The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 23, 1939 Page: 3 of 8
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Thursday, March 23, 1939.
PAGE THREE
By Boyce House
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Asks Adoption of
Retail Sales Tax
When You Think of
—without seeing the new 1939 patterns we are of-
fering at attractive prices. We have any grade of
paper you want, from the cheapest to the best, and
we invite comparison with mail-order prices.
Wall paper patterns change with the seasons.
Last year’s patterns are as out of date as last year’s
automobile. Buy from us—buy NEW wall paper—
give your walls a 1939 dress.
We also have wall canvas, canvas tacks, paper
for reinforcing corners—anything you may need.
Baby Born Today
Has Life Expectancy
Of About 62 Years
You can depend on these
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you trouble-free service in
all seasons. They are top
quality, yet cost no more
to buy.
We’re always glad to tell
you anything you want to
know about insurance.
DRIVER’S LICENSE
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CLEOPATRA WAS
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TINTERS OF TODAY
I Give You Texas
Safe Prescription Service!
We invite you to join our ever-growing list of patrons
who bring us their prescriptions. We do not claim to
have the largest prescription department in the
State, netiher do we claim to be the best pharmacists,
but we do lay claim to the fact that we use the best
drugs and compound them exactly as the doctors or-
der. We maintain a fair price and a reliable service
which attests to the fact that during the past year
our prescription business has maintained a gradual
increase.
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GOMER MAY, Manager
The Sun will
consider it a favor if you
will tell us about any vis-
itors you may have, visits
you may make, parties of
any nature, or any other
kind of news items. It is
the province of this news-
paper to publish the hap-
penings of this community
insofar as it is possible to
do so, and your co-opera-
tion to this end is desired.
SE WALL’S
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What Independent
Merchants Think of
‘Fair Trades’ Laws
A Lot Depends Upon
Condition of Feet
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By T. C. RICHARDSON, Secretary
Breeder-Feeder Association
The Jokesmith
Under the spreaking chestnut tree
The village jokesmith stands;
The smith a cheerful man is he,
With white and jeweled hands.
He mails a joke, his hope is high,
Then settles down to wait;
At length there comes Ye Ed’s reply:
“You’re twenty years too late.”
“Why don’t you come up and see
me some time?” in the throaty tones
of the one and only Mae West may be
heard from the stage of Casa Manana
this summer, according to Louis Ep-
stein, who will be managing director
of the Fort Worth spectacle. He is
manager of Miss West’s stage show
and formerly managed Al Jolson.
Other possible Casa Manana headlin-
ers he named were Martha Haye,
Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell and Mick-
ey Rooney.
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There ought to be some sort of
livestock and poultry on every farm
in the Southwest. It offers means of
increasing farm income, besides dis-
tributing both labor and income
throughout the year. “A farm is not
a farm without its barnyard noises,”
said some wise man. The whole
theme of these articles is to encour-
Japan returns to the family the
ashes of soldiers killed in the war
with China.
You never can tell when you think a
thought
How far its intent may reach—
The very best things in our lives are
wrought
By thought that
speech.
You never can tell when you kindly
do
Some deed that will helpful be—
How far its effects may go wand’ring
thru
The lives that you never see.
You surely can know that unyielding
Law
Runs through the affairs of man,
And renders to each (and without a
flaw)
Results that are in the Plan.
—John Willis Ring.
AUSTIN.—Police administrators of
other states were notified today of an
indefinite extension period for Texas
drivers’ licenses after April 1, Ralph
L. Buell, chief of the licensing bu-
reau, announced.
The bureau head said a measure is
pending before the Legislature to
provide for the reissuance of driving
permits which expire April 1, after
three years of validity. The new li-
censes will be issued by the public
safety department instead of by tax
collectors who distributed them when
the law went into effect in 1936.
Chief Buell said temporary li-
censes will be assigned to drivers
who pass examinations for their first
permits and will remain valid until
the amended statute becomes effec-
tive. Chauffeurs’ licenses, however,
will not be affected by the extension
period as they are issued annually.
Newspapers will be advised of
plans to renew licenses of drivers at
a future date, he said.
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Plagiarism? A restaurant in Round
Rock (which is where Sam Bass was
shot to death) proclaims, “Neckless,
wingless, backless fried chicken.”
Another cafe there asserts, “Original
neckless, wingless, backless fried
chicken.”
