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'Thursday, June 1, 1939.
THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN, WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
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Work Makes Bread
Taste Sweeter
Prayers Said for
26 Men Lost in
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Judge—“You will not be permitted
to drive a car for two years. You are
a danger to pedestrians.
Defendant — “But, sir, my living
depends on it.”
Judge—“So does theirs.”
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President Roosevelt inherited his
money, says Lynn Landrum in his
Dallas News column. Well, some
people think that is better than get-
ting elected to office and then found-
ing a fortune by winning the lobby-
ists’ money in poker games.
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ALIQUIPPA, Pa.—Mario Izzo was
an humble street sweeper and his fu-
neral in potter’s field wasn’t much.
Townspeople thought it over and
gave him a second burial fitting for
a hero.
Passing of the 63-year-old Mario—
he was burned fatally when his bath-
robe caught fire—would have at-
tracted no attention whatever except
that he had been disclosed as an
unique personality.
This wizened, shabbily-clad man
swept Aliquippa streets but he wasn’t
a regular street sweeper. Someone
once asked him why he worked for a
$3.60 weekly relief check which he
could get for nothing.'
“You see,” he said, “they give me
money to live. So I keep this
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Dominating spire of beauty in the Gayway at the California
World’s Fair is this six story pagoda in the $1,200,000 Chinese
Village concession, a walled city of more than 4. acres of beauty
and the charm of Old Cathay.
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member of our group had his (or
her) name typed on a large badge.
I As we stood in the shadow of the
ancient, awe-inspiring Pyramid of the
Sun, a car radio started playing a
song and the tune was “Pop-Eye, the
Sailor Man.”
At the beautiful Floating Island, a
young Mexican selling hand-carved
leather billfolds called me “Mr.
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makes the trip by automobile, would
be wise to leave his car in storage
and use a taxi The fares are low: 20
cents for short distances; but the
main reason for this advice is the
terrific speed at which the automo-
biles travel. Cars dash along the
Paseo de la Reforma at 50 miles an
hour, miraculously missing dozens of
other autos, moving nearly as wildly,
at the cross streets. It seems incred-
ible that a machine could go through
such heavy traffic at such a speed
for even one block without a terrible
smash-up, yet this observer did not
see a single collision.
The bull-fighters see how close
they can let a bull’s horns come with-
out being struck—and pedestrians
engage in a similar pastime with the
automobiles. It is difficult, however,
for a visitor to feel nonchalant when
a car misses his hip-pocket by two
inches while another, from the oppo-
site direction, nearly trims his whis-
kers.
Busses (which have supplanted
street cars) have doors on both sides
—which was a good thing for one
PORTSMOUTH, N. H. — Prayers
for the 26 men lost in the tragic dive
of the new $4,000,000 submarine
Squalus were said in Portsmouth
churches Sunday while the Navy
worked with all possible speed to
raise the sunken sub.
Blessed with a clear sky and a
calm sea, a crew of the Navy’s best
divers kept on the job of readying
the Squalus for salvage. They faced
the fact, disclosed by a Navy officer,
that it would be at least a week—and
possibly longer—before the under-
sea craft and its grim cargo could be
brought up from its muddy bed 240
feet below the surface.
The Navy disclosed efforts to solve
the mystery of the fatal dive already
were under way. Lieut. Com. John
B. Longstaff said each survivor has
written his account of what happened
during the last dive of the Squalus.
President Roosevelt told the Navy
to go ahead and buy its canned corn
beef wherever it was best and cheap-
est. Immediately there was a terrific
onslaught on him for favoring a
South American product over what
the home packers put out. He was
accused of libeling the American cow
and there were impassioned speeches
in Congress, with dark prophecies
that the Democratic party had
thrown overboard the vote of the cat-
tle states, by giving the business to
Uruguay and the Argentine, for the
sake of getting the canned stuff at
nine cents $ pound against the 23
cents which the American square
•cans would cost.
As a mater of fact, the American
cow is not being libeled. Her meat
goes into steaks and roasts and hot
■dogs—only the meagre remnants left
■when practically every saleable bit
has been sold—goes into the cans.
Down yonder, on the other hand, they
have so many cattle, and so sparse a
steak and roast consumers market,
that pretty much all of the cow or
steei- goes into the brine, which is
why, for example, it was discovered
that in the Senate restaurant only
South American corned beef was on
the menu.
It is not a mater of great impor-
tance, politically or otherwise. If the
President had told the Navy to buy
the Chicago or Kansas City product,
he would have been just as bitterly
assailed for extravagance in wasting
the people’s money, and favoring the
packers, by paying them a triple
price for an inferior product, and
forcing our heroic Gobs to eat it, in
order to curry favor in the cow coun-
try.
Well, this being a political year, too
.much censure of the Republican def-
amations is perhaps not justified.
Some of their star-gazers, retained or
volunteer, see a mirage of G. O. P.
victory next year and realize that
“they have to discredit the Roosevelt
■adminisration to make their dream
■come true.
What the Orators Do Not Tell
Every time a Republican orator
opens his mouth he expresses his
horror of Roosevelt extravagance.
