Falfurrias Facts (Falfurrias, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, August 13, 1943 Page: 2 of 4
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7 ALFUPPIXS FACTS
FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1943
3tfalfiu*rias iFarte
Eat-t. biislieo In 1606
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
At Falfurrias, Ilruoks County, Texas
HOWARD BEHRENT.....MGR.-ERITOR
Entered as second class matter, April 2, 1606 at
the Pcstoffice at Falfurrias, Texas, under the Act
of Congress of March 8, 1879.
Any erroneous reflection upon the character,
standing, or reputation of ary person, firm, or cor-
poration, which may appear in The Facts, will do not jibe with the decreed legal price, some-
the nation increuKingLy aware of the fire men-
; ce. If it succeeds, it may well render a service
d far greater value than the potential damage
threatening the country from enemy bombers.
—oOo—
SAD COMMENTARY
Beh;rd the official bickering 2nd confusion
ievolving around controlled distribution ox
civilian necessities, a few facts are all too ap-
parent to the retail merchant.
The public is warned not to pay more than
“legal prices”, indicati; •* th_t where price tags
F
ACTS \ FA.NCIE
LET THE WISE
MAKE THE DISTINCTION
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AI DING MACHINE and ctr.h dard makes. Falfurrias Facts. Tele-
registtr ribbem. All porv.Iar rtan- phone 47-J.
gladly be corrected &s soon as It Is brought to the
attention of the publisher.
thing shady is going on. Consumers are led to
believe that these legal prices are set by a
simple procedure based on ♦experience and
knowledge of the problems; that all the mer-
chant has to do is follow the law, like the
driver of an automobile. Actually, about the
only resemblance of “legal price” measures to
NONSENSE MUST CEASE
One effective weapon against inflation is
greater production of consumer goods. Taxes
and bonds can never be made to absorb all of
ihe war inflated earnings of the people. More-|0^er jaws> jg that the offender is subject to
over it is becoming evident that price ceilings heavy fines and jail. Rationing and price laws
are a limited success. Therefore, to help main- have heen imposed, not only with no precedent
tain stability there must be sufficient produc-jas a gUj(jei but by men with little or no.practi-
tion of necessities to furnish an outlet for con- \ caj knowledge of retail distribution. The advice
sumers’ dollars. If there is no such purchasing , the merchants has seldom been sought in
power outlet and wages continue to spiral up- formulation of the rules under which they
ward, accompanied by astronomical govern- mus^ operate. As a result, the controls are
ment borrowing, the inevitable result will be CUmbersome, vague, and often unworkable. In-
mnr<> umT mflntinn fractions have been unavoidable, in spite of the
Wee sayings:
Useless iuws diminish the author-
ity of necessary ones.
Mockry is often only the poverty
of wit.
The scalded cat dreads CQid
water.
A hungry belly has no ears.
A darkey, asked by the draft
board how many dependents he
had, replied, “I has foah depen-
dents but I can’t depend on none
ob dem.”
more and more inflation.
Civilian production should n°t be curbed
any more than is absolutely necessary to arma-
ment demands. The nonsense of artificial res-
trictions on production merely to make the
people realize they are at war, must cease.
Lengthening casualty lists carry their own
tragic story.
In addition to stepping up production, the
reams of red tape entangling retail distribution i
muct be removed. Rationing and price regula-
tions must be simplified. Attempts to stop in-
flation by bludgeoning retail prices back to
lower levels, regardless of costs, should be
abondoned before the distribution industry is
demoralized. The average merchant operates
on paper thiA margins.
If the “get tough” theorists persist in hunting
for excuse to curtail production and distribu-
tion, instead of hunting for means to achieve
greater production and more efficient distribu-
tion, the country will have not only inflation
best efforts of the merchants, who fully realize
that wartime controls are necessary.
It is a sad commentary on the situation when
a representative of one of the nation’s leading
store systems feels impelled to point out that:
“Retailers are fully as patriotic, in the main,
as those who have been giving them the dicta-
tor runaround. Retailers are paying higher
taxes. They are contributing generously to
every phase of the war effort, with money, time
and energy”. He could also have pointed out
that without the full support of retailers, the
price and rationing laws would collapse. Yet,
retailers have been treated with suspicion and
distrust by the very officials whose dependence
upon the distribution industry is second only
to that of the consuming public.
