Refugio Timely Remarks (Refugio, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 22, 1949 Page: 2 of 12
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Page 2—Dec. 22,1949, REFUGIO TIMELY REMARKS
Refugio Timely Remarks
Entered as second-class matter November 10, 1928, at the post offu
at Refugio, Texas, under act of March 3, 1879.
Consolidated with Refugio County News January 1, 1919,
Consolidated with Woodsboro Weekly Times February 1, 1937.
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funerals published in time to retain the news value are not rated as obituaries.
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ASSOCIATION
The Refugio Timely Remarks is pledged to the supporting
of the following for the benefit of the community and coun-
ty:
(1) Complete highway system (which includes paved
roads to every adjoining county-seat).
(2) A County-city planning board.
(3) A clean, attractive community.
(4) An approved public water system.
(5) A well trained, attractively uniformed school band.
(6) Regularly published financial statements of tax col-
lecting agencies.
(7) A church supporting, church attending population.
(8) An adequate teen-age program. ^
(9) A one-unit county-wide school administrative system
maintaining a junior college.
(10) A swimming pool.
(11) A county unit of the Texas Tuberculosis Association.
(12) County building program to furnish an isolation
ward for the Refugio County Hospital, a County Agricultural
Building and a new jail house.
(13) An annual county fair.
(14) A municipal court.
(15) Improved street marking system.
Remember?
By Bill Kennedy
19 Years Ago
From the Refugio Timely Re-
marks issue of December 26,
1930:
Henry Strauch was to quit busi-
ness January 1. He sold the Henry
Strauch Grocery Store to A. H.
Bailey.
The Plank Auto Laundry was
sold to I. E. Duncan.
Shades of ’49—A cold snap hit
Refugio, as the mercury plunged
to 33 degrees.
Miss Alliene Smith and J. G.
Peevey were married in Corpus
Christi the previous Saturday.
A writer had it all figured out
—With each state having some
special “day” to celebrate, he rea-
soned that he could attend them
a-11 and have to work only about
50 days of the 365.
J. H. Allen, proprietor of the
Refugio Bakery, was spending the
Christmas holidays in Palacios.
D. H. Rice, an employee of the
Mission Drilling Company, was
severely injured when his arm was
caught between two pipes.
Mack’s Cafe No. 1, owned and
operated by N. F. Lockmiller,
would thereafter he known as
Lucky’s Cafe.
Miss Della Ryals and Miss
Frances Moss were home from In-
carnate Word College, San Anto-
nio, for the holidays.
V. V. Bailey and family spent
Christmas in Gregory with Mr.
and Mrs. L. Porter.
The Timely Remarks wished all
its 1930 readers a Very Merry
Christmas. (The Remember? writ-
er wishes to do the same thing in
1949 . . . and does.)
Ghost-Writing Denounced As
A Fraud
“Ghost-writing has debased the intellectual currency
in circulation and is a type of counterfeiting which
invites no defense.”
The quotation taken above comes from a dissenting opin-
ion of Associate Justice Robert H. Jackson, in a case recently
decided by the Supreme Court. The decision involved the
action of the U. S. Patent Office in prohibiting an 80-year-
old lawyer from practicing before it on the ground of mis'-
conduct in submitting, in 1926, to a trade journal an article,
written by him but represented as having been written for
a glass company by the president of a glass-workers union.
The exclusion of the lawyer was approved by the District
Court, but the Federal Court of Appeals reversed the ruling.
The Appellate Court called the patent lawyer a victim of
“bureaucratic lynch law,” asserting that the Patent Office
waited “more than eighteen years until the evidence had
largely disappeared to bring state charges” against the at-
torney “and then proceeded to try and convict him before a
‘Kangaroo Court’.”
The U. S. Supreme Court, by a six-to-two decision, held
that charges of unfairness in the hearings were “wholly
without support” and asserted that the Commissioner of
Patents was “primarily responsible for protecting the public
from the evil consequences that might result if practitioners
should betray their high trusts.”
The long delay in making the charge against the attorney
and his long practice of his profession without blemish may-
have been extenuating circumstances but we cannot criti-
cize the Supreme Court. Certainly, the Commissioner of Pat-
ents should have the right to regulate the conduct of attor-
neys practicing before the Patent Office. This power seems
to be necessary if the public is to be adequately protected.
Nevertheless, Associate Justice Jackson, in his denuncia-
tion of the “ghost-writing” practice, calls attention to a form
of literary fraud that is widely prevalent, “even in official
circles in Washington,” as the Justice points out. He con-
demns “the custom of putting up decoy authors to impress
the guileless” and admits that the Courts might be render-
ing “a public service in treating phantom authors and ghost-
writers as legal frauds and disguised authorship as- a decep-
tion.” ’ • • ...
The Justice questions whether any man “has ever been
disciplined or reprimanded for it” and whether “ally Will be
hereafter.” These questions naturally arouse sympathy for
the lawyer prohibited from his practice but they do not jus-
tify his'previous action or the reasons behind the decision of
the High Tribunal. No man can excuse his wrongful act by
asserting that others have not been punished or that others,
in the future, may not be punished.
Nevertheless, the practice of ghost-writing is reprehen-
sible. While men in public office, or those who make numer-
ous public appearances, are, perhaps, entitled to the help of
research assistants in connection with the numerous ad-
dresses and discussions that involve them,^ the habit has a
widespread vogue in connection with advertising and author-
ship in other fields.
