Falfurrias Facts (Falfurrias, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, March 29, 1940 Page: 2 of 6
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: Texas Borderlands Newspaper Collection and was provided to The Portal to Texas History by the UNT Libraries.
- Highlighting
- Highlighting On/Off
- Color:
- Adjust Image
- Rotate Left
- Rotate Right
- Brightness, Contrast, etc. (Experimental)
- Cropping Tool
- Download Sizes
- Preview all sizes/dimensions or...
- Download Thumbnail
- Download Small
- Download Medium
- Download Large
- High Resolution Files
- IIIF Image JSON
- IIIF Image URL
- Accessibility
- View Extracted Text
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
PAGE TWO
FALFURRIAS FACTS
iFalfurrias iFarte
Established In ltOC
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
At Falfurrias, Brooks County, Texas
HOWARD BEHRENT .... MGR. EDITOR
Entered as second class matter, April 2, 1906 at
the Postoffice at Falfurrias. Texas, under the Act
of Congress of March 8, 1879.
Subscription Price $2.00 per pear Payable In Advance
Any erroneous reflection upon the character
standing, or reputation of any person, firm, or cor-
poration, which may appear In The Facts, will
fladly be corrected as soon as it is brought to the
attention of the publisher.
Display, per column-inch (Local) _____________25c
Readers, Among Locals, per line _______________10c
Classified Readers, per line ____________________lOo
Resolutions and Cards of Thanks $1.00
MEMBER SOUTH TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
CRIMINALS GROWN AT HOME
/CRIMINALS, like honest and law-abiding
vJ citizens, have no mysterious origin, but
are “home grown”, charges J. Edgar Hoover,
America’s Number One G-Man, who fixes re-
sponsibility for crime within the family circle
in his current Rotarian Magazine article on
juvenile delinquency.
have to be in ramshackle shape to be a target
for a destructive fire. Many a superficially
modern and imposing building contains haz-
ards that are a terrible menace to its occu
pants.
Most dangerous of all are poorly construct-
ed and inadequately public buildings. The fin
record includes a long list of burned schools,
dance halls and stores which in each case en-
tailed a ghastly loss of life. And sometime-
fire takes a grimly ironic tone. Not so long age
a large number of children attended a Cana
dian theatre showing a film entitled, “Get
’Em Young!” Fire broke out and 75 of the
children died, lit literally “Got ’em Young!”
First step in making any town safe is a mod
ern building code. Second, enforce it to the
letter. Unscrupulous politics is one of fire’s
best friends. Many a building has been posted
for violations of fire ordinannees—only to
have an owner with political pull “fix” them.
When politics plays with fire, it plays with
human life.
Every school, theatre, dance hall, govern-
ment building and other public structures
should be periodically inspected by experts
from roof to foundation. Every hazard found,
big or little, should be immediately corrected
—and the law should see that no time is wast-
ed. Some 10,000 Americans are cremated a-
live every year—and adequate fire prevention
work could save the great majority.
“Character, good or bad, gets its original
‘set’ at the dinner table, in front of the living-
room fire, in the basement workshop or play-
room, even perhaps in the woodshed—where-
ever parents and their children meet, live with
one another, react on one another,” Hoover
tells Rotarian readers. Very few parents con-
sciously and wilfully instill criminal ideals in
their youngsters, he says, but criminal tenden-
cies are picked up outside the home because
of improper training
“Boys seek the street and the outside, and
become receptive to the criminal ideas and
ideals of .tough pals or gangs, usually for just
one reason: somehow, whether because of in-
difference, ignorance, laziness, or stupidity,
the home and parents have failed,” he reasons
out of 15 years’ experience based on hun-
dreds of cases That this is true—and discour-
aging—is shown in the fact that throughout
the past year the largest number of indivi-
duals arrested by ages fell in the 19-year-old
group, while those 18 years old were second.
One out of every five persons arrested was
under 21 years of age.
“The greatest of all recipes for crime pre-
vention is understanding of boy nature by
older people, especially parents. It is chiefly
from homes where misunderstanding or indif-
ference occurs which drive boys into haphaz-
ard relationships outside, that the men are Re-
cruited whom we of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation later know, and conduct nation-
wide hunts for, as kidnappers, murderers,
forgers, thieves, rapists, and other public
enemies,” G-Man Hoover asserts.
“The threat of criminality has to be fought
on every front where it shows its ugly head.
