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Tenant Farmer
Given Help in
Cotton Ruling
Dawes Says
Slump Ended
In October
Huge Cotton
Surplus Cut
Is Forecast
Mother-in-Law
To Be Praised One
Day—No Joking
CENTRAL CHRISTIAN
CHURCH HAS PASTOR
MORE NEW BOOKS ARE
DONATED TO LIBRARY
NO OFFER IS MADE
FOR RELIEF BONDS
WHITEWRIGHT GETS
INSURANCE CREDIT
WEATHER MAN RIGHT
85 PER CENT OF TIME
ADMIT GUILT IN
“U. S. JOB SALES”
blasts sheathed snow piles with thick
crusts of ice. '
as far south as Florida.
At least twenty were dead as the
result of the storm, twelve in the
.New York metropolitan area alone.
Thousands were suffering from in-
juries and exposure.
ZERO WEATHER
HAMPERS EAST
AFTER BLIZZARD
an
two
Early Bird
Suitor (sighing)—“Well, since you
don’t want to marry me after all, per-
haps you’ll return my ring.”
Girl (acidly)—“If you must know,
your jeweler has called for it al-
ready.”
FRANCE REVIVES TAX
ON FOREIGNERS’ PAY
work there as the Govern-
emergency program fades
DALLAS SCHOOL KIDS
USING LUNCH MONEY
TO PURCHASE BOOZE
INTENTION TO TAKE
BLAME, NOT BOOZE,
COSTS NEGRO $11
for
the
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WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1934.
LEADERS SEE REAL
UPTURN IN BUSINESS
OKLAHOMA CITY.—A misunder-
standing, said Hubert Washington,
young negro, cost him an $11 fine.
“Who,” said arresting officers,
“wants to take the blame for this
whisky?”
“I’ll take it,” said Washington, but
he told the court he meant the whis-
ky, not the blame. “I didn’t under-
stand what they said,” he explained.
By Senator John H. Bankhead
WASHINGTON. — The Bankhead
cotton bill, in addition to adminis-
trative provisions, includes the fol-
lowing :
Nine million bales of cotton are
exempt from the tax for this crop
year. If average production for a
previous period is adopted as the ba-
sis for this year’s allotments, 5 per
cent of the amount of each country’s
allotment is to be added, to be used
in making additional allotments to
small cotton farmers and (or) for
new lands bought into cotton produc-
tion.
Court Authorizes
Tuberculin Test
For Grayson Cows
Senator Bankhead Gives Analysis
of His Bill to Limit Cotton Crop
DEMONSTRATION CLUB
WILL MEET FRIDAY
The Whitewright Sun
PARIS.—A most recent picture
of Gaston Doumergue, former
President of France who heeded
the call during the Paris riots to
come from retirement, accept the
Premiership and attempt to form a
new cabinet of “strong men.”
The Texas Fire Insurance Commis-
sion has granted a three per cent in-
surance credit on fire insurance
premiums paid in Whitewright for
the year beginning March 1, accord-
ing to information received from
Austin this week by Mayor F. M.
Echols.
This will mean a saving of three
per cent on all insurance premiums
paid on Whitewright property during
that year over the premiums paid
during the present year.
There is a possible variation of 30 ,
per cent in insurance costs as the re-
sult of the ratio of losses paid to
premiums collected. A town may be
penalized as much as 15 per cent for
a bad fire record, or it ay be favored
with as much as a 15 per cent credit
as the result of a good fire record.
The penalties and credits are fig-
ured on a three-year basis. The three
per cent credit just granted is based
on the ratio of losses to premiums
for the years 1931, 1932 and 1933,
with 1930 having been dropped and
1933 added.
At present Whitewright has neith-
er a penalty nor a credit, having lost
a six per cent credit on March 1,
1933. At one time the city enjoyed
the maximum 15 per cent credit but
was unable to hold it.
