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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN, WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
Thursday, February 10, 19;
The Whitewright Sun
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If the Russians really are better
than other peoples, what do they stay
mad about?—Birmingham News.
Liquor is no longer used to christen
ships in the United States. Too much
danger of the stuff eating holes in
’em.—Arkansas Gazette.
feebled body another life for the
relenting coast.
Job More to His Liking
The box-office man of a popular the-
ater quit his job and before long was
seen working for a commission house.
It seemed such a complete shift that
one of his friends was moved to ask
the wherefore.
“When I was selling theater seats,”
was the prompt reply, “after I sold
the first 200 I was in trouble. No-
body liked the seats I had to offer.
There was always an argument. Today
I sold 2,000 bushels of potatoes and I
still have good potatoes. Want any?”
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Owners and Publishers
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California blacksmith who inherit-
ed $500,000 says he will keep right on
shoeing horses. Evidently intends to
lead a life of leisure.—Arkansas Ga-
zette.
Idea of Piano Is Old
Pythagoras was the first person to
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CUT OFF CREDIT AND
FARMER GOT ON FEET
cubits in the ratio of 28 to 25. We
have, no accurate knowledge, however,
of the Hebrew cubits, since the cubit
of the temple is estimated variously
by high authorities as from 19 to 26
nches.
$66,000,000 for Air Holes
He who buys ice cream by the bulk
instead of by weight pays dearly for
the air holes in the confection, accord-
ing to facts revealed at the recent
conference on weights and measures
at the Department of Commerce. A
billion quarts of ice cream are made
by dealers in the United States an-
nually, it was found, but a fifth of the
total amount sold is air space that is
packed into the containers in which
the ice cream is sold. Selling the ice
cream by bulk instead of by weight,
says Popular Science Monthly, means
that somebody pays $66,000,000 for the
air holes.
Cubit Measurement
The length of the cubit is derived
from the length of the forearm. From
a number of Egyptian measuring
sticks found in the tombs of Egypt,
the cubit is ascertained to be equal
to 20.64 English inches. The Roman
Roman
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DAN S. DICKERMAN, Owner
At S & S Service Station Whitewright
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ments, box suppers and other bene-
fits, where there is an admission fee
or other monetary consideration, will
be charged for at regular advertising
rates. Memorials, resolutions of re-
spect, etc., also will be charged for.
her community.
The funeral service was held at
the Rose Hill church Monday after-
noon. The service was conducted by
Rev. I. E. Teague, who has been a
neighbor of the- family for almost a
half century, assisted by Rev. J. A.
Henderson and Rev. C. Chumbley.
Besides sixty-one grandchildren
and forty-one great grandchildren,
the deceased is survived by the fol-
lowing children: T. L. Ball, Plain-
view; James Ball, Abilene; J. F., R.
W. and G. W. Ball, southwest of
town; Mrs. A. L. Connelly, Trenton;
Mrs. Floyd Caylor, Hugo, Oklahoma,
and Mrs. Albert Dunlap, Chillicothe.
We saw the following lines in an
exchange the other’ day: “Of all sad
words of tongue or pen, the saddest
are, ‘I have no cow, no sow, no
hen.’ ”
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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 publishers.
Entered at the Whitewright, Texas,
postoffice as 2nd class mail matter.
There are poor men in the Senate,
of course, but the adjective doesn’t
necessarily refer to finances.—Pub-
1 lishers Syndicate.
If the farmers ever get any of that
relief they’ve been fighting for, we
hope they’ll be good-natured and pass
some of it along to the consumers.—
Philadelphia Inquirer.
“A thousand pardons” was once be-
lieved to be an extravagant phrase of
politeness, but “Ma” Ferguson has
made it look like a piker with more
than 3,000.—-Arizona Record.
Senator Borah seems to be . for
friendly relations with everybody but
the Republican party. — Ohio State
Journal.
Ancient Fundamentalism
Is there any one so senseless as to
believe that there are men whose foot-
steps are higher than their heads? Or
that the things which with us are in a
recumbent position? with them hang in
an inverted direction? that the crops
and trees grow downwards? that the
rains and snow, and hail fall upwards
to the earth? And does anyone won-
der the hanging gardens are mentioned
among the seven wonders of the world,
when philosophers make hanging
fields, and seas, and cities, and moun-
tains? I am at a loss what to say
respecting those who, when they have
once erred, consistently persevere in
their folly, and defend one vain thing
by another.—Lactantius (Fourth Cen-
tury).
