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PAqjB TWO_THE FAIRFIJ5JJ) RECORDER, FAIRFIELD,'FREESTONE COUNTT, TEXAS, THURSDAY, DEC. 50. 1|48
What We Think
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Editorials
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And then came a leper to him, beseeching him,
and kneeJing down to him, and saying unto him, If
thr wilt, Ikon canst make me clean.—Mark 1:40.
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MY NEW CALENDAR
By HUBERT M. HARRISON
"EaM Tnu’’ Official Publication of the ETCC)
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By FRANK DIXON #
~*Xs the year comes to a close
the question of taking stock or in-
ventory faces every business. It
is the natural and the convenient
time to check up the business of
the year and strike a balance for
the New Year. Included in such
an inventory is a check up of the.
results of operations of the past
year for the purpose of discover-
ing which operations have proved
profitable and which have not.
The purpose is to weed out the
unprofitable lines and- practices
and institute in their place more
profitable lines and practices.
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The same practice in my opinion
has a place in the life of the in
dividual. The end of the year
provides a good time for a per-
sonal check-up to find out one’s
low spots and devise means to cor-
rect them and to choose new ob-
jectives.
“The moving finger writes, and having writ.
Moves on; nor all thy piety nor wit
Shall lure it back again to cancel half a line,
Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.”—Omar Khayyam.
“After the first of the year” is a phrase to conjure with.
Men plan, promise and hope for the opportune time to start
new enterprises, to reach for greater heights, to scale the
walls of their highest ideals—“after the first of the year.”
Is there some magic in our new calendar on the office wall?
What a thrill of new hope and daring and dreaming of grand
new dreams all come to us as we gaze at the new clean page
of the calendar marked January.
Calendars and clocks are terrifying and appalling things,
reminding1 us with each tick of the clock and with each turn-
ed page of the inevitable march of time, bringing us always
a little nearer to eternity. My new calendar chides me with
all my wasted yesterdays. It challenges me with new oppor-
tunities—three hundred sixty-five bright, clean, new, prec-
ious days, priceless as the crown jewels of a king. My
calendar is eloquent with hope and faith in a magical,
mysterious, unfathomable future. It spurs me on like a
relentless taskmaster. It enheartens me with promises of
new dawns—new chances in the game of life. It cheers me
with the thought that each of us has at his disposal all the
time there is. The rich man has only twenty-four hours a
day. He cannot hoard it. The poor man has the same. He
can waste it or use it and with the new dawn his bank account
is replenished with twenty-four new minted hours.
Arnold Bennett^in his interesting book, How To Live
On Twenty-Four Hours A Day, said: “Time is the inexplic-
able raw material of everything. Without it nothing is pos-
sible. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle. .You
wake up in the morning and lo! your purse is magically filled
With twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of
your life. It is yours. The most precious possessions show-
ered upon you in a manner as singular as the commodity
- Itaelf.”
• So time marches on and 1949 with its promise, its op-
ftrftunity, its new hope for communities and for you presents j ~‘new“rtVolution.,“’of choos-
-----------;---'r *i“’“ 'J—-------“ * in(r new objectives think of
things. They choose for
year’s program objectives
might well require a life time.
Lessen for January t, IN*.
. There are certain objectives
that are or should be common to
all people. Et is the common de-
sire of us all that we better our
condition over the years in the
matter of things material. We all
want a little more money to buy
better things for the home, a bet-
ter home, a better car, to take a
vacation or a trip. This desire is
common to everyone or should be
since it is a perfectly natural and
normal desire.
It is or should be a common de-
sire of the individual that he ex-
tend the circle of his friends that
it might include others one already
has.
It is, or should be, the desire of
every individual to enrich his own
personal life. This after all is one
of the greatest of desires, since
this, if properly done, will do much
toward adding all the others to
one’s life.
I think most people, when they
think of bettering themselves, of
npAKE another look at your new
•k calendar. 1949 It says:
1,948
years since the one single event
on which turns the history at the
world—the birth of
Jesus. (As Is weU
known, the first
calculators missed
the exact date by
four or five years;
,’but the main idea
is there all the!
same.) With the
coming of the Son
of God to this
earth. It was as If
a twilight world
first saw the sun.
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Dr. Foreman
Military Government
T F WE go back In Imagination and
1 think what the world wn like
think what the world was like
before there was a bit of the
Christian religion in it. we can bet-
ter understand the story of Jesus
and of the nineteen Christian cen-
turies. For the next six months we
shall be thinking, week by week, of
the life oi Jesus Christ But first;
jet us think of the world in which
he lived.
Jeans’ homeland of Palestine
was ran by a military govern-
ment. Roman soldiers were
everywhere, taking the best of
everything. Jews could scarce-
ly forget, even for a day, that
they were a beaten'people, any
more than a Japanese or Aus-
trian can forget it these days.
THE BIG SNOWBALL: Tbe
other day in the community in
which I live, a snow fell. It was
the first snow of the winter. It
is one of those soft fluffy
•nows with ^ust enough moisture
in it to make it cling together. It
being the first snow of the winter
the young folks were all out in it
playing and shouting and snow-
balling each other. I noticed a boy
next door rolling a big snow ball.
The further he rolled it the bigger
it got until finally it reached a
size where he was no longer able
to move it. He had to give up.
I thought as I watched him strug-
gling ineffectively with it how
like life. When man starts out his
responsibilities are few. As he be-
comes older he picks up more re-
sponsibilities which make the go
ing harder and tougher. Most
men are able to cope with the hard
work and the responsibilities that
come their way and under their
load alone are able to keep moving
along. It is only when they let
sin and evil doing clutter up their
lives and rob them of the clear-
ness of the eye ,the alertness of
the mind, and the strength of the
muscle, that they bog down and
are no longer able to carry the
load. Like the boy wtih the big
snowball they reach the place
where they have to give up be-
cause they can’t carry the extra
load.
