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Refugio Timely
Remarks
Entered as second-class matter
November 27, 1920, at the postof-
fice at Refugio, Texas, under act
of March 3, 1879, and
REFUGIO COUNTY NEWS
Entered as second-class matter
November 10, 1928, at the postof-
fice at Refugio, Texas, under act
of March 3, 1879.
WOODSBORO WEEKLY TIMES
. . Consolidated February 1, 1937.
J. L. Jones..........Editor and Owner
Mildred Burke......Associate Editor
Milton Clarkson............News Editor
.Virginia J. Jones......Business Mgr.
Published Every Thursday
REFUGIO TIMELY REMARKS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1941
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
One Year......................................$2-00
Six Months.................................. 1-00
LIVES OF GREAT MEN
AIL REMIND US—
To bolster up our courage in
these jittery days, February pre-
sents to our minds the memories
of the two great men, both great
in their own way but similar in
little besides having birthday an-
niversaries in the same month.
Lincoln, the Great Emancipa-
tor, is today being invoked most
frequently by the public orators,
for his character comes nearer to
present-day requirements. Wash-
ington is illumined on the school
child’s mind as a gentle, fatherly
character because he has been
type with the description, “Father
of Our Country.” Actually, if his-
toiians have recorded correctly, he
was a stern, hard-headed, unfor-
giving gentleman, who believed
firmly in his country’s right to
freedom, but would have uncom-
promisingly fought Mr. Lincoln
on the slave issue. The latter was
much more fatherly in reality.
However, Washington possessed
[breadth of vision, loyalty to his
followers, the ability to be with
them yet not of them. He was
a better diplomat than most of
those around him and the posses-
sor. of an imposing personality,
all qualities sorely needed by one
who led the colonial gentlemen,
somewhat bewildered by their
own audacity and, later, baffled
by their own success.
The average citizen pictures
Washington as undergoing sever-
est trials during the duration of
the war, then placidly assuming
the reins of government at its
conclusion and living, respected
and revered, in peace throughout
his declining years. Nothing our
first president went through on
the battle line was as disturbing
to him as his career during the
presidency, for the queer aggre-
gation of Tory and Whig, gentle-
man and provincial, which he was
called upon to lead, fought tooth
and nail for years with each other
and with him. Not only was our
freedom won over a battleground;
our government came up
tough way, also.
Slapping lightly over about a
hundred years of dissension, we
come upon Abraham Lincoln,
standing firm for abolition of slav-
ery. You think Mr. Wilkie had a
hard time during his campaign-
ing? You should have heard the
things Mr. Lincoln was called,
even after he was elected to the
highest office in the land. And
he was a first-rate politician, too.
It’s hard for a native of this local-
ity to get an unbiased picture of
this man, for his name was so
despised below the Mason-Dixon
line during his lifetime, that gen-
erations later few real Southern-
ers will grant him greatness. Yet
if the North can now concede
I<ee’s superiority as a general
(even if he did: lose the war), the
South can now laud the justice
Liz Fiz
THIS AND THAT
The American public has long
since become Emergency-tized.
You can’t afford to miss a great
reading experience of the year—
“A Visit to Berchtesgadqn, ’ ’ by
Hillel Bernstein, in the February
Reader’s Digest. Perhaps some-
body will lend or lease you a copy.
Fanaticism (unreasoning zeal)
of his followers for him and all he
did, made Hitler’s dictatorship in
Germany possible. It is always an
unhealthy sign, a danger signal,
when a people give any man or
group of men unreasoning, blind
adherence. Right-minded leaders
welcome honest divergencies of
opinion in their nation. Leaders
of all varieties need criticism as
parched fields need rain. Tyrany
grows up when only the “yes” men
are gven a hearing. One of the
healthiest signs of our times is
the battling opposition to certain
tendencies in the present admin-
istration. Instead of sneering at
this opposition and labeling it
fifth columnism, fanatics might
well thank heaven for it. The ex-
istence of a strong and thinking
opposition is a distinguishing
mark of democracy, for without
it there is dictatorship. Sad to
say there are fanatics loose in the
U. S. A. who think disagreement
with the powers that be and op-
position to giving them unlimited
power is treason. Such ideas are
worthy only of the uninformed or
the unintelligent, or both. We say
it again, as we said before: Blind
faith belongs only to God.
More Than Half
Of Texas Oil Pays
Over 10c Bbl. Tax
Dallas, Texas.—More than half
of all the oil produced in Texas
already pays a tax of over 10
cents a barrel, a survey just com-
pleted by Teas Mid-Continent Oil
and Gas Association statisticians
shows. Twenty-two separate taxes
are now levied against Texas oil
producers.
