The Caldwell News and The Burleson County Ledger (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, March 3, 1944 Page: 7 of 8
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Friday, March 3, 1944
THE CALDWELL NEWS
Violinist b
■Next on Town
Hall Program
Zino FranceNcatti To
Appear al (juion Hall In
March 7 Attraction
COLLECR STATION. Texas
Zino Francescatti, fumed French
violinist, will Ik- the Town Hall at-
traction on the stutr - of CJuion
Hall at the Texas Agricultural and
.Mechunical College, Tuesday, Mar.
7. according to announcement made
by the chairman of the Town Hall
committee here. The performance
«ill begin at K o'clock in the even-
ing it was stated.
Krancoscatti achieved world-
wide fame as a violinist at ;itt ear-
ly age. forsaking a career as a
lawyer if? hi- sn'ive Fr« cr
up music and follow in the foot-
*teps id' his father, l.luring World
War I h< was commissioned by the
International Red Cr — to go from
hospital to hospital in France iriv-
ii ? conee.'ts to the wounded of the
Allies and u tiuarter of a century
later, under the same organist ion.
lie has given many concerts to the
wounded of World \\ ur II. many
ol thrni sons of the men he played
for in France years ago.
Franeeneutti will perform on h«
famed "Hart" Stradivariu- violin,
■ne f tin fiii'-st and rarest in-tru-
ments of its kind in the wo; Id. This
remarkalde instrument \v¡. made
u: 1727 liy the famed violin make!
of < re moa
Tick<:- .iij-l reservations for this
Town Hall performance will go on
sale at the Student Activities Of-
fice, Km. Ad. Bldg., < olleg- .
February 2Í . and reservation may
he made by phone 1-5321 or by
writing to that address. Reserved
seats are $ 1.00 and general ad-
mission tickets are 50 cent-.
—- Bt"T WAM BONDK A VI &T % MI'M
Send The News to a Friend
VIOLINIST
Pictured above is Zino Frances
catti. famed French violinist
who will appear on the Texas A. i
«V. M. (idlege Town Hall program
ui i iSlüíiüii I Ut -duv. .
March 7. The performance will be I
from the stage of (iuion Hall at
s o'clock.
Warns 1944 May
Be The Hardest
Year In Rubber
Natural Rubber Is Almost
indispensable In Manufac-
ture of Synthetic Product
UK AL" MONT, Texas. Maich ■)
Despite the fact, that the nation"?
huge synthetic rubber products r.
program is "close to full stride,"
l!'ll may be the country".- most
i ritual year with regard to rubbei
since th start of tilt war. James
,). Newman, rubber company exe-
KENEVV YOUR Sl'BBCRIP-
TION PROMPTLY
cutive, said today.
Addressing the annual meeting
of the Beaumont Chamber of Com-
merce, Newman explained that nat-
ural rubber is still an almost in-
dispensable ingredient in the man-
ufacture of many rubber products,
and that stocks of the precious
substance "are getting near the
disaster level." He said, "we shall
probably have less than half as
much crude rubber to work with
this year as was consumed in cither
lt 42 or ll 43."
Newman said that the ability of
technicians to compound synthetic
rubber "has not yet reached the
point whore we can be ¡.idifferent
to natural rubber. Far from it. And
it is so absolute certainty that we
will reach that point in any given
number of m nths, or even years,
although technicians are optimis-
tic."
The only answer, ke said, is to
save the dwindling supplies of
crude natural rubber for the most
"un-substitutnble" uses and get
:il ng on synthetic ruuoer i >r cv-
ci y other purpose.
Already many complot,* conver-
sions to synthetic rubber have been
made "and with good results" New-
man revealed. "Proportions of syn-
thetic in all - rts of products have
been steadily increased." he said,
"even including heavy-duty tires
for military gs welt as civilian uses.
But that switchover will have to
continue at a faster and faster rate
all through the year—for in the
face of our exceedingly scanty
working supply of natural rubber
the demand for military- and essen-
tial civilian rubber products will
continue to grow greater and
greater."
