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HOW TO GET MORELIGHTF ROMY OUR PRESENT EQUIP M E H T
COMMUNITY
PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY
O Keep shade linings light. Clean
or brush regularly. Repaint or
reline dark-colored paper or parch-
ment shades.
SIX OTHER WAYS TO CONSERVE LIGHT
fl Avoid direct glare from lamp
bulbs by using shades deep
enough and wide enough.
£ Arrange furniture so one lamp
** can serve two people. But be
sure lamp is not too far away from
either person.
C Eliminate amber or flame-tint
bulbs. Inside-frosted white
bulbs of same wattage give much
more light.
Q Sit close enough to the lamp
to get all the help it can give
your eyes.
Fbuy
WAR
Lbonds
1 Remove and clean lamp bulbs
■* and lamp bowls regularly. Dry
thoroughly before using again.
Keep Lamps Turned Off <
In Unoccupied Rooms
Leaving lamps burning in unoccupied rooms not only wastes
light but shortens the life of lamp bulbs, which use tungsten
— a critical war material. Turn off all lamps and fixtures
promptly when not in actual use. Your lamp bulbs will stay
brighter longer, you’ll get more useful light at less expense
and you’ll help conserve electricity and vital materials for the
war effort.
Total
...$1,082,967.35
LIABILITIES
■$
$1,082,967.35
Total
50,000.00
50,000.00
13,620.00
41,000.00
928,347.35
Capital Stock
Surplus
Undivided Profits
Reserve for Contingencies
DEPOSITS __
If you want to sell? it, advertise it.
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A little longer at our task,
Through the new year let us stay,
Since this is all of us they’d ask
Who fight for us so far away.
—Edgar A. Guest.
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At the Close of Business on December 31, 1943
RESOURCES
777,253.34
We could be braver, and we should,
And if the battle still goes on
For decency and brotherhood,
We should be stronger, every one.
They, without whimper or complaint,
Who offer all from day to day,
Mud-covered, sick at heart and faint,
Believe us to be brave as they.
$297,713.01
5,000.00
1.00
3,000.00
We could put by more small desires,
For them and for our country’s
sake,
Since nothing that our task requires
Equals the sacrifice they make.
Loans and Discounts
Banking House
Furniture and Fixtures
Stock, Federal Reserve Bank
U. S. Securities $200,150.00
County, Municipal and
Other Bonds 99,966.26
C.C.C. Cotton Loans 191,582.48
Cash and Due from Banks 285,554.60
HERE’S HOW MEN UP FRONT
REST BETWEEN ATTACKS
German Populace
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We Invite
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RESOLUTION
Statement of the Condition of
First National IBank
AIR SERVICE
PROPOSED FOR
GRAYSON TOWNS
By Frank Colby
Contrary to almost universal be-
lief, “Christ” is not the surname of
Jesus, nor, in the strictest sense, is it
those
place.
Childress Pharmacy
R. P. Childress, Manager
Any Excuse You
Can Find For Not
Upping Your
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almost
on this.
By Henry J. Taylor
LISBON.—With a German airline
operating daily between Berlin and
Lisbon, using 32-passenger, four-en-
gined, hostess-equipped Junkers 90’s,
it is easy here to talk with plenty of
responsible travelers fresh out of
Germany.
Again, as always, the myth that
By Kenneth L. Dixon
ON THE ITALIAN FRONT.—Be-
tween attacks and counter-attacks, a
a fearless sort of community life ex-
ists among the fighting holes along
the line of combat.
German rifles and machine
bristle a few yards away, snipers
peer down on our positions in the
dive groves and from the hills their
artillery observers can spot
severy daylight movement
small slope.
But up front the boys move about
a little, slipping out of their holes to
stretch, fill their canteens or see how
the guys in the holes next door are
making out.
The supply carrier walks or crawls
by depending on how hot the sector
is and drops off their K rations.
They eat, conceal matches beneath
their muddy combat jackets and light
slide
their
QUALITY
of ANY
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cigarets, smoke a while, and
back down into the mud of
fighting holes.
