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FALFURRIAS
FACTS
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1942
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Established In 1906
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
At Falfurrias, Brooks County, Texas
HOWARD BEIIRENT . . . . . MGR.-ERITOR
Subscription Price $2.00 per year Payable in Advance
Entered as second class matter, April 2, 1906 at
the Postoffice at Falfurrias, Texas, under the Act
of Congress of March 8, 1879.
TOO MUCH TALK, TOO LITTLE WORK
rrHE APPOINTMENT of Donald Nelson as
J. absolute head of procurement and produc-
tion, with powers second only to those of the
President, marked the real start of this coun-
try’s all-out war effort. In the past, we simply
did not do enough. There has been too much
talk and too little work. Now, faced with en-
emies who have devoted all thier resources for
many years to the creation of gigantic armies,
we must at last throw the potentially limitless
American production machine into high gear.
The effect of that on the country’s economy
will be revolutionary. During the year which
ended, we spent less than 25 per cent of our
national income for military purposes. During
the fiscal year which will begin next July, it is
expected that more than 50 per cent of our in-
come will be devoted to the needs of our Army,
Navy and Air Force. And in the years to fol-
low, if the war is still going on, the proportion
will be further increased. The President has
said that the building of military power only
slightly superior to that of our enemies, is not
enough—that we must, instead, build a mili-
tary power which is overwhelmingly greater.
The results of that program will be felt in ev-
ery home in the land.
There is little point now in talking about
the mistakes of yesterday, save as they can
point the way to prevent similar mistakes in
the future. Labor strikes stalled production
and deprived our fighting forces of vitally j
needed supplies. Some segments of industry
were reluctant to make the tremendous transi-
tion from a peace to a war economy. Govern-
ment officials, including the President, vacil-
lated before taking the steps that were neces-
sary to real efficiency in administration. Con-
field. But net profits will be modest—because
if taxation. The Treasury will get the bulk of
very dollar earned over and above the cost
of production. No one will get rich out of this
war. It is to the credit of most industries that
they aren’t trying to make great profits, and
are asking for only enough earnings to keep
going and to expand their facilities.
At the moment, there is considerable unem-
ployment, due to the shut-down on cars. Hun-
dreds of thousands of mechanics, tire and auto
salesmen, service station workers, and others
are being thrown out of work. The govern-
ment expects that several months must pass
before these men can be taken into defense ac-
tivity. But, by the middle of the year, many
anticipate an actual shortage of workmen.
Any man, skilled or unskilled, will be able to
find a job. It may not be the kind of job he
wants or is used to, but it will give him a liv-
ing.
Before long it is probable that all able-bodi
ed people, men and women alike, will have to
give part of their time to public work. Those
who are not directly involved in defense pro-
duction or military servcie, will be called up-
on to participate in the fast-expanding civilian1
defense work. There is a shortage of people
trained in first aid, fire fighting, policing, and
similar activities. The government has made a
large appropriation for equipment civilian de-
fense forces the bulk of which will be spent onj
the Atlantic and Picific Coasts, and training is
now underway on a big scale.
There is less and less talk of “sacrifice”
these days. The reason for that is clear—the
work we must do and the money we must pay
are simply an inevitable and unavoidable part
of the waging of a war which we must win if
we are to survive. Every American knows what
happened to those European countries which
did too little and did it too late. They are all
firmly bound in Axis chains. Only our own ef-
forts can save us from that fate.
F
ACTS X FANCIE
LET THE WISE
MAKE THE DISTINCTION
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Oil Industry Starts
Collection Of Scrap
Iron And Rubber
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THE DOCTOR AND CIVIL DEFENSE
HE SPLENDID contribution made by the'
medical profession to national defense is1
well known. Now the doctors are being called
upon to do a vitally important work on behalf
of civilian defense.
gress dilly-dallied and debated endlessly while iss™T bldltTins requesting Jhat”' number'of
the Axis forces rolled inexorably on. Now we
have entered a new period, and it is inconceiv-
able that anything will be permitted to hamp-
er the war effort.
The individual will find himself living a very
different kind of life. He will have to work
harder, and he will have to forego a long list
of luxuries and a number of semi-necessities as
well. The complete ban on automobile and
tires indicates the way the wind blows. It is ex-
pected that within a very short time the pro-
duction of electric refriegrators, washing ma-
chines and similar equipment, will come to an
absolute stop. There will bt little or no tin to
spare for canned goods. And, while most work-
ers will receive higher wages than ever before,
a larger proportion of their earnings will be
steps be taken to safeguard the civilian popu-
lation in the event of an emergency. First,
state and local authorities are instructed to
appoint state and local chiefs of emergency
medical service in consulation with state med-
ical societies,
societies.
