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ROGER >M.
Farm Youth Foundation
TO ALL
LOOKING AHEAD
A good many letters are com-
ing to us from farm operators
who ask about what they should
raise to suit best the needs of
national defense and at the same
time protect
in-
Kyea
their own
comes.
( We are sym-
pathetic with
these men. They
are honestly
trying to And
out what they
should do —
what changes
to make in the
system under
which they
have been operating. And with
all the news we read about con-
trols and prices and restrictions
about various farm products, it
is sometimes difficult to see the
underlying pattern toward which
our government is working.
But the individual farmer, or
the regional group of farmers, c*> ~
do a great deal more than nas
been done before to arrive at a
reasonable and profitable solution
of some of these problems, with-
out waiting for instructions from
Washington.
Suppose you were a shoe mer-
chant and wanted to start a new
store. Would you look for a place
in a town that already had sev-
eral good shoe stores, or would
you try to find a location that was
reasonably free from the compe-
tition of other dealers?
That is just another way of
saying that farm profits lie in
growing the crops for which there
is a demand, or a need, instead
of sticking to those crops in which
we already have a large national
surplus. With the economy of
the whole world undergoing a se-
ries of rapid changes, we must
learn to discard old traditions and
habits, and ourselves change to
meet new conditions as they de-
velop.
It is not just accident that the
rich prairie states have produced
a surplus of corn and wheat, or
that the South has produced a
surplus of cotton. The farmers
of those regions naturally grow
the crops that seemed best suited
to their climate, soil and labor
conditions. New farmers coming
Into these areas followed what
appeared to be the logical trend.
That was good economy—good
farm management—until supply
taught up with, and passed, de-
mand for wheat and corn and
cotton. Right then it became less
profitable to raise these crops. It
wasn't any harder to grow them,
but it soon became a lot harder
to sell them at a profit. The
grower was at the mercy of a
Slutted market; his prosperity
suffered accordingly. When for-,
?ign markets began to shrink, he
was still worse off, but he still
followed his old habits. If he
farmed in a wheat country, he
kept on growing wheat; and if he
lived in a cotton country, he
kept on raising cotton.
But no scientist has ever said
that it is impossible to grow any-
thing but wheat in land that al-
ways had been devoted to wheat.
There are a good many crops that
will grow in wheat land, and
some of them might easily be
grown more profitably than
wheat. It is largely a matter of
selecting the right crop for the
conditions, and being sure to se-
lect one for which there is a cur-
rent demand.
Our country is rapidly develop-
ing a host of new industries
which depend upon farm prod-
ucts as basic raw materials. It
needs only a casual survey of the
situation to decide upon farm
crops that fit into these new con-
ditions. For example, a few
years ago, there were no soy
beans at all grown on Ohio land.
Now soy beans are Ohio's third
most important crop, and there
never has been a time when this
crop has not been quickly saleable
at a good price.
We do not mean to suggest that
if you see a neighbor enjoying
special success with a crop that is
new to your locality, you step
right in and follow his example
By doing so, you may be contrib-
uting to an eventual surplus of
that crop, and wind up by being
no better off than you were be-
fore.
However, there are available to
you many sources of information,
to which you can turn for basic
facts, and for advice on what will
grow on your land. State agri-
cultural deDartmen's, most of
which have ccunty agents, are
perhaps the best source of infor-
mation for you, because they are
most likely to be familiar with
your land.
Just like the manager of any
business, it is a part of your job
to do a little serious studying.
Get the facts, and know your own
conditions; then you can arrive
at an intelligent decision as to
where your own best interests lie.
That is the foundation of a prof-
itable business—on the farm, or
elsewhere
ED IN THB STATS OP
CORNELIA ADAIR, 0COEAAD
You and each of you will tain
notice, and you are accordingly no-
tified, that the undersigned on
Tilly 26. 1941, filed In the County
Court of Armstrong County, Texas,
wherein the Estate of Mrs. Cor.