Whitewright’s fire loss in 1933 was
negligible. There was no fire of any
consequence, all losses paid having
been small. Continuation of this rec-
ord during 1934 will make possible a
further credit for next year.
CHICAGO.—Charles Gates Dawes
broke a two-year silence about busi-
ness conditions Wednesday to de-
clare that the depression has ended.
Prosperity began returning last
October, he said. For the future, he
predicted “continued better condi-
tions in business and industry.”
Announcing that he based it on
months of study, the former .Vice
President made his optimistic predic-
tion in an address before the Chica-
go Association of Commerce.
In apparent fine fettle, Dawes told
his audience of several hundred busi-
ness leaders that he predicted much
of his forecast on a conviction that
President Roosevelt would accom-
plish his purpose of balancing the
national budget in 1936.
That program of budget balancing,
he said, should be of tremendous im-
portance in restoring public confi-
dence, which he described as tanta-
mount to reviving prosperity, to its
fullest extent.
The banker and former Repub-
lican Vice President of the country
devoted most of his address to a re-
cital of cold figures and economic
history but paid tribute to President
Roosevelt for restoring confidence
and for the budget balancing pro-
gram.
Confidence of the masses has
marked the end of each past depres-
sion, Dawes said. He indicated a be-
lief that such a public attitude has
returned to the United States.
PARIS.—A special tax of 10 per
cent of foreigners’ wages was re-
vived by the finance committee of
the Chamber of Deputies Tuesday.
It was the same tax which the cham-
ber was obliged to abandon in De-
cember when the Senate rejected it
because it conflicted with existing
treaties.
The tax is intended primarily to
oust foreign labor, but it is directed
also at foreign professional men who
would be taxed 10 per cent of their
professional income in addition to
the usual income tax.
All foreign residents in France
less than 10 years would be affected.
One-fifth of payments due foreign
authors and inventors from France,
even though they are not residents
here, would be delivered to the treas-
ury as a guarantee that they would
pay a special 12 per cent tax.
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WASHINGTON.—The first convic-
tions for alleged illegal trafficking
in government jobs under the “New
Deal” were obtained in District of
Columbia Supreme Court today when
Porfiro U. Sevilla and Francis E.
Ziesse, both of New York, pleaded
guilty before Justice Peyton Gordon.
The indictment charged they col-
lected more than $1,500 as fees from
various persons under the pretense
of obtaining them positions through
the use of Democratic influence in
various government departments.
Sentence was deferred.
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DALLAS. — Complaints received,
from citizens caused police to act
Thursday in an attempt to stamp out
the practice of bootleggers in selling
intoxicating liquor to school children.
One establishment was raided in
Oak Cliff, where officers found four
empty half-gallon jars that had con-
tained whisky, and elaborate gam-
bling equipment, including cards,
dice and roulette wheels. A woman
operator of the house was arrested
and held for ^questioning. She was
released, however, when no proof of
her having sold liquor to children of
school age was forthcoming.
Lieutenant of Detetives Luther
Phillips, in charge of the vice squad,
said Friday that numerous complaints
had been received by the parents of
school children that the students
were spending their spare time and
lunch money at drinking and gam-
bling “joints” within a short distance
of some of the city schools.
Lieutenant Phillips promised a
thorough investigation and assigned
Detectives Seely and Gardner exclu-
sively to tracking down the bootleg-
gers and gambling house operators
reported to be preying on school chil-
dren.
AUSTIN.—The Texas Bond Com-
mission did not receive a bid for the
sale of any part of $2,750,000 of re-
lief bonds advertised for sale on Fri-
day. It recessed subject to call.
The bonds offered were a part of
a $5,500,000 issue authorized by the
first called session of the Legislature.
The commission has sold $2,750,000
of the issue.
Failure to receive bids was not sur-
prising in view of the pending legis-
lation to authorize bonds, tentatively
fixed at $4,500,000, as' buyers are
waiting to see whethex’ the new issues
are made more attractive.
