The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 23, 1940 Page: 7 of 8
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“So you enjoyed my latest book?”
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INSURANCE THAT PROTECTS
Consult Your Insurance Agent as You Would
Your Doctor or Lawyer
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Cash As We Go,
O’Daniel’s Hope
A Laugh Today
“Vel, Abe, how’s business?”
“Terrible! Even de people
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Let Us Insure Your Growing Crops Today—Then if
a Hailstorm Comes You Will Be Fully Protected.
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liver either small or large amounts of
the dusting materials, a nozzle for
each row, and an airblast strong
enough to thoroughly spread the ma-
terials through the plants. A dusting
machine to control insects is as nec-
essary as. a cultivator to control
weeds.—T. C. Richardson, Associate
Editor Farm and Rranch.
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Every week there are people in the Whitewright trade
territory who are making good use of the “WANT AD”
column of The Sun.
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Take a Tip
From the many who have found that Sun Want Ads get
results. Give them a trial—get first-hand information;
then you’ll know what to do the next time you want to
buy, sell, rent, trade or find anything.
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UA Community Institution”
Some are turning second-hand furniture, tools, imple-
ments, etc., into ready cash by advertising it for sale—
and SELLING it. Some are using the Want Ad column
to rent rooms or houses. Some recovering lost property
with the aid of these little Ads.
COLLEGE STATION. — Approxi-
mately forty-eight thousand Texas
families have already been certified
as eligible to receive mattress mak-
ing materials under the government’s
three-months old program for aiding
low income families.
Thus far, 4,800 bales of cotton and
480,000 yards of cotton ticking have
been ordered through the Federal
Surplus Commodities
according to R. T. Price, fieldman at
large for the state AAA office. Bona-
fide farm families with a normal an-
nual cash income not in excess of
$400 are certified as to eligibility by
county agricultural conservation
committees.
Outstanding in the mattress pro-
gram in Texas is Lavaca County
which had processed 870 mattresses
by the middle of May. In a report to
Mae Belle Smith, district extension
agent in charge of home demonstra-
tion work, the Lavaca County home
demonstration agent, Elizabeth Pfeif-
fer, stated that 138 bales of cotton
had been ordered for use in the coun-
ty’s 17 centers. A total of 1,900 ap-
plications have been approved by the
county’s AAA committee, she said.
Recent rains ended a war of three
month’s duration between Gordon
plant employes, Lone Star Gas
Company, and the Palo Pinto Creek
bull frogs. Espionage and cunning,
rivaling that of the dictators, was
used by the frogs who resented at-
tacks of employes on the fast dimin-
ishing water supply of the creek.
Three separate . portable water
pumping units 'were used on the
creek in an effort to keep a constant
supply of water in the lines to the
plant. It looked as if the frogs, under
cover of darkness, would “guggle” up
the water and move it up the creek to
damp spots secreted from the pump-
ers’ eyes.
Three days before the rains came
it seemed the frogs would be success-
ful in frustrating all attempts of the
pumpers. It was even suspected that
the croakers were holding schools
specializing in courses on “prevention
of water pump operation.” And then
came the rains. Now. the frogs have
returned to normal frog life and the
Gordon employes can again enjoy
the Saturday night bath. Everybody
is happy.—Edward Colvard, in Lone
Star Gas Blue Blaze News.
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AUSTIN.—Choose a wife or hus-
band who has ideals and interests
similar to your own if you want your
marriage to stick, advises Dr. C. W.
Hall, Bible instructor at the Univer-
sity of Texas.
He urges sound standards of court-
ship, for “too much pre-marital pet-
ting tends to cause married couples
to lose respect for each other later,
and creates a liking for variety which
may be disastrous for married life.”
The economic factor cannot be ig-
nored, he points out to his 304 stu-
dents, but may be minimized if the
marriage is on a sound basis other-
wise.
Don't marry until you have
reached a degree of mental, physical
and emotional maturity, he suggests.
