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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN, WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
Thursday, February 29, 1940.
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I Give You Texas
BY BOYCE HOUSE
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If You Don’t Need It
Liberal Terms!
SELL IT
A WANT AD WILL FIND A BUYER
Build that Fence!
No Better
Service
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No similar institution is more anxious to
Nobody appreciates
ARGUS
Cameras
We have a complete line of Poultry
and Hog Fencing, Barbed Wire,
Fence Posts, and Staples.
You’ll find a Want Ad also effective in lo-
cating lost articles and estrayed livestock,
and in finding something you want to buy.
NO RADIO DEAL,
SAYS O’DANIEL
Don’t Expect Too
Much of Merchants
CAN BE FOUND THAN
YEAGER’S SERVICE!
F. D. R. PROCLAIMS TAKING OF
CENSUS, URGES ALL CITIZENS
TO ANSWER VITAL QUESTIONS
If you are not our customer,
we invite you to try our service
for a week or a month, compare
it with any service anywhere.
ANTI-TRUST SUIT IS
F1LEU AGAINST FORD
GIFTED WITH THE INDOMITABLE WILL AND LIMIT-
LEGG ENDURANCE OF HEB FO^EF^TFERG. GHE
ALONE GAVED THE ALAMO—SUWE OF TflAG IN-
DEPENDENCE-ADVANCING THE GTATE OF TElAG
$65,000 TO GAVE THIG SACKED GFOT FROM COM-
MERCIAL ENCROACHMENT AT A CRITICAL TIME
FOR THIG MAGNIFICENT WORK CLARA DP !G COLL HAG
BECOME REVERED AG THE 'GAVIOR OF THE ALAMO'.
MRG DRIGCOLL FOR MANY YE ARG WAG PREGIDENT
OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE REPUBLIC OF TElAG.
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Outstanding leaders actively
ENGAGED IN THE CONSTRUCTIVE
DEVELOPMENT ADD BUILDING
OF "THE LONE STAR. STATE*
A Date
“Say, Buddy, can you let me have
a dime for a glass of milk?”
“I thought milk was only a nickel.”
“Yeah, but I have a date.”
“to
census
THE COST IS ONLY 1c PER WORD
(Minimum Charge, 25c)
THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN
Your Home Newspaper
Yeager’s
SERVICE STATION
L. LaRoe & Co
EVERYTHING TO BUILD WITH
Childress Pharmacy
R. P. Childress, Manager
Whitewright Lumber Co.
“Neighborly Service”
Paints, Varnishes
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ONE OF THE'FEW, WOMEN BANK PREGIDENTG IN
AMERICA-BANKING HOME IG ONE OF THE FINE GT
IN GOUTH TE1AG-CLARA DRIGCOLL'G GERVICEG
ARE ALIKE GENEROUGLY GIVEN TO CITY. GTATE AND
NATION. HER UNCEAGING AND SUCCEGGFUL
EFFORTG IN ANY ACTIVITY. WITH WHICH GHE IS
IDENTIFIED PLACES HER AMONG THE FOREMOST
WOMEN OF AMERICA. SHE WAS NAMED DEMO-
CRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEEWOMAN FOR TEXAS
IN 1928.
The Sun’s large number of readers make a
Want Ad the most economical means of
finding a buyer for your unneeded posses-
sions—livestock, household goods, poultry,
pet animals, real estate, musical instru-
ments, jewelry, automobiles, bicycles.
If you need a fence of any kind, you
are invited to come in and consult
us, and get our prices.
Agfa and Eastman
Films, All Sizes
We can fit your camera with
any type of film you want.
Developing
We send film to FOX for de-
veloping and printing. You are
familiar with FOX quality.
We try to overlook no detail
in our effort to render the kind
of service that induces patrons
to keep bringing their cars to
us regularly.
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It won’t be long now till the wel-
kin will be ringing with campaign
oratory and earnest candidates will
express gratitude at being greeted by
“such a large and intelligent audience
composed of brave men and beauti-
ful women;” Rome and Greece will
rise and fall; the flag will wave and
the American eagle will soar and soar
until he’s out of sight.
