The Frisco Journal (Frisco, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, May 18, 1928 Page: 2 of 4
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JOURNAL
Frisco, Texas, Friday May, 18, 1928.
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EDITOR BAGWILL TALKS
ABOUT DRY PLATFORMS.
The county democratic convention
was held in McKinney Tuesday after
noon. No sooner had the convention
Seen called to order than one of the
leaders of a group at McKinney gen-
erally credited with wet tendencies,
itarted'a fight on the drys from East
Plano box, because the latter refused
to sign the pledge. However, the del-
egates from East Plano were allowed
to vote in the temporary organisation
It is indeed interesting to note that,
although they refused the East Plano
delegates and the delegates from two
other boxes in the county the right
to participate in the county conven-
tion, yet, the convention adopted a
dry platform, which was almost iden-
tical to the same as was adopted by
the democrats of the East Plano box
at their precinct convention held last
Saturday afternoon. When the list
of delegates to the state convention-
was read before the county conven-
tion, these delegates being bone dry,
the wets from McKinney offered a
substitute list of delegates, and were
successful in electing a wet delega-
thm to the state convention. PossT-
bly a few of the county delegates
elected to the state convention, are
dry, but we hate to see them line up
with the wets. When a Plano dry
remariced at the close of the conven-
tion, "Well, you succeeded in electing
a wet delegation, but we secured the
adoption of a dry platform," one of
the leaders of the wets remarked;
“Well, we don’t care anything about
your platform; we got our delegates”
Two of the leaders of the wet dele-
gation bolted the Democratic party
in 1922, and supported Peddy against
the Democratic nominee for the Uni-
ted States Senate. Now six years
later they come and deny real true
blue democrats a seat and voice in a
county democratic convention. Had
East Plano and Allen and the other
box that was refused representation
in the convention been given a vote
in the convention the dry delegation
selected by the nominating committee
Saturday would have been elected.
It s a shame that Collin county,
the banner prohibition county of Tex-
as, after adopting a dry platform, as
was done Saturday at the county con-
vention, should then send to the state
convention a delegation whose ten-
dencies are wet.
But Just wait until this Collin coun-
ty delegation gets to the State con-
vention—what the dry democrats of
Texas, who are very much in the ma-
jority, will do to them will be plenty.
Yes, just wait.—Plano Star-Courier.
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The Manufacturer and Industrial! Mrs. Masten Harris is here from
News Bureau has for a number of Floydada for an extended visit with
years taken the stand that the coun- j her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Boyd,
try weeklies and small city dailies ex- and other relatives. Mrs. Harris, in
erted a preponderance of editorial in- 1 conversation with the editor, stress-
fluencc in public affairs of state and ed the fact that after reading The
nation. 1 little old Journal each week they al-
Arthur Brisbane, syndicate editorial | ways wish there was more news. We
writer for many large daily newspa- give this thought to our readers that
pers, has come to take the same view j you might realize how people crave
of the relative influence of the small- to know all about their friends back
er newspapers, sending out this in his
daily editorial service:-“The smaller
newspapers of the country are the
most important newspapers, and, in-
cidentally, in proportion to their cir-
culation, their advertising results are
the biggest, and their advertising
rates are the smallest in the country.
They are read through from end to
end. Every copy of circulation means
entire family, not a family that
lives in one room with a can opener,
but a family that owns its own house,
and land around it, at least ninety
times out of a hundred; a family that
buys everything, from the root on the
house, to the cement on the cellar
floor; from the hat on mother’s head
to the shoes on the boys’ feet. The
service that their publishers render
to the public is, in my opinion, the
most important service rendered by
any class of citizens in the United
States. The country editors are dis-
tributors of information; they reach
the minds of the boys that leave the
farms, and they are the nation’s men-
tal police force.”