1. What range of mountains is
between Spain and France?’
2. How many presidents have
died while in office?
5. Abraham Lincoln was the
fifteenth president. True or false?
4. Harry Truman is the 33«1
president of the United States.
True or false %
6. By what other name is the
National Anthem known?
fi. The names of eight states
begin with M. Name them.
7. The names of three states
begin with A. Name them.
8. What state is noted for its
production1' of -maple syrup and
maple sugar?
9. What state leads the nation
in the production of corn and
hogs?
10. Which is the largest state in
the Union?
8. Vermont.
9. Iowa.
t0. Texas.
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ANSWERS
1. Pyrenees.
2. Seven.
3. False. He was the 16th presi-
dent.
4. False. He is the 32nd presi-
dent.
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Great Minds
The weakest spot in every man
where he thinks himself to be
the wisest.—Nathaniel Emmons.
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the ever-recurring miracle of time. Wonderful days are ours
—magic jewels on an endless chain—miraculous material of
success, failure, joy, sorrow, life, labor, laughter, and love.
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If you are sure you are right, the editor of one of
our
good exchanges notes, you are going to make a lot of enemies.
The Fairfield Recorder
THE COUNTY PAPER
Published Each Thursday at Fairfield, Texas, Freestone County
“Where the Great Highwaya of Texaa Croaa”
big
one
that
Be-
cause they have taken too big an
assignment they are discouraged
at the end of the year because
they have not attained their full
objective. It is better to analyze
the things needed to bring about
such an objective and begin with
the smaller elements that go to
make up the complete whole.
Jesus grew up In the sort of
atmosphere which military occu-
pation always tends to produce: un-
certainty, fear, hatred and desire
for revenge, tense with under-
ground plots, rumors and con-
spiracies. The Romans found Pal-
estine hardest of all their pos-
sessions to rule. When Jesus was a
boy there was a terrific uprising
near his home, and the Romans
crucified 2,000 people in reprisals.
Enjoy your own life without
comparing it with that of another.
—Condorcet.
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
Tower Cafe and Dining Room
What we see depends mainly on
what we look for.—John Lubbock.
There is nothing so wretched or
foolish as to anticipate misfor-
tunes.—Seneca.
Established Church
MUST not think there was
no religion before Jesus was
born. There was too much of it—
that la, of the wrong sort. The
“established ctfkrch” of Jesus’ land
was the Temple at Jerusalem, with
its complicated ritual, its countless
beasts roasting on the great altar,
its white-robed choirs chanting by
day and night.
ered as second class mail matter at the Postoffice at Fairfield, Texas
Under Act of March 6, 1876
The first thing to do is to pic-
ture a final objective or goal that
one desires to reach. No goal was
ever reached by accident. One
must have the definite picture of
what he wants in tight and work
unceasingly toward that end.
The High Priest himself was
appointed by the Roman over-
lords; chosen for his skill In
rabble-soothing, he held office
on oondiUon that he could hold
the masses in check. However,
the Jerusalem temple was a
very small part at the actual
religious life at the erdlnary
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All news items
The carpenter when he starts to
build a home has before him the
plans and specifications of the
architect. He knows before be
starts to work just how big the
house is to be, the number of
rooms, the finish, the quality of
materials to be used, the plumbing
desired, the heating and the air
conditioning. He starts in by
excavating the basement, laying
the foundation and pouring the
foundation walls. This done he
takes the next step, and then the
next, and so on.
Even the most religious would
see the place only a few times a
year. Jesus seldom referred to it,
and it was finally the leaders of
the established church who hound-
ed him to his death.
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Often times it is the little
things that count most, the com-
mon little courtesies, the manner
of answering the telephone, the
courtesy one uses in driving his
car, the little daily acts of con-
sideration, tbe things one reads,
the thoughts • that occupy and in-
cline the mind. These and other
little things «are the component
parts of a well rounded and a
satisfactory life.
Household Hints
Easy Way to Wash Windows—
This is the easiest way to wash
windows. Have one basin of
warm water to which has been
added some household ammonia.
Use an ordinary cloth and wash
windows thoroughly. Have anoth-
er basin of clear, warm water. In-
to this dip a chamois, wring dry as
possible, go over the windows
again. The chamois takes off the
lint and water and leaves the glass
clear and shining.
The Sects
'T'HEN as now, not all the religion
I of the people was confined to
the official priesthood and “officers
of the church.” There were other
religious groups, unofficial sects,
and not all good. There were the
Sadducees, aristocratic and
wealthy, professing a strictly this-
world religion, not believing in any
life after death and rejecting most
of the Scriptures.
The Pharisees were the un-
official religions leaders of
Israel, as the priests were the
official leaders. They were the
traveling preachers, the Bible
teachers, the D. D.’a of that
time. Closely associated with
these were the Scribes, experts
la the study of the laws of
They should have been good, but
what Jesus thought of them can
be seen In the blistering words of
Matthew 23.
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|T WAS a discouraging world in
I which to be born. the Ro-
man heel, with government In the
hands at foreigner*, with religion
under the leadership of political
bosses, hypocrites, church lawyers
and fanatics, It was not a hopeful
time.
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And yet there were some
really Godlike soule. The
stories In Lake 1 and 2 bring
before ns God-fearing people
eld and yosmg: n priest whs
had real faith In his henrt.
eld, eld pee pie whe prayed for
nothing else so mnch as for
Osd’s ^kingdom, and simple
shepherds whs welcomed the
message of God. And above
all, Mary the blessed among
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