On the other hand, don’t wait too
long, for personality adjustments are
easier for persons in their twenties
than for those in the thirties, and
fairly young marriages give couples
a chance to be young with their chil-
dren.
Fifteen years’ experience teaching
college students facts of “marriage '
and home-making”—first at S. M.- U.,
then at the University of Texas—to-
gether with pre-doctoral study of 300
happily married couples and 300 di-
vorced couples qualifies Dr. Hall to
speak authoritatively on such prob-
lems.
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farms.
It is ironical that the cotton
worm, sometimes called army worm,
seldom does as much damage
creates more excitement than
more serious pests, flea hopper
boll weevil. By the time the
worm announces its presence by the
odor so well known among cotton
growers, the flea hopper and the boll
weevil have done most of their work
foi’ the season, 'and while poisoning at
this late date may be better than no
poisoning at all, the losses- of the
early fruit cannot be regained.
Many, but not enough, Southwest-
ern cotton growers, have adopted a
regular schedule of insect control, be-
ginning when the cotton is ready to
begin fruiting and carrying on
through the. fruiting season. This is
on the same principle that they fight
weeds—they keep ahead rather than
behind. Sulphur for flea hoppers,
calcium arsenate for the boll weevil,
the leaf worm and the boll worm, oi'
a combination of the two put on at
the same operation, with a good ma-
chine at regular intervals, five to
seven days apart, does the job.
The machine may be anything
from a single-row hand gun to a
tractor-powered implement which
covers several rows. Its essentials
are a feed mechanism which will de-
MINERAL WELLS.—Gov. W. Lee
O’Daniel told the Southern Newspa-
per Publishers’ Association conven-
tion Monday that he intends to rec-
ommend to the next Legislature that
a constitutional amendment be sub-
mitted to Texans requiring Texas
government to operate on a cash ba-
sis.
O'Danie! made the remark while
explaining to the publishers his be-
lief that “Texas is the state best
suited for development in every
line.” He said that the state should
offer no “bonus” inducements for
new industries to come to Texas be-
cause it would be unfair to indus-
tries already here.
But, he said, the state government
ought to operate on a cash budget.
O’Daniel said he would ask the next
Legislature to submit a constitutional
amendment “making it mandatory
for the state to pay as it goes” and
forbidding any appropriation for
which there is no money in the treas-
ury. The state now has a deficit of
nearly $20,000,000 in the general rev-
enue fund and owes several hundred
thousand dollars to banks which
loaned money for old age assistance
payments.
“Democracy is being tested now,”
O’Daniel added. “America must
prove to the world that Democracy
will work. The press should assume
the responsibility for bringing to the
people the truth about government
activities.”
It is sometimes said that “most of
the poison applied to cotton to con-
trol insects is wasted,” the implica-
tion being that most poison is applied
when it is not needed. While this is
too generally true, it is also true that
most cotton is lost to insects because
nothing is done to offset their depre-
dations. Systematic insect control on
cotton has been neglected in the
Southwest on the feeble alibi that
“we didn’t know, how or when.”
Nobody can do anything for the
cotton grower who fails or refuses to
inform himself on economical meth-
ods of increasing yields, when the
county agents and the specialists of
the state extension services stand
ready to give him—not opinions—the
results of experimental work on cot-;
ton insect control and information on ’
which every intelligent farmer can
plan his practices. The ability to
recognize insect threats and the will-
ingness to adopt proven practices in
their control is the key to future cot-
ton profits through getting greater
acre-yields at a lower cost per pound, j
As a matter of fact a great deal
more is lost by not poisoning for cot-
ton insects at all than is lost by pois- i
oning at the wrong time, or in'the i
wrong way. While the observant and
up-to-date cotton grower uses his
intelligence to learn the best meth-
ods, and the best time for theii’ use,
the mass of Southwestern cotton
growers still depend on Providence j
and the weather to pull them through |
with a reasonably fair crop. Under’
present conditions, with a reduced
acreage and a huge accumulated sur-
plus on the market, the haphazard
producer hasn’t a Chinaman’s chance
to get a fair living, much less a prof-
it, from cotton.
