The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 21, 1946 Page: 2 of 8
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By Emporia Gazette
An agrarian market withholding threat ia
firing up a little duet at midwest croeeroads.
While no economic storm of cyclonic proportions
fa on the horizon, the farmers’ strike movement
ht getting considered attention as retaliation
against seething industrial strikes.
The muffled rumbling at the grassroots is a
mhtopered warning to America. The still-born
idea carries an omen: What if farmers did stage
« protracted sit-down marketing strike and ap-
plied the effective technique of industrial strikes
to enforce it? Such a movement actually would
new up the American way of food distribution.
What is more significant, a well organized 10
per cent of the operators of family-sized farms,
cooperating tenants and land owners, could turn
the trick by applying the same ruthless methods
which force work stoppages in the unionized in-
dustries.
We won’t want to incite an agrarian revolu-
tion, but think of the awful truth and conse-
quences if a minority group of farmers ever gets
their “heads cut in” for action. They could beat
the C. L O. and A. F. of L. by a country block!
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The man who walks upon the highway
night dressed in dark clothing is inviting disaster.
It is difficult for a car driver to see a pedestrian in
dark clothing and it is impossible to see him if a
car is approaching from the opposite direction. If
one must walk on the highway at night he should
wear something light in color or carry a white
Jmndkerchief. Many tragic traffic accidents could
be prevented if the pedestrians would but cooper-
ate with the car drivers.
E E E
The public which is the chief sufferer in the
of a strike, has not yet found a way to pro-
tect itself. After all the public is the principal
gvli» to the triangle. If it were not for John Q.
Public neither the manufacturer nor the striker
would have any side.
E E E .
The surest and best way to beat inflation is
to refuse to buy when prices jump up out of line.
It isn’t always possible but if the buying public
would aD go on a strike when prices got out of
line they could control completely the matter of
Inflation. i
E E E
In this same sense of “reconversion” an era
of “big news” is on the wane, despite the fact
that the world is looking off into space and ex-
ploring the atom, while attempting, at the same
time, to keep its feet on the ground in the interest
of perpetual peace.
All of these efforts are projected into the fu-
ture and will still make headlines for months and
perhaps for a few years yet to come, but each is
a slow-moving project and it is possible that the
nevt few years will bring many interims of dold-
rums.
Even now as the world struggles for post-war
adjustment, the bigger developments have
momentarily bogged down to dull intervals and
the trend presages more extended lapses within
the next two years.
For newspapers who have been overly “cable
conscious” during the war and during these
months of international readjustment effort, the
years ahead might bring a special challenge on
the home front. It will be an easier challenge to
meet for those who have not lost sight of their
own backyards while riding along on the momen-
tum of big world news, but it will mean a major
adjustment for those who have lost sight of
“home tbwri” initiative during the years of war.
E E E
You may deceive yourself into thinking that
inflation won’t harm you. It will nevertheless.
For example if ten years ago you bought a $50
bond for $87.50. It would mature for $50, but be-
cause of the advace in prices in the past ten
years the $50 will only buy as much as the $37.50
you paid for the bond ten years ago. The only
way one can beat inflation with that fifty dollars
is to buy another bond and hold it in bonds until
prices resume normal. It requires some self re-
straint to follow through on this policy but it is
the only sure way John Q. Public can beat infla-
tion.
E E E
RHYME AND REASON
Few small business men and lawyers in coun-
try towns realize that if the new proposed Wage-
Hour law is passed by Congress they will be re-
quired to pay girls who write their letters or
handle their invoices in any manner 75 cents an
hour regular time and $1.12 1-2 an hour for every
hour worked overtime.
E E E
Most of us through that Japa would be the
toughest problem of all after the war but under
the skillful direction of General MacArthur it is
Ironing out better than any of the other areas
taken over as a result of the war. General Mac-
Arthur it would seem is the right man in the right
place.
E E E
Strikers claim that management is engaged
in a conspiracy to break up labor unions. Man-
agement claims that labor unions now run the
government nd are trying to run the business of
the country. John Q. Public the chief sufferer in
the case claims that both claims are justified.
E E E
There are many paradoxes yet, but at least
two current philosophies go together.
On one hand the government plans increasing
encouragement for Americans to travel abroad in
numbers sufficient to help balance foreign trade.
Massportation, in fact, is a Word well-coined along
[the future, if any of these indications of hpltep,
'skelter trends are true.
At the same time reports point to an increasing
emphasis on exports of American articles—chiefly
those in the shortage groups at home—which will
take an undisclosed but “substantial” proportion
of our production from the home front.
While both of these trends may be necessary
in the legerdemain of balancing trade exchanges,
one can readily see the wisdom of linking them in
importance. If foreign trade gets precedent over
continuing shortages at home we may all have to
travel somewhere else to listen to a radio!
E E E
We are predicting that Russia is destined to
become the greatest military and industrial nation
of the world. Russia has unlimited natural re-
sources, vast stretches of country, and a will to
work. Work programs in Russia are not inter-
rupted by strikes. There is a unity of effort for
Russia. The late war showed that the Russians
can fight. The peace years that will follow are
going to show how she can build a rich and pow-
erful nation.
