The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 26, 1937 Page: 6 of 8
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Thursday, August 26, 1937.
THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN, WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
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WASHING
and
GREASING
APRIL 19,1775
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THE ECHO
Matrimonial Tangle
Stuteville
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A SILENT
SALESMAN
—percolate six cups of delicious coffee
toast eight slices of bread
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provide four hours of electric refrigeration
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bake two golden-brown waffles
week’s mixing, whipping and juice-extracting
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Seriousness In
Cotton Situation
Is Described
—have it done where it
will be done right!
Pensions Bill May Be
20 Billions in 1996
We have the only high-
pressure washing equip-
ment in town—it will cut
the mud and grease from
the part of your car that
ordinary washing does not
attempt.
A G'tizen and
a Taxpayer
UNBREAKABLE
SPECTACLES
IN PROSPECT
Sinclair Products
“The Kind the Navy Uses”
Advertisements will set readers to thinking and
result'' in the sale of merchandise that they had no
idea of buying or needing before reading the adver-
tisement.
It is also a message of good will on the part of the
advertiser, a perpetual greeting to the community
served.
THE SHOT
HEARD TOW©
THE WORLD
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Service Station
Phone 19
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THE
FIRST
GESTURE
WESTMINISTER*
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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN
“There’s No Substitute for a Newspaper”
Prayers at Night
Little Jackie—“What are prayers,
Mummy?”
Mother—“Why, they’re little mes-
sages to God, son.”
Jackie—“Why do we always have
to send them at night — to get the
cheaper rates?”
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PAGE SIX
ENTERTAINMENT^-^
Notice
(7) According to the U. S. Grade
and Staple Report for 1936 to 1937, in
the blackland area where about one-
third of the cotton in Texas is pro-
duced and which not many years ago
was noted for such good staple cot-
ton that if the bale had a bill of lad-
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SERVICE
U COMPANYr
Our greasing service is
as near perfect as we
know how to make it. We
grease all the usual places
and a lot of other places
that are often overlooked.
ments also may be molded out of the
unbreakable material. “Before long
every schoolboy will be able to have
camera,” Koch de
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by) KM M©©ir®
do a
Yes . . a penny’s worth of electricity will bring you two whole hours
of radio entertainment. And one cent spent electrically will also —
For the business with goods or service to sell, the
newspaper becomes a department in its organization
because it is a medium of primary importance in
getting the knowledge of products and service ren-
dered before the public.
THE F1RSVBLOOD 5HED IN THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION WAS THAT
OF WM.FRENCH, AN AMERICAN,
WWWA5WLLED BY A BRITISH
SOLDIER.MARCH 12,1775. IN
WESTMINISTER,MASSACHUSETTJ.
his Tomb in The church yard of a
WESTMINISTER CHURCH QUAINTLY
STATE 5-
"IN MEMORY OF Wm.FRENCH WHO WMTWor
AT WESTMINISTER MARCH YE 12+’>,'1775,
BY THE HAND OF CRUEL MINI5TERIAL TOOLS
OF GEORGE YE AT THE. COURT-HOUSE.
AT II O'CLOCK AT NIGHT IN THE 22noYEAR
OF HIS AGE.’
Because, with the frequency of publication, the
advertiser is able to keep his message before the
prospetive purchaser with a reiteration which offsets
the tendency to forget.
The advertisement is a silent salesman, telling its
story to thousands and reminding the readers of
products and services that they in time will need if
they do not need them when they read the adver-
tisement.
FIRST BLOOD
REVOLUTION NOT
SHED AT BOSTON.
NEW YORK.—Unbreakable spec-
tacles will soon be available to every
American, it was recently predicted
by Peter Koch de Gooreynd, Anglo-
Belgian inventor, who demonstrated
to American physicists and optical
experts a new process for molding
optical lenses from a transparent
plastic which was recently introduced
in England.