As amended by a Senate commit-
tee, the House bill permits the reis-
suance of the $2,750,000 of bonds
under the new bill with its newly
adopted terms, making all unsold
bonds stand on the same basis.
an affidavit
that he will not sell the cotton until
the tax is paid. Adequate provisions
are made to prevent the transporta-
tion of cotton on which the tax has
not been paid.
Allotment certificates may be
transferred. Where a certificate is
not used during the crop year for
which it is issued, by reason of a
short crop, the cerificate may be
used during the succeeding year in
addition to the allotment for that
year. r
I have frequently asserted that I
am particularly anxious to see that
no injustice is done to the small and
the average cotton producer and
those who have heretofore voluntar-
ily reduced cotton production to help
avoid overproduction.
It has been asserted by supporters
of the bill throughout the hearings
before the Senate and House com-
mittees that if a crop of 12,000,000
or 13,000,000 bales is produced this
year that the price probably will not
exceed 8 cents, and that with a 9,-
000,000-bale crop the price will prob-
ably be 14 or 15 cents.
ate share of the crops raised on that
part of the farm not rented to the
Government.
To increase the rent paid by the
tenant for the part of the farm not
rented to the Government.
To give any reason to believe that
the owner or landlord has adopted
any device or scheme of any sort for
the purpose of depriving the tenant
of his share of the payments or of
any othei' right of the tenant under
the contract.
Any contract will be subject to
cancellation if the landlord and ten-
ant have entered an agreement eith-
er before or after signing, and any
payment under any such agreement
out of the Federal money will be sub-
ject to a trust in favor of the Secre-
tary of Agriculture and will be re-
paid to the secretary by the person
receiving it, in addition to costs of
collection, the secretary to have the
right of collection if he deems it nec-
essary to effect the purposes of the
WASHINGTON. — Reduction of
the cotton surplus to eight or nine
million bales under the agriculture
adjustment act in 1934 is forecast by
•Chestex- C. Davis, administrator.
SHERMAN.—Expenses of elimi-
nating tubercular cows from Gray-
son County herds and thereby mak-
ing this area an accredited one will
be borne by the county, state and
federal governments it was decided
by the commissioners court Satur-
day morning.
The court voted unanimously to
furnish ear tags, disinfectant and
cotton at an estimated cost of $190
after Frank Thompson, manager of
the Sherman Chamber of Commerce,
had presented a proposition of the
livestock sanitaxy commission.
Mr. Thompson reported that the
commission would conduct the proj-
ect under the supervision of Leo Cal-
lan, chairman, at an estimated cost
of $9,514 if the county would pay
for the incidentals.
He read a letter from Dr. Lewis
C. Crabb, state veterinarian, in which
it was stated that labor for the work
would come from those already en-
rolled on CWA projects.
Although Dr. Crabb stated he
hoped the project could be started by
March 5, Mr. Thompson said he had
not been informed Saturday as to
whether the projects of this nature
had been cut off by the federal gov-
ernment.
The tubercular test has been be-
fore the commissioners court for
years, but heretofore the high cost
to the county prevented approval by
the body.
Under provisions of the commis-
sion, every cow in the county would
be given the test, and those found
afflicted would be eliminated from
the herds, with cash payments being
made to owners of condemned cows.
The Home Demonstration Club, re-
cently organized in Whitewright, will
meet next Friday afternoon at 1
o’clock at the Texas-Louisiana Pow-
er Company office. Miss Mattie Wil-
roy, county agent, will be present
and discusse matters of interest to
the club. Women interested are in-
vited to meet with the club Friday
and become members.
The officers of the club are: Mrs.
Lester Haile, president; Mrs. Percy
Dax-win, vice-president; Mrs. Sidney
Watson, secretary-treasurer, and
Mrs. Ed Martin, reporter.
