The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 12, 1942 Page: 2 of 8
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THE FAIRFIELD RECORDER, FAIRFIELD, TEXAS, FEBRUARY 12, 1942
THE COI
The Fairfield Recorder
THE COUNTY PAPER
PRESS
Published Each Thursday at Fairfleld, Texas. Fn-eaton.
County, Where the Great Highways of Texas Cross.
Entered as second class mail matter at the PostofTic<
at Fairfield, Texas, under Act of March 6, 1679.
L. C. KIRGAN__
RAMON R. KIRGAN
______Edito
Publish?'
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
One Year, in Texas-------,______
One Year, out of Texas____
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Tributes of Respect, Obitur.ries and Cards of Thanks.
1 cent a word. Privilege of omitting all poetry reserved
by this paper.
Thursday, February 12, 1942
Bieaaed is every one that feareth the Lord; that
walketh in his ways,—Psalm 128:1.
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Walter Pitkins wrote a book “Life Begins at
Forty”. In his book Mr. Pitkin seeks to show
that it is possible for a man to make a success
of things even at forty or after. How good a man
is at forty or sixty depends upon his health. Not
all men are good at sixty as they were at thirty,
and not all men are as good at forty as they
were at thirty, but those who have conserved
their health, who are alive and alert are better
at sixty than they were at forty and are better
at forty than they were at thirty. It isn’t so
much a question of age as it is a question of be-
ing alive, alert, and well. Incidentally being alive
and alert at sixty isn’t always an accident. It
just doesn’t happen that way. It is the result
more often of thought and study and care and
self-discipline, arid self-denial. It is often the re-
sult of doing the things that promote health,
and well being, and mental, and physical alert-
ness, and abstaining from things that one knows
impair physical well being and mental alertness.
To a large degree each man is the architect of
his own fortune in so far as he is the builder of
his own bodily health.
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According to a State Agricultural College
bulletin, there are 25 million milk cows in the
United States. If, continues the bulletin, the
COLLARS SPENT AT
HOME BUILD THE TOWN
In most instances the torpedoes that are
Munched against an unsuspecting ship and send
»t floundering to the bottom of the ocean are
not seen by the ship’s crew. No one knows of
their presence until the explosion sends the dy-
ng shudder through the ship. In like manner
when home town dollars are sent out of town no
>ne in town knows of it except the person who
lias spent them, but their effect is felt upon the
.'ommunity, never the less. Such spending is
What We Think
By FRANK DIYON
Even though the Roberta investi-
gation of Pearl Harbor was most
searching and revealing, and even
theugh no one responsible in any
measure for the lack of alertness
and preparedness was spared, there
seems to be a disposition on the
part of Congress or some members
of Congress to continue probing into
the matter.
more difficult the difficult task of
awakening to their danger iu his
present world order the United
States. They have scoffed at the fact
that totalitarianism on the
march toward world domination, and
that this nation was an eventual
target of their ruthlesaness. They
have declared with shallow wisdom
that the invader could not approach
our shores and his planes would
never darken this continent.
Two Minute Set
By THOMAS HA8TWELL
OUT OF THE WAR
SOME GOOD: One of the
that many are going to t,
during the coming yCBr
that the war may last, i* t„
will rj
cile the war's existence
Alresdy Hitler’s submarines are
on our shores and the shadow of the
like the hole created in the side of the ship that L VS" th!* " The| foreign bomber has blacked out our
■. . .. probe 3hould continue until the evi- aP{.u,itv and our complacency,
peimits the water to seep in until the ship goes dence is complete and responsibility; _
for the blame is definitely placed.