“Optical experts told me that two
out of ten Americans today wear
spectacles for reading or for correct-
ing sight defects and seven out of ten
need them but cannot afford them.
Even in modern England, many
school children used to suffer be-
cause their parents could not afford
to buy them needed glasses.”
Koch de Gooreynd pointed out that
this difficulty will be overcome by
the plastic lenses since it will be pos-
sible to turn them out by the thou-
sand from a single optical mold,
eliminating the long and expensive
grinding and polishing which each
glass lens today undergoes.
Lens grinding companies estimated
that 400 standard lenses will correct
60 pei’ cent of all eye defects, so that
the inventor will have to prepare at
least 400 dies ground to 1-500,000 of
an inch.
Camera lenses, range finders, bi-
Lef- ' noculars and other optical instru-
fra
One of the strangest matrimonial
mix-ups on record is reported from
Pittsburgh, Pa. Two years ago John
Murphy and Frances Jones wanted
to get married, but on account of
Murphy’s youthful appearance he
feared to apply for a marriage li-
cense, so a friend named Leffingwell
volunteered to secure the coveted
document in Murphy’s name, which
was done.
To complete the good turn,
his own candid
Gooreynd said.
“When it was suggested to me
New York that I also turn out
breakable monocles for London’s
clubmen, I thought it a topping idea,”
the inventor pointed out, “except for
the fact that Englishmeen have prac-
tically given up wearing them.
“Monocles belong to an earlier day
when the man of leisure in London
.could fix his expression with his
monocle in the morning and not
move an eyelid all day long. All that
has changed.”
(McKinney Examiner)
County Farm Agent is mailing Col-
lin County cotton growers this week
a letter containing the principal
points brought out at the recent Col-
lin County Cotton Improvement
meeting here July 23.
The farm agent explains that he is
sending these letters out to growers
of the staple in this county “due to
the seriousness of the cotton situation
in Texas.”
Because of its importance, these
Editors are publishing, below, Agent
McCullough’s letter in full, in the be-
lief that it will cause an awakening
of the producers to the situation as it
really exists here and in other Tex-
as Counties. The letter follows:
—or vacuum clean two room-size rugs
fingwell also went through the mar-
riage ceremony with Miss Jones, rep-
resenting himself to be Murphy, then
turned the happy bride over to
Murphy and called it a day.
Later on, meditating, no doubt,
over his friend’s happiness, Leffing-
well took unto hmiself a bride of his
own, but their matrimonial bark soon
went upon the rocks of incompati-
bility and a divorce was the result.
Meditating again, Leffingwell was re-
minded that he had really been mar-
ried to the supposed Mrs. Murphy,
confronted her with the fact, and
suggested that she fly with him. She
flew. Tiring of wedded life a second
time, Leffingwell flew again, but
alone. In the meantime Murphy has
also, disappeared.
Now Mrs. Murphy, or it may be
Mrs. Leffingwell, if either, finds her-
self in a predicament and is asking
these questions: Has she a husband
at all? Or has she two? Of if only
one, which? And why?—Ex.
Alert and fader H
To ServeYou Jli
Dear Cotton Grower:
Due to the seriousness of the cotton
situation in Texas I am mailing to
you, who could not attend the recent
meeting held in this county, (on the
subject of better quality of cotton)
the principal points brought out at
our Collin County Cotton Improve-
ment meeting held in Collin County
July 23, 1937.
The information below are facts
and you need not doubt them. They
are furnished by E. A. Miller, Exten-
sion Agronomist, A. & M. College.
(1) The cotton situation in Texas
is more serious than most people
realize. This important crop from
which over half of the farm income
is derived has been taken for granted
too long by farmers and business in-
terests.
(2) Exports are still declining.
From August 1, 1936, to August 1,
1937, they were again over half a
million bales less than in the pre-
vious year.
