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GAINESVILLE (TEXAS) WEEKLY REGISTER
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30. 1939
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Contemporary
Julius Kahn, One-
Time Citizen of
Gainesville, Dies
Had Been Resident of
Ardmore Since 1889,
Business Leader There
Mrs.T.J. Beckham
Dies in Dallas
Little Finland has been threatened by the big
bad wolf. Little Finland is peaceful and honest
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Find Encouragement
In any event the news would appear to be on
the pro-Roosevelt aide, and we had just as well
let you know that certain Democratic sources
have found even more encouragement in the re-
cent local elections.
The general results in Philadelphia were dis-
couraging to the Democrats but they saw shreds
of better news for them in other spots. Pitts-
burgh and the surrounding iron towns went on
the Democratic side. They were especially
pleased that young Boies Penrose could not win
a house seat in Philadelphia in spite of bearing
the name of the famous Republican party power-
horse of a generation ago.
On the other hand, they were not so cheered
by the recovery of Tammany in New York. To
Democrats outside of New York, Tammany is a
bitter cross the party must bear. Already they
can hear Republicans crooning 1940 melodies in
.which the "terrible taint of Tammany" is the
major theme.
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IXJASHINGTON. A fairly thorough canvass of-
V Democratic house members who were de-
feated in 1939 discloses that amazingly few
of them want to run again in 1940 unless the
Democratic presidential candidate is Franklin
D. Roosevelt.
In part their attitude is determined no doubt
GFAeE by a feeling of personal loyal-
' A0884EABh tv to the president his
WeekiNgister
ANB MESSENGER
(Absorbed Gainesville signal, February, 1939,
Published Every Thursday—All Home Print
FOUNDED IN 1171
MRS. W. F. TRIPLETT
The funeral of Mrs. W. F. Trip- j
letl. 79. mother of Mrs. Word 4
Payne of Gainesville, who died ir J
Dallas Wednesday evening, wa l
held at Chico Friday afternoon 1
with burial there?
Surviving are her husband; fit ‘S
daughters, Misses Ruth and Nai «
nie Lou Triplett, Dallas; Mrs. 7
M. A. Miller, San Antonio; Mrs. 2
A. W. Wright, Lubbock, and Mrs.
Payne, and nine grandchildren.
Mrs. Triplett was a native of
Louisiana, and lived in Chico for
many years before moving with
her family to Dallas 11 years ago.
WM. WESLEY HUCKABY
Funeral services for Wm. Wesley
Huckaby, 50. long-time resident of
Slidell, who died Tuesday in a
Muskogee, Oklahoma, hospital,
were held af Gregory cemetery
near Slidell Thursday afternoon
wth burial in charge of J. L. Lea-
zer Funeral home.
Mt. Huckaby is survived by his
wife: two sons, Willie Gene and
Charles Reno; his mother, Mrs.
Elvirle Hoyle, and a half-brother,
George Giving, oi Slidell.
THE REGIWTER PRINTIG COMPANY (INC.
PUNLIsHEIS, GAINESVILLE, CooKE C0., TEXAS
Editorlal and Business Office, SOS E. California St.
Members of the Associated Pres", United Press,
Texas Press Association. Texas Daily Press
League and International Circulation Managers’
Asnociation _____
Entered at the Gainesville, Texas, Postoffice
as Second-class Matter.
WEEKLY KEGISTER
BY MAIL, In Gainesville or in Cooke, Grayson,
Danton, Mqntague, Wise counties, Texas, and Love
county, Oklahoma:
deal program. It must be re-
membered that most of those
Democrats who were nosed out
last election were new dealers.
Further, however, their replies
to interested questioners indi- ,
rated they frankly thought that
in their particular districts
Mrs. Mary Edna Beckham. 70,
wife of Rev. T. J. Beckham, former
pastor of Whaley Memorial Meth-
odist church in Gainesville, died at
her home, 3407 Binkley street. Dal-
las. Monday after a three months’
illness.
Funeral services were held Tues-®
day at 2 p. m Rev Marshall Steel '
and Rev. S. C. Rid He officiating,
with burial in Denton.
