The Texas Mohair Weekly (Rocksprings, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, January 24, 1947 Page: 4 of 8
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The Texas Mohair Weekly and The Rockaprings Record
FRIDAY JANUARY 24TH, 1947
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THE
TEXAS MOHAIR WEEKLY
AND THE ROCKSPRINGS RECORD
INDORSED BY—American Angora Goat Breeders’ Association and Texas
Angora Goat Raisers’ Association
Entered as second class matter November 18, 1927, at the post office at
Rocksprings, Texas, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879.
Subscription Price—In Advance, per year___ $2.00
Published every Friday at Rocksprings, Texas
HUTT & SON___________Owners and Publishers
J. W. HUTT_____________________EDITOR
WARREN HUTT________________MANAGER
Display Advertising Rates, Local ..............................................35c per col. inch
Display Advertising Rates, Foreign .............................................50c per col. inch
Agency Commission, 15, 15 and 2%
Reader Advertisement, 10 cents per line per insertion, average 6 words to line
payment must accompany advertisement or publication will not be made/
Legal Notices, 2 cents per word first insertion; 1 cent per wrord thereafter.
ELECT OFFICERS, DIRECTORS
OF NATIONAL BANK
C. B. Wardlaw was re-elected pre-
sident and general manager of the
Producers Wool and Mohair Com-
pany by the directors at a regular
meeting Tuesday.
Other officers re-elected by the
direcors include L. Rust, first vice-
president; John M. Doak and C. W.
Wardlaw, vice presidents; B. F. Peir-
ce, secretary-treasurer. Wayne M. Love
was elected assistant secretary-treas-
urer.
Directors elected at the stockhold-
ers meeting, include A. R. Brother-
ton, Virgil Cauthorn, John M. Doak,
I. F. Ingram, L. Rust, C. B. Ward-
law, W. R. Whitehead, C. W. Ward-
law and B. K. Wilson.
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THE HARD TRUTH
The Saturday Evening Post recent-
ly published an editorial which should
be read and remembered by every
coal miner in the United States. En-
titled, ‘Will Coal Price Itself Out of
the Market?” it deals with a simple
and incontrovertible economic truth
which M*r. Lewis’ followers seem to
have forgotten.
The Post says, ‘‘Demand for any
commodity for which substitutes ex-
ist can never be considered fixed or
taken for granted.” Coal is our pri-
mary source of industrial energy—but
Patronize our Advertisers.
other sources, such as oil and natural
gas, can be employed for many of
the same purposes. Coal, in other words,
is a competitive commodity—and it
must seek its markets in the face of
growing competition.
The Post cites a few thought-pro-
voking statistics. Not so many years
ago, all railroad locomotives were
coal fired. During 1945, on the other
hand, the Class I railways installed 534
diesel and electric locomotives—as ag-
ainst only 109 powered with steam. A
similar situation exists in the field of
home heating. In 1940, 39 per cent
of all FHA-financed homes used coal.
By comparison, of the first 029,000
permits issued for home building under
the veterans’ priority plan, but 27 per
cent specified the use of coal—and the
balance specified other fuels.
Some of these changes are evolu-
tionary in nature, and to be expected.
That' they do, however, is to point to
the possible economic consequences to
an industry when the cost of produc-
ing its product rises disproportionate-
ly. To quote the Post once more, “It
is certainly no service to the miners
to make extravagant demands which
can only result in such drastic increas-
es in cost as to price coal out of its
market and coal miners out of jobs.”
The primary interest of labor, in any
field, is the preservation of profitable,
progressive industry capable of pro-
viding continuous employment. Beyond
a certain point, higher wages can only
result from increased production or
more efficient production—if the in-
dustry in question is to survive. That
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Everybody’;? joshing Willie Wells
about going back to school. They
remember when Willie would hide
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is the hard truth, difficult as it' may
be for some labor leaders to accept.
Mrs. Leo Burney of San Angelo
is spending the week in Rocksprings
with her daughter, Mrs. Jess Hankins
and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sawyer and
sons passed through Rocksprings
Thursday afternoon enroute to Ozona
to visit with Mrs. Sawyer’s father, R.
G. Cooke, w'ho is seriously ill.
Mrs. Ed Lodge of Carrizo Springs
is a guest of her mother, Mrs. Rose
Guthrie and sister, Mrs. Bob Fisher.
Mrs. R. W. Shepperd and Miss La-
vonne Shepperd were visitors in
Uvalde Wednesday. /
Mrs. W. W. Nipper of Brackett-
ville visited with her daughter, Mrs.
Dan McKnight and family, Tuesday
and Wednesday.
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Mrs. Everett Epperson, Mrs. Tho-
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Mr. and Mrs. Len Clark and Mrs.
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Mrs. W. R. Meredith of Kerrville
was in Rocksprings Monday and while
here visited with Mrs. Little Epperson.
Mrs. Jean Weatherford and son
Jackie, returned from San Antonio
this week, after spending several
weeks in that city.
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