The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 25, 1942 Page: 2 of 8
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PAGE TWO
THE FAIRFIELD RECORDER, FAIRFIELD, TEXAS, JUNE 25, 1942
The Fairfield Recorder
THE COUNTY PAPER
Your Retail Store
Each Thursday at Fairfield, Texas, Freestone
County, Where the Great Highways of Texaa Crosa.
as second class mail matter at the Postoffice
at Fairfield, Texas, under Act of March 6, 1879.
L C. KIRGAN-
RAMON R. KIRGAN
.Editor
-Publisher
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Tributes of Respect, Obituaries and Cards of Thanks,
1 eer.t a word. Privilege of omitting all poetry reserved
by this paper.
Thursday, June 25, 1942
BUY
UNITED STATES
DEFENSE
BONDS
AND
STAMPS
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Know ye not that ye are the temple of
God. and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in
you? If any man defile the temple of God,
him shall God destroy; for the temple of God
is holy, which temple ye are.—I Cor. 3:16-17.
r Ik K
This Country Needs Leaders
The greatest need in this country today is
leaders for young people, men and women. Too
few of the homes are meeting the need of their
young people either through indifference or lack
of knowledge and understanding of young people
The school’s influence extends but a few hours a
day for a part of the year. The rest must be sup-
plied by adult leaders who are willing to give
their service and their gift of leadership to the
young people of the community. Many towns
who raise a big budget for a Chamber of Com-
merce, a fair, a stock show or a celebration each
year would perform a vastly greater service if
they would raise a fund to compensate some suit-
adult lader to give to the young people of the
community the thing they need and are not get-
ting, adult companionship, leadership and under-
standing. True, not all young people of any com-
munity need it, but if we are frank enough to
look the facts in the face we know that there are
many in every community who do need this very
thing if they are going to realize the full poten-
tial possibilities of their lives. Measured in terms
of true values, the life of one young person is
worth more to a community and bo the world
than all the stock shows, community home com-
ings and band concerts that the community can
finance. What we need is a new sense of the
realization of true values. We need to learn that
the most precious thing to any community is hu-
man character and rightly directed lives. We
need to learn that this is not alone the responsi-
bility of the family and the school. It is the re-
sponsibility of the whole community.
PR ^ PR
We shudder to think of what will happen
when these sergeants and corporals in this wo-
man's array get back home and once more take
up the prosaic duties of housekeeping, friend
husband is going to feel the effects of the army
training friend wife has received. She is going to
become accustomed to having her orders obey-
ed and she may come to enjoy the sensation.
t PR PR IR
Although there is a definite aad a critical
shortage of rubber and many persons now driv-
ing cars will be unable to secure replacements
when the tires now on their cars are worn out,
they have not in any wise curtailed their driving.
They are driving as much and as fast as they
ever did. They are going to keep on driving un-
til the last shred of rubber is gone and the car
cannot be used any more. They remind us of
the colored man in the song that was popular on
the cylinder phonograph records forty years
ago. “I am going to live anyhow until I die."
They are going to drive anyhow as long as their hers,
tires last.
Ik Ik Ik
We know grandmother would not agree, but
we think the American girl is just as gorgeous
and just as glamorous in slacks as were the grils
of fifty years ago in the stiffly starched much be-
raffled dresses that took mother a half a day to
Iron.
As time goes on, your retail store will have a
changed appearance. There will be less goods on
the shelves in many instances. Some items will
vanish altogether, and some wil be extremely
scarce. In time, widespread rationing of a large
number of necessities may be put into effect.
These are the inevitable result of war’s enor-
mous demands on America’s productive re
sources.
But there is one thing that will not change
in your retail store—and that is its manage-
ment’s ability to serve you to the limit of its
ability. Whether you patronize a chain store or
an independent store, its policy will be guided by
the competitive urge. Tomorrow, as in the past,
it will be seeking ways and means to earn your
patronage. *
In addition, retailing is now carrying on
some extremely important special activities on
behalf of the consumer. It is conferring with
manufacturers and others in developing suitable
substitutes to take the place of priority goods
and materials. In the food field, the chains and
other retailers have taken the lead in promoting
the National Nutrition Program—a program
which is backed by the government, and whose
purpose is to help build a stronger, healthier
country. In every sound activity on behalf of
consumer welfare, retailers are always at the
forefront.
