The Mathis News (Mathis, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, July 17, 1953 Page: 2 of 8
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“We are a family who enjoy broiled steaks and I have
had much better results using the electric broiler on
my range. In fact, my range makes all my cooking
more simple and convenient.”
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Says MRS. J. F. WSESEHAN
North Depot Road
McAllen, Texas
‘'After using an electric range four or five years, I’m
quite happy with the results of electric cookery. You
don’t have to change your cooking habits to cook elec-
trically. I use the same recipes I’ve always used..
“Because of the accurate temperature control which
is possible with an electric range, I find that foods can
be cooked in their natural juices or in a minimum
amount of water, thereby retaining the vitamins and
minerals in the food.
page 2 —. THE MATHIS NEWS — Friday, July 17, 1953, Mathis, Tex.
Editorial Comment
FOR LORD'S SAKE DON'T CALL ME!
Newsweek recently printed a letter ifoiri one of its readers, John
J. Wicker, Jr., which began: “Everybody is in favor of economy;
everybody is in favor of reucing taxes but—and this is always
a big BUT—everybody'wants the economy applied somewhere else.”
Mr. Wicker then said this situation reminded him of an old
British Army marching song which went about as follows:
“Call out the Army and the Navy
Call out the blooming rank and file
They’ll face the danger with a smile.
“Call all the old battalions that made old England free—
Call out my father, my brother, or any other—
But, for Lord’s sake, don’t call me!”
That attitude has been dominant for 20 years. We’ve finally
reached the point where, if we are to have honest and economical
government, which is as essential td our security and survival as
military power itself, they’re going to have to call you!
ELEVEN TO ONE
Herbert Hoover’s latest major address urged that the federal
government get out of the electric power business as soon as
possible.
The Committee for Constitutional Government has made a check
to find out how Mr. Hoover’s views were treated editorially in the
nation’s larger newspapers. It found that daily papers of about
22,000,000 circulation carried favorable comment. Adverse comment
occurred in dailies with a circulation of about 2 000,000 In other
words, Mr. Hoover’s position was endorsed by the overwhelming
majority of 11-to-l.
The American Way
An old friend of mine, long
AS PRCTICAL AS A SACK OF
POTATOES
Throughout the country, chambers Of commerce, civic organi-
zations, banks and other groups are actively engaged in seeking to
bring more industry to their communities. They want the spending
and the employment that come with expanded industrial activity.
This is a perfectly natural and desirable state of affairs. How-
fever, in rural sections of the nation, there is another and equally
Important possibility which is generally overlooked.
That is to work for the improvement, in a scientific and orderly
manner, of farm production. If, for instance, any region’s farm out-
put and farm incomes could be raised by 20 or 25 per cent the
beneficial effects would be felt by everyone. And this would be of
lasting service to the country as a whole, which must face the
problem of feeding a swiftly growing population from a fixed land
area.
Greatly increased farm production is no impossible ideal—it
is as practical as a sack of potatoes- It can be accomplished by
maximum use of machinery in farming, coupled with proven land
conservation techniques. It has been said, with full accuracy, that
the tractor revolutionized farming. That revolution is nowhere near
complete — present day farm equipment makes it possible to mech-
anize the work of the land as thoroughly as the work of the modern
factory.
The future strength of this country will depend every bit as
much on progress in farming as on progress in industry. The two
go together like the fingers of a hand.
7 get good tesults omy time
with my eleettic
deceased, upon occasion was wont
to recite a maxim with great em-
phasis and feeling. It went as
follows:
“The kind things that you are
going to say when I am dead and
gone, say now so that my heart
may be cheered and gladdened
by them. Postmortem kindness
does not heal the wounded spirit
and flowers on the coffin shed no
fragrance backward over the
weary way by which loved ones
have traveled.”
Courtesy, that most inexpensive
of all human virtues seems to
have been lost in the shuffle some-
where along the way. Perhaps the
reason for this is due to the trend
in recent years toward paternal-
istic government, under which
people take for granted as their
due any service rendered or kind-
ness extended, and feel that there
is no necessity of expressing
thanks.
The praiseworthy custom of say-
ing a kind word has been tossed
into the limbo of the Horse and
Buggy Days. What was formerly
the rule, has now become the ex-
ception, and very few folks now
take time out to say kind words
so that “hearts may be cheered
and gladdened by them.”
We excuse ourselves, and I in-
clude myself among the shirkers,
by telling ourselves that in this
busy day and age we no longer
have time to make the friendly
gesture. Ralph Waldo Emerson
exploded this fallacy when he*
wrote:
“Life is not so short but that
there is always time enough for
courtesy”.
To say the kind word is not a
one-way street. It blesses both the
sayer and the one to whom it is
said. Washington Irving pointed
out the truth of this when he
wrote:
The constant interchange of
those one thousand little courtesies
which imperceptibly sweeten life,
has a happy effect upon the fea-
tures, and spreads a mellow eve-
ning charm over the wrinkles of
old age/’
Courtesy, the almost-forgotten
art, sets the individual who exer-
cises it, upon a pedestal. That
man or woman stands out in a
materialistic age as a shining bea-
con. It invests the individual with
an aura of greatness. Lord Alfred
and to quote some of the great
richly-deserved promotion from
a friendly gesture.