iown. The slow bleeding to death of a com
rnunity, caused from its purchasing power be-
ing sent out of town, may be less spectacular
and less dramatic than the torpedoing of an
ocean liner, but it is none the less sure. Look
about you at the towns you once knew as good
towns that are now' run-down, tattered, ragged,
and deserted villages. What caused it? The loss|brou*ht t0 baht that could prove
of business caused it. No town can be kept up | th^"ob'H%pe^s 8iumsy up^ °"
If this group could have had it*
way fer the past three years we
thought that God. though 4
powerful God of peace, p
war of this kind to begin
tinue. They feel that if Go)j'‘
God of peace and is all p0Wprfj
could and should stop th. W|f ,1
lievc that God could .stop ^ '
quickly and easily in a nunul
ways, but I do not believe
Having created man
Enough has already been brought i would not have a battle worthv
cut to show that those in charge of plane, we would not have a trained
the defense of Pearl Harbor were soldier, a trained flyer, in all this
woefully negligent. There is no ex-
cuse, no justification, no ameliorat-
ing circumstances that can be
town can be kept up
unless its business keeps up. If the town loses | whole situation
its business from its trade area, it goes down.
Towns usually go down in the exact ratio that
they lose this business. Dollars spent at home
build the home town.
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“I have locked my car in the garage,” a lo-
cal man was heard to say yesterday. “I have
figured out that it costs me twenty dollars a
nation.
I hold no brief for the nen who
were responsible. They were in
charge. They had been warned re-
peatedly. The responsibility was
theirs. They simply were not awake,
on the alert, or up to cheir respon-
sibility. They deserve the penalty of
demotion.
Because of their activity our
assembly lines have been delayed
two years and are even now scarcely
getting under way.
a five
God, if man is to continue to
free agent, must lead him an
drive him by compulsion. Man
work out his own salvation th»
experience, and struggle, and
fering. This is the only W|y
man can learn. God told man
ago that the greatest happines,
in peace, and in following
well defined rules known ls
will, but until man masters
lesson by experience he will not U
it. The war is not all bad. T0 tig
I cannot overlook the fact, how-
ever, that their state of mind was
typical of many in this country, who
moi^i* to run it. During the duration of the war
I am going to put twenty dollars in defense
ter the war is over this party is going to have a | the fact that the nation’s defense
nice sum of money saved up. In addition to this
he will have the satisfaction of knowing that he
did what he could for national defense.
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men, I
prgoram is no further along than it
is.
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The more we, of this country, pay in dollars,
the less we will have to pay in blood and the
lives of our soldiers. That is something for the | smoke screen
man to think about who can, but has not yet
bought bonds. Here is another idea for such a
one to think about. If the government can’t bor-
row the money from its citizens it will be forced
to take it from them in taxes—it might even
make the buying of bonds compulsory by all
those who have savings accounts. This has not
yet been suggested but it is a possibility. The
Treasury Department is going to get the funds
needed in one way or another. This fact should
not be lost sight of.
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Enterprising auto repair shops are taking
advantage of the car situation by advertising
expert repair service. They point out that it is
I refer to thoae in high walks in
life and in the humbler walks of life
who for the past several years have
used their influence against the
program of defense. Behind the
of “isolation” they
have opposed, by their acts, and
their influence, the building of a na-
tional defense. They have sought to
ridicule its rieed. They have ' made
In my opinion the only Pearl Har-
bc.r of America is not located in the
Hawaiian islands. It is much closer
home. It exists in that group that ’ tent that xt W,U uke out of
has fought the defense program j ,ive9 c*rt*ln wrong conditions
from its beginning, and has maiej practices the war is God’s
more difficult the difficult job of working m the hearts of
awakening America to her danger. *ieve *bat a be**er world will
There will be no investigation by I fut ° . h? wal “ecaus« we will
any committee of this group but in
their hearts, those who have seen
the danger know, that they, also,
made what is going to prove to be a
costly error
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learned that a certain wrong
dition cannot continue to exist l
with them a world of peace, if y
manity is advanced ever so lit)
its struggle upward, the wa
ever its cost, will not have
together in vain.
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It is not what he has, nor even
what he does, which directly ex-
presses the worth of a man, but
what he is —Amiel.
Man’s chief merit consists in re-
sisting the impulses of his nature.—
Samuel Johnson.
