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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN, WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
Editorial Sparks
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September 29th
The Whitewright Sun
J. H. WAGGONER, Publisher.
11 TEXAS CBUNTIES
HAVE NO NEGROES
Entered at tire Whitewright, Texas,
postoffice as 2nd class mail matter.
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FARMING ACCORDING
TO LAW
GREATER USE FOR
COTTON
Lions stalk their game at night al-
most exclusively.
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CUT EXPENSES, RAISE
• INCOME TAXES URGED
OLDEST LIVING NATIVE
U. S. MOTHER SOUGHT
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...90c
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...89c
.... 5c
—85c
—75c
...17c
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$1.00
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35c
10c
30c
25c
DRUGS
Black Draught, 25c size.................
Bayer Aspirin, two for...................
666, 50c size...................................
Vick’s Vaporub, 35c size...............
Razor Blades, 10c packages, 3 for.
Syrup Pepsin, 65c size >...................
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Genuine Engraving at Sun office..
Our business is going good, both in the Grocery and
Meat departments. Folks know bargains when they
see them, and they’ve certainly been seeing them at
Nicholson’s hte last few weeks.
as much pleasure and instruction out
of a visit to the Fair as we did when
we were a boy. We sincerely hope
so.
Going Strong
Last Saturday was the best day we have had since we
have been in Whitewright. We sold more groceries
on that day than we have ever sold on any other day.
That means just one thing—shoppers are realizing
that it pays them to trade at Houston’s.
Fascinating
JOAN CRAWFORD
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“THIS MODERN AGE”
And other screen units.
Beef Roast, lb................
Steak, lb., 20c down to...
Polar Bear Coffee, 3-lb.
Cowboy Corn, can .........
Hale’s Leader Coffee, 3-lb. can......................
Mrs. Tucker’s Shortening, 8-lb. bucket..........
Calumet Baking Powder, 5 lbs. for................
Cold Sweet Milk, pint......................................
Flour, extra high patent, 48 lbs.....................
Shorts, 100 lbs.................................................
Peanut Butter, pint .........................................
Fireside Peaberry Coffee, lb.........................
Pinto Beans, 25 lbs. for....................................
Swift’s White or Luna Soap, 10 bars for.........
Country Sorghum, gallon ...............................
(All other Syrups at reduced prices.)
Cigarettes, two packs for.................................
Duke’s Mixture, 5c a bag, 3 for.......................
Snuff, 6-oz. size ...............................................
Box Snuff, 3 for..............................................
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Hoover is going to speak at York-
town in celebration of the surrender
of Lord Cornwallis. It must be pleas-
ant for the President to have some-
thing to celebrate.—Mobile Register.
No. 2 V2 Pineapple .......
No. 2 Cherries .............
Chum Salmon, can .......
Hog Jowl, pound .........
Dry Salt Meat, pound...
Sweet Potatoes, bushel
Chili, large
No. 2i/2
No. 2
No. 1
3-lb.
Governor Found Driver Had
Plenty of Time
AUSTIN.—Gov. Ross Sterling tells
this one with a chuckle:
“I had been visiting the Imperial
prison farm, near Houston. They
furnished me with a car and an ef-
ficient driver to return to Houston.
“ 'If it will not make you too late,.
I wish you would drive me on to the
Bay (Sterling’s summer home),’ I
said.”
“Certainly, sir.”
“You will have enough time?”
“Oh, yes sir, I have seven years.”"
He has since been paroled.
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The Legislature has passed a cot-
ton acreage reduction bill. Now, we
will see what we see.
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The Sherman Democrat says that
22 Sherman doctors collected $160,-
000 last year, which is better than
$7,200 dollars per doctor. Wonder
what their collections run when times
are good.
That Eskimo who went nutty aft-
er looking at a moving picture was
too easy on the trigger. He should
have stuck around and read some of
the plans to save the cotton farmer
if he wanted to go 100 per cent in-
sane.—Macon Telegraph.
should become more skilled and use
greater precautions in the handling
of the car, which is well nigh as
deadly a weapon as a modern rifle or
a machine gun. The soldier aims to
kill; the peaceful citizen should strive
to preserve life by careful attention
to the rules of safe driving.—Dal-
las News.
We don’t know whom to feel sor-
rier for—the King of England, who
has given up $250,000 of his $2,600,-
000 income or the Bethlehem execu-
tives who won’t receive any more
million-dollar bonuses. — Virginian-
Pilot.