Her husband before his retire-
ment. held numerous pastorates in
the state, and was pastor of the
local church when the present
church building was constructed. • j
A native of Tennessee. Mrs. 'J
Beckham had lived ip Texas 50
years.
E 8 22 they could not overcome the
Eh"M/hnative Republican strength
*3695 without the Roosevelt influ-
Preston Grover ence.
Julius Kahn, 79, who came to
. Gainesville the year the Santa Fe
railroad ran its tracks into this
city in 1880 and operated a con-
fectionary shop here, passed away
in Ardmore, Oklahoma, where he
had lived for 50 years, Sunday
morning.
Funeral services were held Tues-
day at 3 p m., at Temple Emeth,
Rabbi S. D. Soskin of Fort Worth,
officiating. with burial in Mt. Zion
cemetery.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Re-
becca Stiefel Kahn, one of Ard-
more’s best known social welfare
workers; two daughters, Mrs. Pin-
cus Temerlin and Mrs. Hardy Sims
Solomon of Ardmore. two sons. Dr.
Bernard Kahn, Spokane. Wash.,
and Simon B. Kahn, New .York
City; and four grandchildren.
Mr. Kahn was born in Scher-
. helm, Alsace, France, in 1860, at-
tended school in Strassburg. Ger-
many, and came to the United
States when he was 17 He lived
in New York for three years,
working in a butcher shop.
He came to Gainesville when he
was 20 years of age, but moved
to Ardmore when Oklahoma Ter-
ritory was opened in 1889. He in-
troduced the manufacture of ice
cream in Ardmore.
He was for many years secre-
tary of the Elks lodge in Ardmore,
and was active in the Masonic.
Odd Fellows and Knights of Py-
thias lodges and B'nai B'rithr, Jew-
ish fraternity. He was a member
of the town's first band. and a
charter member of Temple Emeth
congregation.
Townsend Lectt rer
To lb* Heard Here
Mrs. M. E. Jackson, a national
representative for the Townsend
pension organization, will lecture
on the subject "Youth Movement
and Universat Peace" at the
courthouse. Wednesday, November
29 at 8 p. m., It is announced
There will also be music and sing
ing. ahd the public is invited.
There will be no admission charge.
NOTICE TO THE PI BLIC
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tor damages further than the amount received by
them for such advertisements
MRS. MARVIN BROWN
The funeral of Mrs. Lola Pear-
man Brown, 33. wife of Marvin
Brown of Levelland, who died at
the home of her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. B. D. Pearman in the Moss-
ville community Friday, were held
at Centervale Church of Christ
Saturday at 2 p. m., Elder J. H.
Chism of Gainesville officiating.
Burial was in Fairview cemetery
under the direction of George J.
Carroll and Son Funeral home.
Mrs. Brown rs survived by her
husband, a son, Marvin DeWitt,
her parents, three sisters and a
brother. ’ She was born and reared
in the Fish Creek community and
attended Gainesville high school.
She moved to West Texas with her
husband, soon after their mar-
riage.
MH IT'S NEW IN TRI E. NO?
A PROFESSOR of sociology told Chicago ad-
A vertising men last month that all the psy-
chology they lear '
is utterly -antiquated and might as well be
chucked in the ash can.
We hope ad artists won't be too downcast by
the professor's strictures. Not all past knowledge
of the human species can lie obsolete. Possibly a
little might be salvaged from such decadents as
Shakespeare, Emerson and William Jmes We
are thinking of another professor who advised
scrapping everything that had been learned be-
fore him His name was Frederich Nietzche and
he said:
"I was the first to discover truth and the first
who become conscious of the falsehood." Na-
tion's Business.
MRS. B. B. DAVIS
ST. JO. Nov. 28. Mrs. Ora Eliz-
abeth Davis, 54, wife of B. B. Da- i
via, passed away at the family 2
"home on East Williams street I
Monday at 2 p. m.
Funeral services were held at-
the Church of Christ at 3 p. m.
Tuesday, Elder John T. Lauderdale
and Elder John Raymond officiat-
ing, with burial in Mountain Park
cemetery under the direction of E.
N.,Dunbar.
