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the prospect of serving you further in 1940.
the past twelve months anti we look forward with pleasure to
We deeply appreciate the patronage you have given us during
for a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
To our customers and friends, we extend sincere best wishes
First Nat! Bank Bldg.
Phone 20
MAY BADGETT
.Notary Public
Stephens & Bryant
INSURANCE AGENCY
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AAA, cash income averaged only
581 million dollars, Watson pointed
out.
“This means,” Watson said, “that
the purchasing power of cotton is
better today than at any time during
the depression years but it is still
short of the normal, or base period,
of 1909-13. Payments to cotton farm-
ers have been an important factor in
increasing purchasing power but it is
interesting to note that even without
Triple-A payments the purchasing
power index is considerably higher
than the years immediately preced-
ing the launching of the federal farm
programs.”
without payments, has been 582 mil-
lion dollars under the AAA. This is
142 million dollars greater than dur-
ing the low income years.
The purchasing power index, with
1909-13 equalling 100, has averaged
80 during the AAA years, Watson
declared, compared with the aver-
age index of 51 from 1930 to 1933.
Even without AAA payments^ the
average index from 1933 through
1939 was 67.
Supplemented with AAA pay-
ments, the cotton farmer’s cash in-
come from his cotton crop since 1933
has average 898 million dollars,
while in the three years prior to
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PORK CONSUMPTION
EXCEEDS THAT OF BEEF
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mately as much pork in the first 10
months of 1939 as they did in all of
1936 or 1937 and nearly 20 per cent
more than in 1935.
Lower prices have accompanied
the greater abundance of pork. Hog
market supply has returned to a
normal level, with hog marketings
for the last week estimated to be the
largest since February, 1934.
CHICAGO. — The United States
pork scarcity of the last five years
has passed into history, the Institute
of American Meat Packers said Sun-
day.
It reported that for the first time
in five years current consumption of
pork, exclusive of lard, exceeds con-
sumption of beef and veal combined.
American consumers ate approxi-
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The year now drawing to a close has been very
satisfactory in our relations with you as our
friend and customer, and we bought this adver-
tising space to remind you that we are grateful.
If we can serve you in 1940, it will please us
very much, and we will do everything in our
power to make the pleasure mutual.
Purchasing Power
Of Cotton Greatly
Increased by AAA
COLLEGE STATION. — Purchas-
ing power of American cotton dur-
ing the life of the AAA program has
averaged 250 million dollars greater
per year than during the years im-
mediately preceding the program, ac-
cording to Jess H. Watson, state ACA
committeeman from Newcastle.
In support of his statement, Wat-
son cited the 695 million dollar aver-
age annual purchasing power of cot-
ton from 1933 to 1939 as compared
with the 440 million dollar annual
purchasing power from 1930 to 1933.
Included in the increased purchas-
ing power were the AAA payments,
Watson pointed out, but the average
annual purchasing power of cotton
to recall it but I can’t.
In conclusion, I shall tell you
what the members of this family
would do to be with their color and
equals. On Sundays and holidays
these boys and girls would hitch a
family team of horses to a carriage
and drive to Sprinfield, Mo. There
they would have a gay time and re-
turn to their home as happy as larks
as evening came.
I am unable to express my sympa-
thy for any man who by reason of
race, color or social inequality has to
be segregated to social status which
he does not endorse.
India has her castes and by no
possible efforts of your own can you
rice above your status. The poor
give
their
rise above your status. The
“untouchables” of India must
the street or the highway to
superiors.
America is not so bad, but we do
have a rich aristocracy about as ob-
jectionable to the honest middle
class of our land. God is no respecter
of persons. All races and colors look
alike to Him.
An Indian Girl
By J. W. Henry
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HEAT YOUR ENTIRE HOME FOR YOUR HEALTH'S SAKE
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quace hear and proper
ventilation throughout
the entire house.