The survey, based on tabulation
of tax records of all 254 counties
and of independent taxing subdi-
visions, shows that more than half
of the state’s oil bears taxes of
10.26 cents a barrel. All of the
oil produced in Texas pays* an av-
erage tax of 9.23 cents a barrel,
while in some counties the taxes
amount to 15 and 20 cents per
barrel.
“Texas oil producers now pay
22 separate taxes, or 21 in addi-
4-H Club News
Mrs. Vera M. Cargill, Agent
REPORT OF TIVOLI 4-H CLUB.
The Tivoli 4-H Club met at the
school house February 6, 1941,
with 12 members present.
Mrs. Cargill showed those pres-
ent how to knit. She also showed
them some baskets which we had
planned to make in the summer.
Those present were Lee Berta
Huffman, Lynette Huffman,
Dickie Lee Barber, Margaret Bar-
ker, Georgie Lee Schulze, Betty
Sue Baucum, Barbara Friday,
Dorothy Faye Rathkamp, Dorris
Rickaway, Mary Lee Rabke, Mary
Nell Duncan and Wanda and Aga-
that Cauble.
LYNETTE HUFFMAN, Reporter.
BAYSIDE H. D. CLUB.
The Bayside Home Demonstra-
Stock Show and
Sale to Be Held in
Beeville Feb. 26-27
With a reputation of being one
of the fastest growing livestock or-
ganizations in the state, the
South Texas Hereford Breeder-
Feeder Association is scheduled to
hold its annual spring livestock
show and sale in Beeville Wedlnes
day and Thursday, February 26
and 27.
The event, which will be held at
the Beeville show grounds, gets
under way Wednesday morning,
with the judging of breeding stock
at 9 o'clock. Judging of club
calves is scheduled to begin at 2
p. m. W. J. Largent of Merkel,
Texas, recognized as one of the
outstanding Hereford breeders in
the country, will serve as judge.
Earl Gartin of Greenburg, Ind.,
.. „„ , ,, will cry the sales in the auction,
tion Club met Februaary 11 at the scheduled to begin at 1 o’clock
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home of Mrs. R. O. Downs, with
tion to the state gross production | Mrs. Vera Cargill in charge of the
tax,” a statement today from the meeting. Miss Mae Belle Smith,
association points out. “in fact, our district agent, was our honor
analysis of the various tax levies guest. Miss Smith made an inter-
born by oil produced in 33 leading esting talk on home defense and
Voltaire aptly expressed the
idea of freedom of speech when
he said: “I do not agree with
you. But I will defend with my
life your right to make the state-
ment.”
If, as the old saying goes,
things people do come home to
them, oh, boy, what a homecoming
with penalty and interest there
will be for some sweet (?) little
characters!
Paraphrasing a classic quota-
tion, Philosophic Philber says:
“Beware of meanies dripping
honey.”
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Your Health
and courage of Lincoln’s stand. It
would have been much simpler to
have closed his eyes, to have ef-
fected a compromise, to have done
anything except what he really
did—stand pat for his beliefs.
Mr. Average Citizen, we be-
lieve, would be more encouraged
and stimulated by the lives of our
great men, if he could learn to
regard them as human beings in-
stead of bronze statues. Too little
is told of their feet of clay, too
much of their virtues, so that
those who might be inspired to
follow in their footsteps merely
feel that they were too good to
be true.
Now, as never before (every
ge-ndrSltion writes those words),
wes need such examples before us
—common, ordinary men who won
fame and immortality only be-
cause they stood fast for ideals
which humanity has always found
to be right. With Lincoln we
agree that all men must be free;
from Washington, we can learn
that, even if our side wins in ac-
tual combat and is conceded vic-
tory, the real fight is just begin-
ning. From both, we shall be in-
spired to keep our chins up, to
permit no compromise, to accom-
plish either with diplomacy or
without the task which has been
set for us.
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Engineers Ignore
Handicap of War
Manchester, England.—A firm
of milling engineers near here
has provided an example of the
ability of British manufacturers
to fill orders in record time when
necessary, despite war conditions.
An Argentine firm, fitting out
a new mill at Cordoba, in May of
this year gave a contract to this
firm, stipulating that the bulk of
the heavy machinery must be
shipped by the end of August. The
order involved 1,750 shipping tons
of 40 cubic feet, mostly roller
mills for breaking down the wheat
berry and for reducing the stock
Jto flour.
