The Giddings Star (Giddings, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, February 7, 1941 Page: 4 of 8
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THE GIDDINGS STAR
Friday, February 7, 1941
THE GIDDINGS STAR
Published every Friday by
THE GIDDINGS PRINTING co.
Giddings, Texas
P. O. Box 427
THEO, A. PREUSSER, Editor
ALBERT B. MIERTSCHIN, Bus. Mgr.
Entered aa second-class matter April
5th 1940, at the Post Office at Giddings,
Texas, under the Act of Congress of
March Srd 1879.
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the thought that it is a debt you owe
to the progress of your city and com-
Biunity.
In the survey of merchandising dur-
ing 1940, John P. Nichols, Ma
naging Director of the Institute of
Distribution, estimates that chain
stores did 20 per cent of all business,
house-to-house and minor selling me-
thods did 5 per cent, and the Inde-
pendents did 75 per cent, an increase
of 2 per cent in five years.
Mr. Nichols pays tribute to the in-
dependent store when he observes,
“The modern chain store received the
keenest sort of competition from indi-
vidually-owned retailers." The typi-
cal one-store operator in this country
isn't the incompetent that the backers
of anti-chain store legislation seem
to think. He doesn’t fold up when com-
petition appears, and go on relief. In-
stead, he looks into his competitor’s
methods of doing business, and if he
finds anything new and novel he ad-
apts it to his ow n uses. Then he thinks
up some more innovations of his own.
He finds new ways to cut costs, to
lower prices, to improve quality, to
better service. He does more adver
rising, and he installs better equip-
ment and fixtures. And the customers
come flocking in.
For the one-store operator, or the
chain store operator who knows his
job ,1s adequately financed, and is
honestly eager to serve his patrons
well, opportunity today is unlimited.
Progressive merchants are proving
this daily. ■
was secessary. They did not indicate
the state nor the country.
Mrs. Milligan also sent a copy to
Dunstable, Bedfordshire; Borough
Gazette, in which there appeared an
interview with Northam L. Griggs,
special representative of the Ameri-
can Red Cross.
The paper quoted him as well pleas ,
ed with the work of the WV8 in the
distribution of lied jackets, socks,
gloves and other comforts at Dun-
stable. Some of the clothing went to
soldiers in General De Gaulle’s Free
French Force, some to prisoners of
war and others to soldiers in hospi-
tals at Dunstable. Refugees from
bombed areas also were outfitted with
American clothes furnished the WVS
by the Red Cross.
Note: Mrs. W. s. Milligan is the
sister of Mrs. W. A. Darter of Is
Grange.
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WHO’S WHO AMONG HIGH
SCHOOL STUDENTS SELECTED
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LORENZ FOOD MARKET
Specials for Friday & Sat.
All contributions for publication
must be signed by the contributor. We
will not publish your name however, if
you request us not to do so.
Address all communications to
THE GIDDINGS STAR
Giddings, Texas.
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BATTLE AGAINST TIME
Editorial Column
CHANGE IN “CLIMATE”
Writing in "Banking', Albert W.
Atwood says: "The ‘climate’ in regard
to the relationship between banks and
the government has changed decidedly
for the better. Bankers are no longer
“money changers' to be driven from
the temple, but an essential and in-
tegral part of the defense program.
Considering that the commercial
banks of the country made 24,998,000
credit extensions in 1939, for an ag-
gregate of $39,810,810,000. it is plain
enough that they will have a central
role to play in serving their country
in 1941."
We must rely on private banking
to a very large extent to finance de-
tense—the building of new factories,
the expansion of existing plants, etc.
If government did this, the drain on
taxpayers will be ruinous. Govern-
ment has a terrifically difficult job in
raising money needed for purely go-
vernmental purposes which are out-
aide the sphere of banking and busi-
mess. In order to preserve the demo-
cracy our defense program is intend-
ed to save, it should be our fixed po-
licy for government not to spend one
cent which can be provided by private
sources.
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REASON FOR PRIDE
That the railroad industry is fully
awake to its public responsibility in
these unpredictable times was shown
at the recent annual meeting of the
Association of American Railroads,
which adopted the following resolu-
tion : "In the operation of a continent
Wide system of rail transportation
each railroad has responsibilities to
every other railroad, and all of them
together have the responsibility of
providing the nation's essential low-
cost mass transportation. The Mem-
ber Roads of the Association of Ame-
rican Railroads, therefore, do hereby
renew their pledge to whom they
serve, that individually and in coop-
eration with one another and with the
government of the United States, they
will continue to meet to the full the
demands of commerce and the needs
of national defense."