War will force immense changes in the home
life of the American people. We will have to
forego most luxuries, and use a minimum of
many necessities. Retailing’s job is to help us in
making these difficult adjustments in our living
standards.
PR PR A
The discussion in Congress over the income
tax for next year continues with no settlement
in sight. Plans thus far proposed are a sales
tax, a payroll withholding tax and increased in-
come taxes. Secretary of the Treasury, Morgen-
thau wants the regular income tax exemption
lowered to $600 for single persons and $1200 for
married men with $300 exemption for each de-
pendent.
Ik H Ik
Remember when women thought they had
gained equal rights with the men by being grant-
ed the right to vote? The war, in our opinion,
has brought a greater measure of equality to
women than the vote ever brought. Women are
entering into industry by the thousands work-
ing side by side with the men. Not only this, but
their work is most excellent. Not only do no al
lowances have to be made for the fact that they
are women, but they are receiving the same
wages that men doing the same work are re
ceiving. They are not only excellent as electrical
workers, welders, precision instrument builders,
and aviators, but in many fields heretofore held
exclusively by men. From all indications the
new Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps now being
organized is going to be a superior organization
and is going to do an exceptionally fine piece of
work. All of these things measure up to some-
thing. They indicate that they are going to have
their effect upon this country for years to come.
A new freedom has come to women, a new vis-
ion. What its effect will be is interesting to spe-
culate upon and difficult to predict.
Ik Ik Ik
We gather from our exchanges that in few
places throughout the country is there anything
like the usual interest in politics. Candidates for
county offices are slow to announce. The same
lethargy exists in the cases of many state of-
fices. Those who have announced say that they
are not going to make an extensive cam-
paign. The war, the absence of many from home
in the army and in defense plants has resulted
in politics becoming a secondary interest.
* * III
TTie best authorities say that there cannot
possibly be any tires available for civilian use
made from synthetic rubber short of two years
—so govern your selves accordingly.
I* PR *
“I notice,” a local woman remarked recently,
“that there is a good deal of speculation as to
whether there will be a depression after this war
is over as there was at the close of the last war.
I«don’t think there will. I can think of so many
things that I will want to buy, after the war is
over that I can’t buy now that it will take the
output of several plants to supply my needs. I
think every other woman feels the same as I do.”
Ik R R
The next windshield sticker will go on sale
July 1. At this time car owners may be required
to list their tires and extra tires by serial num-
©ur Great America ☆ fofTryon
U4. AIUW AM MOOT
History
THE COUNTVp
Two Minute Serin
By THOMAS HA8TWKLL
THE NEW WORLD 0P
MORROW: There is a rili *
belief amors: leaders today yj *
world of tomorrow is g0j,1|{ toJl ■
better world than that which
have known in the past. The 1^
of the nations of the woild 7
come to see, as a result of the w
the weaknesses, and the inej
and the imperfections of world ■
tices and the end to which they t-
finally and inevitably led. They r"
ize that any attempt to chart a .’
war world along the same lines1
merely result in a similar di8J
in* upheaval later on. This, I thi
ia significant. It reveals a real!
tion that there ia a better way .
because it does it is a milest^
the progress of the race jt
significant to note that the * !
nesses pointed out by these leaj
in national and international p0|j-
are the points wherein internal
relationships have been at varia
with Christ’s program for manki
A war seems a terrible price to
for such an awakening, but vkr
in the perspective of the whole1
may be merely an incident ia
What We Think
By FRANK DIXON
TWO EVENTS OF WORLD WAR process of development of the i
" n,y °P'n'on *he test of an in- j occurre(] this week which are *n it* struggle upward and Gcdvn
ner in whic’h £^.^V^coTdi-' uf intere8t at the >re“nt time P"*re“ *“
tions imposed by the present emer- cause of world conditions. The first;
gency and his conscientious coopera- 's the assassination of the Archduke
tion in the rules and regulations pre- Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914,!
scribed for the welfaie of the corn- and the other is the landing of the
try. I refer particularly to the
rationing program.
purchased at a great price.
