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THE CLIFTON BECOBD. CLIFTON. TEXAS. DECEMBER 12. 1941
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SCHOOL NEWS
The Importance of the Farmer
Agriculture, the producing of crops
.and livestock, began in the Pastoral
Age. This age as you recall, marked
man’s second development of civiliza-
tion and it is perfectly true that the
farmer is the “backbone” of every
nation of the world today.
When the roosters start crowing at
.daybreak on the many farms through-
out our country, they blow the fac-
tory whistle for the greatest indus-
try in the world. It has often been re-
marked that all. the gold and silver
mined since Columbus discovered
America would not buy the farms of
this nation. As we think about this
fact; we can not keep from realizing
how large this enterprise really is.
Because the tilling of the soil is so
important, we have founded Agricul-
tural schools for our future farmers.
They are taught new methods of
farming and more about science. It
will be their job to feed not only the
county, but also, the entire world.—
ALD.
Senior Hit Parade
“A Gay Ranchero”—Merrill John-
son. 1
‘“Scatterbrain”—Archie Witte.
“We Go Well Together”—Billie
Russell and Emroy Knudson.
“Wise Old Owl”—David Knudson.
“Living on Easy Street”—Jerry
Ammons.
“Beautiful Dreamer” — Dorothy
Olson.
“Chatterbox”—Archie Nelson.
“Cowboy’s Dream”—Dorothy Lou
Berg.
"‘Playmates”—Priscilla Jenson and
Antonette Domstad.
“Ragtime Cowboy Joe”—Joe Web-
ber.
Junior News Flashes
The Junior Class, which is allowed
four class parties, has planned to have
it’s first party December 19. The
party is ttf be a combined treasure
hunt and kid party. All Juniors are
awaiting the event with eager anti-
cipation.
Glenna Dell Nelson, one of our
classmates, has pneumonia. We do
not know how critical her condition
is, but we certainly hope that she will
come back to school soon.
Sophomore Thoughts
v „ We would be surprised if—
Clyde Rlura'stopped making “fas-
cinating speeches'/?
Bonley Cowan started growing.
Jeweldine Ickert made a low grade.
Jerry Jenson and ^oran Nygaard
lost interest in comic books.
Barbaran Johnson and Ray Bryn
got permission to speak.
Norene Nygaard forgot how to
wink.
Freshman Reports
Three of our classmates, Raymond
Glover, Merrill Rohne, and Ada Murle
Webber, werejnjured last week. Ray-
mond’s shoulder was dislocated,
Merrill’s finger was broken and Ada
Murle’s arm was broken. We wish for
all of them a speedy recovery.
Grade School News
The eighth grade has organized an
English Clap. The officers are as fol-
lows: President, Doris Johnson; Vice-
President, Earline. Sorenson; Secre-
tary, li\]fton Christenson; treasurer,
Bernice Paulson.
The pupils of the fifth and sixth
grade are looking forward to the show
which the teachers are giving them
for a Christmas present. We also wish
to. report that we are taking down
Thanksgiving decorations and putting
up Christmas decorations.
The fourth grade students are mak-
ing Christmas cards and enjoying the
work immensely. They have also re-
ceived several new library books.
They appreciate them very much.
The third graders are making Santa
Clauses and learning Christmas
songs. They have drawn names also.
They are really getting the Christmas
spirit. ,
The second grade students are be-
»—gipning to decorate their rooms for
Christmas. Large green wreaths and
red berries are furnishing a Holiday
effect.
And last, but certainly not least,
come the first grade news. They are
learning to write their, first letters to
Santa Claus. We hope Santa will note
the care that was employed in pre-
paring and writing these letters.
’ , flports
The basketball tournament held
and Saturday was
teams and fans,
express its ap-
—'x:
House Passes Huge Eight Billion Dollar
Appropriation Bill For National Defense
Dear Friends:
This has been a very busy and im-
portant week in Washington. The
House has today completed action on
another tremendous defense appro-
priation—this time in the form of a
supplemental appropriation bill. As
passed, the irfeasure calls for approxi-
mately eight billion dollars to pay the
deficiencies that will exist in the
various governmental departments as
a result of unforseen expenditures
that they are authorized to make.
