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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN, WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
Thursday, October 29, 1936.
Shall Large Cities Control the Legislature?
Map showing concentration of Legislative Power.
Should big cities control the State?
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Oddities of the
Election
WHOOPING COUGH
CONTROL NEEDED
The sound of the saw and the hammer is heard
again, now that the Better Housing Program encour-
ages homeowners to make needed repairs and thus
safeguard and increase the value of their property.
Our lumber yard has never been so perfectly and
generously equipped to fill every possible need in
our line.
Whatever your Insurance re-
quirements, we can take care of
them with DEPENDABLE pro-
tection — protection that pays
legitimate claims promptly.
You are invited to consult us
about your Insurance problems,
without obligation.
Our Insurance Service covers
every phase of Insurance—Fire,
Windstorm, Plate Glass, Hail,
Rain, Life, Accident, Automo-
bile, Public Liability, Livestock,
Health, Farm—in sound stock
companies.
Should territories in
Texas equivalent in size
to states like New York,
New Hampshire and Con-
necticut have practically
no Representatives???
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oleic
You can avoid this trouble and expense by using
long-leaf kiln-dried pine for the frame work of your
brick veneer home. It is scientifically seasoned in
dry kilns. It will hold its shape and size after being
put into the house because its moisture content has
been reduced to that of the atmosphere.
Unless the lumber going into the frame work is
properly seasoned, it will dry out in the house. As it
drys it will shrink, causing joints to open, joists, sills
and studs to twist, partitions to get out of plumb.
When these things happen the brick veneer cracks
and pulls away from window and door sills, causing
expensive repairs and alterations.
If you sawed a brick veneer house in two, you
would find that it IS ACTUALLY a wooden house,
and that the brick around the outside of the house is
JUST what it says .... veneer.
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CORN ON THE COB,
WITH ZIPPERS! IT’S
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Insurance Agency
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Whitewright Lumber Co.
“Neighborly Service”
Paints, Varnishes
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in this section our bakery prod-
ucts are welcome on the dinner
tables. Why? Because oui’ bread
tastes so good. The variety of
breads will tempt your appetite!
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the limit for a county is seven mem-
bers; in Georgia and Florida, three
members; in Iowa, two members, and
other states have similar restrictions
based on geographic and territorial
considerations.
“Our forefathers wrote it into the
Federal Constitution that the Presi-
dent and Vice-President of the
United States should not come from
the same state. They opposed con-
centration of power — and Amend-
ment No. 6 proposes to do the same
thing in Texas.
“The United States Supreme Court
in 1952 held in a clear-cut decision
that congressional districts need not
even be approximately equal in pop-
ulation. County commissioners pre-
cincts, city commissioners precincts,
judicial districts, school districts, and
many other sub-divisions created for
legislative purposes, are not laid out
on a population only basis, but usual-
ly with an eye to giving each section
or community fair representation.
Geographic and territorial considera-
tions play an important part in shap-
ing the aforementioned districts, and
should likewise be considered in lay-
ing out representative districts,
stead of using population alone.
What Amendment Proposes
Amendment No. 6—last on the No-
vember ballot—was passed for sub-
6 is
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Constitution,
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Peru’s Yellow Lighting
One hundred forty 10,000-lumen
sodium luminaires will be installed
by the government of Peru along the
concrete highway running between
the cities of Lima and Callao. The
units are to be in operation by Nov.
15 for the presidential inauguration.
The “golden light” units have been
furnished by General Electric and
will replace early parabolic nested
highway lighting units supplied by
the company some years ago.
Electric eye, or photoelectric equip-
ment, will be used to turn on the new
lights when natural daylight falls be-
low a predetermined level, and turn
them off at daybreak.
All roads leading to and surround-
ing the British Empire Exposition at
Johannesburg, South Africa, also are
now lighted at night with 150 golden
light units.
Modernization means making old houses more val-
uable, livable and architecturally charming ... it
also means adding rooms or sun porches . .. . re-
modeling attics and basements into useful rooms.