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first American troops in France on
June 26, 1917. World War No. 1
was precipitated by the assassnia-
Great Minds
Keep down as much as you
can
SHSrS
8UPPly- place when the Archduke, heir to the Gladstone.
throne of Austria-Hungary and his
Charge them that are rich in !
world, that they be not highmini
nor trust in uncertain riches, but
Herein lies the problem in civil:an ■ wife, the Countess of Hohenberg, on
adjustment. It is important that June 24 left Vienna to attend mili-..........................co, „„
octors and physicians have tires. It tary maneuvers in Bosnia as com- the living God, who giveth us ri
*s a so important that producers of mander of the Austria-Hungarian all things to enjoy.—I Timothy 6:
food have tires that the food may be armies. On Sunday June 28 they
brought from the farm to the mar- visited Sarajevo. As they entered
et , but it is not necessary that town they narrowly escaped death
civilians have tires for pleasure from a bemb thrown at their car-
vehicles, or vehicles not used for ,iage. Later that day they were
furthernig the war program. These both shot and killed as they were re-
must be willing to forego the use of turning from a reception at the'
their cars for the duration. town hall. The Serbian minister had
- warned against the visit since it
In a matter of the rationing of was known that an attempt would be
sugar a slightly different problem is made uP°n the life of the Archduke,
presented. Due to the fact that ship- The assassination was followed by
ping is needed to carry supplies to
our armed forces abroad and those
of our allies it is not possible to
bring in the sugar fro Cuba and
Hawaii that we recieved in normal
times. In addition to this a larger
amount of the sugar that is avail-
able is needed to produce alcohol
used in the manufacture of powder
and explosives.
Due to these two factors the re-
maining sugar stock in this country
is not sufficient for normal demands
and unless some restriction is put
on its use those with money to buy
it would soon corner the entire
available supply and the mass of
people would either be without
sugar at all or be forced to pay an
exhorbitant price for it. Thus we
see the rationing program is set up
in the interest of the greattest com-
mon good. For this reason it should
receive the sincere cooperation of
every patriotic citizen.
demands upon the Serbian Govern-
ment by the Austrian Government.
When the demands were not met the
movement toward war which engulf-
ed the entire continent, Britain and
the United States was at once begun.
Three years later on April 6, 1917
the United States declared war
against Germany, and on June 26 the
first contingent of American troops
ever to leave the United States to
engage in a foreign war landed on
the European continent and marched
through the streets of Paris. They
were received joyously by the
French, many of whom wept tears
of gratitude upon their arrival. Be-
fore the close of the war about two
million men had been sent to Europe.
Not oaks alone are trees, nor i
flowers;
Much humble wealth makes
this world of ours.—Leigh Hunt.
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Safety Slogans
Let’s have more recreation
less wreck-creation.
Fire is an upstart—keep it in
place.
-It tAes thought to be careful.,
fool can take a chance.
It is estimated that there are
lions of tons of steel in abando
street car'tracks in the large ci
of the -country, most of which
not been called for in the salv:
collection campaign.
•VO THE TOP
FOR VICTORY
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MRTED STATES M
BONUS-STAMPS
Notwithstanding the real purpose
of rationing program there are
those in every community the nation
over who are chiseling that they may
get more than their just share of
sugar or of tires.
Aside from the fact that any
such subterfuge is a violation of
the federal law and is punishable by
a fine and prison sentence, it is
grossly unpatriotic. It is the height
of hypocrisy for an individual to
display the American flag at his
front door and chisel on his sugar
the kitchen.
Fortunately the chislers are the
exception. If they were not we might
easily be defeated and certainly if
we are victorious none of the credit
will belong to this group. They will
have contributed nothing to it. They
are too blnidly greedy and selfish to
have any concept of what real
patriotism is.
YOU CAN BANK ON THIS
PR PR PR
We note in one of our exchanges an aspirant
for office who promises the voters that if he is
elected he will reduce the taxes. He won’t get in
sight of the office. His platform is out of date.
No one falls for lower taxes any more, what the
world wants now is bigger pensions, more com-
modities, and more abundant life.
The victory, when It comes, is go-
ing to come because this group is in
the minority and because the
patriots, who have all through
history put country above self, have
been ready and willing to sacrlfi^,1
and to patriotically make their con-
tribution to their Nation's defense
program. It ia the spirit and heart
such as these that has luads Amer-
ica great, and it is this spirit only
that will keep America great.
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Kirgan, Lee. The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 25, 1942, newspaper, June 25, 1942; Fairfield, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1109626/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fairfield Library.