After half a century in the publi-
cation of newspapers, daily and week-
ly, the writer can endorse the opin-j
ion of Arthur Brisbane that the coun-
try paper is read from end to end and
the advertisements are of special in-
terest. Where a hundred read all that
is in the home weekly, only one in
that hundred peruses all that is in
the big-city daily paper that comes
to them. Large foreign advertisers
are also becoming cognizant of the
fact,, that space—in country weekly
and smaller city daily papers is of
real value to them; that they can get
more gain at less cost, at the same
time securing as much combined cir-
at home when they are away, and if
you have a news item, no matter
whether you think it would ba of in-
terest to others or not, write it down
and send it to us, because the paper
never existed that had too much news
in its columns, and we appreciate re-
ceiving the news. If it is too late for
the current issue, it could be used in
the next issue.
Tioga Herald; When we were 14
years old we went to school with a 14
year old girl. Now we are over 50
and she is 38.
Well?
Personally, we are not going to sit
up all night watching Lindbergh like
a hawk to learn the nature of the se-
cret mission he may be on.
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We often wonder if the big strong
men ever compare their .work with
that done by the little woman at home
known as “the weaker sex.” It would
be interesting to many of these big,
strong fellows to follow the little wo-
man around the house a day or two.
have time to read are among the first
to give us the horse-laugh—and some
of them are good enough to tell us
when they watch our predictions and
note the correctness of them. It’s
all in a life time.
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The Men’s Bible class of the Bap-
tist church picked up considerably
last Sunday with about seven new
members. Now, if the other two will
come next Sunday that will make it
about one hundred per cent. If you
don’t come to our class, then go to
some other class in one of the other
churches, Just so long aC you do go
to Sunday school; that’s the main
thing. As one non-goer said Monday,
“they’d better be there than on the
streets, because they can learn more
in Sunday school” speaking of the
men. And he knows what he is talk-
ing about, too. Break the ice and
come on. If you ever get started once
it’ll be easy thereafter, and it’s a
mighty fine thing for a man to do;
set the example for the boys and the
girls and they’ll surely follow you,
whichever way you go! Rather a se-
rious thought, isn’t it?
a little insignificant country editor!
in a little country town unknown to
many of these people up to the time
of these contests! Wonderful, isn’t
it. It is the more wonderful when
we are told by friends that competi-
tors have informed some of our cus-
tomers that this office cannot turn out
as good work as theirs because our
office isn’t as large as theirs. Mar-
velous!
culation with a certainty that their
advertisements will be read by all.—
Woodburn, Oregon, Weekly Indepen-
dent, April 12.
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Sanger Courier: Sanger merchants
are getting “fed up" on grafting ad-
vertising schemes and the day is not
far off when the oily-tongued solicit-
ors for questionable ‘layouts’ will be
turned down, and told to seek fields
‘greener.’ During the past two months
the Courier has turned back a num-
J. K. Bowman attended the Hood
county Democratic convention, and re-
ports a very harmonious meeting, with
no bickering about having taken the
pledge, as was done in the Collin
county convention when the A1 Smith
adherents protested Milt Whisenant
and others sitting in the convention
because they had not signed the pre-
election pledge—which was held to be
illegal by the Attorney General as
well as the supereme court! Ill-got-
ten gains have never won anything
for any man—and never will. A1
Smith will never be elected to the
presidency of these United States,
neither this year nor any year to fol-
low. We make this positive statement
because we have more faith in the lib-
erty-loving voters of America than to
believe they would elect any man as
president who owes allegiance to any
foreign ruler or potentate!
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Is it true that there are so few
beautiful girls in the United States
that they have to send pretty ones
from the old country to carry off the
prizes in the beauty contests? Or
why do they send them ?
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If Sunday schools were detrimen-
tal to men or women there would be
a semblance of an excuse for many
to remain away, but when we know
that they are conducted for the in-
struction of people in the Word of
God—well, we just can’t understand
why some fplks will lie about such
things!
