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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN, WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
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TUNGSTEN
Ernest Lilley, Manager
Denison, Texas
Believes in That
Which He Preaches
How Many Texas
Cities Have Served
As the Capital?
Wendell L. Willkie, Republican candidate for pres-
ident, paid Texas a visit Tuesday. He spoke in Amar-
illo Tuesday morning. He was given a big reception,
the kind Texans give a visitor, but on election day in
November it will be a different kind of reception. The
Vote will be about four to one for Roosevelt in Texas.
Entered at the Whitewright, Texas,
postoffice as 2nd class mail matter.
According to reports, the Whitewright section will
make as good cotton crop this year as last, and the corn
crop is said to be better than last year. Well, both were
good last year.
The big Texas State Fair will soon be the talk of the
day. Every Texan should attend it. October 5th is
opening day for the big fair.
LEVEE DISTRICT TAXES
SET IN FANNIN COUNTY
PET SUPERSTITIONS
CONCERNING MONEY
You can depend on us to give
your car the attention it needs
to keep it performing perfectly.
You get top quality products as
well as the best service here, at
no extra cost.
When a man will spend $10,000 to
tell the world the principles he stands
for and why, that is pretty good evi-
dence that he really believes in what
he says. A New York business man,
Sidney Hollaender, has done just
that. He has bought the advertising
space on the back cover of the New
From all hurts the living fear,
From all pain the flesh must bear,
Goes the spirit, leaving here
Just the robe it used to wear.
By Edgar A. Guest
This the gate which all must pass.
This the end of every skill;
This the final prayer and mass
When the pulse of life is still.
This the close of hurt and pain,
This the end of feverish strife;
This the way by which men gain
Triumph o’er the ills of life!
This the end of earthly show,
Pomp and power and creed
caste,
This the gate through which men go
To the God of all at last.
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Subscription Price, $1.50 Per Year,
Payable in Advance.
Gorgeous creations in felts, vel-
vets, failles. Black and smart
colors.
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LIFE EXPECTANCY
OF BUSINESS
J. H. Waggoner______________Publisher
Glenn Doss_________Managing Editor
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2 Tall Cans For
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MORGAN
FOOD STORE
PHONE 35
Survey Shows All
Buyers Pay Taxes
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G. C. STUTEVILLE
Service Station
Phone 19
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Meet Your Friends at
Childress Pharmacy
R. P. Childress, Manager
We Feature the
Masterpiece
Line of Quality
School Supplies
SHEAFFER’S
Skrip Ink
and
Skrip Grip
SHEAFFER
FOUNTAIN PENS
$1.00 to $10.00
Other Pens, 25c to $1.00
SIRLOIN Lb.
Steak 19c
Sour or Dill Quart
Pickles. 10c
Scrap Sliced Lb.
Bacon 10c
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NOTICE: All notices of entertain-
ments, box suppers and other bene-
fits, where there is an admission fee
©r other monetary consideration, will
be charged for at regular advertising
rates. Memorials, resolutions of re-
spect, etc., also will be charged for.
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hair
copper
Erase Footprints
Long capes are worn by the wom-
en of Northern Africa to erase their
footprints when walking through the
sand of the desert.
It is generally agreed among tax experts that sales
taxes are among the least desirable of taxes, and
way. The reason, of course, is that nearly every cent
ought never to be imposed unless there is no other
collected through them is a direct deduction from pur-
chasing power, and that they fall with unfair heavi-
ness on those whose income is smallest.
Thus it is interesting to note, as the Federatoin of
Tax Administrators have done, that Louisiana is the
eighth sttae to abandon them. New York, Vermont,
New Jersey, Idaho, Kentucky, Maryland, and Oregon
preceded Louisiana in abandoning state sales taxes
after trial. Louisiana went further, and rescinded the
authority granted to New Orleans to levy a municipal
sales tax.
Widespread sales taxes were a child of the depres-
sion. To see them gradually being abandoned at a
time when the national government faces tremendous
arms expenditures, is a cheering sign that states are
doing their share by making the state tax burden less
onerous when hte national burden is bound to grow.—
Exchange.