“The first requirement for a fight-
ing hole is that it must have a field of
fire,” says Maj. Milton J. Landry of
San Antonio, Texas, who commands
the battalion. “Some of the foxholes
didn’t have that because they were
dug only for protection.”
Lt. Bill Schroebel of Stockton,
Calif., and Capt. Henry Lehman of
San Antonio demonstrated the differ-
ence by pointing to a small rock wall
which serves as a terrace on the slop-
ing hill.
“If you were digging a hole just
for protection between attacks, you
would dig it behind that wall,” said
Lehman, “but a fighting hole would
have to be in front of it so that the
soldier would have a field of fire in
front of him.” . ’
Otherwise these fighting holes are
almost identical with the original
foxholes. They are two by three feet
large and have parapets of dirt six or
eight inches high and about 24 inches
thick in front of them. Thus they
are just about the right size for a
.man to stand in and shoot, resting his
rifle on the parapet.
Once they are established in desig-
mated positions, the soldiers can dig
the fighting holes wider and deeper
and cut in a ledge on which to stand
and fight. They also can tunnel out
from the bottom in order to have a
place to lie down in alternate rest pe-
riods.
But first their fighting hole must
be prepared as a fighting position—
in other words have a field of fire in
front of it.
At the moment, the boys are dug in
waiting for the next attack or coun-
ter-attacks. During the day for
many of them, it’s time for catching
a little sleep. With the holes full of
slush and mud, it isn’t easy. Most of
them haven’t been dry in weeks.
At dusk they get out and about a
bit if Jerry isn’t too active up the
slope. Gossip passes up and down
the line as they get ready for the
night.
Then, if it’s fairly quiet or they are
temporarily “in reserve”—that is,
with another company a few yards in
front of them—they work a 50 per-
cent alert: One man lies down in the
bottom of his hole after putting his
shelter half over the top to help keep
out the rain, and the guy in the next
beyond its borders is exploded. Ac-
tually, here and elsewhere there is
more eye-witness information about
Germany than there is about France
or the Low Countries, or even Russia.
As on previous visits to Sweden,
Switzerland, Turkey, Spain and Por-
tugal, I have conducted a last-minute
survey among people who have been
in Germany within the last week.
Question: Who sees a crackup
Germany immediately, or this win-
ter?
Answer: Nobody.
Without exception, however, both
the Germans and the travelers of
other nationalities whom I have seen
agree now that this is the last winter
of the war. The Germans all feel that
the fight will be carried through this
winter, and that in the spring there
may actually be some revival in the
Reich as the buds pop and the fields
grow green.
They believe that those homefront
guessers in the United States who
foresee the end of the war by Christ-
mas will lose their bets by one year.
The biggest German banker I knew
before the war—a man with a com-
pletely international outlook — con-
curs in this opinion.
No Gas Will Be Used
Regarding the prospects of poison
gas raids on the British Isles, it is
significant that gas inasks are not yet
available for civilians in Berlin,
which indicates that the Nazis are
still unprepared for reprisals. Ac-
cordingly the British Isles should rest
easy until the danger signal—that is,
until masks are distributed in Berlin.
Question: How does Berlin look?
Answer: The distinguished bar-
roness who is the wife of the Swedish
minister here, John Beck-Fris, who
was here on her way from Stockholm
via Germany to England, told me
that the French, British and Dutch
embassies had all disappeared—
block-busted.
She also had the additional fasci-
nating news that the Japanese em-
bassy had disappeared the same way,
with heavy loss of life. Our embassy
hole watches for both of them. When
he gets too tired or feels sluggishness
crawling on him, he calls his buddy.
Then he eases down into the mud to
sleep a bit if the Jerry guns aren’t
pouring too many shells into the area.
Just before dawn if all goes well,
they slip out again to ease their
cramped muscles and fill their can-
teens before the day’s ordeal.
And all this is a sort of “rest” be-
tween battles. Then things really get
tough.
