The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 29, 1940 Page: 2 of 8
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nice endowment for social security.”
Tax Instead of Royalty
Texas started out as owner of all
its minerals. It ceded them away to
owners of the soil in one of the early
constitutions. Mr. Thompson thinks
the state should have kept a royalty
interest.
“But we can accomplish the same
thing now by taxing oil,” he said.
“It’s a fair tax. A man has to pro-
duce to pay it. If he doesn’t want to
produce, he doesn’t have to pay. We
use only 16 pei' cent of our oil in
Texas. The other 84 per cent goes to
other states and foreign countries. We
would only have to pay a small part
of the tax ourselves.
“Some people think a good tax is a
platform with a hillbilly band.
Changed His Mind
If logic can’t win over fiddlers,
doggerel poetry and songs about
home and mother, then friends admit
Mr. Thompson can’t win.
He can change his mind.
“Last election I was against civil
service,” he says. “I have been con-
vinced I was wrong. I have seen too
much happen not to realize that the
state should have a strong merit sys-
tem.”
But his “Nickel for Grandma” pro-
gram is his main interest.
“A 5-cent tax on oil last year
would have brought in $24,800,000”
he says. “That’s water ovei' the dam.
We didn’t get that. Neither did we
get a sufficient tax on the hundreds
of millions of barrels of oil produced
in other years. But we have left 55
per cent of the oil in the United I
States. We have 10,000,000,000 bar- |
will
be
re-
car load of it per day
quired.
The paper machine itself weighs
almost 1,700 tons and ’required 70
cars to ship it to the site of the plant.
It will turn out a sheet of paper
about 230 inches wide and will aver-
age about five carloads per day. The
estimated production per year is 50,-
000 tons. For this output approxi-
mately 10,000,000 gallons of water
will be necessary. Five wells supply
that demand through a 24-inch main
running from the plant to the water
location several miles distant.
The output for the first five years
has already been contracted for by
newspapers in Texas and the South-
west. It is estimated that South-
land’s initial unit will be able to pro-
duce not more than half the present
papei' consumed in Texas.
Actual process of producing news-
print is by reducing the logs to pulp
This edition of The Sun is printed
on newsprint paper manufactured in
the new paper mill at Lufkin, now
producing paper from Southern pine.
The mill, inaugurating a new indus-
try in the South, was completed early
in January and made its historic
first run Jan. 17. The first paper
made by the mill was used by the
Lufkin Daily News, and a few days
later the Dallas News used it.
Ernest L. Kurth of Lufkin, a Tex-
as lumberman, is president of the
mill.
The mill as completed has a single
unit for making newsprint. Approx-
imately 120 tons of East Texas pine
will be ground into pulp in each day’s
operation at the plant. This will be
mixed with about 30 tons of chemical
pulp to add strength. The latter is
being purchased from the Champion
Papei' & Fibre Co. of Houston, and a
1 by two methods: Grinding, known as | leaving the machine,
mechanical, and cooking, known as by hydraulic or mechanical
ne | aim me sunus aim water return to
20 j the beaters or paper machines.
The sheet of paper that started out
looking like a thin coat of milky wat-
er has now taken form and by the
time it completes its journey through
the dryers has become a pretty sub-
stantial piece of material. It next
goes through the calendars stacks,
which give it a sort of polish, or
of I smooth finish. The completion ap-
’ I proaches fast; past the calendars it
the goes through the winder and cutter
and finally to the finishing machine.
By now the sheet is a role, anywhere
from 17% inches wide to any width
desired by publishers up to 230
inches.
Southland Paper Mills marks a
new era in the pine belt of Texas and
the South more than most people
I realize.
are separated
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chemical. About 80 per cent of the, and the solids and water
mechanical pulp is mixed with 1
per cent of chemical pulp; these com-
pose the principal ingredients of
newsprint, although there are neg-
ligible quantities of other constit-
uents.