AMARILLO. — M o th e r-in-law’s
Day (no joking) is the latest addi-
tion to the calendar. It will be ob-
served here March 5.
The slogan is:
“A mother-in-law is a mother who
has made good.”
Some of Amarillo’s prominent ma-
trons, encouraged by Gene A. Howe,
newspaper publisher, have organized
the Mother-in-law’s Day Club of Tex-
as.
“We mothers-in-law too long have
borne the brunt of harsh jokes and
misleading insinuations,” Mrs. N. S.
Griggs, the club’s president, declared
today. “It is time the public paid us
some respect.”
She explained the slogan thus:
“Any woman can be a mother, but
a mother-in-law is one who has
brought up her daughters in such a
way that they want to marry and
make homes and who have enough
appeal that men want to marry them.
We honor our mothers when many
tinxes their real problems don’t begin
until their children are married, so
why not pay a little tribute to moth-
er-in-law?”
Amarillo will honor them in a big
way. The mayor will issue a procla-
mation for city-wide observance.
There will be flowers, a free show at
the leading theatre, favors from busi-
ness houses, and prizes for the old-
est and youngest, the prettiest, and
the one with the most manned
dren.
WASHINGTON. — Loosening of
the capital money market through
federal action today was urged by
banking leaders, who reported to the
Administration signs of a real busi-
ness upturn.
Relaxation of the securities act
and creation of intermediate indus-
trial banks for long-term business fi-
nancing were specific actions in-
dorsed by the Advisory Council of
the Federal Reserve system at its
first 1934 meeting.
These steps also were understood
to have the approval of Francis M.
Law, presdient o f the American
Bankers Association, who told Presi-
dent Roosevelt “there is a very def-
inite and very real improvement in
business.”
Likewise Henry I. Harriman, pres-
ident of the Chamber of Commerce
of the United States, who also saw
Roosevelt, said the crux of the pres-
ent problem is stimulation of capi-
tal goods industries “in order to get
men to
ment’s
out.”
WASHINGTON. — The weather
man isn’t really a bad guesser—look
at the statistics and see whose guess-
ing is off.
Dr. Charles C. Clark, acting chief
of the United States Weather Bu-
reau, was asked while before the
Appropriations Committee
about the percentage of accuracy
“of your forecast.”
“Through a long number- of
years,” Dr. Clark replied, “with as
accurate a check or verifciation as
we can get on them, they are from
85 to 90 per cent correct. That is
for the forecasts from 24 to 36 hours
in advance.”
Rev. G. C. Minor of Ladonia has
been called as half-time pastor of the
Central Christian Church, and filled
his first engagement here Sunday.
He was greeted at both services by
large audiences. He will preach here
each first and third Sunday, and will
spend half of his time in White-
wright, the other half he will spent
in Ladonia, being pastor of the Chris-
tian Church at that place.
Mr. Minor is one of the leading
ministers of the Christian Church and
has been pastox’ of some of the
largest churches of that denoxnina-
tion. During the World War he was
chaplain in the army, and was con-
nected with Y. M. C. A. work for a
numbex- of years. He was reared and
educated in Boston.
Mr. and Mrs. Minox- will rent
apartment and spend at least
weeks of each month in Whitewright.
Certificates of exemption will be
issued to cover all allotments. A tax
of 75 per cent of the average price
for spot cotton at the 10 leading spot
markets, to be ascertained and de-
clared by the Secretary of Agricul-
ture from time to time, must be paid
on all excess cotton before it can be
sold.
The certificate of exemption
each bale must be delivered to
ginner. A metallic tag is then
tached to the bale and shows that
tax is due on that bale.
A farmer who has produced more
I than his allotment can have the ex-
Each State and county is given an I cess ginned by filing’
allotment on the basis of the preced-l
ing five-yeax- experience. Two plans
fox- making farm allotments are au-
thorized:
1. A percentage of the farm’s
average annual production fox- a fair
representative period.
