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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN, WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
Thursday, June 1, 1944L.
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By Joe Smith Dyer
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WE’RE NOT SO SMART
THEY HAVE THE RIGHT IDEA
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562,000 TEXANS AT WAR
Lee Norris
Service Station
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I Give You Texas
BY BOYCE HOUSE
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It’s Your World We’re Fighting For!
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Sturdy Summer
Suits and Enjoy
Health Officer Says
Pyorrhea Curable
You will bear arms, or make them, or pay for
them through the purchase of U. S. War Bonds.
Entered at the Whitewright, Texas,
postoffice as 2nd class mail matter.
You are being graduated into a world at war—a
world in which the stake is that very opportunity of
frfee education and a chance to take your place with
your fellows in a land of free enterprise.
is a bettei' distribution of rainfall. It would suit ev-
erybody better if it would just rain a few days at a
■time instead of a few weeks.
“By actual test—Mara-
thon’s best!” So say many
folks who are now using
Marathon. We’d be glad
to have you give Marathon
a trial in your car or your
tractor.
Candy, Cigarettes, Drinks,
Car Repairs, Greasing and
Tire Repairs.
Subscription Price, $1.50 Per Year,
Payable in Advance.
The first modern police system was
created by Sir Robert Peel in 1829
when he was Prime Minister of Eng-
land.
BRAILLE WATCH STOLEN
FROM BLIND MARINE
OLE DEBBIL CAN’T
TWIST HIS ARM NOW
LOW FLYING OVER TOWN
BRINGS $2,000 FORFEIT
WORKERS ARRESTED IN
WAR WAGE RACKET
AUSTIN.—Contrary to the popular
belief that pyorrhea is incurable, this
is only true in most advanced cases.
Dr. Geo. W. Cox, State Health Offi-
cer, advises those persons who even
suspect the presence of pyorrhea to
take time by the forelock and seek an
early diagnosis so that proper treat-
ment can be instituted while the dis-
ease is still curable.
“Early detection and proper treat-
The game of chess originated in In-
dia.
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Manning & Meador
Hardware — Far malls — Furniture
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The State of Texas purchases enormous quantities
of food for its eleemosynary institutions, buying on
contract from lowest bidders. The State is now paying
more than double the prices paid for food in March,
1941, the actual increase being 102.5 percent. Some of
those fellows in Washington who keep telling us the
cost of living has advanced only about 25 percent
ought to get out and learn what things really cost.
BOSTON.—Fifty-five Bethlehem-
Hingham shipyard piecework welders
and counters were arrested by squads
of FBI agents and U. S. deputy mar-
shals today in what was described as
a $500,000 war wage racket and one
of the most widespread war fraud
rackets since the war began.
The business men of Uvalde, county seat of Uvalde
County and home of former Vice President John Gar-
ner, decided last year that life should be made up of
something besides work, so the retail stores of the
town decided to close their stores Thursday each week
during June, July and August in order to have more
time for rest and refreshment. They apparently liked
the idea, for the Uvalde Leader-News last week an-
nounced that the plan would be in operation again this
summer, giving store personnel a five-day work week.
NOTICE: All notices of entertain-
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.
give it back.)
Another section stipulates that the
veterans will be taken back provided
that nothing has occurred during his
absence which would reduce his use-
fulness to the institution. Presum-
ably, that means that the instructor
shall not have sustained serious im-
pairment. (If he is disabled, a grate-
ful nation should and will make
proper provision for him, insofar as
lies within human power.)
But the other section of the resolu-
tion provides that the instructor who
comes back from the battlefield shall
get his old place back provided:
“The college has been able to pre-
serve the position and is able to make
it available without impairing the
general usefulness of the institution.”
What does this mean? Is it a loop-
hole to enable someone in authority
to deny a hero his rightful due and to
keep in his place someone whose very
life and liberty were preserved by
the man who marched away?
State officials have made stirring
speeches calling on private industry
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It is difficult to determine which of these polls is
most alarming. It is difficult to comprehend that half
our adult population does not know the U. S. never be-
longed to the League; that question rocked the nation
in this generation. But it seems even more amazing
that only one out of four adults has an intelligent
acquaintance with the first ten amendments to the
Constitution.
Certainly both polls show glaring weakness in the
American educational system, for most of our adult
population has been exposed to a considerable amount
of formal education.
But schools cannot do everything for us; some things
we must do for ourselves. We must, as a nation, con-
cern ourselves more with our national affairs. We
must understand and appreciate the basic doctrines
and institutions which make up the foundation of our
society.
It is inconceivable that the obligations of citizenship
may be met as intelligently as they should be unless
we all make an effort to increase our store of knowl-
edge and to follow current affairs closely.
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There are more than 530,000 Texans in the armed
forces today, according to official tabulation, and many
of them are on the fighting fronts in Italy, New
Guinea, Burma and the Pacific. There were 32,000
others in uniform who are lumped together as casual-
ties and discharged service men and women, including
2,000 women. Some of them are in graves overseas,
others in hospitals and some in enemy prison camps.