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Morris Sheppard announces that
prohibition will not be an issue in the
presidential campaign. If that an-
nouncement were to come from John
J. Rascob, Al Smith, or some of the
other powers who really run the Dem-
ocratic party, we might have some
faith in it.
Thursday, September 24, 1931.
are not
merely a patriotic gesture, and bar-
gain cotton is in position to meet its
competitors on a sound business ba-
sis, such a movement should appeal
to business men and the general pub-
lic. A great cotton State such as Tex-
as has an opportunity to help its
greatest staple crop by lending time-
ly support.—Dallas News.
So Germany has developed a sub-
stitute for matches. The divorce rec-
ord indicates that America has one,
too.—Brooklyn Times.
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.
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There ar/e savages in Africa so
primitive that, according to reports,
they will sy^n up with the first movie
explorer who' comes along, without
waiting for bids from the others.—
Arkansas (Gazette.
to revive the corset and
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That ought to pull us out of the de-
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...10c
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111/2C
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can ......................................................10c
can Hominy................ 10c
can Spinach....................................................10c
can Tomatoes, 5 cans for..............................25c
can Raider Coffee (cup and saucer)..............75c
Target Tobacco (roll your own)................ 10c
White House Flour, 48 pounds, very best..........$1.00
White House Flour, 24 lbs........................ 50c
Texas Queen Flour, 24 lbs..................... 45c
Electric Flour, 48 pounds................................ 75c
Red Warrior Meal, 24 pounds.................. .....45c
Red Warrior Meal, 10 pounds................................25c
Pinto Beans, 25 pounds........................................$1.00
East Texas Sorghum, extra good, per gallon........55c
Pumpkin, No. 2yz can, 15c, or 2 for......................25c
Apple Cider Vinegar, the very best, gallon..........25c
Fly Ded, formerly $1.00, now................................40c
Laundry Soap, Five Pounds, only..........................25c
5 bars Luna Soap and 50c bottle Tri-pure extract..50c
White Eagle Soap, 8 bars........................................25c
Washing Powders, 6 packages..............................25c
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Every once in a while the police
announce that they are going to fight
crime to a finish. But it is always the
fight that finishes first.—San Diego
Union.
At last we have a real suggestion
for the Federal Farm Board: Make
the surplus cotton into sacks to hold
the surplus wheat.—Judge.
Mr. Hoover wants to be nominated
again, and we believe now that a man
can develop a taste for anything.—
Nashville Banner.
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.
land.—Dubuque Catholic Tribune.
Wouldn’t it help the depression
some if it could be arranged to have
Christmas in October this year?—
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
Paying reparations has been
great strain on Germany. At times
she almost failed to borrow enough
money.-—Atlantic City Press.
You see, England is poor and must
borrow from France because France
is too poor to pay what she owes Eng-
One trouble with the bride is that
she can’t help comparing the man she
married with the one who got away.
—Dallas News.
WASHINGTON. — Amateur radio
operators throughout the United
States and its territories and posses-
sions have enlisted their services in
an effort to find the oldest living na-
tive mother, who will be honored on
Mothers’ Day during the George
Washington bicentennial celebration
next year.
It was emphasized that a woman of
the original racial strain that founded
the United States would be most ap-
propriate in celebrating Washing-
ton's deference to his mother.
On next Mothers’ Day, the second
Sunday in May, 1932, the woman se-
lected as the oldest living mother will
be the guest of the Nation here and
the cent/al figure in a ceremony
commemorative of George Washing-
ton’s devotion to his mother.
WE HAVE FULL LINE OF SCHOOL SUPPLIES
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Nicholson’s Grocery
“Where Your Dollar Buys More”
Subscription Price, $1.50 Per Year
Payable in Advance.
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las ranked second with 38,742 ne-
groes, while Fort Worth was third
with 22,234. Beaumont had 18,551,
San Antonio 17,978 and Galveston
13,226, for the next three highest
negro totals. Amarillo had only 1,-
600 negroes, while Waco’s negro
population was even smaller, 1,184.
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The American Bar Association
goes on record as favoring repeal of
the prohibition amendment. Since
bootleggers who are caught provide
a large percentage of the clients for
the lawyers, we can’t understand why
they want the amendment repealed,
unless they figure that by removing
liquor traffic restrictions the in-
crease in crime along other lines will
be sufficient to counteract the boot-
legger client loss.
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The Three Graces
An Hidalgo farmer said to us the
other day that he had a better un-
derstanding of the three graces now
than ever before. During the Hard-
ing administration he lived on Faith;
during the Coolidge administration
on Hope, and under the Hoover
regipie on Charity!—Donna News.