Mrs. Davis is survived by her
husband, a daughter, Miss Mardel,
of Vernon; two sons, Blge Davis
St. Jo; and L. H. Davis, Austin;
two sisters, Mi’s. Myrtle Hilburn.
Waco, and Mrs. Charles Varney,
St. Jo; two brothers, John Al-
driedge, of Alma, Okla., and R. H.
Aldriedge, Arlington, all of whom
were present for the funeral.
Mrs. Davis was born November
13 4885, near St. Jo, the daughter
of the late Ml and Mis Ab
driedge. She was married to/MTG
Davis in St. Jo March 15, 1903 ■
both being members of pioneer 1
Montague county families She 1
was a member of the Church of !
Christ, the Woodman Circle, the J
Unity club and the Home lemon I
stratiorTclub. — I
She had been ill 11 mo 1a foL J
lowing a major . operation. ■
MRS. ,1. .1. MURRAY
Funeral services for Mrs. Kath-
erine Jane Murray, 63, who died
at a local hospital Thursday eve-
ning. were held at the George I
Carroll and Son Funeral Home
-..chapel Saturday at 11 a. m., Rev
E. H. Moseley, pastor of Southern
Presbyterian church. officiating.
The. body was taken overland to
Honey Grove for burial.
Pahearerswere W. A. Hensley,
C E Marshall. Charles J. Merz-
bacher. Isham Beasley, R. L Stin-
nett and J. W. Murphy.
Sin viving are her husband, a
brother John C. Biggs, Dodd City.
two. sisters, Mrs. Lillie B Sims.
MRS. C. B. COB
Brief services were held at the
residence. 822 East Belcher street
Friday at 1 o'clock for Mrs. Susan,
Alice Cobb. 64, wife of C. B. Cobb,
who died Wednesday, and the fu-
neral party proceeded to New
■ Hope cemetery for the burial serv-
ice conducted by Rev. C. L. Miller
of Bolivar. Burial was in charge
of J. L. Leazer Funeral home.
Pallbearers were Ted Norman.
Carlton Moss, J.C Sluder, Jimmy
Dennard, Jay Riley and Charles
Van Duker
Mrs. Cobb is survived’by her
husband. two daughters. Mrs. Pearl
Tuley. Vernon, and Mrs. Lillie
Dennard. Pilot Point; four sons.
Albert, California; Sid. Houston.
Floyd. Gainesville; and Lester,
. Fort Worth; 10 grandchildren and
three great-grandchildren. She was
a native of Texas and a member
of the Church of Christ.
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Houston, and Mrs. W N. Sadler, I
Amarillo; and the following nieces 1
and nephews. Mrs. Evelyn Pritch- A
ell, Houston: Mrs. C. R. Austin, I
Amarillo; William Sadler. Ama- B
rillo; Edward Biggs, Wichita ■
Falls John Biggs, New York; Jer-■
ome Biggs. South America, an a
Mrs H H. Curtis, Flint. Mich. M
Mrs Murray was born Februa 1
12, 1877 in Polk county, near Den I
ton. Tenn., and was brought to "T
Texas by her parents when she was 1
18 months old. She "was married to
Mr. Murray 41 years ago, and they
had lived in Gainesville 30 years,
and at the Pecan street home for .
23 years. She was a faithful mem- "
ber of the First Presbyterian (
church. ■ A
The Word,of God
I call to remembrance my song in the night;
I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit
made diligent search. Psalm 77:6.
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A WASTEFUL PROCEDURE
HVERY NEWSPAPER editor is con-
La versant with the fact that the public-
ity agents for private enterprises, seek-
ing to obtain free space for some product
or for promotion of some pet theory, are
not the only offenders with which the
newspaper have to contend. The problem is
greater for the daily newspapers than for
those published less frequently, no doubt,
since the would-be space grafters, as they
are frequently called, literally pour their
"offerings” into daily newspaper offices,
hopeful of getting one or more of them
printed, at least one time during the week.
But, as stated above, they are not the
only offenders. The federal government
has many bureaus and many departments,
with staffs of well-paid publicity men, who
keep the mails literally flooded with so-
Called "news releases,” bulletins, pam-
ph lets and even reports containing hun-
dreds of pages, most of which give evi-
(fence of being designed to build political
prestige for the administration, or the
Bureaus, or departments, and having little
Actual news value to any busy reader.