Best Y ett
Salad Dressing
Pint Quart
17c 29c
CHALLENGER
Salad Dressing, 1 On
Quart ........................ 1 Ou
COOKING Peck
Apples 35c
affecting every citizen. It was important that every-
one should at least have the opportunity of listening to
what he said. Realizing this, the various broadcasting
systems cut the football game off the air and gave it to
Mr. Wallace.
The squawk from some of the press, particularly
from the newspaper that sponsored the football game,
was astounding. And a fair sized cross-section of the
public chimed in. At a time when this country faces
possible invasion, loss of freedom, or both, it was ap-
parent that many people were more interested in the
outcome of a football game that did not even affect a
championship than upon the words of a man who
might sometime become President of this nation.
This certainly proves that the United States is dem-
ocratic—that no politician can force the people to lis-
ten to him. It is good that this is so. On the other
hand, it would be better for the country if more per-
sons were interested in what is going on in the political
world, even if that interest caused them to neglect
football and other sports.
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75c 1.35
Fitted, furred tweeds that look
twice $29.95! Dressmaker tail-
ored in new side-tie, princess or
belted styles . . . they’ll keep
you warm and “dressed up”
looking through Winter! Glori-
ous striped, multicolor tweeds,
fleeces . . . hurry for yours!
Henry Wallace, candidate for Vice President on the
Democratic ticket, picked the wrong night for his ac-
ceptance speech. It was the same one the professional
football champs administered a sound licking to a
picked team of amateur all-Americans.
Mr. Wallace had a message of vital importance to
the American people. He spoke for his party on issues
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Come in and see the big-
gest display of School
Supplies in Whitewright!
BONHAM. — The Commissioners
Court has set a tax rate of 71c for
levee improvement districts on Bois
d’Arc and Sulphur Creeks. The Fan-
nin County tax rate had already been
set at the same figure.
The court also considered the idea
of building a new jail since the pres-
ent structure has been condemned by
more than one grand jury.
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Wendell L. Willkie, Republican candidate for
president, has a strong supporter in The Austin Daily
Tribune. The Tribune is published by J. M. West of
Houston, and is now in its second year. Mr. West was
appointed a member of the State Highway Commis-
sion by Governor O’Daniel, but the Senate refused to
confirm his appointment. One reason given by mem-
bers of the Sentae for its action was that Mr. West
contributed $20,000 to the Landon campaign four years
ago and that he was not a Democrat. Soon after, Mr.
West established The Tribune, and is now having
erected a $400,000 building one block south of the
Governor’s mansion and the newspaper plant will be
moved into the building as soon as it is completed.
Mr. West is said to be worth more than $200,000,000
and is considered the wealthiest man in the Southwest.
If the advertising patronage is not large enough to
meet the payroll each Saturday, Mr. West can draw on
his bank roll without making a dent in it. That is a
happy position for a newspaper publisher to be in. •
Any erroneous reflection upon the
character, standing or reputation of
any person, firm or corporation that
may appear in the columns of The
Whitewright Sun will be gladly and
fully corrected upon being brought to
the attention of the publisher.
Tungsten is a very heavy, very
hard, heat-resisting and acid-resist-
ing metal. In its natural form it is
found in two different ores, wolfram
and scheelite. One or the other of
these ores is produced in Southern
England, Brittany, Spain and Portu-
gal; in Rhodesia, China, Japan, Bur-
ma and Australia, and in Canada,
Argentina, Peru and Bolivia, as well
as the Untied States. Our own de-
posits are chiefly in Nevada, Colora-
do, California and Texas.
Although its existence and proper-
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AUSTIN.—How many of the eight
capitals of the Republic of Texas can
you name?
If you’re a demon at Texas history,
maybe you can answer this tough
one, posed by University of Texas
librarians. Their records show that
not only eight cities were at one time
or another state capital, but that the
government seat bounced around be-
tween them 11 times in 10 years.
It was in San Felipe, in 1835, that
the settlers of Texas, under the lead-
ership of Stephen F. Austin, set up
their first independent government.
