The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, June 18, 1943 Page: 3 of 8
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Millions for defense but not one
cent for tribute.—Chas. C. Pinckney.
* * *
Old joke contest entry: “She asked
me to buy her something for her neck
—so I gave her a cake of soap.”
• * *
Can you remember when you used to
go shopping, as a boy, with a nickel
and wouldn’t buy the kind of candy
that was only three pieces for a penny
because that was too expensive?
» * »
More recollections of Los Angeles:
A touch of the old West: A vivid
painting in the lobby of the luxurious
Biltmore, of an abandoned Wells-
Fargo stagecoach station.
A sign, “Beads, re-strung 15 cents,”
—and mighty reasonable, don’t you
think?
“Guides” whose place of business
consisted of a small sign set out on the
sidewalk; they would show you “the
homes of the stars” for a fee, the trip
tjjp to be made in your car.
A tall building in grayish black with
gold splashes along the edges—a
temple to the great god, Petroleum—
(or, to speak more prosaically, an edi-
fice erected by a big oil company).
Through the traffic noises: the
street car gongs, the automobile horns,
the shuffling feet, there broke a re-
mark, “Once, when I was on Beale
Street”—and the speaker and his com-
panion moved beyond ear-shot while
the mind of this listener flashed back
to old Memphis for I, too, had been
on picturesque Beale Street.
A touch of Texas; a big mesquite
in Pershing Square in the center of
the business district.
• • *
How did you learn your ABC’s, I
learned them from a little rocking
chair that my parents gave me—the
letters were printed on the chair and
the last character was which I
learned as “and so forth.” It took
considerable effort later on the part
of the teacher of the chart-class to re-
move the impression that “and so
forth” was part of the alphabet.
* * »
And did you hear about the fellow
who was so dumb he thought a foot-
; ball coach had four wheels?
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Your Health
♦ In War-Time
PNEUMONIA
AUSTIN.—The unusually high in-
cidence of pneumonia in Texas at this
time, being over twice that of the
seven year median is undoubtedly one
of the dangterous and disabling se-
quelae of the current epidemic of in-
fluenza according to Dr. Geo. W. Cox,
State Health Officer.
"Pneumonia is a killing disease and
a contagious one,” Dr. Cox warns. “It
is definitely transmitted from one per-
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
(Hockley County Herald)
If a’woman who’s lived in Germany
for the past five years should sudden-
ly be set down in a big American de-
partment store she ’d hardly believe
her eyes. She’d probably go around
touching pieces of oil cloth, soft
gloves, smooth powder boxes just to
make sure they were real and not
some cruel mirage. If she could go
into one of our grocery stores, she
would be amazed by the piles of fresh
fruits and vegetables, the cheese and
butter and bread, and begin right
away to plan the kind of meal she has
wanted for many dreary months.
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TO OUTLAW STRIKE
WASHINGTON, June 12,
gress stamped its final approval to-
night on legislation to outlaw strike*
in government-operated war indus-
tries and to curb walk-outs in pri-
vately-controlled plants.
Denounced by its opponents as a bill
intended to “crucify labor,” the
bristling Connally-Harness measure
won 55 to 22 approval of the senate
on adoption of a conference report
But to the women in this country,
all paper tissues used for receiving store isn’t what it used to be with j
nose and throat discharges should be such stand-bys as hair pins and dish- j
immediately burned.” ' mops gone from its counters. J
Dr Cox advise, all persons suspect- Grocery stores of course, are very ^^alkouts c"a7be7all«Tinfrdli
ingr the presence of influenza to place different from what they were a year. taken over
themselves immediately under the atr0 with dozens of familiar brands Tx , ’ «...
care of the family physician and abide m.ssing from the shelves and 1‘mitedl^^ Preg5dent Roosevelt must de-
impl:citly by his instructions. Boo supplies of many every-day foods,
rest, liquid diet and proper nursing Department stores also are beginning, CQme jaw
will play a major part in the safe re- to show the effects of war.
covery of the influenza patient. ! So far, however, the lack of mer-
“Pneumonia is the most frequent j chandise hasn’t bothered most of us
complication resulting from influenza | very much. We’re surprised and a
and is certainly one of the most dan- little disappointed but we can still
gerous. The death rate in pneumonia make the old chair do, get along with-
remains high in spite of medical ef-10ut another pan ,and perhaps pick
forts to control it and when it follows Up a second-hand iron. But one of
so debilitating a disease as influenza, these days the “shoe of shortages” is
the patient naturally has less resist- really going to pinch. We’re going to
ance with which to combat it,” Dr. ! need something pretty desperately
The bill authorizes government seiz-
ure of strike-threatened war plants
and prescribes delaying regulations
cide whether the legislation shall be-
There have been indica-
tions that parts of the legislation, st
least, have White House approval.
