Gainesville Weekly Register and Messenger (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 14, 1939 Page: 2 of 16
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1939-
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$1.50
UY MAIL, in all other counties of the 'United
$2,00
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There has been very,, little se-
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School Attendance
Law Now in Effect
Cotton Belt Firm
. Fighting Back
in Georgia -to bar distribution of
Wisconsin dairy products to the
IT IS GREAT disappointment to'
the turkey raisers of the county
for the market to go to the bad
and there will be a lot of the birds
contented mind is. more to be tie-
sired than great riches.”
mi'll
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we could buy elsewhere. We don't
want to cut our noses off to spite
our faces, but . . . let's see what
we can do about cutting the noses
off some of these fellows who are
trying to spite us, and the sooner
the better.
"In other words, if Wisconsin
wants to tax heavily one of the
major products of the South and
are
their
thou;
hK Texas, Postoffice
W ashington
By PRESTON GROVER
Observations
By GREGG HOWARD
NoTIe K TO TII PI HUIC
erroneous reflection upon the character, repu-
Any
tat io
poration, w
to the publ
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vere illness so far and a spirit of
.products.” . . able to find out, there are
A-EMt -Beftspokesman de- -peopethat are destitute
flared that coming immediately on
the heels of acton taken recently
The Associated Press la exclugivety entitled to
the use for republtcation of all news dispatches
eredited to it ot otherwise eredited In thin paper
and also to ho al news appearing heren.
In casof errovwor owiswlonenceurrin in local • t
other adv ert inements or of omissions (in scheduled
gate. Kite publimherw do not hold themselves liahle
for damauen further than the amount received by
them for auch advertisements.
n or standing, of any firm, individual or cor-
41 he gladiy corrected upon being called
Isherw attention.
George do it.” Wonder if they ever stopped
1 to think that maybe George won’t do it.
George is no different from anybody
else. He knows that when he buys cotton
Christmas gifts he is actually putting
money in his pocket and in those of other
■ people of the Cotton Belt. But he sits back
and waits for other Georges to do it.
Somehow we never did have much faith
in waiting for somebody else to do things.
We know that if we all pitch in together
and buy cotton gifts, we can make this a
real Cotton Christmas. Let’s go out and do
it without waiting for George.
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When you feel dissatisfied with your
lot, look around and see how many people
there are who Would: be happy, to trade
places with you.—Martin Vanbee.
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Instead of always trying to get the best
of a bargain, try giving the best of it once
in a while.—B. C. Forbes.
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The first years of man must make pro-
visions for the last—Samuel Johnson.
ton consumption.
Mighty few folks in the Cotton Belt
won’t admit that cotton goods are better
than ever before. Even fewer will tell you
that dozens of fine cotton articles aren’t,
suitable as Christmas presents.-------------
Trouble is that there are some folks who
claim they want to make this Christmas "
a Cotton Christmas and that they cer-
tainly do like these new cotton gifts. And
then they go down town and buy every
blessed thing under the sun but cotto)
presents. /
These are the folks who want to “let
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CAINESVILEE (TEXAS) WEEKLY REGISTER
money as . they can spend.
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HOR THE PAST WEEK we have
IT been engaged in and around
Era and find that community en- "
The compulsory school attend-
ance law is now in effect. Superin-
ton lent H. O. McCain announced
Tuesday.
The law requires that all chil-
dren between 7 and 16 years of age
shall attend school, unless they
have completed their seventh grade
werk. . —— —— ------
Mr. McCain asks that any per-
son knowing of children within
the age limit governed by the law.
who are not in school, notify him
or Chief of Police Harvey Olmon
so that the cases maybe ivesti-
gated.
In a memorandum addressed to a
a member of the firm’s purchasing ' S° unsold. It takes a lot of feed
department, the president of the for turkeys at this season of the
firm advised: "Maybe we are buy- year and, will be a great loss to
ing some thngs in Wisconsin that "thost who have to keep them any
length of time. We would suggest
WeekNgister
ANU MESSRNGER
(Absorbed Gainesville signal, February, 1939,
Published Every Thursday—All Hme Print
FOUNDED IN 1(71
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Public Forum
The Word of God
Take heed that ye do not your aims before
men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no
reward of your Father which is in heaven. Matt,
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’ MAYBE GEORGE WONT
OWEVER outworn it may be, there's
H still a lot of truth in the old expression
that some people are willing to just “let
George do it.”
Take this Cotton Christmas idea ad-
vanced by the National dot ton Council.
Just about-everybody willagree that it’s
a fine thing and that if will help boost cot-
Texas Press
League and
Association.
THE REGIWTNR PRINTING COMPANY (INC.)
PUHMNHEHN. GAINESVILLE, COOKE CO.. TEXA9
Editorial and Busineas Office, 30H E. California St.
