The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 19, 1950 Page: 2 of 18
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YOUNG COUNTY LONG AGO
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During 1949
girl* 4-H club*
of 880 member
demon* trstion
rollment of 2]
county bad twi
The girt* counc
council eon*ii
member*. Tb**
nn advisory
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tho year. Toon
the thtee conn
that had a girl
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riod out by tb«
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898 present. A
clothing progi
portal 8816 ga
Two training
in January to
members of tin
tion Council.
Two training
for the club re|
clubs and he
cluhs. Ed H
Owner* and Publish***
--Associate Editor
L I. Horris - E. B. Harris, Jr.
Mrs. E. B. Harris —.-
WHY BE THRIFTY!
Ben Franklin’s old wisdom: “A
penny saved is a penny earned”
had a (treat part m building Amer-
ica. In fact, it made enough sente
to become a part of America- Our
thriftiness contributed wonderful-
ly to building this land of ours,-
and the folks who saved their pen-
nies, had a lot to do with it. You
can count over most of the great
companies that serve us so well
tr-day, and behind nearly all of
them you will discover a history of
saving and thrif.t that made the
Fublidwd every Thursday at Graham, Texas, and entered at the Fast
Office at second-class moil matter, under act o* Congress
of March 3, 1879
Any erroneous reflection upon the chcrocter of any parson or firm
appearing in these columns will be gladly and promptly corrected
upon being brought to the attention of tho management.
fhe liobility of The Grphom Leader ond of its publishers for any error
in any advertisement is limited to the cost of such advertisement
25 YEARS AGO
50 YEARS AGO
Rev. G. \V. Blsck preached at
the Graham Baptist Church Sun-
day from the text: “Godliners is <
profitable unto all things.”
Rev. Baker of the Graham Pres-
byterian Church preached from
the text: “And I saw a new heaven
and a new earth; for the first
heaven and the first earth were
pasted away; and there were no
more sea.”
The topic for discussion at the
Methodist Church Sunday was;
“Paul chosen as a missionary.”
Ewing Norris made a- business
Verdict of guilty was returned
and a penalty of 25 year* in tbe
state penitentiary was atseaaed
by a jury in the case of Jim Rob-
inson charged with the murder of
his father, M. C. Robinson.
The State of Texas vs. H. C.
Walker, charged by indictment
with killing G- W. Bishop one mile
west of Graham on October 1,
1923, is on trial this week.
Mr. Wallace Sloan has remod-
eled the building formerly occu-
pied by the Rex Theatre and put
it in a first class condition for a
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One Year (Out of County)——S3 00 — One Year (In County)--$2.00
ori-rinal idea possible.
But I say that saving money
was one time a good philosophy
That is because it was practiced.
It would be just as good today,
and would go a long way toward
creating the jobs and opportunities
upon which the future of this na-
tion must depend—if the philos-
ophy of saving were put to more
use. But saving and thrift have
today fallen into diehonor. Today,
the man who thinks of saving his
money and then of investing those
savings is likely to be called a
foolish man.
Penalties on Thrift
People who know facts can call
such a man foolish. There are two
reasons for this attitude. First:
it ia nearly impossible to ssv*
money. Government taxing poli-
cies and government discourage-
ment of private thrift make it a
well-nigh imnossible feat for the
few people who have "investment-
size” incomes to save anything at
all. So why try! Second: there’s
not sufficient incentive to invest.
Heavy corporation and income
taxes make earnings from invest-
ments so low that very few of
those who do save will take the
Hsk involved in putting new money
into industry.
The people of this nation arc
rapidly forgetting what those
habits of personal thrift, of laying
it up for the rainy day, have meant
in the growth and progress of
the nation. And this i* true despite
the feet that a dollar of private
investment is 14 times more effec-
tive in creating Jobs than a dollar
of government money. When mon-
ey is put into business it goes to
work, benefiting everyone. But
1949 Winner Best All-Round Weekly Newspaper ond Best
Community Service Awards by West Texas Press Association.
trip to Ft. Worth this week.
meeting.
A recreation
held in Gaines
Farweli, Nat
leader. This ti
made possible
fee paid by th<
tion women. A
training school
was bald in t
muni ties: Grah
ing, Jean, Oln
True. Gerald ir
with the agent
Jimmy Taylor
Hut one and as
(-ration. The I
Commerce spor
mona and Ge
trip.
National 4-1
National Hoa
weak were obi
ing a 16-mint
over station K
Aa n result <
program forty-
modeled their
show held at t
torium in Apri
the girls made
above. Thelma
diaa Mound 4-1
the overall win
ty. Dorothy Re
7th was derfa
junior division
of If our
thottatB Duh
picture show.
1 Dr. G- F. LeGrand has a new
girl at his house, born last week.
James M. Wood made a flying
trip' to Olney Monday, returning
Tuesday.
Judge N. J* Timmons left on
Monday to visit the schools in the
north part of the county.
P. A. Martin feels ten years
older than he did laat week. Cause:
New girl at his house.
