The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 23, 1961 Page: 2 of 10
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THE CANADIAN RECORD, Canadian, Hemphill County, Texas
THURSDAY, NOV. 23, 1961
A lot to be thankful for
j^ET US give thanks, at this Thanksgiving
season, with all our hearts for the many
blessings that are ours in America.
In spite of the prophets of gloom who in-
habit the airways and bore from within the
editorial columns of some of our daily news-
papers ... in spite of the fearful and frantic
few who would stampede us into giving up
personal freedom for policed security ... in
spite of the crackpot clans who would set
suspicious neighbor against neighbor ... in
spite of all these we enjoy more freedom, more
privileges, more personal comforts and more
real security than any people on earth.
We are a nation supremely blessed with the
material things of this world.
Let us continue our willingness to share with
less fortunate neighbors in other lands these
material blessings that are ours ... so that
we may also gain the spiritual blessing which
comes to those who are warm of heart and
generous of mind.
This is a sentiment which will not be shared
by the ultra-nationalists who view democracy
as a "perennial fraud" and distrust all who
dare to disagree, the isolationist elements who
view the U. N. as a creation of the Gpdless-
communists, and the White Supremacists who
consider the shade of a man's skin to be the
measure of his humanity . . . but it is a sent-
iment which we prayerfully believe will be
shared wholeheartedly by a vast majority of
our fellow Americans.
Lets make them welcome
POR THE second time in five years, people of
Canadian have opened their hearts . . .
and loosened their purse strings ... to offer
help in its most practical form to a refugee
family from a foreign land.
Five years afro, stirred by the plight of refu-
gees fmm Communist-dominated Hungary, the
people of this community ... in a heart-
warming Thanksgiving Day demonstration ...
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THE CANADIAN RECORD
Canadian (Hemphill County) Texas
BEN EZ2ELL Editor
NANCY EZZELL Editor of Woman's Pages
1 CD ROGERS Foreman
Entered as semirl class matter December 20,
5fl45. at the Postntffice at Canadian, Texas,
under the Art of March 3. 1S79. Published each
Thursday afternoon ai Canadian, Texas, by
Ben R. and Nancy M. Ezzell.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
In Hemphill and Adjoining Counties:
One Year $3.50
Elsewnere $4.50 per Year
pledged the money and the assistance needed
to bring a family of Hungarian freedom-
fighters to Canadian, Texas, and to provide
them with a new beginning in a new land.
The success story of the Julius Horvath family
is now well known.
This fall, the people of the First Presbyter-
ian Church in Canadian have adopted a sim-
ilar undertaking . . . bringing a Dutch-Indo-
nesian refugee family to Canadian. The nine
members of the Willem Jacobs family arrived
here Sunday night, on the eve of this Thanks-
giving season.
It is true, of course, that adoption of the
Hungarian family was a community-wide un-
dertaking; while the Jacobs of Indonesia are
sponsored by a single organization in the
community . . . but this too is a community
project, and while the Presbyterians of Cana-
dian have assumed the primary responsibility
for them, many outside the Presbyterian
ehiirch have generously offered help and wo
feel sure that the whole community will join
in bidding them a real American welcome.
In a very real sense, only the whole com-
munity can accomplish the ultimate goal of
taking in these refugee families from foreign
lands and making them into happy, useful
American citizens.
We feel sure that the community of Cana-
dian will not fail in this, and we hope that
our successes will encourage other groups and
other communities to offer similar opportuni-
ties to other families who arc refugees from
troubled home-lands.
Salesmen are here to stay
(From the Ochiltree County Herald)
IIS IS the ease with most businessmen, we
have a deep feeling of friendship for a
number of traveling salesmen who call upon
this institution anad for that reason we view
a prediction of a national expert with sus-
picion.
This expert says the IBM computer, while
spiting out cards that do a merchandise man-
ager's thinking for him, also will issue the
traveling salesman a death warrant.
This expert gives the traveling salesman
another 10 years. ,
"The farmers daughter is safe," says the
expert, "for within another decade the travel-
ing salesman, the fellow with a shine and a
smile who solved the problems of the world in
the smoking car of the sleeper, the old time
drummer, will be a thing of the past."
This kind of salesman is already a thing of
the past. He passed out of the picture at .about
the same time the loud, gaudy Chamber of
Commerce man with his boasts and noise,
passed out of the picture.
Today's salesman is more like a professional
man. one who has been trained in his busi-
ness and one who renders a real service to his
customers. This kind of salesman, we predict,
will be with us for a long time to come.
In fact, the demand was never greater for
proficient salesmen. There are companies all
over the nation crying out for salesmen to
help them move their products. Succesful
salesmen command the largest incomes in
the country.
As long as we have products to be sold and
a need to contact prospective buyers, there
will be a need for a middle man to make those
buyers aware of the need for a particular
product. '
This is the free enterprise system and the
traveling salesman is probably the best ex-
ample of It
Time was when Jack Frost was a dead cinch to beat Santa
Claus on the winter scene by a margin of months . . . but
these days ifs getting to be a dead heat between the two, and
Old Santa may even have the edge.
It isn't that the weather's changing . . . it's just that the
prompters of Christmas commercialism are getting more and
more eager.
We see by the papers that Santa has already made an ap-
pearance or two in our neighboring metropolis of Amarillo
. . . and the Thanksgiving turkey hasn't even shed his feathers
yet.
Back in the days of the late and unlamented Great Depres-
sion. the late great FDR stirred up all kinds of ruckus by try-
ing to advance the date of Thanksgiving from its traditional
fourth Thursday to the third.
FDR's idea was to prime the pump a bit by this simple
maneuver. Christmas shopping, he reasoned, didn't really get
underway until after Thanksgiving. American business needed
more Christmas shopping to give it a shot in the arm. The
way to get more Christmas shopping was to allow more time
for It. Therefore, since everybody started thinking about Christ-
mas immediately after Thanksgiving, what could be simpler
than making Thanksgiving happen earlier in the year?
Since Thanksgiving was traditionally set by Presidential
proclamation, FDR figured it would be a simple matter to fust
proclaim it a week earlier. He might have considered settin"
Christmas a week later, but probably decided this might be a
little nervy, even for a Roosevelt. It could hardly have met
with more opposition, however.
FDR made a couple of miscalculations. He miscalculated the
determination of the traditionalists in many states ... as in
Texas, where Federal employees celebrated Thanksgiving on
the third Thursday and everybody else on the fourth . . . which
probably didn't bother him much. But he also miscalculated
the Christmas-buying power of the American public.
What people lacked was not enough time for Christmas
shopping, but enough money. Stretching the shopping period
solved the wrong, problem.
« * * •
The tub-thumpers who rout Santa Claus out of the moth-
balls before the Hallowe'en witches have settled back into 'em
may be making the same mistake that FDR did. Their idea,
of course, is to get Christmas shopping underway earlier in
the season, just like Franklin D's.
But it isn't lack of time that keeps most of us from doing
more Christmas shopping.
• * * •
Nothing ages parents faster than children. The aging process
sometimes takes place rapidly and unexpectedly.
Our 11-year old daughter flipped a few calendars for daddy
the other day with the most casual innocence. It was at the
dinner table, and Cathy was describing some character she'd
been reading about at school. We didn't catch the name, but
we did catch this descriptive phrase: "He was an old man
of 45!"
Having recently reached that venerable milestone, we have
one last word of advice to our young friends who are in their
earlier forties: Live dangerously, men ... it is undoubtedly
later than we thought!
inklings
n FRIEND complains his insomnia is now so
" bad he can't even sleep when it's time to
get up.
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