The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 13, 1955 Page: 2 of 10
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.. "Get Out of the Road
t anything elM right new Canadian
from Its citizen* nose enthusiasm and
mora boosting end less
more civic workers end fewer
superintendents.
These are trite phrases . . . tired and over-
worked phrases . . . and they might be applied
as well to any town in the country as to Cana-
dian . . . but they are nevertheless true, and
they convey some important truths for the town
of Canadian and its people.
They wouldn't be so trite ... so tired and
overworked ... if they weren't so aptly appli-
cable to so many places and at so many times.
It's no secret that Canadian has absorbed some-
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THE CANADIAN RECORD
Canadian (Hemphill County) Texas
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Entered as second class matter December 20,1945,
at the Postoffice at Canadian, Texas, under the
act of March 3, 1879. Published each Thursday
afternoon at Canadian, Texas, by the Lockhart
Publishing Company, a Texas corporation.
Answer to the Atom . . .
, ... Faith in Almighty God
The following article, written shortly before
his death by the late Nelson Trusler Johnson =
former U. S. ambassador to China, appeared as
Week" magazine. It should have a"£íacef among
the articles of faith for all mankind in these
troubled times:
For thine is the kingdom, and the power,
and the glory . . .
These words seem to me to be fitting words
to live by in this age of the atom. To me, they
establish beyond question our relationship to
God.
My lawyer father used to say to me that God
placed us here as trustees of His kingdom. If we
accept that concept, there is no need to live in
terror of^the energy which we, in the perform-
ance of our trust, have released from the atom.
Man has always had within him the power to
destroy himself. Instead he continues to live in
God's kingdom, by His power and to His glory.
Fear doubtless first seized our primitive an-
cestors when one of them for the first time pro-
duced fire, handling familiarly and harmlessly
the terribly destructive force which had always
held man in deadly fear and awe. Man. master
of fire, built thereon the great civilization which
we see all about us.
The energies released by atomic fission and
fusion are but the latest of the many talents
with which God has trusted us. Despite obvious
dangers, we dare not wrap these talents in a
napkin and bury them in the ground in fear of
ourselves or God. If God has trusted us, can we
not then trust ourselves?
With the power that God has given us, we
are even now taking the first steps forward in
the building of a new world to replace the old.
God has opened for us and for our children the
bright prospect of a new and infinitely freer
world. New horizons beckon us on all sides.
Let us go forward then, in God's kingdom,
trusting Him as He has trusted us and unafraid.
The driver who speeds along at 85 is literally
killing time.
thing of a beating in the past few years. So have
most other towns in this section of the country.
We are moving into our fifth year of drought
and the prospects for relief are not yet in sight.
The cattle market has slumped, and the railroad
has moved its payroll. Things are tough all over.
But what do we gain by building ourselves
a wailing wall and beating our heads against
it? Not sympathy, certainly. Other communi-
ties have troubles of their own.
Some of them are in far worse shape than
ours. Look around you and cheer up.
And just how tough are conditions anyhow? If
most of us aren't exactly rolling in dough these
days, none of us are exactly starving to death
either. We have no big unemployment problem.
Everybody who wants to work and is willing to
work can find work . . . and the pay scale is a
long way from the dollar-a-day dole of th<* thir-
ties, too.
If this is a Depression we're having, ifs the
most comfortable one in history.
Local bank deposits this month were at the
highest total in the town's history . . . nearly
4.7 million dollars. Does that surprise you?
Local retail business may not be exactly boom-
ing, but it isn't exactly busted either. Several lo-
cal businessmen, who have devoted their energies
to serving their customers instead of wasting time
on the street corners proclaiming hard times,
report 1954 grosses equal to . . . and in some
cases better than . . . those for the previous year.
Not a single local bankruptcy or business fail-
ure has resulted from the railroad move which
was supposed to turn Canadian into a tombstone
town. But the same people who were certain last
January that 1954 would ring the death knell
for Canadian are just as certain this January
that the old town will never survive '55.
Canadian, in common with most towns in
this section, undoubtedly faces an uphill pull
in the year ahead . . . but if e few more people
will get behind and push, we'll make the
grade.
We may even be able to give a free ride to
some of you who won't push but just want to
hang on . . . if you'll just sit quiet and quit
kicking.