M. S. Handley went to Fort
Worth Tuesday to attend a called
Session of the Grand Lodge of
the K. P
Messrs. H. C. Williams, A. T.
Gay, J. T. Rickman and J. W. Akin
attended the Masonic burial of
Grandpa‘.ilones at Bryson Wed-
nesday. 1 i
—. Obey Oracles
Henry Wood has moved to Arch-
er City to thg place where Tommie
Keen lived lest year.
Hoyt Brown wont to Seymour
Saturday.
The new personsfA will soon
bo completed and occupied by Rev.
G- W. Hashing.
J. T. Hunt and G. W. Hutching*
era making n trip to tho Falls
this week.
Mr. Robert Cantrell wee found
dead near the home of bis daugh-
ter, Mra. J. W. Rhodes, seven
miles south of Graham last Thurs-
day.
The following pupils received
certificates into high school: Elisa-
beth Binnion, Robert Franklin
Jones, Dorothy Hudson, Juanita
Wilson, Venotia Crack, Erline Mar-
shall, Irene McLaren, Nolan Bry-
an, JRase Beach, Ellia Thigpen,
Twalah Laquer, Chariot Wright,
Mtrrel Harley, Frank Mathis,
Doyle Woods, Shirley Hager, Yalta
Cantrell, Harry Fisher, Leon Cook,
Zell Baynes, Robert Ragwell and
Vesta Mae Land re as.
Messrs. W. L. Kiser and F. A.
Powell, who wore so painfully
burned three woeka ago, an im-
proving
Superintendent H. H. Avanto
take the people to re-elect him
County Superintendent of Public
Instruction. —
YOU GIVE—THEY WALK,
The child just loy there ond lookggi up at the nurse. Sweat
beaded his foreheod. Those pocks were hot.
Down the corridor a few doors owoy came the rhythmic
pulse of a respirator. In another port of the hospital the click
of braces could be heord, the top of canes, the splashing of
youngsters in the hydrotherapy pool.
These boys ond girls from oil walks of life hod^omething in
common. Infontile paralysis. It reached out to strike them
down lost summer. But they ore coming bock coming bock
fighting hard, because you—'and countless other good people'
hove given them the chance
Y*mp contribution* to the annual MARCH OF DIMES of
Hie National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis made it pas-
Austin Highlights
By SEN. GEORGE' MOFFETT
Soon after the arrival of each
New Year, we find many people
taking StiwAnlAM* xiiSil - h a «L • — m
year, eighty-nine per cent of which
goe* for three purposes—schools,
pensions end roads. In comparison
to the other forty-seven states,
however, Texas ranks third from
the bottom in the amount collected
per person living within the state.
Nevada collects more per person
then any other state.
Tha people voted last November
to keep the poll tax in Taxaa, and
it is hoped that our local citisens
will remember that poll tax pay-
ment* must be made before Feb-
ruary 1. It iscertainly advisable for
ua to keep the voting strength in
our ores at a high figure, for
tone other parts of Texas are
growing faster than Northwest
Texas. In fact, many parts, of
South Texas have more than doub-
led in population since 1940. If we
want to maintain a strong voice
in forming the governmental poli-
cies of our statu, every man and
woman who possibly can do so,
should pay their poll tax and vote
at every opportunity.
•RLMh George Washington’s time,
eighty-five per cent of the people
lived on farms or in small com-
munities. At this time, the large
cities are growing by leaps and
bounds. Therefore it is highly im-
portant for the citizens of the rural
areas and smaller cities to keep
their voting strength at the high-
est possible point The continued
infill mna aa Uiiok tn aairfh
mi lurtirr ui n u>>wn*iti-rni v*i
taking inventory and checking
their profits and losses.
The same should be done regard-
ing our government Whether in
Washington, Austin, or in a local
community, it takes money to run
the government and most of it is
tax money.
There: are three general classes
of taxes: Federal (U.S.) taxes;
State taxes; and local taxes, such
as county, school, and city. The
^Federal (U.S.) Income Tax is the
heaviest of all and produces by far
the largest sum of money of any
tax levied in the entire United
States. Actually the people of
Texas pay out more money in
United States Income Texes than
in all other taxes combined.
^Many states also levy a State
Income Tax. fn fact, all but five
have either the State Income Tax
or a state general sales tax, and
approximately one-half of the
states have both. Texas has neith-
er. AU th* states adjoining Texas
have a general sales tax and some
of our neighbors have to pay n
nine cent gasoline tax and a seven
cent tax on a package of cigar-
ettes. In Texas, the gasoline tax
is four cents per gallon and the
cigarette tax' is three cents per
package.
Our Texas State Government
spends a- large- sum «# money each
The polio outbreoks of 1949 ore now o thing of the post.
That is, for those who escaped But it is not over for some
17,000 of the more than 40,000 children ond odults stricken
lost summer, whp still require core ond treatment this year.
That number does not' include potients of earlier years who
still need assistance. Noe does it include the still unknown
thousands who will.be attacked by polio in next sutfwner's in-
evitable outbreak.