nella Adair, Deceased, Is being ad-
ministered. his application for au-
thorization to enter into an agree'
ment with The Texas Company (1)
extending the time limit from Oct-
ober 1, 1941, to December 1, 1941,
for The Texas Company to complete
its geophysical and geological sur-
vey, and (2) extending the time
limit from October 1, 1941 to Dec-
ember 30, 1941, for The Texas Com-
pany to piu chase and acquire oil
and gas leases upon blocks of not
more than 20,000 nor less than 10,-
000 acres, selected by The Texas
Company out of and from all of
the lands now owned by the Cor-
nelia Adair Estate, including any
as to which the State of Texas
owns the minerals, In whole or in
part, situated In Armstrong, Briscoe,
Donley and Hall Counties, Texas,
commonly known as the Adair
Ranch, or the Adair Estate lands,
containing approximately 365,000
acres; excepting, however, all lands
heretofore sold, as to which the
Adair Estate reserved either all or
an undivided interest in the oil,
gas and minerals, or the oil, gas
and mineral royalties with respect
to either all or a portion of the
land so sold, all In accordance with
written contract and letter, between
the Cornelia Adair Estate and The
Texas Company, dated September
1, 1940, but made effective for all
purposes October 1, 1940, authoriz
ed and approved by order of the
Ccunty Court of Armstrong County,
Texas, Re Estate Cornelia Adair,
Cause No. 138. dated October 15,
1940, and recorded in the Minutes
01 said court.
You and each of you will take
notice and you are hereby notified
that the above mentioned applica
tion, filed on July 26, 1941, will be
heard and considered by the Coun-
ty Court of Armstrong County,
Texas cn the third Monday in Au-
gust 1941, same being the 18th day
of August 1941. at which time, and
at any adjournments of said hear-
ing had, the court will enter such
order thereon as to the court seems
to the best interests of the Cornelia
Adair Estate and all persons in-
terested in same.
You and each of you are hereby
notified and commanded to be and
appear before the County Court of
Armstrong County. Texas, at the
Court House thereof, in the City
of Claude, on the 3rd Monday in
August 1941, same being the 18th
day of August 1941, to contest
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We And w have
attorn who' are
boys to so over mm, If needed, to
assist the Russian Communist to
whip Hitler and FINLAND, the
latter, the only nation In the las-
tern Hemisphere i^ho PAID THEIR
HONEST DEBTS TO THE USA,
and a Democratic Nation as well.
Now, the editor is really honest In
everything he has said against CON-
SCRIPTION and the DRAFT, and
against our boys going over seas
to assist the most uncivilized na-
tions on earth, and also against our
boys being kept over 12 months In
training—a promise made to them
when they signed on the dotted
line. Friends, feel free to write up
anything you have on your mind
In opposition to what The Claude
News editor writes AGAINST WAR.
The editor could be wrong and
you right, so write up what you
believe* to be right and send it in
and same will be published WITH-
OUT COST TO YOU. Be sure to
sign it In your name. If you believe
In DEMOCRACY, In free speech
and free press, you can do this;
but please allow the News Man to
express his honest convictions, and
you will, If you are for FREEDOM
OF THE PRESS. Write your honest
convictions today. #
Kt- \ < >
It liasn't been so many years
that the only gangsters who were
getting the front page space were
the A1 Capones. #
gtw us hMt over the radio. We've
been getting hot air ao our Claude
radios for years! #
TO DRAFT anyone is to take his
life and place it where he dont
want to go; to tell him that he
must have no ideas of his own; If
he should have Ideas, he Is forbid-
den to express them, thus KILLINO
FREE SPEECH, as well as FREE
ACTION. He must obey orders, even
If that action takes him into the
JAWS OF DEATH. He had no say
as to his enlistment, therefore DE-
MOCRACY IS KILLED STONE
DEAD. Just a few, VERY FEW
LEADERS, BLIND LEADERS, tell
the soldier boy what he can say
and what he can do, even If he is
FORCED INTO THE WAR FOR
CANNON FODDER ONLY. Thus,
a few leaders FORCE THE MA-
JORITY to enter a war to HELP
ROBBING RUSSIANS ROB MORE
NATIONS, Just like Russia robbed
DEMOCRATIC FINLAND. These
few leaders—who never enter war
themselves—FORCE our soldiers to
join COMMUNIONISTIC RUSSIA
to fight and seduce DEMOCRATIC
FINLAND. They are asked to kill
DEMOCRATIC Finland, and join
the Russians to make the world
safe for COMMUNISM. What
do they care for the lives of 10 to
20 million of our boys If they can
save the PELF STORED AWAY
BY ENGLAND? #
The world isn't lost to us yet, as
long as Claude women worry over
their weight and Claude men worry
over their favorite baseball team. #
i Bell Tailors
WAR IS STARTED and carried
cn by UN-CIVILIZED nations. The
most UN-CIVILIZED nations on
earth are nations that go to war
When any nation—AT PEACE—
goes over 2,000 miles, just to BUT
IN on a war, while they mix up in
a DOG FIGHT, where we have
ALL TO LOSE and NOTHING TO
GAIN; there is your real cause for
THE DRAFT —conscription. There
will never be CONSCRIPTION where
your cause is right. When your
cause Is a just one, people will
gladly volunteer, and the draft is
never used, in fact, just as soon as
it is found that our people must
be DRAFTED, is certain proof that
there is something DANG CROOK-
ED, which brought on the cause
for SELECTIVE DRAFT. Our peo-
ple never have to be conscripted
to enter a war WHICH IS JUST
AND RIGHT. They will always
volunteer gladly IF THE CAUSE
IS A JUST ONE. #
DOLLAR-A-YEAR PAY DAY
July 16 was the first annua!
payday for the dollar-a-year men
who are working for the Govern-
should you are any of you so de-(ment for national defense. There
sire, the aforesaid application filed are 262 of these men now. U. S.
in said court on July 26, 1941.
