Gainesville Weekly Register and Messenger (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 23, 1939 Page: 2 of 16
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Observations
By GREGG HOWARD
county, Oklahoma:
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Fried Chicken or Fat Pork
By T. C. RICHARDSON, Secretary,
Breeder-Feeder Association,
Generalization
An employe asked his boss for a raise in
salary, and to back up his request he informed his
chief that several other companies were after
him. It was some months later that the boss dis-
covered the employe was referring to the gas
company, the water company and a time payment
furniture concern.
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Misunderstood
Young Thing in a stationery store: “Please
give me a pound of floor wax."
John L. Simpson and.G. W. Brad- f
ley have gone to Galveston to look
damage has been small up to now
and the cold seems to be abating
and we hope that everything will
come out all right.
A few folks got in a hurry and
planted a garden the warm days
of last week and will likely have
to do the job over. When we were
on the farm I remember that my
wif and I- would have a fuss ev-
ery year about planting the gar-
den. About the first beautiful day
in February she would begin want-
ing to plant and I would object be-
Marysville, and in few days wii ?
be eighty years old. She lives at
her old home place, and her son,
Sam Duffy, and his family- are
with. her.
She still takes her papers and
keeps up with the current news
anti talks freely on the main topics
of the day and especially on re-
— -— in the old Blue Back speller three
thinking generations ago.
years. What we mean is that it's so different it’s
practically new.
' Its most striking, and probably most pleas-
ing difference, is it’s change in size. It is con-
veniently small, like a magazine. It doesn't wear
out your arm to hold it nor your patience to un-
fold it. .
No doubt the new Register will be popullar,.
That’s why a lot of people are marveling at the
optimism of J. G. Hooper (of Muenster News
fame! in announcing that another new county-
paper, the Cooke County News, will come forth
with its Volume I, No. 1, no so many weeks hence
There is a move that definitely takes The Ma-
jor out of the class of small town newspaper men
and classifies him as a publisher of a chain of
newspapers. This makes four for him—-the Saint
Jo Tribune, Montague County News and Muen-
ster News are now being published in his. Saint
Jo plant. .
Frankly, we don’t envy him. If four papers
are four times as much work as one paper, that
really ought to be a job. Frequently we have to
borrow time from the night (and never repay it)
to get just one paper out on schedule. We dread
to think of what four would do to us. With that
many irons in the fire we‘d probably get hotter'
than the irons.—Muenster Enterprise.
folly of attempting to control and fix the
price of any agricultural product.
“As every informed person knows, the
surplus of American cotton is greater to-
day than at any time in the history of the
industry. Consumption of American cot-
ton abroad continues to decline. There is
no reason to hope that under the present
agricultural program, with an excessively
high tariff, conditions will improve. For
six long years restriction has been fol-
lowed in one wayr-or another and our high
tariff has been maintained, and the cot-
ton industry is now in worse condition
than it has ever been.’’
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15 YEARS AGO
( From the files of the Daily Reg.
ister, Feb. 22, 1924): _
Dr. J.‘T. Clark was elected a
member of the executive board of
The Texas Electronic Association
at their annual convention held at
Houston this week.
Mrs. Jane Stratton of Denver,
Colo., is visiting in the home of
Ben F. Witt and family.
As a surprise to Mrs. Joel T.
Bryant and Mrs. John Purcell re-
cently married, the employes of
Teague Company showered them
with miscellaneous gifts at the
home of Mr. and Mrs, J. W. Gall-
agher this week.
That is one of the most pathetic statements in all
the Scriptures. We have here the picture of that
little band of defeated and baffled disciples, after
they had performed the last sad rites for their
friend and master doing the thing which their
hearts prompted them, to do turning to Jesus.
Thus in our hours of extremity we turn to the
One who can be touched by a feeling of our heip-
lessness, “who knoweth our frame and remember-
eth that we are dust.”
Hull’s reciprocal trade agreements have
failed to modify to an appreciable degree.’
You know that is true. . . .
“They say that the ‘Democrats’ are in
control in Washington. Yes, ‘Democrats’
who after six years have the Smoot-Haw-
ley tariff law on> the books. Never, a
linger has been lifted by these ‘Demo-
crats’ to repeal it. Smoot and Hawley
were Republicans, a Republican congress
passed this bill, a Republican president
signed it, and in South Carolina are those
who say that the News and Courier is ‘Re-
publican’ because it condemns and de-
nounces the ‘Democracy’ that hugs this
Republican tariff protection to its bosom.