The practice is also notable in the field of national ad-
vertising. Numerous testimonials and endorsements repre-
sent nothing but a cash consideration paid to a name. The
so-called endorsement paid to a name. The so-called endorse-
ment is then widely advertised for the purpose of fooling the
gullible and puffing the product advertised. This is also a
fraud which should be prohibited by law.
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Pseudo-men hang onto special privileges and favored
positions like drowning men hang onto a piece of wreckage
and for the same reason.
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Children learn much from their adult companions—
that’s mostly what’s wrong with children^
15 Years Ago
From the Refugio Timely Re-
marks issue of December 28, 1934:
County Clerk T. W. McGuill
sent special Christmas greetings j
to the postal employees, in recog-
nition of the fine job they had
done during the holiday rush.
Santa Claus payed a welcome
visit to the Refugio County jail-
house. The prisoners sent a ‘thank
you’ note to Sheriff Ira Heard.
Mrs. C. H. Thomas was the win-
ner of a hooked rug, raffled off
by the student loan fund.
Troop 72, Refugio Boy Scouts
under the leadership of Robert L.
Moore, won the Roosevelt Award
for 1934 scouting activities.
Compliments were many for
Publisher Jones’ fine job in print-
ing the Centennial Edition of the
Timely Remarks.
Movie—Dick Powell and Ruby
Keeler, in “Flirtation Walk.”
Former residents of Austwell,
Bunyon Davidson and Miss May
Evelyn Stevenson, were married
in Corpus Christi.
Captain Buck Weston and Rich-
mond Carpenter were named to the
8-C All-District football team.
Miss Jessie Vance, junior at
Mary Hardin-Baylor, was home
with her parents, Judge and Mrs.
J. T. Vance, for the Christmas
holidays.
The first dirigible trip around
the world was made by the Graf
Zepplin in 1929.
Louis Germer
representing
Southwestern
Life Insurance
Company
Habit of Complaint
“I suppose you were thankful
for the heavy rain.”
“Oh, yes,” replied Farmer Corn-
tassel: “though I don’t see why
them weather folks couldn’t per-
vide to keep it in the fields in-
stead of letting it stray around,
muddlin’ up the roads.”
Classified Ads get results.
Building Contractor
Complete Building Service, Re-
pairing, Remodeling, Cabinet
Building, Etc.
Billy Jenkins
Phone 631-W
C. S. BOONE
AGENT
Humble Oil &
Refining Co.
REFUGIO, TEXAS
Phone 97
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j for Hearty Fall Appetites I
SPECIALS FOR FRIDAY
Swift’s Prem. Sliced
U Jasmine Tenderized, V2
rlQmS or Whole, Lb...............
Cheese ^*scons*n ^r*
Chuck Roost u.........
Stew Meat Lb............
Pork Chops CeT c*
Celery *££ Si!L-..............
dpIlGS 10 Lbs........................
Carrots Bunch ...............
Onions GBu"ch .....................
AND SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23 AND 24
Snowdrift 8 Lb. can 76
Preserves 'berry.™'. j£p' 49
Cigarettes carton 1.7
Monte Whole ^A
i@aHS Green, No. 2 Can .... 3V
Sardines BrS^Ln............21
Coffee Fols:’s......................75
Starch “SS™**..................18
Oxydol box ......................25
Dreft box ............................24
SOlip s ^r* Spinach 23c
Sugar
5 Lbs.
44c
Kraft Miracle Whip
Salad Dresing L 33c
Catsup ..................16c
Cranberry Sauce 2c*29c
Cocktail .... 38c
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JOHNSON
GROCERY
WE PICKUP DEAD STOCK FREE
Careful, Courteous Drivers, Sterilized Trucks.
Do not expose your Livestock to Disease by leaving dead
stock on your premises
CALL US COLLECT 2-4062
We also buy old or disabled Horses and Mules
WE PAY ALL PHONE CHARGES
1 Large Box of National Advertised
Granulated SOAP Free on each Call.
SOUTHERN BY-PRODUCTS CO.
Phone 2-4062 Box 542 Corpus Christi, Texas
If no answer call 2-4034
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for your
^TMME’S coming when the air is full
JL of good spirits, and We all feel
pretty chipper — but what about that
faithful Buick of yours?
Wet winter driving is roughest on
cars—and even though it still handles
like a sweetheart, your Buick may
have slipped a notch or so in perform-
ance, or gradually acquired a squeak
you haven’t been aware of.
$0 do this
• • •
Bring it to us for one of our winter
tune-ups, plus a special winter
LUBRICARE treatment. (This Lub-
ricare is something you and your
Buick should know about — it’s an
over-all trouble-check, plus a wonder-
fully thorough lubrication routine!)
Ruickcaie
Between these two refreshing treat-
ments, you’ll have all your Buick’s
glad and breezy power back-—plenty
of Fireball zoomph to pull you out of
any traffic fuss. You’ll have a quiet-
riding body and chassis that make
every mile a glad glide. And you’ll
have top mileage efficiency, with a
motor that starts on the coldest morn-
ing as quick as a scared alarm clock!
Why put it off? Our service is quick
and expert, our prices lower than
you’d think.The driving pleasure you
get is immense. Phone us now and
make a holi-date for bringing your
Buick’s spirits up to those of the
season!
BARNHART MOTOR SALES
206 S. ALAMO ST.
REFUGIO, TEXAS
PHONE 668
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