Falfurrias Facts (Falfurrias, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, September 4, 1942 Page: 2 of 6
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PACE TWO
ruPURRI * S FACTS
FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 4. 1942
falfurrias iFarts
Established In 2K6
bile problems. Under tho*e circumstances, it’s
no wonder that a very considerable part of
the population is lost in a welter of confusion.
The main hope for ironing out this unfor-
tunate business lies in Elmer Davis, the cool
& canny head of the Office of War Informa-
tion. Mr. Davis, it will be recalled, was given
____ his appointment some months ago after the
Subscription Price $2.00 per year Payable In Advance 0^er governmental information bureaus had
I made an almost complete failure of the job.
So far, Mr. Davis doesn’t seem to have been
able to make a great deal of headway. But.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
At Falfurrias, Brooks County, Texas
HOWARD BE1IRENT.....MGR.-ER1TOR
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4CTS \ FANCIE
LET THE WISE
MAKE THE DISTINCTION
S
AWARDS
1940— Pabst Engraving Company Cup for
best front page in South Texas Press Associa- ^ ^ m ^ ^ _____ __________ _____
tion newspaper contest at annual convention, j
Second place for beet mechanical appe.r- accord.ng to reliable reports, he .a work, tr
ance |<ubbornly, and is determined that eventually
Third place as best all-around newspaper, the American people shall be promptly and
1941— American Type Founders Cup for truthfully told everything it is possible to tell
best mechanical appearance in South Texas them He „aid t0 have the confidence of the
Press contest at annual convention. ... . . . .. , . ..__. . ...
Second place as best all-around newspaper. ^ resident, and he isn t frightened by eithei
Any erroneous reflection upon the character, the military or the civil brass hats,
standing, or reputation of any person, firm, or cor- jn the meantime, Mr. Davis’ OW1 is ap-
portion, which may appear in The Facts,
gladly be corrected as soon as It is brought to
attention of the publisher.
UNREASONABLE CENSORSHIP
m The Facts, w^ parently doing the best job possible under the
circumstances. On August 8, it issued a state-
ment on the war situation which is hearten-:
Monday. Sept. 7, is Labor Day—
a day which in America is almost
as * aditional as July 4. The
United States, a working nation,
takes one day off in the year
in recognition of an industrial-
ism which has made this nation
possible. Whether we believe in
organized labor or not, we observe
the day in tribute of a freedom
which has become very scarce in
the world today. . . .
Speaking of labor, PETE PLEV-
ANS, local CPL lineman, can
write a book on what a hurricane
does to the area over which it
passes • • PETE is called out to
help repair the damage in the
hurricane’s center in the Mathis-
Skidmore area .. . Don’t kid your-
self that you’d like to experience
I I a big blow . . . PETE got to San-
ingly different from the usual Federal publi- dia just in time to see a big vege-
OME of the mo*t effective criticism of the releasee The statement is not glowingly. »,ant across
optimistic. It isn t full of high-sounding in n gn ay • • •
Important events are chron-
icled in the JAMES DAWSON
household, as Mr. and Mrs.
DAWSON proudly announce a
nine pound four-ounce Soy, who
is named JAMES FRANK. . . .
Everything’s fine, except that
father will have to exchange his
boots for houseslippers in the
event the * young man becomes
talkative in the night. . . .
Rookies J. R. SCOTT, WALT
BARNES and R. L. SCHULTZ have
had about two weeks in the Texas
Delense Guard, and they should
he veteran campaigners before
we can beat them only if we want to beat long. ... Incidentally. SCHULTZ
them as badly as they want to beat us.” is observed getting a little extra-
In conclusion, it’s a reasonable guess that. curiIcular condition.ng by mow-
in the future, the American people will gra-
dually get more—and more accurate—infor-
mation on all the phases of the war than they
have had before. There is a definite and grow
ing movement ifgainst unnecessary and un-
reasonable censorship, either direct or indi-
rect. And there is a growing feeling that John
Jones, who must do the fighting, working and
paying that total war demands, is entitled to
every fact, good or bad, which would not be
of real aid to the enemy.