The railroad are proving their sin-
cerity. One line may compete with
another in seeking traffic—but every
line cooperates with every other line
when it comes to serving the country's
needs, normal and abnormal. All co-
operate in improving equipment, in
stepping up the speed of freight trains
in eliminating car shortages. This
country now enjoys the finest, cheap-
est and most efficient rail service in
history.
War Department officials have ex-
haustively surveyed railroad capacity
for defense needs and agreed that the
railroads can meet any conceivable
transportation emergency.
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OPPORTUNITY UNLIMITED
The National Physicians Commit-
tee, an organization dedicated to the
extension of medical service, has re-
leased a pamphlet that puts in black
ami white a few of the outstanding
achievements of American medicine.
No man alive could tell the full story
of those achievements, of years of
heartbreaking laboratory work, of
lives spent in solving a single, minute
riddle in the endless battle of life
and death.
The bald fact, for example, that the
life of the average man has been
doubled in the short span of a cen-
tury and a half, from 35 to G2 years,
may strike many as simply the march
of civilkation, something bound to
come. They forget that nothing moves
forward of its own momentum except
time itself. All else is a feverish battle
—against time.
The overwhelming handicap of
mankind in the struggle to expand
and learn, has been the appallingly
brief period which men of great minds
are given to explore and pass on to
the rest of us the secrets of what we
call, for lack of a more fitting name,
• better civilization. Medical progress
has given these men more time. More-
over, ft has made It possible for the
ordinary individual to largely spend
the first thirty years of life acquir-
ing an "education" to fit him to meet
the problems confronting him in mo-
dern society.
It is a lot further to the "top" now-
adays than it was fifty years ago. A
staggering amount of technical know-
leedge is essential in virtually any
line of modern endeavor. The thrill
of accomplisrment is sweet when the
upward climb has been long and hard.
Working in the background have been
thousands of men, experts in their
fields, the men of medicine, constantly
giving us more and still more time to
enjoy life and conquer new worlds for
ourselves and our families. We should
seek a fuller knowledge of their work
and problems, In order to obtain the
fullest possible measure of benefit
from medical progress.
Gladys Marie Schneider, Grace
Hejtmancik nnd Ben Liberty have
been selected as the Giddings high
school representatives in this year's
"Who's Who Among High School Stu-
dents." Phyllis Reed was given ho-
norable mention.
The faculty has selected these se-
niors on the following qualifications
set up by the American High School
Educational Association at Baylor
University: leadership, scholarship,
character, sportsmanship and extra-
curricular activities. Last year over
450 schools participated. C. J. Hum-
phrey, Editor of The America High
School Educational Association, is do-
ing splendid work in compiling this
list each year.
CITATION BY PUBLICATION
THE STATE OF TEXAS
To the Sheriff or any Constable of
Lee County. Greeting:
You are hereby commanded to sum
men
ROOSEVELT LEIGH
by making publication of this Citation
once in each week for four successive
weeks previous to the return day
hereof, in some newspaper published
in the 21st Judicial District; but If
there be no newspaper published in
said Judicial District, then in a news-
paper publishel in the nearest District
to said 21st Judicial District, to ap-
pear at the next regular term of the
Texian topics:
Amon Carter, Fort Worth publisher
and Texas' foremost citizen, scored
heavily again when he led in obtain-
ing for Fort Worth and Texas a bomb-
erer factory which will mean at least
12,000 workers—a forward step rival-
ling the building of the T & I' Rail-
road into that city, the establishment
of the great packing houses and the
discovery of the Ranger and Burk-
burnett oil fields. The name of Amon
Carter will loom on the pages of
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Last summer, your observer became
rather well acquainted with John
Kimbrough. Texas A & M's all-Ameri-
can fullback and the No. 1 player on
on many mythical elevens. He is as
modest and polite in private life as
he is titanic ami terrific on the grid-
iron. His soft and drawling words are
few: when speaking to older men, it's
always "Yes, sir" or „N'o, sir." I was
dejected because a seat on the 9-yard
line was the best obtainable for the
Fordham—Aggie clash but all four
scores were made right in front of me.
