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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN, WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
Thursday, January 24, 1935.
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THE BELL SYSTEM
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Trades Day Visitors!
SOUTHWESTERN
BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY
C. H. Stuteville
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AMERICAN TELEPHONE & TEL EG R A P H C 0.’
BELL TELEPHONE LABORATORIES
WESTERN ELECTRIC COMPANY
24 REGIONAL OPERATING COMPANIES
Make Stuteville’s your headquarters while in
town on Trades Day (Monday, Jan. 28} or any other
day. We are always glad to have you visit our store.
Whatever you may need in the grocery line will
be found here, including all kinds of fresh fruit and
vegetables, at rock bottom prices. We have the big-
gest stock of groceries in Whitewright, and we would
like to have you for a regular customer.
Each part of the organization exists because the function
it performs is essential to the job of giving good telephone
service at fair cost to you.
GLENN DOSS, Editor-Manager.
J. H. WAGGONER, Publisher.
At age 30: $1,000 policy, $12.33; $2,000 policy,
$24.66; $2,500 policy, $30.83. We have any class of
insurance you may want, and will be glad to explain
any policy to you.
days of rainfall will be worth much
more to them than the few days’ bus-
iness they lost.
any of the things delegated to it by
the Constituion.
EDITORIALLY
SPEAKING
Stephens & Bryant
Phone 20
Office in First National Bank Bldg.
his quota. The President has power
to terminate the law at any time
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Some parents rule their children
by love alone, and do not make much
of a success of it. Love is all right,
especially when backed up by a strap
or a paddle.
What Other Newspapers
Are Thinking
UTILITIES AND
ADVERTISING
Manufacturing, warehousing and general
purchasing far Bell System.
The district around Halstatt, Aus-
tralia, produces 1,000,000 pounds of
salt annually.
1932 BONUS ARMY
LEADER GETS JOB IN
WAR DEPARTMENT
Research and development work
for the Bell System.
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an
Subscription Price, $1.50 Per Year
Payable in Advance.
Entered at the Whitewright, Texas,
postoffice as 2nd class mail matter.
(of which the southwestern bell telephone
COMPANY IS one)
Provide telephone services ond facilities within
their respective territories, with the aid of staff
services of the American Telephone fend Tele*
graph Company.
AT A GLANCE
Van Alstyne Leader:
The last issue of The Whitewright
Sun came out with Mr. Glenn Doss
as its editor. Personally we believe
Mr. Doss has had a lot to do with is-
as
we didn’t see any great change in the
paper. Mr. Doss will edit The Sun
while the Hon. Jim Waggoner is at
Austin tending to legislative duties.
Honey Grove Signal:
When everyone again believes
riously that a note or a debt is
obligation to be met, regardless of
conditions, we <
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in higher prices of manufac- sturdily for State rights in the
lower prices for
farm products to finance the 30-hour
week. More leisure time for city and
town dwellers with costs assessed
against farmers would present an is-
sue of dangerous proportions to all
congressmen having farm constitu-
ents.
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San Angelo Standard:
Farm resentment against the pro-
posed 30-hour week for industrial-
workers is going to provide the Pres-
ident with a virtual cat-o’-nine-tails
for congressmen who jump when the
American Federation of Labor cracks
its whip for this bill. Farm organiza-
tions are in possession of estimates
showing agriculture would have to
pay a penalty of a billion dollars a
year i
tured goods and
ents who dog his footsteps from the
time he is elected until he retires.
The remarkable thing is that the1 of
legislature ever finds time to do world’s present
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The Dallas Journal is opposed to
remodeling the Texas Constitution
until such time as the Texas Legisla-
ture has been remodeled, saying that
Texas doesn’t trust the Legislature.
The Journal believes that the Legis-
lature is too big, too unwieldy to
function efficiently. Reducing the
number of members probably would
not make it any more efficient, for
the fewer the number of members,
the more of each member’s time
would be taken up by persons want-
ing something. As a matter of fact,
a member of the Legislature has lit-
tle time left for legislative problems
after he gets through listening to the
claims of the hordes of his constitu- |
The Bell System is big, but its organization is not
complex.
