The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 26, 1937 Page: 4 of 8
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FAIRFIELD, TEXAS AUGUST 26, 1937
THE COUNTY Paper ■ tHK COL
Neither shall they My. Lo here! or. lo there: for be-
ef God is within you.—Luke 17:21.
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KEEP YOUR BUSINESS
Benjamine Franklin once said," Keep your
business an your business will keep you,’"
This is still as true as it
words to that effect
when Franklin said it. Many businesses
WIire to tfrief because they are robbed of then-
surplus by their owners when times are pood, and
when a squeze comes, there is no financial sur-
plus to tide them over. Sometimes a few hun-
dred or a few thousand dollars taken from
small business will swamp it. A house built at
the wrong Vime constitutes a drain that should
not be imposed. Expansion at the wrong time
robs the business of its working capital. Even
the purchase of a new automobile may cause
withdrawal of cash from a business that will
create a financial hardship for months and make
impossible the purchase of many necessities jo.
the business.
Whenever it is said of a town that it is cheap-
er to rent than it is to own a home, it is evident
that rents are too low in that town. Every land-
lord is entitled to receive in his rent check, fair
interest on his investment, the cost of upkeep of
the property, taxes and insurance. If the rent
check does not take care of these, it is too low.
The land lord had better sell the house, put his
money into bonds and get his interest and escape
taxes, upkeep, and repair costs.
An old timer was in the office yesterday
who remembers when father used to buy calico
by the bolt and mother and all the girls had
dresses made from the same material. Few fa-
thers would try that now.
Talk long enough to any man who has the
reputation for being a hard headed business man
and he will tell you that during his life time he
has made a lot of bad guesses on business deals
and bought his share of gold bricks.
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A few years ago the slogan among farmers
was, make two blades of grass when one grew be-
fore. At first thought this appears to clash with
the program of production curtailment. It does not
necessarily do so. It would still be a desirable goal
to make two blades of grass where one grows now.
By so doing, one might produce just as much on
halt the land. If this were possible, it would mean
half the investment, half the taxes, half the work.
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Over in Japan they are drilling chorus girls
for war. Sherman it seems, lived 70 years too
soon.
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Some of the old pioneers wouldn’t know a
family budget if they would meet it in the mid-
dle of the road, but they knew how to live within
their income and have something left at the erd
of the year, no matter how hard times were.
RISKY
Oklahoma offers as an inducement to travel-
ers that her highways are almost as safe as
battlefield. It sounds like a wisecrack until one
remembers that more people have been killed
on American highways than in all the wars in
which we have engaged.—Fairfield Recorder.
The catch, of course, is that battlefield
slaughter is more concentrated than the stretch
of highway over the country. The Yanks lost
a large chunk of men in the Argonne Forest, but
not as many as the sucessful aiming motorist
has succeed in killing in a single year on the
road. Comparatively, the highway is safer than
the battlefield, but in final casualty totals, it is
not. Yet we have Leagues against war and legis-
lation to insure peace, with only sporadic indi-
vidual attention to averting motor deaths. No one
can present a single sensible reason why the mo-
tor car ought not at all times to be in such mec-
hanical condition that it will operate perfectly
in the hands of a capable driver. To faulty me-
chanism has been ascribed a high percentage of
American accidents. Yet the Legislature of Tex-
as has consistently declined to pass a compul-
sory State inspection law. It is all right, of
course. Only every time a man, woman or child
dies because brakes failed to work, the lawmak-
ers who buried the bill are entitled to credit for
the kill. We have been told that the only sure
things in the world are death and taxes. Oddly
enough, the American automobile helps keep
them both in fine working order.—State Press
in Dallas News.
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What We Think
By FRANK DIXON
It is all right to talk of the value
of standing up for a principle but if
you want to get elected to office
these days the first thing to do is to
find out what the majority of the
people want.
Back in Ohio where my folks came
from there was a fellow who was
what one might call a successful
politician. He was successful in the
sense that he got elected whenever
he ran for office, which in politics
constitutes success.
He was often pointed out as a lead-
er in thought and action of his day.
As a matter of fact he never led
in anything. He had contacts all over
the state. Before each election he
found out what the voters in each
section thought of the questions com-
ing up in the campaign. He would
then boldly announce his position
giving as his reasons for it the rea-
sons his scouts had gathered from
over the territory.