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The wide variation in cotton seed
prices at gins and mills is one evi-
dence of a fact which seldom receives
its full share of consideration—the
fact that the South’s cotton seed crop
is sold by growers who know nothing
of cotton seed grades to buyers who
in many cases know little more, tt
would mean a great deal to Southern
farmers to be able to sell seed on a
quality basis.
These facts effectively brought out
in an article in The Progressive
Farmer, which adds a plea for new
legislation as follows:
“In order to make it possible to
buy seed on a quality basis, the U. S.
Department of Agriculture has de-
veloped a system of official standards
for grading seed—a system perfected
after years of study and checking the
results of chemical tests of the seed
against the worth of the products ac-
tually turned out by the mills.
“With the official grading system
in effect, farmers can now sell seed
on a quality basis—fair trading for
both the buyer and the seller. But
what we do not have is “machinery”
for putting the grading system into
operation. This machinery would be
provided by a bill introduced at the
last session of Congress by Senator
E. D. Smith of South Carolina and
Congressman Wall Doxey of Missis-
sippi. In principle much like
Flannagan Tobacco Grading
these Smith and Doxey cotton seed
grading bills provide:
“1. For establishing an official sys-
tem for grading cotton seed;
“2. For licensing samplers, weigh-
ers, and graders;
“3. For collecting and distributing
information as to cotton seed grades;
“4. For a market news service
which would report to farmers, gin-
ners, millers, and other interested
persons the prices of cotton seed and
cottonseed products.
“These bills do not require the gins
and mills to buy and sell on the of-
ficial grades. That would not be com-
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Inhibiting Cancer
A substance has been isolated from
the tissue of the pancreas of a pig
which inhibits the growth of the type
of malignant cancer in chickens
known as Chicken Tumor I, accord-
ing to Dr. O. M. Helmer of the Lilly
Research Laboratories, Indianapolis.
Reporting in the Journal of Ex-
perimental Medicine, official publi-
cation of the Rockefeller Institute for
Medical Research, Dr. Helmer says
the substance has not been identified,
but “is definitely associated with the
unsaturated fatty acid fraction of the
pig pancreas.”
Physical properties of the
stance are similar to those of
acid.
Dr. Helmer’s work is given added
emphasis by the recent publication in
Science of a report by Drs. James
W. Jopling and E. E. Sproul of the
College of Physicians and Surgeons,
Columbia University, telling of iso-
lating the agent that produces the
very same tumor that his substance
inhibits. An extract of the whole
tumor was used. The agent causing
the tumor has been identified as a
lipoid, or fatty, substance.
WASHINGTON. — Speculating on
the wonders of the future, Govern-
ment experts who spend their time
examining agricultural patents today
envisioned:
Corn on the cob
zippers.
Bananas flourishing in Maine.
Grapefruit that automatically
squeezes itself.
Seeds that, planted before break-
fast, produce ripe vegetables for din-
ner.
Trees that spring from acorns in a
year.
“All of these fancies seem impos-
sible at present,” said a patent office
statement, “but not necessarily any
more so than the airplane or radio
would have seemed to the examiner
of 1836 when the present system (of
industrial patents) was established.”
Patents on plants were legalized
six years ago and have multiplied
like garden weeds in Spring rains.
More than 1,000 applications have
been received for patents on vege-
tables, fruits, flowers and trees.
Approximately 200 have been is-
sued for such things as raspberries,
carnations, grass for golf greens and
water lilies.
Infantile Paralysis Defense
An internal gland defense against
infantile paralysis, the first ever re-
corded in medicine, discovered in ex-
periments on 24 monkeys, was
ported by Dr. W. Lloyd Aycock
the Harvard Medical School to
American Public Health Association
at New Orleans.
One of the glands which controls
the growth of mucous membranes
distinctly increased the resistance of
monkeys to the paralysis.
One of the greatest puzzles of in-
fantile paralysis is to find the persons
who are susceptible. If that can be
done, medicine already has means of
protecting them. This monkey dis-
covery, Dr. Aycock said, opens a way
for solution of the puzzle.
