Falfurrias Facts (Falfurrias, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, March 15, 1940 Page: 2 of 6
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PACE TWO
FALFURRIAS FACTS
FRIDAY, MARCH IS, 1940
Jalfurriaa Jffarta
Established In ItOt
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
At Falfurrias, Brooks County, Texas
HOWARD BEHRENT .... MGR. EDITOR
Entered as second class matter, April 2. 1906 at
the Postoffice at Falfurrias. Texas, under the Act
of Congress of March 8. 1879.
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guard against the possibility of a competitor ,
thinking up a new “model’’ that might over-)
night leave him without a market for his pro-
duct.
Marketing cooperatives are the modern
farmer’s “salesmen.” The farmer does not
have to worry about new models. Hogs are
hogs. They have not changed materially since
the days of King Tut. Neither have cows and
the milk they give.
But the job of “selling” which the market-
ing co-ops, is not simple just because the.e
are no new models to contend with. Their
business is to help the farmer maintain ready-
markets and stable distribution for time-hon-
ored necessities of life—not automobiles, face
cream and luxury gadgets, but the products
of America’s farms.
SUICIDE AND MANSLAUGHTER
MEMBER SOUTH TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
THE MIRACLE WORKER
YI77HEN a loved one was stricken with pneu-
Wmonia a few years back, and you looked
deep into your physician’s eyes to ask: “Isn’t
there something you can do?” in most cases
he was forced to shake his head in helpless-
ness. In those days dreaded pneumococcus
took 100,000 lives annually. But a new mira-
cle worker—sulfapyridine—has come into
the medical picture, and will save the lives of
approximately 50,000 pneumonia victims this
year, according to Stephen J. McDonough,
medical journalist, who writes a dramatic
personal story in the current Rotarian Maga-
zine.
Shortly after he had released a sulfapyri-
dine press dispatch—with skepticism and
crossed fingers—McDonough found himself
desperately ill with the most deadly type of
pneumonia infection. But his physician wasn’t
helpless, because sulfapyridine was just
emerging from its experimental stage, and a
supply was rushed 500 miles to treat his case.
Within a week after sulfapyridine treat-
ments were begun he was out of the hospital.
Miraculous? Yes, declares this Rotarian con-
tributor, but that’s the way this new chemical
works.
An allied drug of sulfanilamide, which was
originally ‘just a brick-red powder—one of
the coal-tar dyes used to color cloth,” sulfapy-
ridine is unlike many other germicides, which
annihilate germs, McDonough writes. “Sul-
fanilamide and sulfapyridine smother the dis-
ease-causing bacteria. Most disease germs
can grow only when they have enough oxy-
gen, just like a human being. They use oxygen
only by first converting it into hydrogen per-
oxide, the common gargling fluid Sulfanila-
mide and sulfapyridine stop this oxygen con-
version process and keep the germs from
breathing until the white blood corpuscles
consume them.”
JUST WHY many seemingly intelligent driv-
ers of automobiles are continually at-
tempting suicide and manslaughter, is beyond
understanding. Their actions any place but
in an automobile would in most cases place
them under mental observation or in jail.
W. M. Jeffers, President of the Union Pa-
cific Railroad, announced on January 19, that
from January 1 to that date, there had been
13 cases where drivers had carelessly run into
the side of trains at crossings, or stalled their
cars on railroad tracks of the Union Pacific,
at widely separated locations in seven states.
A stalled automobile on a public highway
crossing derailed a fast mail and express
train, killing the engineer and firemen.
“Carelessness on the part of automobile
drivers is to blame in every instance of this
sort,” said Mr. Jeffers. “In all the cases since
the first of the year, not a single one was try-
ing to beat a train to a crossing. Every one
was a case of utter failure to look both ways
in approaching the crossing, and stopping to
make sure.
“The public usually tries to blame the rail-
roads for causing accidents, but the cases
where any blame can be attached to the rail-
road are rare indeed. There is little excuse
for a driver . . . who drives into the side of
trains.”
