Timpson Weekly Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, September 6, 1940 Page: 3 of 10
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LIFE.....neighbors
I was born seventy years ago
in a small town parsonage.
Until I.was ten we lived In
country villages where my fa-
ther preached and taught.
Then we moved to Washing-
ton, where I got most of my
schooling and my first experi-
ence of city life, hi fifty years
of journalism I have lived and
worked in New. York, Chicago,
St. Louis, Buffalo, Cincinnati,
Jacksonville and smaller cities.
I made many acquaintances
and a few friends in most of
them, but in all the cities I
missed something I bad known
in my childhood.
People lived together in
crowds, but they were not
neighbors. Neighbors. 1 mean,
in the sense of feeling a
mutual interest in each other’s
welfare and a common interest
in the affairs of the communi-
ty.
I have managed, somehow,
to keep up a connection with
the places where people are
really neighbors. For more
than twenty years my wife end
I, wherever my work might
take me, called "home" the
little farm near where she was
born and close to the village
my own people settled in 250
years ago.
• * •
RELIGION . . . toleration
One of the things 1 like
about our village life is that
nobody cares, or even asks,
what church anyone else be-
longs tir_We have three
' cTuffchVs, Congregational,
Episcopalian and Catholic.
Last Winter, when the Con-
gregational minister’s little
boy was stricken with meningi-
tis and had to spend weeks in
a hospital at the county seat,
it was a Catholic lady who
suggested that the village peo-
ple ought to mine a fund to
pay the expense, since a coun-
try minister’s salary doesn’t
run to big doctors’ bills.
Everybody in town contri-
buted, - because everybody in
town likes and respects the
minister and his family. Seven
hundred dollars or so was
raised to pay hospital fees and
specialists from Boston. And
the boy got well.
When one church puts on
an entertainment, a supper or
a fair the people of the other
churches pitch in and do tkeir
part. A week or two ago the
first prise of , $100 at the
Catholic fair was won by the
widow of the Episcopal bishop
of this diocese. The Congrega-
tionalists and Episcopalians
united this Summer to run an
outdoor Bible school camp for
boys and girls.
* * *
POLICEMAN .... died
As I write this I’ve just heard
of Tom Kiltfoile’s death, and
my wife has started up to old
Mrs. Kilifoile’s house to see if
there is anything we can do.
Tom was one of her thirteen
children, and was one of the
most popular young men in the
village. He was one of the
three village policemen, and
directed traffic at the danger
spot where the state road
crosses a well-travelled village
street.
Last night a youth of twen-
ty, driving his father's ear with
his mother as passenger, came
down Prospect Hill at 70 miles
- an hour, dashed across the
through traffic and struck Tom
KillfoSe, on his post. Tom’s
body was hurled 62 feet. He
died at 4 o’clock this morning.
The whole village is grief-
stricken, likewise seething
with indignation.
The indignation is directed
toward the politicians who got
the red flash-light at the cross-
ing removed because some
nervous woman said it kept her
awake. I expect to hear some
strong language at the town
board meeting next Saturday
night. Of the two mothers,
Tom’s and the boy’s who was
driving the car, it is hard to
say which is the more deserv-
ing of sympathy. What s
tragedy for both of them. '
* » •
AMERICANS .... all
Somebody referred to Mary
Consolini one day as an Italian
girt. I never saw anybody so
mad as Mary was. “I’m Amer-
ican!” she cried. “Don’t let
anybody tell you different”
Her parents came from Italy,
like many others who were
brought over to work in the
marble quarries here, but I
don’t know of any better
Americans than there are
among my neighbors of Italian
ancestry.
I met Sam Saldassare on
the street the other day and
asked him how his oldest son
John was doing. John, used to
work for me on the farm, and
after he graduated from the
town high school with honors
he wanted to go to college. I
helped him get a job in New
York so he could work his way
through Fordham University,
but I hadn’t heard from him
for five years.
Sam beamed as he told me
that John had got his univer-
sity degree a year ago and is
now studying for the priest-
hood in a Jesuit seminary.
“And, isn’t his mother proud,”
he exclaimed. Sam’s second
sew, Francis, is going to the
State College. His oldest
daughter has just graduated
from a famous training school
for nurses. Sam runs one of
the town]s three barber shops.