Sam Houston was made commander-
in-chief of the regular army.
At Washington-on-the-B r a z o s,
March 2, 1836, a general convention
drew up the Texas Declaration of In-
dependence. The Texas government
was in session there when the Alamo
fell four days later.
Harrisburgh . came next. Later in
March it was made capital, evacuated
and burned by Mexicans who were so
close on the heels of the flying gov-
ernment that they fired at provision-
al President David G. Burnet, escap-
ing by boat to Galveston.
In May, the government
from Galveston to Velasco,
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Texas first became an independent
nation under provisions of the treaty
with defeated Santa Anna.
By October, the capital was
lumbia, in Brazoria County, and by
May, 1937, Houston, which had just I
been laid out. There it remained un-
til October, 1839, when it was moved
to Austin.
When Mexico again invaded Tex-
as, in March, 1842, President Houston
moved the capital once again to
Houston, and from there once more
to Washington-on-the-Brazos in No-
vember, University library records
show. But in 1845 it was returned to
Austin, and a popular election in
1872 made this city permanent site of
the state government.
What is the life expectancy of a-
business establishment in the United
i States of America?
Tables have been worked out by
actuaries as to the life expectancy of
the individual from birth on, and in-
surance premiums are based on these-
tables.
A few months back Dunn’s and
Bradstreet’s, Inc., released to the
public an interesting study on • the
age of business enterprises. Without
breaking down their data into the-
various classifications, which might
correspond to occupations among in-
dividuals in the life insurance writ-
ing, the information tells us that:
734 out of 1,000 businesses have ex-
isted more than 2 years.
549 out of 1,000 businesses
existed more than 5 years.
335 out of 1,000 businesses
existed more than 10 years.
83 out of 1,000 businesses have ex-
isted more than 25 years.
8 out of 1,000 businesses have ex-
isted more than 50 years.
ties have been known for more than
a century, a means of using tungsten
was found around 1900. Today the
metal plays a vital part in armament
manufacture. Because of its ability
to lend extreme hardness to steel,
tungsten is a valuable ingredient in
the breech blocks and riflings of
large guns, in armor platings and gun
shields and in armor-piercing shells.
Its most familiar employment is in
the filaments of electric light bulbs
and radio tubes, where its efficiency
saves consumers millions of dollars
annually. Its resistance to heat in
electric light bulbs, particularly those
of 200-candle power, is a scientific
marvel.
Although methods of extracting
tungsten from the ore were
veloped abroad, it remained for
D. Collidge of the
General Electric Laboratories — to
make it malleable. His research led
to a point where the originally com-
pletely unworkable substance could
be drawn out to a fineness of
sixth the diameter of a human
and with the strength of a
wire ten times its thickness.
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Most people have their own pet
superstitions about money, Dr. B. A.
Cartwright of the University of Okla-
homa found in compiling his collec-
tion of 12,000 pet beliefs—one of the
largest collections in the world.
Here are some samples from
files:
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Since 1920, more than 300,000 per-
sons have killed themselves in the
United States, and the latest avail-
able data indicates that the Far West
is currently the most suicidal part of
the land.
Such were some of the grim figures
being studied last week by both psy-
chiatrists and sociologists in an ef-
fort to throw more light on the ques-
tion of why people destroy them-
selves. Drawn up by the Division of
Vital Statistics of the U. S. Bureau of
Census, the figures covered the pe-
riod from 1920 to 1938 and revealed
these facts:
From 1920 to 1938—last year for
which a complete count is available—
a total of 300,580 persons killed
themselves.
There were 19,082 U. S. suicides in
1938, more than double the number
for 1920. The 1938 rate, representing
15.2 suicides per 100,000 population,
was the highest nationally since 1932,
when the total hit an all-time high of
17.2 per 100,000.
Regionally, the Pacific Coast states
have the highest suicide rates. Thus,
as against the national average of
15.2, California in 1938 had 30.5 sui-
cides per 100,000 population, Wash-
ington 26.8, and Oregon 21.5. By far
the lowest regional rates are in the
Southern States.