Insects are taking nearly one-
eighth of the potential production in
Texas; lack of moisture a fraction
more. We can’t do much about the
weather, but we can control insect
depredations by methods that have
been in use for fifteen to twenty
years, and have been tested both in
an experimental way and on farms.
Texas and Oklahoma stand at the
bottom of the list in acre-yields, not
because of lack of fertility in the
soils, not entirely due to moisture
deficiencies, but because we have
gone along in the belief that insects
did not cut a significant figure under
Southwestern conditions. As a mat-
ter of fact we are paying a higher
toll to insects than the average for
the country as a whole, and drouth
(which we cannot evade) is used as
an excuse for low yields. But drouth
cuts the yield only a fraction more
than insects, which we know how to
control.
A good many growers have tried
makeshift methods of poisoning cot-
ton insects and then have come to
the conclusion that “it doesn’t work.”
Merely sprinkling poison on the top
of the plants, either dust or liquid,
does not give effective control of
either boll weevils or flea hoppers,
which are the two principal threats
to cotton yields. The same, or a les-
ser amount of calcium arsenate and
sulphur, applied at the proper time
with a machine which thoroughly
covers the plants, underneath as well
as above, has repeatedly paid divi-
dends in higher yields, both experi-
mentally, and in regular practice on
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Chair, Methodist student center
the University here, was one of
earliest courses of the kind in
country, though more than 200
now offered in the
educational institutions.
Only three University students en-
rolled under him in 1933-34. This
year the class numbers 304, bringing
• the total number of his students. for
the six years to 1,247.
Basic topics which he considers
with his students are contributions of
marriage to personality development,
the most advantageous time for mar-
riage, factors to be considered in
choosiri'g a mate, standards of court-
ship, post-marital adjustments, and
the far-reaching influences of home
life.
In addition to helping students pre-
pare for happy marriages, he be-
lieves the real problem is “to teach
them to create homes where their
children will acquire the foundation
they in turn will need for happy
marriage.”
As one man remarked (he had advertised
lumber for sale) : “If you want to sell anything, adver-
tise it in The Sun.” •
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SLIPPERY IS BEST
JUMPING FROG BUT
ZIP’S MARK STANDS
FOLKS MUST SLOW
DOWN, D0CT8R54VS
ANGELS CAMP, Calif.—A leap of
almost 15 feet won the thirteenth an-
nual international jumping frog con-
test here for Slippery, a lively en-
trant that had much of the festival
crowd with him.
Slippery’s winning jump was 14
feet, 11 incres. That’s pretty good,
but the record paled beside that of
Zip, which jumped 15 feet, 10 inches,
in 1938.
Sunday’s winner was entered by
Louis Fisher of Stockton. A drowsy
frog named Major Hoople hopped 14
feet, 10% inches, into second place,
while Spitfire was a weak third with
14 feet, 2% inches.
Eddie Robinson of Stockton, owner
of famed Zip, entered Major Hoople
and Spitfire.
This occasion marked the seventy-
seventh anniversary of Mark Twain’s
stay in this mining community,
which never has stopped laughing at
his famous story, “The Jumping Frog
of Calaveras.”
CHICAGO. — An officer of
American Osteopathic Association
asserts that unless the pace of Amer-
ican life is slackened doctors “will
not be able to reduce much further
the death rate from heart disease and
the diseases resulting from nervous
disorders.”
“Doctors meet their greatest de-
feats in the field of prevention,” said
Dr. Russell C. McCoughan, executive
secretary, who addressed the annual
convention of the Illinois Osteopath-
ic Association.
“One of the biggest jobs confront-
ing the doctor is to break down the
disbelief which characterizes most
patients when he advises them to
slow down from the American high
tension mode of living. “We shall
not see any great and permanent im-
provement on our national health
record until we as a nation learn to
slow down, live more serenely and
practice the art of keeping well.”
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