Members of the Associated Press, United Press,
a very fine product at that mar-
garine why should we be so anx-
ious about drinking their beer or
buy ing Wisconsin manufactured
t PREPARES YOUTH FOR
CAREERS ON THE FARM
; IT AN AGE when the average city boy
’ H is still a charge of his father’s purse,
producing nothing, and not having yet de-
cided on what he will be when he grows up,
tens of thousands of country boys are al-
r ready wealth-producing, money - making
• responsible young people. That this is so
’ is shown by the accomplishments of the
‘ Future Farmers of America, an organiza-
' tion of rural youth dedicated to training
• its members in agriculture, and described
• by Farnsworth Crowder in the Rotarian
Magazine.
Membership demands first the choosing
of • farming as a career, and the various
degrees are earned by definite achieve;
• ments on a farm. Training is not restricted
to things of the soil and bam. The typical
Future Farmer is a well-rounded person.
His vocational training includes hand skills
• and public speaking. He is also a social fel-
’ low anxious to cooperate for the commu-
jnity welfare.
‘.A striking example of Future Farmers
- getting things done omes from Stamping
, Ground, Kentucky. This chapter, one of 6,-
300, has 38 of the boys shown on the roll
-- call of 206,00% its mehers first did some ,
profitable farming'that made their elders
take notice of the scientific ideas learned
from their advisor, Ivan Jett. Then they
^erected a $1,200 headquarters building. A
• town beautification project included the
painting of fences, the planting of shrubs,
and the removal of trash heaps. But their
, crowning achievement was bom of a ty-
phoid scare. They sampled well water,
' found it contaminated, and proposed a wa-
. terworks system. When the town council
took no action, they went to their repre-
\ sentative in the federal government, ar-
ranged for a loan contingent on raising an
amount to match it. They raised their
• quota, and now Stamping Ground has a
modern waterworks.
That the Future Farmers of Amric
take their responsibilities seriously is re-
flected by one of their prise-winning ora-
, tors: "No longer is farming a matter of
mere hard labor. ... A trained farmer
- ranks with doctor, merchant, engineer,
carpenter, and mechanic. He is all these.
He buys and sells, runs an engine, doctors
his livestock, applies science in selecting
seed, fighting pests or feeding stock.”
These things the Future Farmers are
learning. "Much of the future of the na-
tion’s agriculture,” the author says, "is in
their capable hands. Let the countryside
be glad!”
er short it will ‘
be of help to thel.
cattle as well as
pack the ground., .
The soil is so
loose that it will,
likely be of great
benefit. The Era
c 9 mmunity is
profiting by the greatest school
session they have ever had. With
the new plant nearing completi n
and buses running on all the roads
for miles around means that the
youths of that section are blessed
IPPRECIATIVE OF
A LONG FRIENDSHIP
To The Register:
FORT WORTH, Texas Several
of our friends have been kind
enough to send us copies of The
Gainesville Daily Register "of Nov
30th ih which you very,kindly ri -
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ter of Nov. 27th and for which we
want to thank you.
The very thought which we at-
tempted to convey in our annual
letter is clearly shown in the long
and enviable record of The Gaines-
ville Daily Register You were
"veeerable with years” when we
commenced o u r own business
thirty years ago. Your survival
and constant growth and progress
are not the"result of an accident,
but due to the fact that your fine
founder, Mr. John T. Leonard, laid
down a few simple. sound, funda-
mental principles and ideals from
which you, the second generation,
have never swerved, and we know
you never will.
You received our first calendar
in 1910 and have received one
every year since. May we thank
you for renewing for another year
your lease on the “venerable old
nail" in your office, and we hope
that both you and we may be here
for many, many more years to
come to enjoy the fine asscciation
which has existed between us for
over such a long period.
With kindest regards and every
good wish to you and yours for all
the good things in life, we are.
Yours very truly.
L. H. KASSEL & CO.
optimism and happiness prevails
with' the most of the folks. Of
that every family in Gainesville .
get in touch with some farmer
that has turkeys and buy one for
a Christmas dinner. There arc.,
about two thousand families in the
city and this would mean a lot to
farmers of this section. If there
are those that are not able to buy.
some people that want to celebrate
Christmas as it should be could
give turkeys for presents.
As we near the new year we find
that economic conditions are not
so bad and, as far as we have been
past few days a detailed report was filed with the
State Department of the increasing restrictions
f-Fmpseuhy JapamheseneacmAc\*ns- hi
China. '
• is unjust and undersirable," the
spokesman said, "but it is equally
convinced that Wisconsin and other
dairy states, perhaps unwittingly,
are seeking just such a war.
"If the issue is forced upon the
States of the Cotton Belt, it is a
definite certainty that the cotton
states can wage just as deadly a
trade war as any other group of
states. We can only hope that
states now penalizing Southern
products will awake to the true
facts of the case before such an
un-American war becomes neces-
sary."
as H> < o19 -cla - Ma i ter
WREKLY HEGIMTEIt
. UY MAIL, lu Ga inesville 01 in Cooke, Grayson.
Denton, Montague. Wise counties, Texas, and Love
county, Qklahoma: <
John W. Carpenter
Given SMU Award
DALLAS. Dec. 11. — John W.
Carpenter, president of the Texas
Power and Light Company. Thurs-
day was presented the Arthur A.
Everts-SMU Ex-Students Associa-
tion Man of the Year Award.