The A. T. &T. is parent company, service and research
organization, and financial headquarters of the System.
It owns Western Electric, which buys and manufac-
turers for the System at prices about a fourth below
the prices of similar equipment in the competitive
market. Jointly with Western, it owns Bell Laborato-
ries, where science constantly seeks better and cheaper
methods of giving you telephone service.
It owns more than 90 per cent of the voting stock of
the 24- associated companies (of which the Southwestern
Company is one) and it operates the long distance trunk
lines linking the territories of these companies. Its staff
carries on for these companies a constant search for
more economical ways to give good telephone service.
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Power and gas utilities have spent
as high as $30,000,000 a year on ad-
vertising, the federal trade commis-
sion reports.
The commission seems to think
there is something reprehensible, or
at least suspicious, in that. But why
should there be, necessarily? Gas
and electric companies have service
to sell and most local distributing
companies also sell appliances. Con-
sidering the enormous volume of this
business in the United States, $30,-
000,000 foi' advertising probably isn’t
Such a disproportionate item as it
might seem at first glance. Certain-
wright merchants.
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The New Deal, finding itself with-
in $2,500,000 of the legal limit be-
yond which it could not issue any
bonds, seeks to have its authority to
sell such securities increased by about
nine billion dollars. Not so very
many years ago nine billion dollars
would have paid all expenses of the
Federal Government for nine years.
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The marts of trade were practical-
ly deserted in Whitewright from Fri-
day till Wednesday because of bad
weather. Merchants remained cheer-
ful, however, believing that the thor-
ly the utilities have as much right to
advertise their service and merchan-
dise as any other type of business.
But what mainly concerns the fed-
eral trade commission is the feai’ that
large advertising expenditures are
gaining the power and gas companies
undue influence over newspapers and
magazines. The report goes into con-
siderable detail concerning that as-
pect of the matter. Apparently the
commission is particularly alarmed
over the amount of free space utili-
ties manage to get in the newspapers.
It is true that the larger power
and gas companies have their public-
ity departments; but so, for that mat-
ter, does every industry of any con-
sequence. The mails are burdened
every day with tons of publicity hope-
fully addressed to newspapers. Most
of it is promptly consigned to the
waste basket, but some finds its way
into print.
The fact is that any enterprise
which comes into contact with the
lives of-a great many people is bound
to originate legitimate news. Any
editor who resolved to keep his pa-
per’s columns entirely free of news
which might be construed as utilities
propaganda would soon find his reso-
lution colliding with his judgment of
news values. Members of the federal
trade commission should read the
chapter on press agentry in Stanley
Walker’s book City Editor, wherein
he tells us how the National Electric
Light Association arranged the semi-
centennial celebration of Edison’s
discovery of the incandescent light.
The President of the United States,
Henry Ford and other first-string
dignitaries participated, but funda-
mentally it was a publicity stunt for
the electric industry. Nevertheless, it
was also news, and any newspaper
that ignored it would have looked sil-
ly.
It would be foolish to deny that
An analysis of the message of
Governor Allred to the Legislature is
rather sobering to those who still
give lip service to State rights. The
Governor himself stands up rather
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ter of oil control—and he is fair
enough to accept the corresponding
burden of State obligations to make
that control beneficial and firm. But
a rough count of references in the
message shows that, after the formal
introduction on the relations between
the executive and legislative branches
of State government, Mr. Allred re-
fers to the Legislature twenty-two
times and to Congress and the Fed-
eral Government twenty-nine times.
In addition, the President is men-
tioned six times and cooperation with
the Federal Government is men-
tioned five times.
Even a State-rights Governor gives
the bulk of his inaugural message to
the Federal phases of serving Texas.
In all, fifteen references are made to
governmental doles and gifts to the
citizen—though it is fair to note that
Mr. Allred would reduce these by
substituting work for charity wher-
ever possible.—Dallas Journal.