Most deeply-engraved memory: Kim-
brough feinting at the line, then gal-
loping wide around end for the se-
cond. and all-important, touchdown—*
running with such power that he went
over the goal line, clear across the
end zone and against the concrete
wall. The 40,000 in the Cotton Bowl
almost felt the thump.
• • • •
High Ideal is a blind mare at Me-
lody Meadows, owned by W. C.
Stroube,well-known ‘oil man of the
nearby city of Corisicana. Blindness
doesn’t keep High Ideal from enjoying
morning exercise. Her hoofs have
beaten out a circuit of perhaps 100 ft.
She walks until she comes to this
path, then she goes slowly around it
to make sure that there is nothing to
stumble over. Then, with an unerring
Potatoes Colorado, 10 pounds
Crackers pound box . . -
Onions Yellow, 3 pounds ... .
Macaroni packages . , .
| Egg Noodles pound pkg.
: Cocoa Realm, 2 pound box . . .
i Coffee Maxwell House, pound .
:Oranges Valley, 2 dozen . .
: Cleanser PLEE-ZING, 3 cans
Syrup Pure Cane, No. 10 Pail .
: Mystery Soap
High School News
CLIPPING FROM
THE DALLAS NEWS
Submitted By Miss Bess Black
I rincipal Giddings High School
Those who forecast that the wolfish’
chain stores would drive the ‘defense-
less’ independent stores out of busi-
ness, should be blushing these days,
for, all during the ‘30‘s, there was no
increase in proportion of retail busi-
ness done by the chains.
Joyfully Mrs. William S. Milligan,
London, sent to Dallas friends this
week a copy of the London Telegraph
in which appears a reproduction of a
sympathetic Herc Ficklen cartoon,
'Hooray forDallas," Mrs. Milligan
wrote. "I tell 'em that's my home-
town newspaper."
Mrs. Milligan formerly was Miss
Mildred McLaughlin of Giddings. She
is a graduate of the University of
Texas and was a home service worker
in the Dallas County Red Cross Chap-
ter for several years. She married
Mr. Milligan, who was in Texas re-
presenting a Scottish firm and the
couple left here four years ago, when
he was transferred to Copenhagen.
They were forced to flee Copenhagen
ahead of the Nazi troops and now live
in London, where Mrs. Milligan is a
member of the British Women’s Vo-
lunteer Service, helping distribute ‘
Red Cross clothes and other relief
supplies from America to war victims.
The Ficklen eartoon showed Hitler
banged over the head with a big swat
stika which he had hurled at Eng-
land. It was titled Boomerang and
the returning swastika represented
RAF reprisal raids on Germany. The
London editors apparently felt no
further erelit than The Dalias News
District Court of Lee County, to be
holden at the Court House thereof, In
Giddings on the second Monday, in
April' 1941 the same being the 14th
day of April 1941 then and there to
answer a petition filed in said Court
on the 8th day of January 1041 in a
suit, numbered on the Docket of said
Court No. 3670 wherein Veoria Leigh
Plaintiff, and Roosevel Leigh De-
fondant, and said petition alleging
that plaintiff Veoria Leigh complains
of Roosevelt Leigh, defendant and
says she has been an actual bona fide
inhabitant of Texas for 12 months
and actually resided in Lee County
six months next preceding filing there-
of; Defendant's resident 1. unknown.
Plaintiff and defendant were legally
married in Travis County, Texas,
July 21, 1934: Plaintiff being a single
girl named Veoria McNeil. They lived
as husband and wife nntil July 20,
1937 when defendant left without
cause and plaintiff has not lived with,
cohabited or seen him since, but he
intentionally, permanently abandoned
her for more than three years;
There are no children of said mar-
riage. Plaintiff prays defendant lie
cited to appear and answer and for
judgment dissolving bonds of matri-
mony.
Herein fail not, but have you be-
fore said Court, at its aforesaid next
regular term, this writ, with your re-
turn thereon, showing how you have
executed the same.
Witness: A. W. Siegmund, Clerk of
the District Court of Lee County.
Given under my blind and seal of
said Court, at the office in Giddings
this the 8th day of January 1941
Signed and Sealed: A. W. Siegmund
Clerk, District Court, Lee County.
sense of d rection, she starts jogging,
and around and around she goes, the
last time or two in full gallop. The
thoroughbred has produced four off-
springs and they have all won races.