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\ I KILLED IN BATTLE
You see, a depression is harder to
lick than a foreign enemy because
there is nobody to hold it while we
get ready.—Lagrange (Ga.) Re-
porter.
Governor Roosevelt’s problem is to
be dry enough to carry the South at
the convention and wet enough to
carry the East in the election.—Pub-
lishers Syndicate.
An Austrian breeder has succeeded
in developing a lamb without wool,
and if some plant wizard would only
produce some bald headed cotton,
this textile overproduction thing
would practically solve itself.—Bos-
ton Herald.
Looked at from one standpoint the
solution of the great cotton problem
confronting Texas and the South
eventually must come from increased
consumption. Five-cent cotton and
$7 to $10 a ton cotton seed represent
perhaps the greatest bargains since
1898. Once the present psychological
fog lifts and lets the sun of clear
thinking and planning break through,
the opportunity embodied in these
low prices will not be allowed to pass.
Although at present there is much
excitement over cotton acreage re-
duction by law, there are agencies at
work in every cotton growing state
advocating greater use of cotton and
cotton products. The National As-
sociation for Increased Uses of Cot-
ton has branches in all Southern
States and a very active one in Texas
with headquarters at Austin, seeking
to arouse interest in increased cotton
consumption. Among the objectives
are these:
To put cotton bagging on
bales instead of foreign jute:
To substitute cotton bags of equal
or superior quality for. sacking fer-
tilizers, feeds, cement, seeds, gro-
ceries and other staple commodities;
To increase the use of cotton twine
and cordage;
To use more cotton in a South-wide
campaign this fall in making ■ mat-
tresses, comforts, blankets, uphol-
stery, curtains and draperies;
To sponsor a “Cotton Christmas”
this year in which cotton gifts
every character would be popular-
ized.
Since these objectives
WASHINGTON.—A sharp reduc-
tion in the Government’s operating
expenses and an increase in the high-
er brackets of the income tax law to
balance the Nation’s budget was
urged today by Representative Knut-
son.
Asserting it is generally conceded
that repeal or modification of the
Volstead act would probably yield a
sum as large as the deficit, Knutson
said “we might as well face the fact
that the drys are sufficiently strong
to prevent such action.”
After a few more years, conversa-
tions like this may be heard over
community telephones in the agricul-
tural sections:
“When are you going to start your
spring plowing?”
“I don’t know yet. I haven’t called
up the district attorney.”
“The sheriff came out this morn-
ing and made me dig up that little
patch of garlic I had in my garden.”
“He did? What for?”
' “Oh, he says he promised the
voters he would purify- breath from
one end of the county to the other.”
“I thought I’d try to slip in an acre
of goobers this year.”
“Might as well give it up. Two
rangers were over at Bill Smith’s the
other day searching for seed goob-
ers.”
“Did you hear about Jim Doolit-
tle?”
“No. What’s his trouble.”
“He’s in jail. The constable dis-
covered that rutabaga patch Jim had
down in the forks of the creek this
winter.”
“Too bad. I was afraid Jim would
get caught. But you can’t blame the
constable. The law must be en-
forced.”
“I had a little trouble myself last
week. Arbuckle Smokem, who’s been
sore at me since last fall, reported
me for having more than four hogs
in my lot.”
“What’d you do?”
“Oh, I finally convinced the grand
jury that one of them belonged to
my brother-in-law.”
“What do you think about the
sorghum situation for the coming
season?”
“I don’t know, but I noticed where
the governor says he intends to en-
force the anti-sorghum law if he has
to declare martial law.”
“Hard to tell what to plant.”
“Yeah. I’ll be glad when the dis-
trict attorney makes up his mind.”—
Dallas Times-Herald.
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The government has been living
beyond its means, and now is forced
to borrow to pay its expenses. A man
who does that is improvident and un-
businesslike.
There was a deficit of over $900,-
000,000 at the end of the past fiscal
year, and Treasury ^statement shows
that to Aug. 31, or the first two
months of the present fiscal year,
there was a deficit of $396,365,000.
The present borrowing, therefore, is
nearly eaten up already, with ten
more months of the fiscal year yet to
run.
Bankers told Britain to balance her
budget by reduction of expenses’, but
we have balanced ours by borrowing,
and if the first two months of the fis-
cal year are an index, shall have to do
more of the same this year, or face
increased taxation.
Congress appropriates, but does
not pay; and there was too much
reckless expenditure voted in the past
two years. There was the $500,000,-
000 appropriated for the Farm
Board; there was the soldier bonus,
guaranteed to start the wheels of in-
dustry inside of thirty days! And
now, compared with the Treasury’s
condition at the end of June, 1930,
the country’s obligations have in-
creased over $1,000,000,000.—Bar-
ron’s Weekly (New York).