Tribute will be paid by the spell-
binders to “the horny handed tillers
of the soil” and the speakers will re-
fer in touching tones to the days
when they themselves “pulled a bell-
cord on old Dobbin down the long
rows.” One such orator in a previous
campaign assured an audience:
“I was born on a farm; I was raised
on a farm; I’ve plowed; I’ve picked
cotton; I’ve milked—in fact, there’s
nothing done on a farm that I can’t
do.”
A listener (who probably was for
the other candidate) yelled, “I’ll bet
you can’t lay an egg.”
We have several cameras in
stock, and can get any model on
short notice.
critics
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AUSTIN.—Attorney General Ger-
ald C. Mann last week filed an anti-
trust suit against the Ford Motor
Company, charging violations of the
anti-trust laws in dealer contracts.
The Ford Motor Company has its
Texas headquarters in Dallas.
The state’s suit, filed in a Travis
County district court, asks for statu-
tory penalties of from $50 to $1,500
per day for every day of alleged vio-
lations of the anti-trust laws from.
September, 1938.
The attorney general seeks to en-
join the Ford Motor Company from
carrying out the provisions of its
contracts, which, the attorney gener-
al contends, “restrict the territory in
which the respective dealers may op-
erate, and attempt to fix and control
the price, terms and conditions upon
sell Ford
tive actions for the common good.
The prompt, complete and accurate
answering of all official inquiries
addressed to each person by census
officials should be regarded by him
as one of the requirements of good
citizenship.”
In the “old joke” contest, Hick
Halcomb nominates the one * about
the lawyer who was mad at a rul-
ing made by a judge and was rattling,
the books and papers so noisily that
the judge asked, “Are you trying to
show your contempt for this court?”
and the attorney replied, “No, I’m
doing my best to conceal it.”
FARM LOANS
Quick Service! Can Pay Part Each Year!
FARMS FOR SALE ON EASY TERMS
INSURANCE
Fire---Tornado----Automobile
A. Y. CREAGER CO.
M. & P. Bank Bldg. Sherman, Texas
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SOLE OWNER ANO MANAGER OF THE VAST R.
DRISCOLL lNrERESTS. CONSISTING OF RANCHES.
BANRIEi EXTENSIVE FARMS. LARGS OIL AND
FAS HOLD'NGS -CLARA DhSCOLL'S DIVERSIFIED
ACHHT- S'JOA ; T-UPFHER IN HSR FIRST ORGAN-
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PAH .titIRKAH ROl-H-D TABLE AND VIOLET
CROWN AASDEK Club OF AUSTIN-MANY OTHER
’SOCIAL ,«‘C CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS.
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P. S.—If you keep chickens and expect to re-
tain the good will of your neighbors, you’d
better build that chicken-proof fence.
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CLARA DRISCOLL ENDEARED HERSELF IN THE HEART. OF EVERY WOMAN IN TEXAS. WHEN IN 1939 SHE CAME TO THE RESCUE OF THE TEXAS FEDERATION^/R^^.
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AS DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEEWOMAN. MRS. DRISCOLL BECAME CO-CHAIRMAN OF THE GARNER FOR PRESIDENT COMMITTEE. DEVOTING HER TIME'- / -X
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EEyJ? COSTING TWO MILLION DOLLARS. TO BE NAMED IN HONOR OF HER LATE BROTHER. MR ROBERT DRISCOLL—TO BE DEDICATED NOVEMBER f. 1940.
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BORN ST. MARYS. TEXAS-DAUGHTER OF ROBERT
AND JULIA' FOX DRISCOLL ATTENDED SCHOOLS
TEXAS AND NEW YORK. ADVANCED EDUCATION
IN FRANCE. AT 24 COMPLETED FIRST NOVEL-AT
25 WROTE "IN THE SHADOW OF THE ALAMO"—
BEFORE 30. HER OWN MUSICAL OPERA "MEXb
CANA" WAS FIRST PRODUCED IN NEW YORK
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The stump-speakers will praise
George Washington, Thomas Jeffer-
son and Andrew Jackson — and
Woodrow Wilson has been dead long
enough now that it’s safe to praise
him, too.
