The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 29, 1933 Page: 4 of 8
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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN. WHITEWRIGHT. TEXAS
PAGE FOUR
Thursday, June 29, 1933.
The Whitewright Sun
A Fizzlerl!
By Albert T. Reid
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PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
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By John Joseph Gaines, M. D.
BEST GLASSES MADE BY
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Cotton Prints
WHEN TIMES WERE HARD
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Hose for Women
Wish I had
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The Store That Sells For Less
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THE FAMILY
DOCTOR
Entered at the Whitewright, Texas,
postoffice as 2nd class mail matter.
COTTON SEED TABLETS
ARE NEW SOURCE OF
CONCENTRATED FOOD
Judge (in traffic court)—“I’ll let
you off with a fine today, but anoth-
er day I’ll send you to jail.”
Weather Man—“I see, your honor..
Fine today, cooler tomorrow.”
“What happened to the spinach
grower who joined our golf club?”
“They made him chairman of the
Greens Committee.”
Roosevelt Says
Sign Contracts
Now or Starve
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DR. R. B. NALL
Sherman, Texas
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J. H. WAGGONER, Publisher.
Subscription Price, $1.50 Per Year
Payable in Advance.
Cotton Dresses, Towels, and many other articles
we could list can be bought cheaper now than you
will be able to buy them later. Why wait? Buy to-
day.
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Veteran’s Pensions
One hundred and fifty-eight years
ago the foundation was laid for our
American war pension system, on
June 17, 1775, at the battle of Bun-
ker Hill. The first recipients of pen-
sions from the United States were
men who fought there with Warren.
From the beginning of the Repub-
lic this nation has set an example for
the whole world in the matter of gen-
erosity to men who have risked their
Bishop Sam Hay
And Newspapers
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has anybody, so far as we have ever
heard, begrudged a cent of the mon-
ey spent for the relief of those who
were incapacitated by their war serv-
ice, or for the dependants of those
who died of wounds received in bat-
tle.
The scandals of our pension sys-
tem have arisen in the past from the
demands of organized minorities of
for help from the public
once
WAR
DEBT
PAYMEHl
due:
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admit that Uncle Sam is still doing
nicely, thank you.
There’ll be more people trying to
sing the Star-Spangled Banner than
there were last year. We say “try-
ing” advisedly. Did anybody ever
hear any singer or group of singers
who could really sing our national
anthem? Among professional sing-
ers it is conceded that nobody but
Anna Case can do it properly.
It’s a swell anthem, all right, but
we think that, as a part of the New
Deal, somebody ought to dig up or
invent a national song that every-
body can sing. “America” is good,
but it’s the same tune as “God Save
the King” and “Heil Dir in Sieger-
kranz.”
President is opposed, however,
continuing the burden on the tax-
payers imposed by the distribution of
public funds to ex-soldiers who have
no claim other than that they are ex-
soldiers.
We believe that the President has
the public with him in this matter.
We believe, also, that Senators and
Congressmen who let themselves be
stampeded by threats of the veter-
ans’ lobby disclose themselves as
more concerned with their own polit-
ical fortunes than with the welfare
of the nation.
Cotton goods are going up fast. Now is the time to
save money on cotton goods. We have a big stock of
cotton goods purchased three months ago. We have
not advanced the price yet, but will within the next
few days. If you need anything in cotton goods, buy
it NOW. Cotton passed the 10-cent mark Monday.
CHEAP LIVING
No need for anybody sidling up to
me—to insist that the highest priced
food is the best. It isn’t. In fact, it’s
often the other way around. Some
of the most important things—we
couldn’t live without—cost us noth-
ing whatever!
Sunshine and air cost nothing, yet
what would we do without them?
And water—free, or costs next to
nothing. Walking—saves car fare,
and is excellent for health. Smiles
cost you nothing. The simplest foods
are not only cheapest but BEST. One
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Our buying power for ten progressive stores en-
ables us to sell for less money at all times.
the bad. So far as reported he did
not charge that the newspapers re-
ported society inaccurately, so it must
be inferred that the bishop thinks
society has gone to the bad and is
being so reported.
Society, in this connection, is pre-
sumed to mean the whole body of
the people, and this being granted it
is true that some members of society
sometimes go to the bad and are so
reported. The newspapers, however,
do not make them go to the bad and
are not responsible for their going.
Their only province is to tell of it
after they have gone.