While the bill covers all of the de-
partments of government, and while
it is customary to pass such a bill
about this time (or early in January)
each year, this measure is so gigantic
as to stagger the imagination. Prac-
tically all of these vast sums are to
be used for defense purposes. Alarm-
ing as these great expenditures and
the resulting indebtedness are, they
are not so alarming as a lack of de-
fensive ability. It is costing tremen-
dous sums and it is taking more time
than we like to take, but America is
slowly but surely strengthening her
defenses to a point where we may
within the next two years hope to
overcome the great advantage in
equipment that the dictators had built
up over a period of ten or twelve
years of sacrifice on the part of their
people.
While a group of Republicans un-
derstood to strike out all appropria-
tions that could be used to carry out
our well established policy of aid to
the Democracies, I am glad to report
that they did not have anything like
the united support of their own party,
and the amendment was rejected.
Another amendment which was spon-
sored by a Republican, and which was
defeated, was a proposal to provide
funds with which to pay the fare of
our troops home for Christmas. I
think this was a wise and humane
amendment. I voted for it and was
embarrassed to find it was defeated
by the manipulations of the Demo-
cratic floor leaders who were able to
prevent a record vote. I am con-
vinced that if we could have secured
such a vote the proposal would have
passed. Personally, it seems to me
that our government could well af-
ford to be a little more considerate
of our enlisted men.
Of course, the most spectacular and
far-reaching action of the week was
the passage of the House of the so-
called Smith Bill for the regulation
of labor disputes in defense industries.
For more than a year many of us
have recognized that this country
could never hope to perfect its de-
fense program unless we were able
to induce the various labor organiza-
tions to carry out their promises of
cooperation. I realize that the great
masses of the members of organized
labor have tried honestly and sincere-
ly to do, and are still doing, their
part in our national defense pro-
gram, but so long as leaders like John
L. Lewis can call strikes without a
secret vote of the members, it is go-
ing to be impossible for the patriotic
working men to keep from striking
even on the most vital defense pro-
grams, and so long as there are those
who will abuse power that might very
properly be delegated to 99 out of
100, it is still necessary to take the
power away from all.
I have urged effective govern-
mental action to stop unwarranted
defense strikes for more than a year,
but for many months it has been im-
possible to get any action here in
Congress. However, at last the mem-
bership has become fully aroused, and
on last Wednesday we passed a bill
which I sincerely believe will be
worthwhile. I am hopeful that the
Senate will pass the measure without
material amendment and that the
President will sign it. If they do we
will have a really effective strike con-
trol measure, which will do no in-
jury to patriotic labor, but which will
take the control of the labor unions
out of the hands of the racketeers and
require real democratic elections in
labor unions. It will also require cool-
ing off periods before any strike is
called and will outlaw jurisdictional
strikes. The bill provides that during
the emergency all closed shops shall
remain closed and all open shops shall
remain open. It provides govem-
mentally established mediation boards
and compulsory arbitration, and gives
alt parties a chance to have their
view heard. As I see it, it will remove
most of the cause for the type of
strikes that have so long interfered
with our defense program. It goes
further and provides that if these
safeguards fail and a strike is called
that there shall be no mass picketing
and no violence. Of course, violence
has always been against the law, but
the definition of “mass picketing”
will go a long way toward stopping
violence.
These strikes in defense industries
have been by far the most serious
problem with which this country has
had to deal. I was glad we were able
to work out a bill which could receive
such a substantial vote in the House
—252 to 136), and of course, I voted
for the bill.
With best wishes, I am
Yours very sincerely,
W. R. POAGE, Congressman,
11th Texas District
FARMERS MAY BE PAID
FOR RUINED CROPS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—The
House agricultural committee on
Thursday approved legislation that
would authorize an appropriation of
$66,000,000 for cash payments to
farmers whose crops of cotton, hay
and tobacco were far below normal
this year.
If the legislation is finally ap-
proved it will open a way for thou-
sands of cotton farmers in East and
Northeast Texas whose ‘crops have
been destroyed this year by exces-
sive rains and insect1, to receive cash
payments equivalent to 50 per cent
of the difference between a normal
crop yield and the yield this year.
Where crops have been absolute fail-
ures this year, this would mean that
such farmers would receive cash pay-
ments equivalent to one half of their
normal income from a cotton crop.