Secret study, secret thought, is,
after all, the mightest agent in hu-
man affairs.—Channing.
Safety Slogans
The sowers of safety are the i
ers of happiness.
Big expense is often sa/ed by<
mon sense.
Fires were made by fools like
but only God can make a tree.
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Thinking, not growth, makes
hood. Accustom yourself,
to thinking—Isaac Taylor.
Hon. Geiald C. Mann
Attorney General of Texas
important now that old cars be kept in good re-
pair that their lives may be lengthened. They
explain that a little attention at the right time
will add miles of life to the car. An enterprising
business man can, as a rule, find good points [
upon which to profit in most any situation.
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, . . . Every town and city in this country should I
cows were driven through a gate at the rate of JJas8 an ordinance making the theft of tires
four mdes an hour, it wouldjake 33 years to Ret | punishable by a 8tiff fine and a stiff jail sen-
tence. Such an ordinance should also make it I
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the herd through the gate. The milk maid, would
in that event, be a little late milking the last
cow.
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Making every lick count is an art some folks
never learn. Watch a group of workers. A cer-
tain per cent of them “fiddle” around and waste
unlawful to use a tire from which the factory I
numbers had been removed. In connection with [
this if some enterprising service station in each I
town would register all tires according to their
numbers, car drivers would receive as full a
measure of protection as the community could
half their time. They think they are working give them. A car owner who has had his tire
but they are only fooling themselves. They fail • stolen may recover their value through insur •
to apply themselves and concentrate on what j ence but this does not help him to secure a new
they are doing. At night they think they have: tire to replace those stolen.
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done a good day’s work for their employer but
the results do not show it. They are “fiddlers”
and the chances are they always will be.
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A sign of improvement in farm conditions in
that neighborhood is noted by an exchange when
it reports the fact that the particular county now
The free delivery of groceries will be stopped ^il8 more hog population than it does dog popula-
ifc
by many grocers throughout the country be-
cause of inability to secure tires for grocery de-
livery trucks. Some stores are providing bas-
kets at a small cost in which the purchaser can
carry home his purchases. The baskets may be
redeemed at any time for their cost.
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Hon.
Everyone should buy defense bonds. The best
practice is to buy them regularly every month
or every pay day. No plan has ever been found
to be better than a systematic plan. We are
creatures of habit and do our best work when
we follow the channel of habit.
-V-
In making your plans for the summer be
sure to plan for a garden. This country and our
allies are going to need all the food that can be
raised. One back lot garden may not seem like a
large contribution, but ten million back yard
gardens will make a tremendous contribution
Plan to be one of the ten million.
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We get a lot of satisfaction out of the fact
that the wfie of the Chinese Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-Shek received her education in an
American college. It is said that she is the
real brains of the first of Chiang Kai-Shek &
Chiang Kai-Shek.
-V-
This is one war that will go to the count, as
they say in prize ring parlance. There is going to
be no technical knockout decision. The job is go-
ing to be definitely complete this time.
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“Remember Pearl Harbor” is a good slogan
in the preeent emergency. Another good slogan
equally important is “No millionaire# shall be
made 4p ibis country because qf this war.*'
V
Some one says: Learn to do one thing sur-
passingly well and everything else you do will
be done better. It sounds like good logic. It’s good
advice at least to learn to do one thing well.
-V-
About 80,000 young women are working in
government offices in Washington. Washington
and a civil service job is the mecca of nearly
very small town girl in the country.
-V-
There ia an added incentive now to drive
carefully. A smashed car or a blown out casing
means you walk.
Will speak at the Laymen’s Service at the
Methodist Ch urch in Fairfield
Sunday, Feb. 15,11 A.M.
The people of Freestone County are cordially in*
vited to attend this service and hear this gifted
speaker—he will have a message
of vital importance to all
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Kirgan, Lee. The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 12, 1942, newspaper, February 12, 1942; Fairfield, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1110161/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fairfield Library.