He won most every election and
was acclaimed as a leader and a for-
ward looking statesman, who held
principles above public opinion.
The best way to build up the trade of a com-
munity and extend its reputation and trade terri-
tory is to do the things that make the town a de-
sirable place in which to trade. First among these
are good stores, well arranged, with good stocks
properly merchandised and advertised. The next
most important thing is the dissemination of a
Out in my part of the country the
old fashioned fellows who raised a
good wheat crop this year used the
money they got for it to pay old
debts rather than contracting new
ones.
The only difference between the
men of the stone age and the mar. of
today is the method they employ to
feeling over the trade territory that the business , what they want,
men of the community are as much interested j
in the customer from a standpoint of service as i
they are from a standpoint of profit. When this
feeling prevails in a trade territory it is not
necessary to resort to high pressure schemes to
get business, either games of chance, drawings
for prizes or other supposed stimulators. These
are like a shot of a drug in the arm, they soon
play out, and bigger and better doses are re-
quired.
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The drift has started against John L. Lewis.
It seems that the feeling against being regiment-
ed is as common among workers of the land as it is
among the farmers. Liberty to most folks consists
in doing what they please within the law and when
some one proceeds to set up a lot of rules and regu-
lations requiring one to do this and that and the
other thing at this and that time, it just natural-
ly stirs up opposition, whatever the plan is.
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In the stone age the man with the
greatest physical strength got the
most. The question of right or lose ,-t
never entered in. The only qjestion
was physical strength.
The men of today who get what
they want, get it by superior w'.ts.
The fellow who can best succeed in
outwitting his fellows gets the most of
this world’s good things.
One of the quickest ways to size up the life,
and enterprise, and resource of a town is to start
out to get a group of workers to put an enter-
prise over. If they are easy to get and pitch in and
work their heads off until the job is put over, it
is a live town. If they are hard to get, and peter
out before the job is half done the town is dead.
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Out in the wheat section of Kansas this year
In the cave man age the bvt so-
ciety of the day put its stamp of ap-
proval on the individual who could
get the most of what he wanted with
his club.
Today, the best society of the day
puts its stamp of approval on the in-
dividual who can secure for himself
a large measure of the good things
of the world with his wits.
In a few thousand years we have
progressed from muscle to wits.
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in one county the elevators were unable to handle
the wheat as rapidly as it came in. A tract of
ground two acres in extent near the elevators
was set aside and within two weeks over 100,-
Thoughts For Serious
Moments
000 bushels of number one wheat, worth' over a
The young folks count the days when school
will open, and father is counting the days until
tax paying time rolls around again. Both look
forward to the two occasions with the same de-
gree of anticipation.
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It requires a lot of patriotism to walk up and
pay one’s taxes in full and not take advantage of
every possible means of securing exemption
when one considers the unprofitable manner in
which the government proceeds to spend hard
earned tax money.
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It is not uncommon th<-<- days to see a wo-
dollars a bushel, was dumped in great windows
on the ground. As rapidly as the elevators could
handle it, the wheat was loaded onto trucks and
hauled from the lot to the elevator.
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So far, the United States has remembered
her lesson taught by the world war in regard to
loaning money to foreign nations because they
put up a good front. If this country continues to
remember the lesson long enough, the time may
come when we can feel that we have gotten our
money back through the mistakes we were sub-
sequently prevented from making.
man without a dress on her hack.
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The v,ar in Spain has lasted one year. It cost
a million live* of men. women and children and
Jin/- i v.<uit ! i:. thf de: tru'*'/. /,f >, ay Hti»*« and
buildings of pricelchs ar< hit< tun and, inciden-
tally, has accomplished nothing be;.ond
again that war is nothing rnoie «r l<
criminal follv.
A reader of this paper, who used to play
ball when a young man, said, while in this office
recently, that no business deal or success that
he had achieved since he had become a man
gave him the thrill that he got the time he had
the bases full, and no outs, and fanned the next
three men up. to retire the side.
