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-AC- fMo-THK FAlRFaHLDIlKCORDER, FAIRFIELD, FREESTONE COUNTY. TEXAS. THURSDAY. OCT U.
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Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live; and
ao*Uie lA>rd. the God of hosta, shall be with yon, as
ye have spoken.—Amos 5:14.
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“OIL PROGRESS DAY”
Drilling an oil well is no simple business. Just how com-
plicated it ha* become in the last 89 years is a subject worthy
•f attention in view of “Oil Progress Day’ on October 14th,
when the oil industry will report on the things it is doing to
supply America with more and better petroleum products.
The first oil well was drilled, back in 1859, by the samQ,
f Method that then was used to drill water wells: a heavy
“tool” was raised and dropped in a hole so as to beat away
the bottom of the well. This method brought in the first oil
well at a depth of 69 1-2 feet.
Compared with that depth, the deepest producing oil
well in the U. S. today, in Natrona County, Wyoming, goes
4own 14,309 feet. The deepest well drilled went down 17,823
feet. It was a dry hole. No rising and falling tool would
have penetrated that far. Instead, sharp, rotating bits, made
•f rare steel, revolving at an average 100 revolutions per min-
ute, bored their way to more than three miles below the
earth’s surface.
As the machine age has developed, more and more de-
mands for more and better oil products have been placed on
the oil industry. And the progress it has made in well drilling
is just one example of the way the industry, made up of 34,-
000 competing companies and more than 2,000,000 men and
women, is serving the public.
Since 1859, 1,200,000 wells have been completed. One
•at of each three was a dry hole. Of the oil producers about
one-half or 428,522 in 25 states remain in operation. But
most of them produce only a few barrels a day.
Responding to unprecedented demands for oil products
and to the incentive of increased price, petroleum companies
fthU year are drilling approximately 40,000 wells—an in-
crease of 20 per cent over last year. The oil that is coming
from these additional wells prevented a gasoline shortage
this summer and is expected to avoid a repetition of last
mater's fuel oil shortage. Oil continues as a good example
cf American competitive enterprise.
“^nSUT*’’ ”
READING
1*7 14.
What We Think
By FRANK DIXON
Life and Law
Lmhi far October 11, IMS
you.
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triend reader, probably
know lets about what la In the
books of Exodus, Leviticus, Num-
bers and Deuteronomy than any
other part of the
Bible. These are
the sections mostly
Ailed with laws—
"Thou shalt . . .
Thou shall not.”
You either skip
these entirely or
you say to yourself,
“Well, that has
nothing to do with
me." If so, you foreman
have been missing
one at the most interesting sections
of the Bible.
Some of these old laws are dead;
but even a mummy can be Interest-
ing. Call them dead if you like; you
still can learn a great deal about
the times and the minds and the
customs of those far-off days by
reading the laws which governed
people's daily lives.
Bat It is hsrdly fair to call
them dead. Rather, they have
bees honorably retired. That is
to say, they were admirable
lairs in their time and place,
and God’s will was learned
through them.
The Living Soul of Law
' I 'HERE are two ways of looking
I at
It is a tactful teacher who never lets Junior’s parents
know that she doesn’t believe he is altogether as smart as his
father and mother think he is.
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Sunday is a day that should be spent in such a way that
«oe will not come back on the job Monday morning more tired
than he was Saturday night
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You can’t always tell whether or not a child gets his
training and good manners at home. Very often some bright,
alert ftp to date young school teacher is responsible for
Juniors knowledge of good manners.
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any law. or you might say
there are two sides of every law,
the inside and the outside, the soul
and the body as It were. The body,
the outside, is the letter of the law;
tbe inside or soul of the law Is ths
spirit or principle of the law.
The body of the law, like the
body of a mao, lea; It is Dot te-
trnded to live on and on. But
the son] of the law (if It has
one; some don't) lives forever.
Take, for instance, that law in
Lev. 19:9, 10. The body of It, the
letter, says: Do not be efficient in
getting in your crops. Leave some
wheat in the field. Leave some
grapes on the vine.
