The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 12, 1947 Page: 2 of 9
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Editorials
TAB FAIBFBBLD RBCOMf^B. FAIRFIELD TEXAS. JUNE 12. 1947
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A SOUND POLICY—MORE PBODDUCTION, MORE WAGES
A theory that appears wholly sound is brought out in Allen W.
Rucker’s book is that labor is paid as it produces an donly increased
Rucker’s book is that labor is pai as it produces and only increased
production can bring increased income and purchasing power. The
author produces pages of statistics to support his contention that
it is a fallacy to presume that labor’s share of the dollar can be in-
creased by. restricting production. The author states that the
actual facts are that labor’s income has been increased only when'
labor’s production has been increased either through an effort on
the part of labor to produce more, or because new equipment has
made increased production possible. The theory is interesting for
the reason that it is at variance with the theory of many labor
leaders who seem to think that the way to secure a larger share of
the dollar for labor is to produce less per man hour by slow down
practices and by requiring more men to be hired than are needed
to do the job.
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A woman columnist in one of our exchanges puts it this way:
“Fawning on the famous is a disorder that belongs exclusively to
man. Animals know better. A white-face steer might bring home
enough blue and purple ribbons to gild the pasture gate but he has
to do his own grazing and be shoulered around like any other mem-
ber of the herd.”
It appears strange that all of the governments that frown up-
on the capitalistic form of government, such as the United States
enjoys, are trampling each other to be first at the lending counter
to borrow our money or better still to get on relief. Their dislike of
capitalistic form of government evidently doesn’t extend to the dol-
lar that such a system is able to produce.
Five years ago General Jonathan M. Wainright surrendered
Corregidor to the Japs and the United States hit one of its lowest
points in the war. It was a long way back that the United States
had to come, but within a few years the United States built up the
greatest war machine the world has ever seen and conquered a
stubborn foe entrenched in the jungle covered islands of the
Pacific. At the same time we were pouring into Russia billions of
dollars worth of war equipment, without which she could not pos-
sibly have withstood the Germany army. The contemplation of
the feat causes a new thrill because of the great might of this
country. The hope is that we can show the same mastery in win-
ning the world peace—dark though the prospect now appears.
It is predicted that the 1948 automobile will have no rear
fenders. The body will extend over the rear wheels as do the bodies
of buses. Instead of the rear fenders getting creased by careless
drivers it will be the passengers in the rear seat.
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In regard to the flock of new labor legislation now before
away any of the rights of labor it should restore a number of
Congress most people feel that while Congress should not take
the rights of industry and the public which preceding administra-
tions have taken away in a more or less ruthless and wholesale
fashion.
There is a growing feeling that the post-war job of handling
Germany is not being very well done. It is not being as well done
as is the job of handling Japan. One difficulty in Germany is that
there are four bosses, Rdssia, England, France and the United
States. None of the four bosses has accomplished as much as has
General MacArthur in Japan.
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Everyone wants the prices to come down on the things he
buys and remain up on the things he has to sell.
The Fairfield Recorder
THE COUNTY PAPER
PRESS
Published Each Thursday at Fairfield, Texas, Freestone County
“Where the Great Highways of Texas Cross”
Entered as second class mail matter a* the Postoffice at Fairfield, Texas
Under Act of V arch 6, 1876
L. C. KIRGAN
Editor
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What We
By FRANK DIXON
The big problem before Congress
at the present time is the matter of
tA” redhotion. Shall the income tax
be reduced and how much?
Ask any ten persons you meet what
they think about reducing income
taxes at the present time and they
will tell you they are In favor of a
substantial reduction.
’-They realizeJ that we have an
enormous national debt and that it is
going to require heavy taxes to pay
it off in the life time of even the
youngest person living today, but
even so they favor tax reduction. A
few who favor tax reduction do so
because they feel it will lessen the
amount they have to pay in income
taxes each year. Another group
favors income tax reduction because
they have come to feel that it is only
through the reduction of taxes and
the reduction of budgets that govern-
mental expenditures are going to be
reduced. They have watched ■ Con-
gress year after year, and, not with-
standing the many promises that have
been made to reduce expenditures, ex-
penses have continued to climb and
taxes have been forced up and up in
an effort to meet the deficit caused
by too much spending. They have
come to feel that a Treasury, with a
visible balance in it, is a temptation
to the spenders that they are unable
to resist, and that the only way to
meet such a temptation is to make
less money available, and reduce de-
ficinecy appropriations to a minimum.
This appears to be a most logical
argument. Everyone knows that this
is true in the matter of city funds,
state funds and even individual funds.
Money not only burns holes in the
pockets of many individuals but it
also seems to burn holes in the
pockets of municipalities, counties
and states. As soon as a balance
shows up some one will dig up some-
thing for which it can be spent, some
groups will receive larger appropria-
tions, or, and this is easy in federal
circles, new agencies will be created
to take up the balance.