Another feud in food: Side by side
on the Fort Worth highway just
north of Waco are two stands, one
advertising “Fried chicken, Califor-
nia style”; the other, “Fried chicken,
Texas style.” Guess which had the
bigger crowd.
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the air,” so-
for example,
were
We write all kinds of In-
surance, in old, dependa-
ble stock insurance com-
panies, including—
—FIRE
—LIFE
—WINDSTORM
—HAIL
—ACCIDENT
—HEALTH
—LIVESTOCK
—AUTOMOBILE
—FARM
business enterprises, including
sort, of farming enterprise. It
scarcely necessary to say that
“in-and-out” is seldom the
in any line of business.
But Southwestern farms must have
livestock and poultry, each in pro-
portion to the size and type of farm.
It is essential to the present as well
as the future of farming in this fa-
vored region. All I am trying to say
here is that we must “grow into”
rather than “go into” that phase of
sound farm management, and “grow-
ing into” it means growing the feed
ahead of the consuming needs of the
livestock.
As we plant feed at this season we
plant the eggs for the Christmas mar-
ket, the cream for every day after
summer pastures fail, the fat hogs
and beeves of next winter and spring,
the fat turkeys for Thanksgiving.
Let’s not get the cart in front of the
horse.
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This is an “off year” as far
election is concerned so it might be
good time to go into the whole busi-
ness of “freedom of
called. Last year,
friends of Ralph Yarborough
paying for some time on the air but
the candidate for Attorney General
couldn’t say what he wanted to be-
cause attorneys for the station (who
were supporting one of Yarborough’s
opponents) ruled against this state-
ment: “Let’s keep the door of oppor-
tunity open for every boy and girl in
Texas and not allow it to be locked
so that it can be opened only by
monopoly’s key of gold.”
William Jennings Bryan—with his
“You shall not press down upon the
brow of labor this crown of thorns”—
and Patrick Henry—with “Give me
liberty or give me death” — would
have been simply out of luck as far as
some radio stations are concerned.
I’m investigating a rumor that one
Texas station ruled out the Declara-
tion of Independence because it says
that “all men are endowed with cer-
tain inalienable rights, among them
being life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.”
Will W. Lee O’Daniel run for the
United States Senate next year? A
seat in Washington would give the
hill-billy philosopher a national au-
dience. ,
feed 365 days in the year. The very
fact that they go on producing when
crops are not growing is what makes
them valuable in the farm set-up.
But a few well-fed every day are bet-
ter from every standpoint than many
half-fed, or well-fed for a few
months and half-starved the rest of
-age and in some small degree to point1 the year.
There is just now a sort of “boom
psychology” in certain types of live-
stock, especially beef cattle, sheep
and hogs. The prices of these ani-
mals have held up better than most
other farm and ranch products, which
is always a temptation to over-stock-
ing. “In at the top and out at the
bottom” is the sad history of many
; every
is
the
winner
the way to a balanced farming sys-
tem in the Southwest which will re-
lieve the uncertainties of crop-farm-
ing. But—
And it is a great big “but”—we
:must be careful to not get the cart
before the horse. Farm livestock and
poultry are primarily a means of
manufacturing raw materials—feed
and pasturage—into more usable and
.salable forms. If the farm hasn’t the
teed—at least a large part of it—it is
not ready for livestock. We have all
■seen the tragedy of feed shortages,
forcing the sale of animals at a sacri-
fice or keeping them at an excessive
■cost by purchasing feed.
What the farm flocks and herds
live and thrive on next winter de-
pends on the kind of feed and pas-
turage available, the facilities for
taking care of them, and above all,
"the amount of feed to keep them
.growing and producing 12 months in
the year. The feed must precede
stocking the farm with feed-consum-
ing fowls or animals, and now is the
time to start producing the feed.
“Livestock without feed is a farm
tragedy,” says Sam A. McMillian,
who ought to know, for he has, like
many of us, seen too many tragedies
of “going into” the livestock business
without the fortification of feed sup-
plies to avoid having to “go out” un-
der pressure.
We Americans are constitutionally
inclined to- “bore with a big auger,”
to think a business beneath consid-
eration if it isn’t a big business. It is
mighty easy to over-estimate the car-
rying capacity of a pasture, to
'“guess” we have feed enough for 20
cows or a 100 hens and find out, too
late, that we have feed enough for
only half as many. It is not only a
matter of safety, but a matter of
profits, to have more than enough
rather than less.