From where I sit..
Ly Joe Mnrfh
have done pretty well, but not well enough.”
It observes frankly that “we could lose this
war”—and that it’s going to take an infin-
itely greater effort than we have so far made
to win it. And it says one thing that every
American should remember. “We are fighting
fanatical men out for world domination and
* i i tv, tb* rv that there ,)*lrases* Instead, it is simple, factual and im-
effort has been based on the theory that there . . ’ 4 ' ,
. , .. i ..... i, pressive. It points out that so far our A hes
has been a definite and lamentable lack of £ 4 t- v*- , .. , Al_.
, , . . ... .. have done most of the fighting, and that this
frankness in telling the people what is going! ...... ,. ..
on. Many official.,, (hi, argument run,, seen, rtate of af air, can t continue, indefinite y._ On
to regard the people a, children, from whom the subJect °f Production, it nay, that "we
unpleasant truths must be kept. One of the
most common sayings in Washington circles
today is that “the people aren’t awake.” The
defenders of the people say that the people
are more completely awake than a good many
of the bigwigs in government—and that the
extent of popular bewilderment as to the
course of the war is directly attributable to a
stupid kind of censorship.
Jn the newspaper fraternity, a peak of dis-
gust was reached during the long drawn out
trial of the eight Nazi saboteurs. The high
Army officers who made up the trial court
seemed to work on the principle that the peo-
ple should be told absolutely nothing. Not un-
til the strongest kind of pressure was brought
to bear were newspapermen even permitted
to view the trial chamber. And even then they
were allowed in for only a few minutes—and
the presiding General stopped all proceedings
until they had left.
That is simply one example out of many
that could be cited. There has been much cri-
MANPOWER ON THE FARM
In a recent address, John Brarjdt, head of
ticism of what some authorities regard as the j the National Cooperative Milk Producers
refusal of the Navy to tell the whole truth Federation, had some common-sense things to.
about Dutch Harbor and the occupation of
certain Aleutian Islands. And lately, a San
Francisco Judge brought seriou« charges a-
gainst the ranking Army General in the Far
West. Defenders of this General say that, in
truth, he has done a first-class job, and they
have much evidence to substantiate that. But
again, as Time phrased it, “The trouble
seemed to lie in the Army’s te!l-the-people-
nothing attitude.”
There are obvious difficulties in the way of
deciding precisely what information would be
of benefit to the enemy, and so must be sup-
pressed, ar.d what can be told the public fully
and frankly. But it seems virtually certain
that in a long series of incidents the military
authorities have leaned over backward to an
extraordinary extent in refusing to release
news which, according to the American tra-
dition, should and must be told. And the fault
is by no means confined to Army and Navy
authorities. Time and time again, various non
military officials of the government have
made completely conflicting statements
about the same subject—as, for instance, in
say about agriculture in this country.
On the subject of the farm labor situation,
he observed: God pity this nation and its lib-
teries if the farmers of America said tomor-
row, ‘We are going to quit Friday at four o’-
clock and We won’t turn a wheel again until
eight o’clock Monday morning.’ We’d be
licked before we started .... Our men are
going to the Army, as we expect them to go,
and we likewise expect whatever is necessary
of the manpower on the farm to go and work
in defense factories. But until such time as
the manpower of the city has been used to the
extent of more than 40 hours a week, they
have no right to draw from agriculture men
and women out of the 70-hour category.”
Food is as necessary to this war as bullets.
We have obligated ourselves to supply other
United Nations with gigantic quantities of
foodstuffs which they can not obtain else-
where. If the farms are,, drained of manpow-
er. that food supply cannot be produced. In
some sections of the country, lack of man-
power for farming is already forcing curtail-
ment of operations. This is a real and immin-
news releases on the oil, rubber and automo-!ent problem, and it must be solved.
SHOOTING THE
v.y^GO To IT, BOX?,
I'M BACKING you
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ing the lawn ... It has never
been definitely established
whether this phenomenon oc-
curred before or after the late
hurricane . . .