Directly we will come to the era of
statistics and the monumental fig-
ures will be presented, coupled with
shock that the President makes no
move toward cutting down the ex-
penses of administration and relief.
You will scan the Old Guard news-
papers in vain for any mention of the
circumstances that whenever he has
sought to cut expenses Congress has
boosted them. For example, in his
budget message he asked foi' $842,-
000,000 for the agricultural program;
approximately what the House of
Representatives appropriated. But
when it came to the Senate that body
hoisted the amount by nearly $400,-
000,000, and, lest the public attention
be directed to the individual senators
who boosted the appropriation—of
■course, without any thoughts about
the farm vote—they would permit no
record vote. They likewise carefully
abstained from providing any addi-
tional revenue to take care of the in-
crease.
In nothing are the critics of the
President, in and out of Congress,
more insistent than that he is carry-
ing on the government pay-rolls in-
numerable unnecessary officials, and
they protest that he must cut ex-
penses along that line. Yet the House
of Representatives the other day
voted an additional three-quarters
of a million dollars to provide each
member with one more clerk. They
had two, not counting the multitude
that appertain to the House’s half a
hundred committees, etc.
Whether the average, run-of-the-
mine representative needs another
secretarial assistant any more than
a third leg, as some not familiar
with congressional responsibilties
■seem to think, is beside the issue—
and perhaps involves the question
whether the up-building of his polit-
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ical machinery at home comes under
the head of public necessity. The
congressmen by viva voce vote have
determined that the increase in cler-
ical help is required, and that is the
end of the story.
Naturally, here, too, it was deemed
unnecessary to have a record vote, so
that the home finger could not be
pointed definitely at any individual
congressman.
And the President Is
Always Wrong
By and bye, the bills for these in-
creases have to be paid. There being
insufficient revenue provided, it
means much larger deficiency appro-
priations. This, in turn, means that
when the-anti-Administration orators
get on their hind legs next year, they
will point out that even the inordi-
nate sums budgetted for government-
al expenses have been ignored and
exceeded by a reckless administra-
tion.
Obviously the agricultural hike in
the Senate, and the secretarial hike
in the House must show up, either in
the form of a still larger national
deficit, or the imposition of higher
taxes to pay the bill.
Possibly by the time this letter is
published the House may have modi-
fied the agricultural increase. There
is no chance that the Senate will in-
terfere in the other matter, because
the comity between the two houses of
Congress precludes such interference.
Never yet has a Republican spokes-
man mentioned, in his denunciations
of the Administration’s failure to ap-
proach a budget balance, the billions
that figured in the deficit as a result
of congressional over-ruling of the
President’s veto of special appropria-
tions. Their’s the glory of helping a
numerous group with bonuses of va-
rious sorts; his the crime of the con-
sequences on the national balance
sheet!
What they forget is that the voting
population has learned something
about politics, and will understand
what lies in the campaign oratory of
the foes of Democracy.
His Hard Luck
“Mandy, I’ve heard about ;
hard luck. I’m terribly sorry.”
“Deed, ma’am, Ah ain’t had
hard luck.”
“But, your husband; wasn’t
killed in an accident yesterday?”
. “Yes, ma’am, but his hard luck ,not
mine.”
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AUSTIN.—Death moved in many
ways to claim the lives of 90 Texans
in April traffic crashes, a state police
analysis of last month’s toll revealed
today.
An oil field worker was killed and
his companion injured when their
car hit the curbing on an “island” in
front of the New London school.
In Beaumont, a man was fatally in-
jured when his motor-propelled bi-
cycle crashed as it failed to make a
curve.
In Port Arthur, a bystandei’ was
killed on the sidewalk when two
automobiles collided at an intersec-
tion. One of the cars was catapulted
onto the man.
A doctor died as he hastened on a
call. Excessive speed was blamed for
his car’s failure to make a slight
surve.
When its driver went to sleep, a
car hit a concrete bridge and crashed.
A passenger asleep on the back seat
never knew what, hit him.
A 19-year-old student, riding as a
passenger, was thrown from a car as
the machine left a curve, hurtled
across the ditch to the left of the
road, and overturned. The car land-
ed on the student’s neck, killing him
instantly. The seriously injured driv-
er lay in the wreckage two hours be-
fore help came.
Near Henderson, a driver had his
left arm hanging out the side window
when a passing truck, veering close
to the autombile, knocked the arm
off. The man died from loss of
blood, but the truck driver drove on.
He didn’t know what had happened.
Near Seguin, a driver and his pas-
senger were trapped in ten feet of
water when their car ran off a curve
and skidded into the river. The
driver freed himself and came to the
surface. His friend’s body was re-
covered.
Headon into a bunch of mules and
horses traveled a car on a West Tex-
as road, killing two mules and frac-
turing a rider’s leg. Then the left
door of the machine was thrown open
and the driver struck the pavement.
He died there.
In South Teyas, a Mexican pedes-
trian, caught between two lines of
traffic, became confused, jumped
back to avoid a car and toppled over,
fracturing his skull on the pave-
ment. He was 90 years old.