Livestock and poultry are not like
What do independent merchants
think of the proposed Texas
Trades” (price fixing) law?
Have Texas merchants given this
measure serious thought?
Merchants in New York State,
where the law is in effect, have.
Macy’s, in New York City, is the
largest department store in the
world. Macy’s is an independent
store—not a chain.
In Sunday’s New York Times,
Macy’s paid The Times $708.08 for a
48-inch display advertisement de-
voted exclusively to extending con-
gratulations to the “Consumers of
the State of Vermont” for securing
defeat of a “Fair Trades” (price fix-
ing) law in the Vermont legislature.
—Clarksville Times.
AUSTIN. — Fingernail tinters ob-
serve!
You’re still 2,000 years behind
Cleopatra, according to Louis W.
Schleuse, University of Texas phar-
macy professor. The Siren of the
Nile, he contends, tinted the entire
soles of her feet.
In counting the noses of the fa-
mous, the university cosmetic expert
found that Marie Antoinette’s per-
fume bill reputedly ran to $100,000
annually. Napoleon was also a “per-
fume addict.”
A radio station recently cut a
speaker off the air because he was
talking against giving the presiden-
tial nomination to John Garner.
However, from the same station each
week, Elliott Roosevelt criticizes
President Roosevelt’s administration.
Should the Vice President be treated
with more consideration than the
President?
COLLEGE STATION.—Take care
of your feet and they will take care
of you, Mrs. Dora R. Barnes, clothing
specialist of the Texas A. and M.
College Extension Service, tells home
demonstration club women and 4-
H club girls.
“Efficiency, enjoyment in life, our
posture, and beauty itself depends a
lot upon our feet,” she says. “A
strong, healthy foot, if mistreated,
may not contribute as much to living
as an essentially weak foot properly
cared for.”
In shoe selection, she urges: “Get
shoes to fit your feet. The shoes
should have a straight inner line,
they should have room for the toes,
should be long enough, have a flex-
ible shank, a snug-fitting heel, and
the widest part of the foot should
come at the widest part of the shoe.”
Among her suggestions for foot hy-
giene are these: Wear stockings that
are long enough, bathe the feet often,
cut the nails regularly, and gently
massage the feet to shape them into
an arched structure.
Hot and cold foot baths and the
use of a stiff brush are also helpful.
Mrs. Barnes urged special attention
to foot ailments, and says a doctor
should be consulted about all abnor-
malities.
THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN, WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
communicable disease germs.
Semi-annual physical examina-
tions which have become a health,
habit for many of our citizens check
illnesses at their onset and allow for
similar cures.
Science has provided us with ef-
fective drugs to combat the spread of
syphilis and gonorrhea, diseases
which take an annual toll of blind-
ness, insanity, locomotor ataxia, bone
infections, enlargement of the ar-
teries and deformity of infants.
Tuberculosis and cancer have been
brought into the curable classifica-
tion of diseases. All and all the last
20 years have seen the Medical and
Public Health professions making
this a safer nation in which to live
and at the same time a nation in
which to live longer.
AUSTIN.—One often hears about
the good old days when grandfather
was a boy but according to Dr. Geo.
W. Cox, State Health Officer, now
are the good days for babies. A baby
born today can expect to live until he
is 62 years of age. This is almost
twice the expectancy of babies born
100 years ago. There has been a gain
of 14 years since 1900.
While still somewhat below the
biblical promise of “three score and
ten” Texans can look forward to
reaching that goal within a few years.
The fact that a child born in 1938
who weathered the infantile storms
of the first year could expect to live
62 years in contrast to the boy born
in 1850, who could live only 38 years
is a tribute to the American Medical
Profession and the preventive technic
of public health, Dr. Cox believes.
Vaccination is a preventive meas-
ure that saves thousands of lives an-
nually. Prophylactic measures
against typhoid, diphtheria and
smallpox have greatly reduced the
incidence of these diseases in Texas.
Widespread sanitation efforts safe-
guard the water we drink, the food
we eat and our environmental sur-
roundings to lessen the spread of
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Cabbages have heads, corn has
ears, celery has a heart, grapes have
skins, potatoes have eyes and
squashes have necks.
