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THE FAIRFIELD RECORDER. FAIRFIELD. TEXAS. JULY 11, 1941
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The Fairfield Recorder
THE COUNTY PAPER
PRESS
FtMiiM T*Ji Tkunuinj at Piirfeld, Texas, PreotoM
Coaaty, Where the Great Highways of Texas Cress
at Fairfield, Texas, under
mail matter at the Post office
Art of Match «. lfT».
L C. K1KGAN_
RAMON R. KI KGAN
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SUBSCRIPTION
One Tear, in Texas_________
One Thar, out of Texas_
RATES
TYRANNY THREATENED AT HONE
Right now. wrote Frank R. Kent, there is a
■ drive on “to utilize the national crisis to push
the union frontiers forward to the point where
■ a tight labor monopoly will be so firmly es ab-
'ished that neither man nor woman can get or j
hold a job unless he or she is a member of a un-
ion .... If, through closedshop, checkoff and
complete unionization of all labor, the monopoly j
now sought should be acquired, the power of the
labor leaders would be irresistible. They would
become the real leaders of the nation, superior to
the government itself .... The people of this j
country would live under a tyranny as intoler-
able in many ways as any of those we denounce i
-.'abroad.
I Those are strong words, but late events have j
"y^jfull justified them. The hist of some labor lead-
jers for more power is insatiable. It is these lead-
TO* COUNTY
The Moral of
Cotton Spinning
of Respect, ObitwviM sad Cards of Thanks, ers who have made extortionate demands upon j
1 cent a word. Privilege of omitting
»y this paper.
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Teach me thy way, O
plain path.—Psalm 27:11.
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an poetry reserved 5U£h industries as coal, the railroads, aircraft
plants, etc. It is these leaders who have set their
- own ambitions ahead of the very safety of th*.-
, nation. It is these leaders who have actually de-
• fied government. It is these leaders who are out
jto destroy' the right of a man to earn his living
whether he is a member of a union or not.
There are definite signs which indicate that
the public has at last become aroused and
jalarmed. When any group attempts to “cash in”
on the gravest crisis in our history, the Amer.
can people will eventually rebel.
Honest and patriotic working men have i
chance to clear the labor movement of the onus
that has been cast on it by the actions of irre-
sponsible. ruthless leaders. It is up to the rank
and file within the union ranks to clean hous-
If labor fails to do that, it will simply court dis-
aster. It will risk the loss of the many deserv-i
gains it has made over the years. It will invi*-
harsh legislation. A strike in a defense indust-
now is nothing more nor less than deliberately
Url. mod lead me ia
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duction.
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PRIVATE INDUSTRY PLANNED AHEAD
A newspaper Interviewer recently asked an
executive of a leading oil company this highly ! Panned sabotage
significant question: “If an enemy air bombing
force were able to reach Southern California and Ip....
attack the thousands of oil wells located there, I. Aer> . <omra“n,t> na.s one or two old men.
is it likely that the supply of petroleum for our ‘ 8pit< 0 * e,r a£e* niake an effort to sup-
Army and Navy would be seriously lessened?" o~_ Ve* y. odd an<* gardening
The executive’s answer was an emphatic: .hem1JTXluce remarkable gardens, gar-
“No"! There are 20,000 oil wells in California _ WOU d b** cred,t to much younger and
alone, spread ove ra tremendous territory. If 1 j m?n,' 771 ey may ^ 8€*n *n their gar-
any enemy could destroy half
which is obviously a ridiculou;
remaining 10,000 wells could double their pro-iWWn *!*? a number of younger men much
more able who never seem to think of making
That isn’t all. For example, oil storage tanks fet the WPA'^an^the*111*6^68 w
offer good targets for enemy bombers There- Ithem T^eT are much ZT k V"
fore, the oil industry, with commendable foreJmer. who make such a common*£* °Wer
sight, has long made it a policy to build these ward self sunnort TW* h effort t(>*
tanks sufficiently far apart .so that if one ware ! tern of re^g'th^ lho ~~u
hit its neighbors would not be ignited. On top of! fort and giving less to those
that, the oil industry makes full use of the fe/ent *" * “d ^
safest storage of all—the underground pools,
provided by nature, where oil is found.