“THE HEALING ART”
Austin, Texas.—“The practice of
medicine is frequently referred to
as ‘the healing art.’ While this
conception of the duties of the
family physician is and always
will be vitally important, it is by
no means necessary for one to be
ill in order to benefit from the
the i services of which he is capable. To
‘ limit one’s interest in the family
physician to the care of sickness is
to disregard entirely his capabili-
ties in connection with the attain-
ment and maintenance of the
highest possible individual vitali-
ty,” states Dr. George W. Cox,
state health officer.
“The present emergency is em-
phasizing the need of physical fit-
ness. All-out preparedness, with
the stresses and s crains associated
with high speed production of war
materials and the yet unknown
factor of personal co-operation in
the defense program which may
be required of every one sooner or
later, no longer makes halfway in-
dividual health measures exclu-
sively a personal concern. While
neglecting to achieve maximum
personal health has always been
an unwise policy, this attitude, in
light of the present emergency,
represents also a lack of patriot-
ism,” continued Dr. Cox.
“It may be stated that today’s
armed forces have improved their
preventive health measures, so
that the man now meeting physi-
cal requirements and joining the
service will belong to a highly pro-
tected segment of the nation’s
population from the standpoint of
both disease prevention and the
promotion of health. Neverthe-
less, the majority of Americans,
however closely related their work
now may be or may become to
national defense, are not favored
by this unusual protection. Thus,
individual initiative will have to
be relied upon instead. It is at
this point that a full appreciation
of the services that can be ren-
dered by the family doctor can be
applied to individual and national
advancement. As a discoverer of
latent physical defects, he has at
his command information and the
modern methods of detection.
“To give the family physician
an opportunity to look one over
physically for. the purpose of de-
tecting any insidious trouble is
merely to play safe. If no defects
are found, one still will have the
advantage of knowing that basic
physical fitness exisits. If per-
chance something comes to light,
having taken time by the fore-
lock, the opportunity of stopping
serious difficulty exists. Then, too,
this contact with the family doc-
tor affords an opportunity to dis-
cuss with him the living habits
which make up one’s life. It is
not too much to say that many
adults, to attain the greatest vigor
of which they are capable, will
need some amendments to their
habits. These the physician will
be in a position to indicate..
“Considered from these angles,
individual health becomes a part
and parcel of the national pre-
paredness program. Patriotism,
as well as plain common sense,
thus indicates the necessity of us-
ing the family physician, not only
to make one well, if ill, but to de-
velop a maximum amount of indi-
vidual health and vigor.”
Texas oil counties (which produce
over half of the state’s total crude
output) shows that the state gross
production tax of 2 3-4 per cent
makes up less than 29 cents of
each dollar collected in state and
local taxes on oil production and
producing properties. The fact
that so much of this oil already
pays over 10 cents a barrel is
noteworthy in view of statements
sometimes heard that Texas oil
should pay 10 cents a barrel tax.”
These 22 taxes do not include
any paid on refining, pipe lines or
any branch of the industry except
production. Nor do they include
the gasoline taxes paid by the in-
dividual motorist.
“The oil tax situation is differ-
ent from that of any other state,”
the association statement ex-
plains. “There are more than
9,000 separate local taxing subdi-
visions in our state, each of which
is empowered under the Texas
constitution to levy and collect
taxes. Many of these are inde-
pendent taxing agencies such as
cities, independent school dis-
tricts, water districts, road dis-
tricts, etc. Every oil field with-
in the jurisdiction of any of these
taxing agencies is subject to
property assesments and tax lev-
ies deemed necessary by the re-
spective taxing officials. And all
of these taxes must be paid by
the Texas oil producer from the
money he receives for his petrol-
eum, his sole source of income.”
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Social Security and
the New Job
Many workers are now
changing jobs or taking their
first jobs as a result of "the
national defense program.
Most of these jobs are cover-
ed by old age and survivors
insurance under the Social
Security Act.
Mr. Cleveland, manager of
the Corpus Christi Social Se-
curity Board office at 426
Nixon building, has prepared
a series of eight brief articles
for The Timely Remarks ex-
plaining the steps each work-
er should now take in connec-
tion with his social security
account to avoid delays or
difficulties when he or his
family are ready to collect
insurance benefits.
Any worker who does not
have a social security account
number card can obtain one
at the Social Security Board
office.