W. O. SKIDMORE is now in
training in the officers’ cavalry
school at Fort Riley, Kan., and
he describes the fort as beauti-
ful.
There’s a new lace at the First
NationNal Bank, as MARVIN
NOLL gets used to issuing de-
posit slips instead of carburetors
for that 1929 Model A . . . HOR-
ACE BILLINGSLEY pinch hits
in the Noll Auto Parts store.
Falfurrias loses another popu-
lar couple this month as Mr. and
Mrs. H. T. BASS prepare to move
to San Benito about Sept. 14 , . .
HENRY is transferred to the Val-
ley by the FSA . . .
Don’t look now, but there’s a
pair of young men in the city
who can really go to town on the
“Rose O'Day tune . . . R. J. MC-
INTYRE and MILLS MENNETT
KOONCE prove it by singing out
good and loud during a theatre
“Community Sing” . . .
And that’s “30” for this week ..
J. C. Thomas, Jr„ of Eagle Pass
returned to that city Thursday
morning, alter a weekend visit with
his parent® here.
* * * *
Mrs. B. F. Fort returned Monday
night from an extended visit in
Houston and Palestine.
* * * *
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Petersen and
Jimmy John returned to their home
in Shreveport, La., after a visit
here With relatives.
* * * *
Gerald Weatherly left Moonday
night for an extended visit to New
York city.
• ♦ • *
Dono Moore, son of Mr .and Mrs.
Lafayette Moore, is visiting here
for the next two weeks, before re-
turning to Fort LaudTdale, Fla.
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Your depmits in this bank
are insured against loss to a
maximum of $5,000 by Fed-
eral Deposit Insurance Cor-
poration, an agency of the
United Sta'-i Government.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
When 1 drop into Sam AbernethyV
ntore, 1 usually tome away with
xonrtliini worth rememberin'.
Sam’s our town’s most successful
storekeeper and he's not one to do
much talking, unless he figures he’a
really got something to say.
Last evenin’ he said plenty.
a a •
Stranger was in the store. And
Ben Ryder, Homer Bentley and
some others were talkin’ about the
scrap collection when this feller
sort of horned in ...
"I hear these scrap collections
are a lot a bunk,” he says. “Fact
of the matter is, this junk they’re
gathering ain’t no use for makin’
steel. Just a waste of time gettin’
it together . . .”
At that point Sam steps in.
“Jest a minute,” he says, fixing
him with a cold and steely eye.
“May I inquire where you got them
so-called facts?”
The stranger hems and haws,
and Sam advances on him grim
and unsmilin’.
“Name your authority, sir,” he
says. And he wasn’t kiddin’! “Tell
ut:, v i.tre d>d you get all this in-
side, private information?”
Well, sir, I never saw Sam so
mad since Lem Martin’s dog
chased the cat into the pickle bar-
rel. And 1 guess I never saw a man
crawfish out of a place fast as that
fellow did.
• o *
Thinking it over afterwards, I
came to the conclusion that Sam’a
got the real system for handling
folks who throw facts and figures
around free and easy like.
F’rinstance, I’ve noticed there’s
some pretty fancy fact and figure
jugglin’ done by some of those who
oppose the right enjoyed by mil-
lions of decent people to drink a
friendly glass of beer when they
want to.
Lately I’ve been asking these
folks the same kind of questions
that Sam asked that rumor-
mongerin* stranger. Try it yourself,
next time you hear anybody mak-
ing derogatory remarks — whether
it’s against the war effort... or
just against beer.
No. 44 of a Stries
Copyright, 1942, brewing Industry Foundation
Prescriptions Carefully
Compounded
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and Bristle Goods. Sodas, Cigars
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W. S. BELTON, Druggist
NO MAGIC
ABOUT IT!
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calf crops and more vigorous calves . . . The proper use of COT-
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DOLLARS for the calf crop. When these calves go into the feed
let, the successful feeder knows the value of a Fa'anced ration
containing cc-ttc nseed meal or cake to furnish the protein so
essential for r;uick gair.s ar.d the finish that wall top the market.
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