—oOo—
REAL CONSERVATION
Americans are learning the meaning of con-
but thousands of crippled industries. And in- servation. They are elarning from an exacting
teacher—war. War has in a matter of months
switched this country from a nation of abun-
dance to a nation of scarcity, as far as civilians
stead of being able to sit in Washington issuing
decrees from swivel chairs to cooperative,
organized retailers, the price fixers will be
forced to chase up and down the back alleys are concerned. And where there is scarcity,
of the nation in a vain attempt to catch black there must be conservation. Automobile own-
market operators. ers cannot burn up their cars with speed a-
—oOo— they were wont to do a few years ago. Housc-
FIRE GUARDS wives cannot carelessly demolish household
Civilian defense officials have repeatedly appliances, or toss out surplus food,
warned that as the prospect of military defeat The new effort to conserve must reach far-
becomes increasingly apparent to German ami
Japanese leaders, the danger of air attacks on
this country grow greater. Fire bombs will
play a major part if such attacks occur.
As the Office of Civilian Defense points ou. :
“War has aggravated the fire hazards in everv
American community. Ordinary day-to-day
ther than slow driving and eating the last crust
of bread. It must reach into one of the most
important existing fields of conservation—fire
prevention. Several hundred millions of dollars
worth of property is destroyed each year by
fire. The bulk of that loss is sheer criminal
waste, brought about by indifference and care-
fires threaten our lives and war production, lessness on the part of individuals. This care-
Beyond that, the new enemy high explosive fire lessness can be eradicated by education; bv
bombs carry with them the threat of disastrous learning that preventing a property-destroying
conflagrations unless trained volunteers are fire is as great a step toward conservation
ready to stop small fires before they can en- driving your auto slowly to save tires. Fire
danger large areas. In present day bombings of
cities and vital war centers, fire bombs com
prise mere than half the ‘pay load’. A city may
have to face more than a thousand fires set
simultaneously—a task far beyond the capacity
of regular fire-fighting forces”.
The OCD is mobilizing a fire guard force or
selected civilians not only to combat fire
caused by enemy action, but to combat fire
losses brought about by our awn carelessness.
The result of OCD efforts should be t make of conservation.
prevention authorities have emphasized that:
“The development of a safety awareness that
will control the daily actions of the individual
is necessary if preventable fires and confla-
grations are to be reduced to a minimum”.
Until our individual conservation efforts arc-
effectively directed toward curbing fire ha-
zards in the home, in the factory, on the farm
and every place else where life and property
are involved, we have not learned the lesso’-
Fisherman are so thick under-
foot that it is hard to report any-
thing new’ from week to week. How
ever, one party returns last week
from Don Martin Lake in Mexico
with a load of fresh-water bass .ts
big as reds. Aiding and abetting the
good neighbor policy are CECIL
TALLEY, NEIL AHLMAN and BOZO
YEAGER.....
Ordinarily, it is the Army which
holds the main spotlight in Falfur-
r as, but this week the Navy effect?
and holds a beachhead......Lt
LAURENCE WHITE puts ashore for
a brief leave from duties in the
City of New York, while Warrant
Officer R. A. McMULLIN is in tov.r.
with interesting tales of trainine
rookies at Williamsburg .. Reports
received here earlier this week ecv
that DAVID GRIMES has landed
on Treasure Island on the West
I ''oast. H s ship, v the destrover
! Strong, goes down in a naval action
off New Georgia Island____
WESLEY MARTIN and H. H
HAMPTON, school teacher and bus-
i iness man respectively, are now
Uncle ’Sam's bovs and their prime
interest is “getting this thing ov<?:
' with”.....
GEORGE H. WRIGHT has either
got a very active rabbit's foot in his
j pocket or he knows his hurricanes
After three weeks in a Galvesto
hospital, he is discharged and leaves
the city only 24 hours before the
recent destructive storm....
With JENS NIELSEN and ROY
HOBBS as guides. JENS JENSON
a former citizen of the city and now
a visitor, should get plenty of salt
water fishing — his first experience
with the !<riny deep----
Master JAMES DONALD is nov
the center of attraction in the home
of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. DON-
j NIE Me ADA. and with the artiste’?
true disregard of the public com-
pletely ignores all and sundry at-
tentions. He is born on August 7.....
DICK MORGAN is getting ready
for that first norther which is ru-
mored — in a couple of more
months. He’s making plans to over-
come the meat shortage problem
but his “trump card” OSCAR
hasn’t been consulted and may not
see eye to eye in the matter. OSCAR
is a sleek, fat porker...
Lt. and Mrs. L. T. PORTER take
time off in training with big bom-
bers to visit homefolks, Mr. and
Mrs. ALLIF PORTER ...
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