for re-
covery while concealed from sight is
a club that will knock eokf and sense-
less the first business that lifts its
head and attempts to launch a pro-
gram.
It reminds me of the days on the
farm when father was told by mo-
ther to go out nnd kill a chicken for
It is unfortunate that such a feel-
ing of discouragement does exist and i
unfortunate that it is not limited in
the business world to the single in-1
stance of my friend.
A suggestion for the consumption
of surplus food products in this coun-
try was recently made by Carlisle
Thorpe, manager of the California
Walnut Growers Association. Mr.
Thorpe suggests that Congress au- j
thorize the issuance of scrip to fami-
lise on relief in lieu of money and
commodities now issued, that would
permit them to buy from their gro-
cer designated food products, of I
which there is a surplus, at half
price. The grocer would then secure j
[ from the government the other half'
of the value of the merchandise. It I
dinner. He would hunt up the axe i is estimaU.d this would cost $1,400,-
and some yellow corn and with the 1000,000 a year. Proponents of the
axe behind him and the yellow corn ' ,,inn believe that it would make un-
in his extended hand would cau- necessary many forms of farm re-
tiously approach the flock of chick- jief now in use'for the reason that it
ens. The chickens would look him wouy absorb all surplus farm pro-
over from a distance until one bold- duets and make food available where
er than the rest, and perhaps hung- jt js needed.
rier, would slip cautiously up for the _o_
corn extended so invitingly. Once the The true reformer will not only
foolish chicken came within • reach, hate evil, but will earnestly endenv-
he was grasped by the neck, and in ! 0r to fill its place with good.—Ed
a few minutes lay flopping upon the ward C. Simmons,
ground, a victim of his trust. I _o_
China has the largest population
That, it seems to mo, illustrates ■ of any country in the world,
what has happened to business today. | __
Asia is larger than the combine)
area of both North and South Am
ca.
England is closer to New y
than Los Angeles is to New y
Route Your
Shipments By
English Freight
Company *
Fast and Dependable Service
From San Francisco, Kansas
City and ail intermediate
points
O. K. RAY
Phone 80
If you should need a Doctor
at Midnight A TELEPHONE
would be very handy—may-
e the Difference between
Life and Death.
Three States
Telephone Co.
Because of the sins of a few indus-
trialists. all of business has been
badgered and harassed and bludgeon-
ed until the wonder is that it has
been able to survive at all.
Not only has large industry be-
come to be so regarded, but the
curse is now being extended to little
businesses employing two or three
people, who work side by side with
the proprietor and the members of
his family under like conditions.
I was talking the other day to a
small business man. He was very
much discouraged and had about
made up his mind to close up his
place of business and dismiss his
three employees who had been with
his for several years. “There is no
pleasure in business any more,” he
said. “The increasing burden of fed-
eral taxes, burdensome keeping of
demanded records, the constant
threat of still more unfriendly legis-
lation, and the complete lack of in-
terest, concern, or sympathy of the
administration, the inflexibility of
federal control, and the complete
lack of understanding of problems
of small business on the part of the
federal government has taken all of
the pleasure and pride out of the
Flowers
The Periect Tribute
&
Trees and Ornamental Shrubbery
LARGE STOCK ROSE BUSHES
A. L. LOWRY FLORAL COMPANY
TEAGUE. TEXAS
Whether the occasion is
glad or sad, flowers will
best carry your message
of thoughtfullness. And
our flowers can be de-
pended upon to give
lasting beauty.
l SPECIALS ^March ^ |
HOME OF MONARCH FINER FOODS
GROCERIES
SHORTENING
SUN CRISP, Bucket .75
PICKLES
Sour or Dill, qt. jar .10
BOLOGNA
Stick Length, per lb. .10
Apples and Oranges
Regular 30c doz., per doz. .............25
PEANUT BUTTER
Per at. 23
MUSTARD
Quart Jar .....................................10
COFFEE
Peaberry. 3 lbs. .50
SYRUP
Pure Ribbon Cane, per gal .50
COFFEE
Bright and Early, 4 lb. bucket.......85
Sorghum Syrup
Bring your bucket, per gal .30
LAUNDRY SOAP
4 bars ............ ...... .......10
HOMINY
29 oz. can .10
MOTHERS COCOA
2 lbs. .................. .18
PORK & BEANS
30 oz. can .................. .................10
RICE BRAN
Per sack ..................................1.15
With Each Large Sack of Gold Chain
Flour a Can of Health Club Baking
Powder FREE
BRING YOUR COUPONS
FOR FREE SOAP
11 li m j w
SHELL CORN
Per sack ..............1.15
FRESH VEGETABLES—New Potatoes.
Radishes. Green Onions. Egg Plant, Tur-
nip Greens, Spinach, and Nice Fresh
Strawberries
Farmall Tractors, International Trucks, and
McCormick Deering Implements
Freestone Mercantile Company j
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