Thrifty
The cat was being pursued by
Patrick around and around the kitch-
en. A sudden turn in the chase
landed it “kerplunk” into the crock
containing the pancake batter. It
scrambled out barely in time to
escape a blow from the poker wielded
by Patrick, and shot out into the
yard.
“Lave the poor baste go,” begged
Biddy, seeking to make peace. “The
batter- ain’t hurt in the laste. Every
place he touched it has stuck to him.”
citizen who, hotly pressed by an auto,
put on a sprint and leaped on to a
bus through a door on the side that
doesn’t have one in the United
States, just in time to keep from be-
ing hit by the automobile. I shall al-
ways believe that he hadn’t intended
to get on the bus but did so for the
same reason that Brer Rabbit
climbed a tree when he was chased
by Brer Fox—he was just “obleeged”
to.
If you walk or ride—
If you eat or sleep—
If you listen to music
show—
If you wash your face, or shoot
gun—
If you write a letter, or make
salad—
If you are born, or die—
—You are using some of the prod-
ucts of cotton or cottonseed. So
varied and useful are the hundreds
of things that come from lint and
town I cottonseed that it would be almost
i to go
through a day without making use of
some products of the cotton plant.
Clothing made from cotton, and
shortening made from cotton seed oil
are recognized as products of the cot-
ton plant by most users, but it would,
probably, be difficult for the average
person to identify all of the products
included in the list of activities at
the beginning of this article. How-
ever, cotton and cottonseed contrib-
ute through their use in: Shoes,
automobiles, airplanes, feeding horses
and mules, sheets, foods, phonograph
records, motion picture films, soap,
gunpowder, ink and paper, salad oils
and dressing, babies’ clothing, and
caskets.
Americans, and especially South-
westerners, have an opportunity to
aid cotton growers during National
Cotton Week and throughout the
yeai* by using more of the cotton and
cottonseed products.
AUSTIN.—A new method of rais-
ing wild turkey under semi-natural
conditions being tested by the Game,
Fish and Oystei' Commission may
prove the way to the stocking of
many sections of Texas with the big
game birds.
In cooperation with the United
States Soil Conservation Service and
the U. S. Farm Security Administra-
tion the Game Department has
fenced a 50-acre tract in the heart of
the Fannin County land rehabilita-
tion project area near Bonham.
Forty-eight wild turkey trapped in
Southwest Texas were released in
the enclosure after their wings had
been clipped.
Wild turkey do not thrive in pens,
but it is believed that under the
semi-natural conditions they have
found in the 50-acre tract they will
prosper and propagate. A number of
the hens have already nested. The
birds are being given some food, but
are foraging for most of their nour-
ishment.
When the young birds hatched
the area grow older it
they will fly over the
older birds, when their wing feathers
have grown out, will also leave the
huge pen and will populate the sur-
rounding territory.
Should the experiment prove suc-
cessful it will be repeated in several
areas of the state which provide the
natural environment conducive to
raising wild turkey.
clean like table. It makes my bread impossible for any American
taste sweeter. I am a man.”
Something about old Mario lived
even aftei’ his few friends buried him
in lonely potter’s field last March.
Townspeople missed this familiar
figure going about doing the things
he thought ought to be done.
They raised a fund, exhumed
Mario’s body and gave him a burial
in St. Joseph’s Cemetery with honors
they thought he deserved. More than
700 attended the rites.
The final resting place of this hum-
ble street sweeper is unmarked but
townspeople hope to erect a memo-
rial next August. Indications are old
Mario’s own words will form the
epitaph—
“It (work) makes my bread taste
sweeter. I am a man.”
By Boyce House
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Random .reflections regarding Old
Mexico:
Two Spanish words are almost all
that the traveler needs—“Cuanto?”
which means “How much?” and
“Gracias,” which means “Thanks.”
Incidentally, when this pilgrim
brought his Spanish into action for
the first time since high school days,
several in our Lions’ group who did i House.” How he knew my name puz-
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Spanish is so good that we
derstand it”—rather a doubtful com-
pliment.
Prices are quite reasonable
Mexico City. A heaping bowl of the
largest and most luscious strawber-
ries you ever ate, with a pitcher of
cream so rich it will hardly pour,
costs eight cents in American money
in La Reforma Hotel coffee shop;
and you can obtain a large glass of
thick, pulpy, flavorsome orange juice
(not diluted and syruped as in our
drug stores) for a dime. A daily
newspaper is seven centavos (about
a cent and a half) and there is an
English, language section but the
news therein is of a rather miscella-
neous, not to say, sketchy nature. A
shine is 15 centavos.
In fact, prices that were at
almost absurdly low nearly
one member of the group embarrass-
ment. As he and a lady left La Re-
forma for the dinner-dance ten-
dered by the Mexico Ciy Lions, a
street vendor offered a bouquet of
gardenias. In the United States (so I
have heard) gardenias are a dollar
each. He purchased the flowers and
his companion, who was bare-
headed, placed them in her hair; it
looked as though a cluster of white
butterflies had alighted there. All
evening, she thanked him for the
bouquet. (She did not speak Span-
ish—the flowers cost 50 centavos or
10 cents, American money).
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