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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN, WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
Thursday, August 14, 1941,
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Final Clearance
ON THE JOB
MEN’S SUMMER SUITS
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DON’T BLAME THE FARMER
Women’s Silk Dresses
HALF PRICE
STOPPING KNIFE WIELDERS
LOCKLESS SUEZ CANAL
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LOANS ON FARMS
Can Pay Part Each Year at Sherman!
FARMS FOR SALE
A. Y. CREAGER CO.
M. & P. Bank Building Sherman, Texas
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The conductor was an awesome in-
dividual in regal blue uniform with
fifty, or maybe more, gold buttons;
the brakeman was nearly as impor-
tant as he hurried down the aisle at
night with a lantern on his arm or
THE ROAD BOND ISSUE FROM A
COMMON SENSE STANDPOINT
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Failure by some drivers to observe signals of the
new traffic lights has caused numerous minor col-
lisions, but thus far there has been no serious acci-
dent. When a driver of a car stops for a red light, he
has reason to expect the driver behind him to do like-
wise, but such is not always the case. There are also
some drivers who do not observe the no-U-turn at the
street intersections where the lights control traffic,
and quite a few pedestrians have been seen to disre-
gard the stop signals. Better observance must be ob-
tained, as a safety measure, even if some traffic fines
have to be collected to impress upon the people the
importance of observance.
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But it was the travel by train that
was the most exciting part. There
FOR Fkt t B C M Rl E U B A < E
Up in San Antonio the other day a jury in criminal
court gave a man fifty years penitentiary sentence for
stabbing a man to death. Such a sentence is calculated
to make these ever-ready knife users stop and think.
In almost every town, large or small, there has been
a number of stabbing affrays lately. Some have re-
sulted fatally. Also in many of these cases a light
sentence has been given. Jurors should make the pen-
alty, fit the crime and eliminate a lot of this wrist
slapping.—Uvalde Leader-News.
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 publisher.
Mediterranean to Port Taufiq on the
Gulf of Suez. Its channel depth is
now 45 feet, and its narrowest width
is 70 yards. Although it has been
concreted at some places to halt ero-
sion, the banks are chiefly sand or
gravel.
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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.
Entered at the Whitewright, Texas,
postoffice as 2nd class mail matter.
figuring out how fast the train was/
traveling—sometimes it got up to 30'
miles an hour; that, however, was;
for only a short stretch and usually
down a grade.
Looking out the window, one could
see boys and girls who waved at the
train—I always waved back.
One Christmas Eve I spent on the
train and—would you believe it!—
when I awoke next morning, there
was a stocking full of presents. A.
few nights later, we arrived in Gra-
ham, Texas, and I had barely fallen
asleep when there was an outburst of
shooting. Maybe Indians were on.
the war-path was my first thought
from having seen the pictures on the
covers of “Buffalo Bill,” “Diamond!
Dick” and “Young Wild West”—but,.,
no, it was New Year’s.
Though too young to pay a fare, I
was often given a hat check, punched,
with mysterious holes, and once the
conductor allowed me to keep it, so
This is our final reduction of women’s spring and early summer Dresses
These were formerly priced $5.98 to $29.75. Many are dark prints and
solid colors that will be just what you want for fall wear. Come in to-
morrow and get two or three at this close-out price.
best illustration of this point is the
construct an 11-foot paved strip on each side of high-
way 75 from Sherman to the Collin County line, mak-
ing a four-lane highway between those points. If this
bond issue proposition hadn’t been up, the order would
have included the Sherman-Denison strip of this road
as well, but the Federal engineers were probably in-
duced to hold off on that ;strip until after the election.
If^the bond issue fails to carry, the road will be im-
proved in the same manner as from Sherman south.
From the standpoint of a military road, this is the
logical procedure, for the road could be widened in
one-third the time necessary to build the proposed
dual highway. If the Army needs the road, it needs
It as soon as possible, and not three years from now.
The commissioners court was quoted recently in
newspapers as agreeing to purchase rightofway for a
military road from the Pottsboro air school to connect
With highway 75 about midway between Sherman and
Denison. There is absolutely no necessity for spending
county funds for this purpose, as the Federal Govern-
ment is capable of purchasing whatever rightofway is
needed. No estimate of the cost of this rightofway has
been released, but it would require several thousand
dollars of the proposed $300,000 bond issue, leaving
still less for the county roads which farmers have been
led to believe they are going to get.