But it is too bad that we have to ruin so many
lives that could be useful simply because the
right influences are not present at the right
time.” Everyone—parents, taxpayers, and
possible victims of criminality—must enlist in
this war on crime, he says, adding: “The fin-
est victories against crime can he won before
individuals become criminals.”
“GET ’EM YOUNG”
A RE THERE any fire traps in your town’
ia. It’s easy to make a quick answer of No—
but harder to prove for a building doesn’t
BREAKERS AHEAD
TT TOOK the United States Government the
1 first 133 years of its existence to spend
sixty-six billion dollars, in the course of which
the expense of five wars was defrayed, in-
'cluding the Civil War and the World War.
“That was yesterday. Today it takes the Fed-
eral government a mere eight years to spend
$65,628,526,692.
The automobile is not the only contrivance
that has shown an amazing increase in speed.
Modern American bureaucracy spends public
money at a rate that would have been thought
impossible a few years ago. It can also create
bigger deficits with greater speed than our
forefathers could ever conceive of—$25,538,-
000,000 in eight years. Apparently our ability
to pile up deficits is surpassed only by our abi-
lity to spend.
Unless average citizens, housewives, busi-
ness men, professional people and workers
come to their senses, we will enter an era that
will make the “great” depression of the thir-
ties look like a pink tea. We have lost our self-
respect in a drunken spending spree and if we
don’t watch out we will soon lose our shirts!
QUOTABLE QUOTES
T IVING Democracy—Around our commun-
al ity we don’t have an abnormal concern in
,the affairs of other nations. Within our means,
we contribute to the relief of distressed peo-
ples, but we know that agitated discussions
of ideologies while the canapes are being
passed won’t save the world, and we go into
no sporadic dithers about what’s going to be-
come of democracy. Matter-of-factly, we pre-
serve it by the way we live.—Edith M. Stern
in the Rotarian Magazine.
Urgency Of Goodwill—With wars and
threats of wars, with all the inconceivable de-
vastation, let alone brutality, that they con-
note, coming with increasing rapidity upon
us, it has become actually a matter of life and
death that men shall become imbued with
the spirit of fellowship. Realization of good-
will is the vital urgency of the hour—Arthur
, Holly Compton in the Rotarian Magazine.
CONFUCIUS SAY —
MAN IN UARftei- IS i-UCKy--
TO STli-J- -ttAVF
F
ACTS FANCIE
LRT THE WISE
MAKE THE DISTINCTION
S
Hist!
Though people in the city
Incline to run it down.
Life is not monotonous
In a little t< wn.
One may not see so much, my
dears,
But whee-ee-ee—the things one
hears!
—W. E. Farbstein.
We are indebted to Mrs. L. L.
CRABB for that bit of whimsey
and this would indeed be an in-
teresting column if wc printed
ALL that w~ heard—but then
maybe our : icle Samuel would
step in a:.d take a hand and if
step in and tal a hand and if
he didn’t sc— - t ' : Is nieces and
nephews prchatly would . . .
F ncHiae in newspaper: “A
man in Dallas claims to have in-
vented a game which in some
aspects resembles golf” . . .
Your rep< rter insists that his
efforts on the local course lately
had all the earmarks of golf but
thus far his enrichment has
been limited to experience, while
Mrs. L. L. CRABB and BOB AL-
LAN collected the nickels for a-
fore-mentioned experience.Still
there’s comfort in the knowledge
that WESLEY (Switch-hitter)
MARTIN spends a generous por-
tion of his time with us, making
hay in the rough or excavating
in the gravel pit . . .
We caution our readers to ac-
cept the following item only as a
report . . . Despite the two and
one-half inch rain with which
we have been blessed ERWIN S.
BRAND, elementary school prin-
cipal, claims the campus lawns
are so parched that BILL KIN-
CAID is forced to use sweeping
compound to lay the dust when
he rakes the grass , . .
News < f the week . . . MAR-
THA BOLT is NOT going home
for the weekend . . .
Mrs. F. P. GOODENOUGH is
exhibiting a picture of her
brother. HARRY DONOHOE,
| who is employed by an oil com-
pany in South America . . .
Occasionally we get visits
from puzzled readers who are
mistified by intriguing lines of
type which apparently are in se-
cret code and no doubt will feel
exacly like one gentleman who
fancies that printers, when they
are lone, talk something like
, this: “etL’s fix upt his mug’s
j owrk so averyon will thin khe is
an ignorant boob” ... As a rule,
Facts printers use an intelligible
language—l>ut then again they
may be saying something they
don’t wish the proof readers to
understand . . .
