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EXPLANATION
This week The Sun is printed
on Tuesday instead of Thurs-
day in order that the Christ-
mas greeting messages of
Whitewright business houses
may be read in the homes of
the people before and on
Christmas day. The extra num-
ber of pages and the earlier
publication date have created a
strenuous week for the force,
but now we can take things
easier. The office will be open
throughout the week, with the
exception of Christmas day,
and we will be glad to do your
printing and write receipts for
subscriptions.
May Save 30 Per
Cent On Insurance
A 15 per cent reduction in the fire
insurance premiums paid for the pro-
tection of Whitewright property
would equal 25 cents reduction in the
city advalorem tax rate affecting
practically the same property. The
bulk of insurance premiums are for-
warded when collected to the insur-
ance companies, while the proceeds
of a city advalorem tax are spent in
Whitewright entirely for the use and
benefit of the people who pay such
tax. Savings in insurance premiums
are, therefore, doubly advantageous.
The State Fire Insurance Depart-
ment maintains a system of credits
and penalties for good and bad fire
records, which is calculated on the
basis of the ratio of losses and pre-
miums for a period of three years. If
the fire losses of a municipality over
a three-year period are found to be
less than 55 per cent of the total pre-
miums collected, a credit is allowed
in accordance with the ratio table. If
the losses exceed 65 per cent of the
premiums, then a charge or increased
rate is promulgated accordingly. The
maximum credit allowed is 15 per
cent, and the maximum charge is 15
per cent, making a margin of 30 per
cent which towns with good fire rec-
ords may save in the cost of fire in-
surance. A 30 per cent saving in the
insurance premiums would equal
fifty cents reduction in the city ad-
valorem tax rate.
Whitewright enjoyed the maximum
good fire record credit for a period
of several successive years, then
heavy fire losses began to swing the
pendulum in the opposite direction
until a 12 per cent bad fire record
charge was marked up against us.
Last year we moved back to a posi-
tion that gave us a 3 per cent credit
on insurance written between Feb.
28, 1930, and March 1, 1931. Last
year the calculations embraced the
three-year period of 1927, 1928, and
1929. On Jan. 1 the tabulations will
be revised to include the three-year
period of 1928-1929 and 1930, and
the credit or penalty announced for
the approaching insurance year be-
ginning March 1, 1931.
Whitewright has already marked
up an unfavorable year for 1930,
with losses approximating $8,000.
This sum will remain in the tabula-
tions for a period of three years.
Fortunately, however, in the revision
Jan. 1, we will be permitted to drop
from the record the excessive losses
of 1927. This apparently will entitle
us to the maximum credit of 15 per
cent, providing, of course, that we
escape the misfortune of other heavy
losses during the few remaining days
of this year.
The possibility of maintaining a
good fire record and the resultant
saving of 30 per cent in the cost of
fire insurance would seem to be a
sufficient inducement to arouse
widespread cooperation andrintensive
public interest in curtailing the fire
losses in the community in which we
live.
Insurance rate schedules are fixed
by the State Insurance Department
and it is not in the power of the local
agents to deviate therefrom. White-
wright agents have been prompt to
extend every aid possible to reduce
fire losses and lower the cost of in-
surance. With our exceptionally low
municipal key rate of 36 cents and
the prospect of a 15 per cent credit
for a good fire record, Whitewright
expects to find in its Christmas
stocking a schedule of fire insurance
rates not available to other towns of
its size.
Thieves Visit
Avoid Christmas
Fire Hazards
pre-
this
Grayson County
To Get Highway
Work Next Year
Inflammable materials used in hol-
iday decorations in the homes, stores
and churches augment the dangers
of fire. It, therefore, behooves the
people to be on guard at a season
when these hazards are pronounced.
The gaiety and excitement of the
holiday festivities naturally tend to
thoughtlessness in the arrangement
and handling of Christmas displays
and decorations. In tie Yuletide
whirl of social activities, shopping
expeditions and public programs we
rush in and out of our homes with lit-
tle thought of fire that may result
from some oversight or act of care-
lessness.
Movable gas heaters, pilot lights
and gas connections, candles, impro-
vised wire extensions, celluloid toys
and articles, cotton, paper decora-
tions and other combustible mate-
rials constitute a fire menace. Christ-
mas trees of pine, spruce, fir or cedar
burn easily. It is a time to watch for
overheated stoves, with furniture,
papers or wearing apparel placed too
near or for stoves moved temporarily
too close to loosely hanging window
curtains. It is a time to be careful
at all times and keep the possibilities
of fire in mind.