Second, state defense councils should in-
struct local chiefs of the emergency medical
service to complete spot maps showing loca-
tion of all hospitals, the number of emergency
medical squads available, and sites for casual-
ty stations.
Third, inventories should be made of bed
capacity of all hospitals, and the amount of ex-
pansion possible during an emergency, determ-
ined.
portion of their income to the purchase of de- Fifth, staffs of hospitals and transportation
fense bonds. In short, your pay check may be'agencies should hold weekly drills to perfect
big, but the part of it which you will have left themselves for action when needed.
to spend as your whims and desires indicate,
will be small.
The effect of the war on industry and busi-
ness will be similar. Every kind of factory,
As the Journal cf the American Medical As-
sociation points out. “The medical profession
may be relied on to accept the responsibility
in this work, as in all other aspects of medi-
from the great automobile plants down to the cine.” The American system of private medi-
smallest crossroads machine shops, will be cine has always been equal to any emergency
given some part in war production. Very large I of the past—and it will be equal to any of the
gross profits will probably be made in many future.
Daylight Saving Time ($*&{«>*6?)
Well, they have finally put it
e ver on us. but bigosh it took a
war, both houses of congress and
the President of the United States
to do it. No use fighting a combin-
ation like that so after February
9th we will be getting up at five
instead of six. We know John
Doe’s fanners will be overjoyed
when the new time goes into ef-
left, but it will make good busi-
ness for the alarm clock manu-
facturers as every farmer will
have to have about five alarm
decks. In addition to the one he
has now he will have to have one
each to wake up the little chick-
ies, the piggies, the cowsies and
the hersies so they can get their
faces washed and eat breakfast
an hour or so before daylight.
And he will have to burn some
extra electric current so the said
animals can see to eat. We’ll lay
dime to a doughnut that if the
presdient and congressmen had
to get up with the farmers the
d—d Daylight bill would’nt have
received a single vote. We have
never been a congressman but we
understand they get to work a-
bout noon. Now they will have to
get there at eleven.
Evidently these wise-guys down
in Washington figure that it will
take less current to operate an
electric light in the morning than
after five in the evening. We Juc
can’t see it. Under this new bill
cities and communities may ad-
vance their time another hour or
more if they care to do so. We
supppose Chicago and suburbs
will set their decks up anohter
hour when spring arrives. Then
they will be two hours ahead of
our God given sun time.
Again we repeat if it had net
been for that good old scotch
game, golf, there never would
have been any of what is called
Daylight Saving. We can figure
how one can save a dime or a few
dollars, but with just so many
hours of daylight in the 24 we fail
to see how yo u can save and make
more hours of daylight. What
should be done is to advance the
clocks some six or seven hours
and that would give the golfers
all afternoon off for the grand
old game.
The above lament probably is
from a died-in-the-wool Repub-
lican and we publish it only in
deference to our wife who doesn’t
get the idea either...Your reporter
spends the best hours of his life
this week trying to explain the
dang thing to her . . . and now
he’s confused. . .
Getting back to safe ground,
we chronicle with regret an au-
tomobile accident which occurred
to WALT BARNES last week in a
dense fog and he’s still laid up
. . . and sporting a doctor’s hem-
stiching. , .
There’s a compliment or an in-
sult in it any way you take it . . .
Last week a convoy of Army
trucks rushes through town en-
route to wherever Army trucks go.
Of course, all the citizens crowd
the doors to observe—among them
W. T. I,EE, IONE HARVISON and
JERRY IRWIN . . . The s<jjdier
b ys arc playful so they yell to
Barber LEE to “watch your
daughters, the Army is coming”.
Not in the cow business him-
self, except via a thick dinner
steak. FORREST SMITH never-
theless is collecting old registered
cattle branded for the Mission
Theatre in that city ... He finds
that SABAS VILLARREAL’S
brand is the oldest registered
brand in Brooks county, even an-
tedating the organization of the
county by fifty years. . .
Uncle Sam's armed forces dom-
inate the news this week ... JACK
DOWNS is enlisted in the Air
Corps and WERNER HOFSTTER
is already in that branch of the
service. WAYNE McCULLAR also
is in the Air Corps and is sta-
tioned in California and we get
news that L L. CRABB. formerly
of this city, is now stationed in
New Orleans with the Navy as
First Class Radioman. . .
You’ve heard of Mike Fright...