SHERMAN.—Area airline service,
expected to be the next major devel-
opment in America’s domestic air
transportation system, would serve
Sherman, Denison, Bonham, McKin-
ney, Whitewright and Whitesboro
other southwest cities and towns, un-
der an application already filed with
the civil aeronautics board by South-
west Airway Company of Fort
Worth.
Radiating out from the present ma-
jor transcontinental air terminals,
much as the spokes of a wheel radiate
from the hub, the area airlines would
serve communities ranging in popula-
tion from 500 up. All told, they
would bring the benefits of direct
passenger, mail and express air serv-
ice to more than one and a half mil-
lion southwest residents not presently
receiving it.
A large map showing the 20 routes
which Southwest Airway proposes to
establish in this area has been re-
ceived by the chamber of commerce,
and the company advises that addi-
tional informative material on area
airlines will be forthcoming.
Southwest Airways already oper-
ates a military area airline for the air
transport command, identified by the
Army as being “in the southwest,”
and also several large military pilot
training schools.
We urge our friends
compare our prices and
with
other
By so doing, you’ll dis-
cover that this is a de-
pendable place to come
for EVERY Drug Store
need.
a proper name at all. “Christ” is Q, D 1* f
from the Greek Christos, “the an-01X3.1126 D611CIS
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Jewish prophecies (see Daniel 9:25). IA IClU Dy DdllClcGL
Although “Christ” does not appear in
the Old Testament, the coming of a
Christ (The Lord’s Annointed) was
clearly prophesied in Isiah 9:6: “For
unto us a child is born, unto us a son
is given, and the government shall
be upon his shoulder, and his name
shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor,
The mighty God, The everlasting
Father, The Prince of Peace.”
Indeed, when John the Baptist was
at the Jordon, the priests and Levites
came from Jerusalem to ask, “Who
are thou?” for they believed him to , conditions in Germany are unknown
be the long expected Messiah. But
John answered, “I am not the Christ.”
No Surnames in Biblical Days
' In the time of Jesus, few men had
second names, and family or sur-
names were altogether unknown.
Second names, if used at all, were
merely descriptive and served only
to distinguish the many Johns, Mat-
thews, Josephs from one another, as
Joshua son of Nun, Simon called
Peter, Judas Iscariot (man of Ker-
ioth).
So far as actual surnames are con-
cerned, they are but nine hundred
years old.
In the Middle Ages, second names
began to occur more frequently, but
they were still descriptive of the in-
dividual and had no family . signifi-
cance, as William the Conqueror,
Richard the Lionhearted, Louis le
Gros (the Fat). Henry of the strong
arms became known as Henry Arm-
strong; little John became John Lit-
tle; dark complexioned William took
the name of William Black.
Johnson Means “Son of”
Some names were patronymics:
John’s son William became . William
Johnson. But William’s son Jack did
not take the surname of Johnson—
instead, he was known as Jack Wil-
liamson, and his son David was called
David Jackson, and so on.
Names which grew out of occupa-
tions at first were also individual
and not family names: Miller, Smith,
Baker, Weaver, Fisher, Wright, Car-
penter, Sawyer, etc.
Literally, Jesus received his only
true name from the angel of the
Lord who appeared unto Joseph in a
dream, according to the Gospel of St.
Matthews, and to Mary, according to
the Gospel of St. Luke, saying, “. . .
and thou shalt call his name Jesus.”
True. He was spoken of as Christ,
or Jesus Christ, but “Christ” was not
regarded as a surname, but as a title
of reverence.
If Jesus can be said to have had a
second name, it properly would be as
in the form Jesus of Nazareth, just as
the other Mary was called Magda-
lene, meaning “of or from the town of
Magdala.”
Other Names Analyzed.
Scores of such “place” names are
found today: The German “von,” as
in von Ribbentrop, the French “de,”
as in de Gaulle, the English “fitz”
(from the French fils “son”), as in
Fitzpatrick, the English “son,” as in
Johnson, the Scotch Gaelic and Irish
“Mac,” as in MacDonald, McClure,
the Irish “O’,” as in O’Malley, the
Italian “-ini,” as in Mussolini, the
Slavic “vich” or “-ovitch,” as in
Ivanovitch, Maximovich, all have the
meaning of “from or of the region,
clan, or family of.”