That is what makes this particu-
lar letter a stand-out. I am not
divulging the idenity of the writer
because I know that with becom-
ing modesty he would wish it that
way. However, I can quote his
fact as follows:
And James Thomas Fields put
it thus:
“How sweet and gracious even
in common speech
Is that fine sense which men
call courtesy.”
www— -------^ Now what in the world has in-
spired me to write in this vein
and to quote some of the great
poets and writers of the past? It
is due to a letter received recent^
ly from a newspaper editor. I had
written him extending my con-
gratulations on a well-earned and
richly-deserved promotion from
Managing Editor to Editor of his
newspaper. This is a custom
which I have practiced over the
years whenever something of this
nature comes to my attention. But,
alas and alack, few have extended
me the courtesy of acknowledging
a friendly gesture.
That is what makes this particu-
lar letter a stand-out. I am not
divilguing the idenity o fthe writer
because I know that with becom-
ing modesty he would wish it that
way. However, I can quote his
letter. Here is what he wrote:
Thanks for your note of con-
gratulations.
It is a pleasant surprise to re-
ceive good wishes from one with
whom the relationship has been
strictly business. I think the world
might improve as a place in which
to live if all of us took time out
to say nice words to those who
deserve them, and even to those
who don’t. Thanks again”.
Yes, courtesy, the least expen-
sive of the virtues, pays dividends
in warming the hearts of both the
giver and the recipient of the
and gladden.
And by the way, have you writ-
ten your Congressman lately? I
don’t mean a letter requesting
him to support this or that piece
of legislation. I mean a letter
' thanking him for something he
has done that merits your approv-
al. His mail is filled with com-
plaints and demands. How refresh-
ing it will be for him to receive a
letter which neither scolds nor
requests, but simply saj s ‘thanks.
To paraphrase the maxim of my
old friend, I can hear my Con
gressman say: ‘-The kind things
that you are going to say when I
am no longer yojr Representa-
tive, say now so that my heart
may be cheered and gladdened by
them, to the end that I will be
inspired to labor even more dili-
gently and wisely in the interests
of my constituents and of Amer-
ica.”
Draft Deferrments Explained;
Also Draft Board Procedure
Young men of draft age who
ask for and get deferments under
certain conditions automatically
extend the time during which they
can be drafted by nine years.
Brig. Gen. Paul L. Wakefield,
state draft director, names the
following types of deferred men,
among others, who have their
liability for service extended until
age 35:
1. Members of the ROTC and
other officer training programs.
2. Student deferred to go to
high school or college under re-
quirements of law; college stu-
dents deferred under authority of
the local board.
3. Men left at home for civilian
employment.
4. Men deferred to farm.
5. Married men deferred be-
cause of their children or be-
cause of extreme hardship and
privation to dependents.
6 .Men classified as mentally,
physically, or morally deficient or
defective.
“The regulations spell this out,”
General Wakefield says. “So when
a man gets the privilege of a
deferment he is taking on a
corresponding responsibility. The
man who never receives a defer-
ment like these cannot be drafted
after he reaches his 26th birth-
day.”
The state draft director sayt
that, under this provision of law,
it is possible for a deferred man
to lose his qualification for defer-
ment at age 34, for example.
Under such circumstance, he
would again be eligible for draft.
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How does a local draft board
consider a draft registrant’s case
when it comes before the board in
the manner governed by Jaw and
regulations ?
The members of a board sit
around a table—and the file con-
taining the man’s papers are plac-
ed before it by the clerk.
The board then considers the
man from- the following stand-
points, based on information in
the file:
1. Is he on active duty in the
miliary service? (1-C.)
2. Is he a conscientious objector
who has been ordered to a civilian
job? (l,W.)r
3. Is he too old for service under
the law? (5,A.)
4. Can it be determined at the
board level whether he is physicol-
ly mentally, or morally unfit for
service? (4-F.)
5. Is he a minister of religion
or divinity student? (4-D.)
6- Is he subject to exemption
as an alien? (4-C.)
7. Is he a public official de-
ferred by the law? (4-B)
8. Is he a World War II veteran
as defined by the law? (4-A.)
9. Is he subject to deferment
because of his dependents? (3-A.)r
10. Is he eligible for deferment v
as member of the armed forces
reserve or a student taking mili-
tary training? (1-D)
11. Is he a stutudent in a col-
lege or university deferrable under *
local board authority? (2-SL)
12. Does he meet the require-
ments for farm or other civilian
job deferment? (2-C and 2-A, res- *
pectively )
13. Is he a college or high stu-
dent subject to deferment by law
for a short period? (1-S.)
14. Is he one of the two types
of conscientious objectors? (1-tO
and l-A-O)
If the evidence in the file in-
dicates to the satisfaction of the
local board that he is eligible for
none of these, then the registrant
is considered available for miliary
service. (1-A.) ♦
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THE MATHIS NEWS
Published every Friday in Mathis, Texas
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Bobby Helm.
_______Managing Editor
Entered as second-class mail matter, Jan. 21, 1945 at the post
office at Mathis, San Patricio County, Texas, under the Act of
Congress on March 3. 1879. * .
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