The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 14, 1946 Page: 2 of 8
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Editorials
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CHILD DELINQUENCY
In an effort to curb child delinquency schools
for parents of delinquent children have been open-
ed in a number of larger cities of this country.
When a child in one of these citiee is taken into
court as a delinquent Its parents are required by
law to attend the school regularly and take a
course in child training. The schools are said to
accomplish much good. Some day perhaps we
will reach the point in this country where a know-
JENNIE JUST DOESN’T UNDERSTAND
Aunt Jennie, whose drawback to more gener-
al social distinction, is that she is okl fashioned
and has old fashioned ideas that the simple home-
ly virtues of that other day are commendable and
should be observed even today, was telling the
family of a movie she had attended the night be-
fore. “I was amazed,” she said, “I couldn’t be-
lieve my eyes. Nowhere in it did a woman swag-
ger up to a man and ask him for a cigarette and
ledge of child training will be a requisite to secur- light one off the ojther, and the men and women
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ing a marriage license. We might as well look at
the matter squarely and realistically. Why wait
until the damage is done before corrective meas-
ures are applied? It is not fair to the children.
Why not prepare parents in advance? The court
records show a tragic need for some preventive
means. They show that child delinquency is rapid-
ly reaching a point where it cannot longer be safe-
ly ignored. We attend college to learn how to
raise cattle and hogs, why wouldn’t a little educa-
tion help when it comes to raising children?
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UNCLE HENRY NOW LIVES IN
A DIFFERENT AGE
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Uncle Henry who came up the hard way and
accumulated his old age security by hard work,
thrift, and self-denial when he was young, not-
ing the number of able bodied people who are do-
ing nothing and drawing unemployment compen-
sation because they claim they can’t find just the
f kind of work they want to do, said yesterday:
When I was young and active I did whatever
work was at hand to be done. If I couldn’t find
a job that suited me I took something else. I
kept busy. There was no unemployment compen-
sation in those days to finance and encourage
idleness. If we wanted to be pai<l we worked. As
I view it, I can’t see that the present scheme of
financing idleness is any improvement over the
old days when we all paid our own way, and, as
we say, every tub sat on its own bottom. I will
be interested to see if I am still here, how some
of these boys who are so “choosey” about the
work they do, come out when they reach the re-
tirement age.
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The high handed manner in which Petrillo,
the head of the musicians organization is forcing
his unreasonable demands upon the American
people is a striking example of what a well organ-
ized minority can do in a democracy.
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We note that the scientists are making plans
to bombard the moon and later send to it a rocket
ship. The idea doesn’t appeal to us at all It is
not that we are kicking in the spirit of adventure
but it appeals to us that there is little to be gain-
ed in reaching out for the moon and getting mix-
ed up in its problems as long as we have so much
more trouble on this planet than we know how to
take care of.
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The fellow who thought that labor troubles
would be over in this country as soon as Miss
Perkins was eased out of the position of Secretary
of Labor, isn’t saying much these days.
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get along somehow without making a drinking
party out of every casual meeting. I don’t know
what purpose the movie directors have in deliber-
ately featuring the smoking habit among women
and the drinking habit among men. It looks to me
like propaganda. I would like to see a new atti-
tude invade the movie field and the conduct of
the other half of the world portrayed. I think
women have the right to smoke if they want to,
and men have the right to drink whiskey and gin
if they want to, but I can see nothing in either
habit that merits it being featured on the movie
screen, and it certainly doesn’t present a very
good example to the young people to see their
heroes and their heroines lapping whiskey and gin
and lighting one cigarette off of another. I have
never seen a picture, and I have seen my share,
that I felt was made any better, any more inter-
esting or enjoyable entertainment because of the
fact that the women in it indulged in smoking
cigarettes and the men drank, and I have never
see a picture that was made any less interesting,
or any less desirable from the standpoint of en-
tertainment because of the fact that the women
abstained from smoking and the men abstained
from drinking whiskey and gin the few minutes
they were before the camera. I suppose I was
bom thirty years too soon, or was I, mothers?”
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The need for saving waste fats is as urgent
as it was at any time during the war. Fats are
needed in industry to make many needed civilian
items including soap. Save every drop of fat and
take it to your grocer. Waste fat will help the
reconversion program.
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If group hysteria should bring on inflation
there is no way for the individual to escape. In-
flation, like a prairie fire, takes everything in its
path.
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The Lord
hath done great things for ua;
we are glad.—Psalm 126:3.