WASHINGTON. — In 1932 the
bonus expeditionary forces were en-
camped in Washington, under the
leadership of Generalissimo Walter
W. Walters.
Then came the eviction by federal
troops led by Gen. Douglas Mac-
Arthur, army chief of staff.
Tuesday Walters was given a job
in the war department that drove him
and his bedraggled army out of its
city of shacks in 1932.
The one who got him the job was
General MacArthur.
THE FIGHT ON CROP
RESTRICTION
The interests who can not enjoy
full prosperity unless the farmers
furnish them with a large cotton crop
are continuing the fight on crop re-
striction.
Of course, if they win their fight,
the farmers, regardless of efforts to
bring about voluntary restriction of
planting, will produce 15,000,000
bales oi1 more jn 1935, if weather
conditions are favorable.
Such a crop would be likely to send
the price of lint down to 5 or 6 cents,
but this would be a boon to exporters
who are contending with foreign com-
petition. It would be ruinous, of
course, to the farmers.
It is complained now that the gov-
ernment lending policy has the price
pegged at 12 cents. Which is to say
if government lending were aban-
doned the price would fall. Indica-
tions are that the price would be not
higher than 9 cents. Yet the crop of
1934 was short, and exporters con-
tend that it was much too short.
Secretary Wallace says that the
farmers can not be expected to grow
cotton at a loss in order to create
prosperity for the handlers of cotton.
He is right, of course. The farmers
have done this on many occasions in
the past, but they have exhausted
their ability to continue doing it
without losing their land and being
forced into the bread lines.
The secretary concedes that it is
not worthwhile to further reduce the
cotton crop. He points out that some
other method of assistance for the
farmer must be found. But he insists
that while a new method is being
sought, the burden of supporting the
whole cotton industry can not be car-
ried by the farmer alone.—Dallas
Times Herald.
Who Pays the Bill?
Some newspaper editors are won-
dering who is financing the publica-
tion and distribution of propaganda
favoring the enactment of a sales tax
in Texas.
Several “tax magazines” are being
published in the larger cities, and
these are being sent out to newspa-
pers free of charge. They carry no
—paid advertising, so they are obvious-
ly Being paid for by somebody who
expects to profit by enactment of a
sales tax.
Farmers, wage earners and salaried
persons constitute a large majority price on any cotton he markets above
of the people of Texas, possibly 85
per cent. Are these people financing
these publications? They are the peo- prior to its expiration at the end of
pie who would be affected adversely
by a sales tax, so it is obvious that
they are not sponsoring such a tax.
This reasoning leads us inevitably
to the conclusion that “big business”
wants'the sales tax, and is spending
plenty of money to sell the sales tax
idea to the people. Why does “big
business” want a sales tax? Because
it would shift a large part of the tax
burden from persons able to pay it to
persons who own little of this world’s
goods, and who are
able to pay taxes.
Governor Allred voiced opposition
to a sales tax in his campaign last
summer, and the people elected him
overwhelmingly over a candidate who
was known to favor a sales tax. That
fact should acquaint the Legislature
with the wishes of the people in this
matter,
Under provisions of the Bankhead
cotton control law, its continuation
for the crop year 1935-36 is author-
ized by an overwhelming vote in the
referendum of cotton growers. The
Secretary of Agriculture was di-
rected, in the event of continuance,
to set the number of bales that may
be marketed in the second year with-
out the payment of a prohibitory tax.
This number has been set at 10,500,-
000 bales, half a million bales more
than the 1934-35 figure. Each grow-
er may gin tax-free his normal pro-
portion of the crop. He must pay a
tax of one-half the prevailing market
the crop year 1935-36.