Editor’s Note. This “Letter for
a Soldier” credited to the Boston
Post, is reprinted from The Con-
gressional Record.
The mail clerk calls out the names.
Jones, Smith> Brown. They grin, make
a grab for the letter or post card or
package. One by one the contents of
thing about the young man who does
not get a letter; the Army, Navy, and
Marine Corps can feed him, clothe
him, make him physically fit, give
him the weapons to make him the
best fighting man in the world. But
Uncle Sam can’t write letters—not
the kind the young fellow out there
wants to get. There’s only one place
Cox declares.
NEW PRISON RULE TO
BAN KNIVES ADOPTED
the mail sack are handed but. Faces and there’s only one group who can do
that. The folks at home. It doesn’t
matter if the words are misspelled. It
doesn’t matter if the snapshot of Sis
and her new baby is out of focus. Send
it anyway. Try to send good news,
are alight Hearts beat a little more
rapidly. These are little pieces of
home—home that is thousands of
miles away.
There are few men who turn away
HUNTSVILLE, June
prison officials agree that it’s impos- j
sible to eliminate completely the pos-
session of knives among any group of j
prison inmates, but a new and stren- j
uous effort has been inaugurated in j
the prison system.
Under the new regulation, the pos-,
session of a knife has become one of j
and not be able to get it anywhere.
Then what? Are we going to feel
sorry for ourselves and rail against
industry that is devoting such a large
part of its energy to war manufac-
12.—Veteran ture? Or are we going to take the
wartime inconveniences in our stride?
We always had so much more than
the women of Germany and the coun-
tries of occupied Europe, even than
the women of our Allied countries.
And that “more” includes something
other than material necessities.
For here in America we have hope—
from the eager circle around the mail cheerful news. If there is misfortune
sack. Nothing for them. Out of sight; j at home, minimize your account of
that. Out there, where death is al-
ways facing your boy, your little
troubles may seem small. But even
a letter full of bad news is better than
no letter at all. It is far easier for
the folks at home to write a letter size or length of blade.'
out of mind. Not that they are un-
loved at home. Not that they are for-
gotten. Just that the folks at home
were careless, and they didn’t realize
how desperately the youth at the
front, sailing the dangerous seas,
the major offenses. [and faith. Hope that we’ll go on to
Hereafter, any convict caught with! something better than we’ve ever
a knife in his possession, without au- known before once the war is over,
thorization, will be placed in isolation and greater faith than ever in the old
'or at least one year, and will forfeit American principles of the importance
all overtime and commutation credit, of the individual and his right to free-
The order refers to ‘-‘knives, chivs, or dom and opportunity!
similar weapons, regardless of the
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AUSflN, June 12.—The attorney
general’s department Friday was
asked for an opinion on validity of a
law passed at the last general session
of the legislature permitting old-age
assistance recipients to earn $250 a
year from seasonal or occasional em-
ployment without losing eligibility for
benefits.
J. S. Murchison, public welfare de-
partment director, asked whether the
law conflicts with a federal statute
permitting recipients to earn $360 -a
year from agricultural employment
only.
The question is important in ad
ministration of old-age assistance in
which the federal government matches
state funds. The federal government
is not disposed to match funds when
state and federal eligibility regula-
tions conflict.
JAP HIRED IN U. S. CAMP AS
TEACHER BOASTS FOR JAPAN
LOS ANGELES, June 12.—A Jap-
anese Hired by the United States as
an instructor announced over a loud
speaking system to evacuees at the
Poston, Ariz., relocation center that
he was a representative of the Jap-
anese imperial government in the cen-
ter, a Dies sub-committee was told
here today.