Today that sounds rather stupid,
on the face of JL and no good farm-
er Wtould ipiy’attention to it. But
look at the spirit of that law: the
wheat and the grapes were to be
left for “the poor and the stranger.”
There was then no Red Cross, no
bureau at displaced persons, no
traveler's aid, no family service, no
social security, none of our many
modern agencies for the underpriv-
ileged Those who had property
were bidden to have a care for
those who had none.
The duty of society to see that
no one starves, the til; of all
to help those In need, that Is the
living soul of this law, and it
still breathes In laws of the Nth
century—laws of old age assist-
ance, maternity assistance, pen-
sion plans and so forth.
The Living soul of the Old Testa-
ment laws can be expressed tilts
way: The love of justice and the
justice of love. The best and wisest
laws today are those which give
this same spirit its fullest and most
practical form.
Any erroneous reflection upon the character, standing or reputation
at any person, firm or corporation which may occur in the columns of
The Fairfield Recorder will be corrected gladly upon being brought to
the attention of the publisher.
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Jesus’ Last Word
' | 'HE Jews figured out
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that there
were in all 613 separate com-
mandments in all the laws com-
bined. They used to have interest-
ing debates as to which of all the
•13 commandments was the most
Important.
They < ame to Jesus with that
well-worn question. Jesns quot-
ed only two laws, one from
Dent. <:5 and the other from
Lev. 19:19. Love God, love yowr
neighbor, be ssld. AH the other
laws depend on these two.
To this day, Christian thinker*
are not entirely agreed as to just
how far Old Testament laws may be
binding on Chrlstiaifk. But all are
agreed on two points: The basic
principle of these laws is always
good, and that fundamental principle
is love.
Love Is Not Repealed
npHIS is what Christians
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White I believe that the use of
the atomic weapon in modern war
fare should be outlawed and for
that matter never should have been
actually employed. I am on
equivocally opposed to the idea of
sharing it with any other nation.
Especially am I opposed to shar
ing it with Russia. Incidentally I
would be extremely cautious as a
j matter of national policy and prac-
tice, what I shared with a nation,
that unlike any other nation on
earth, isolates itself with an iron
curtain and will not permit the
people of any other nation as free
ingress and egress to and from
her borders as does this country.
In my opinion a nation that im-
poses the isolation practices im-
posed by Russia upon this and
other nations shows by this ael
that she does not trust us and is'
not willing to share even th^/nost
commonplace facts of her ex-
istence with us. This, notwith-
standing the fact that we permit
the Russians free access to this
country. We permit them to roam
over it at will, visit our industrial
plants, our defense, our airplane
factories, and in fact give them
complete freedom of the country.
The Russians fly their planes over
our sector of Berlin and the other
sectors whenever they choose yet
an American or British plane that
even inadvertantly flies over Rus-
sian territory is at once grounded
Questions-Answers I Two Minute Sermon
By THOMAS HA8TWELL
Another reason I would not
share the'atomic secret, or for that
matter any industrial secret or
practice with Russia, is her atti-
tude when it comes to discussing
matters of international interest
Her representatives, like emotion-
ally immature children, jump to
their feet and walk out of a moat-
ing if the representative of any
other nation as much as hints
such a thing as the necessity of
cooperation on the part of Russia
or suggests any proceedure at
variance with the Russian plan.
Rusaia shows by these acts, as
plainly as any thinking person
needs to be shown, that she can-
not be dealt with or truated. She ia
so far out of step with the present
day scheme of international dis-
cussion and amity, is so distrust-
ful and so schqmingly dishonest
that any thought of any type of
agreement with her is out of the
question and should not be serious-
ly considered by this or any other
nation.
1. What ia the last name of the
movie star whose first name is
Lana?
$. What ia the name of the
movie star whose last name ia
Allyson ?
S. What te the name of the
movie star whose last name ia
Heflin T
4. What ia the namo of the
movie star whose last name is
Blythe?
