The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 6, 1946 Page: 3 of 12
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THE PADUCAH POST THURSDAY JUNE 6, 1946
PAGE THREE
YOU BUY THE BEST WHEN YOU BUY NYAL!
ISBELL DRUG CO.
Phone 2 Accurate Prescriptions Zack Isbell, R. Ph.
A SALUTE TO DAD
FATHER’S DAY
Sunday, June 16
Day in and day out, he works away
to support the family, cheerfully meet-
ing the responsibilities that are his.
Sunday, June 16, is Father's Day.
Let's show Dad that we all appreciate
his work, his loyalty and devotion. Step
forward, Dad, and take a bow.
You’ll be wanting a present for him.
While stocks are low and merchandise
hard to get, yet we have many things ap-
propriate for Dad. Here are a few:
............$1.00 to $2.50
Wools, Rayons and Nylons
SPORT SHIRTS
$2.00 to $5.95
JACKETS
$5.50 to $10.00
STRAWS and PANAMAS
$1.98 to $7.50
“THE STORE THAT STRIVES TO PLEASE”
YES,
It’s Almost
Here Again
Dad may have a hard time. 364 days out of the
year, but let’s make it pleasant for him on “His
Day.” Here are some suggested gifts:
Parker's Fountain Pens and Sets.
Safety Razors and Razor Blades in
cartons.
Watches, Watch Bands and Watch
Chains
Men's Colognes.
After Shaving Lotions.
Bibles. Bill Folds
Pipes, Tobaccoes, Cigarettes, Cigars
and Tobacco Pouches.
Collar and Tie Sets.
Suspenders, Belts
A handsome belt and elas-
tic suspenders make ideal
gifts for Father’s Day.
$1.00 to $3,00
Dads,
Day
June 16th.
Men’s Toilet Sets
Please Dad with a. match*
ing set - shaving lotion,
powder, cologne.
, COMMENTS ON
GOVERNOR’S
RACE IN TEXAS
By H. B. Fox
Editor’s note: The following is
o.ne of a series of columns of
comment on the Governor’s Race
in Texas, written by Mr. H. B.
Fox, weekly newspaper of Gran-
ger, Texas, wire won the Cro-
well-^oilier Award in 1945 as
“the best country newspaper writ-
. er in the United States.” Mr. Fox
says he believes they “took in too
much territory,” but he likes to
write about politics in Texas.
In a political race, a person is
supposed to have him a favorite
and stick with him, regardless,
the while denouncing all the
others and developing prickly
heat as the campaign wears on.
If your man wins, this is sup-
posed to heighten your standing
In the community and might
lead if things work out fortui-
tously, in case it’s the governor’s
race, to your influencing the chief
execute e to maybe appoint a
friend of yours to the board of
t regents at some teacher’s college
or maybe to the cosmetic board
or no telling what, and if your
area pulls a celebration of some
* sort you might be called on to
use youi influence to get the
Governor to appear on the pro-
gram. vLich gives you some sort
of a sense of power, especially
if you sit on the platform with
him and it’s generally known that
he’s going to have lunch with
you in your home.
It’s rather a pleasant pastime
and isn’t particularly out of or-
der in normal times when things
are running smoothly and the
world hasn’t had a war in fifteen
cr Twenty years, but as the
world gets smaHer through the
shriveling influence of air speed
and jet propulsion and rocket
bombs, people begin to think a
little: about things. After all, two
or three dozen suitcases full of
atomic bombs planted in as many
American cities and clocked to
go off simultaneously could just
about wreck our industrial civili-
zation, which is a great thought
for ie-shaping your prospective.
Whatever else a war does, it jolts
you out of your habitual trends
of thinking, makes you discover
that the customary way of doing
things isn’t the only way, that
there are short-cuts and direct-
action methods far more effec-
tive than the old round-about
ways. This is particularly true
if you took part in that war.