A geographer predicts Chicago will
have 15,000,000 people by the year
2000. Not unless they change then’
ways, professor.—Norfolk Post.
chased, and no groceries, save what
the produce marketed would buy.
The seasons proved favorable that
year and, the old man made a fine
crop, which sold at good prices. After
marketing the products of his toil
the old fellow made a speech in the heedingly, claims at last from the
cubit was one and one-half
feet, or 17.4 English inches,
are the only two cubits whose lengths
are undisputed. Two cubits are men-
tioned in the Bible. The shorter of
these was probably that which is
called the cubit of man and the longer
is called the cubit after the first meas-
ure. Julian of Ascalon speaks of two
Piano Precaution
If you are going away and the piano
is not to be played for a while, spoil
the food for moths by hanging two
small 'cheesecloth bags containing
squares of camphor inside the piano.
Moths are apt to eat away the felt
that covers the hammers at any time
of the year, so it is a good precaution-
ary measure to keep such bags inside
the piano at all times. But in that
case they should be hung on either
side in such way as not to interfere,
•with the mechanism of the instrument.
Obstinacy in Babies
Merely Human Nature
If your baby girl at eighteen months
yells when you want her to comply
with some adult wish, or your three-
year-old pushes you away and says,
“No, I won’t,” do not be alarmed at
this show of obstinacy. Periodic spells
of resistance to even pleasant sugges-
tions are part of the normal develop-
ment of the normal child, according
to Dr. D. M. Levy, Chicago psychia-
trist, who has made an extended in-
vestigation of resistance in children.
Babies of less than six months tend
to be calm, even when just awakened
or interrupted at meal time, says Doc-
tor Levy, but from six months on per-
verseness increases until the third
year, often with a minor high point
of resistance in the eighteenth month,
which is particularly apt to appear in
the case of girls. After the third year
resistance gradually decreases until
the child at five years readily co-oper-
ates with an adult who knows how to
make himself agreeable. Girls, on the
whole, show more resistance than
boys.
Daughter’s High Ideas
Spoil Daddy’s Meals
“Eating at restaurants must have
put my manners on the bum,” said a
man whose family has recently moved
to the city.
“How’s that?” asked his friend.
“It is either that or my daughter has
been getting too much etiquette. She
answered one of those advertisements
offering a book on the gentle art of
how to behave for $1 down and $1 a
week. I get the benefit of it all.
“Either my fork is upside down
when I eat or I do not put the tools
where they belong when I am through
eating. I feel as though I were a little
boy again. I am waiting hourly to get
spanked.”
“Why not call your daughter down
once in a while for something?” was
suggested.
“I do not get a chance,” was the sad
reply.
TOP HEAVY
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In thd. January number of the Tex-
as School Journal are some very in-
teresting figures. It says that the
state appropriates- $18,000,000 an-
nually for the Support of its higher
institutions ofttlearniing, and that the
record shows that a few less than
25,000 students attend these institu-
tions.
It also says that the state appro-
priates $38,000,000 for the support
of the public schools and that there
are 1,300,000 children of the school
age in the state.
We deduct the following from
these figures: the state is expending
an average of $720.00 on each stu-
dent each year who attends any of
the higher institutions.
And the state is expending $29.00
on each of these boys and girls who
attend the common schools. We are
somewhat at a loss to see how this
$29.00 is spent, as the apportionment
is only $14.00 per scholastic. How-
ever, the School Journal says large
amounts are spent in buying and dis-
tributing free textbooks and in the
administration of the public school
system. Anyway the state puts up
^ie $38,000,000 for this purpose.
^fThe News has therefore urged that
|Jie legislature, in its legislation re-
garding education, should first con-
sider the needs of the common
schools, those schools where more
than 99 per cent of the children
must receive what education they
may get. We must have education
of the masses if our civilization is to
endure.
If there ever was a top-heavy ed-
ucational system, this, state has it
*right now. We .do not say that our
higher institutions are receiving too
much money, but we do say that
there is no equality in spending $720
each on 25,000 Texas children and
cutting the 1,300,000 with $29 each.