No. 1
Every worker who has deduc-
tions made from his wages for
old age and survivors insurance
under the' Social Security Act
should see to it that each em-
ployer he works for has a record
of his name and his social secur-
ity account number just as they
are shown on his account number
card. That is the first step he
must take to make certain that
the Social Security Board has a
full record of his wages earned in
employment covered by this in-
surance system. The board keeps
a record of his wages in order to
determine the amount of his
monthly retirement benefits after
age 65, or his family’s benefits in
case of his death. Therefore, it
is important that every day’s pay
be credited to his social security
account.
Each worker’s account has a
number—the same number that is
on the account number card is-
sued to him by the Social Security
Board. The employer reports the
worker’s wages to the Social Se-
curity Board, using the name and
number the worker gives him. If
these are not exactly as shown
on the worker’s account number
card, the Social Security Board
can not credit his wages to his
account until the error be correct-
ed. The best plan for the worker
to follow is to show his account
card to each employer he works
for so that his name and account
number will be taken down just
as they are on the card.
Each worker can properly have
only one sociay security account
number. Any worker who has re-
ceived more than one account
number should get in touch with
his local Social Security Board of-
fice and find out if all his past
wages have been recorded in one
account. He should also find out
which number he should use in
the future. A worker whose ac-
count number ^ard is lost or worn
out should get "a new card (with
the same number) at his Social
Security Board office. There is
no charge for duplicate cards.
how the club women in our com-
Thursday, 41 animals being con-
signed to the sale, consisting of 30
bulls and 11 females. The auc-
tion sale of approximately 80 club
calves will be held the same after-
noon following sale of breeding
stock. Many animals will also be
munity can kelp best by pieparingj available for private sale in the
flin r\ n v« onrl -wi rvnf vtmvv’i nnin ry >
pens./
the proper and most nourishing
foods for their families; to build
a stronger, more enduring genera-
tion; planting gardens and can-
ning enough for home consumption
or buying a cheaper grade of the
same vitamins in them as in the
more expensive and especially the
canned goods from out of our own
state.
To the farm woman whose hus-
band belongs to the triple A, $1.50
will be paid for planting one-kalf
an acre of 10 different varieties
of vegetables during the year on
request. Money to pay for the
seed planted and encourage home
gardening.
Mrs. Cargill gave a demonstra-
tion on craft work, which was
very interesting. Many useful and
beautiful things can be made with
very little cost.
The business meeting was fin-
ished before the social meeting
began. Committees were appoint-
ed as follows:
Finance: Mrs. Lane, chairman,
Mrs. E. C. Cowell and Mrs. Hahn.
Expansion: Mrs. S. E. Miller,
Mrs. R. O. Downs and Mrs.
Cooper.
Membership: Mrs. M. McCutch-
eon, Mrs. Wyscarver and Mrs. E.
L. Downs.
Recreation: Mrs. B. Kramer,
and Mrs. Ethan Frick.
The educational fund was col-
lected. Fourteen members and
four visitors were present. Two
new members were added to the
club.
Delightful refreshments, with
Due to the excellent showing
made by South Texas calves in the
recently held Houston Fat Stock
Show, it is expected that an un-
usually large number will partici-
pate in the sales.
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P.-T.A. to Study
Effects of Defense
New York.—The National Con-
gress of Parents and Teachers de-
cided to call upon local P.-T. A.
groups to survey their home com-
munities preparatory to combat-
ing “evils” arising from the de-
fense program.
Mrs. William Kletzer of Port-
land, Ore., president, said: “The
problem of total defense involving
sudden concentrations of. men in
various communities throughout
the United States threatens the
moral and sanitary well-being of
the country.”
She termed the defense program
an “unwholesome incluence of dis-
turbed community influence of
disturbed community relation-
ships on the boys and girls of the
community.”
McClaflin and
Crews, Gertrude
Johnnie Staggs.
Mrs. Alf Huffman was elected
voting delegate to the district
meeting in Seguin. Mrs. L. F.
Schorlemmer volunteered to be the
Valentine favors, were served to ■ recreation chairman; Mrs. R. H.
the following: Mrs. S. E. Miller, j Beckman is our finance chairman
Mrs. B. Kramer, Mrs. Kinsey, Mrs. anc* Mrs. Irving Crews is sewing
R. O. Downs, Mrs. E. Frick, Mrs. demonstrator.
Wyscarver, Mrs. Cooper, Mrs.
Lovelady, Mrs. Goldman, Mrs.
Lane, Mrs. J. B. Lynn, Mrs. Billie
Frick,' Mrs. E. L. Downs, Mrs.
Pauline Frick and Mrs. W. S. Mc-
Cutcheon.
MRS. McCUTCHEON, Reporter.