Eleven Texas counties without a
single negro in their population and
two counties with more negroes than
whites were the two extremes in col-
or and nativity statistics announced
by the census bureau.
Census records show more negroes
in Harris County, which contains
Houston, than in any other county of
the state. The most populous coun-
ty had 72,603 negroes among its to-
tal population of 359,328. The sec-
ond largest number was found in
Dallas County, where there were
47,879 negroes among a population
of 325,691. Jefferson County, with
the help of the city of Beaumont, had
the third greatest negro population,
with 33,022 out of a total of 133,391.
The most populous county among
the 11 without negroes was Hamilton,
which was given 13,523 people by the
1930 census. The other 10, most of
which were in the Panhandle, were
Andrews, Dallam, Kenedy, Lips-
comb, Loving, Moore, Ochiltree, Rob-
erts, Sherman and Somervell.
Harrison County reported 19,279
white persons to 29,409 negroes and
was one of the two Texas counties
where negroes predominated. San
Jacinto, with 4,423 whites and 5,117
negroes, was the other.
The division qf races in Brazos
County was perhaps the (most equal
of any Texas County, with 10,817
whites to 9,064 negroes.
Statistics for the whole state
showed 4,855,095 native whites,
854,964 negroes and 98,396 foreign
born whites.
Color and nativity statistics on the
larger Texas cities showed that Hous-
ton, with 63,337, had the largest
negro population in the state. Dal-
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Summer ended, calendarically
speaking, Monday night, but the
weather man is evidently asleep on
the job and doesn’t know it. Or may-
be he is simply giving the ice dealers
a break because of the unusual
amount of cool weather we had in
midsummer. Anyway, it’s still too
hot for comfort.
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President Hoover told the Ameri-
can Legion convention that he is op-
posed to any further increase of gov-
ernmental expenditures of any na-
ture. He might have gone a bit
further and announced his stand as
favoring decreased governmental ex-
penditures in keeping with decreased
expenditures by private business in
all lines.
Give us back our 4 per cent beer
and the. people will be contented and
prosperous—like they are in Ger-
many.—Judge.
The Russians give all they make
above a bare living to their Govern-
ment and call it Communism. We do
the same and call it taxes.—Ohio
State Journal.
The State Fair
Just two more weeks—then the
great State Fair of Texas opens!
That’s the way we used to compute
time about this season of the year
’way back yonder when we were a
kid. But we didn’t go on opening
day—we waited until everything was
in full swing, usually the second
Sunday, for. we wanted everything
connected with the fair to be in oper-
ation; then too we enjoyed the sus-
pense of waiting. We didn’t mind
picking cotton, for we were saving
up money to spend at the fair, and
we got five dollars worth of pleasure
out of every dollar we spent.
We didn’t know as much about the
world and its ways in those days as
kids do now, and to us the State Fair
comprised a world all its own. We
didn’t miss a single free exhibit, and
we saw most of the paid attractions.
We learned a little something about
the work of the artists from the art
exhibits. We learned something
about handicraft from the textile ex-
hibits. We learned from the agricul-
tural exhibits that practically every-
thing that can be grown anywhere in
America can be grown in Texas. We
learned about the freaks of nature
by visiting the shows on the midway.
We watched at the State Fair the
evolution of power farm machinery,
of the automobile, of labor saving
household appliances. We became
acquainted with all the different va-
rieties of cattle, hogs, chickens and
dogs.
We had our first taste of big-time
vaudeville at the old coliseum. We
sat in the grandstand and saw our
first horse race and our first auto-
mobile race. It was there also that
we saw our first airplane and our
first wireless telegraph set. To en-
joy the thrill that the State Fair pro-
vided for us in those days, we would
be willing to pick cotton again from
sunup to sundown.
The State Fair of Texas is still
there, greater and grander than ever.
We still get a thrill out of it, still
learn something when we visit it.
And doubtless the boys of today get
A recent advertisement inserted in
some prominent newspapers by three
large insurance companies asserted
that 50,510 members of the A. E. F.
were killed in action or died of
wounds during the eighteen months
that America was engaged in the
World War. added that 51,400
persons were killed in automobile ac-
cidents during the eighteen months
ending Dec. 31, 1930.
It is hard to realize that day by
day there is in this country a destruc-
tion of life comparable to our losses
in the great war. The Nation as a
whole is set against wars and would
limit armaments. Its citizens also
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