The Fairfield Recorder
THE COUNTY PAPER
Published Each Thursday at Fairfield, Texas, Freestone
County, Where the Great Highways of Texas Cross.
Entered as second dees mail matter at the Postoffiee
at Fairfield, Texas, under Act of March 6, 1876.
—
L. C. KIRGAN
..Editor
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Tear, Freestone and joining Counties .
$1.60
Freestone and joining Counties___________$1.00
Tear, outside Freestone and joining Counties___$2.00
outside Freestone and joining Counties . $1A0
Tear to Service Men and Women, anywhere_$1.50
Tributes of Ragpect, Obituaries and Cards of Thanks,
and. Privilege
of omitting all poetry reserved
It begins to appear that the industrial genius
of this country is going to have to turn its atten-
tion to the building of prefabricated houses or a
type of building material other than lumber. The
need for new housing is going to outrun the
ability of the forests and the saw mills of the
country to produce the usual building material
in time. - *
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One peril of a democracy, perhaps its great-
est peril, is the fact that the average citizen does
not actively concern himself with what is going
on in Washington. The advice to “Wj-ite your
Congressman,” is not followed by a sufficient
number of citizens. As a rule the noisy minority
who favor certain class legislation write in urging
its passage while the greater number of people
who are often injured by such class legislation
seldom if ever write. After the harmful legisla-
tion is passed they voice too late their protests.
What this country needs is more statesmen at
home writing letters to their Congressmen. If the
Congressmen is to render the best service to his
constituents and his country he should be kept in-
formed regarding their wishes. The people back
home are democracy’s soundest safeguard.
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We predict the time is coming when we will
be able to heat our homes with electricity. When
that time comes we may expect to hear the good
wife say: “Dear, the house is getting cold, don’t
you think you had better throw on another kilo-
watt?”
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The government talks of $7,000 to $10,000
homes for returned soldiers. Our guess is that
taking the average small town of 3,000 population
and less the country over not to exceed three per
cent of the homes will come within the ten thous-
and dollar class and more of them under $1,200.
The Washington experts, used to living in the
nation’s marble palaces of Washington, surround-
ed with the air of affluence and magnificence,
soon lose their perspective, and forget the real
facts of life, out where life is in the making and
in the raw.
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With apologies to Edgar Guest: It takes a
heap of hunting these days to find a home.
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Regardless of how a strike is settled, the pub-
lic loses. It gets nothing for having suffered the
inconvenience of interruption of service and sup-
ply. The consumer, after all, has rights. If it
wasn’t for the consumer there would be no indus-
try and no job for the worker. It is the consum-
ing public that makes both the job and the in-
dustry. John Q. Public is entitled to better ser-
vice than he gets in times of a strike.
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As we see it the trend of government is
rapidly toward that Utopian plan under which the
individual is guaranteed full time employment,
free medical care, liberal pensions and adequate
old age assistance. Now if some scheme can be
devised where the beneficiaries of this benefic-
ent paternalism will be relieved of paying for it,
the plan will be complete.
BJ FRANK DIXON
Last weak I mentioned in this
column the Wage-Hour bill now be-
fore the Senate Labor committee. A
number of readers hsve asked for
some more informstion regarding the
bill and its provisions. The bill now
before Congress is in s measure a
sweeping amendment of the Wage-
Hour law now on the stalua books.
The present law provides a minimum
wage of 40 cents an hour for all work-
ers employed by firms whose pro-
ducts enter into interstate Commerce
or cross a state line. The new bill
proposes to advance this minimum
wage to 75 cents an hour fora* work
week of 40 hours and $1.12 1-2 cents
an hour for every hour worked over
40 hours in any one week.
make no difference to them, and for
the further reason that many of the
larger industries pay around 76 cents
an hour or more to their lowest paid
help, little attention is being paid to
the bill and nothing much is being
done to oppose its passage.
Because many persons are
familiar with the scope of the
and because they feel that it
not affect their business, and
laps. It will be too late then for them
to cry aloud for help. Unless some-
thing is done by a considerable num-
ber of small business people the bill
is going through. Organised pres-
sure groups are behind it and the
President is demanding its passage.
$mall business men concerned with
their own interests should unite to-
day to Senator Robert A. Taft. Next
week may be too late.