Paul 'Klien, a Jew, runs anoth-
er, and Steve Sobieski, a Pole,
owns the third. Good citizens
and good Americans, all of
them.
• • *
EDITOR .... featured
Yon are reading this in a
small-town newspaper. Maybe
you are one of the people who
think life in the big cities must
be much more interesting than
in a small town. “Life de-
pends on the liver,” an old
country doctor once said to
me. You can take that both
ways. At my age I am convinc-
ed that the only real values in
life are more surely attained,
though not always appreciat-
ed, in little towns like mine.
An old friend, Henry -Beetle
Hough, has just written a book
called “Country Editor.” Ask
your town librarian to put in a
copy of it. It’s not only beau-
tifully written and amusingly
entertaining, but it is the best
expression of the satisfactions
of small-town life in America
that I have seen put on paper.
Also, it may open your eyes to
the amazing number of things
your editor knows about you.
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DUE CIRIECIE
Author of “How to Win
Friends and Influence
People"
Good Advice
Fort Worth, Texas. (UP)
Two middle-aged men stole a
wheel from W. G. Baxter’s auto
trailer. Wheiv .Baxter found it
missing he went to a garage to
borrow a jack. He came back
and found the men trying to
get another wheel
Now the men are telling oth-
er prisoners: ‘If you do suc-
ceed, don’t try, try sgain.”
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SMALL JOBS COUNT
A few years ago you read
in the newspapers about the
death of a man who was fre-
quently called “the moat pow-
erful man in the world.’’ A
book was written about him by
that title. The man? A
Dutchman, Henri Deterding,
formerly head of the Royal
Dutch Petroleum Company.
The company, when he died,
had 40,000 employees. Not
bad for a bookkeeper, eh?
His father was a sailor, and
died when the boy was six
yean old. The family wad
poor; the boy had a hard
scramble to live. Young Henri
went to a commercial school
and studied bookkeeping. He
nude up his mind he wouldn’t
be just a bookkeeper. He made
up his mind he would be the
best bookkeeper!
Then suddenly he was
buried. Not under the ground,
of course, but under an insigni-
ficant bookkeeping job in—-of
all places—Delhi, India. He
wanted prominence in Hol-
land. And he was sitting on a
stool in India! What irony!
Then something happened.
The managing director came
to him and told him the books
were in appalling condition.
Did he think he could straight-
en them out? Deterding ex-
amined them. They were even
worse than the managing di-
rector had said.
“I want 48 hours before I
begin,” he said.
The managing director ask-
ed why.
“I want to get geared up
physic ally,” he answered. “I
want to get in good physical
trim before I tackle that job.”
During the 48 hours he
walked and exercised—and
thought. An idea came to him
—a way to tackle the problem.
The idea grew brighter and
clearer.
When his 48 hours were up
he walked into the office with
his plan. For several days
he worked all day and almost
all night. But he liked figures;
it was a problem, it was a goal
to achieve.
It took him four months, but
when he was though, every
knot was untangled. He was
given a raise. His salary was
almost doubled. The largest
raise, he said, that he ever re-
ceived.
He started up the ladder
then and there. He was given
other tough jobs. He solved
them. Soon he was managing
director. Up and up ho went.
Finally, he became so power-
ful that he fought the Stand-
ard Oil Company. Even "John
D.” had no terrors for him. He
was made “Sir” Henri Deterd-
ing by the British Government.
He claimed that his start
upward was his determination
to lick the Delhi bookkeeping
job. It gave him confidence
to lick other jobs.
Don’t be afraid to give your
best to what seemingly are
small jobs when they’re han-
ded to you. Every time you
conquer one it makes you that
much stronger. If you do the
little jobs well, the big ones
will tend to take care of them-
selves.
MODERN.
(JjON^
Mrs. Dorothy Strouse Keur,
who headed mi expedition to
the Guadalupe Canyon in New
Mexico last summer, has con-
tinued her work this year but
this time in the mountains
northwest of Albuquerque. She
is interested in excavating sites
abandoned to find cultural
links with the Indians of the
southwest.
