Falfurrias Facts (Falfurrias, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, February 19, 1943 Page: 2 of 4
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FACE TWO
FALFURRIAS FACTS
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 19, 1943
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Established In 1906
HOWARD BEHRENT.....MGR.-ERITOR
Entered as second class matter, April 2, 1906 at
the Postoffice at Falfurrlas, Texas, under the Act
of Congress of March 8, 1879.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
At Falfurriaa, Brooks County, Texas
AWARDS
1940— Pabst Engraving Company Cup for
best front page in South Texas Press Associa-
tion newspaper contest at annual convention.
Second place for best mechanical appear-
ance.
Second place as best all-around newspaper.
Any erroneous reflection upon the character,
standing, or reputation of any person, firm, or cor-
poration, which may appear In The Facts, will
gladly be corrected as soon as it is brought to the
attention of the publisher.
Third place as best all-around newspaper.
1941— American Type Founders Cup for
best mechanical appearance in South Texas
Press contest at annual convention.
HAVOC ON THE FARM
Nowhere has war caused more havoc than
in agriculture.
Almost no new farm machinery is available.
Repair parts for existing machinery are always
difficult and sometimes impossible to obtain.
Te cost of everything the farmer must buy is
at record levels. Worst problem of all is the
farm labor situation. The draft has taken many
farm workers. And the farmer simply can’t
afford to pay shipyard wages for help-with
the result that tens of thousands of workers
have left the rural areas to find high-priced
jobs in war industry.
This, in part, is the farmer’s answer to those
who think that the increase in farm prices
means that all is well down on the farm. The
plain truth is that most farmers are wondering
how they will be able to keep in business—and
to effect the increases in production the go-
vernment wants.
The situation is particularly serious in the
dairy field, where skilled and permanent help
is absolutely necessary. In many states, milk
is a public utility, and its price is fixed by
regulatory bodies. Vast quantities of dairy
cattle are being sold for beef, because farmers
can’t obtain the necessary labor. It is time city
dwellers understood some of the grave pro-
blems farmers face.
LEST WE FORGET
It must ever be borne in mind during these
days of big government that in the last ana-
lysis the unspectacular plugging of private
citizens in private industry is what is going
to win the war. The people who are accom-
plishing production miracles are not on the
public payroll.
They are the men who get the coal and
metals out of our mines and the timber and
food out of the mountains and from the land.
They are the men who get the oil out of the
ground, refine it to produce the cannon ball
power required in modern war. They are the
men who keep the assembly lines rolling. They
are the millions of American workmen and
business men without whom not a wheel would
turn. They are the soul and the spirit of free
enterprise.
In peacetime their energies were devoted to
producing a better civilization. Today their
energies are devoted to producing for war.
Why? Because free enterprise and political
liberty have been threatened by military
aggression. To save our political liberty we
must save free enterprise. We must save the
right of a man to hold a job or operate a bus-
1 iness without paying tribute to anyone, either
in votes or money.
Some bureaucrats would like to impress the
idea upon the people that a combination of
, political genius and public authority are the
mainspring of the war effort: that industry
was a hopeless shambles of squabbling business
men until the guiding lighi of regimentation
came to their rescue. Nothing could be further ;
from the truth.
The government and our military force*
now need the products of industry, just as in
peacetime the public needed them. Consumer
demand for more and better products was not
followed by any claim that consumers created
those products. Similarly, merely because mili-
tary necessity requires the government to de-
mand more and better machines of war, it
certainly does not follow the government is
the producer. It is not. And if the proper
function of either government or industry be-
comes confused in the public mind, it bodes
ill for the future of America.
C4CTS \ FANCIEI
* LET THE WISE
MAKE THE DISTINCTION
LIVING UP TO TRADITION
The medical profession hasn’t done a lot of
talking about the "sacrifices” its members are
making. And yet doctors, perhaps more than
any other group next to the service men, are
making real sacrifices in this war.
Thousands of them have voluntarily given
up their practices. They live in the foxholes
with the soldiers. They fight and die with the
navy and the marines. They perform miracles
amid blood and suffering. Gone is the business
for which they spent so many years in prep-
aration, often on a financial shoe string.
The doctors left at home are making sacri-
fices too. Men who should be enjoying the
leisurely aftermath of useful careers are back
in harness working at a killing pace. They are
on duty 24 hours a day-and they don’t yell
for time-and-a-half when Mrs. Jones is having
a baby at 3 A. M.