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A reader of this paper, who runs a small
business, after having made out his various and
-undry reports to the state and federal govern-
ment remarked yesterday that if they didn’t
c ome back for corrections he was going to make
application for a certificate as a certified public
accountant. *
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W M W ilson publisher of The News, At
• trnan, w;, a pleasant < alter at The Itecordei
office- Friday. Mr. Wd*on has the distinction of
Publi blog the r,«wslest i-mall pa|a-r in Texas,
Afflicition, like the iron-smith,
shapes as it smites.—Bovee.
As I approve of a youth that has
something of the old man in him, so 1
am no less pleased with an old man
that has something of the youth.—
Emerson.
We do not count a man’s years until
until he has .nothing else to count.—
Emerrson.
For the finer spirits of the world
there are two dwelling places: our
earthly fatherland and that other
city of God. Of the one we are the
guests, of the other, the builders.—
Roman Rolland.
Safety Slogans
A good driver never passes another
car on a hill or on a curve. A driver
who persists in doing so is not a
good driver, regardless of what he
personally thinks of his ability.
When driving keep your eyes on
the road, your handB on the steering
wheel, and your mind on your driv-
ing.
If a drowning person seizes you,
catch your breath and submerge with
him, place your foot against his body,
straighten the leg and force him free.
You must break his hold. It is im-
possible to rescue him until you do.
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Miss Joy Kirgan is spending the
week with her brothers, Randall and
Joe, at Sweetwater.
LET ME HELP YOU
"PROGRAM"
YOUR LIFE INSURANCE
MRS. K. W. SNEED
HOHIIIAMPAIKPIKI.il
TEAGUE
DEW GIRLS SING OVER
KANI) CORSICANA
The Junior and Senior girls from
Corinth Church at Dew gave a beau-
tiful program over radio station
KAND Sunday evening. Those sing-
ing were Dorothy Harrison, Buena
Bell White, Dean Harrison, and Wil-
bur June, Nelma Gean and Callie
Dean White. These same girls will
be heard over the same station on
next Sunday afternoon from 1:45 un-
til 2. They have received many fine
compliments on their last Sunday’s
program, and they invite their
friends over the county to tune in
you enjoy their program they will
appreciate your writing a card to
radio station KAND, Corsicana, tell-
ing them so.—Reporter.
Interesting Facts
The cotton fields of the South com-
prise 100,000,000 acres.
About 30 per cent of the American
cotton crop last year was exported.
Americans drink about half the
coffee consumed in the world.
1098 banks never opened after the
bank moratorium of 1933.
The Bank of America located in
California has 400 branch banks in
the state. Not one of these closed dur-
the depression.
Seven- tenths of the Brazil coffee
crop last year was either burned or
dumped into the sea to prevent a sur-
plus on the market.
Motion picture cameras used to
produce color pictures cost $20,000.
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LOCAL CEMETERY NOW
CAUSE FOR PRIDE
When a Fairfield resident visits
his local cemetery he does not feel
like hiding his head for shame at
the neglect of the city of the dead
as has been the case at times in the
past. The level grounds, the mowed
grass, the rounded graves, now seen,
causes a feeling of pride and thank-
fulness.
SUNSHINE CAFE
Downtown, East Side of Squar,.
MRS. P. O. FRENCH, Proprietor
FAMILY STYLE MEALS FROM
12 to 1:30 40c
PLATE LUNCH 3.7c
Open 6 a. m.
HOME-BAKEI) PIES
ANI) CAKES
THORNTON'S
BARBER SHOP
SHAVES — HAIR CUTS
SHAMPOOS
7ourteoua Attention to All
SOUTH SIDE SQUARE
666
checks
MALARIA
in 3 days
COLDS
first day
Liquid, Tablets
Salve
Nose Drops Headache, 30 min
Try “Rub-My-TisnT’-World’s best
Liniment
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Cottage Prayer Meeting
Cottage prayer meeting will be
held in the home of Mrs. Guy Lev-
erett Friday afternoon at the usual
hour.
Dr. Joe B. Williams
Eyes examined and the best Ful-
Vue Rimless Glasses Fitted
that Optical Science Affords
Phone 731
116 1-2 W. 6th Ave, Corsicana
(In Mexia Office Every Saturday)
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Kirgan, Lee. The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 26, 1937, newspaper, August 26, 1937; Fairfield, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1119876/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fairfield Library.