She has conducted the exca-
vation of ninety-five house
sites on a mesa which she lo-
cated by the old fire pits and
then mathematically figured
where the stone bases of their
simple conical houses should
lie. She also uncovered forti-
fications and caches which had
never been mapped before.
Her expeditions have the sup-
port of the Smithsonian Insti-
tution and Columbia Univer-
sity.
• e •
- Madame Horthy, wife of
Admiral Horthy, Regent of
Hungary, has started large-
scale winter relief work for
the people of her country. She
organized the prompt and ef-
fective system of distribution
ft employs and personally su-
pervises every phase of the
fund's activities.
The relief workers have
head quartern in the Royal
Palace on Buda’s Castle Hill.
In this suite of rooms gifts are
sorted, packed, and distri-
buted. Not s penny of the do-
nations is spent on the admin-
istration cf tvis fund. She has
a large staff working with her,
most of them volunteers.
» * *
- Miss Edna Dean Baker,
president of the National Col-
lege of rlducation, Evanston,
Illinois, says that prospective
teacher? are being trained to
use radio microphones and
sound motion picture projec-
tors and films. "Teachers must
be prepared to make use of
the scientific advances of the
last decade,” she says.
(By LYTLE HULL)
DEMOCRACY
He who believes that
“Democracy is on its last legs”
is he whose knowledge is lim-
ited to just those events which
have occurred daring his life-
time and which have been
brought to hts attention.
Democracy, as we think of
it, is not some transient “ism”
used to fill a gap during great
social and political evolutions.
Democracy is a fundamental
urge which is as rnnch a part
of human nature as hunger is
the urge for complete inde-
pendence. To express it po-
litely, H is the age old desire
of the normal human being to
be his own boas.
Students of such matters say
there are more strong charac-
ters in the world than there
are weak ones. The strong
character wants freedom; toe
weak character wants to be
told what to do. The majori-
ties, being more numerous and
stronger, have in toe last hun-
dred years or so been slowly
going the ascendancy over the
weaker minorities lead by self-
seeking groups, families, or
individuals.
Slowly but sorely, as time
passed, these stronger elements
have driven out autocratic re-
gime after autocratic regime.
Before this temporary spasm
of one man rule which has for
the moment gained toe ascend-
ancy, almost toe whole west-
ern world had overthrown toe
rule of autocrats and had
adopted toe “rule of the peo-
ple” patterned after that
which the founders of the Unit-
ed States of America had res-
urrected from an earlier peri-
od and implanted in a new
constitution of freedom.
Since that day, one hundred
and fifty years ago, when our
forefathers started the parade
which led from one-man rule
to what we call Democracy,
the French, toe British, the
Dutch, toe Belgians, the
Danes, the Swedes, the Norwe-
gians, and the Swiss had join-
ed the ranks of freemen,
known freedom for a hundred
years, will not for long submit
to tyranny, particularly If
practiced by a foreign ruler.
Who believes, except he whose
knowledge is limited, thgt
Russia, Japan, the United
States, Italy, and the millions
and millions in the conquered
Democracies (if conquered)
will remain seated peacefully
for the next twenty years and
allow one man and one nation
to enjoy all the sweetmeats?
Democracy is not on Its test
lege—it is autocracy which is
waging its last hopeless bat-
tles. Democracy is really just
getting under way. These
checks . are hot temporary;
these tyrants but transient.
Many of these convulsions in
Europe are eruptions off that
ever-growing urge for free-
dom, which nature implanted
in the human breast, but which
European politicians seek to
bottle up and to control lest
they lose toe power which
they have inherited or
usurped.
Maybe this war will bring
on the climax—maybe not;
but as certain aa the rising
sun, toe lid will blow off sane
day, and toe people will come
into their own, and all the na-
tions of the earth wfll know
the meaning iff toe freedom
which God has granted us for
one hundred and fifty yean
and which He experts us to
guard and to pratact from
within and from without.
What sweet delight a quiet
life affords.
I have often said that all
toe misfortunes off men spring
from their not knowing hew to
live quietly at home, in their
own rooms.—Pascal.
The heart that is to be filled
to the brim with holy joy'most
be held still —Bowes.