(3) The United States exported
only about five and one-half million
bales during the.past season in spite
of the record breaking foreign con-
sumption of 22,000,000 bales and as
compared with 9% million bales in
1913, when foreign countries
sumed only 16,000,000 bales.
(4) This vitally concerns Texas
farmers because about 90 pei’ cent of
Texas cotton has to be exported and
sold in competition with foreign
countries. Just think for a moment
what will happen to our cotton mar-
ket if consumption of cotton de-
creases in foreign countries, which is
likely to happen.
(5) Foreign countries have not
only increased cotton production tre-
mendously, but at the same time
greatly improved the quality through
government supervision until now it
averages better than Texas cotton in
many counties. Last year foreign
countries produced 17% million bales
as compared with only 9 million in
1913.
(6) Foreign competition is staring
us square in the face and nothing
should be left undone to meet it. Ac-
cording to importers in Europe and
exporters in this country, it is neces-
sary that Texas farmers produce cot-
ton at least as good, or if possible of
better, staple than foreign countries
if they wish to maintain a large ex-
port market.
-—or operate an electric fan two and one-half hours
19. i~za>
* Surrender of Corn wauu at vorkto^•
There’s no getting around it—the money you spend for electricity gives you more
honest-to-goodness value—more comfort and convenience-—than any other money
you spend. There is scarcely a household task that electricity will not perform for
pennies or fractions of pennies. And remember this—while other things have been
going up the cost of electricity has been coming down. You get more electricity
for your money now than ever before in history.
According to a Washington press
dispatch Congressional leaders, view-
ing the first signs of an impending
World War veteran’s pension on-
slaught on Congress, fear that the
movement may gain sufficient
strength next session to merit com-
mittee consideration, and agree that
it might become sufficiently strong
within a few years to saddle the na-
tion with a system that might even-
tually cost an .estimated $20,000,000,-
000 by 1996.
The House this session turned
down a proposal to pay $60 a month
to every veteran of the World War
who reaches 65 years of age without
regard to his needs or physical dis-
ability.
The vote was on an amendment to
a bill, which was passed by the
House and sent to the.Senate, grant-
ing $60-a-month pension to all vet-
erans of the Spanish-American War.
The. effect of the precedent the
House set in establishing for the
first time in the nation’s history, the
matter of age as a pension factor was
not lost upon leaders of Congress
and upon members who fear they
might soon be called upon to vote on
a serious attempt to establish pen-
sions for the nearly 4,000,000 surviv-
ing veterans of the World War.
The Veterans’ Administration esti-
mated that the cost of $60-a-month
pensions to World War veterans
would be more than $20,000,000,000.
It furnished figures showing that
there are now 12,929 veterans of the
last war who are 65 or over. This
number, the administration esti-
mated, would increase to 15,652 next
year and would grow to 2,213,841 in
1962. Thereafter, the number would
diminish, until 1996, when the last
remaining veteran might cost the
Government $699 for his pension.—
Exchange.
——or light a 60-watt globe for two and one-half hours
ing on it from Texas, it brought a
premium of several dollars on Euro-
pean markets, this area now has the
following pathetic record:
Out of a total production of 942,-
400 bales in the blackland area, 57,-
500 bales were less than 7/8 staple,
Which is so short that this cotton can-
not be delivered on future contracts
in accordance with the Government
Cotton Futures Act. It is a drag on
the market and hurts the whole cot-
ton industry. The only reason why
some spinners still buy it is because
they can get it at a big discount. In
addition, there were 410,400 bales
produced in the same area in 1936,
with only 7/8 and 29-32 inch staple,
in the face of the fact that 15/16 to 1
inch and better staple is in larger de-
mand and which we sorely need to
meet the serious foreign competition;
and also in spite of the fact that the
experimental results at the State Ex-
periment Station at Temple and the
U. S. Cotton Station at Greenville
show that the better staple cotton has
made the highest average yield.