The oil industry, to sum up, is one of the J RELATION
many pivate industries which planned ahead According mom- *
for ju.t »„ch ,:rnerKency „ 'we tJ£ L gAJZfZwMc, TiuZHi J™’''
now. Private enterprise made this country erreat v • u f * dunn* thls war boom-
And private enterprise is today making thhi th in™™e not r«en anywhere near
country secure * f16 eXte,nt of Ubor 8 income- farmers are forced
pay far higher wages. The costs of all the
(manufactured goods the fanner must buy are
Have you watched cotton fibers spun into
yarn? It looks complicated — bulky carding
drums, clacking combers, noisy roving ma-
chines, and the steady whine of spindles driven
by intricate combinations of cogs and belts and
cams.
But all the elaborate machinery seeks to do
is head all the fibres in one direction, eliminate
the weaklings, even them up so that the stress
will be well distributed, and make them stick
together. Once wrapped around each other and
pointing for the same goal, the fiber's strength
is combined strength of cotton’s unsurpassed
cohesive elements, the tiny convolutions in the
waxy fibers bind them each to each.
The cotton industry — and all of us in the
Belt whose fortunes are inevitably linked with
it—could draw a moral from the story of spin-
ning. We will be strong, the moral tells us, when
we stick to each other and pull in the same di-
rection. The cohesive force is mutual interest,
interest in our own and America’s greatest in-
dustry—cotton. In the best sense it is loyalty to
cotton products.
W hen we b.uy cotton we build our future.
THE RECORDER
WrisJ. rather than of "f
important, I think. tor . T|
that the nation which Wl ".
[great deal to „y ,t , H
jciJ m that day „«„ £ ^
;*eally and finance. w ” ,n«
; value* unimpaired and •. Splr*
j bitterness that is bound , 7 «
joar soldi* e .houid be , 8U|
-g» Ml and *ou.d lo* -
( Beeauae the ^tUemcnt of I
war, and the program f0- v
that u to follow. i„
sob.r iuj
fairest mJ
j I feel that Hitler, and the thing
he stands tor, mupt be crushed and
. destroyed. There is no place in the
, world for a man who believes that it
'»* his destiny to subdue the world
merely to make himself great, and
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preparation for ttda”ar to do^me hi“»«lf
thinking and make some prepare- i
tions for what we will do after it is
What We Think
By FRANK DIXON
i the calm thought and iu
ment of the best and
and, because there .h^^ll
one nation strong enough. . 1
mand, «»o»xh f- j
*T,"d to be wholly i
and fair, it u imporunt that We
*™ Prepare for that ta,. W
going to .ppro«h it ^
judiced, less embittered, and a n,«
icalm mod open mind, if . Ur ^
•id and not oar soldiers h*. M
the extent of our participation.
I one who believe, that if
finally becomes neces,a -y to ■
our armies across the sea to <S
Hitler that it should be done *
t should not be done a, hn(r
| England or any of her colonies
tne invaded countries have stren»
and substance to resist.
From present evidence, Stalin M
Hitler *re going to both emerk
from the present great titanic utrj
glc greatly weakened. True mo
student* think that Hitler will cod
quer Russia but in the doing of
he will have materially exhaus
himself. He will also leave Rusai
disorganised and impotent—a grei
hulk of a nation, helpless in its in
mensity.
over. I believe that some competent
group should be at work upon the
future coarse of nations involved,
that when the time comes, a* it in-
evitably win, the nations who will
have charge of reestablishing the
world order of the future will not
find themselves unprepared to solve
the issues that will present them-
selves in a flood at that time.
I think that what takes place af-
ter the war—after the defeat of Hit-
ler—*• aa important as it is
that Hitler shall be defeated, for
upon the justice and wisdom of this
peace will rest the security of the
work! for many years to come.