Even with regard to supplies of
synthetic rubber, the speaker said,
there is a tight situation for the
time being, for consumption re-
quirements are considerably higher
than the 600,000-tons-a-year rate
at which it is currently being pro
duced.
Solution of his supply problem,
the executive declared, dependa
primarily upon greatly stimulated
production of butadiene, the main
ingredient of GR-S type synthetic
rubber.
Although butadiene can be pro-
duced from either petroleum or al-
Single Vision
Clear Lenses
$8.50
Nervousness is fr q
and have repeated b
examined. If you ui
properly fitted gla
headaches.
Frames and
Examinations
Included
Clear Lenses
Double Vision
$12.50
)t!y caused by eye strain. If you are nervous
(laches, it is go d practice to have your eyes!
found to auffer from eye strain a pair of
may relieve vou of both nervousness a tul
í L 'Jktow.
0 V k R T W IS I R iit" ^ PHWRMHCY
BHCHHflM T t X
eohol the latter substance it
rently furnishing about 70 per cent
of the butadiene that is going into
man-made rubber, Newman re-
vealed. Reason for this, he aaid, is
thpt the alcohol planta were given
planta for making
petroleum had to
high-octane gaa
priorities on construction
and thua had been delayed.
From where I sit...
¿i/ Joe Marsh
J.em Martin's dog went on a
pampage last week...killed four
of Ed Carey's best hens.
Naturally, Ed was pretty mad.
Went around vowing he was go-
ing to get his shotgun and blow
the blazes out of Lem's dog when
he saw him. And Lem says, "Let
him try it and I'll blow the blazes
out of him. Ought to keep his
chickens locked up, anyhow."
Hat Eá nnrt TifW r n
mighty sensible fellows. And
the whole thing was settled
when Lem invited Fd over for a
glass of beer, and they sat around
chatting over the quarrel aa if It
were a kind of joke.
"Shucks," says Ed, "them
hens didn't amount to much no-
how." And Lem says: "Just the
same I'm bringin' you a barrel
o' apples to pay for 'em."
From where I sit, it would be
a lot better for the world if folka
would seltlo their argumenta
peaeefuMike-sitting around
over a friendly glass of beer—
ÍV'V'í/I. "Í off hnlfswkwl.
and making mountains out of
molehills.
fa OliaAJ^
No. 77 of a Series
Copyright, 194Í, Dreuing InJutiry Foundation
MY BOSS
IS WELL PLEASED
WITH US
HE SAYS
we're healthy and good lw>king. He
is glad, too, because getting max-
imum production from baby chicks and turkeys is
do-jbh important to him now. He wants to do every-
thing he can to help combat the meat shortage, to
produce larger chickens and MOKE E(t(«S.
YOU CAN ACCOMPLISH THIS BY
FEEDING OUR DITTLINGER
FINE CHICK AND TURKEY
STARTER FEEDS
We Have Just Received a Full
Car Load of Dittlinger Feeds and
Mashes...
ALL SIZES . .. ALL KINDS
TRY Ol'RS AND HE WELL PLEASED.
BRAZOS-BURLESON
PRODUCE COMPANY
CASPER SEIBERT, Prop.
END, SUCKER,
SPEND!
This article was written by Ralph de Castro for the Savings Banks
of New York State to help the Government promote War Savings.
. hand
better.
boats, shoes,
or we'll have
. . unless you
The last war . . . remember?
Silk shirts!
Pink ones, green ones, blue ones with white stripes—
millions of them.
And silk stockings for the women on legs that hnd
never felt anything but cotton before.
Wrist watches . . . rings . . . bracelets
tnilored suits . . . ten-dollar felt hat .
larger, sweiler apartments.
Then it happened.
10! 8 and the Armistice. The war boom petered out.
In factory after factory the wheels turned slower--
slower—then stopped.