It is a long observed fact that in-
fantile paralysis does not attack chil-
dren who are “run down” so much as
those who are “run up.”
The victims most often
AUSTIN.—While whooping cough
is evident in all months of the year,
the first weeks in October this year
showed a rise in the number of cases
reported to the State Health Depart-
ment.
“Whooping cough is one of the
most serious communicable or germ
diseases affecting childhood, and is
especially dangerous to babies who
have not passed their first birthday,”
Dr. John W. Brown, State Health Of-
ficer, said in recommending stricter
methods of control. About ninety per
cent of all deaths from whooping
cough occur in children under five
years of age, the records show.
“The disease is usually transmit-
ted,” Dr. Brown said, “by direct con-
tact with the secretion of the mouth
or the nose, or with articles freshly
soiled with the secretion. Only a
short exposure is required to contact
the infection. The communicable
stage must be considered to extend
from seven days after exposure to an
individual infested with whooping
cough to three weeks after the devel-
opment of the characteristic whoop.
“Whooping cough is not easy to de-
tect in its early stages, for during the
first week or two it resembles an or-
linary cold in its symptoms. Then,
however, the child begins to have at-
tacks of whooping. The catarrhal
symptoms and cough gradually be-
come more severe, there is a running
from the nose and the eyes are red-
dened. The child coughs in spells,
the cough getting more severe and fi-
nally develops what is commonly
known as the ‘whoop.’
“Preventive measures a g a in s t
whooping cough include keeping
small children away from other chil-
dren when whooping cough is in the
neighborhood, and a visit to the fam-
ily physician if whooping cough is
suspected. Medical care is essential
in whooping cough because proper
medications can ease the spasmodic
whooping and thus may save a life.
“Early reporting and isolation of
whooping cough or suspicious cough-
ing serves as a real protection to the
young children of a community.” v
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Way to Get a Slim Figure
A beautiful singer was asked
give the secret of her slim figure.
“Confetti,” she replied.
Asked to explain, she said: “Every
morning for 20 years, when I have
got up I have thrown a bag of con-
fetti all over my bedroom carpet.
Then I lean down and pick up each
disk separately.”
mission by the 44th Legislature. It
provides that no county may have
more than seven members in the
lower house, and if adopted, a redis-
tricting under any law—present or
future—would have to conform to it.
“Since the total membership of the
house is fixed in the constitution at
150,” said Moffett, “it certainly is
proper and fair that no one county
out of the 254 counties in Texas
should have a disproportionate rep-
resentation. In a state as large as
Texas it would never be for the best
interests of the state to permit the
bunching of its lawmakers in a very
few counties. It is more justifiable
for Texas to recognize geography, as
well as population, than any other
state, because it is the largest state
with the farthest-flung boundaries
and has the greatest diversity of con-
ditions and interests.
“Unless Amendment No.
adopted by the people next
and written into our
four or five of our larger counties
will, within a few years, have a pop-
ulation preponderance enabling them
to control and dictate the laws under
which the people of all the other
counties must live. Amendment No.
6 seeks to put a reasonable and nec-
essary balance wheel in our govern-
mental machinery, and it should be
adopted.”
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“I would advise you, madam,” in-
structed the doctor, “to take frequent
baths, get plenty of fresh air and
dress in cool clothes.”
“What did the doctor say?” in-
quired the husband an hour later.
“He said I ought to go to Atlantic
City and then to the mountains,” re-
lated the wife. “Also that I must get
some new light gowns at once.”
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of power in a few of the very largest Counties of Texas#
"Tote for amendment No.6 in November”
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pulsory. But the mills and gins
would be required to supply informa-
tion on prices and grades of all seed
handled. And with the farmer know-
ing (1) what grade of seed he has and
knowing (2) what that grade is
bringing on other markets, he will
certainly be in far better position to
get the worth of his seed than when
selling under present ‘pig in a poke’
conditions.
“In order to become law, the Smith
and Doxey bills will have to be rein-
troduced at the next session of Con-
gress. Farmers who want better
marketing methods for their cotton
seed should now begin working for
the Smith-Doxey cotton seed grading
program.”
healthiest appearing and mentally
brightest children. They are the
“run up” children, normal, but whose
growth, due to glands, is a little dif-
ferent from the average.