Statistics show that
fifty per cent of all
disabling diseases
start with a com-
Long Distance
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Play safe! Don’t catch cold! Protect yourself and your
family with adequate heat and a circulation of comfort-
able, warm air in every room of your home. Heat your
entire house and live ^11 over it so you will avoid the
danger of sudden, chilling "cold-catching” temperatures.
Government statistics
show that diseases of
the breathing appara-
tus are responsible
for about one death
in every five.
This year there’s no need to wait
until 7 p.m. Christmas Eve to get
the lowest rates on Christmas
telephone calls. The low night
and Sunday long distance rates
are in effect from 7 p.m. Satur-
day,December 23, until 4:30 a.m.
Tuesday, December 26. These
rates apply on calls to points in
the United States, Canada, Alas-
ka, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico.
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Again America’s Public Health Enemy, the common
cold, is on the march. More than ever, during the treach-
erous weeks ahead, "colds” will strike to undermine the
health of the nation. "Colds” that result in a tremendous
loss of time, money and good health every winter season.
^’Colds’’ that pave the way for such serious illnesses as
pneumonia, bronchitis, sinus disease, influenza and
tuberculosis.
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A few years after the Civil War
some Indians who were being re-
moved from parts of the South to the
Indian Territory for their allotments
lost a. young Indian girl from the
tribe in Southwest Missouri. Some
think she ran away from the tribe
and became bewildered in the Ozark
Mountains. Anyway, a Mr. Young
who lived on the James River in
Christian County, Missouri, was
eating supper about sunset with his
family when one of the family dis-
covered a black-eyed, dusky-looking
girl peeping in at the door of the
kitchen.
The whole family became inter-
ested in the strange visitor who
couldn’t speak a word of English. Mr.
Young insisted by signs and gestures
for the girl to come in and eat sup-
per. She did so.
When bedtime came Leona
family gave her that name) retired
with the family. Next morning
Leona shyly moved around the place,
apparently looking for her people.
They never came and she became a
member of the Young family.
She learned household duties read-
ily, and often went to the field and
did work as the other children of the
Young family.
Leona grew to womanhood. She,
of course, could find no place in the
community for social pleasures. She
was dark, with beautiful black hair
and a figure as trim as a deer. What
could she do? Here is what she did:
There was in that community a
highly respected colored boy reared
by white people. This negro was in-
dustrious and had accumulated prop-
erty. All the white people respected
him, but there was a social barrier
he could not help and which he ac-
cepted without any resentment.
Leona and this young negro were
thrown together quite often and in
the course of time an attachment
grew between them.
One a negro, the other an Indian,
two races very dissimilar. The In-
dian lives in song and story. The
poor Indian lived in his wigwam,
hunted and fished and was happy.
The nego was taken from his nativity
by Dutch slave traders and sold to
the white people of the North and
South. Here is a remnant of the two
races thrown together by accident.
What must they do? Here is what
they did:
One beautiful spring morning
when birds were singing and the
air was full of the perfume of apple
blossoms, Sam and Leona rode
horseback to a justice of the peace
and were married. There was no law
prohibiting such a marriage under
the laws of Missouri.
From this Indian girl and
grew a large family of boys
girls, none of which were ever
cused of wrong-doing by anybody.
They owned their own home and
raised fine horses and mules with
which they cultivated the land. Each
of these boys had a saddle horse and
a fine saddle. I have seen two or
three of these boys riding abreast
along the highway, sitting erect on
their steeds, and I would stop and
think about their parents and how
nicely they took their places in the
community, willingly separating
themselves from the rade they
knowleldged as their superiors.
For honesty and integrity the
members of this negro family were
A-l. I am sorry, indeed, that the
family name has left me. I have tried
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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN, WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
Thursday, December 21, 1939,
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Doss, Glenn. The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 21, 1939, newspaper, December 21, 1939; Whitewright, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1230682/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Whitewright Public Library.