Executed this July 28, 1941.
M. H. W, RITCHIE,
Administrator de bonis non
with the will annexed of the
Estate of Cornelia Adair, De-
ceased.
By Thompson & Barwise
Attorneys for the
Administrator. #
"The Father judgeth no man, but
hath committed all judgment unto
the Son." John 5:22. #
After hearing people and organi-
zations speak of themselves as be-
ing One Hundred Per Cent Ameri-
cans, I wonder how many people
realize that not one of us can be
One Hundred Per Cent American
without first becoming a One Hun-
dred Per Cent Christian. It only
seems reasonable that people who
care to save this country from
what has happened to the others
should put Christianity first; be a
Christian first—then there is noth-
ing to fear. For Christianity has
the power to save anything. Even
in the eleventh hour ... if we give
it, a chance it will save America, ft-
Treasury officials expect very few
of the checks to come back cashed
Based on experiences during the
World War mast of them will be
framed for keepsakes. #
Yes, the powers that be tell us
that we must throw in with Russia
and help her, after she stole the
better part of territory from Brave
Democratic and honest little Find-
land. The latter having to throw
in with Hitler, who promises her
Senator Pepper of Florida pro-
poses a bill in Congress, out-lawing
the poll tax of $1.75 demanded in
8 states now requiring any voter
to pay said poll tax OR HE CAN-
NOT VOTE. In other words he
must pay for the right to vote.
The man without a poll tax is dis-
franchised, hence, not a free Am-
erican citizen when it comes to
voting his sentiments. But, says
one, this Is a tax for schools and
ether purposes and we need the
money. Alright, bud, just POLI,
TAX EVERYONE $1.75 before he
can pay another tax, BUT DO NOT
SAY HE CANNOT VOTE if he
has not paid his poll tax. Poll tax
him all you please ana get the j
money while the getting is good,
but allow all legal voters to vote
m all elections whether they ever
pay a pell tax. a
Two Suits for the One
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JUST RECEIVED OUR
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The economical way to buy suits
and extra pants Is being voiced by
hundreds of Bell Tailors' customers
over our entire territory . . . The
originators of the two suits for the
one price.
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The two papers at Clarendon,
which have been leaders, from an!
editorial standpoint, for many years,
have ceased to carry editorials since
the 2nd World War started. They
may be afraid of the Political Pow-
ers that be, or afraid of the de- '
creased advertising patronage, that!
sometimes follow an editor who'
"speaks out in meetin'." And, again j
it might be right down laziness. At
any rate, these two old mares
"ain't what they used to be." Now,
you take Harry Kouch's Quanah-
Chief, Clyde Warwick's Canyon
News and just a few other weeklies
and they continue to "shoot their
wad," whether it suits Tom, Dick
or Harry. This editor reads these
papers with a great deal of interest,
even if they are 95 per cent wrong
in advocating our boys being mur-
dered on a foreign soil to protect
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very first to get punctured with
hot led—have his life's blood flow
cut, at a rapid rate; and such
writers will change their TUNE
from the WAR MONGERS to an
ISOLATIONIST, and do it so quick
as to make their nose bleed. As
editor never did believe in COM
MUNISM, therefore, he could not
her land back, which Russia stole! consent to our boys joining English
and Russian Soldiers in trying to
make the world safe for COM-
MUNISM. That is exactly what
some leaders are doing—trying to
make the World Safe for COM-
the PELF of nations who refuse long as "George does it," they do
to pay their honest debts. This not give a rap, believing the wai
To most Claude boys, a good dls •
position is more important to mar-
riage than red fingernails and a
hair-do. #
If jw 4rtf font DRINK 11
ARMY CHAPELS
Erection of 49 regimental chapels
in eleven Texas Army Camps, un-
der a program now being carried
out by the Constructing Quarter
masters, was praised by Governor
W. Lee O'Daniel in a communica-
tion today to the Chief of Chap-
lains of the United States Army,
Washington. D. C.