Without, including Bishop Hay in
the category, it may be said that
many preachers attract the largest
congregations by announcements,
usually made in the press, that at a
certain service they will speak on
this or that sin which is declared to
be prevalent within the purview of
the speaker. Why do the congrega-
tions increase in size following such
announcements? Because they want
to get the details of the matter, and
for the same reason they read the
newspapers. The preachers who stick
to pure religion generally do not
have the largest attendance, nor
would a newspaper that printed only
one kind of news have many readers.
—Paris News.
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We have a big stock of cotton prints, the 80-square
quality, that we are selling at 5 cents per yard under
present day values. A large selection of patterns.
This price will not be in effect long. Get what you
need now at, per yard,
15c
Unnatural Arithmetic
“If you had eight pennies and lost
three, how many would you have-
left?”
Little Cohen thought for a minute.
“But for vy,” was his puzzled re-
ply, “should I lose three pennies?”
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Unless we get a rain soon, it looks
like the farmers are going to be com-
pelled to use the extra revenue which
they .will get from cotton this year to
buy feed with. There is less corn in
the cribs in this community than ever
before in history at this time of
year, due to the fact that farmers
took advantage of increased prices
in the spring and sold more corn than
they could spare because they needed
the money. The condition of the
corn crop at this time is reminiscent
of the 1911 crop which was burned
up by a drouth. Life, especially farm
life, is just one darn thing after an-
other.
vising his hearers that if the;
their conception of society froi;
daily newspapers they had gon
NOTICE: All notices of entertain-
ments, box suppers and other bene-
fits, where there is an admission fee
or other monetary consideration, will
be charged for at regular advertising
rates. Memorials, resolutions of re-
spect, etc., also will be charged for.
Any erroneous reflection upon the
character, standing or reputation of
any person, firm or corporation that
may appear in the columns of The
Whitewright Sun will be gladly and
fully corrected upon being brought to
the attention of the publishers.
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Bishop Sam Hay of the Methodist
Church, in an address at Coleman re-
cently, warned his congregation
against the influence of the newspa-
pers and condemned the press be-
cause “its headlines wrecked homes.”
This accusation is not new and neith-
er is it of sufficient weight to pre-
vent people reading the newspapers
and learning the details of wrecked
homes—if there be any—as well as
of sermons preached by bishops and
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We got another batch of price ad-
vances from a paper jobber this
morning, together with the warning
that further advances may be ex-
pected without advance notice.
Printing papers have at no time dur-
ing the depression been reduced to
pre-war price levels, and many of the
papers were reduced very little,
which fact we hope the paper houses
will keep in mind when issuing new
price lists.
saw the letterhead, as this friend of
ours had been in the habit of using
good stationery, and he had been
buying it from The Sun. The letter-
head was printed on paper that cost
less than ten cents a pound. We had
nevei’ used paper for this customer
that cost less than twenty-two cents
a pound. He thought he was buying
the same thing that he had been get-
ting from The Sun, and was saving
$1.50. But he did not. We would
have been glad to print him 1,000 let-
terheads on the" same quality stock
he got from the out of town printer
at the price he paid for it, and would
have made more money on it than we
have been making on the letterheads
we have been printing for him in the
past. But it was our fault in losing
the printing, we guess; because we
did not price him low quality stock.
We have been buying from this
friend for almost twenty years, and
during all that time he has never of-
fered to sell us low quality goods; he
has always priced us first quality
goods, and said they were cheaper
in the long run. And we agree with
him. We learned long ago that we
get just what we pay for.
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America Has Grown Up
Thirty-five years ago, on the 3rd
of July, 1898, the naval battle of
Santiago put an end to Spain’s pre-
tensions of being a world power and
put the United States of America on
the map as one of the great powers
of the world. It is not putting the
case too strongly to say that until the
Spanish War the American nation
counted for very little in world af-
fairs except as a source of food sup-
plies, and our politicians and most of
our people felt themselves somehow
inferior to Europe and the Euro-
peans.
Some of that inferiority idea still
persists and crops up every now and
then, whenever the United States
takes part in any discussion of inter-
national affairs. Foolish people get
the notion that somehow America’s
diplomats and delegates are going to
be “outsmarted’ whenever they try
to dicker with Europeans. And Eu-
rope, of course, does its best to make
that notion stick.
We don’t believe that European
statesmen and politicians are any
smarter than our own. We have ev-
ery confidence that the American del-
egation to the present World Mone-
tary and Economic Conference will
get all they went after, whether Eu-
rope likes it or not.
America has grown up.