“The News and Courier is an independ-
ent Democratic newspaper and is no more
akin to the Roosevelt party than it was
akin to the U. S. Grant and ‘Thad’ Stevens
party. From all that comes to our ears, it
is not nearly the lonely ‘traitor’ in South
Carolina that it was in 1936.” ,
The 1932 platform of the Democratic
party vigorously condemned the Hawley- 1
Smoot tariff law and pledged the lowering
IONGRATULATIONS to a new Cooke county
i weekly newspaperuthe Register. Yes, yes, we
know it’s been printed for half a hundred
do without
AND MESSENGER •
(Absorbed Gainesville Signal, February, 1939)
Published Every Thursday—All Home Print
FOUNDED IN 1878 -
THE REGISTER PRINTING COMPANY (INe.
PUELISHERS. GAINESVILLE, COOKE CO., TEXAS
Editorial and Business Office, 308 E. California St
Members of the Associated Press, United Press.
Texas Press Association, Texas Daily Press
League and International Circulation Managers’
Association.
Entered at the Gainesville, Texas, Postoffice
as Second-class Matter.
WEEKLY REGISTER
BY MAIL, In Gainesville or in Cooke, Grayson,
Denton, Montague, Wise counties, Texas, and Love
of excessive tariff rates, reminds the
Vicksburg (Miss.) Herald. Cotton has suf-
fered severely because of the party’s fail-.
ure to keep that pledge. '
“Attempting to control cotton produc
tion and fix the price has failed because it
is unsound as a permanent policy,“'de-
clares-the Herald, “and such a policy has
been a failure in all lands where it has
been attempted. . . Experience has taught
practical-minded people in all lands the
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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
Any erroneous reflection upon the character, repu-
tation or standing of any firm, individual or cor-
poration, will be gladly corrected upon being called
to the publishers’ attention. ,
The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
the use for republication of all news dispatches
credited to it or otherwise credited in this paper
and also to Local news appearing herein.
In case of errors or omissions occurring in local or
other advertisements or of omissions on scheduled
date, the publishers do not hold themselves liable
for damages further than the amount received by
them for such advertisements.
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We are told in the Bible that after John the
Baptist had been beheaded by Herod, the heart-
less tyrant, the disciples of John came and buried
the body and then they “went and told Jesus '
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BY MAIL, in all other counties of the United
States:
the principal thing many farm
families have to sell, those who
do not find some profitable activ-
ity for the hours not needed in
crops. lose something that is ir-
recoverable.
Besides the good eating there is •
n'Y WORK ‘ recently led me to
VI the Marysville community and
* it has been a pleasure to work
with the folks out there. Another
place where the folks have stayed
all these years and have wrought
nobly. One of the finest old per-
sons I have ever met is Mrs. M. M.
Duffy, wife of the late state rep-
resentative front this county, who
has resided for many years at
ceive in ‘benefits’? In 1935 they received
$52,435,275, or about 18 per cent of the
amount by which the value of the crop was
LESS than it was in the five years before
1929. The shrinkage in the value of the
Texas crop for 1938 from the value of the
five-year period is expected to be $300,-
000,000, and that is ‘a reduction in pur-
chasing power of more than $800,000 a
day among Texas farmers alone.’
“Meanwhile, this policy of government
•—your government—has caused an in-
crease of the cotton crop in foreign coun-
tries from 10,500,000 to more than 16,-
000,000 bales.
“ ‘The fundamental cause of this whole
situation,’ The Texas Weekly says, ‘is the
continuance in effect of excessively high
tariff rates against imports into this
country, a condition which Secretary
• about, however, that every dollar
• a farm family saves by producing
for its own use is a dollar that can
be spent for something else they
cannot produce — some of the
things farm folks too often do
without because they are not in-
dispensable.
Now the farm poultry business t
is different! from the specialized
poultry business in many respects
There is less cost, less risk of dis-
ease, less cash outlay all along the
line. At the same time it brings
. returns for time and labor that
would otherwise have no market,
•and since their time and ability is
COTTON STILL SUFFERS
“AN ARTICLE about cotton and- what
M government has done to Texas farm-
ers, from The Texas Weekly, is printed
in the News and Courier,” remarks that
Charleston, S. C., newspaper. “If you are a
farmer or merchant who sells goods to
farmers you had better read it.
“Why should we be fooled and fooled
and fooled ? Why should you be taxed and
taxed and taxed ? Exactly the same condi-
tions are heroin South Carolina that pre-
vail in Texas.
“ ‘The value of Texas crops in 1938 was
$309,567,000. That was $335,570,000 less
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ligious and political matters
Rather concerned about what is
going on down at Austin, she
asks many questions about the
progress being made in the leg isr
lature.
The folks at Marysville are
rather anxious about the condition
of three of their citizens who were
injured in a car wreck last week.