These and other Texas-breds may yet
get to race in this State as the legis-
lature is seriously ‘considering the
racing bill because of the ’’painless"
method it offers of raising $2,500,000
of new tax revenue.
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A Man’s Prayer
Let me live, O Mighty Master,
Such a life as man should know.
Testing triumph and disaster,
Joy—and not too much of woe. ,
Let me run the gamut over;
Let me light and love and laugh
And when I’m beneath the clover.
Let this be my epitaph:—
"Here lies one who took his chances
In the busy world of men;
Battled luck and cireustances.
Fought and fell and fought again;
Won sometimes, but did no crowing,
Lost sometimes, but did not wall;
Took his beating, kept on going.
Never let his courage fail.
He ‘was fallible and human,
Therefore loved and understood
Both hilt fellow men and women.
Whether ’good or not so good.
Kept’ his spirits undiminished ;
Never‘false to any friend;
Player the game until it finished:
Lived a sportsman to the end."
—Author Unknown
ee 4.
Judge James D. Hamlin of Farwell,
whose tall form, gray hair and big.
white hat make him outstanding in
any group, is executive vice-president
of the Texas Real Estate Association,
Property Owners Division, and he
hurls these pertinent questions:
"Do you know that real estate is
paying over 60 per cent of our tax
burden, State and local?
"That such tax bill Is approximately
$221,000,000 and that real property
pass $136,000,000 of this sum?
"That if taxes were properly equal-
ized, real property would pay only
$56,000,000?
"That the cost of operating the
State government has increased 700
per cent during thh last 20 years while
population has increased only 40 per
ent and taxable wealth only 43 per
cent ?
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If readers of this column are in-
terested in what the "I Give You
Texas” fellow talks like, tune in on
Elbert Haling’s Suburban Editor pro-
tram almost any Sunday, 10:15 n. in.
over WRAP and your curiosity will
be gratified.
First Baby Chicks by Feb. 1O
from then on every Tuesday
For Custom Hatching
bring eggs every Saturday
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When a newcomer in Austin asked
a former Senator about the prices at
a cafe, he answered, “I think they’re
very unreasonable: 1 ate breakfast
there this morning and got two fried
eggs, bacon, toast jelly, coffee and an
overcoat for 30 cents."
•
Although the patron of a Dallas
night spot on New Year's Eve had a
whole pint of whisky when he fell
to the floor, he never spilled a drop—
he didn't open his month!
detailed instructions given on Forms
1040-A and 1040, the income tax
blanks.
What Is The Tax Rate? A normal
tax of 4 js-r cent on the amount of
the net income, arrived at by deduct-
ing legal exemptions and credits from
the cross income; n surtax on the sur-
tax net income in excess of $4,000;
and a defense tax of 10 per cent of
the combined normal tax and surtax.
INCOME TAX DON’TS
YOUR INC OME TAX
IN A NUTSHELL
Who Must File A Return? Every
single person having a gross income
oi $800 or more; every married per-
son, not living with husband or wife,
and having a gross income of $800 or
more; and married persons living with
husband or wife, who have an aggre-
gate gross income of $2,000 or more.
When Must Returns Be Filed? For
the calendar year, on or before March
15, 1041. For the fiscal year, on or:
before the 15th day of the third month 1
following the close of the fiscal year. I
Where And With Whom Must,In-
come Tax Returns Be Filed? In the
Internal revenue district in which the
person lives or has bis chief place in
business, and with the collector of
internal revenue.
How Does One Make Out His In-
come Tax Return? By following the vernment.
DON’T prepare your income tax re-
turn until you carefully read and un-
derstand the instructions accompany-
ing the forms. Make out a work sheet
and check It with the instructions be-
fore filling in the forms,
DON’T delay in making out your
income tax return. Tax problems de-
serve careful study, and the early as-
sembling of your data expedites this.
DON’T destroy the data from which
your return is compiled. You will
need them for possible rechecking and
verifying the return.
DON’T overlook any item or sche-
dule on the form which you are re-
quired to to 111! out. They are neces-
sary to the exact computation of your
income tax.
DON’T omit any explanation or in-
formation that is essential to a com-
plete audit of your returns. An ounce
of care may save you a pound of un-
necessary expense, and time and an-
novance both to you and to your Go-
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