Under the plan as employed last
year, producers signed contracts
specifying how much acreage might
be planted to cotton and how much
would be withdrawn from produc-
tion. The reward for such contracts
was a rental payment equivalent to
3% cents a pound on the average
1928-32 yield on the land retired
from production, plus a parity pay-
ment of at least 1 cent a pound on
the percentage of each farmer’s crop
expected to go into domestic con-
sumption. These payments have "been
met by the processing tax of 4.2
cents a pound. Total 1934 benefit
payments to farmers have been esti-
mated at $117,000,000.
Opponents of the Bankhead law
claim, among other things, that rais-
ing the price of American cotton
above the world price will steadily
reduce the amount of American cot-
ton exported. They point out that
while the 1933 United States produc-
tion was being held down to the 1932
level, production in the remainder of
the world was increasing 17 pel’ cent.
Supporters of the plan point out that
the higher price has more than made
up for the fall in exports thus far.
Thus in the year ending July 31,
1934, cotton exports from the United
States fell 10% per cent (about
885,000 bales) in quantity but in-
creased 23 per cent ($78,700,000) in
value.
This showing is countered by the
assertion of opponents of restriction
that exports will fall still further
when foreign cotton mills have had
time to complete a shift from Amer-
ican cotton to other cotton, and that
(the fall will be accelerated when for-
eign consumers become convinced
I that the American policy is to be con-
tinued. To this argument, supporters
: restriction retort that in the
craze for economic
terest is served by a high price; the
trade’s interest by a large volume of
the crop moving in commerce. Direct
benefits to the farmer are shared by
the business community generally,
but so are direct benefits to the cot-
ton trade.
The Bankhead act probably does
not embody the formula in perfectly
accurate terms. Nevertheless, it
seems that in any final form, a cot-
ton control policy must proceed along
such lines as will send abroad a small-
er proportion of the American crop
than in the free-trading years.—Fort
Worth Star-Telegram.
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A cheerful liar is to be preferred
to the absolutely reliable man
tells the truth that hurts.
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BANKHEAD PLAN’S
SECOND YEAR
The Child Labor
Amendment
With business organizations of one
sort and another voicing opposition to
ratification of the National child la-
bor amendment, the Texas Congress
of Parents and Teachers has dedi-
cated January 26 to 28 to the observ-
ance of Child Labor Day, and will lay
special emphasis upon the importance
of ratifying the amendment.
Nobody can accuse that organiza- inaugurated last fall, and its
tion of possessing any selfish motives
in urging the adoption of the amend-
ment, as is the case with much of the is worthy of consideration by White-
opposition to the amendment. Busi-
ness organizations which exploit child
labor are to be found in the front
ranks of the forces opposing ratifica-
tion, and such organizations have en-
listed the support of others who have
no special axe to grind but who have
not troubled themselves to give the
matter serious consideration.
These organizations exclaim in holy
horror at the idea of the sovereign
State granting to the National Gov-
ernment jurisdiction over child la-
bor. They tell farmers that ratifica-
tion of the amendment would mean
that they could not work their own
children on their farms. Daily news-
papers take up the battle cry against ough soaking of the ground by three
the amendment, claiming it would
prohibit employment of boys as news-
paper carriers.
As a matter of fact, the child labor
amendment was designed to prohibit
employment of children in industrial
“sweatshops,” and industry is fight-
ing the amendment, tooth and toe-
nail, and has been fighting it ever
since Congress submitted it to the
Stated xNRA has outlawed such em-
ployment of chiTdrerl, but NRA is a
temporary expedient. The child la-
bor amendment provides for perma-
nent outlawing of such labor.
conditions, we can expect to find
prosperity here, instead of peeping
around the corner looking, for it to
arrive.
when it is intruded into ""V
the public schools under the guise of
instruction. But fairness demands-
that those who oppose public owner-
ship should be accorded the same of-
portunity to present their case as is
accorded those who favor it. The-
facts fail completely to sustain the
implication in the trade commission’s
report that liberal advertising expend
ditures are a factor in regimenting'
public opinion against public owner-
ship. Ordinarily the reverse is true;
a public official who makes a speech
advocating public ownership can get
columns of free newspaper space by
virtue of his position where an adver-
tising utility company is fortunate to
get inches. — United States Daily
News.
■ General staff services to operating companies, ond ■
Operation of long distance lines giving service i
between and through the territorfes of the I
operating companies. I
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Pittsburg Gazette:
As we understand it, bankers are
now being criticized by the govern-
ment because they do not make the
same kind of loans that they
criticized for making before the de-
pression.
NOTICE: All notices of entertain-
ments, box suppers and other bene-'
fits, where there is an admission fee j
or <_____- ----------j ..
be charged for at regular advertising
rates. Memorials, resolutions of re-
spect, etc., also will be charged for.
Any erroneous reflection upon the ball coach at
character, standing or reputation of University
any person, firm or corporation that! .
may appear in the columns of The rtlon at
Whitewright Sun will be gladly and,Nashville, Tenn., his
fully corrected upon being brought to ~ ‘ ‘
the attention of the publishers.
owner-
under
the domestic utilities lose no oppor-
tunity to put in a lick against public-
ownership; naturally, since their in-
terest is opposed to public
ship. There are
which anti-public ownership proga-
Forney Messenger:
It is quite a treat to pick up a
weekly newspaper nowadays and
read where dry goods merchants
quote prices. Most small town dry
goods and clothing merchants leave
it up to the city merchants to do
the advertising and quote the prices,
with the results that the city dry
goods and clothing stores are getting
the business. This should not be. We
long to see the day that small town
merchants will wake up, keep more
complete stocks and give the city
merchants a run for their money. It
can be done.
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prices as the present year grows old-
er, for both meat and dairy animals.
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Ray Morrison has resigned as foot-
Southern Methodist
■ to accept a similar posi-
Vanderbilt University of
alma mater.
Morrison had much to do with putting
Southwestern football on the map
during the 15 years in which he made
S. M. U.’s “aerial circus” known
from coast to coast. His resignation
is a loss not only to S. M. U. but to
the entire conference.
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The Whitesboro Trade League has
announced that Whitesboro mer-
chants will make distribution of $15
in cash every Saturday afternoon un-
til further notice. This is a continua-
tion of a trade promotion campaign
con-
tinuation would indicate that it has
proven a profitable undertaking, and
self-sufficiency, countries that can
raise cotton are going to stimulate
and protect its production, no matter
what America does, unless some in-
ternational agreement can be reached
on limiting production and exports.
Experience with international agree-
ments in the case of what is not
highly promising, but the Adminis-
tration at Washington is believed to
be exploring the possibilities of such
an agreement. If this agreement de-
velops, it might lead to the exercise
of the presidential power to termi-
nate the Bankhead act before the end
of the present cotton year.
There is general acceptance of the
theory that the cotton restriction pro-
gram has thrown many tenants and
share croppers out of work, and has
increased production of other crops
on the acreage taken out of cotton
production, thus reducing Southern
agricultural purchases from other
parts of the country. At the same
time the claim is made that these
drawbacks are more than counter-
balanced by the benefit to the South
in having most cotton growers pros-
perous. The difficulty of fixing up-
on a permanent cotton policy seems
to resolve itself into an accurate bal-
ance between the direct benefit, on
the one hand, to the cotton grower,
and on the other, the direct benefit
to the cotton trade. The grower’s in-
Lamar County Echo:
Governor Allred is opposed to a
sales tax. He says it is a tax on the
poor. Stay with them, Governor. The
people are depending on you. They
already have enough burdens to car-
ry in their efforts to barely “get by.”
A sales tax is indeed a “tax on the
poor.”
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Prime quality Hereford steers sold
on the Kansas City market this week
for $13 per hundred pounds, the
highest price since January, 1931,
and $6 higher than the price one
year ago. With a large part of the
1934 calf crop and millions of head
of cattle slaughtered by the Govern-
ment as a relief measure last year,
cattlemen are expecting still higher suing The Sun before last week
other monetary consideration, will <
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