5. What is the name of the
movie star whose last name te
Wyman ?
6. What is the name of the
movie star whose last name is
Wajjne ?
7. What is the name of the
movie star whose last name is
Lupino?
8. What is the name of the
movie star whose first name is
Larry?
9. What is the first name of
he^ffiayie star whose last name is
10. "WhaVjs
movie star w
Gary?
ANSWERS
1. Lana Turner.
2. June Allyson.
3. Van Heflin.
4. Ann Blythe.
5. Jane Wyman.
6. John Wayne.
7. Ida Lupino.
8. Larry Parks.
9. Linda Darnell
kme j of the
name if
A RECIPE FOR GOOD SOUP:
The story te told of an old colored
woman who was famous in her
neighborhood for the quality of
her cooking. One of hor specialties
was soup. Everyone who tasted it
bragged of ita excellent quality!
One day a new comer in the
neighborhood who was served a
bowl of the soup was enthusiastic
in her praise of it. She asked if
she might have the recipe to take
home with her. The pleased cook
told hor how she made the soup,
giving each step in much detail.
“I puts in so much of this and so
much of that,” ahe said, "and
finally I puts .myself into it.” She
didn't mean literally what ahe
said, and everyone caught the
meaning. I thought when I heard
the story, that it is tk.(
not only pq
^into
on,
are going to get tbs beat
but we must put ouil
No degree of success or,
was over attained in ,
any person who failed to
very best they had into t£V
We ve got to put
the job of making * if
result is going to b* .ng**
If the old colored cook
make as sirapla a disk mi_
without putting herself foi,"
how can anyone hope te tos/J
worthy life with any
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Fairfield, Texas!
10. Gary Cooper.
Americans traveling in Europe,
are breaking prewar records. So
far this year 300,000 Americans
have visited Europe and spent
some 400 millions of dollars.
Great Minds
A wise and good man is com-
posed and happy; a fool is always
worried and full of distress.— '
Confucius.
A fool may make money, but it
needs a wise man to spend it.—
C. H. Spurgeon.
Who lives content with little
possesses everything.—Boileau.
An ounce of enterprise is worth
a pound of privilege.—Frederic R.
Marvin.
I have reached a point in my
thinking where, in view of the
whole attitude of Russia, her type
of mind, her mental processes and
her lack of mental honesty as
clearly shown by all her dealings,
that I have come to view with
suspicion any person who even
suggests that we share with her
the atomic secret or any other
secret or industrial process.
Error is the discipline through
which we advance.—William Ellery
Channing.
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I have no faith in Russia. My
lack of faith is not based upon any
personal complex of my own, but-
is the natural conclusion, the
logical conclusion of her own ac-
tions since the war.
Russia’s charge
war mongers is s
put out
that we are
smoke screen
to hide the fact that she
has already embarked upon * pro
gram of world domination in which
Communism shall be the faith of
all peoples. Her formula is so
clear that the simplest mind should
comprehend it readily. She is af-
ter the control of Germany. Her
every move and every utterance is
conclusive proof of this. After
Germany comes all the rest of
Europe, the Mediterranean and the
Middle East.
I hope our leadership and our
people are realistic enough to see
through this pattern and prevent
its realization—and the first
evidence that they do see through
it will be their refusal to trust
Russia until she demonstrates
that she is worthy of trust and
capable of an honorable course of
actioi).
o*°s
mean
when they say that, the laws at
God are eternal. We do not mean
that every law between the covers
of tbe Bible can and should be used
as the law of our land today.
What we do mean Is that the
spirit of time tows Is Immortal,
far tbe spirit la love, and love
never has been repealed.
Show me a law which helps the
strong at the expense of the weak,
a tew which encourages cheating
and selfishness and fighting, and I
will show you a bad law. Show me
a law which encourages and help#'
men to deal fairly with one another
and to live together in peace, and
I will show you a good tew. Every
tew that helps you love your neigh-1
bor is • good tew; Indeed there te (
something divine about it, tor God
te Love.
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