Matches, fireworks and toys that
burn alcohol, naptha, gasoline or
other volatiles add to the fire dan-
gers at this time of the year. Fire
crackers thrown on roofs of build-
ings or into dead yard grass are
among the season’s hazards. Mature
citizens are urged to caution playful
and thoughtless children and to use
good judgment as a means of
venting further fire losses in
town.
DALLAS.—Plans calling for $6,-
091,000 in highway construction in
Dallas, Denton, Grayson, Cooke and
Ellis Counties during 1931 have been
recommended to the State Highway
Commission, according to Clifton
Rice, division engineer with offices
here.
Outstanding on the proposed pro-
gram is the highway improvement
plan for Grayson County, he said.
On this work, the highway commis-
sion will match the county’s bond is-
sue of $2,500,000 and may increase
its allotment to near $3,000,000, Rice
explained.
Dallas County would get the sec-
ond largest allotment of state aid in
the division, plans calling for expen-
diture of $656,000, according to ten-
tative estimates.
The largest item for Dallas Coun-
ty is the connection between the For-
ney Gap, three miles northeast of
Mesquite, to Dallas, a distance of ap-
proximately fifteen miles to cost
$256,000.
Completion of the last unit of the
Northwest Highway, state highway
No. 114, also was scheduled for
1931. The unit extends from the
Richardson road east to Doran’s
Point for a width of forty feet, and
from there to a connection with the
Garland pike for a width of twenty
feet. Cost of the work was estimated
at $200,000.
Also in Dallas County, but not ex-
pected to be included in the 1931
urogram, was the widening of the
Fort Worth pike to forty feet, upon
which the Highway Commission has
agreed to share half the cost. The
commission also has agreed to bear
half the expense of a new North Fort
Worth highway, provided present
highway is widened first.
In Grayson County, the following
highway projects have been graded
and drainage structures completed
ready for paving:
No. 91, ten miles from Denison to
the Preston Bridge.
No. 5, twenty-five miles from the
Fannin-Grayson County line to
Whitesboro.
No. 160, from Bells to the Collin-
Grayson county line.
The connection between Denison
and the Collin County line on high-
way No. 6 has been completed.
GREETINGS
YOUR TOWN AND MY TOWN
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Read the ads and buy accordingly.
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Greetings
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W. W. fci
Would Unite Labor
And Rail Bodies
Petty Thievery
Growing Worse
War Orphans Are
French Problem
Gets $25 Gift; Buys
Groceries for Needy
Rockwall Couple
Swindled of $ 140
Vital Statistics
Reformers were invented so that
bachelors could have somebody to do
their thinking for them.
Profit In Onions
At $ 1 Says Editor
Fireworks Subject
To $ 1,000 Tax
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BROWN-DILLON
Mr. Claud Dillon of Whitewright,
and Miss Lillie Brown of the Pink
Hill community, west of Bells, were
married Sunday afternoon at 3:30
o’clock at Durant, Okla. The Rev.
Miller, pastor of the First Baptist
Church at Durant, officiated. The
bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
W. T. Brown, prominent citizens of
Pink Hill. The groom was reared in
Whitewright. He is a son of Mrs. A.
J. DiHon. He has employment with
the W. T. Nicholson s Cash Grocery.
Among those present at the mar-
riage ceremony were Mr. and Mrs,
E. R. Lay and Bonnie Nicholson of
Whitewright. After a short honey-
moon trip, Mr. and Mrs. Dillon will
be at home with his mother, Mrs. A.
J. Dillon.
The French Government has given
Canada 250 acres on Vimy Ridge for
a battlefield memorial site.
Saturday morning about 11 a. m.
two men came to the home of Mr.
and Mrs. C. T. Smith who live on
North_.Goliad street-and posed as eye
specialists. Upon examination of
Mrs. Smith’s eyes they claimed that
she had a small cancer on the eye
and that they could cure same. A
small amount of medicine was placed
in the eye, after which a small scale
was lifted from the eye lid. The men
charged Mrs. Smith $250 for the job,
but as they objected to such a large
charge they agreed to take $140.
They did not have that much money
at the home and Mr. Smith came to
the bank with one of the men while
the other one stayed with Mrs. Smith.
They told Mr. and Mrs. Smith not to
say anything about the medical
treatment as they were not allowed
to doctor for cancer in Texas. Soon
after the men left Mr. and Mrs.
Smith decided that they had been
swindled. Officers were notified but
the men could not be found.
This kind of work has been going
on in Texas for the past several
months and if the newspapers of
Texas would warn the people, and
when men like this come into their
homes, if they would notify the offi-
cers, this kind of swindle would be
broken up. Don’t buy anything from
a rank stranger. It will never pay.—
Rockwall Success.