The doctors are carrying out the tradition
of American medicine in every emergency.
Their example might well be followed by wor-
kers in other fields.
ONE MORE DEMONSTRATION
Probably no industry ever faded such a
world-wide job as has oil during the past year.
Overnight, oil producers'were called upon not
only to keep the domestic needs of the great-
est oil and gasoline consuming nation in the
world supplied, but in addition, they found
themselves called upon to provide undreamed-
of amounts of fuel and lubricants for our arm-
ed forces and those of our Allies on the seven
seas and every part of the globe.
Delivery of oil. due to submarine sinkings
of tankers, has been a problem beyond the
control of oil producers. Seventy-two oil exe-
cutives drawn from companies in every part
of the nation, have cooperated with the gover-
ment’s petroleum administrator to assure an
unfailing supply of indispensable petroleum
products to our armed forces. Our domestic
needs, although hampered by tanker short-
ages, have been met in the most vital cases,
even though rationing had to be applied to
personal use of oil products.
Already tires made from synthetic rubber,
which the oil industry is also relied upon to
produce, are being advertised as going to the
armed forces and essential users. It is safe to
say that the ingenuity cf the oil industry in
cooperation with the government, will solve
this country’s oil and rubber problems.
Thus is another great industry, motivated
by American enterprise and ingenuity, demon-
strating that it can meet all obstacles when
and where they arise.
r "THAT'S THE 'UNION' TO STRIKE FOR NOWI* '■
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The boys facing the Japs lived
and fought in the fox holes of Gua-
dalcanal for as long as a whole
month without rest — without ev-
en a change of clothing to make
their existence less exacting. In
Falfurrlas, volunteers of the Air-
craft Warning Service are called
on for an hour or two a week in
manning the observation post. And
yet this service on the home front
is so exacting that, in spite of pre-
arranged schedules, the post is not
always manned promptly. Even
worse are reports that the post is
being abandoned on the half hour
after signing the log book. Here
Is a report that must be cheering
to the Axis — and here also Is a
report that cannot help but be a
tremendous revelation to the men
on the fighting fronts who are
stripped down to the stark elemen-
tals of life and death. Think it ov-
er and If you believe you can be of
service, Chief Observer AUSTIN
GATES is urgently in need of vol-
unteers to plug the holes In the
post’s schedule.
Privates R. J. McINTYRF and
FRANK HOPPER are two South
Texans who are enjoying the win-
ter snows. Pvt. McINTYRE writes
from Pawling, N. Y., of skiing par-
ties as well as dances at Vassix
College and of weekend trips to the
Big City. Pvt. HOPPER, at Pando,
Colorado, expresses an ambition to
become as adept at riding a pair
of sklis down the Rockies as he is
at riding his own horse in Brooks
County.
It Is Cadet 2nd Lieutenant JOHN
LOUIS FORSYTH now since his
promotion to that rank in the Tar-
leton R.O.T.C. unit, John Tarleton
College.
Hand grenades mav not have
been employed by soldiers in he
Civil War. but the old powder f’ask
was a regular piece of a soldiev,<?
equinment. W. T. LEE displays a
brass powder flask used bv hi«
grandfather in the war between
the states, and nonchalantly shows
a pistol of 1858 vintage.
CLARA MAE WIELAND finishes
a business course In San Antonio
and Immediately accepts an office
with the Central Power and Light
Company in Alice. She and BETTY
MAE ORTH, another Falfurrian
are taking up housekeeping for
two in an efficiency apartment in
Alice.
It’s the Air Corps for BOBBY
HASSELL as he receives orders to
report on February 24, and JIMMY
CRAWFORD, a private in the Ma-
WITH BROOKS COUNTY MEN
9m UrU§oJUri
Private R. J McIntyre has been
assigned to a course of special in-
struction at Pawling, N. Y.
Madison Bedel: is stationed at
Lang'ey Field, Va„ where he is a
member of the anti-submarine pa-
trol.
Pvt. Jimmy Crawford, U.S.M.C.
is somewhere in the South Pacific.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H.
Crawford, have been notified that
rlne Corps, reaches his destina-
tion somewhere in the South Pa-
cific
And that’s "30” for this week.
he has reached his destination.
Bobby Hassell, son of Mr. and
Mrs. R. C. Hassell, reports February
24 to the U. S. Army Air Corps.
Frank Hopper has lieen assigned
to the Remount Service and is sta-
tioned at Camp Hale, Pando, Colo.
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