Specialist Says
Texas Notes Few
Farm-Forest Fires
Texas has as few fires in its
farm forests as in other states, or
at least as in any southern state.
This is significant, says C. W.
Simmons, extension service farm
forester for Texas A. & M. Col-
lege, “because Texas has more
farm woodland area than any
other state in the union.”
Estimates by county agricul-
tural agents who are well dis-
tributed over both pine and post
oak regions of east and central
Texas, show that the total of farm
woodlands burned in 1940 within
the 65 counties they represent
was 57,286 acres. Absentee-own-
ed farm forests, industrial and
public forests were not included,
but the importance of the survey,
Simmons said, was that it prob-
ably was the first attempt at
making a fire study by ownership.
The total burned area in the
65 counties represented 0.88 per-
cent of the gross acreage of i
6,500,000 of farm timberland in
the region as given by the U. S.
census.
The largest percentage by re-
gions of farm woodlands burned
was in northeast Texas, and was
the equivalent of two and one-half
percent, Simmons said. Although
the region is only one-sixth of the
total farm woodland area of all
counties reporting, it contained
more than half of the area burned.
Burned areas on farm forests
within the pine woods region of
east Texas were two-thirds of all
such areas burned in the state.
A factor which causes the
greatest destruction to timber by
fire and the greatest spread of
fires, Simmons said, is the debris
of matted tops and limbs resulting
from the destructive cutting and
logging methods throughout east
Texas. Central Texas farmers cut
lightly as needed for their own use
and fire is no problem. Most of the
woodlands and sawmills in central
Texas are farm owned and wood-
land area burned there is less than
one-half of one percent.
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An old colored minister treated
his flock one Sunday to the fol-
lowing story from the Bible:
“Jeezabel been up on a wall, an’
Ahab come 'long an’ say to his
men, ‘T’row her down.’ An’ deyr
t’rowed her down. He say, ‘T’row
her down seben times.’ An’ dey
t’rowed her down seben times.
‘T’row her down sebenty times se-
ben.’ An’ day done it. Ob de
fragments dey gaddered up 12
baskets full. Now, my bredderen,
v/hose wife she gwine to be in de
Ressurrection ? ”
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RICHARDSON H. D. CLUB
The Richardson Home Demon-
stration Club met Thursday, Feb-
ruary 13, at the home of Mrs.
Boyce Gillespie. After a short
business session Mrs. Cargill dem-
onstrated the art of weaving by
making a table mat. She also ex-
hibited several baskets she had
women, and explained the process
of makfng them.
Mrs. Fricks won the table mat,
which was given as a prize to the
winner of a word contest.
Refreshments wei’e served to
following members: Mrs. Blas-
chke, Mrs. Hultgren, Mrs. Cargill,
Mrs. McCarty, Mrs. Gillespie and
two visitors, Mrs. Flicks and Mrs.
Gilcrease.
MERLE McCARTY, Reporter.
AUSTWELL 4-H CLUB
The club met February 7, the
president calling the meeting to
order and the secretary reading
the minutes of the last meeting.
Mrs. Cargill, having the program
turned over to her, helped the
girls with their knitting. Most
of the girls were making bed-
shoes, but a few ventured to
make a scarf.
Members present were Jerry
Rabke, Gertrude Gohlke, Mozzelle
Ross, Betty Ann Jeffers, Luella
Michna, Ellen Glover, Willie Mor-
ris Daniels, Edith Littiefield,
Mary Garcia and Dolores Cantu.
BETTY ANN JEFFERS,
Reporter.
TIVOLI H. D. CLUB TO MEET.
The Tivoli Home Demonstration
Club will meet at the. home of Mrs.
J. W. Tolbirt Wednesday, Febru-
ary 26, from 10 a. m. to 5 p. m.,
with a covered dish luncheon, bas-
ket and tray making, tufting, tied
mats as the order of the day, with
Mrs. Vera Cargill of Refugio, our
home demonstration agent, having
charge. Members and prospective
members are invited.
TIVOLI H. D. CLUB REPORT.
Mrs. E. A. Tilton was hostess
Wednesday to the Tivoli Home
Demonstration Club at the home
of Mrs. C. B. Friday. Mrs. Vera
Cargill of Refugio gave a demon-
stration on craftwork.
As long as there are homes and
home-lovers, house-keepers and
home-makers—so long will live
and flourish art and craft. Hand
work strives to make more attrac-
tive and homelike the place which
is still and ever will be the dear-
est spot on earth to the true fam-
ily life.
The three new members who
came into the organization at this
meeting were Mesdames Irving
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