The mixture is thoroughly agitated
in beaters and then passed to the
fourdriner machine. Here the paper
stock is thinned to one per cent
material and 99 per cent water and
i run through wire screens onto
machine wire, an endless sieve-like
belt where a shaking motion assists
the felting of the fibres and passes
over vacuum boxes and vacuum rolls
which remove water and smooth the
surface into sheets. It is then pressed
and dried by steam-heated drums or
driers. All materials such as clay and
chalk are carried away in the water
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Nickel Oil Tax vs. Sales Tax
Is Ernest O. Thompson’s Issue
five cents a barrel tax on oil,
stands for something. The issue
this summer’s primaries will be
five cent oil tax vs. a sales tax.”
Secretary Near By
Mr. Thompson had just got
from a siege of the flu
on a
“I have
up
and popped
down to his office for 15 minutes. He
has a small room, almost a cubby-
hole. Its walls are lined from top to
bottom with pictures — legislators,
governors, lawyears, showmen,
friends. His secretary shares
room and sits a few feet away.
Can Governor O’Daniel be
feated?
“Anybody can be defeated
good clear issue,” he says,
that kind of an issue.”
Mr. Thompson accomplished hig
main objective in the governor’s race 1
two years ago—getting more votes i
than Bill McCraw. Unfortunately |
he failed to take into account the I
surprise entry of Governor O’Daniel'
and his sensational campaign, so he!
wound up second.
Darling of Oil Men
Last election he had the support of |
much of the wealth in the oil Indus- j
try. He was the “business man can-
didate.” This time he is changing
stance. He batted right handed- last,
time. This time he will bat left
handed, on his “Nickel for Grandma”
program, designed to appeal more to
the mass than to the oil crowd.
How will that affect him?
“I’m not thinking how it will af-
fect me,” he says. “I’m thinking
about what ought to be done. A man
who thinks up things to get elected
ought not to get elected.”
Austin people rate Mr. Thompson
as a brilliant man. This worries some
of his supporters.
“You can’t elect a brilliant man
governor,” one of them told me. “The
people suspect and fear brilliance in
a candidate.”
Another complaint of friends is
that Mr. Thompson can’t unbend. He
would look out of place with a big
dip of snuff in his mouth, or on the
By Dick Vaughan
AUSTIN. — Ernest O. Thompson,
red-headed railroad commissioner,
doesn’t believe in long campaigns.
“I don’t expect to announce for
governor until about 90 days before
the first primary,” he says.
So Mr. Thompson is waging an
undeclared war for governor, but all
the same he is in the race. He has
already picked his issue and outlined
it clearly.
“I am for an additional five-cents-
a-barrel tax on oil for social secur-
ity,” he says. “When a candidate says
he is for a natural resource tax he is
too vague. People want to know
what he means. When I say I am for
that
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Southland Paper Mill Where Newsprint Used bp This Newspaper G)as Made
An Itching Heel
By J. W. Henry
work,
to do
Turned Off
Teacher (endeavoring to illustrate
a point)—“Now, if I light a match,
and carefully place it over the gas
burner, why do I not get a light?
Why does not the gas burn?”
Boy—“Because you have not paid
your bill.”
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There are lots of people who never
do well because they do not stick to
anything. They have a disposition to
jump from one thing to another—
play Jack at all trades and good at
none.
Think of a man in a big world of
opportunity, sitting around gaping
and growling about having no
chance. Make an opportunity, all
you men physically strong.
We know a man drawn almost
double with rheumatism who lashed
himself to a sled and drove between
the cotton rows to pick cotton. When
corn gathering time came around he
swung himself from the side of the
wagon bed and pulled corn.
It looks easy for a strong man with
an average brain to earn a living in
any country. Of course, if one pos-
sesses a “grasshopper mind” he will
hop around all summer and in the
fall make no preparations for win-
ter. Then how he will howl!