Each year a plaque 'is awarded
to the person who, in the opinion
of the directors of the ex-students'
association, ."renders the most
noteworthy and uhselfish service in
the stimulation and organization
of lav support behind the univer-
sity."
ucts was highly significant of the somebody that is rather comfort-
trend toward reprisals by the cot- ably situated and is fretting be-
ton states. ■ Valise they do OUT hll'VF US
"The Council still takes the atti-
tude that a war of trade barriers
cotton state's relief clients, the de- • course, we occasionally meet with
cision of the equipment firm to some one who is pessimistic as to
"crack down” on Wisconsin prod- the. future but it is generally
BMBh "“7272 Pro and Con
Japan insists that the United
Staten, along With all other non-Oriental nations,
falls to "understand" that there is a "new orde r*
in the Orient. The assertion that others do not
"understand” the peculiar problems of the Orient
is a favorite one of the Japanese.
On the contrary, the United States declares
it very well understands the situation. Japan,
says the United States, deliberately set out to
make over China in its own image, all in viola-
tion of international law and in violation of
treaties Japan had signed with other countries.
stock. al-
h it is rath-
Association, Texas Dally Pres
International Circulatipn Managers"
Debate Goes On ,
The Japanese always insist that the United
States is being used by the British as a catspaw
to protect British interests in the Orient.
The United States says its interest is governed
by a large concept equality of opportunity once
agreed to by a group of nations cannot be
changed simply by one natton.
"Failure to observe that principle,” said Am-
bassador Grew in a comprehensive statement to
the Japanese of the U. S. position, "breeds inter-
national friction and ill-will, with consequences
injurious to all countries, including in particular
those countries which fail to observe it.”
• Japan forgot to read closely enough the part
of that sentence after the last comma. Also it
evidently forgot to read the next part, of the
same paragraph, in which Grew said:
‘•Observance of that principle (of equal oppor-
tuni) promotes the opening of trade channels
thereby making available the markets, the raw’
materials and the manufactured products of the
community of nations on a mutually and recipro-
cally beneficial basis.”
Reprisals Grow
That should have told Japan that such things
as,embargoes of raw materials were being dis-
cussed in the United States. But Japan didn't
take the hint. The annoying blockade of the Brit-
ish area, in Tientsin including the public strip-
pings and searching was extended'in part to
Americans.
Reprisal came fairly fast. Senator Pittman,
chairman of th foreign relations committee, who
frequently acts under’State Department guid-
ance, introduced a resolution calling for ah em-
bargo against Japan. Hot on its heels came the
U. S. denunciation of the 28-year-old trade treaty
with Japan.
If the United States had wanted simply to’ex-
ert pressure on Japan, it could have done so
forcefully and effectively while negotiating a new'
treaty. But just now it is popular to lash the
Japanese, so they got it in the teeth. .
•The Japanese have replied in kind. Within the
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The warm weather has kept the
farmers from butchering their
.. hogs and they are anxiously look- .
ing for a cold spell which will
likely arrive soon. . Hogs are so
cheap and feed' high that it is a
losing business to keep them on
hands too long. There is an •
abundance of porkers this year
and we hope to keep our throats
pretty well greased for the next
few’ months.
We wish to remind our friends
that we still take subscriptions for
the Daily and Weekly Rgister and
it would be a wise thing to sub-
scribe while you can take advan-
tage of the special prices offered.
around the first of the year.
Jh It would be hard to findAtw6
h nations $9 actively engajed’in
7 ruffling each other's feelings
W while at peace as the United
2 States and Japan.
e Naturally, both sides claim to
2 be right. Each claims the other
■ is pursuing a course which fails
■ to take into consideration the
$4 realities of the situation.
joying many
blessings. T.h e f"
grain crop looka
line and somo4..-"
with wonderful opportunities. I
was told by one of the citizens of ’
Era that abcut $90,000 had been
spent on the school project and the
bonds that were voted bby the dis-
• trict did not have an opposing .
vote. This is remarkable and be-
speaks a spirit of cooperation that
will undoubtedly be the means of
making even a greater school and
a better place in which to live.
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THE BUTTERFIELD HIGH-
WAY is finished to Era and the
W.P.A. forces are building a road
through the town and to a point
several miles to the west, als one
- to the north connecting with the
Hood road, some ten miles west of
Gainesville. All these activities
are for the betterment of the lit- a
tie town and will continue to be a
great community center as it lias
always been in the past. Another
thing, and it is not the least in im-
portance, Era has three nice,
churches to produce a spiritual at-
mosphere and build the characters
of her citizenship.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. Protesting
against Wisconsin's prohibitive
margarine tax regulations, a large
Southwestern machinery and sup-
ply firm is levying a virtual boy-
cott against products from the
dairying state, the National Cotton
Council said.
Six monthm. In One year, in
advance 75e advanee _
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IITASHINGTON — The State Department is
VV keeping a weather eye out on Europe, but
the real trouble spot for this country just
now -is Japan. It will be the headline-maker
States:
■la month. In One year, in
ndvanee ------- $1.00 advanee, _.
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