E E E
LIMIT OF DEVELOPMENT NOT REACHED
umr ia that of youth delinquency
The question promisee to become of
even (renter interest if the reports
on the matter being issued by Edgar
Hoover, chief of the Bureau of In-
vestigation on this subject are true,
and three is every reason to believe
that Mr. Hoover knows what he is
talking about.
To summarise Mr. Hoovefind-
ings, youthful delinquency has in-
creased tremendously since 1940. To
be exact it has increased some 800
per cent among boys aqd over 800 per
cent among the girls. Incidentally
these figures refer only to the young
people who have been caught up by
the law and have no reference to
those whose misdeeds have not
brought them into court, the number
of which it can safely be assumed is
substantially larger.
Personally I consider the matter of
youthful delinquency of greater im-
portance than the settlement of the
steel strike, the pecking house strike,
or any problem of mere economics
with which we may be faced at the
present time. It is more important
because it has to do with a national
resource of far greater value than
mere dollars and cents—the young
life of the nation upon which the na-
tion will be built tomorrow.
Because the matter has always in-
terested me I have read everything I
could find and have studied this
particular subject a great deal.
As I see it, there are three principal
reasons for youthful delinquency.
They are: the home, the school and
the community. You will note that I
do not include the child. The child
in my opinion is a victim of circum-
stances over which it has no control.
Youthful delinquency in my opinion
is the logical fruit of a system that
is wrong—a system that has shut its
eyes to the potent and obvious facts
and has created a world and an en-
vironment, that, while it may not be
conducive to youthful delinquency, at
least offers little resistance to it.
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A Democratic country is one in which one
There is a disposition on the part of some
people to believe, that with the modern automo-
-organized crowd can keep the rest from working bU the radio, the fast airplane, and the like, we
onrl auminer o livinnr . _ . . ... .
and earning a living.
E E E
When Christ, who is our life, shall appear,
then shall ye also appear with Him in glory.—
Ceiosaiaas 8:4.
The child grind is the same
ias always been. It is subject
*ame influences, the same training,
the same attraction, the same stimuli
that have appealed to the child mind
for the past one thousand years
The difference now and a thousand
years ago is that the ingenuity of
District showed
conserving their soil by attending
meetings held Inst week in the follow-
ing Conservation groups:
In the Shanks Conservation Group
B. W. Little, Joe Freeman, and H. J.
Milligan were present
Paul Bonner, Ed Wateon, and O. P.
Hagen, cooperators, attended the
rating nt Stewards MM. Visitors
welcomed nt this meeting included
Mr. Thornton, Mr. Bonner and Mr.
Myers.
Cooperators getting together at
Freestone were J. B. Sandifer, B. V.
Cocbrun, Weldon Wren, Rich Eppes,
W.T. Hopeon, A If Craig, T. A.
preaent
e meetings
At these meetings coop
dicated that they would
work this spring seeding,
and mowing pastures,
faces, sodding terrace
channels, controlling
contour planting.
Craig, and J. H. Biggs. This group
sve J. . F.
gSL...
was glad to have J. F. Etheridge,
T. E. Etheridge and J. H. Bond prss-
ent at their meeting.
In the Luna Group H. A. Cagle,
A. W. Thompson, L. E. Baty, E. F.
Ezell, J. C. Knight, T. R. Collins,
G. C. Knight, and Era Levels were
present and Ruben Sauter was a visi-
tor.
At Salem were Jacob Moseley, Wil-
mer Porter, Anthony Mobeley, and
Joe Willie High, with B. L. Dainel
aa a visitor.
At Furaey Richardson were Luther
Pelton, Esrsker Lewie, Eula Mae
Evans, Henry Jackson, Richard
Evans and Walter Pelton.
In the Donie Group were H. S.
Foreman, W. C. Huffman, and Tom-
mie Oalcee.
At Teague L. R. Boyd, W. F. Stiles,
W. Black, and F. G. Peyton attended.
Anthony Moseley, Salem
tion Group, is constructing
ding a 600 foot channel,
sod his bean established in j
nel terraces will be co
W. F. Stiles, Holman
servatlon Group, baa fertilb
seeded a seven acre
common leepedesa.
Service,
Travis Stripling, Agricultural 1
neer, and R. G. Dickie,
Aid, Soil Conservation
terrace linen this week
Tate's farm in the Kirven
tion Group. Mr. Tate is hsv
terraces constructed with
wind terracer owned by D. H.
son.