Similar legislation has been intro-
duced in the Senate and has been ap-
proved by the Senate committee on
agriculture. An attempt was made to
call up the Senate bill for considera-
tion Thursday, but Senator Charles
L. McNary (Rep.) of Oregon, minor-
ity leader, objected because so many
members of the Senate are absent at-
tending the funeral for Senator Alva
Adams of Colorado.
Practically the entire amount of
$66,000,000, the proposed appropria-
tion under the House bill, would be
available for cotton growers. Chair-
man Hampton Fulmer of South Caro-
lina said approximately $100,000
would be available for payment to
growers of tobacco and a less amount
for producers of hay. The bill is in-
tended primarily to afford relief for
the cotton growers.
Buy Defense Bonds & Stamps now.
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General School News
Christmas spirit is now being
shown here at school. Most of the
pupils are busy learning some part
for the Christmas program. The high
school room pupils will give a play
entitled, “The Coming of the King,”
which they hope everyone will enjoy.
The pupils got a thrill last week when
they drew names. The hardest thing
about it was trying to keep the name
a secret. However, the high school
pupils had a rather trying complica-
tion, therefore, it was necessary for
them to draw twice.
All the pupils met in the inter-
mediate room Monday morning to
listen to the President’s speech.
One loss! One gain! That is, we
mean one of our schoolmates, Clar-
ence Anz, withdrew; while a former
schoolmate, Edward Stone, enrolled
here again. We’re proud to see you
back, Edward!
The tenth graders have been very
busy drawing in Biology, as they have
added several new “plates” to their
Biology notebook. They are “working
their brains” now on the “Process of
the Human Machine.”
Speaking has been the subject of
the high school English classes the
past few days. No matter how trying
it was at some times, the students en-
joyed it very much, and they hope
this practice will be of some use to
them in the future.
Fun and Foolishness
Esther—“I hope the boy realize that
a girl always appreciates a gift, but
of course, something worth while.”
Dear Santa: i
Some of my friends tell me there is
no Santa Claus. Now, won’t you
please tell me the truth, is there a
real Santa Claus?
Signed—Herman
The library seems to be a very pop-
ular “study hall” for some of the high
school pupils.
Edward has made it clear to the
pupils that he returned to good old
Womack for several different rea-
sons.
Don’t forget, Friday evening, Dec.
12 the play entitled “The Girl From
Out Yonder” will be given at the
Womack school house.
Community News
Mr. and Mrs. A. Conrad and daugh-
ter and H. F. Conrad were the guests
of Miss Mathilde Conrad Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Landgraf and
Connie Lee, and Mrs. Mae Morris
were visitors in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Fritz Theile Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Conrad and Mr.
and Mrs. O. C. Culp and Patsy spent
the past week-end in San Antonio,
where they visited relatives and
friends. They reported having a very
enjoyable time in old San Antonio.
Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Meyers and
Geraldine visited in the home of Mrs.
L. K. Humphries Sunday afternoon.
The United States is capable of do-
mestically producing the 150,000,000
pounds of tung oil annually imported
from China says a Texas scientist.
CARD OF THANKS
We take this method of trying to
express our sincere thanks to friends
and neighbors for the many helpful
deeds rendered our dear wife and
mother during her last illness, and for
the thoughtful and comforting words
spoken to the bereaved members of
her family after her passing. These
acts of kindness and helpfulness shall
always be remembered by us, and our
prayer is that God’s richest blessings
may be the reward for each of you.
Sincerely yours,
Ole J. Hoel Family
NEW LUTHERAN Pi
ASSUMES WAC
WACO, Tex-.s, Dec. 5.-
I. P. Paulson has arrived here to
gin his work as pastor of
Lutheran Church, coming from ;
son Bay, Wis., where he ser
pastor of Trinity Lutheran
His formal installation as past
the Waco church is scheduled for '
14th, with the Rev. Allen Ne
president of the Texas Lutheran
cuit ancT pastor of Central Luthe
Church, Dallas, officiating. Mr.
son succeeds the Rev. J. N.
who resigned his Waco charge to
come pastor of Bethseda Lut
Church, Duluth, Minn.
About 150,000 pounds of alun
were used last year to make wing i
leg bands for poultry in the U.
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Baldridge, Robert L. The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, December 12, 1941, newspaper, December 12, 1941; Clifton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth779436/m1/3/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Nellie Pederson Civic Library.