The McGregor Mirror and Herald-Observer (McGregor, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, September 14, 1945 Page: 3 of 8
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1945
McGREGOR MIRROK
DEPENDS ON BUYING POWER j pends upon the
To the civilian production of j income, so that
the nation in 1939 there was add-
ed, through the exigencies of war
a temporary production of about
60 million dollars.
Now that our wars have ended
it is a question whether the na-
tion will revert to approximately
the production of 1939; if we do,
We are in for a hard time.
Practically nobody expects |
peace time production to equal
distribution of j
consumers will j
have money with which to pur- j
chase the products, of farm and j
factory.
In considering buying power!
it is not easy to overlook the im- j
portance of high wages to labor- j
ers and profitable prices to farm-!
ers. These classes constitute the ’
backbone of our purchasing pow-
er. As a general rule, if labor
and'agriculture have money /to
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RURAL AREAS
While Walter Winchell is away, this
month, his column will be conducted
by guest columnists.
that of 1944, when war spending
was At its peak. What the opti-
mists hope is that the new rate
peace time production will
^^mal the 1939 rate plus about
half the war increase. This,
it is believed, will give the nation
a reasonable prosperity.
Production, a s everybody
knows, depends upon buying
power. If consumers buy, in-
dustry renews its stock. If con-
sumers fail to buy, there is no
reason to make more goods for
no sales. Hence, reasonable pros-
perity in the United States de-
spend the nation does pretty well
economically ^peakinlg.
enator George L. Radeliff, of
i Maryland, is disturbed over the
; war-speeded tendency of the na-
jtion's population to leave the
j rural areas for city life. He
thinks there is a “‘very great
i need for people to g'o back to
; rural areas.; ’
| The drift from the farm has
i concerned many people for many
| years but it continues unabated
j and there is little chance of stop-
; ping the trend until the econo-
SOLDIERS CAN WRITE
WHAT THEY WANT TO;
LETTER CENSORS STOP
How women and girls
may get wanted relief
from functional periodic pain
Cardui, many ■women say, iias brought re-
lief from the cramp-like agony and nervous
strain of functional periodic distress. Taken,
like a tonic, it should stimulate appetite,
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functional periodic causes. Try it!
CARDUI
SEE LABEL DIRECTIONS
HEAT
aimost as important as food
so in your remodeling
or new
home building plans
consider it as part of house
and include necessary fiues
for Venting the new gas
heating equipment. Only
when equipment is {tented
to a flue are wall sweating
and stuffy air eliminated.
Floor furnaces, gasteam radiators,
circulators and central furnaces
are now available in very limited
quantities. By next January manu-
facturers probably will be back on
full production schedules. So there
is plenty of time to be planning
your heating as part of your new
house.
LONE STAllMiGAS COMPANY
Broadway aad Elsewhere
By JACK LAIT
Whispered in Washington
Impending changes—Lt. Gen. Ken n.ic hcdu uuLu u.l v-——
ney to succeed Gen. Arnold as chief j rewards that come to farm-
of Army Air forces.....Admiral *+_
Nimitz to get Admiral King’s cushy
Navy post when King is ready to re-
—
CARD OF THANKS.
We wish to express our appre-
ciation for the many words of
comfort from our friends because
of our recent sorrow. Especially
do we say thanks for the lovely
floral offerings from friends
both here and in Houston and to
the Odd Fellows and Reheccah
lodges.
The Kaelin, '
R. L. Betrand Families.
tire, which won’t be right away.
Undersecretary Sullivan is re-
garded as having the best chance to
fill in when Secretary of the Navy
Forrestal steps down. . . • Secre-
tary of Commerce Wallace isn’t as ! possible
sure of sticking as he and his “lib-
eral” friends think he is. ... A la-
bor bloc in the Senate, prodded by
CIO’s Sidney Hillman and Rep. Vito
Marcantonio, is organizing to de-
mand that President Truman veer
sharply left or not only face a legis-
lative fight, but possibly a new, third
party on a nucleus of the American
Labor' Party and Political Action
Committees. . . . In this group are
Senators Wagner, Kilgore, Pepper,
Hill, Guffey and Murray, and they
are working on Magnuson, Thomas
and Mead, who haven’t yet decided
to go all out.
ers make agriculture more at
tractive as a source of each.
The country has become a
very attractive place of resi-
dence since modern inventions
and developments have made it
to enjoy electricity,
telephones, radios and other con-
veniences on the farm. Not
least of the contributions to bet-
ter living in rural acreas have
been the automobile and good
highways.
The only catch in the scheme
of living for farmers is that it
takes cash to secure electricity,
telephones, radios, automobiles
and other conveniences. While
Washington.—The Army and
Navy last Sunday ordered their
censors to stop reading the mail
and telegrams of American arm-
ed forces abroad.
As a consequence of the form-
al surrender of Japan the joint
chiefs of staff ordered discon-
tinuanc of the censorship of mail
and tele-communication of all Mr ^ jIrs, A1 New 0, Hons-
members of the -United Mates ^ t laRt Wednesday and
armed forces and civilian em- j Thnrgday here with tte Carlton
ployees in the Pacific-Asiatic ■ gmith
theaters and on the European i_ __ —
Continent.
Supplementary instruct ions!
were issued terminating censor-
ship at installations not specifi-
cally covered by the joint chief’s
order.
A spot check of all mail pass-
ing through base post offices on
the European continent had
been continued after V-E clay, al-
though censorship by company
officers was ended then. In the
Pacific-Asiatic theater both unit
and base censorship has been
maintained until Sunday.
