The Caldwell News and The Burleson County Ledger (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 18, 1940 Page: 4 of 6
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Tfct Caldwell News, Thursday, April IS, INI
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Kathleen Norris Says:
If You Want to Help the World-
Do Something About It
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Barvtcr.l
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'DO SOMETHING'
Mamy American women are anx-
ious to "do something" about pres-
ent conditions in "this troubled
world."
Here are a few suggestions Kath-
leen Norria make :
Fix our eyes more steadily upon
an ideal.
Pick up shattered pieces of
wrecked hopes end go forward
Wipe out all hate and revenge
in our Uves and in the lives of
feUouHmmn. Substitute for these
things—forgiveness.
Formulate e definite peace plan
for the world as substitution for the
indefinite one we now possess.
Dreft a first "American World
Map" and have all the nations of
the world dreft maps that ara near-
est to their ideas of equality and
justice. Then bring these nations
together around the conference ta-
ble and adjust the differences.
Take as much lime as is needed
to work out the complicated prob-
lems that would arise in such a
plan, but in the end, the women of
this generation will have made a
great and lasting contribution to the
cause of peace and umld progress.
Our hearts are sick with discouragement and failure today. War is a forest fire
that spreads in aU directions and may blow across the Atlantic.
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
FIVE hundred women have writ-
ten me passionate appeals to
"do something" about the pres-
ent war situation, and if 500 have
taken such trouble it means that
•bout 8,000 feel that way so here
are some suggestions that may help
you satisfy the mad craving that we
•U feel to help if we can.
This feeling is partly fear, partly
shame, and partly despair. It is
naturally fear, for war ts a forest
lire that spread in all directions
and may blow across the Atlantic
any day. It is 6hame because a
sensible world, and a world more-
over that professes to believe in the
doctrines of Jesus Christ, in forgive-
ness and meekness and goodness,
has somehow let things get to such
a pass. It is despair because we
who remember 1914 truly believed
that matters would never reach this
point again.
"What is left for us to do now?"
we ask in bitter discouragement, we
who have given our time and our
energies during these 20 years in a
vain effort to show war up in its
■ true colors to those who must fight
and die in the ranks, to establish
better national understanding every-
where, to clear the way for lasting
peace. For a few days last August
it seemed to us as though black
darkness had enveloped the whole
world, and Christianity and all the
.other lesser codes that preach love
and forgiveness had failed, and
'there was no hope for civilization
or mankind.
' But now the smoke of battle has
cleared away a little, and it is for
.us to treat this calamity as we do
all the less important calamities of
life. To fix our eyes even more
steadily upon our ideal, pick up the
'Shattered pieces of wrecked hopes,
and go forward again.
For those of us who feel that we
know God at all, know absolutely
that His first law is love and that
love is peace. We may be slow and
stupid and blind about making for
our goal, but as long as it is His, it
Is there beyond us, and we draw
nearer to it every time we wipe out
one single little speck of hate and re-
venge in this world, and put in its
place forgiveness.
Hatred Is Dangerous.
Forgiveness is a hard word. It
Is not a natural thing to forgive.
'We need supernatural powers to
;love our enemies. We can get them
¡from only one source, and too often
fwe forget tc turn toward it.
The other day I tried to settle a
violent quarrel between two small
children. One was four and the oth-
er two years old, and neither had
ever known or seen or experienced
Etc; theirs had been as serene and
any a background as any two lit-
humans could have.
The small one had ripped up a
"Well-made doll's bed and flung its
occupant and all the covers to the
Jar winds, and he was unashamed—
(indeed, exultant over the deed. The
bolder child's simple desire was to
Kaim her brother for life, tear his
'es out, wipe that smile away for-
(•ver. She was trembling and pale
rage; she could neither breathe
SOT speak normally. Panting as
¡■he listened to the Gospel story she
Mid, "I'd crucify them all—and five
times, too!"
But after a few moments she
and when persuaded of her
¡ will to make her brother a pres-
ent Of > lollipop in token of forgive-
she first re-made the disrupt-
id, and then went and flung
on her own bed, to burst
teto tears.
Bow, if the difficult business of
forgiving can ao agitate a scrap
babyhood, we must expect that
If ever we are really to forgive our
really rebuild a blood-
thirsty world along the lines of what
!w* truly profess and believe, we
•; aspect violent spiritual storms.
it expect to be reviled and
at as a bunch of scntlmen-
women. We must realise
are going to tell us that
CALDWELL JK.—Julius Hkrivanek
The norther received by this
county Thursday and lasting
through Friday did a considerable
amount of damage as far as crop
projects are concerned. Cotton, at
least in most places, was so badly
damaged that it wiU have to be
planted over. Corn was damaged a
little but will not require replant-
ing. Some sweet potatoes were re-
ported frosten, but Irish potatoes
are not damaged.