DIRT IN THE WORKS: <
recently my alarm dock,
given good service for years,
All tha shaking and winding
do didn’t helfTit. It still
run. I took it to the repair
told the repair man that it
run. “It probably has soma
the works,” he said, “Leave it
will clean and repair it”
week later I called and picked it
It was ticking along in its same i
manner and waa apparently as
as when it waa new. “What waa'ikfcl
matter,” I * asked the 1
“Nothing,” he said, “but a little dirt
in the works. It is a good clock «a| j
should serve you for yeers and g
good time, but it can’t run with din
in the works,” I thought as I pic^ ■
it up and started home with it, how
like clocks are people. They are able
to click ^ong and do a good job until
they get dirt in their works. Dirt hi
the life of a man doesn’t mean a grain
of sand or gummy oil. That sort of
dirt doesn’t affect a man, but tha
dirt that gets into his mind and
heart, the Urrong habits and the un-
healthy thoughts are the things that
clutter up the working of hin mind
and conscience and interfere with hii
efficiency. When this happens a
man can’t take his heart to tha dry
cleaners or the jewelry store to gat
It dusted off, but he does have with
in his own mind everything necessary 1
to do a thorough job of cleaning up *
the dirt in his works.
noticsd
said at
vital
economy
equal reflectiol
the term
the wrong
called willini
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It costs twenty-five cents plot a
tip to the boot black to get ones shoe*
shined in the Union Station at Wash.,
ington, D. C.
Small employers are mistaken when
they think the bill will not affect
their business. It will. Here is how
It will affect them.
Any firm, it matters not how small,
if it employs a high school girl to
write as little as one letter a day
will come under the law in respect
to that employee. If a girl so much
as handles an invoice from a firm
across the state line to enter it in a
record or write a check to pay the
invoice she is covered by the law for
that day. The stenographer in a coun-
try lawyer’s office who writes as
little as one letter a day that is mail-
ed to a point across the state line is
covered by the law for that day.
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Here’s to Health!
There’s nothing like a generous daily quota of rich,
finest grade milk to build a child’s body into health and
strength. And with milk that tastes as good as ours'it’s no
hardship to get your child into proper milk-drinking habits.
Just order enough so that he can haVe his favorite drink
with every meal and in-between times tqo!
Ivy’s Dairy
Phone 68
should be
modern metho(J
increased
ers, yet Henr
for the stater
ity of work"
84 per cent
The menu
higher wai
willing to
to increase
raise the •
duct. The
brought to thij
living standar
the ability
ter goods at
wages can coi|
production i
we see it, the
It will only
complish thi
give an hones|
labor must giv
in exchange.
The idae oi
failing to do
then because
belong to a It
’and tie up a
manager shot
efficient workl
American, unj|
Henry Ford
who can earn
amount is not I
but the man w|
per day that
much. This i|
are all just wl
from earnest a
If the workl
how much he T
of seeing how
and get by the
be settled and
would move ft
and security v
this country.
By being covered by the law ia
meant that the girl must be paid if
this law passes, in its original form,
75 cents an hour for a work week of
40 hours and $1.12 1-2 an hour for
each hour worked over time.
How does that appeal to you, Mr.
small town merchant? How does
that appeal to you, Mr. small town
lawyer? The penalties for violation
of the law are extremely heavy.
Furthermore if an employee reports
an employer and he is checked and
fined by the Wage-Hour Division he
cannot dismiss the employee nor dis-
criminate against him in any way in
the matter of work or arrangement
of hours without being subject to
further fines.
A THOUSAND TIMES NO!
It is no more possible to get ahead in the world
without a bank account than it is for an elephant
to thread a needle. Those who do really worth-
while things in the world practice that thrift that
eventually leads to the goal they would reach.
Budget your income to provide a reasonable
amount to be put in this strong bank.
The defense of the bill is that it
prevents employers from exploiting
their workers and resorting to sweat
shop methods.
This is a thin pretense. Most
plants of any size are controlled by
the unions who also control the wages
paid. To reach the few offenders
who do not come under this group
the administration is willing to pen-
alize and exploit a great number of
small business men and employers
who are- now paying all they can af-
ford to pay in justice to their busi-
ness.
If tha small business men of the
country do not do something now they
are going to W*ke up on# of these
fine morning* with the thing in thair
Fairfield State Bank
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W. R. Boyd, Jr., Vice-Pres.
C. E. Childs, Act Vice-Pres.
John L. Bonner, Cashier
Jack Crawford, Assist. Cashier
DIRECTORS
W. A. Parker
Jno. D. Burleson
H. B. Steward
C. E. Childs
F. B. Peyton
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