Since the information reached
the desk too late to appear on
the society page, we announce
that Mrs. H. C. HOLBROOK is
entertaining with a tea-shower
Saturday afternoon honoring
FAY RENICK . . .
Falfurrias is the home of roy-
alty ... LUCILLE THOMAS,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C.
THOMAS of this city, has been
selected duchess to appear dur-
ing the coronation ceremonies of
the Lantana Queen at A&I Col-
lege ... Her escort is FRANKLIN
ORTH, son of Mr and Mrs. M. F.
ORTH...
The highway is bright with
uniforms this week as A. & M.
cadets begin the march back to
the classrooms after the Easter
holidays, and JOHN NEGRI
shivers in the slow rain as he
wonders what has become of all
the northbound traffic that us-
ually keeps the intersection
busy. . .
The populace of the city Sat-
urday will become a race of cake
eaters—or more correctly, pie
j eaters, the junior class, under
1 the supervision of FRANCES
FITZGERALD, sponsor, under-
It CAN Happen
TO YOU!
Locked Doors Wll Not Pro-
tect Your Valuables!
Locking your doors and win-
dows will not keep out the thief
of the night. You may make it
more difflclt for him to break in
to your home but he can do it!
There is a way that >ou can
protect your valuables! Insur-
ance! There is no use of your
taking any chances! Let us
guarantee the safety of your
valuables! See R. L. Schultz to-
day and protect youiself with
insurance.
Falfurrias Insurance
Agency
FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1940
j takes the problem of raising
1 funds with a pie sale . . . Star
salesgirl, apparently, is DOT
: HALL who has voluntered to
furnish this writer with a fork
with which to eat the pie . . .
W D (Do?) HOLLAND, the
man who entertains the Men-- f-
the-Church (ufter the ladies
have amply fed them), gets the
president's chair after a recent
election of officers while JOHN
MORGAN BROOKS takes over
the program Job and HARRY
MAHAN keeps the money and
minutes of the meetings . . . J.
A. OSWALT leaves the head of
the table and probably will Join
the “roughnecks” . . .
And that’s “3u” for this week .
-XXX-
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Young, Mr.
and Mrs. H. E. Young and J- T.
Atkinson attended the funeral of
R. R. Unzicker in Houston Friday,
March 15.
Flour Coupon Drive
For Band Progresses
Local Liberty Mills distributor
Callxto Mora this week announces
satisfactory progress in this com-
munity’s floiir coupon collecting
campaign. A large number of these
coupons have already been ac-
quired and when a prescribed
number of them have been collect-
ed, the Band Parents Association
will exhange them for band in-
struments.
Mora urges all buyers of Liberty
Mills flour to save the coupons for
the Band Parents Association, or
drop them In a box set aside for
this purpose in many grocery
stores of the city.
-XXX-
Mrs. E. P. Johnson and her
guest, Mrs. Bill Johnson of New
York, spent Wednesday In Laredo
with the Byron Johnson family.
OH BOY!
It has rained now and we have field seeds
you need.
Cottonseed, Cane Corn, Sudan, Atlas Sargo
And Everything Else You Need
JUST ONE OF OUR BARGANS
Atlas Sargo, per sack--------------$4.75
Falfurrias Mercantile
STOKE
Where Does Your Money Go?
Food, clothing, rent, fuel and a hun-
dred other ways, but specifically. . .
How much does each cost you
each month?
Are you spending too much
for certain necessities or lux-
uries?
Is there any question about
the payment of bills?
F E E i
A checking account answers any
question as to how your money goes
and to whom. For your own protec-
tion open one in
“ft Qood {Bank in a Qood ‘Vown”
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
This Dairy Business
Too can get extra, flavorful
goodness in foods when you
use fresh Falfurrias Mutter for
seasoning. Churned daily from
rich Jersey cream, (he mild-
ness and sweetness of Falfur-
rias are always uniform. Once
you use Falfurrias you’ll un-
derstand why it has been the
favorite butter for table and
cooking for thirty-three years.
Criticisms and suggestions are very wel-
come. Please address
FALFURRIAS CREAMERY CO.
FALFURRIAS, TEXAS
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Matching Search Results
View four places within this issue that match your search.Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Behrent, Howard. Falfurrias Facts (Falfurrias, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, March 29, 1940, newspaper, March 29, 1940; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth864746/m1/2/?q=food+rule+for+unt+students: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .