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CULL REEVES
“YOUR CLEANER”
The Plant With the Most Modern and Complete Equipment
add months to the life
of your Clothes
By sending them more often to the* cleaner. With the
largest and most modern cleaning and pressing fa-
cilities in the city, we can make last year’s garment
look new at a very small cost to you.
that
beans at a time. Almost, without ex-
ception, when all the beans are re-
moved, it will be found that he has
taken out black and white in the def-
inite ratio of 25 pairs of black beans,
25 pairs of white beans, and 50 pairs
of one black and one white!
This strange, hidden law
guides spinning coins and brings out
varicolored beans in regular ratios
plays its part in all phases of life.
Year after year, for example, in
white races, there are 104 boys born
for every 100 girls. Twins appear
once every 370,000. Each of us may
live to be 100 or we may die tomor-
row, but the average goes on just the
same. Of 100 children born today,
79 will reach 30 years of age, 39 will
reach 70, two will live zi be 90 years
old.
The ratio holds. It is this fact that
makes insurance possible. Com-
panies do business on the basis of
averages.
Occupation is the basis for issuing
personal insurance, with railroad
If you want to insure your vaca-
tion against rain, go ahead. Several
companies will write you a policy. If
you buy a dog, you can insure him
against biting the neighbors. If you
own a store, you can get protection
against business failure. You can
take out insurance against airplanes
roof, against
the - highway,
wrong party
Shortly after 3:00 o’clock one re-
cent afternoon, workers in a New
York clothing factory rushed frantic
cally into the street. Racketeers,
seeking to intimidate the owners, had
hurled a huge stench bomb into the
plant. So ingenious was the combi-
nation of malodorous chemicals that
a dozen dry cleaners failed to remove
the foul smell from garments valued
at $8,000. They were a total loss—
but not to the manufacturer.
When the gangsters first made
threats, he told his troubles to an in-
surance broker and received the new-
est form of protection, racketeer in-
surance. His claim was paid in full.
Between 500 and 600 other Ameri-
can manufacturers have taken out
falling through your
tires blowing out on
and even against the
winning at the polls.
Once, a man in Indiana was so
tickled at getting a set of well-fitting
false teeth that he rushed out and
had them insured. And—believe it
or not—half a dozen American cou-
ples last year took out insurance
against twins!
Many unusual policies have been
written for experts of various kinds.
For instance, a tea taster had his
tongue insured; an expert blender of
rare perfumes took out a policy on
her nose, to reinburse her if she
caught cold. Paderewski, the pianist,
has each finger of both hands heavily
insured. Charlie Chaplin has his fa-
mous waddling feet insured for con-
siderably more than their weight in
gold.
Farmers can get insurance against
crop failure, parents can insure their
children against kidnaping, and any-
one can get an accident policy that
will cover everything from falling
off a skyscraper to tripping over a
shoelace.
Yet strange and unpredictable ac-
cidents are befalling policy holders;
how can insurance companies carry
on? How are they able to outguess
the unexpected and make a profit at
the end of the year. Recall that Bob-
by Leach plunged safely over Niagara
Falls in a barrel, then slipped on an
orange peel and broke his neck; and
that Louis Strang, dare-devil of the
speedway, met his death in a touring
car when an embankment caved in as
he was traveling less than ten miles
an hour! With incalculable chance
and ungoverning paradox thus busy
in the lives of men, how can insur-
ance be anything but a pure gamble?
What solid basis can there be for as-
sessing premiums or calculating
risks?
The famous French naturalist,
Count de Buon, spent days in 1735
flipping a coin and marking down
whether it came heads or tails. When
he had chalked up 4,040 tosses, he
added up the two columns and found
heads had come up 2,038 times, al-
most exactly half.
The most amazing example of the
mysterious working of this little-
known law of averages is the follow-
ing: Shake up 100 black beans and
100 white beans in a jar. Then have
a blindfolded person pick out two
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SAFETY ..
Prescriptions
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“JUST WHAT YOUR DOCTOR ORDERED”
Bow-Wright Pharmacy
“WE SERVE YOU BEST”
Mr. Robert Bow, a graduate, registered phar-
macist with many years of experience, is
again in charge of our prescription depart-
ment, after an absence ofi several years. He
is qualified to fill your prescriptions safely.
Only high-grade pharmaceuticals are used in
our prescription department, and we never
substitute. When you bring your prescrip-
tions to this pharmacy, you get “Just what
your doctor ordered.”
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HAIL!
is
Hail is no respecter of persons . . . it’s as apt to
“It’s Better to be Safe than Sorry”
State.
That when crows are feeding they
always place a sentinel on look-out
duty.
visit one community as another. But if you have Hail
Insurance on your crops, you won’t have to worry as
to whether or not they may be damaged by hail.
than in any 16
bined.
That there is three cents’ worth of
gold in every ton of water.
That George M. Cohan thinks it
unlucky to write his manuscripts on
anything but yellow paper.
That Oscar Wilde was considered
the greatest dandy of his day de-
spite the fact that he seldom bathed.
That elephants weep the same as
human beings when they are unhap-
py.
That the fashion in the time of Sir
Walter Raleigh was to cut dainty
holes in coat sleeves so your friends
could see your pretty underwear.
That the first use made of gun-
powder in England was to blow crim-
inals to death through the mouth of
a cannon.
That due to heat expansion, the
Eiffel tower is 7% inches taller in
summer than in winter.
That Tartars put steak under their
saddles and bump against it for 24
hours before they consider it pala-
table.
That in Spain, Christmas gifts are
only given to servants.
Manning, Clark & Meador
WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
S. H. Montgomery
DEPENDABLE INSURANCE
That the chemical value of the hu-
man body has dropped from 97 cents
in 1929 to 59 cents today.
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That if you get caught in quick-
sand, you can save yourself by lying
flat on your back and rolling to the
edge.
Vital statistics show that clergy-
men, as a class, live the longest. And
that the wives of clergymen live
longer than any other group of wom-
en.
That Schopenhauer, the German
philosopher, never paid a bill that
had his name spelled incorrectly.
That an ancient custom in Moroco
compelled the bridegroom to throw
a raw egg at his bride.
Snake Didn’t Do This Bite
HOUSTON.—Carl Bleyl, biology
student, is recovering from rattle-
snake poisoning, but the rattlesnake
in question was only an innocent by-
stander. Bleyl was extracting venom
from the snake’s fangs to use in
anti-venom experiments when he
punctured his hand with a hypoder-
mic needle full of the poison.
That the portraits of living people
are never used in engravings on
bank notes.
That Thomajan is the authority
for the statement that an egg, wrap-
ped in cellophane, will remain fresh
for years.
We pay hail damage losses every year, and will
doubtless pay some losses this year. Will you be one
of those to collect?
Knownot—“What’s the idea of
commemorating your father’s death
by throwing flower seed over this
embankment?”
Newsome—“Well, his ashes
'jscattered from here.”
That Nero considered himself the
greatest poet of all time and had the
death sentence passed on all contem-
porary poets who challenged him.
That the reason the Olympic
games were never held in the United
States before was the refusal of for-
eign nations to finance the long
trips.
That in many states embalmers
are not permitted to serve on juries.
That thin people really suffer
more from the heat than stout peo-
ple.
That hydrophobia is not caused by
canine saliva, as is commonly be-
lieved, but by phlegm contained in
the bronchial tubes of the animal.
A NEW CONVENIENCE IN THE
Westinghouse
'2)ua£au&uutUc fiefrtyeratm
Now the Westinghouse food space
is even more convenient to use. The
bottommost shelf rolls easily, in and
out, on smooth, steel rails.
And this new convenience is only
part of the new usefulness, new
That when a hippopotamus is ex-
cited he exudes blood through the
pores of his skin.
dependability, new economy now
offered. Revolutionary All-Steel Cabi-
nets . . . Electric-Lighted Interiors
. . . Built-in Crisping Pan . . . have
been added. See a demonstration
at our showroom. Come in ... today!
r n r r a booklet that will
I It L. L SAVE YOU M0HET
Please send me a copy of your De Luxe
Booklet describing Dud-automatic refriger-
ation ... and explain the many money-saving:
features of Westinghouse.
Name..................
Address................
City
—for lions to run at large in Al-
derson, W. Va.
—for two people to occupy the
bathtub at the same time in Los An-
geles (but nothing is said about
showers!)
—to own a copy of the Encyclope-
dia Britannica in Texas (because it
contains a liquor formula).
—for a lady to lift her skirt more
than six inches while dodging Michi-
gan mud puddles.
—for an autoist not to stop and
shut off power “10 rods from the
horse approaching or approached and
render assistance in enabling the
horse team or teams to pass in safe-
ty” at Sturgis, Mich.
—to steal a horse in Kansas under
penalty of seven years in prison but
you can steal a million in cash and
receive only five years.
—to indulge in “gossip that
heathenish” in Missouri.
—to chew tobacco without a doc-
tor’s permit in Connecticut.
—to bathe without authorization
of a physician in Boston.
That there are more inmates of
insane asylums in New York state
other states com-
It’s All in the
Planting . .
PET PYTHONS INSIDE
PARTITIONS OF HOUSE
First National Bank
Capital and Surplus $200,000.00
A man would not have much of
a garden unless he planted seeds
and cultivated it.
ST. LOUIS.—The landlady in a
rooming house on Washington ave-
nue is worried about that hole in the
bathroom wall.
And her worries may be well
founded for two circus performers,
Mr. and Mrs. Dee Aldrich, say their
two pet pythons, 12 and 14 feet long,
disappeared through that hole, and
have taken up their abode among the
joists of the house.
“We put the snakes in the bathtub
to bathe them and we went out to
lunch,” the performers relate. “When
we returned they were gone. Where
else could they have gone but into
that hole?”
Snakekeepers from the St. Louis
zoo viewed the hole and sighed for a
pied piper who knows how to call
snakes.
safe:conservative:friendly
Nor will he have much money un-
less he starts to save and does it
steadily. As a garden produces
food—saved money produces in-
dependence.
OKLAHOMA CITY.—Gov. W. H.
Murray reiterated today his inten-
tion of keeping Oklahoma’s twenty-
two national Democratic votes bound
to his choice for the presidential
nomination.
Concerning efforts of Franklin
Roosevelt supporters in Oklahoma to
capture the delegation, he said:
“It’s absurd to think about an ir-
regular bunch like that overthrowing
the instructions of the State conven-
tion.
“Roosevelt has the same bunch for
him he had to begin with. We’re go-
ing to nominate some man, if we can,
who doesn’t have to have a college
professor to write his speeches for
him.
“I’m not going to release the State
delegation. I told them in New York
I wasn’t withdrawing. I said I didn’t
have much hope for the nomination,
that I don’t think I’ll have much
more show than Roosevelt has. We
may throw our votes to somebody
else early in the convention, but not
to Roosevelt.”
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Insurance Against 10,000 Hazards
Do You Know?
MURRAY DECLARES
STATE WILL NOT
GO TO ROOSEVELT
THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN, WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
Thursday, June 2, 1932.
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Backward regions are those remote
districts where the unfortunate na-
tives don’t know there is a depres-
sion.—Stamford Advocate.
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brakemen listed as the poorest risks,.
The actuaries of the fire insurance
companies have worked out their ta-
bles for 10,000 classes of hazards,
and each class is a different risk, and
with a different premium. From the
rate charged, you can easily figure
out the chances of your house burn-
ing. If it is ten cents on $100, the in-
suring company calculates the odds-
arc 1,000 to one against fire. If it is-
20 cents, the chances are 500 to one..
When you get your announcement
that your insurance premium is *
$89.31, do you ever wonder where
the one cent came from? Is it mere-
ly tacked on for good measure? Not
at all. Back of it are acres of paper
carrying the figures by which actu-
aries starting with the average and
working out the probable variations,
considering interest rate, and the
one intangible forces that influence
the world of finance, have come to
their painstaking conclusion.—Con-
densed from Popular Science Month-
ly, Jan., 1932, in Feb., 1932 Read-
ers Digest, by Freeman E. Patterson.
AVERAGE WAGE CUT
IS 13.9 PER CENT
CANDIDATES MUST FILE
MONDAY
All candidates for county and pre-
cinct offices in the coming Demo-
cratic primary must file their names
with B. F. Gafford, county Demo-
cratic chairman, not later than next
Monday, June 6. Names filed after
this date cannot be given place on
the official ballot to be used in the
July primary elections.
Stock—“What has made Gamble
so round shouldered?”
Bond—“Keeping his eyes on his
low stocks.”
NEW YORK.—Wage rates have
been cut 13.9 pel- cent, executives’
salaries 20.3 per' cent and other sal-
aries 15.9 per cent during the past
two years, the National Industrial
Conference Board estimated today
on the basis of special reports from
1,718 business concerns.
The figures deal only with the rate
of payment. They do not attempt to
show the decline in actual payments
brought about by reduction in time
worked, extra vacations without pay
or other methods of reducing the ac-
tual amount of money received by
the wage and salary earner.
The board feels that the statistics
answer quite conclusively the vast
amount of speculation about the ex-
tent and severity of wage and salary
cuts, since the coverage represents
16 per cent of those gainfully em-
ployed in 1929 in the six major busi-
ness fields studied, which except
principally agriculture and personal
or professional pursuits.
The 1,718 concerns studied em-
ployed 3,258,666 persons in 1929.
In 1932 the number employed drop-
ped to 2,391,009, a decline of 26.6
per cent in employment.
The board made no estimate of the
total number of unemployed in the
country on the basis of these figures.
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