To preserve e long course off
years still and uniform, amid
the uniform darkness of storm
and cloud and tempest ro-
und | quires strength from above,—
Telephone Operator is
Success in Hollywood
{ Hollywood. (UP)—K a y
! Leslie, a former Salinas, Calif.,
j telephone operator, was to-
i day's Cinderella girl in HoIIy-
! wood. She won a trip to Hol-
i lywood in a San Francisco per-
■ sonality contest a week ago,
* and Universal Studio signed
• her to a contract to play in
“Seven Sinners” with Marlene
Dietrich.
Miss Isabel Ireland is one of
a small number of women who
design and create glove fash-
ions. Women, she thinks, have even Germany and Russia had! deep draughts from the fount
a great deal to contribute to
this industry. Before that toe
was a statistician with toe
Federal Reserve Board.
Mrs. Frederic Seggs of Wy-
ckoff, N. J., chairman of the
department of international
relations of the General Fed-
eration of Women’s (Subs, is
one of a group of women who
will visit South American clubs
this summer.
• • •
Margaret Webster, daugh-
ter of Dame May Wbftty, of
the theater, has achieved
prominence for her acting, di-
recting and producing of
plays.
El Paso, Tex. (UP)—A sud-
den rush to obtain birth certi-
ficates or other proof of birth
is disclosing many things per-
sons in the B1 Paso region
never knew about themselves.
The Federal Communications
Commission started the ball
rolling by requiring that ap-
plicants for radio operators'
licenses show definite proof of
citizenship. Airplane com-
panies followed suit. Now
many utilities and industrial
concerns are double-checking
to prevent aliens from becom-
ing their employees. The
movement hss caused many
persons to write to the four
corners of the “earliest avail-
able records.”
Ribbons for all makes of
typewriters. Ike Times.
felt the first growing-pains of
liberty.
Unfortunately, the Ger-
mans’ dash for liberty was nip-
ped in the bud for reasons
which historians will still be
arguing about five hundred
years from now; and the poor
ignorant Russians didn’t even
get a start. But they did get a
"sensation,” and that sensa-
tion will some day had into a
fast growing vine which will
destroy the fungus growth now
strangling the one hundred
and sixty million slaves of one
lone man. (A situation indeed
ridiculous and too unnatural
to continue for long).
Today, another lone auto-
crat, Adolf Hitler, appears to
be in a fair way to get control
of the democracies of Europe.
It is also conceivable, though,
extremely doubtful, that this
man, or his successor, could
maintain this control by force,
over a period of several yean,
it is also possible that this
man, or his advisors, are too
smart to attempt that which
has been proven to be impos-
sible; and that if he does win
the war, he has in mind some
sensible scheme which will
obviate the necessity or the de-
sire for another war in the
next twenty years. This is
wishful thinking and may be
giving a politician credit for
more brains than politicians
: usually demonstrate—but it is
; possible.
However, win or lose, the
i people of Europe, having
-Mary Baker
of divine Love.-
Eddy.
And the work of righteous-
ness shall be peace; end the
effect of rights surer m quiet-
ness and assurance for ever.—
Old Testament: Isaiah 32:17.
Serene will be oar days and
bright.
And happy will ear nature be.
When love is an unerring
tight,
And joy its own security.
—William Wordsworth.
It Has Been Said off
Self-Control
Those who can command
themselves can command oth-
ers.—Haztitt.
No man is free who cannot
command himself.—Pythagor-
as.
Who to himself is law needs
no law.—Chapman.
If yon would learn self-mas-
tery, begin by yielding year-
self to the one Great Master.—
Lcbstein.
What is toe best govern-
ment? That which teaches us
to govern ourselves.—Goethe.
No conflict is to severe an his
who labors to subdue himself.
—Thomas a Kempis.
Real glory springs from the
silent conquest of ooraelves;
without that the conqueror is
only toe first slave.—Thomp-
son.
To role self and subdue our
passions is the more praise-
worthy because so few know
how to do lb—Guiccardini.
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Molloy, T. J. Timpson Weekly Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, September 6, 1940, newspaper, September 6, 1940; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth811966/m1/3/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Timpson Public Library.