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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1940
Page
4
The Standard extends season’s wishes to readers and subscribers, noting new subscriber growth of over five hundred in the past year. The message thanks readers for support and expresses hope for a joyful Holidays and New Year ahead.
The piece contrasts Christmas reverence with wartime reports from Cairo where British forces push Italians back, leaving many wounded and dead. It urges a return to peace and goodwill among all men, comparing holy ideals to war’s grim deeds.
The piece urges a year end inventory to compare starting point with current state and assess accomplishments. It suggests merchants, farmers, and individuals examine what benefited neighbors, family, city, church, or civic groups, and commit to a stronger debit balance in the coming year. It emphasizes personal accountability and planning.
A compact quotation attributed to Emerson notes that structural height is governed by the width of the base, indicating central balance between support and ascent.
Nation mourns 16 Texas deaths in car crashes and follows England's leaders with Halifax named British ambassador to the United States. Roosevelt to speak Sunday, Thompson named Texas Railroad Commission head, four men to head defense production, and Finland's Kyosti Kallio dies.
Defense is the watchword of the nation and it is timely for farmers to check their defense resources against natural enemies. Tyrus R. Timm urges farm families to inventory land, buildings, livestock, crops, and equipment, noting repairs, trade‑in value, cash on hand and debts to avoid false conclusions about overall property value.
Hours before dying Risto Ryto had been named president and the retiring chief executive waved to the crowd. He stood on a train platform and said Goodbye Thanks for everything before collapsing and dying.
Dr. Otto Struve of the University of Texas McDonald Observatory announced a bright comet will be visible in western skies during Christmas and early January. Comet Cunningham, named after its Harvard discoverer, should be naked eye from now until January 13 with peak brightness around January 1.
Farmers can get a free bulletin from county agricultural agents titled How to tell whether you went forward or backward on your farm last year. A more detailed bulletin, Farm Inventories, is available from the U S Department of Agriculture in Washington.
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