The chapels, which will be avail-
able to Protestants, Catholics, and
Jews alike, will cost approximately
$1,000,000 when completed, the Gov-
ernor was advised. Each chapel will
have a movable altar, so constructed
is to be adaptable for use by th
several religious groups. A series
sf doors and panels in the altars
will provide the essential require-
ments for each kind of service.
"The religious program as plan
ned by the United States Army to
reach every man in the service
seems to me to be of the highest
importance." Gov. O'Daniel said. #
from her in a recent war. In other
words, we must throw in with the
robbers and help them rob just
because we are scared to death that
a little old weazley nation not
much bigger than Texas, will pass
over a two thousand miles of sea
handicap and whip us. What fools
we mortals be. It is like an clc
phant getting scared at a mouse
and running into a freight train
If the Western Hemisphere cannot
whip Hitler with a two thousand
mile sea as his handicap, then
America ought be to whipped. #
We are told we can't live unless
Germany is destroyed, but over-
night we give Russia the benefits
of the Lease-Lend measure, as an
ally and boon companion in the
war! Was there ever a worse case
of "appeasement?" And now brave,
loyal, and honest little Finland
must turn to Hitler in an effort
to recover territory stolen from,he;
by Russia. It surely would be better
to keep out of the war at least,
until we know who we are to fight
and why!—Frank Michever, Salem
Ore. it
WILL MAKE THEM MORE MON-
EY. When the Bank of England—
THE ONLY BONE OF CONTEN-
TION—goes down—and it is GO-
ING DOWN, and don't you doubt
it lor one minute—the wai will be
over. These speakers and writers
■tand up on their hind legs and
MUNISM —yet they stand up boast about sending our boys over
on their hind legs and say we want j seas to fight to maintain the FOUR
FOUR FREEDOMS of Democracy. # , FREEDOMS OF DEMOCRACY, and
when our boys get over there they
IF JERRY MANN announces for will join English and Russian Sokl-
Govtrnor and puts up the same' iers to make the WORLD SAFE
line of advertising and speaking FOR COMMUNISM. They use
he did for U. S. Senator, he will I enticing and deceptive words, but
be elected HANDS DOWN. We will what they say means just MAKE
Too often a Claude child isn't
coached in good manners until
time for him to leave for the
party. #
ENERGY Drained
mi All GONE?
The News man passed a certain
business house in Claude Monday
and. looking in saw the proprietor
reading the Bible. This being out
of the ordinary, the editor asked
what part of the Holy Bible he
was reading. He said "Deuteronomy
22, verse 5." This is what this bus
iness man read to us: "The woman
shall not wear that which pertain-
eth to a man, neither shall a man
put on a woman's garments; for
all that do so are an abominatior
unto the Lord Thy God." a
It you feel tired, rundown, achy,
lack normal energy, you can't enjoy
life and should do something about
it. With nothing organically wrong,
why not try OXIDINE, the very ef-
fective Doctor's Prescription, proved
for 50 years? OXIDINE is easy to
take, has a tonic effect on appetite
and digestion an' blood," ana, best
of all, is guaranttfc) to satisfy or
money back. Regular bottle 50c
Family size containing 2H times
aa much, $1.00 Try a bottle today.
Since the Federal loan agency,
known as the Production Credit
Corporation, began business in 1934
seven and a half years ago, a total
of $2,000,000,000 has been extended
in short time credit to farmers and
lanchers. There are now 525 pro-
duction credit associations in the
United States handling these loan®.
Forty-one of these co-operatives-
farmer-operated and farmer-con-
trolled — are in the Ninth Farm
Credit District comprising Kansas.
Oklahoma. Colorado and New Mex-
ico, with headquarters at Wichita,
Kan. These 41 associations have
lent (169.600.000 of the two billions
in loans put out so far. #
AM OUT k A Wart
admit that Coke Stephenson is very
diplomatic. It Is remembered that
Coke got along with Governor
O'DANIEL. like twins, wftile at the
same time he and the Texas legis-
lature were best of friends. It has
been stated that Coke was the
direct cause of the delay in Old
Age Pensions for over two years.
Whether this be true or untrue,
Jerry Mann will be our next gover-
nor if he makes the race. The
Claude News editor has made a
guess at who would be elected for
state offices for the past 29 years
and lias missed only two guesses
in naming just who would be elect-
ed to state office, during that time.
This office is seeking Jerry Mann, the barber who puts hair restorer
THE WORLD SAFE FOR COM-
MUNISM. Our people are pat-
riotic and would volunteer NINETY
PER CENT STRONG if another
nation attacked us on our shores.