It has been found that bats, when
flying, emit a note which resounds
from object^ ay,d them by the
direction of the sound,
I the people of our community in-
formed of the activities of their
neighbors and therefore give them a
better opportunity to know one an-
other; interpreter of the spirit of our
community, of its ideals and its needs
to make it a better community; and
leader in the movements which an-
swer those needs and promote the
welfare of our community, your
Home Paper is happy at this time to
extend to all of its friends in this
friendly community a friendly greet-
ing: Merry Christmas!
And in this glad season when we
all can know the joy of giving, let us
add to our list just one more gift—a
gift of loyalty to our community.
Let there be “peace on earth, good
will to men” not only on this day
but in the days to come as we work
together for the best interests of
your town and my town—our town—
our community. —The Sun.
This issue of The Sun con-
tains sixteen pages, the adver-
tising matter of which is made
up of Christmas greeting ads
fro m Whitewright business
men. Most of the business
houses of the town are repre-
sented, and The Sun is sure
that its readers appreciate the
spirit which prompted the mes-
sages of greeting. These busi-
ness men are your friends, and
they appreciate your friend-
ship enough to spend their mon-
ey to wish you a merry Christ-
mas. And in your behalf The
Sun here and now wishes them
a merry Christmas and a hap-
py, prosperous New Year.
PARIS.—Of the many victims of
the war none are in a more pitiful
plight than forty-seven French chil-
dren, all nearing their twenty-first
year, who don’t know their name,
their age or their parents.
They are wards of the nation' and
the state cares for them.
When the German armies retreated
to the Hindenburg line in 1917 the
civilian population of the north of
France affected by this military
movement was evacuated by order of
the German authorities. In the num-
ber were no fewer than 5,000 chil-
dren who became separated from
their parents in the process of evac-
uation. Some of these children, aged
4 to 5, knew only their Christian
name and could give no indication
regarding their family or their home.
In many cases they were taken in
charge by French families in the oc-
cupied regions and in the course of
time it was possible to establish their
identity. But there remain today
forty-seven who do not know who
they are. It is probably that they
never will know, for it seems certain
that their parents are dead.
Nevertheless M. Mrancois Lachan-
tre, a former school teacher of Saint
Quentin, who himself was evacuated
in 1917, does not give up hope. He
has formed a committee which has
undertaken the task of tracing the
origin of the children and which is
sending to every community in the
country details and descriptions of
the unfortunate forty-seven.
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Santa Will Visit
Homes of Needy
The associated agencies of the city
sponsoring a drive for toys, food,
clothing and funds for Christmas
cheer and relief completed their col-
lecting work Saturday and the mate-
rials in hand have been turned over
to a distributing committee for as-
sortment and delivery. Contributions
of needed supplies were received at
the telephone building throughout
the day and simultaneously a com-
mittee canvassed the town for funds
with which to supplement the donated
wares with such articles as may be
needed to balance the family assort-
ments. The distributing committee
is undertaking to do its work with
a thoroughness that will serve the
purpose for which these contribu-
tions were made. The committee is
in possession of the names of a num-
ber of families that will be visited,
but invites suggestions and informa-
tion to the end that no worthy visita-
tion shall be overlooked.
The cash contributions to date to-
tal $81.50, which includes $11.60 re-
sulting from the tag day, $10.00 from
the Rotary Club, $5.00 from the
American Legion and individual do-
nations ranging from 25 cents to
$5.00. In lieu of money, four addi-
tional firms tendered their aid in
merchandise, one store' giving a large
assortment of dolls and toys from its
stock, while the others offer fruits,
meat and bread.
The collecting committees wish to
thank all for their generosity and co-
operation in this work.
This is your town and my town;!
and that means not only those who
live within the corporation limits but
those who live in the surrounding ru-
ral districts, who make this town
their trading center, who attend its
churches and whose sons and daugh-
ters are enrolled in its schools. This,
then, is OUR town.
We have helped build it up to-
gether; we have made it a better
place in which to live and given it
its character as a representative
American community; we have
worked together and played togeth-
er; we have enjoyed prosperity to-
gether and suffered adversity to-
gether; and both have served to bind
us more closely to each other.
There is one institution in our
town which can justly lay claim to no
small part in making our community
what it is. That is the Home Paper.
Chronicler of the news which keeps
CLEVELAND.—A new campaign
was in progress Saturday night to af-
filiate the major railroad labor
brotherhoods with the American Fed-
eration of Labor to enable organized
labor to meet its future problems
with a “solid front” of 3,500,000
members.
Negotiations to this end, instituted
by William Green, president of the
federation, were disclosed Saturday
by Alexander F. Whitney, president
of the Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen, when he announced the
appointment of a trainmen’s com-
mittee to confer with a committee
from the federation.