Usually it occurs when you are
doing the speaking but JESSE
BUTLER experiences it one day
this week when spoken to via the
mike . . It all happens when the
Texas Highway Patrol senes a
scund truck to Falfurrias to in-
struct local drivers in executing
the proper signals while ap-
proach lights or intersections. . .
He staitons himself at the busiest
corner of the city and instructs
drivers as they pass . . . Thats’
where JESSE got his. . .
Add to the list cf business and
professional women the name
of ATRELLE THORNTON who Is
to go to work as bookkeeper for
Engelking's in Premcnt . . .
All you hcaisewivcs who may be
tempted to stock up heavily on
foodstuff, the War Production
Board says there will be no short-
age of fords for some time. . ,
• B. B TRAWEEK is actively en-
gaged in seeing that the Japs get
a little of the bombing they have
been dishing out so indlscrlmin-
Charles F. Roeser of Fort Worth,
general chairman for District Three
i of the national petroleum co-ordin-
ation set-up this week was named
! chairman of the Texas Mid-Con-
tinent Oil and Gas Association drive
for collection of scrap metal and
' rubber in the oil industry.
Mr. Roeser, in accepting the chair-
manship, extended the drive to cov-
| er not only Texas, but also all other
States of District Three, including
i Louisiana, New Mexico, Arkansas,
Mississippi and Alabama.
"The collection of the scrap of
the oil industry is too important to
confine merely to Texas,” Mr. Roes-
er sale*,. ‘‘I am therefore enlarging
our drive to cover all six States of
District Three, and am asking the
Texas Mid-Continent to co-ordinate
the campaign over this entire area
through its affiliated organiza-
tions.”
The collection of oil field scrap
iron, steel, aluminum and rubber
was undertaken by the association
at the request of the Federal Gov-
ately . .. He’s organized a Penny-
A-Plane Club in Falfurrias and
put out receptacles to receive
pennies, nlckles, dimes and what
have you . . . The idea is to put
in a penny every time a Jap plane
is knocked out of the sky but
don’t wait for that . . . Feed the
kitty every time you encounter it
in any public place . . . Dropping
your pennies in one of these con-
tainers is more worthy than slug-
ging a slot machine ... Do it
TODAY. . .
And that’s “30” for this week...
eminent through its Bureau of In-
dustrial Conservation.
“Federal conservation authorities
have asked us to get together for
re-processing all the scrap metal
and rubber now on the leases, in
the yards and at the plants of the
oil industry,” Mr. Roeser said. “It’s
a patriotic duty which the oilmen
gladly assume as part of our in-
dustry’s program of war-time co-
operation.
“Also, it can prove to be of ben-
efit to our industry in its efforts
to drill new wells nad make the
other expansions which the increas-
ed demands upon our industry make
necessary. Some of this scrap
doubtless will i>e-used in making oil
field goods which are vitally need-
ed to supply the additional oil and
find the new reserves called for by
(he Nation’s victory program."
Chairman and committees to sup-
ervise collection of the scrap will
be appointed at onec in each large
producing area of the six states,
Mr. Roeser said. At the request of
the Federal authorities, the scrap
will be sorted and 'bought by regu-
lar scrap dealers for shipment to
furnaces needing it. Co-operating
in the campaign will be local and
field representatives of oil field e-
quipment manufacturers who will
serve as members of the commit-
tees.
America speaks! Answer the call
of your country bv buying Defense
Savipgs Bonds and Stamps for its
protection and defense.
Kill-aWorf
TO HOLDERS OF CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT AND
SAVINGS ACCOUNT DEPOSITORS
In order to assist our Govern-
ment in its defense financing,
the following action has been
taken by the management of this
Bank in regard to its Certificates
of Deposit and Savings Accounts:
After January 1, 1942 no in-
terest will be paid cn any Cer-
tificate of Deposit except those
’outstanding and not yet due. No
Certificate will be renewed except on a “no
interest” basis and any certificate so renew-
ed will be payable on demand.
Interest will be paid on all Savings Ac-
counts entitled to interest on March 15,
1942, the next interest-paying date; after
that time all interest will cease on these
accounts.
We strongly urge that funds now being
held in Savings Accounts and Certificates
of Deposit be used in the purchase of United
States Defense Savings Bonds and Stamps.
This bank will be glad to supply you. Come
in and talk to us about these securities.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
"f Qood fBank in a Qood 'Uown
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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We never relax our vigilance
for we know that the coming
generation is dependent upon
our product to build strong
bones and healthy bodies.
Because sick and well, old and
young all trust us—we desire
to be a never-failing source of
supply.
And because we have fully ac-
cepted these responsibilities
we are seeking a place among
those who serve mankind.
Falfurrias Creamery
Company
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