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We Need a New Tune
There’ll be a lot more enthusiasm
in this year’s celebration of the
Fourth of July than there has been
for two or three years past. Folks
who had been wondering whether the
Declaration of Independence was out
of date are beginning to chirk up and
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Well
DoG-fiOME./
We booked an order for several thousand pairs of
Hose three months ago. Buy now at the OLD PRICE.
lesser clergy. I
The good bishop continued by ad-
got
the
to
old-fashioned
living! Horse-sense
doesn’t cost anything either—and is
mighty close to being a treasure in
itself to its possessor,
more of it.
nice white shirts for summer time
use. We slept on straw ticks and pil-
lows were not thought of or required.
I didn’t know that money would rat-
tle until I was nearly grown. Father
got hold of two half-dollars at the
same time, and let us hear them rat-
tle. Taxes were not higher but hard-
er to pay then than now.
“We owned two kerosene lamps
neither of which had. a chimney. Our
house wasn’t ceiled, but two of our
rooms had lofts in them. We had a
glass window in our “company”
room. Our nicest piece of furniture
was a home-made rocking chair. Our
beds were of the slat or tight-rope
variety. The “trundlebed” took care
of all the younguns under five years
of age and it stayed full all the time.
“We went to school two or three
months in the year, but not in a bus.
We attended church once a month,
but not in a car—we used a two-mule
wagon. We dressed up on Sundays
but not in silks or satins. We neither
wrote letters nor received any. We
made our own lye hominy, distilled
our own lye from our own ash-hop-
per. We drank sassafras tea and
never had a yearning for coffee.
“We sopped our own molasses; we
ate our own meat; we considered rice
a delicacy for only the preachers to
eat; we had heard of cheese but nev-
er saw any; we knew of some store-
bought clothes, but never hoped to
veterans
treasury merely because they
wore Uncle Sam’s uniform. Follow-
ing the War between the States this
demand grew steadily until it prac-
tically wrecked the party in power,
which acceded to every demand of
the sort. Public sentiment rose in re-
volt against the maintenance at pub-
lic expense of men who had served
only thirty days and never smelt
powder.
President Roosevelt has been firm
against any project which would re-
vive the scandals of the old G. A. R.
days. There is no purpose on the
part of the Administration, as we un-
derstand it, to withhold adequate re-
lief from any\deserving veteran. The
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It will look like the world has
turned up-side down when we see
farmers plowing their cotton under
the sod instead of the weeds, but this
very thing will likely happen within
the next few weeks.
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It looks like Good Old Democratic
prosperity is coming, with cotton,
wheat, corn, oats and other farm
products advancing in price almost
every day, it should not be long until
the common herd will be coming in-
to their own again. It is time for
this change. They have been on the
bottom long enough.
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The broadcasting companies are
letting their listeners down again to-
night in their failure to broadcast
the Sharkey-Carnera championship
bout from the ringside. It’s a shame
to be compelled to listen to a lot of
drivel about mineral water, tooth
paste, and whatnot when there is a
perfectly good prize fight going on
which we would like to hear de-
scribed.
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Beginning July 1 the 2-cent rate
for first class mail for local delivery
will be restored. The 2-cent rate will
apply to letters for delivery within
the area served by the mailing of-
fice, and will include rural routes.
The 3-cent rate will be continued on
all letters transmitted from one post-
office to another for delivery, and
with the exception of letters to be
delivered on local rural routes, the
rate reduction will not affect White-
wright users of the mails for the rea-
son that the drop letter rate remains
the same. Partial restoration of the
2-cent letter rate is due to decreased
revenues from this class of mail. In
the cities business institutions which
had been large users of the mail
service within the cities established a
mail service of their own, their em-
ployes delivering in person monthly
statements and other local mail mat-
ter, and the government may find it
difficult to induce these institutions
to abandon their own mail service
even at the lowered rate.
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Last week Sun editor had to have
a shirt. Yes, he went to a local mer-
chant to buy it. The merchant
showed him a shirt that looked as
good as shirts, he used to pay $2.00
for, and the price was 89 cents. He
bought the shirt. When he put it on
he found the sleeves so small that he
could not bend his elbows, the tail
was so short it just barely passed his
waist line and the buttons on it
looked like they may have cost two
cents a dozen. Again we were con-
vinced that we get only what we pay
for. The manufacturer of the shirt
made it to meet unfair competition. A
year or two ago the manufacturers
of the shirt would not have put one
on the market like it, but they have
been forced to such methods to meet
competition of plants putting out
cheap merchandise. We saw. the same
thing in printing this week. One of
our advertisers wrote the copy for
his advertisement on a letterhead he
bought from a cut-rate printing
house. We were surprised when we
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O. L. (PIG) JONES
ALL LINES OF INSURANCE
A-l Companies
Whitewright, Texas
“Pay me a visit—it may pay you”
a whole lot cheaper than whoopee;
the real health program is not expen-
sive—it’s the flub-dubs that drain
away the hard-earned dimes.”