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Isn’t it a peculiar turn in life that
it is the man who does nothing for
himself or his fellow-man who takes
such a leading part in public affairs?
The man who is a failure, many times
is permitted to control things of a
general nature which affects hun-
dreds of people—and he usually does
what the majority does not want him
or any other man to do!
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The Journal still needs renewals.
J. D. COTTRELL
Attorney-at-Law Notary Public
Licensed in the Supreme Court of
U. 8. Special attention to bank-
ruptcy, probate and damage suits
PLANO, TEXAS
ber of propositions made by the big
city advertising schemers, and this
week from Dallas came an offer to
the Courier to put on a high-sound-
ing “Neighborhood Campaign” in the
which the promotor promises to awak
en the business interests of the com-
munity to a high pitch, and cause a
bundle of green-back to roll into the
Toonerville coffers from advertising
patronage. The proposition was turn-
ed down, as the others were turned
down. We believe such propositions
are little short of graft; not worth
a- dime to the business interest of the
town and community, and in our opin-
ion the newspaper that joins hands
with these promotors are not playing
fair with their town’s interests.
The Journal editor believes that the
editor of the Courier is all wet. No
advertising is lost. No community or
Neighborhood advertising is useless
nor a graft if it is conducted along
honest lines by the local publisher,
and we do not believe that the editor
who ties up with the Western News-
paper Union program is dealing in
an unfair manner with his patrons.
To prove one of our points, we take
this from the heading of the Sanger
Courier:
“The More You Tell ’Em, The More
You Sell ’Em.”
If Toons believes that, then why
say that advertising is a graft?
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If they publish a newspaper in
heaven it would not astonish one to
read: the Recording Angel is kept
very busy these days putting down
the names of those who have acquired
the habit of giving God what is left,
both of their time and talents. An-
other item might be read with quak-
ing hearts some day: weighed in the
balances and found wanting!
The Journal was accused once of
refusing to print items concerning a
certain religious organization, when,
as n matter of fact, there is rarely an
issue of this paper that does not con-
tain news items from that organiza-
tion. Please be fair.
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Sherman Democrat: Matt O’Neill of j
the Frisco Journal is trying to get the
people -of tHat town to get a move on
like they did twenty-five years ago
when J. Perry Burrus went over there
from McKinney and built a grain ele-
vator. A good Chamber of Com-
merce would help out, Matt; why
don’t you organize one?
We have, but no one else attends.
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If there is any. question about whe-
ther or not people read The Frisco
Journal, just go around with the edi-
tor on a one-day tour and listen to
those who razz us when we make a
prediction for certain weather chang-
es'that do not take place! Men who
used to mairtain that they did not
Just about this time of
year everyone needs a
tonic to brace him up
after the rigors of win
ter.
PEPTONA
Is “Our Best Tonic”
The P. T. A. of Frisco was accorded
much praise in a District meeting on
the neatness of its Year Book. The
Wednesday Study Club of Frisco was
given the first place in the matter of
its year book on comparison with all
others in the district. Both of these
books were printed in The Frisco
Journal office, and the record proves
that good printing, better printing
than the ordinary, better than that
turned out by any other office in the
two Districts, is done in Frisco! by
Senior Epworth League Picnic
The Senior Epworth League and
their friends enjoyed a picnic Friday
night at Finch Park, McKinney. If
you were not there you certainly did
miss a good time. Games had been
planned to be played but everyone ap-
peared to enjoy the swings, see-saws,
slides, etc., so much that we never did
play any games. Then when we were
called to the table it was'filled with
all kinds of good things to eat. Even
though we all had good appetites we
could not devour all that was on the
table. By this time everyone was
rested a bit and there was another
dive for the swings, etc. The hour
grew late and we had to leave. About
thirty-five were present.
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O'Neill, Matt E. The Frisco Journal (Frisco, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, May 18, 1928, newspaper, May 18, 1928; Frisco, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth507730/m1/2/?q=music: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.