Rev. Martin and his son and Sam
Duffy were all injured bather seri-
ously when the Martin car collided
with Duffy’s truck. It is hoped
that they will get ajong all right
cause of the possibility of more
cold weather xnd the fight would
be on, and as is usually the case,
she would win and the planting
started. Of course, I was right,
and the stuff would either not
• come up or would get killed. Wom-
en are not always right but they
always get their way.
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(From the files of the Daily Hes-
perian, Feb. 22, 1897):
J. H. Whitfield has purchased
the High Smith farm. It is con-
sidered one of the richest pieces
of land in Cooke county.
John Cleaves, of Wynnewood, is
quite ill this week, at the home of
his parents on Denton street.
Mrs. C. B. Stuart leaves tonight
for Washington where she will join
Judge Stuart and witness the in- .
Fried chicken is a luxury for
which city people willingly pay
high prices. Probably not one per-
son in ten ever had enough fried
chicken to get tired of it, for few
are able to buy it regularly after
it passes through the hands of
dealers and caterers, yet farm
folks who raise it and can have it
every Sunday and in between at
a fraction of the money cost to
city people, are too much inclined
to treat fried chicken as luxury
only to be served when company
comes.
Whether you set the hens on
their town eggs, hatch them in a
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NOTHING IS ORDINARY
rHERE is a story told of William Walcott, the
| .noted English etcher, who first came to New
York in 1924 to record his impressions of the
skyscraper city.
After a week of gathering* impressions, there
came the day when he felt the urge to sketch. He
tried vainly for a while to find a place where he
could secure the paper he desired. Finally he
looked up an old architect friend whom he had
met in England. While an office boy was dis-
patched to buy sketching paper Walcott wan-
dered about the architect’s office.
Seeing a boy wrapping up house plans Walcott
asked: “What is that paper?”
“It is just ordinary wrapping paper. ’ ex-
plained the boy.
“Nothing is ordinary,” corrected the artist,
"if you know how to use it." He took one of the
big sheets, folded it and hurried away.
On that ordinary wrapping paper Walcott, the
master etcher, made two sketches. One sold for a
thousand dollars, the other for five hundred! They
will live among the famous dry-point etchings of
the world!
Nineteen thirty-nine will be just an ordinary
year with 365 ordinary days. It’s up to us to make
those days extraordinary, to make them master-
pieces of achievement. As you face the new year
remember Walcott’s philosophy: “Nothing is ordi-
nary if you know how to use it!" The Silver
Lining.
grain which chickens need, and
for which they will a pay a good
price, either for home consump-
tion or sale. The mash feeds re-
quired to balance the ration can
be had in every town nowadays,
and few farm “crops” offer as
quick a turnover as the sixty
days or so that it takes to bring
a chick to maturity for market or
home use..
It is nothing short of tragic that
some farm families deprive them-
selves and their children of all
the eggs and chickens they can
eat and enjoy, sitting down day
after day to fat pork shipped in
from Wisconsin or Iowa. Of all
people who ought to live well the
farmer who produces the food is
that one, and he lives well in just
about the proportion that he
grows what he can use at home
without paying tribute to hand-
lers, processors, haulers and mer-
chandisers.
All these people render an es-
sential service and farmers can
no more do without the cities than
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home incubator, or buy baby
chicks from the commercial
hatchery, the cash outlay for rais-
ing a two-pound fryer is only a
few cents. Any well-managed
farm raises-at least a part of the .
Salesman: “I’m sorry Miss, but we sell only
settling wax.”
Young Thing: "Don’t be silly Why would any-
one want to wax the ceiling?"
Two Minutes a Day
With Religion
By E. V COLE, D. D.
always some kind of a market for
the surplus, ' and many a farm
flock buys the flour, coffee and
other groceries which cannot be
produced at home'. If the market
is low when the fryers or broilers
are ripe, housewives have learned
to can the meat for future use or
sale. I know a West Texas store
which buys its canned * chicken
from the women’s home demon-
stration club members in the com-
munity and sells it in chicken
salad and sandwiches.
W. A. Painter, a tenant farmer
in Hale county (Texas) rents a
freezer-locker in town for $10 a
year. If the fryer, broiler or tur-
key market is down when his
fowls are ready, he dresses them
at home and stores them in the
locker to be sold aften the rush
season is over. Mr. Painter also
has built up a good business in
dressed turkeys direct to cus-
tomers in Dallas and Fort Worth,
30 miles away. “Where there’s •
than the average value of Texas crops for
five years before 1929. . ..’ p
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IHIS WRITER has been rather
- L busily occupied for the last
few days and put off the writ-
ing of this article until the last
minute, and here
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trying to click
off a few words
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Gainesville Weekly Register and Messenger (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 23, 1939, newspaper, February 23, 1939; Gainesville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1481010/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Cooke County Library.