The amount of money left for county roads after
deducting expenditures for rightofway for highway 75
and for the Pottsboro military road, and for other con-
struction in the Sherman-Denison area, won’t build
many miles of country roads. The sensible thing for
the voters to do is to reject the road bond issue, let the
Sherman-Denison road be widened without expense to
Grayson County taxpayers, let the Pottsboro'road be
constructed without expense to Grayson County tax-
payers, and take up the matter of country roads later
with a program that will really build some country
roads.
The northern half of the canal
cuts straight through the desert; the
southern half leads through a chain
of small lakes which act as “expan-
sion chambers” to help take up the
flow of the four-foot tide from the
Red sea.
The Suez canal is a
“ditch,” requiring no locks,
narrow ditch in the sand runs
104.5 miles through desert
marshy land from Port Said on
We see by the papers that some so-called econo-
mists are blaming the present inflation trend on the
farmers. They argue that inflation began when farm-
ers demanded and got a promise of a loan rate equal
to so-called parity prices on basic farm commodities,
although the parity rates which have been established
are far short of actual parity. Actual parity price for
cotton, for instance, would be about 24 cents per
pound, or about one-third higher than the present loan
rate. If the cotton farmer got as high an hourly rate of
pay as many union workers in industry, the price of
cotton would have to be at least 75c per pound.
Supply and demand control prices, and when
demand for goods exceeds the supply, prices go
That is what is happening now. The demand
skilled labor is greater than the supply, and the price
of skilled labor has gone up. As labor gets higher pay,
it has more money to spend, and is in the market for
more goods than the market can supply, and the price
of goods goes up, and there is your inflation.
I was more fortunate than many
boys—my father was a “drummer.”
That’s.what a traveling salesman was
called in those days. And he used to
take me along much of the time,
when I was quite small.
There was the thrill of riding on
the train this being before the era of
“horseless carriages”), and of look-
ing over the wonderful wares of the
“news-butch,” including glass pistols
and glass telephones, filled with
small, round, red bits of peppermint;
California oranges, California grapes
and California figs—(it seems that
all the fruit was from California in
those days—even the chewing gum
was called “California juicy fruit”)
—and such classics of literature as
“Slow Train Through Arkansas” and
“I’m From Texas—You Can’t Steer
Me.”
The Wai Department has issued a map of principal
traffic routes of military importance, revised to May
15, 1941, a copy of which is in The Sun office. This
map shows highway 75 to be one of the principal mili-
tary highways in this area. Highway 75 is that much-
discussed road between Denison and Sherman, and on
south through Dallas, the road on which the commis-
sioners court proposes to spend $40,000 for additional
rightofway . . . “because it is a military highway and
we must cooperate in national defense by voting bonds
to purchase such rightofway.”
Let s look at this proposition from a common-sense
standpoint. The Federal Government is appropriating
funds for the improvement of strategic military high-
ways, and is not requiring counties to furnish addi-
tional rightofway for the improvement process. The
recent order to
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That the service extension proposal passed the
House Tuesday can not obscure the harsh fact that
the close division was an appalling demonstration of
disunity, dissension and internal conflict at a time of
grave peril. The narrow vote—203 to 202—must have
given much comfort to Hitler and his Japanese allies,
who logically may assume that the Axis now on the
march is confronted by a divided America.
In last analysis, the 202 dissenters held that the
national security is not imperiled by continued aggres-
sion in Europe and the Far East which has not yet
been halted. That is the sole issue in the service ex-
tension proposal. When the opposition to the Admin-
istration in the House claimed that the peril to this
country is much less than a year ago because of the
war against Russia, it repudiated the obvious proposi-
tion that our national security is imperiled from two
sides.
This opposition, as in the past, singularly ignored
the critical situation in the Orient, where Japan al-
ready has acquired Indo-China and is in strong posi-
tion to move farther southward if Russia is defeated.
It ignored the steady advance of the Nazi war ma-
chine into Russia, notably into the Ukraine, which
would be the source of all vital materials required by
Hitler for prosecution of the war against Britain. In-
stead, the opposition prematurely held that Russia
would “stop Hitler.”
The issue in the service extension controversy is
not defeat or victory for Mr. Roosevelt or the Admin-
istration. It is not a question of sending the boys home
or '‘unfairly” keeping them in training longer. Parti-
sans, political opportunists and others who evade the
existence of a grave world crisis are the only persons
who obscure the problem of adequate national secur-
ity by such irrelevancies.