The figures given by Mr. Jeffers are start-
ling and a timely warning to police and high-
way patrol officers to be on the look-out for
potential killers at railroad crossing.
BEER AND DEMOCRACY
HOGS ARE HOGS
¥N ONE respect at least the farmer has the
1. edge on the manufacturer, merchant
or business man of the city. Through market-
ing cooperative organizations, farmers, by
group action, can dispose of their products
quickly and at a maximum price. A single
manufacturer, on the other hand, must main-
tain his own salesmen, and they must be bet-
ter salesmen than those of his competitor next
door. He must train them and furnish them
transportation, on the gamble that they will
sell enough goods to reimburse all costs and
leave a little profit. He must always be on
¥N KEEPING with the American tradition of
-l press open to both sides, we should like to
report on a booklet we have just read on the
subject of beer.
This booklet, though prepared by brewers
to state their case, seems nevertheless
thought-provoking. Perhaps some readers
I will differ with certain of the conclusions.
But the booklet gives some new information
about beer of interest to both sides.
; The booklet shows why a noted Yale scien-
tist and writer says “beer in reasonable a-
i mounts is essentially non-intoxicating.” It
tells how beer taxes contribute a million dol-
lars a day to help carry the growing cost of
government; how many hundreds of thou-
sands of people have secured respectable jobs
since beer came back. It tells how thousands
of farmers profit from the 100 million dollars
brewers spend annually for beer crops. An-
other feature of public interest is the forth-
right plan of the brewers themselves to help
law authorities “clean up or close up” any
offensive places licensed to sell beer.
F
ACTS FANCIfc
LET THE WISE
MAKE THE DISTINCTION
S
JACK DOWNS, and “joins up’’
with the Falfurrias Volunteer
Fire Department at the age of
seventeen ... . Another newly
elected member i s DEUARD
DUERKSEN . . .
And that’s “30” for this week...
Hey kids! It’s circus time in
Falfurrias. Of course, by the time
this reaches the street the big
top will have been struck and
the animals, clowns and enter-
tainers will l»e getting ready f«>r
the next porformance in a
neighboring city. It’s all there—
adventure, thrills and excitmertt,
enough to make a fellow’s pulse
pound with the magic of the
sawdust ring and grease-
paint. The Russell Bros. Circus
pitches its three-ringer here
Thursday, Me -h 14. for a mati-
nee and evening performance
alter breaking winter quarters in
the Valley and from here will pro
eee<j to Alice. Cr.c c; the few re-
maining big circuses still in ex-
ists "e Russell Bros, offer a full
program of circus entertainment
ranging fr<m animal acts to aer-
ial thrills. In days gone by, the
coming of the circus was the oc-
casion of a civic holiday but to-
day it must compete with many
and varied modes of entertain-
ment, as a result of which its
prestige and drawing power has
suffered slightly. Still, there’s
enough adventurous spirit left in
mankind to find the circus a ful-
fillment of a boyhood dream . . .
Leaving the gang of youngsters
who hang about the wagons in
the hope of doing some small
chore for that all-important
pass, we get back to town to join
the chorus in the income tax
blues . . . It’s that time of year
and if you can slow down R. L.
SCHULTZ long enough to get a
few words out of him it proba-
bly will be something about de-
ductions, exemptions and four
percent . . .
Since the big powers allowed
valiant little Finland to be
thrown to the lions—or more ex-
actly to the bear—nothing is
left but unwelcome peace terms
but Capt. J. A. BROOKS never-
theless makes his contribution
for Finish relief through this pa-
per . . .
T. S. PROCTOR, a qualified
boxing instructor, recalls the
time he served as sparring part-
ner for Jim Flynn who was in
training for his bout with the
great Jack Johnson. . and JACK
TUNNELL also remembers the
days when he represented his
army company in the ring . . .
Although VERA BOWERS in-
sists it is a false alarm, WESLEY,
MARTIN and BOB ALLAN are
so carried away with their har-
mony in singing “Happy Birth-
day’’ that they keep right on
with their operatic efforts . . .