Some men have itching heels. They
are on the go all the time. Just over
the way are golden opportunities.
Away they go. In a few months they
are on the go again. How this type of
men can build aircastles. But they
put no props under them.
Two years ago a young man mar-
ried. He has more around him now
than do lots of men who have been
married twenty years. He is on a
rented farm, but he is busy all the
time. His mind is settled as to his
occupation. He isn’t of the grasshop-
per type. He whistles and sings as he
works. All he wants is health and a
chance.
We heard a man 66 years of age
talking to a landowner about renting
a farm. He said he wanted to make
good and could if he had a chance.
Now, the idea of a man 66 years old
with no teams or tools wanting an
opportunity to do something when
he had let his whole life slip by
Without doing anything.
Young men everywhere should be
impressed with the idea to work and
save while young. There is no room
for old men any more. Get in the
game of life and fight hard, shoot
straight and square. Don’t play the
crowd. The quitter is abhorred.
A boy whom I knew began to raise
game chickens. Today he ships
chickens to most all countries. He
has a big business. He stuck to his
chickens.
A man left Fannin County a few
years ago and bought a small eating
joint in a town of 6,000 people. He
told me he was worth $30,000.
I knew a man with an itching heel
who made six trip's from Texas to
Tennessee and back. He was a good
man and an honorable citizen, but
did not accumulate anything. He had
a grasshopper mind.
The result of indecisiveness among
your fellowman is the lack of confi-
dence they have in you to do things.
One will say he won’t do that, he is
too full of notions. Another will say
he slept a good night’s sleep, things
are all off. Here you are a failure
and don’t know it. No one to blame
but yourself. You planned the game
of the “grasshopper mind.” You had
brains but did not use them. You
had an even break with the other
fellow but you let the hare beat you
in the race.
Do less talking and more
Listen to men who know how
things. No one will listen to a fail-
ure.
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tax on the other fellow. That is what
an oil tax would be. Especially when,
you realize that most of our oil is-
owned by out-of-state people. It is
owned in Pittsburgh, New York,
Philadelphia and Chicago. Pitifully
little of it is owned in Texas.
“On the other hand, a sales
would all fall in Texas.”
NEW YORK. — Martin Thomas.
Manton, who a year ago occupied the-
highest and most venerated judicial
post in the nation short of the United
States Supreme Court itself, prob-
ably will enter prison within a week
to serve a two-year term for selling:
his integrity for cash.
The former senior Judge of the
United States Circuit Court of Ap-
peals here was convicted last June 3
—specifically of conspiracy to ob-
struct justice before his own bench—
and Monday in Washington the Su-
preme Court sealed his extraordinary
fall, refusing a review of his case.
It was a fall without a parallel in.
the last three centuries of the history
of British or American jurisprudence,,,
no English-speaking judge of such,
rank having been similarly stigma-
tized since Francis Bacon, Lord
Chancellor of England, was deprived.
of office more than 300 years ago.
In the trial the government offered,
evidence Manton’s decisions had been,
influenced by direct and indirect
bribes running into thousands upon,
thousands of dollars.
Short
Child—“Daddy, can I ask you ai
question?”
Father—“Yes, dear, but it must be
a short one?”
Child—“If a doctor is doctoring a
doctor, does the doctor doing the doc—
tering have to doctor the doctor the
way the doctor being doctored wants
to be doctored, or does the doctor
doctoring the doctor, doctor the doc-
tor in his own way?”
Ernest Lilley, Manager
Denison, Texas
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Community
Don’t kid yourself by doing your buying from
mail order catalogues and out-of-town stores—
you’re not saving money. Every time you buy
from the mail order house you’re only adding
your bit to the enslaving of the agricultural
South and Southwest to the big business of the
North and East. And you’re paying more in the
long run.
Regardless of what you want, you can usually
buy it through your local merchant. At least be
loyal enough to give him a break and try him
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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN, WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
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