And the first duty of the legislature
is to place these rural schools on
such a basis that they can have com-|
petent teachers and run at least
eight months per year. — Marshall
■''News.
MRS. ELIZABETH BARNES
Mrs. Elizabeth Cameron Barnes
died at her home here Friday after-
noon about 3:30 o’clock, following a
three weeks illness. She was
years old, and had lived in and
Whitewright for many years,
husband died thirty-five years
She was the last member of her im-
mediate family. Mrs. Barnes is sur-
vived by several nephews and nieces,
several of whom were here to attend
the funeral service.
Mrs. Barnes had been a
member of the Baptist Church for
many years, and was ever faithful to
her Master. When Grayson College
was one of the leading schools in
this section, she boarded young men
students who came here to attend
school. It is said that she treated
the young men who stayed in her
home like mothers treat their sons,
and had the love and respect of the
boys. During her late illness one of
these boys came from San Antonio
and spent several days at her bed-
side and did many things for her to
show his appreciation of the things
she did for him while he was attend-
ing Grayson College and boarded in
her home.
The funeral service was held at
the Baptist Church Saturday after-
noon at 2 o’clock, and was conducted
by Rev. J. H. Hankins, the pastor,
and Rev. J. L. Truett. Interment
was at Oak Hill Cemetery.
RAT EXTERMINATION
Whitewright seems to have an ep-
idemic of rats, judging by the com-
plaint heard on every hand,
state health department offers the
following remedial suggestion:
“Rats will not stay where they can
not obtain food, and housewives will
do well to keep all food supplies in
tightly covered containers to which
rats cannot gain access. .
“Waste scraps of food should not
be left on kitchen tables or shelves,
but should be placed in a tightly cov-
ered metal garbage can. To elim-
inate food and hiding places is to
eliminate rats.”
In other words, the housewife can
run off the rats by being more care-
ful with her table scraps than her
neighbors, for then the rats will go
to live with the neighbors where food
is obtainable.
principle of the modern piano. The
instrument, described as a mono-
chord, consisted of a single string
stretched over bridge# across an ob-
long box. This instrument is said to
have dated from 500 B. C.
Stringed instruments of the santir
class were the protoypes of piano-
forte. First known as the dulcimer,
probably from reference to it in the
Bible, more than 1,500 years passed
before an instrument was made that
bore the name so common now—
piano e forte, so called by its inventor
Bartolommeo Cristofori. By trade he
was a ipaker of harpsichords and
lived in Padua.
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America’s stock murder mystery is
why the defendant was acquitted.—
Arkansas Gazette.
Reminded
“The storm burst upon us so sud-
denly and violently that we had no
warning of its approach,” said the tor-
nado victim, relating his experiences
to a friend. “In an instant the house
was demolished and scattered to the
four winds. How I escaped being
torn to pieces, I do not know! We—”
“G—good gracious 1” said Mr. Meeke,
jumping to his feet. “That reminds
me! I—I almost forgot to post a let-
ter for mv wife!”
center of the square, heartily thank-
ing the merchants of the town for re-
fusing him credit. Said he: “If you
had continued crediting me I would
virtually have belonged to you all my
days. As it is, I owe no man any-
thing, have my supplies all purchased
and have sufficient money to run me
until another crop is made.” Bless-,
ings come to us disguised more fre-
quently than we think. — Honey
Grove Signal.
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China Has a Venice
There is quite a considerable
“floating population” of several of the
ktrgest river cities of China, but the
real Venice of that country is said to
be Soo Chow, which is described as
truly beautiful with its many canals
running through the city, many of
them taking the place of streets and
dotted with all kinds of small craft be credited with the discovery of the
carrying passengers and freight here
and there. Boats are made use of to
great extent by peddlers and trades-
men, who move slowly along over the
water in all kinds of odd boats loaded
with their wares. Some are calling
their wares and others attract pub-
lic attention by hammering wooden
gongs. Everywhere along the shores
are to be seen cobblers and weavers
working at their looms or benches.
Mrs. Margaret Ball, 87 years of
age, died at her home southwest of
town Saturday, after a two weeks
illness caused by a fall in which she
sustained a broken limb. Mrs. Ball
was born in Kentucky, and moved to
Texas with her husband some fifty
years ago. Her husband was the
late B. P. Ball, who died in 1916 at
the age of 86. In the death of Mrs.