Dr. Robert W. Cagle
DENTIST
DENTAL X-RAY
PHONE 218
Congress will get a battle from the
Army. . . . The legislators, fresh
from their home constituencies,
will whoop it up for more and quick-
er discharges. . . . The Army will
resist. . •. . The lawmakers will
claim that on the present 85-point
system, only about 1,000,000 are eli-
gible for release, and they will pro-
pose militantly that the basic mini-
mum be reduced at once to 60
points or less. . . . The army will
argue that keeping men in uniform
is the perfect answer to unemploy-
ment during the reconversion inter-
im. . . . But, in its secret councils,
the Army doesn’t monkey much
with economic strategy — just
wants to keep a big Army.
— ----------------- Miss Marion Donaldson left
a large number of, agricultural- gaturcjav morning for Lubbock
ists have all of tie items men-j^ gjie enters Texas Tech for
East Coast, West Coast—
Clark Gable’s real name is Wil-
liam — William Clark Gable. . . .
Warners have settled on the man
to play Will Rogers — Joel McCrea.
. . . Lt. Henry Fonda, in the Navy
since ’42, has won the Bronze Star
for heroism in the Mariannas. But
they say his domestic affairs are
not too happy. . . . MGM’s official
biography of Robert Donat says,
with no amplification or footnotes:
“— Returning to England, he re-
sumed his film career in ‘39 Steps’
and ‘Night Without Armor,’ with
Marlene Dietrich, then took a six
months’ leave of absence to regain
his health.” . . . Jack Dempsey and
his two daughters are living in a
house rented from Estelle Taylor,
where Jack and Estelle spent their
honeymoon. There is talk since she
divorced Paul Small, she may re-
wed the Old Mauler.
tioned thei'e are many others
who lack the wherewithal to pur-
chase them.
This brings, us back to the
basic complaint of farmers, that
their incomes do not equal those
of other industries. This does not
mean that every farmer should
have the same pay as every me-
chanic but it does mean that
farming, as an occupation, should
present the same opportunity for
money making that, exists in
other lines of human endeavor.
The income of agriculture has
been well below that of other ec-
onomic activities. Constituting
one-fourth of the population the
residents of rural areas have not
enjoyed anything like one-fourth
of the national income. Despite
the increase in farm income dur-
ing the war years there has been
little progress on the equaliza-
tion of prospective and compara-
tive farm incomes.
the coming year.- She was ac-
companied there by her father
and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Park
Donaldson, who returned home
the first of this week. A
SAM II. AMSLEMR.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Chamber of Commerce Building
McGREGOR, TEXAS
IRA F. KERWOOD, D. O.
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office in Evers Drug Store
Building — McGregor, Texas
Office Phone 36 Residence 51-J
Prepare NOW For Those
School Days Just Ahead
Dig out those early Fall and; Winter Clothes and avoid the
last minute rush. We take out all that laid-away odor.
It isn’t too early, with times and service like they are. All
your summer clothes, as well as fall and winter, get our per-
sonal service. No stiff, sweatty knees or hacks will leave our
plant.. The job must be right, when they are delivered.
LADIES DRESSES OUR SPECIALTY— GIVE US A TRIAL
YOUR ATRONAGE APPRECIATED
CANNON CLEANERS
Many who saw the sharp and strik-
ing MGM newsreel reporting of the
plane crash against the upper
stories of the Empire State Build-
ing may have admired the enter-
prise which made these releases by
far the best. Therefore, they may be
interested in the story behind the
story. . . . “Newsreel” Wong, the fa-
mous Chinese photographer who has
been with Metro 21 years and has
covered every battlefront and the far
reaches of the globe for news sub-
jects, was given a furlough while
attached to Gen. MacArthur on Lu-
zon. . . . He decided to spend it in
New York, the only place of inter-
est and importance he had never be-
fore visited. ... He arrived on a
Saturday morning, in uniform and
with his cameras, looked up the
Metro Manhattan office in the phone
book, and went there. The place was
closed for the day, but some scrub-
women were at work and so the door
was open. . . . Wong was about to
leave, when a telephone, hooked on
through the switchboard, rang. He
picked it up. An excited voice re-
ported the crash. . . . Wong grabbed
a cab. Police lines were closed, but
because of his uniform and a breast-
ful of service ribbons he was al-
lowed through. . . . He did his stuff
with his usual vigor and sped back
to the office. ... By that time, the
executives had heard of the hot
story and,, were in and ’phoning for
photographers'- frantically, when
Wong, whom they had never seen,
whose presence on this continent
was news to them, entered with the
whole thing in his bag. . . . They
slapped him on the back, hugged
him, etc. . . . “That’s quite all
right,” said Wong. “I always did
want to see the Empire State Build-
ing!”
Investigators of two Congression-
al committees are in Hollywood,
looking into the activities of the
Communist groups in that area.
With the “degradation” of Earl
Browder by his monkey-glanded
party, a lot of the boys and girls in
the picture colony and its offshoots
felt they had to get furiously
busy to prove their Red loyalty. . . .
When a resolution condemning com-
munism was presented to the Central
Labor Council of California, the
motion picture crafts' were in the )
foreground voting it down.
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helping to enforce the peace he has won,
will need just as much today as in wartime,
the cheer he'll find in a delicious Texas
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The McGregor Mirror and Herald-Observer (McGregor, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, September 14, 1945, newspaper, September 14, 1945; McGregor, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth889671/m1/3/: accessed July 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting McGinley Memorial Public Library.