»bill,
time is
t work will
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Jscarcer|
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and
^ with no
, He may
. or wear a
Khandk
or a feat
\ can still hsv
d to put on
look pretty
_* now. God j
at man cannot!
many
a, or how
In the Fumey Richardson
vation Group, T. L. Teal, Vo
Agriculture Teacher, set We
February 20, for a gopher
demonstration and urged that all I
farmers in that group attend
meeting. He will be assisted by ]
C. Parmley, Farm Con
from the Soil Conservation
Two Minute Sermon
By THOMAS HASTWBLL
Safety Slogans
man has been devoted to creating and
making available the things that
stimulate the youthful mind and
presenting them in a highly attrac-
tive and appealing way, emotionalis-
ing and dramatizing them to the point
where their appeal is well nigh ir
resistible. At the same time the home,
which has the first and greatest in-
fluence upon the child mind, has in a
large degree relaxed ita Influence,
and for various reasons is Hess alert
and less attentive to the needs of the
young people in it. True the physic-
al needs are well taken care of, bet-
ter than at any time in the history
of this country but the soul and the
heart needs are in too many instances
not taken care of and in far too many
instances are not even given a
thought
SORTING APPLIES: When I was
a smal boy I remember that on a
number of occasions that I was put
to work by my father sorting the ap-
ples in the big bin in the cellar at
home. I remember when we had gath-
ered the apples in the fall from our
small orchard and put them in the
that they were all sound. There
were, as far aa we knew, no bad
ones among them, yet, on each oc-
casion when I sorted them I found a
number that were spoiled and had to
be thrown away. I asked my father
why it was that since we had put
only good sound apples in the bin
many of them did not keep but
spoiled. He explained to me that
the apples that spoiled were not good
when we put them away in the fall,
but due to the faet that the badness
was concealed inside the apple we
did not see it. Ie remained hidden
until it finally reached the outside of
the apple. Apples are a lot like peo-
ple, he said. It is hard sometimes to
tell the good from the bad, but in
time the bad always shows up in peo-
ple the same as it does in the apples.
It is bound eventually to come to the
surface. We can’t hide for always
wrong and evil in our hearts any
more than the apple can. The dif-
ference is that human beings can put
the bad spots out of their lives, but
the apple once the bad gets inside
cannot cast it out.
Keep all poisons under lock
key if there are-ehildren in the 1
It may seem heartless to pu|^
a hitchhiker but the lone car
who does not, takes a long chance
The Fairfield Recorder
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U C. KIRGAN-
. Editor
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in this country have about reached the limit of
development and progress. We shrink from such
a view. To us it spells defeatism. Any theory
that assumes that we have reached the end of
progress is to us defeatism. We would rather be-
lieve that we are just beginning to begfn, that we
are just at the threshold of a great industrial-
adventure, that before us is the undeveloped
possibilities that far surpass anything that we
have yet done. In our opinion the progress of the
last fifty years is going to be completely over-
shadowed by the progress of the next fifty years.
In the language of the comedian we haven't seen
anything yet. To us this isn’t a wild or an un-
reasonable dream. It is a real possibility. To
think anything else would be defeatism and de-
featism has never been a part of America’s think-
ing. We are not a defeatist people.
E E E
We are becoming a nation of idlers. There
are too many people too particular about the ldad
of work they do and all the incidental details in
connection with it. This country was made great
by work and only work is going to keep it great.
We can’t coast into greatness on idleness and un-
employment compensation. If we can’t find ex-
actly the job we want at the time we want it we
are goiqg to have to take the next best thing until
work to our liking shows up.
The result is that we, the adults
have created a world, a scheme of
living that is confusing and bewilder-
ing to the youth of the day and have
cast the young people adrift in it to
work out the complex problems as
best they can.
The heart of the giver makes
gift dear and precious.—Luther.
MAYTAG
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we can never
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World War 1.
play to the one I
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job now, for we|
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Parker Motor Co.
In later articles I will take up the
question of the home, the school and
the community as I see it in relation
to this vital question.
Great Minds
Mankind will be God-governed in
proportion aa God’s government be-
comes apparent, the Golden Rule
utilized, and the rights of man
and the liberty of conscience held
sacred.—Mary Baker Eddy.
All are not just because they do
no wrong; bnt he who will not wro
me when he may, he ie truly just.—
Cumberland.
The best thing to give to your
enemy ia forgivenesa; to an oppon-
ent tolerance; to a friend, your heart;
to your child, a good example; to a
father, deference; to your mother,
conduct that will make her proud of
you; to yourself, respect; to all men,
charity.—Belfour.
Never, with the Bible in our hands,
can we deny rights to anbther, which,
under the same circumstances, we
would claim for ourselves.—Gardiner
Spring.
It is the will, and not the gift that
George Washington, February 22
“The name of America must always
exalt the just pride of Patriotism! The
Independence and Liberty you possess
are the work of joint counsels and joint
efforts, of common dangers, sufferings
SuccessesI”
Fairfield State Bank
OFFICERS
w. A. Parker, Prasidant
W. R. Boyd, Jr., Vica-Pras.
C. E. Childs, Act Vice-Prea.
John L. Bonner, Cashier
Jack Crawford, Assist Caahier
DIRECTORS
W. A. Parker
Jao. D. Burleson
H. B. Steward
C. E. Childs
F, B. Payton ,
DEPOSITS INSURED
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• WASHINGTON, D. C.
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Kirgan, Lee. The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 21, 1946, newspaper, February 21, 1946; Fairfield, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1109869/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fairfield Library.