AUSTIN.—Governor Lee O’Daniel
came out flat-footedly Sunday for a
submission of a constitutional amend-
ment under consideration in the
House of Representatives and em-
bodying a sales tax to finance liber-
alized old age pensions.
While he long had opposed a sales
tax the Governor said in his regular
Sunday morning broadcast from the
Governor’s Mansion, it appeared the
plan pending ip the House was the
I best that could be obtained, and in
the spirit bf co-operation and to get
the pension problem settled perma-
nently he would accept it.
Asserting tnat further discussion
and delay in the House might result
in killing all pension legislation, he
called on citizens to write or tele-
graph their representatives to sup-
port the amendment, and expressed
confidence the House would adopt it.
Legislation in democracies usually
is a product of compromise, the Gov-
ernor said.
As a practical means of meeting
the State’s social security “obliga-
tions,” he declared the best course
was to “write it in the Constitution.”
This, he asserted, would prevent po-
litical governors and politicial legis-
lators from “making a football” out
of social security each election year.
A big crowd jammed the reception
rooms of the mansion as the Gover-
nor began his broadcast with a trib-
ute to Representative Olsen of Yoa-
kum, who died Saturday. Discussion
of the pension tax problem quickly
followed.
Terming the financing of old age
pensions, aid to dependent children
and needly blind and teachers’ re-
tirement the “No. 1 public question
in Texas,” Governor O’Daniel re-
called he had recommended to the
Legislature full payment of social se-
curity obligations and a transactions
tax “to get enough money.”
Likewise he reminded he had said
if the Legislature could devise a bet-
ter plan he would be willing to co-
operate. Committees of the House
labored long in study of the problem,
he said, and reported a plan with
only two dissenting votes.
“As it now stands,” he said, “the
amendment seeks to raise the money
to pay old-age pensions, first, by re-
taining the money now going to old
age pensions, and adding to this a
2% per cent tax on the sale of elec-
trical energy by power and utility
companies; 2% per cent tax on the
sale of telephone service; 2% per
cent tax on retail sales of tangible
personal property; 2% per cent tax
on admissions to places of amuse-
ment; an increase in the tax on nat-
ural gas of approximately 33% per
cent; an increase in tax on sulphur
of 25 per cent, and an increase in the
tax on oil of 25 per cent, and it is
probable that before the amendment
leaves the House all of the natural
resources referred to will carry an
increase of 33% per cent.”
The Governor pointed out that at-
tempts to substitute a transactions
tax and a net income tax for the plan
reported by the committees had been
defeated, concluded these actions in-
dicated the committee plan probably
was the one the House desired, and
said:
“If this plan will provide the nec-
essary money I, for one, am not will-
ing to run the risk of defeating the
whole social security program by
simply contending for my own plan
of getting the money to pay the bill.”
Concerning adopting a plan by
constitutional amendment, instead of
legislative enactment, Governor
O’Daniel said, “I believe the problem
should be solved permanently and
not temporarily.”
The people by constitutional
amendment several years ago pro-
vided for teachers retirement, aid for
dependent children and pensions for
old folks, he said, but the state has
failed to make good in financing so-
cial security.
“If these social security obligations
can be met by simple statutory leg-
islation,” he asked, “then why have
they not been met?”
He said he knew all the answers
“the politicians will give to this
question,” but the fact remained, re-
gardless of “alibis,” the “job has not
been done.” He stated he proposed
to “put the obligation to do the job
and the tax to pay for doing the job
in the same document, and let the
people decide at the same time
whether they want these social se-
curity obligations actually paid, or
whether they just simply want them
in the Constitution.”
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Remember the joke about the fel-
low who played poker every night
with some card sharps? He went to
their room one evening, found the
door locked and threw his bank-roll
roll through the transom, saying
“They’d have won it, anyway.”
Sights over Texas:
A blind woman in Fort Worth
playing an accordion and singing “I
ain’t got nobody and nobody cares for
me.”
Grantland Rice, the sports, writer,
writes thusly about those “might
have been” days:
“Here’s to ‘the days that might have
been’;
Here’s to ‘the life I might have
led’;
The fame I might have gathered
in—
The glory ways I might have sped.
Great ‘Might Have Been,’ I drink to
you
Upon a throne where thousands
hail—
And then — there looms
view—
I also ‘might have been’ in jail.”
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