2. Ascertain what each farm
would have produced during a fair
representative period if all the culti-
vated land had been planted to cot-
ton, and then reducing each farm the
same percentage.
The Secretary also is authorized
to adopt any othex- plan that he deems
fail- and just, and that will apply to
all alike on the basis or classification
adopted.
Aftex- this year the plan is to be
put into effect only when the Secre-
r of Agriculture finds that there
num-
The Whitewright Public Library
I -A has received donations of many
| books, magazines and pamphlets
since last week, it is announced by
j Mrs. A. L. Jackson, librarian.
j The list of contributors includes
Mrs. J. R. Fleming, 27 books and 20
r magazines; Mrs. Ben Nelson of Ken-
i tuckytown, 9 books; Mrs. Glenn Doss,
I 8 books; Miss Nova Bryant, 7 books;
i Miss Cecil Doss, 3 books; Sherman
I Public Library, 15 books.
i The Texas State College for Wom-
I en (C. I. A.), Denton, has sent 22
j pamphlets to the local library. In-
i eluded are pamphlets on “Beautify-
i ing the Home Grounds,” “Recrea-
tional Games fox- the Playgrounds,”
“Program Material for Women’s
Clubs and the P. T. A.”, “Kindergar-
ten Work,” “Menues for Parties and
the Home,” “How to Buy and Care
Fox- the Family Wardrobe,” and
many othex- interesting subjects.
Mrs. Jackson reports that interest
in the library continues to grow, with
the enrollment increasing daily.
WASHINGTON, D. C. — Brig.-
Gen. William Mitchell, retired, told
the Senate Committee that Uncle
Sam has been the victim of profit-
eers in Army airplane contracts,
spending $187,000,000 per year on
military aviation and today having
about 300 planes whereas we
should have 2,000.
DALLAS.—Believed to be the out-
growth of discoveries in some North
Texas counties that some landlords
were attempting to deprive tenants
of their share of Federal cotton
money, stringent rulings have been
sent all county agents in all cotton
producing States by C. A. Cobb, chief
of the cotton production section of
the agricultural adjustment adminis-
tration.
The rulings declare that any con-
tracts obtained by subterfuge will
not be accepted by the AAA, and
that any money paid on the con-
tracst will be subject to recovery by
Secretax-y Wallace, whose approval is
given the rulings.
Discovery recently that landlords
were coercing tenants resulted in a
representative of the AAA coming
to Dallas, from where he investigated
the violations of the spirit of the ag-
x-icultural adjustment act. When he
left to return to Washington he said
he would ask Mr. Cobb for additional
rulings concerning the measures be-
lieved being taken in Texas.
Claims Waived
Mr. Cobb’s letter to the county
agents says that the administration
has received copies of contracts used
by certain large land holding
panies and individual landowners in
which the owners require from the
tenant a supplemental agreement
waiving the tenant’s claims to any
rights to receive part of the rentals
paid by the Government.
“The use of such agreements in
any fox*m will be construed as prima
facie evidence of an intent on the
part of the landowner to violate the
spirit of the cotton acreage reduc-
tion contract,” Mr. Cobb’s letter says,
“and to collect from the Government
that part of the cotton acreage re-
duction rentals that should go to the
tenant, and it will be incumbent on
the administration to refuse to ac-
cept contracts offered by any land-
owner who is making use of such
supplemental agreements.”
H. H. Jobson, Dallas County com-
mitteeman, said that to the knowl-
edge of the committee comprised of
himself, W. H. Coyle and Walter
Stark, no contracts have been ac-
cepted in Dallas County that would
be unacceptable to the AAA. He
said, however, that in accord with
the instructions from Mr. Cobb, the
committee is reviewing the contracts
to make sure no such violations have
occurred.