In actual number, New York led
all other states in 1938, with a total
of 2,248 suicides. California was sec-
ond, with 1,874; Pennsylvania third,
with 1,397; Ohio fourth, with 1,274;
and Illinois fifth, with 1,271. Nevada
had the least number—only 36—but
proportionately Nevada in 1938 was
the most suicidal state in the Union,
with a rate of 35.6 per 100,000 popu-
lation. The least sucidal was South
Carolina, with a rate fo 6.7.
He who eats apples on St. James’
Day will never want for money.
Ants in your yard are a
prosperity.
Leap year pennies bring good luck
and should be kept.
If you sweep after the lamps
lighted, you will sweep all
riches away.
Where there are many spiders
gathered on the ground indicates hid-
den treasure underneath the soil. If
a spider spins a web toward you, you
will receive money soon. To dream of
spiders is a sign you will receive
much money.
If you lose your job on Tuesday
you will marry money.
College girls eat oranges under the
bed in order to receive money from
home.
If you see a falling star and say
“money” three times before it is lost
to vision, you will find some money.
If you wear a garment that has a
hole in it on Christmas Day, you will
lose money.
If one wears his shoe soles only in
the middle, it is a sign he will be-
come wealthy.
If money is worn in the heel of a
bride’s shoe, wealth will attend her.
If your palm is very hollow, you
will some day be wealthy.
To drop a slice of bread, butter-
side down, is a sign that unexpected
money is coming to you.—Ex.
In recent years the number of
women elected to county offices in
Kansas has declined, but the number-
chosen for city offices has increased.
If there are still Texans who
lieve they manage to get by without
paying taxes, they should study the
report of a survey recently made in a
typical small town in the Middle
West. According to the Bulletin of
the Texas Manufacturers Association,
an investigation of purchases made
by citizens of this town revealed the
following:
Taxes take 15 cents of every dollar
spent for new automobiles.
Taxes take 13 cents of every dollar
spent for furniture.
Taxes take 35 cents of every dollar
spent for rent.
Taxes take 10 cents of every dollar
spent for wallpaper.
Taxes take 12 cents of every dollar
spent for movie tickets.
Taxes take three cents
dollar spent for insurance.
Taxes take 10 cents of every dollar
spent for women’s clothing.
Taxes take 12 cents of every dollai’
spent for men’s clothing.
Taxes take seven cents of
dollar spent for shoes.
Taxes take 12 cents of every dollar
spent for electricity, 15 cents of ev-
ery dollar for gas.
Taxes take six cents of every dollar
spent for bus fare.
Taxes take eight cents of every
dollar spent for meat, 18 cents every
dollar spent for sugar, 13 cents of ev-
ery dollar spent for matches, five
cents of every dollar spent for soap,
34 cents of every dollar spent for
beer, nine cents of every dollar spent
for vegetables, eight cents of every
dollar spent .for canned goods.
Taxes take 20 cents of every dollar
spent for proprietary medicines,
beauty preparations, or shaving
cream.
Taxes take 15 cents of every dollar
spent for bread.
Taxes take 11 cents of every dollar
spent for railroad fare.
Taxes take 15 cents of every dollar
paid on telephone bills.
Taxes take 10 cents of every dollar
spent for milk and dairy products.
Taxes take 37 cents of every dollar
spent for automobile upkeep.—The
Texas Weekly.
York classified directory to outline
his idea of the American way.
What he has printed is worth ev-
ery American’s serious attention. He
says:
“I like the American way. Why,
“Because I can go to any church I
please.
“I can read, see and hear
choose.
“I can express my opinion openly.
“My mail reaches me as it was
sent—uncensored.
“My telephone is untapped.
“I can join any political party
wish.
“I can vote for what and whom I
please.
“I have a constitutional right
trial by jury.
“I am prdtected against unconsti-
tutional search and seizure.
“Neither my life nor my property
can be forfeited without due process
of law.”—Pauls Valley Enterprise.
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Doss, Glenn. The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 19, 1940, newspaper, September 19, 1940; Whitewright, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1230903/m1/4/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Whitewright Public Library.