Only 402,200 bales were of 15/16 and
31/32 inch staple; 72,300 bales or
only 7.6 per cent were of inch or bet-
ter staple. This was less than the
state average of 10.9 per cent of inch
or better cotton in comparison with
43 per cent for the U. S. as a whole.
(8) With so much short and mixed
staple, is it any wonder that we are
continually losing our foreign mar-
kets and that now many spinners are
discriminating against Texas cotton
by specifying in their orders that “no
cotton from Texas be included in the
sale?”
(9) In contrast with this the
southeastern and western cotton
states have made such improvement
in quality cotton production that now
Texas and Oklahoma find themselves
at the bottom of the list in both acre
yields and production of good staple
cotton.
(10) It stands to reason that Texas
farmers can not longer afford to sit
idly by but they need to get together
in self defense, and co-operate by
growing only one good variety of
cotton in a community or county,
thereby keeping the seed pure and
producing fiber of more uniform
staple and character which is the
kind cotton mills and automobile tire
manufacturers demand. This method
makes it possible to establish better
market relations and to meet foreign
competition more effectively.
((1) Cooperation is the keynote of
success and is absolutely necessary in
a cotton-improvement program.
(12) All prejudices as to varieties
should be laid aside and committees
should be appointed to community
on the basis of results of Experiment
Station variety tests both as to yield
and marketability. Farmers should
not be misled by gin turn-out but
should base a variety on profits per
acre when sold on its merits instead
of on hog-round basis. When farm-
ers co-operate on a community or
county basis in growing a variety
with good staple, they can sell their
cotton to better advantage than when
so many different lengths and
strength are grown in the same com-
munity and all get mixed up.
(13) The plan is to start with one
or two of the most likely communi-
ties in each county and organize
them on a one variety basis to in-
crease the seed purchased from the
breeders and make it available for
distribution to other communities in
the county at a small amount above
oil mill prices, thereby making a
large amount of pure seed available
to replace the gin-run seed which is
now being planted. If registered
seed is planted the progeny would be
subject to certification by the State
Seed and Plant Board under certain
regulations. By this method, there
would be enough pure seed available
in each county in two or three years
to replace the gin-run seed. The one
or two foundation communities re-
ferred to above would in turn buy
new seed each year from the breed-
ers, with the small increase above oil
mill price they receive for their seed,
thereby keeping up the purity.
(14) At Coupland in Williamson
County the farmers who grew one
variety exclusively last season, all
ginned at one gin, produced an aver-
age of 26 more pounds of lint per
acre and received an average of $4.00
per bale more than the farmers in
the same community who planted a
number of different varieties and
ginned same on another gin. They
also sold their pure seed to other
communities for 20 cents a bushel
above oil mill price, and then with
this small bonus bought new regis-
tered seed which they planted this
season. A good deal of their seed
even went to Mexico.
(15) Proper ginning is also very
important in quality cotton produc-
tion. No cotton should ever be gin-
ned while wet or damp as such cot-
ton will be gin-cut, which is even
worse than mixing varieties. This
practice greatly lowers the price of
the cotton and helps to ruin the rep-
utation of Texas cotton.
(16) In other words haphazard
methods must be discarded and in
their stead cotton production and
marketing must be studied like any
other big business in which every
important step such as soil improve-
ment, good cultural methods, good
seed, seed treatment, and proper har-
vesting, should be included to reduce
the cost of production. Then by all
means a variety for the community
should be selected on yield and mar-
ket demand and ginned dry. All of'
this leads to more profitable cotton
production.
(17) The cotton farmers of Texas
now have their choice of either con-
tinuing with the present method of
planting nearly every known variety
of cotton in a corhmunity or county,
thereby losing their markets and hav-
ing to plant less and less cotton from
year to year, or of meeting the for-
eign competition with quality cotton
production on a one variety basis and
thereby at least maintain, or if pos-
sible increase, exports. Remember
that 90 per cent of Texas cotton has
to be sold on foreign markets.
(18) Which course will
choose?
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