The cuffs on the silk shirts were frayed, and the
colors faded . . . and the silk stockings were gone, and
the rings and the watches were in pawn shops . . . and
people moved back where they'd come from. But . . .
"Don'1, let it get you down, Bud! You can't hold
this country back. God's country! Don't sell Amer-
ica short why, with our natural resources and the
way wc work . . ."
So wc started on the sccond lap, on the same eircular
track.
1923 1929. Prosperity. Nothing ever like it before
in the world.
Stocks up 50 points in a week —thousands, mil-
lions billions of dollars of profits on paper.
Bootieggcrs . . . parties . . . automobiles . . . more
silk shirts . . . new suits . . . radios, refrigerators,
real estate, furniture, diamond rings,
hats . . .
Then 1929 and crash again!
"Sorry, Mr. Jones . . . more margin,
to sell you out . . . Dear Mr. Jones .
send us a check to cover two unpaid installments on
your furniture . . . Dear Sir ... in the hanós of our
attorneys unless . . . mortgages unpaid . . . worry
. . . worry . . sorry, Jones, better look around for a
new job ... no help wanted . . ."
Remember?
Bread lines . . . the Bonus Army . . . ex soldiers
selling apples on street corners . . . "brother, can you
spare a dime?" . . . stocks going down—down busi-
ness failures . . . suicides t i . relief . . . N. R. A;
. . . W. P. A. . . . C. C. C. . . . and no jobs yet, and
shoes run down at the heels. And the kids under-
nourished crying a lot—and "rhe lost generation . . ."
How come? How did we get that way again?
Why did it happen here, when it couldn't happen here?
Well, let's look back let's see how it did happen.
Bonds weren't good enough for us. Savings banks
weren't exciting as brokers' offices.
We were trying to compress our lives—to squeeze the
juice of three score years and ten into a decade. We
wanted for next to nothing the things our fathers had
worked and sweated and saved for.
My wife's clothes had to be better, smarter more
expensive than your wife's—and her jewelry, too.
You spend a thousand dollars for your car? So
what? I'm spending thirteen hundred for mine<
(On time.)
And say looka my new radio! Twenty-two tubes,
three loud speakers, record changer, home recorder and
three short-wave bands!
The old one? Oh, I traded it in when I bought the
new one—and the new refrigerator, and the dining-
room furniture—slick, eh? -"modern," they call it.
How much? What's the difference? T went y-four
payments of eighty doliera instead of sixty five! I'll
never misa it . • «
Hold on a minute, brother . . :
Did we "miss it" in the early "thirties?" Did we
"miss it' when some fifteen million men walked the
street—camped out—lived in huts and shacks and
lean-tos? Did wc "miss it" while brave wome.i
scrubbed and scoured and patched and mended until
their finger tips were raw, their hands rough—and
their hearts dull with the pain of abandoned hopes?
Hold on once more . . .
This time chances are we won't bounce back againl
Many people now realize what a close shave it was
the last time . . . how desperately near wc were to
chaos and national ruin.
MUST we come with another crash? MUST wc
ignore, not one, nor two, nor thrc; but the dozens of
lessons taught us by history? MUST we head straight
along the road-to-ruin wc took last time?
It's what's beginning to happen, right here—now—
in our country.
People arc making more money than they ever did
before and spending it. Spending it faster than they
ever did before.
The old "short-life-bu'.-a-merry-one" story is back
with us. But how merry IS it?
Where's the money coming from -"prosperity?".
No . . . war. From the Business of Death we've
been forccd into. From things made to kill people.
From things made to kill other people so they won't
kill us.
Win, lose, or draw, the war will end some day. No
war has ias.ed forever.
Then what?
Those same war-factory wheels will again slow down
and stop. Men will walk out of factories and hear
the gates grind closed behind them many of them
to stay closed.
And maybe the green grass will grow between the
stones of factory courtyards before the men will come
back to work again . . . slowly ... a few at a time.