But it would be a big help if those who in-
sist on doing their daily dying in public would
get the hell out of the road to do it.
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Texas In the Red . . .
- . • - No New Taxes in Sight
(From the Dallas News)
Comptroller Calvert's report to the Legislature
Monday on state finances has no comedy relief.
He points to a three-month deficit in which he
does not think that Texas can pay some $26
millions of its bills. Presumably any relief in
that condition would have to be found in the
windfall of delinquent payments or unexpected
revenue from existing sources of state income.
The amount is almost half of the additional
revenue which the Legislature has known it
must find. That amount is increased by the
deficit, if it remains so, from $60 millions to $86
millions.
While the burden is always heavy on the state
to reduce expenditures in every conceivable way.
the unwelcome fact remains, too, that for the
expenses to which Texas is committed, the means
must be provided. Unwelcome as is any deficit,
the state should find the means to pay its war-
rants when issued rather than put the burden of
loss on its employees.
It is gratifying that for more than a decade
Texas has been on a cash basis. But the excellent
status of the past does not minimize the gravity
of the present. The deficit stresses a contention
made wisely by many able members of the Legis-
lature. Our present effort to forecast the books
two years in advance is an economic impossibil-
ity. Appropriation for one year instead of a hi-
ennium will make a closcr approach to reality.
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Tip to motorists: Watch out for school kids —
they weren't brought up to be run down.
♦ * *
The dollar that does the most good for us is
the dollar which is kepf to circulation.
* *
In the old days when a youth started sowltlg
wild oats, father started the thrashing machine.
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STRICTLY FRESH
"DOLICE in Leicester, England,
have proof of the "flying sau-
cers" we've been hearing about.
Found hundreds of 'em sur-
rounding a book titled, "The Fly-
ing Saucers Have Landed."
Whole mess was in the wreck of
a crockery salesman's station
wagon.
• • ♦.
Fellow in New York City
found he just wasn't suited for
burglary. Swiped a neat set of
threads, leaving his old suit be-
hind for police.- In the cast-off
was his picture, name and ad-
dress.
* • •
Bank In Cleveland, Ohio, add-
ed over $15 million to its savings
accounts last year by giving
away an exclusive recording of
a popular pianist with each new
or boosted account. Sort of an
adding-machlne symphony.
Wo at The Record got sev-
eral lessons In Hemphill coun-
ty geography read to us last
week after unintentionally
moving the Blue Ridge school-
house lrom Blue Ridge (or
Gem) to Washita and getting
it confused with the Washita
Community Building . . . and
some of our teachers were a
little indignant at our ignor-
ance. We knew better, too.
• * *
If we really owe anyone an
apology for the error, though, we
figure it would be Mrs. Smith
Burnett, whose life for so many
years was closely tied up with
both Blue Ridge School and the
Community Building at Wash-
ita. And we can't imagine Lasca
Burnett, who taught several gen
erations of youngsters and loved
it, growing very indignant with
anyone for flunking a geography
test.
• • •
Mrs. B.. bless her heart, had
as lively a sense of humor as
anyone we've ever known, and
a heartful of kindness to go
with it
*
Wellington hardware merchant
D. E. Scott, whose "Crossroads
Report" is published regularly in
his home-town Wellington Lead-
er as well as appearing on the
editorial page of the Amarillo
Daily News, is being hailed by
some local fans as a "second
Will Rogers." Being old enough
to recall happily the pungent
comments of the one-and-only
Will, we wouldn't quite agree
with that estimate . . . but the
Crossroads xvepwi does come
up with occasional comments in
the true Will Rogers manner.
Here's a recent one from The
Leader, for example:
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"I see where Mr. Postmaster
General sAlfferfield has done
such a sharp job of streamlin-
ing the post office, injecting
business principles therein,
and overhauling the rate
structure, that the annual defi-
cit is now running only a little
bit higher than it did back in
the old days of Democratic
management."
* * •
"There is some complaint in
this area," the Wellington phil-
osopher continues, "about how
the businesslike Summerfield
regime has put parcel post rates
up to where we could hire run-
ners to deliver our packages
cheaper. But this shrewd move
has cut the use of parcel post
enough that the postoffice now
has time to handle more of that
interesting advertising material
whereby primed propositions can
be put into our gullible hands
at a loss leader rate.