Now the part I had in the war
would not be called immense, al-
though I came within and inch
of winning the Good Conduct
ribbon and just before I was dis-
charged was offered the rank of
PFC the next time an opening
occured, but anybody who was
in uniform had time to ponder
things and get to wondering how.
if a country can spend men and
money and energy so prodigiously
Hokus, Pokus
There's a lot of it going the rounds
these days. Crews of agents, and drop-
ins-overnight offer you all kinds of mar-
velous photography at simply ridiculous
prices-and it's hard to resist their
smooth salesmanship.
We're not magicians. We can't wave
an arm and say “‘Presto”, nor can we do
it with mirrors.
But when you want *a real portrait
which you will be proud to give to or
show your friends and keep for the fu-
ture, we’re doing business at the same
old stand. What’s more
OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT
Wc don’t do die cheapest
We don’t do the highest.
Filins and paper are scarce and
• getting scarcer.
Parker Studio
to win a war, things would turn
out if it attacked its problems
of peace with just a little of the
same unalterable abandon.
While it’s fun to pick out a
candidate for Governor and
whoop and holler for him, the
same as it is to pick out a horse
at Belmont or the bull in a bull
fight, there comes a time when
people begin to suspect that the
governor’s office could be more
than the means for an individual’s
realizing an ambition, however
much human nature likes to see
a man trinniph. There is noth-
ing much wrong with the type of
men contending for the office in
Texas today; Jester and Sellers
and Smith and Sadler are what
is known as upright and right-
thinking and right-voting and
right-smart and right-normal
men, but it seems to me that it’s
wholesome to have a man like
Rainey, who certainly hasn’t made
vote-getting his business start
asking simple questions like why
Texas, with just about more na-
tural resources than any other
state, has such sorry country
roads, such terrible country tele-
phone service, such countrified
country schools, such low-paid
teachers, such a high rate of in-
fant deaths, so many boys who
couldn’t pass an army physical
examination.
These things aren’t supposed
to be hushed up, a man ought to
be able to stand up and ask them
without being considered a dan-
gerous radical. Why I know lots
of people who were more New
Dealish than the New Deal and
if they were communists I’d like
to be one too because they were
small town bankers, merchants,
doctors, land owners, and other
individualists who manager to be-
come financially independent
without being afraid some col-
lege professor was going to say
something in a class room which
would rob them overnight.
Frankly I don’t have the slight-
est idea how many people there-
are in Texas who ai*e particularly
stirred by the fight Dr. Rainey
is making, but I know some in
my personal circle of acquain-
tances who are extremely agitated
and are buttonholing people for
Rainey.
And if you visit the Rainey
headquarters in Austin, which is
listed as being on Lavaca but
really isn’t because you have to
go up an alley to get to it, you’ll
discover a kind of enthusiasm
which makes the moneie^ head-
quarters ■ of some other j candi-
dates prhtty stale-looking. And the;
fact that more than enough
money to pay for the 2 7-ra-di fl-
otation broadcast of Rainey when
he announced he was in the race
came in a few days after the
broadcast, from all sections of
the state, makes a person begin
to wonder. Many newspaper
owners they say always were
amazed and dumbfounded when
Roosevelt got elected again, be-
cause all the people they talked
to spent their time denouncing
him and they figured he was a
goner. If enough people find out
Rainey is downright phenomenal
in that he’s honest and sincere
and highly informed about things
that affect them and is more in-
terested in effecting a program
than in holding a job, which ex-
plains his geting fired as Univer-
sity of Texas president by the
closed-minds, individual voters
who don’t stand to lose by having
a gas well or a sulphur mine tax-
ed for example may turn in some
interesting ballots.
HELP FIGHT
POLIO
Don’t let flies breed
on your premises.
DDT will do the
job. See us about it.
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Hinds, Alfred. The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 6, 1946, newspaper, June 6, 1946; Paducah, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1014104/m1/3/: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bicentennial City County Library.