This is not true in all instances, of course,
but the exceptions are few.
* To cite an example of this waste of time,
’ materials, and transportation— all at the
taxpayers’ expense-.we need go no fur-
ther back than Sunday: In a single mail
that day, after the letter box had been
emptied previously, were six letters from
the. Rural Electrification Administration,
• Washington, D. C. Each of them contained
an identical news release. Each was in a
separate envelope of good quality, and
each envelope bore an identical carcella-
tion stamp, showing to have been mailed
at the same hour, On the same date. Four
of these letters were addressed, "Editor,
Register, Gainesville, Texas.” Two of them
Were addressed to "Editor, Signal” the
Hame and good will of the latter newspaper
having been purchased by The Register
When it ceased publication nearly a year
ago.
« In other words, a single mimeographed "
sheet containing, the preferred news item,
i would have sufficed for The Register.
That amount of paper would have re-
quired little material and only one opera-
tion in its preparation on the mimeograph.
Only one envelope would have been neces-
ary—only one envelope to be "stuffed,"
only one to be passed through the cancel-
lation machine, only one for the various
ail clerks at both ends of the line to
kandle; only one little parcel for the mail
cars to transport, all at the expense of the
thxpayers. Instead of ONE such, however,
tis newspaper received FOUR in the
same mail, each identical in content. Two
Wre addressed to the former Signal, mak-
fog SIX.
Multiply that by the number of hvwspa-
pers that probably received such commu-
nications, and you won’t have to draw on
your imagination to realize why taxes are
high, and why so many editors oppose the
extravagance that follows government en-
croachment into the fields of private in-
dustry. The news release, in this particu-
lar instance, is confined of interest to a
limited area. Imagine the useless expense
to which the taxpayers are subjected,
when one designed for national coverage,
goes, out to thousands of publications, if
similarly duplicated.
Either Congress, or the Post Office De-
partment, has made some effort to curtail
. th® wasteful practice, by requiring mail-
ings only to newspapers indicating previ-
ously a desire for "releases" from certain
departments, but it appears that the
REA's enthusiasm is exceeded only by its
generosity, with the Dear Old Taxpayer
footing the bills. And. REA is just one
among many offenders. •
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May Come Back
The sources from which we obtained this in-
formation cautioned that it would be flying too
fast to accept this as proof that only President
Roosevelt among the Democrats can win next
time. A thousand different factors bear on
THAT situation.
But It does indicate that nearly four-score
Democrats who did not come back last time
think they would be better off in‘a new race with
Rooseveit as a candidate. Altogether the Demo-
crats lost 70 seats in the house last election. A
few of this number represented retirements but
by far the larger number were new deal repre-
sentatives who could not survive an off-year
election in districts where Republican strength
was solid and enduring.
It costs quite a pocket full of cash to run for
congress, and one defeat chills the ardor even of
an ardent liberal, particularly if he rode to vic-
tory on the tail of the Roosevelt comet, sees no
other comet he likes as well, and is just natural-
ly short of cash anyway, as many a congressman
or former congressman is.
Roosevelt supporters necessarily could look
upon this poll of the defeated as reflecting senti-
ment in their districts. With Roosevelt they
could win, they, reported in large numbers to
Washington. Without him they are not so hap-
pily confident. Correspondingly, Republicans
could suggest that these former representatives
are telling the world as clearly as anything that
a heap of marginal districts which moved out of
the Democratic columns in 1938 will be out again
in 1940.
MRN. K. L. MTNTYRE
Funeral serices for Mrs. Kath-
erine L. McIntyre. 66, Who diet! at
her home. 1312 Witherspoon street.
Wednesday morning, were held
Thursday at 3 p. m. at the J. L.
Leazer Funeral Home chapel, Rev.
Porter, Church of Christ minister,
of Denison. officiating. Burial was
in Fairview cemetery beside her
husband, the late James McIntyre,
who died twa xronths ago at the
family home here.
Surviving are a daughter. Mrs
W C. Johnson; a son. H. C. Mc-
Intyre. both of Gainesville; five
grandchildren and several nieces
and’nephews.
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