It would seem from this that tax
reduction is the only sure answer to-
ward a reduction in federal spending.
If we could be assured of reduced
expenditures in the future, and the
application of all money above neces-
sary operating costs to the reduction
or our debt, a great many, • I am
sure, would be in favor of the Reten-
tion of the present tax rate especially
while times are as they are and busi-
ness and industry is operating at top
speed. With reduced expenditures
there is no time like the present to
reduce the national debt, it can be
paid easier now than it will ever be
possible to pay it in the future. We
are now operating at top pitch. Every
industry in the country is selling
everything it can produce, and be-
hind every industry is a great
quantity of back orders that will in-
sure production at top speed for
several years ahead. This is the
opportune time to pay debts because
we can pay them with sixty cent dol-
lars.
I know of individuals who are
reasoning thus and are paying off
their old debts with cheap dollars. If
individuals would stop to think debts
are the only thing for which they can
spend their money and get 100 cents
on the dollar. Everything else one
buys, whether it be merchandise, or
goods, or service, the dollar is woxth
only from thirty to sixty cents. The
man who owes a debt created in the
past and fails to pay it off and re-
ceive 100 cents on his dollar, but
chooses to buy goods and merchan-
dise and receive in value from 30 to
60 cents on his dollar, is not working
for his own interests. Our nation, if
it puts off the date of paying its debt
and getting 100 cents value for its
dollar, will not be using good busi-
ness sense.
Two Minute Sermon
ty THOMAS HARWELL
BIG KITES FLY HIOttER:
noticed the other day an account of
the future plans of thte members of
the high school gradating class In
the town in which I live. I was grati-
fied to note that a large per cent of
the graduates plan on entering col-
lege in the fall, and another large
per cent have already secured work
to help finance a college course later
on. I think that every young person,
regardless of the work he expects to
follow through life, should have the
training that four years of ffbllege
will give. College comes at a time
when a young person’s earning in
the business world is at its lowest
point and his earning in a college is
at its highest point. I am in favor
of a college course because with fekr
exceptions it adds so much to the
potential force of one’s future. It
reminds me when as a boy I made and
flew kites. I found that small kites
couldn’t fly very high and bigger
kites which caught more wind flew
much higher. It Is the same with us
in life. The bigger and better our
preparation the further and higher
we can go.
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Patterson, New Jersey, is the
center of the milk industry in the
United States.
Because of the recent increase in
import duties on tobacco levied by
.England, a package of twenty cigar-
ettes in London costs 68 cents.' Brit-
ain imports 80 per cent -of its tobacco
from the United States. Total Brit-
ish exports to the United States bare-
ly exceed tobacco imports.
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Twd out of every three
accidents in the United
year were the result of mUtZS
drivers.
One-third Of ail the knitted taw j
wear produced in the United States t1’'
made at Utica, New York,
FEED AND
GROCERIES
if Baby Chicka
if Chicken Feed
if Cow Feed
if Horse, Mule Feed
if Hog Feed
if Meal, Flour
if Groceries
WE BUY AND SELL
POULTRY AND EGGS
J. C. Leadbetter
& Son
Phone 210
We Deliver
SRVE FOR THE
THincs vou uinnT
The more cash you lay away
now, the bigger the payment
you will be able to make on
whatever you plan to buy later
on. The bigger the payment,
the less you will have to bor-
row. We invite your account.
Fairfield State Bank
OFFICERS
W. A. Parker, President
W. R. Boyd, Jr., Vice-Prea.
C. K. Childs, Act Vice-Pres.
John L. Bonner, Cashier
Jack Crawford, Assist. Cashier
Lee J. Davis, Asst. Cashier
Chansie Looney, Asst Cash.
DIRECTORS
W. A. Parker
Jno. D. Burleson
H. B. Steward
C. E. Childs ■
F. B. Peyton
^ DEPOSITS INSURED ^
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
WASHINGTON, D. C.
MAXIMUM INSURANCC
FOR EACH DEPOSITOR
$5000
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...especially made lor
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helping to build big,
thriity litters.
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livestock
PRESSURE
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Kills Hies, mosquitoes.
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Complete Insurance Service
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Your Insurance Man
PURINA CAtF STARYENA
SAVES ABOUT *25 WORTH
OF MILK
(AT U.S. AVIRAOI MUX MHClft)
Just put it in a trough
and let calves help
themselves.
RAISES BIG CALVES
LIT PIGS
WORM THEMSELVES
Just put Purina Pigtab
Granules in the leed.
YOUR SADDLE
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no more to feed than oats.
PURINA OMOLENE
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Kirgan, Lee. The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 12, 1947, newspaper, June 12, 1947; Fairfield, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1119284/m1/2/?rotate=180: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fairfield Library.