It is not exaggeration to say that the same spirit of
dissension and self-delusion as afflicted France before
her fall now besets the United States. The House vote
is testimony that a strong faction clipgs to the fallacy |
that this country is secure and safe, not only for the
present moment but for the months to come. There is
no grave national emergency, according to the senti- |
ment expressed by the 202 members of the House. One
is not an alarmist to view this internal division as
grave in the extreme.
The same suicidal attitude which refuses to look at
the harsh facts of the present world crisis manifests
itself in strikes and other factional disputes. Thus, na-
tional security is threatened by wishful thinking and
self-interest. The same delusions prevailed in those II
countries which are now enslaved- by Hitler.—Ft.
Worth Star Telegram.
stood in the door ■ and called out
sounds that were supposed to be the
name of the town we were approach-
ing. Even the porter, in his white
coat, played an important part as he
purveyed sandwiches — two thick,
thirst-provoking slices of white
bread with a tissue of cold boiled
ham in between, and the porter again
came into prominence as darkness set
in as, with a flame at the end of a
long steel rod, he lit the lamps.
Sometimes my father would hire a'
horse and buggy at the livery-stable
and we would visit inland towns,
stopping now and then along the
country lane while he tacked up a
few signs, using a marvelous ham-
mer that had a magnetic tip which
would hold a tack.
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Men here is your opportunity to buy that Summer Suit you’ve been
wanting. Now you can buy one at a real saving. Four large groups to
make your selection from. Palm Beach and cool Tropicals in new colors
and patterns, single and double breasted models. If you’re not in im-
mediate need of a new suit — it will pay you to lay it away for next
year as they re sure to be much higher. See them tomorrow.
We like people who give us news items.
We adore club reporters who get their news in the
day after instead of the week after the club meeting.
We are fond of folks who know typewritten copy
should be double spaced, and of correspondents whose
handwriting requires no special decoding.
We appreciate readers who realize that no conclave
is held in the newspaper office each press day to de-
cide which small item will appear on the front page
and which inside. While we do plan to give front-page
space to the several most important stories each week,
there is, in our minds, an equality of importance be-
tween the Smiths’ “company” on page one and the
Jonses’ dinner guests on page seven.
We are grateful for fellow citizens who do not
make a gleeful practice of pointing out typographical
mistakes that get into the paper. We invariably find
them ourselves the moment the paper is off the press,
and seldom think them funny.
And we greatly esteem those fine souls who take
the trouble to compliment us when they have enjoyed I
“a piece” in the paper.
There are, indeed, some very nice people in the ■
world.—Pleasant Hill (Mo.) Times.
The Last Word
The chap was considering buying;
a home of his own and the real
estate salesman was taking him to
look over a place that was up for
sale. Upon arriving there the sales-
man said:
“Here we are, the latest thing im
homes.”
“Yes?” questioned the prospect.
“Yes,” assorted the salesman, “gar-
I alighted from the train in my home?
town and marched proudly up the
street, still wearing the check, the
envy of all my playmates—unlucky-
lads whose fathers were not drum-
mers!
“The Greatest Things,” from the
Lometa Reporter:'
The greatest sin—fear.
The best day—today.
The greatest deceiver — the one
who deceives himself.
The greatest mistake—giving up.
The most expensive indulgence—
hate.
The cheapest, stupidest and easiest
thing to do—find fault. •
The best teacher—one who makes-
you want to learn.
The wisest man—one who always
does what he thinks is right.
The greatest need—common sense.
The best gift—forgiveness.
Ernest C. Butler, superintendent of the Whitewright
Public Schools, has succeeded in boosting the number
of transfers to the local schools to 270, or 89 more than
the 181 transfers of last year. Mr. Butler arrived on
the scene this summer after some transfer commit-
ments had already been made, but he drove hundreds
of miles during July to interview parents and students
in the area adjacent to the local school district. Mem-
bers of the Board of Education accompanied him on
many of these trips, and some of the members have
told The Sun that they found numerous families who
told them they had never been asked to patronize the
local schools, and had been going where they had been
asked. Some of these families had already made
transfer commitments for the coming school year, but
indicated they would transfer to Whitewright next
year.
Every transfer the local schools succeeds in ob-
taining means $22.50 per capita school apportionment
for the schools, plus tuition for High School pupils.
The increase of 89 transfers will mean about $2,000
additional revenue for the schools from the State ap-
portionment alone. It has been estimated that a High
School transfer is worth about $300 in cash revenue to
the school during the four years spent in the school,
and it can be readily seen how a superintendent who is
on his toes can earn for the school several times the
amount of his salary.
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