The same as the last time? And the time before
that?
Hflcll, it shouldn't be, but it will be even worse—
unless wc use our common sense nowl
There's no special Providence watching over this
country, in spite of all our songs and slogans.
We're people—just like any other people.
Luckier, yes. Our land is fairer—endowed with
more riches than any other lands. And we've worked
hard or used to, anyway. Nobody knows how much
is left of American spirit and guts—yet. Wc think it's
greater than before. The Japs and the Germans will
find that out.
But listen, Mister . . .
Don't fool yourself! The time's going to come when
you'll need those dollars you're throwing around now.
If hard times catch up with you, it isn't that night-
club proprietor who's going to return the money you
spent in his place- no, not any part of it!
And all the unnecessary gimmicks and gadgets you
think you need now won't be worth a dime on the
dollar then.
And when your pockets are empty it won't be
because you'll be taking money out of them—but
because no money will be going into them.
How about those bright kids of yours? Will they
have to work instead of going to high or college?
And those beautiful rings you bought your wife?
Supposing you lose your job . . . how long can you
last before pawning those baubles, for a fraction of
what thev coat vrm?
So look . . <
When you want to spend m< ney or buy something
new, just imagine you were spending your next-to-
the-last dollar.
Don't ask how happy you'd be with what you get
for your money—but whether you'd be miserable
without it.
That's the only test. Otherwise you're just kidding
yourself. Lighting matches to ten dollar bills you're
going to need—sure some day.
What? Oh, you're making more money? Then
save more—don't spend more!
Because the money we all save now will play a
tremendous part in the after-war economy of our
country. The money we save now will be a cushion of
buying power—those sorely-needed dollars to "start
things up again" in our civilian economy—to keep us
from national bankruptcy until the wheels start
moving again. The dollars you waste now may be the
dollars you'll need then yes, perhaps even for such
matter-of-fact things as bread and milk and meat.
Why do you suppose your Government urges you to
save? It's perfectly simple—to ward off disaster. To
make suic 'hat the crash that "couldn't happen here" I
doesn't happen again. So that possible (if not proba-
ble) after-war depression doesn't find you at the tail
end of a bread line fifteen-million-people-long. So that
a war wc win by fighting won't be lost by waste.
^ Remember, we're at war! Dollars are needed jus/
as much as men—to back up those men -to give your
boy, your brother, or your pal the stuff he needs to
beat the Axis, and come back alive.
Money wasted on foolish luxuries won't do this;
Once spent, it's gone, and neither you nor the boys
fighting for you arc better off for the spending.
But the dollars you save in War Bonds or your
saving account will help Uncle Sam buy the guns, the
tanks, the ships and the planes we mu6t have to survive
and win.
And those savings will guarantee your future- the
financial future of you, your family, and the boys who
arc fighting for us all.
Nobody can tell you what's going to happen after
the war, of its searing effect on the Nation.
But somebody can tell you what will happen to you.
You can.
Make a plan and stick to it. Guarantee your own
future. So many dollars every payday into War
Bonds and into your savings account.
Then, come hell or high water, follow your plan.
Protect your family. Build up reserves. Create a
stock of money and make it grow. Your money.
Your Bonds. Your protection.
And the bigger the stock of savings you create, the
better off you'll be -to buy the good things you will
want when the war is over—that new car, that re-
frigerator and radio you can't get now—things that
make American life the best in the world.
Meanwhile, helping yourself, your savings money
will go to work helping your country, to provide fight-
ing equipment for your boys to lick the Axis—homes
for war workers—roads, railroad equipment and ship*
to transport war materials from the factory to the
front. Your dollars working for Victory and Peacel
So, when you save wisely, you're helping your coun-
try and yourself at the same time.
Honest, now . . .
QpuUI you ask for anything better?
THE FIRST STATE BANK IN CALDWELL
This advertisement prepared under the auapioes mi thm
Xf's. Treasury Department and the War Adverting Counail.
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