In the belief of many labor lead-
ers, the proposed affiliation of the
brotherhoods and the federation is
one of the most important undertak-
ings in the history of organized la-
bor in this country.
Thus far, the negotiations with
the trainmen’s brotherhood are the
only ones revealed, but labor leaders
are confident the plans will include
similar proposals to the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers, the Broth-
erhood of Firemen and Enginemen
and the Brotherhood of Railway Con-
ductors. Together with the train-
men, they have a membership of ap-
proximately 500,000,
Probably the largest Saturday
crowd of the fall season was here
Saturday to present their claims for
the free money gifts which the mer-
chants have been awarding each
Saturday afternoon for a period of
j several weeks. The distribution came
| to a close as advertised. With this
announcement the worthless ticket
holdings in possession of the great
crowd went into the air with a good-
natured farewell to an advertising
plan that has served to attract many
people to Whitewright during the
past several weeks. In the distribu-
tion Saturday the first gift of $2.00
went to Mrs. A. J. Badgett, the sec-
ond gift of $3.00 and the third of
$5.00 were both awarded to Mrs.
Clyde Gibson of the Enterprise com-
munity. Raymond Cates took the
$10.00 gift and Sidney Watson’s
name was called for the capital gift
of $25.00.
Watson is chief engineer of the
Texas-Louisiana Power Company’s
generating plant here and upon being
notified that he had unexpectedly
come into possession of $25.00 in
cash, he immediately set about to se-
cure a list of families that might
need their cupboards replenished for
the Christmas season. He obtained
such a.list and delivered groceries to
the several places, modestly and hap-
pily exhausting his $25.00 with due
appraisement of the unemployment
situation.
THE KAISER’S MILLIONS
The present wealth of the ex-
Kaiser of Germany is estimated by
experts to be about $193,200,000.
Nearly one-half of this amount is
represented by landed property. Fi-
nal settlement was made by th© Prus-
sian state with the Hohenzollerns in
1925. Values of real estate in Ger-
nany have risen in recent years, and
f the ex-Kaiser’s holdings were, sold
oday, they might bring much more
:han they were worth at the time of
the settlenfent.—Exchange,
McKINNEY.—It’s going to be a
long hard road for youthful fireworks
dealers of McKinney this Christmas
season, who have been accustomed to
locate behind some goods box and
with a shout, “firecrackers,” “torpe-
does,” “cap pistols,” rake in the
nickles and dimes—much of which
was clear profit.
We refer to the reading of the
law, as pointed out by R. B. Patton
of Austin, state revenue collector,
who was in the city on business
Wednesday.
According to Mr. Patton, any bus-
iness man, firm or individual who dis-
poses of “cannon crackers”—which
means fireworks of all kinds is sub-
ject to a state tax of $500, a county
tax of $250 and a city tax of $250.
Added together, this makes an even
$1,000 dollars—and everyone knows
that amount -would be difficult to
raise when one considers the only
profits resulting from the sale of
only fireworks.
Cline Lewis, deputy in Tax Col-
lector Dan E. Neathery’s office,
pointed out the law, word for word,
as called attention to by Mr. Patton,
which read as follows:
Section 38. Tax on dealers in can-
non crackers, etc.—From every per-
son, firm or corporation engaged in
the occupation of selling cannon
crackers or toy pistols used for shoot-
ing or exploding catridges, within
this state, an annual tax of five hun-
dred dollars, and counties and incor-
porated cities or towns in which such
business is located shall have the
power to levy a tax of one-half of the
above amount as now provided by
law in addition to the above tax, and
such person, firm or corporation so
selling such cannon crackers shall be
required to pay an additional tax in
the above amount and take out an
additional license for each separate
establishment or place in which such
shalt be„ sold' BY theYnion'crop^theYeeessary
the term “cannon crackers is meant — —-1 -- ’ ••
any firecracker or other combustible
package more than two inches in
length and more than one inch in cir-
cumference, commonly sold and ex-
ploded for purposes of amusement.
Nothing herein shall be so construed
as to prohibit the sale of, or to place
a tax on, the sale of cartridges, com-
bustible packages or explosives com-
monly used fo rfirearms or artillery,
mining excavating earth or stone,
scientific purposes or for any public
or private work.” (Acts 1909,
174.)
Petty thievery is harassing many
communities, and the Whitewright
section has not been immunized
against this brand of undercover
crime.
Two bales of cotton recently
stolen from the gin yard at Pilot
Grove were recovered next day at
Farmersville, where they had been
sold. Officers are expecting to make
an arrest in this connection.