Andrew Hein and Edgar Moore
are expecting their turkey eggs to
hatch shortly. They have over
three hundred eggs set, and their
hens are still laying.
Johnnie Masar is feeding out a
litter of ten pigs in the 4-H and
F.F.A. Litter Contest. He will se-
lect the best two pigs and take
them to the Dallas Fair.
Julius Skrivanek has an one-half
acre of sudan grass up. The wind
and frost did not damage it very
much.
We are sorry to say that two of
our club members, Edgar Moore,
and Preston Kiel, has the measles.
SNOOK—Melvin Giesenachlag
Frost killed mo«t of the cotton
and damaged the com. Club mem-
bers having their cotton projects
up will have to plant again. The
damage to corn was slight.
Fifty dollars in prizes will be giv-
en to club members who raise a lit-
ter of six or more pigs to average
two-hundred pounds in the short-
est time. The world record for this
is four months and six days.
Melvin Giesenschlag received his
one hundred, two-week-old white
Leghorn chicks April 10.
Floyd Franks has ninety turkey
eggs setting.
CHRIESMAN—Lloyd Wood . Jr.
On Saturday, April 13, tliere was
a bit of cold weather here; however,
the damage to crops was not very
serious.
Frank Kilpatrick's sudan grass
is now coming up. He is going to
put a hog on it .«oon.
Edward Marek has received the
pig which he will feed out to take
to the Dallas Fair next fall.
any romantic plans we have for be-
ing generous to a recent foe, to do-
ing good to them that have despite-
fully used us, is simply not practi-
cable.
A Fair Deal for AU.
Nevertheless, I challenge all the
American women who read these
lines to set to work at once in their
own minds and souls to formulate a
definite peace plan, as contrasted
tc what we have been using before,
an indefinite one. I mean a map of
the world that gives every nation a
more than fair break, a generous
break. I mean to apportion oil land,
rubber, iron, wheat lands honestly,
balancing and changing this map
until every nation ie willing to say,
"We are content." I mean for each
country to sacrifice something in
land, in rich undeveloped tracts, in
harbor rights ¡I mean the estab-
lishment of many open ports.
The churches have failed to do
anything as concrete as this. The
rulers have failed. They are all
willing to find billions for guns and
bullets; they are all afraid to give
millions for help.
"Why on earth should we—rich,
independent, protected America-
help Germany, or Japan, or any
other country?" they demand. "We
have enough charity at home."
Yes. but they don't count what
those countries, as enemies, cost
us today, and cost us yesterday, in
lives, dollars and arms. If Ameri-
ca had loaned the stricken coun-
tries of the world $1,000,000,000 15
years ago, she might have saved
nine times that sum in the sudden
terror of increased armament that
has possessed her.
Women Could Do Much.
Our hearts are sick with discour-
agement and failure today. But if
in another year, through some
American woman's genius, or the
genius of several women working
together, a first American World
Map is drafted Bnd submitted, and
if in two more years every nation
has scorned that map and drawn
up another nearer to its heart's de-
sire, and if in three years seven
countries have gotten together on a
map, and If in five years 28 coun-
tries have agreed to it, in its hun-
dredth changed and amended form,
then we will have made a contri-
bution to world progress that no
other generation of women has
touched.
When that map is accepted every
country in the world will begin to
lessen military preparedness, and
the millions so saved will more than
balance any tariff rights or terri-
torial concessions that we have bad
to sacrifice.
COOK'S POINT—Robert Trcalek
Milton Schoenemann will com-
plete a self feeder and a hog pas-
ture next week. He will feed a reg-
istered pig to take to the Dallas
Fair in October.
Raymond Spittler completed a
hog house last week. He said that
his pig is gaining rapidly.
The Cook's Point 4-H Club is
looking forward for their next
meeting.
DEANVILLE—Ernest Brinkmann
The cold spell certainly caused
a great deal of damage last week.
The cotton that was up was killed
by the frost Saturday morning, and
the corn was badly whipped by the
strong wind on Friday. All thi> cot-
ton will have to b- replanted, and
everyone is quite anxious for the
land to dry out enough to .start
working again.