„> , James Norris, former press and in
telligence officer at Poston, testified
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storming up foreign beaches, needed than it is for the boy at the fighting
a letter from home. j front. Even the simplest phrases from
Mail is important in all the armed) home are endowed t>y the distance
services. When a ship reaches port separating the fighting man from
from a long and dangerous patrol, the | home with a golden glow. If you
first boat reaching the ship from the | haven’t anyone of your own out on
shore is a mail boat. The government, the fighting fronts, write to that boy
risked a submarine to carry United down the street, the one who used to
States mail to Corregidor. j deliver the groceries. If there wasn’t
When the mail is passed out there, any boy down the street—just eall at
is always at least one and usually a j the local Red Cross unit, the Legion
dozen men who do not receive any | post, or Young Women’s Christian
ivord from home. They loaf around Association. They’ll know of some
Telephone users in Panama have
The order was issued after a recent just been given thett right to place long
altercation in the prison hospital, in distance calls from their offices and
which a convict stabbed Dr. M. D. homes and have them charged instead
Hanson, prison physician, in the shoul- of being compelled to go to the tele-
(jer. phone office and pay cash.
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GUARANTEED
MONTHLY INCOME
... will help make
your FUTURE
CAREFREEI
Lot's chock into the Moo
TODAYl
A. J. REIERSON
Representing
SOUTHWESTERN LIFE
INSURANCE CO.
while the other fellows read their let-
ters. They listen avidly while the
other fellows read choice bits from
letters they have received.
It is worse at night for the boy who
didn’t get a letter from home. The
nostalgic tie with home is never really
broken. He lies awake yearning,
yearning—and a letter never comes
for him. Maybe the mail clerk is play-
ing a joke. Take him aside and tell
him that fun is fun, but holding out
on the mail is no joke. There have been
hard-boiled old Army sergeants who
have lived in garrisons all over the
world who still suspect that postmas-
ters, mail sorters, and mail clerks are
in league against them.
But it isn’t the postal service work-
ing against the young fellow who
never gets a letter. It’s the folks at
home. Take ’the case of a submarine
flotilla which was kept in constant
operation from Dec. 7 to several
months later, always on the move,
shifting from base to base, always
just ahead of the mail. When the mail
finally caught up, all but a few of the
folks at home had stopped writing.
But those few who had written regu-
larly, week after week, had written
for the whole flotilla, for the letters
jre passed around from hand to
hand, read and reread until they were
threadbare. Uncle Sam can’t do any-
one who needs letters. Write to a man
in the service—and send him a little
piece of home.
The first regulation which was
adopted by the Social Security Board
and which is still in effect was that
all wage records and other records or
information in possession of the
Board pertaining to any individual
“shall be held confidential.”
“It Takes
Serving Those Who Serve for Victory
THE CHEVROLET MECHANIC
. . . now mote than ever essential to America's war effort
CIVILIAN DEFENSE MEDICAL
COMMUNICATIONS SUPPLIES
CONSTRUCTION MINES
DOCTORS OIL WELLS
ELECTRIC POWER POLICE CARS
ENGINEERING PUBLIC HEALTH
ESSENTIAL WORKERS PUBLIC SAFETY
FARM SUPPLIES RED CROSS
FARM VETERINARIANS ACTIVITIES
HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE SCHOOLS
INDUSTRIAL MANAGERS SHIPYARDS
INDUSTRIAL WORKERS SURGEONS
LUMBER CAMPS TECHNICIANS
MACHINERY VITAL SUPPLIES
MEAT PACKERS WAR PLANTS
... and many other trade*, businesses and profes-
sions whose products and services are important to
the war effort ‘
It takes both ... a Punch and Judy
to stage a pantomime show and two
hands to pull the strings behind the
scenes. It takes both . . . War Bonds
and Taxes to finance the staggering
cost of this global war. Buy War
Bonds and more War Bonds every
payday as you pa^ jour Victory Tax.
* BUY * x
* *
U. S. WAR BONDS *
AND STAMPS
MARTIN’S TAILOR SHJOP
Cleaning, Pressing,
HIS SKILL helps to maintain the cars which carry mil-
lions of war workers to and from their jobs, day after day.
HIS EXPERIENCE helps to preserve the trucks which
carry vital materials to and from war plants building
arms and equipment for our fighting men.
HIS SERVICE helps to conserve the cars and trucks of hard-
working farmers who are feeding America and her allies.
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Baldridge, Robert L. The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, June 18, 1943, newspaper, June 18, 1943; Clifton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth778659/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Nellie Pederson Civic Library.