Wednesday night of last week
thieves raided E. L. Sine’s hog pen
two miles north of town"and appro-
priated a choice porker. The hog Was
killed in the pen and carried to a
waiting conveyance on the highway.
A stove was also removed from a
tenant house on Mr. Stine’s place.
.During the recent Santa Claus cel-
ebration here, it was reported to the
officers that three Ford automobile
tires had been removed from cars in
different parts of the residential
section of town.
Sunday night thieves cleaned up
W. L. Smith’s feed supply from his
barn. Mr. Smith lost a sack of bran,
a half bushel of corn and his supply
of hulls. This visitation was made
early in the night and neighbors of
Mr. Smith saw the thieves operating,
but their suspicions were not aroused
at' the time.
Other minor losses have been re-
ported, indicating an increasing urge
on the part of a few perverted peo-
ple to lift an easy livlihood.
(Farmersville Times)
The Times editor is desirous of
cooperating in every possible manner;
in assisting our farmers in getting
more money out of their onion crop
this coming spring—so, we have been
making inquiries among some of our
most successful growers and have
gathered the following suggestions
which may prove beneficial:
The first essential is early prep-
aration of land in order that the win-
ter’ rains may be conserved and the
land placed in good condition for the
crop. The land to be planted to
onions should be properly fertilized
with barn-yard manure. ‘ This fer-
tilizer is the only one known which
can be successfully used on our black
land, and by its use the onion yield
can be substantially increased.
One grower suggests that by set-
ting plants in the latter part of Jan-
uary or early in February and by giv-
ing the crop close attention and in-
tensive cultivation, the yield will be
increased.
From all investigations, we are
sure that any of our farmers can, by
attention and cars, produce easily
from 150 to 200 crates per acre. But
even with a yield of 100 crates per
acre the farmer can, by using strict
economy, make a fair profit with
onions selling as low as $1.00 per
crate. To illustrate this we give the
following figures:
Cost of plants to set an acre,
$24; cash rent, $7.00; crates $20; to-
tal expense- besides labor- $51.00. At
$1.00 per crate this would leave net
profit for labor for one acre of
$49.00. Even this would beat rais-
ing 10c cotton.
But suppose the farmer decided to
put .some extra attention and work
on his land by early plowing and fer-
tilizing, thus increasing his yield to
200 crates per acre—we find the fol-
lowing results; cost of plants, $24;
cash rent, $7; crates $40; total ex-
penses besides labor, $71. Deduct
this from $200 received for 200
crates at $1 per crate and you will
have a net profit of $129 per acre
for labor.
Certainly, the difference between
$49 and $129 profit per acre is
worth striving for—and we firmly
believe any farmer can avail himself
of this extra profit on his onion crop
by the proper methods of onion cul-
ture.
Stine Farm Again
still
YOUNG MEN HAVE
EXAMINING TRIAL
The Eve of Epiphany
The Eve of Epiphany, or Twelfth
Night (Jan.), is to the children of
Rome what Christmas is to us.
CAIRO.—Khamis Mohammed el
Arbi, a customs guard, has divorced
his twenty-seventh wife and now is
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has more than 50 children.
Johnnie Hopper, 19, and L. D.
Pruett, 21, under charges of bur-
glary of the Ball merchandise store
at Tom Bean, were arraigned in Jus-
tice J. L. Cantrell’s court here Sun-
day and Monday on additional
charges of chicken theft near Tom
Bean and burglary of a store at
Luella. They were left in custody of
Jeff Gregory, deputy constable, who
brought them to Whitewright for ex-
amining trial, until satisfactory
bonds are returned to the Justice
Court. Officer Gregory was the ar-
resting officer who caught the young
men in the Ball store.
his truck.
About one in seven of the boys
and girls of London are still in. looking for the twen*v-eighth.
school at the age of 15. has more than 50 children.
Ed Stine, who resides two miles
north of Whitewright, reports that
thieves killed a 225-pound hog in his
hog lot Wednesday night of last week
and carried it away. It was easy to
follow their tracks to the highway,
where the hog was loaded into a
truck or automobile. The hog was
killed in the lot and a trail of blood
led to the highway, which indicates
that as soon as the hog was caught it
was slaughtered and earned to the
car or truck.
This is the third time that thieves
have visited Mr. Stine’s farm recent-
ly. About two weeks ago thieves
stole a cook stove from a house on
his farm and several hens from his
chicken roost. The cook stove was
carried over a. half mile to the high-
way. Several months ago two tires
and several parts were stolen from
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The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 25, 1930, newspaper, December 25, 1930; Whitewright, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1223642/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Whitewright Public Library.