Another story comes to mind:
A campaigner was orating: . “Our
grand and glorious country stretches
from the rocky coasts of Maine to the
golden strand of California; it
stretches from the Great Lakes to
the glittering waters of the Gulf of
Mexico.”
Someone yelled, “Let ’er stretch,
and hurray for the Bemocratic
party!”
Remembering faces and names is
difficult enough for a county or dis-
trict candidate so think how difficut
it is for a state candidate, as big and
as populous as Texas is. One veteran
of the political wars has evolved a
system so good that it ought to be
passed on:
In a crowded, hotel lobby, he will
introduce himself to a group of men;
spotting an important-looking man
in a nearby group, the official will
say, “Isn’t that Judge Blank of Dim-
mitt?” and someone will say, “No
that’s Mr. Soandso of Forney” and
The following article from the pen
of Editor Fryar of the Clarksville
Times is reproduced because it is
equally applicable to Whitewright
and all other towns:
If you were the only one it might
be different, but when you start out
to solicit contributions for any pur-
pose, remember the merchants (and
business men in other lines)
numerous such calls, and you
no right to expect a liberal donation
from every merchant each time you
drop around. The average business
man in Clarksville is “warted”
most daily by solicitors of every con-
ceivable type, many worthy,
some unworthy. The business man
attempting to contribute to the ex-
tent asked by all solicitors, would
soon find himself out of business.
Clarksville business men, at least
many of them, contribute regularly
to the churches and similar organi-
zations, to the Boy Scout movement,
the Chamber of Commerce, to local
charity funds, and numerous other
worthy causes in which they take an
interest and enjoy assisting. But
this is not all.
Almost daily solicitors of various
types call for additional money . . .
and frequently demands come for
help in local special charity cases
which many merchants do not feel
like refusing.
After these problems come many
demands during the year from out-
of-town solicitors of charity funds
for this, that or some other institu-
tion, outside of Clarksville, including
the weekly visits of Salvation Army
solicitors.
The merchants are also frequently
confronted with demands for dona-
tions to valueless schemes presented
under the name of “advertising.”
The solicitors, and the merchants,
know that in such instances the plans
presented are absolutely worthless
from an advertising standpoint, but
the old stereotyped “advertising” ap-
peal continues, just the same. Some
of these are local appeals but a ma-
jority of them come from strangers
who are always anxious (?) to help
Clarksville business interests.....
Remember, that where you, as an
individual, have one opportunity to
contribute, the average merchant has
hundreds of such opportunities.
In all fairness, don’t expect too
much of the merchants and other
business houses, unless your proposi-
tion is 100% worthy.
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Some humorist once said: If a
judge makes a mistake, it becomes
the law of the land; if a doctor
makes a mistake, it is buried; if a
preacher makes a mistake about the
hereafter, nobody will know it until
the next world; but if a newspaper-
man makes a mistake, there it is in
cold type and everybody knows about
it.
which such dealers may
products to the public.”
The attorney general alleged that
the dealers are forbidden to “oper-
ate a used cai' lot and sell used cars
in any town or city other than the
dealer’s place of business, and that
no dealer shall have a resident sales-
man in any town or city other than
the dealer’s place of business.”
Specifically named by the attorney
general in his petition were dealers
in Taylor, New Braunfels, Galveston,
Dallas, Big Spring and Lubbock. Al-
though the dealers are not made par-
ty to the suit, the petition alleged
that the dealers throughout the state
operate under identical agreements.
the official will then rush over, grab
the man by the hand, call him by
name, ask him how everybody is in
Forney, get introduced all around in
that crowd, then use the same meth-
od to get the name and town of one
man in the next group.
Speaking of difficulty in remem-
bering, there’s the story about the
candidate at a picnic who introduced
himself and, among other questions,
asked, “How’s your father?” to
which the citizen replied, “My father
is dead.” The candidate said, “Of
course, of course,” and then, as he
continued mingling in the crowd, ran
across the same voter and, in asking
about the state of health and pros-
perity of the voter’s relatives, in-
quired, “How’s your father?” to
which the citizen answered, “He’s
still dead.”
There’s nothin’ as uncommon as
common sense—as my grandpa used
to say.
■based upon good authority,
authority was not disclosed.
The Governor, assuming he will
again enter the Democratic pri-
maries, will use the radio as he did
two years ago when it was a big
iactor in his election. This year it is
expected rival candidates also will
make extensive use of the radio, and
he will have opposing him Harry
Hines, Albert Derden, Jerry Sadler
and Ernest O. Thompson.
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“Doctah,” asked a lady of Color.
“Ah’s come to see if yo’ am going to
order Rastus one o’ dem mustard
plasters ag’in today?”
“I think perhaps he had better
have one more,” answered the doc-
tor.
“Well, he says to ax yo’ kin he
have a slice o’ ham wid it, ’count of
it’s a mighty pow’ful prescription to
take alone.”
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serve you. rNobody appreciates your
good will and your friendship more than
we do. And nowhere can you obtain
more for your money than at LaRoe’s.
Just Ordinary
“There was a strange man called
to see you today.”
“Did he have a bill?”
“No, papa; he just had a plain, or-
dinary nose.”
AUSTIN. — Governor O’Daniel
Monday afternoon said he would re-
ject any offer of $75,000 to use the
radio to advertise any products, say-
ing the confidence the voters placed
in him by electing him to the office
in itself would prevent him from ac-
cepting any such proposal.
Whether the actual offer from the
General Food Products Corporation
had been made, O’Daniel did not say.
In capital circles the statement was
regarded as one more strong indica-
tion that O’Daniel will run for a sec-
ond term.
From New York a report was re-
ceived previous to the O’Daniel an-
nouncement that the $75,000 offer
had not been made. After his elec-
tion and before he took office as
Governor, O’Daniel announced he
had been offered $50,000 to broadcast
a national product but that he had
turned the offer down. In more re-
cent weeks it was reported he had
been offered $25,000 a year to adver-
tise Rio Grande Valley fruit products
over the radio, but the Governor has
neithei- denied nor confirmed this.
It is generally believed here that
O’Daniel will announce for a second
term in about a month.
Several legislative friends of the
Governor here Monday chorused: “If
he has been offered $75,000 a year to
■broadcast he would be foolish not to
accept:”
The O’Daniel statement Monday
said: “With reference to newspaper
reports to the effect I have been ot-
tered a job at $75,000 a year will say
that as long as I am Governor of
Texas I am not interested in any ot-
ter of $75,000 per year or any other
amount. I consider the confidence
placed in me by the voters of Texas
'who elevated me to this high and
honorable office worth more than the
value of any amount of gold.”
The report that the Governor had
received the $75,000 offer emanated
trom Waco last week, saying it was
which
WASHINGTON.—President Roose-
velt today proclaimed the taking of
the sixteenth decennial census be-
ginning April 1, and called upon all
persons over 18 years of age,
answer all questions on the
schedules.”
Answering congressional
who have claimed that some
questions invaded privacy, the chief
executive assured the public that “no
person can be harmed in any way”
by furnishing such information, be-
cause sole purpose of the census is to
secure general statistical information
regarding the population, business
activities and resources of the coun-
try.
“The per«;us has nothing to do with
taxation, with military or jury ser-
vice, with the compulsion of school
attendance, with the regulation of
immigration, or with the enforce-
ment of any national, state or local
law or ordinance,” the president as-
sured. “There need be no fear- that
any disclosure will be made regard-
ing any individual person of his af-
fairs. For the due protection of the
rights and interests of the persons
furnishing information, every em-
ploye of the census bureau is pro-
hibited, under heavy penalty, from
disclosing any information which
may thus come to his knowledge.
“Life and liberty in a free de-
mocracy entail a variety of coopera-
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