Ball, another Grayson County pi-
oneer woman has passed to her re-
ward. She was a member of the
Baptist Church. She leaves a rich
heritage in the example of her life,
for her children and the people of
In many of the strictly agricultu-
ral sections of Texas and Oklahoma
times are pretty tight this year, due
largely to the short yield of cotton
and the low prices thereof. The
merchants and the banks feel the
tightness of the times as well as oth-
ers, and cannot extend credit as gen-
erously and as lavishly as in days
gone by when the lights of prosper-
ity were burning brightly. This is
quite a disappointment to many of
us, and a refusal of credit generates
a wealth of anger in some of our
breasts. We are hoping the mad
spell will prove as profitable to us as
to the old man we heard of back in
Tennessee many years ago. The
crops had been short and people as a
rule were in strained financial cir-
cumstances. On account of the scar-
city of money the old man, usually
considered good for his obligations,
failed to obtain credit at the mercan-
tile establishments with which he had
long conducted business and return-
ed home as mad as the proverbial
hornet. However, the denial of
credit, instead of making him faint-
hearted, made him as stubborn as an
ox. He informed his wife and chil-
dren that they would stay at home
that year, wear their old clothes and
eat such food as they could produce,
and that no haughty store-keeper
would ever again have an opportuni-
ty, to refuse him credit. And so they
did; not a rag of clothing was pur-
West African Coast
“White Man’s Grave’'
In the entire globe there is no re-
gion of worse reputation than the west
coast of Africa, G. Ward Prince, spe-
cial correspondent, writes from Ni-
geria. With Devil’s island and Botany
bay it shares proverbial infamy, and
by the majority of Englishmen has al-
ways been regarded as their national
Siberia.
Even now, when growing trade re-
turns are revealing to British eyes
the economic value of this notorious
colist, the mental picture of west
Africa to which most men still cling
is that of pestilent mangrove swamps
and fever-stricken forests.
The graves of young Englishmen
scattered everywhere about west Africa
remind one that but a few years have
passed since filth, fever and drink
were the living conditions of Europeans
out here, and death within two years
their almost inevitable end.
The harm, too, which this malevolent
climate does to white men is not neces-
sarily immediately or even ultimately
fatal. Its principal effect is the slow
and stealthy sapping of a man’s vital-
ity, a process of wastage and decay
directed not only against the body, but
the brain.
The consequences of this debilitation
may not manifest themselves even un-
til a west African official’s career is
over, and then a commonplace chill
caught at home in England, a touch of
influenza, some mild internal disorder
such as a European who has never
left the temperate zone throws off un-
en-
un-
Sports Help Samoans
Keep Physically Fit
The Samoans are the finest set-up
men physically on this footstool and
they keep fit with the open-air life on
the set. In one group of the islands
tile Samoans are basebailers. In an-
other group they became so devoted
to cricket that they knocked off work
to play the game, matches between
villages lasting weeks at a time play-
ing six out of the seven days—for the
Samoans are deeply religious, Chris-
tian at that. So obsessed were they
with cricket that ordinances had to be
passed to limit the time of playing it.
They do not box, but they wrestle
some—catch-as-catch-can.
The dwellings of the natives are
thatch whares or huts; of the whites,
lumber. There are
nor oil in Samoa,
abundant.
The Samoans are
mentally and physically, and idolatry
has gone out. They have supersti-
tions, of course, and they have native
dances.
The principal crops for export are
cocoa, copra—the dried kernel of the
coconut—and a little rubber.—Mr,
Mills, in Adventure Magazine.
Nicotine in Tobacco
Nicotine is a colorless, intensely
poisonous liquid. If exposed to the
air, it absorbs oxygen and becomes
brown and ultimately solid. The
quantity of nicotine contained in to-
bacco varies from two to eight per
cent, the coarser kinds containing
the larger quantity, while the best
Havana cigars seldom contain more
than two per cent, and often less.
Nicotine does not appear in tobacco
smoke. It is split into pyridine and
collodine. Of these, the latter is said
to be the less active and to pre-
ponderate in cigar smoke, while the
smoke from pipes contains a larger
amount of pyridine.
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