Thus “Jesus of Nazareth” is much
more properly a full name, in the
present day sense, than either “Jesus
Christ” or “Christ Jesus.”
“The Nazarene” has no literal sa-
cred connotation, for, like Magdalene
and Iscariot, it simply designates a
place of residence.
It is interesting to note that the lit-
tle “Saviour” employs the British
spelling with “u,” and that the spell-
ing without “u” and with small “s”—
savior—is best American usage when
the word is used in secular sense.
Other titles given to Jesus of Naza-
reth are: The Redeemer, The Lamb
of God, The Son of God, Lord Jesus,
Christ the Lord, Christ the King, The
Prince of Peace, The Galilean, The
Messiah, The Son of Man.
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still stands, as does the nearby Adlon
Hotel, which was hit but only slight-
ly-
Elsewhere the city gives more the
impression of being pock-marked,
with craterlike devastation, than the
mowed-field effect left by the Ger-
man blitz of Rotterdam.
Berlin’s Problems
The chief problem of existence for
Berliners is not that of food, which is
better than many have supposed. The
real disheartenment derives from the
congested doubling-up of eight or ten
strangers in a small flat, with migra-
tion out of the city difficult.
Question: What is the chief civilian
shortage in Germany at this moment?
Answer — Unanimously: Fats and
oils, as in the last war, and transpor-
tation.
Here are two big surprises: The
clothing situation is not bad and
there is temporarily an unexpectedly
large supply of leathers, including
shoes, due to the killing off of herds
in the Low Countries because of the
lack of fodder.
Army Is Well Fed
Otherwise everything goes to the
army, which is still well fed, well
clothed and well shod, as are also the
bureaucrats, who still live on the fat
of the land—as at Marshal Goering’s
Karen Hall.
Question: What about Hitler?
I get all kinds of answers to that
one. Talkative Germans here predict
that he will be succeeded by some
German Communist leader—if not by
Stalin himself—and they hope we get
there first.
Ordinary Germans whom I can-
vassed, including women and young-
sters, seem dazed at the cost of Hit-
ler’s defensive struggle. For that is
the way they have always regarded
the war, and they think Hitler is try-
ing the best he can to keep out the
ferocious Bolsheviks. Therefore the
ordinary Germans don’t feel as swin-
dled by Hitler as we have imagined
they might. They put the blame on
the poor minds around him. In feel-
ing sorry for themselves they some-
how feel sorry for Hitler, too, surpris-
ing as that is to you and me.
Bolsheviks Blamed
Their escape mechanism, it appears
from my conversations, is their con-
viction that the Bolsheviks are bor-
ing from within, which preserves the
German vanity nicely.
In conclusion, I find five ridicu-
lous misconceptions among the Ger-
mans:
1. That their missing U-boats are
so busy sinking our ships they have
no time to come home.
2. That President Roosevelt is so
sick his sons are now in charge of our
Army and Navy.
3. That Stalin has been at the
White House twice, incognito,
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34 NEW TYPHUS CASES
REPORTED IN TEXAS
plead for tottering Russia, which is
currently making the last desperate
gamble before its collapse.
4. That the British censorship is-
blacking out a vast Arab war in the,.
Middle East which is occupying a
million Tommies. .
5. That the Japanese have so crip-
pled the American fleet in the last
week that they can now joy-ride to
Pearl Harbor, and that thereafter, in
due time, nothing can stop them from
an attack on the American mainland
and the Panama Canal — at which
time Argentina will declare war on
the United States and lead a Latin
American march against us Gringoes.
Alcohol freezes at
Fahrenheit, below zero.
AUSTIN. — The State Health De-
partment in its weekly morbidity re-
port Friday announced 34 new cases
of typhus in Texas for the week
ended Dec. 25 compared with 28 in
the same period a year ago.
Six. cases each were reported from
Caldwell and Waller Counties.
Official reports of influenza showed
9,392 new cases, with infection de-'
scribed as “relatively mild.”
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