Your cause is UNJUST, your point
of view wrong and something is
very crooked down the line, that is
why YOU RESORT TO CON-
SCRIPTION. DRAFT and FORCE
to get men to enlist. Our people
want to do right, but they hesitate
to join any army just to protect
the Bank of England and other
PELF these grafters have accumu-
lated during the past 100 years. #
Our idea of the meanest man is
and since he is the mast popular
candidate for Governor in Texas
he will be elected if he tries for
the place. However, should he de-
cide to run for U. S. Senator a-
gainst W. LEE O-DANIEL, his
chanches for being elected arc very
dim, in fact it is very doubtful if
he could get into a runoff, tt
in his shaving cream.
He sold his brain to a research
laboratory. But he fooled them; he
didn't have any brain.
"As we move nearer and nearer
to war, we move more and more
toward the consolidation of power
in the Federal Government against
which we have been warned by
every statesman from George Wash-
ington down to the present day.
"The American people must be
constantly on guard to save their
rights and liberties. This was strik-
ingly revealed by the demand ol
the administration for the so-call-
ed seizure bill.
' That bill, as originally requested
would have given more power to
the Executive than was asked to
fight and win the first World War
The administration wanted the
power to take the watch out of your
pocket; or the small savings ac-
count you have accumulated thru
years of thrift and toil. It sought
the power to seize your newspaper,
your business, your home, or your
farm at any price the President
should fix, and to sell it to whom-
soever he desired at whatever price
he pleased. It wanted the power
to thus take your property to sell,
destroy, or to hold and operate for
all time.
"If this bill pa.ssed the Congress
as demanded by the administration,
America would have found itself
with a first-class dictatorship in
operation here at home."
While what Mr. Martin says is
bad, VERY BAD. the News Man
cannot believe it is half as bad as
CONSCRIPTING THE LIVES of
innocent boys and FORCE THEM
into training for ONE YEAR, and
then refuse to stay with their
word anu try to KEEP THEM
i«-way from mother, father, sweet-
heart and WIFE indefinitely, after
they were promised that they may
return home after one year's train-
ing. What man among us who
would not willingly give up his
Claude News
Thoa. T. Waggoner, ...Editor-Owner
Cecil Waggoner, Publisher
Entered in the Post Office at Claude
Texas, as Second Class Mail Matter.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
: Subscription Rates :
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watch, his earnings, in fact all li-
has TO SAVE HIS LIFE? For it
he is required to go over-seas and
fight along the side of English and
Russian Soldiers, to MAKE THE
^ WORLD SAFE FOR COMMUN-
ISM, that sure will be forcing
him to GIVE UP HIS ALL—HIS
LIFE have his limbs tarn from
his body, his head blown off or his
belly ripped open with hot led.
You have but one life, and you
should keep it just as long as you
can At least not give up that life
to protect the PELF and ill-gotteu
gain for the uncivilized Eastern
Hemisphere. Don't do it boy,
DONT DO IT! #
We notice some few newspapers
are still howling for our boys to be
sent over seas to be MURDERED
IN COLD BLOOD by a foreign foe
butting In where we have no busi-
ness whatever.—No, they do not
write the above words, but what
they write means every word as
uttered above. They are so dang
anxious to have our Innocent draf-
tees murdered that they belly-ache,
whine, stew and fret, like a lost
child for its dead mother, and it
seems that they will never be sat-
isfied until 10 to 20 million of our
beys have their limbs torn from
their bodies, their eyes shot out.
their head blown off, their bowels
punctured, and they are left DEAD.
VERY DEAD. But you change the
tide—let each writer KNOW POSI-
TIVELY, that he will be placed
With Stalin lining up with Eng-
land do they still use the phrase
of "making the world safe for
democracy"? *
When Hon. Joseph W. Martin.
Jr. spoke before a Woman's Club
recently, among other things, he
said:
"The threat to our free institu-
tions from propaganda Is very real
We see the present administration
spending nearly $100,000,000 a year
for propaganda purposes. The air.
the press, the movies, and the mails
carry a flood of appealing argu-
ments.
'It's a tremendous influen;e
which can be put into motion by
the forces of the administration.
We can see how difficult it is for
the opposing side • to be heard.
'The one hope is an alert and
Intelligent citizenry.
"Eternal vigilance Is not only the
price of liberty—today it Is the
In front of the battle and be tteprlce of peace aa well.
BEG HIM NOT TO
SEND OUR BOYS
INTO ANOTHER
FOREIGN WAR/
$
please
LET CONGRESS
COIN AND
REGULATE
THE VALUE
OF MONEY/
Ask him
to give us
back our
Government.'
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