The rulings received Tuesday by
County Agent A. B. Jolley and the
committeemen hold that no contracts
signed either by a landlord or a ten-
ant will be accepted if it appears
there exists an agreement of any
kind, made before or aftex- the sign-
ing of the contract, if such an agree-
ment would have any of the follow-
ing effects or purposes:
To cause or obligate either land-
lord or tenant to pay to the other his
share of any benefit payment under
the contract.
To change the status of any tenant
for 1934, whether the tenant rents
for cash or a share of the crop, or for
the purpose of causing the contract
to be signed by the landlord as pro-
ducer in order to deprive the tenant
of any part of the payments or of
any other right or privilege.
To reduce the tenant’s proportion-'adjustment act.
J. D. Arney, aged 69, died Friday,
Feb. 16, at 7 o’clock at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. E. L. Sells of the
Ely community. The funeral service
was held at the Church of Christ Sun-
day afternoon at 4 o’clock with the
pastor, J. R. Waldnxm, in charge. The
burial service was held at Oak* Hill
Cemetery.
Mr. Arney was born in Tennessee
June 8, 1865. He moved to Texas
three years ago. He was a member
six years ago. He was a member of
the Church of Christ and the Masonic
Lodge.
Besides his aged wife, the
ceased is survived by five sons and
four daughters, John Arney, South-
west City, Mo.; Bob Ax-ney, St Joe,
Arkansas; T. E. and Willie Arney,
Whitewright; Porter Arney, Akron,
Ohio; Mrs. E. L. Sells, Mrs. W. A.
Phillips of the Ely community; Mrs.
K. R. Simmons, south of town, and
Mrs. P. C. Moore, Jonesville, Tenn.
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Testifying before a house appro-
priations sub-conxmittee on the agri-
culture department supply bill, Davis
said the acreage reduction program
jgt. jin 1933 cut production by 4,000,000
^Ubales. Individual checks, he said,
were mailed to 1,042,000 farmers for
plowing up their cotton adding:
“I think the results in the south
Fave justified the cotton program.”
Davis estimated that 90 per cent
•of the acreage was affected by the
Tedu^tioh campaign.
Up until Dec. 31, he continued,
-about $80,000,000 had been collected
from the cotton processing tax while
more than $160,000,000 was paid
out.
“There is every reason to be-
lieve,” he said, “that the proceeds
from the processing tax will pay all
the cotton program expense; with
the exception of the payments in con-
■nection with the cotton-option pool,
which are to be met out of a special
fund known as the Bankhead act
fund, which runs to a total under the
Bankhead act, of approximately $60,-
000,000.”
Davis said about 45 percent of
American cotton was domestically
■consumed, with 55 per cent being ex-
ported. He expressed the belief that
despite increased growth of cotton
abroad, the United States would con-
tinue to hold its foreign market.
Discussing the cotton reduction
program for 1934, Davis said:
“The program for 1934 aims at a
Teduction of approximately 40 per
cent fox- this one year, to make a
real attack at this large carry-over.
That would call for a reduction to
around 25 million acres in the
planted acreage; and we are paying
for that on the basis of land rental
at three and a half cents per pound
■of the estimated average production
for a five year period on the partic-
ular tract of the land rented.
“That means that the rent will
range from around $3 up to as high
as $18 an acre, depending on the
productivity.
“The estimated total of rental pay-
ments to producers in the .1934 cam-
paign is $98,146,230, and the guar-
anteed parity payment to producers
on the domestic production of their
crop is $28,042,780, a total of $126,-
188,000.”
NEW YORK.—A cold wave de-
scended Wednesday on the Eastern
Seaboard, still sorely crippled by the
most paralyzing snowstorms since the
celebrated blizzard of 1888.
Temperatures of close to
complicated efforts to “dig out” in
the hardest hit regions as the frigid
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The cold wave extended tary
should be a limitation of the
bex- of bales to be put in the market
and that a majority of those having
the right to cultivate a farm favor
putting the plan into effect. The
President must also approve it before
the baleage control plan can be put
into effect for any subsequent year.
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