There’s still time to send in
letters before the March 19 dead-
line in the Facts contest on
‘‘Why I like to trade with these
firms" and the genuine premi-
ums listed elsewhere in this is-
sue are attracting plenty of con-
testants. . .
Mr. and Mrs. ERWIN GALLA-
WAY are off to California to try
some of that state’s celebrated
climate . . .
FRANCES SMITH and JAMES
LEUER are mighty busy these
days preparing for their Easter
Parade of fashions at the Cactus
Theatre March 21 in which
“live” models will be used . . .
Speaking of Easter, Mrs. E. P.
JOHNSON is completing plans
for the annual egg hunt at Plea-
sure Park on Easter Sunday . . .
ELBERT and CLAY FREEZE are
now citizens of Harlingen where
they are employed by the Boggus
Motor Company . . .
Along epicurean lines, Mrs.
GEORGE BRAZIL breaks out a
stuffed cabbage recipe that is a
‘ killer diller"—The noun Is not
our own and is therefore in quo-
tation marks . . .
-XXX-
Mrs. Jack Casey and Miss Ada
McIntyre spent Monday and Tues-
day in San Antonio.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to take this means of
) publicly thanking Mr. F. C. Smith
and the Cactus Theatre for the
courtesy and cooperation in ex-
tending to us half of the ticket
sales to one of the theatre’s pro-
grams last week as a benefit tow-
ards our summer camp fund.
Boy Scout Tr«op 28
SPRINGTIME IS BRIGHTEN
UP TIME
Get a can of “Duco One-Coat Magic” and brighten up
those dull and scarred pieces of furniture. Duco covers
so well one coat usually produces satisfactory results.
Eighteen beautiful colors that retain their lustre and
and provide a hard tile-like finish that is easy to keep
clean.
Let us figure with you on a complete house job. You will
be surprised to find how little it will cost to make your
home look like new.
A. L. HOLLOWAY
PHONE 13
YOU SAID IT!
I Bank
at the
First National
“Had my account there ever since I started to
wake up at night and worry about the future.
What if my family would get sick . . . sup-
pose I lost my job . . . what if I couldn’t work
any more?”
Money you can lay your hands on immediately
is your first line of defense against adversity—
misfortune—family emergency. It’s available
instantly in
“/? Qood iBank in a Qood ‘Uown”
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
This Dairy Business
Throughout Texas have appeared numbers of
favorable news comments on the results of the Iowa
Educational Butter Scoring Contest held in Febru-
ary in which an entry of Falfurrias Butter was a-
warded the Superior Rating. We are proud of this
award and of our dairy patrons whose fine cream
made this accomplishment possible.
WHISTLING IN THE DARK
' JOE DOWNS follows the foot-
steps of his big brother, Chief
It CAN Happen
TO YOU!
Locked Doors W!1 Not Pro-
tect Your Valuables!
Locking your doors and win-
dows will not keep out the thief
of the night. You may make it
more difficlt for him to break in
to your home but he can do it!
There is a way that you can
protect your valuables! Insur -
ance! There Is no use of your
taking any chances! Let ns
guarantee the safety of your
valuables! See R. L. Sehnltz to-
day and protect yourself with
insurance.
Falfurrias Insurance
Agency
Most important, however, is the fact that most
consumers, once they try Falfurrias Butter ask for
it by name thereafter.
That is the best proof of the fine quality of this
butter. We could use every advertising medium and
storekeepers could talk themselves hoarse trying to
sell, but if the quality were not there consumers
wouldn’t buy. Advertising and sales work can only
create the desire for a product—that product must
do its own job of selling to make repeat sales.
Because of our long experience as makers and
merchandisers of fine butter, we know there can
be no compromise with quality if consumers are to
be kept sold on any product And that is the reason
we arc. so careful to taste every individual can of
cream each day and be sure that it is sweet and
clean before it is used in the manufacture of Fal-
furrias Sweet Cream Butter.
Criticisms and suggestions are very wel-
come. Please address
FALFURRIAS CREAMERY CO.
FALFURRIAS, TEXAS
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