F<j| ttys reason it is important «i
my mind that the United States re-
main in the'position as an aisenal
This, in my opinion, will be an ail
when the United SUtes steps in 1
write the terms of peace. Our probj
lem is great now, but it will
greater then. It will be more intrj
cate and more difficult. The
sponsibility for the future is a
rible responsibility, but is going ti
be ours. It will be an hour of destiny!
Out of the chaos and the ruin a nes
world ia going to have to be builtl
The wisdom and the justice and
strength of the New World, |
Ame-ica, must build it. For toil
challenge, 4uul* this responsibility tcj
humanity we must be strong—physiJ
cully, spiritually and morally strong]
If inflation comes as ia did during the World !T~ ‘rtUU tne
war, and prices get radically out of line, it will be j Hhare °f hlRher toxe8
in spite of everything that can possibly be done A 77181 situation cannot continue indefinitely,
to prevent it. Inflation is disastrous because it Afirncu,ture’ a^r all, is the most vital calling-
in Si lu’fo VU f Allno./wl L» -____ a a.. & (’ O U fl t r V Hlllfit hftvu frtrtrl _____
also rising. And the farmer will bear
his full
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is always followed by a pay day which more
than takes the profits of high prices and leaves
a train of wrecked and bankrupt individuals and
business in its wake. Much effort and thought
must be carried out to guard against repition of
the disastrous World war experiences resulting
from inflation. In spite of everything that can
be done there will be a measure of inflation and
higher prices this summer and fall.
I”,very editor has had the experience of hav„
.f HOme one com« to him after he has gotten
into a jam and ask that the item lie kept out of
the newspaper. Usually it is because of a mother
or sister or wife. Sometimes the editor agrees
not to print the item, but no editor withholds
legitimate news without feeling that he has be-
^ bh,lTfr°n- The Wron* doer Eposes
u,x>n the editor by making him the goat for his
misdeeds. It is strange, too, how some men nev-
er seem to think of their wife, or mother, or sis-
ter until they get into a jam with the law. We
always doubt the sincerity of such a plea. We
usually feel that the fellow is »o yellow that he
can t even face the punishment for his misdeeds
and publicity without any doubt is a part of the
punishment.
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The occupation of Iceland by the United
States in the interest of hemisphere defense is
generally approved. There seems to be a feeling
that if there are any other islands off our shores
that are needed for our defense now is the time
to tfike them. It is a case in which possession is a
little more than nine-tenths.
a country must have food in war
riculture cannot be treated as a
The nation’s task now is to make an equitable
adjustment between the interests of agriculture,
labor and industry.
or peace. Ag-
poor relation,
an equitable
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It has been suggested that instead of waiting
until a man is dead to say nice things about him
newspapers should print the nice things while
he is still alive to enjoy them. We doubt the
advisability of it in every instance. If it were
done there would be so many conceited and
swelled up egos circulating around in the com-
munity that there would be no getting along with
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Frequent warnings and rumblings are heard
that new highs in taxes are tobe experienced by
everyone in the near future to-pay for the de-
fence program. Income tax rates will be doubled
and m most cases tripled and new nuisance taxes
and excise t«ces will be set up. These taxes will
be in addition to local taxes which of course
will be only mildly affected by the cost of the
defense program. In order to make the blow
easier and afford a means of paying these taxes
on the installment plan the Treasury will offer
for sale “tax anticipation certificates" that may
be used in the payment of taxes. These may be
purchased out of the current receipts or saving*.
They will draw a little interest.
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Everyone hatas the thought of war, a local
man was heard to say yesterday, but they are
going to hate this one more as time goes on and
normal life is disrupted-more and more with re-
strictions, taxes and substitute*.
You can’t afford to miss this
bargain... Come in today...
and SAVE MONEY!
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Kirgan, Lee. The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 31, 1941, newspaper, July 31, 1941; Fairfield, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1109807/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fairfield Library.