Calvin Kocurek planted his cot
ton on April 10, and it was not up
yet when the cold .spell came. He
planted three acres of the Acola
variety. The cotton should be up
in a few days.
Ernest Brinkmann feeds his
calv.es alfalfa, cane, sweet feed,
hulls, chops and blackstriped mo-
lasses. One of the calves weighs
694 pounds, and the other 642
pounds. They are now six and a
Practice Time for Anti-Tank Gunners
Because all is too quiet on the
British and French anti-tank crews
using dummy tanks made of wood a
tank gunners with their dummies
gunnery range behind the lines on
western front for real tank warfare,
brush up on their marksmanship by
nd cardboard. Itere are British anti-
loaded on trucks on the way to the
ths front.
Texas has produced more petroleum
to date than the entire State of
Pennsylvania, where America's
first commercial production was dis-
covered in 1869.
Fatal injuries to workers in the
oil industry are now at the rate of
only one in 2,078 work years.
Were all automobile and truck
drivers as safe as drivers for the
petroleum industry, 13,700 lives
would be saved each year in auto-
mobile fatalities.
Annuities paid by some Texas oil
companies to retired employees to-
tal from three to six times those
prescribed under the social security
law.
The Texas petroleum Industry
alone now pays 45 per cent of all
state taxes, exclusive of sales taxes
Chickens-Turkej
Keep Them Healthy
allows Worms to destroy
health, stop egg pi
STAR SULPHUROUS
POUND given in water or feed
Disease-causing worms in
period; also keeps them fl
Bloodsucking Lice, Mites,
Bluebugs; their system toned;|
petite, Health and Egg Pr
good. Costs very little. You
nothing. Money back if not
Tied. (aty'i
such as the gasoline tax whicl
paid by the consumer.
Dry holes and plugged oil
in Texas last year totalled 2,i
half months old.
Erwin Moore, our president, has
been out of school for a week. He
has the measles. We hope that he
will be back soon.
NEW TABOR—Johnnie Surovik
Our club is expecting to have a
4-H club meeting in the near fu-
ture.
Edwin Novacek and Lawrence
Vavra say that their hog« a. 3
growing nicely.
Johnnie J. Surovik has sixty tur-
key eggs set. He hopes they will
hatch good.
——o
TEXAS OIL
NEWS
Fifty million acres of Texas land
are now being leased from farmers
and other land owners of the state
by the Texas oil and gas industry.
Texas oilmen last year discovered
two and one-fourth times as much
oil as they produce^
Fifty-nine cents of each dollar
earned by a Texas oil worker is
spent with the retail merchants of
his community. Of the remainder,
15 cents goes for rent, 15 cents for
savings and insurance, 7 cents for
public utilities and 4 cents for pro-
fessional services.
Oil taxes for the past IK years
have averaged three times the earn-
ings of the oil companies.
The Texas oil industry is the
largest carload customer of Texas
railroads.
Texas oilm?n pay the entire cost
of schooling for one-fourth the
school children of Texas.
The Texas oil industry has in-
vested in this state $1.10 for every
$1.00 worth of oil which it has pro-
•!:ifed to date. These expenditures
included wages to Texas oil work-
rs, lease and royalty payments to
Texas farmers, taxes to state and
local governments and investments
in Texas properties.
Oil statistics show that to find
each billion barrels of petroleum
the oil industry has to drill 4,000
dry holes. At a naverage of $20,000
per dry hole that's a cost of $80,-
000,000 to find one large new Texas
field.
Modern oil refining methods have
doubled the amount of gasoline re-
coverable from a barrel of crude
oil, in effect doubling the size of
Texas' vast petroleum reserves.
New discoveries of oil in Texas
represented 40 per cent of all the
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new oil reserves found in the entire
United States in 1939.
Texas oil is being produced at
the most economical rate of produc-
tion of any oil state, insuring the
longest life to the state's oil fields.
Proven oil reserves in the United
States now total nearly 20 billion
barrels, of which Texas alone has
55 per cent.
More than 300 products vital to
American industry are now made
from Texas crude oil.
Texas oil companies furnish pro-
ducing, pipe line and refining equip-
ment free for use of students in
adult vocational classes conducted
by the State Department of Edu-
cation. Approximately 14,000 Tex-
ans have taken these courses to
date.
Over fifty courses in oil operat-
ing methods are now offered by the
Texas State Department of Educa-
tion in co-operation with Texa«> oil
companies to enable Texas oil
workers to train themselves for
promotion.
The single Texas oil ar a of West
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