All 24 monkeys were treated so
one of the endocrine glands controll-
ing membrane growth diminished its
secretions. The membrane linings all
became weakened.
After that, half the monkeys were
given a gland extract, estrin, which
restored the weakened linings. Next
all the animals were artificially in-
fected with infantile paralysis.
The monkeys receiving the gland
extract did not catch the disease as
easily as the unprotected 12. Seven
of the gland-protected monkeys lived
through the paralysis attack. Only
two of the unprotected 12 lived.
NEW YORK. — Everyone knows
that Franklin D. Roosevelt and Al-
fred M. Landon meet for the presi-
dency in the polling booths of the
nation Nov. 3, but do you know
that:
Voters can mark their ballots for
Landon in Roosevelt, Ariz., Roose-
velt, Ark., Roosevelt, Minn., Roose-
velt, Mo., Roosevelt, N. Y., Roosevelt,
Okla., Roosevelt, Texas, Roosevelt,
Utah, Roosevelt, Wash., Roosevelt,
Wis., Roosevelt Beach, Ore., Roose-
velt Road, HL, Roosevelt Park and
Roosevelt Square, Mich.
But nowhere can you vote for
Roosevelt in Landon, because there
is no city or town by that name in
the United States. However, there is
an Alf, Ark., if you care for dimin-
utives.
There are three cities named Dem-
ocrat, one in Arkansas, another in
Kentucky, and a third in North Caro-
lina. There’s a Republican City in
Nebraska, and a Republican Grove in
Virginia.
New York’s one man precinct again
will stroll to the polls anywhere be-
tween 6 a. m. and 7 p. m. while eight
attendants at a cost of about $175 to
the city solemnly register his pref-
erence. Of all the voters enjoying the
.secrecy of the Australian ballot sys-
tem throughout the United States,
this one man, a Rabbi, alone is
exempt. By law he must use a vot-
ing machine.
He is the only voter in his precinct,
and congressional law says he can’t
be moved to another. It takes a full
staff one week to register him. Then
on election day there are watchers
and checkers and clerks and all to
tabulate his lone vote. There is never
any question, either, of how he voted.
As the Rabbi goes, so goes his pre-
cinct.
AUSTIN.—George Moffett, mem-
■ ber of the Texas Legislature from
Chillicothe, made these statements
. today:
“Texas is the largest and most im-
portant agricultural State in the
Union, and this should be the most
potent fact in the minds of legislators
as they enact the laws under which
the people of Texas live.
“But the State’s population trend
is not toward the farm. It is away
from it, moving into already popu-
lous centers. In the 1920-1930 decade
the population increased 1,160,000,
and almost exactly one-third of the
increase occurred in the three most
populous counties. By actual census
figures 69 rural counties showed de-
creases in population between 1920
and 1930. Power farming probably
accounted for most of the decrease in
the rural counties.
If Texas were given legislative re-
districting today under 1936 popula-
tion estimate, Dallas County would
have ten members and Harris Coun-
ty (Houston) eleven. In 20 years
more this would be doubled for these
two cities have tripled in the past
twenty years.
“Unless our present constitution is
amended, population will continue to
be the only yardstick by which rep-
resentatives in the Legislature are
allotted to the various counties, and
the big cities will utimately control
the Legislature.”
Amendment No. 6
Moffett’s statement was made in
support of one of six proposed con-
stitutional amendments upon which
the people of Texas will vote on
Tuesday, November 3. It is Amend-
ment No. 6 providing for equalization
of legislative representation on a ba-
sis of geography as well as popula-
tion in laying out districts. Moffett
is the author of Amendment No. 6.
He believes it is the most needful “to
keep the government in the hands of
all the people and not the few who
have moved to the cities and whose
interests are more urban than agri-
cultural.”
Moffett said further:
“Thirty states take geography as
well as population into consideration
in laying out legislative districts,
i why should not Texas? In Oklahoma
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