A dime is not very much. Neither is o dollor. But If each of
us contributes o dime or a dollar more than we gave before
If you don’t learn anything from
your mistakes, there’s no sense in
making them.
to the MARCH OF DIMES, JonGory 16-31, we con help thot
boy sweating it out under the hot pocks, wjj can help another
youngster to breothe free of the respirator. We con get other
boys and girls bock oh their feet—alive, alert, and able to go
focWard in hope to health.
Mr. A. A. HBln— stntoe that he
shipped 816 pieces of fnr th* first
at tho week. This represents his
purchase for on* wash. Ho paid
21,000 for the furs
Mr. A. J. Singleton of Loving
is on* of th* many now subserib-
WILL CONGRESS SELL OUT
time to pause and dp our bit toward
and economy-minded people will
unquestionably be a very strong
factor in maintaining reasonsbie
taxation and promoting good gov-
Christine Elli
club entered a
She took Irani
stration.- Bho- |
district and wai
the preservation of thrift. Whether
we teach our young people thrift,
both by precept and example, can
have a lot to do with America's
future.
Our young folks must be taught-
that there i is no such thing as
“easy money.” We cannot afford
to educate this generation that the
best way to make money is to go
into politics, msrry into it, win a
radio “give away,” find '% new
“racket.” wait for a rich uncle to
die, win the sweepstakes, or live
selves, thot independence, thrift, self-reliance and pride ore. nn the dole, it is possible to get
obsolete virtue?, ond that we must follow the sorry exomple money in all these ways, hut they
of neor-bonkrupt England and dictator-ridden Russia.., i ate not the right way*. This coun-
_ | _ . ,] try was not built by those wishful
The basic issue was well put by General Eisenhower when , tr.inl(crs who are ever lookihg for
he said, "Government ownership or control of property is not tlie quick dollar,
to be decried principally becouse of this historic inefficiency! A Thrifty Nation
Of governmental management. .- Its real threat rests in the' America was built by dreamers,
foct that if corned to the logical..extreme, the final concen- however. We can give most of the
frotion of ownership in the honds of government gives to it, in rre<,it to those practical men a-mi
o„ procticol effects, otaSiufe —, over »ur -Thoi (In. I
statement should be on every Congressman s desk We have or the af others of like
come nearer than we teafijeto giving government such power j courage, that mads those dreams
________ come true. If there was any gamble
v•— . S it was simply the risk they dsred
p)ace tg>on their own ideas and
abilities. They had the necessary
courage and vision. They had
r i enough incentive to engage in en-
- j terprioe. In a word, that is the
lion dollars ----------- “) philosophy of free enterprise.
Does this mean Mrs John Public is anv more likely to get! mnit°wm!w and
.0 mink coot one of these days? Hardly, It will merely help, Iinrfe„tand We meaning of thrift,
keep the price of mink coots high so none but the reolly rich i More than that, we cannot afford
can afford them But the middle closs people who .would like' to penalise those who would save
to afford mink coots will help pay (by federal taxes) the /noney, by any‘national policy or
handout to the mink farmers to keep mink coat prices high . . practice. Savings put to work, in
Baby— I jusf
) jfc drove if/*
I jusf saw
fhe NEW
DESOTO?
Countless i
proved that 1
Octal to folks
tha reason so
large ecooom
tho family ca
tura’a vitamh
HADACOL-
For instance
822 IfontgonM
Taxaa, only
“feeling nerv
petit*, her
(act was pale
• imS drawn
and aha suf-
fered from
*•
GOVERNMENT AID TO MINK FARMERS
The United States is hopelessly lost in the "red" in its fiscal
of fairs We soy-hopelessly lost, and we mean exoctly thot, if
the government continues in the control of its present star-
oozers ond social dreamers.
Cub Scout Rock 93
Eloct Now Officers
Wages lost in the recent steel ond aluminum strikes were
estimated at $58,000,(X)Q, or a total of $196,000,000 So,
who won what? i ,
Cub Scouts of Den No. 4, Pack
93, met for their regular meeting
January 12. During the busine**
Period t'iey elected new officers:
Denner, Guy Gibbs, Jr.; secretary,
L. E. Bower; assistant denner,
Glen Edward Wallace; reporter,
Ronnie Butler; mother, Pauline
Messrs Murray ond Lewis wont the Taft-Harfley Act re-
pealed It doesn't seem to be worth too much os it is, but it
don hold a roy of hope for the people We wonder just what
would happen to America if a Lewis-Murray Aet were passed.
Yn, weVonder if these two were privileged to enact a low to
govern the free people of a free notion.
(DACOL.
that’s brand-new from front to beck. have yon drive it at year seen
Moody Bros. Auto Co
Why worry so much whether Trumon’ ond Toft, ond Eisen-
hower will be running in 1951. Let's hop* thot the country will
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The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 19, 1950, newspaper, January 19, 1950; Graham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth884287/m1/2/: accessed May 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Library of Graham.