* * ♦
"Anyhow, if there is any cit-
izen who isn't getting his daily
armload of propaganda on
uranium stocks, questionable
insurance deals, salacious
books, punch boards and
chump merchandise, he can't
rightly accuse Mr. Summer-
field of being to blame."
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If you didn't eat your quota of
yj^k-eyed peas on New Year's
Clay, quit camplBtninp ~~out the
weather and the sad state of
your business. Editor Hop Gra-
ham jr., over at Farwell, reports
that in a streetcorner survey he
asked half a do4#rt people about
their plans for Nfc'w Year's din-
ner and fouml that not a single
one of them planned to eat
black-eyed peas .'. . and Editor
Graham was downright discour-
aged.
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"No wonder we have such
poor luck with our weather
over here," he comments, "the
way people are letting every-
thing so worthwhile get so
run down!"
* •
As every West Texan knows,
eating black-eyed peas in gen-
erous quantities on New Year's
Day is practically guaranteed to
set business booming... . . par-
ticularly the black-eyed pea bus-
iness. You're just tempting prov-
idence if you miss.
•
We've always been a firm
believer in this pleasant cus-
tom . . , though our faith was
somewhat shaken back In the
thirties when we not only ate
black-eyed peas on New Teal's
Day but had them at practical-
ly every other meal the year
'round. We ate pinto beans for
Common Sense Is Factor
In Christian Life
The Christian way of life and
conduct, if one accepts and pro-
poses to follow it, ought to be
simply and easily defined. Is it
not to love God with all the
heart, strength and soul and
mind, and to love one's neighbor
as one's self?
Yet it is obvious in the pages
of the New Testament and in the
religious life of all times, in-
cluding our own, that religious
people have been deeply con-
cerned about the problems of
daily conduct. They have differ-
ed widely about questions of
right and wrong and have often
been harsh in their demands and
judgments upon those whose
ideas have not coincided with
their own.
There are reasonable stand-
ards of moral judgment that
would mark the proper conduct
of a Christian while avoiding
great extremes of undue Puri
tanism and undue license. They
can be found in studying the
words and the example of Jesus
in relation to matters of conduct.
So often, we are too inclined
to relate the teachings of Jesus
to the supreme matter of faith
and love without paying suffi-
cient attention to specific in
stances.
A striking instance concerns
the Sabbath. It was made for
man, Jesus said, and not man
for the Sabbath. Throughout
Christian history, punctilious ob
servers carried to extremes ob
servance of the letter of the Sab-
bath.
There are enough real sins
and wrongs to fight without ere
ating artificial sins out of mat
ters that are neither against God
nor against one's fellow men.
Goodness needs always the
strong ally of common sense.
. . . and maybe the
pintos had a leavening effect
on the black-eyed magic.
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Faith finally paid off, though.
Our luck changed and we spent
several years in the Army eating
C-rations instead!
No down payment—37 months
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fences - roofs • paint - storm
sash - insulatoin - most any-
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Modern Lumber Company. 2-tfc
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& Dry Cleaners
Will gladly give our
customers
Canadian Pride
Stamps
— when bills are paid
promptly by the 10th of the
month.
Drop by our plant and pick
them up.
Also, if you are in a rush
to fill up your book, I'll
even let you pay a month
in advance and give you
DOUBLE STAMPS on it. My
creditors can always use
the money this time of the
year.
ROY & JENNIE DEATON
Canadian Laundry &
Dry Cleaners
PALACE
THEATRE
WEDNES.-THURSDAY, Jan. 12-13
Joan Russell • Gilbert Roland
"The French Line"
FRIDAY-SATURDAY, Jan. 14-15
Glenn Ford • William Holden
"Man from Colorado"
plus — Johnny Weismuller in
"Cannibal Attack"
SUNDAY - MONDAY ■ TUESDAY
Jan. 16-17-18
Humphrey Bogart • Van Johnson
Fred MacMurray - Jose Ferrer
"The Caine Mutiny"
—TECHNICOLOR—
WEDNES.-THURSDAY, Jan. 19-20
Dana Andrews - Jeanne Crain
"Duel in the lungle"
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Ezzell, Ben. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 13, 1955, newspaper, January 13, 1955; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth183733/m1/2/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.