How true he speaks—you
prove it qut on yourself.
Listen—a good hash, well-made,
from cheaper cuts of meat—it fills
all the inclinations for a meat-diet.
Don’t make it out of stale, waste leav-
ings—make it fresh and good. . . .
Dry bread is quite as good in soup
as are crackers. May be’ more nutri-
tious. And soup if made well, is fine
as a pre-dinner appetizer. I can vis-
ualize a ten-cent meal!
Part of the year, in the country,
beans may be had for the gathering;
fresh vagetables and fruits—the
country abounds in them. Cabbage,
l* next to being given away. Liver—
even dignified to the place of a val-
uable blood-making medicine! I di-
rect some of my patients to eat raw
turnips, raw cabbage, raw lettuce,
lives in war for their country. Nor young onions—and almost any vari-
ety of raw fruit and berries. Get
your vitamin-D from sunshine—and
be independent of broadcasting
fakirs.
Oh, the call
horse-sense in
BERLIN.—A successful medical
of my contemporaries says “sleep is treatment with a highly nutritive sub-
stance derived after five years’ ex-
periment from cotton seed has been
announced by Prof. Kaspar Schmitt
of Heidelberg. The substance ob-
tained by processes of extraction and
evaporation resembles yellowish flour
and contains, as does no other known
product, vitamins A, B, C and E alto-
gether. Vitamin D, according to one
analyst’s report, can be easily acti-
vated.
The cottonseed extract has been
fed to hospital patients with results
indicating a new method of enrich-
ing human nourishment that may
revolutionize dietetics. The extract
can be added to every conceivable
food increasing its nutritive value
20 to 30 per cent. Two of the cot-
tonseed tablets, according to Profes-
sor Schmitt, suffice for three meals
a day.
George McKee, Anderson, S. C.,
says times are not hard. Here’s the
way George puts it:
“Don’t talk to me about hard
times. I was born eight miles from a
railroad, five miles from a school-
house, nine miles from a church, 885
miles from New York, 200 yards
from a wash-hole, fifteen feet from a
cornfield and 8,767 miles from
Hongkong.
Our nearest neighbor lived two
miles away and they couldn’t read or
write. I never saw a suit of under-
wear until I was 17 years old, and
that revelation didn’t belong to any-
body in our family. The only book
in the house during my early child-
hood was a Bible and a catalog some-
body sent us.
“There were twelve members in
our family, but you see, we had three
rooms to live in, including a dining
room which was also the kitchen. Ev-
erybody worked at our. house. We
thought everybody else in the world
had gravy and bread for breakfast,
liver and cracklin’ hoecake for din-
ner, buttermilk and corn pone for
supper ’cause that’s what we had—
and liked it.
“Some of us wore brogan shoes oc-
casionally in the winter time. We had
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wear any; we got a stick of candy
and three raisins for Christmas and
were happy; we loved ma and pa and
were never hungry, enjoyed going-
naked, didn’t want much, expected
nothing. And that’s why our so-called.’
hard times ain’t hard on me.”
WASHINGTON.—President Roose-
velt Saturday launched the adminis-
tration’s ambitious cotton control
program with a personal appeal to
Southern farmers to cooperate loyal-
ly in the drastic proposal to destroy
a quarter of the Nation’s rapidly ma-
turing crop. The President de-
scribed the plan as both “practical
and definite.”
His appeal was carried Monday to
2,000,000 cotton growers in special
pamphlets bearing the President’s
signature and warning that unless:
the prograjn is accepted to the full-
est extent the South will face anoth-
er year of starvation prices for its-
great money crop.
The Agriculture Department em-
phasized that unofficial reports indi-
cated a “marked increase” in' cotton
acreage this year and pdiiAbd; out
the possibility of a 14,000,000-bale
production.
Such a huge crop, combined with
the old cotton carryover not disposed
of this year, would mean a repetition
of prices in many cases below pro-
duction costs.
The farm relief administration at
the same time threw into high gear
its vast propaganda organization
which it hoped would persuade farm-
ers to destroy 10,000,000 acres of
cotton.
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