It is pertinent to inquire what these. Texans think of
the political feuding in their home state and other dis-
plays of indifference to the war itself. Letters from
overseas reveal many of them are resentful, even con-
temptuous of civilian selfishness, greed and evasion of
the fact of war. From that attitude, it would be easy
for our armed forces to drift into the conclusion that
the home front is not worth fighting for. At any rate,
the sentiment of our fighting forces that they are being
betrayed at home should shock civilians to their senses
and restore the war to its place in their minds and
hearts as the primary consideration for all Americans,
not for men and women in uniform alone. — Fort
Worth Star-Telegram.
Kitchen Engineer:
The woman in the kitchen is the
supreme engineer. Why? Well, be-
cause she turns the faucets and ad-
justs the heat. She counts the time
and how? She knows all the levers
on the big kitchen stove and on the
frigidaire and she knows how to push
all the buttons to make them work
according to Washington City time.
She plans the domestic economy.
She plans the meals ahead of time
and then supervises their cooking.
She has to be practical and she must
know all the odds and ends of dietary
cooking because of Jim’s diabetes,
Frank’s hayfever, Sarah’s stomach ul-
cers and her own eczema.
The woman in the kitchen must
know how a potato must be peeled,
dressed, undressed and cooked to a
right turn. She must know just what
forks and spoons and knives to use
at such and such a meal.
She must know exactly, to the very
minute, how long to boil the eggs for
the salad that you ordered for lunch.
We do not appreciate this woman
in the kitchen because, like the sun,
she is always so faithful. We take
her as a matter of course, but let this
engineer for only one day be absent,
and listen to our prayers that she get
back on the job before another day
rolls around.
She isn’t only an engineer—she is
the engineer and the crew all rolled
up into one.
MEDINA, Pa. — The “devil” will
have to wait at least 10 years before
he can tempt Earle H. Althoff, 31, of
Chester, again.
In pleading guilty to burglaries in
10 Chester homes, Alhoff told Judge
Albert Dutton MacDade:
“I’m sort of a Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde. I have a good and a bad side
and the devil got into me and pushed
me over to the bad side. But I won’t
let him do that again.”
Judge MacDade sentenced him to
10 to 20 years in Eastern penitentiary.
to give their employes their old
places back when they come home
after wearing the uniform—and pri-
vate industry has gladly made this
pledge as the very least we can do in
appreciation of their service.
PHILADELPHIA. — Theft of a
watch with Braille figures has been
reported here by Marine Pfc. Donald
E. Kelley, who lost his eyesight at
Vella Lavella in the Southwest Pa-
cific last August.
Kelley, a patient at the U. S. Naval
Hospital, is a native of DeWitt, Iowa.
He was married at Oakland, Calif.,
after his injury and expects to return
there soon with a seeing-eye dog, but
he’d like to take the watch—“kind of
a pal”—back with him.
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Cutting down on advertising to
save expense is like cutting off one
foot to keep from buying two shoes.
Do you know of any success that has
not been advertised intelligently. The
force of advertising depends largely
upon the amount of powder behind it.
Advertising is like a bombardment,
its effectiveness depends upon keep-
ing it up for a long time.
Is the State of Texas going to keep
ifaith with the instructors who en-
tered the armed forces to fight for us
and offer their blood and their lives,
and who joined the colors under the
belief that when the fighting was
over, whoever had their old job
would give it up and these veterans
would get their places back?
The board of regents of the Texas
State Teachers Colleges recently
adopted a three-section resolution.
One section provided that the in-
structors now wearing the uniform
will be re-employed if their position
ia the college is still under legislative
appropriation. (Of course, if the
Legislature has meanwhile abolished
the place, it would be impossible to
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on big occasions. Smart patterns
and colors in single- and double-
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SACRAMENTO, Calif.—For “buzz-
ing” (flying low) over the town of
Lafayette and a high school, a Mather
Field officer-student has been or-
dered by a court martial to forfeit
$2,000 from his pay, >at the rate of
I $100 a month.
Col. Carl W. Pyle, commanding of-
ficer, announced the penalty, but
withheld the pilot’s name. He was
convicted of flying a B-25 bomber 20
feet above the school building and
180 feet above the town.
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Any erroneous reflection upon the
character, standing or reputation of
any person, firm or corporation that
may appear in the columns of The
Whitewright Sim will be gladly and
fully corrected upon being brought to
the attention of the publisher.
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J. H. Waggoner__Publisher
Glenn Doss____Managing Editor
It is a stake worth fighting for . . . and many of
you will join the fight, in the Armed Services or on
the production front at home.
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Your elders have little advice to give you now.
We deplore the sacrifices youth must make . . . but
envy the richer, happier life in the Peace to come
that will be yours to enjoy. Both in the immediate
task of winning the war and in the greater task of
winning the Peace, you have a part to play.
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was boiled down to 850 words includ-
ing 50 special Bible words and 100
for the reading of verse.
The basic English Bible therefore
employs only 1,000 words. It will, in
no way, compete with authorized
version but will serve more as an in-
troduction to it.
ment represent the formula for a.
successful cure. This means that the-
dentist must have an opportunity to
discover the presence of pyorrhea at:
the earliest possible moment sinae
the symptoms are often so vague
that the patient is unaware of its ex-
istence,” Dr. Cox said. “Regular-
visits to the family dentist are there-
fore extremely important.”
The treatment of pyorrhea is not
an involved procedure. In the aver-
age early case one of the main thera-
peutic features is the proper hygienic
care of teeth and gums as outlined by
any reputable dentist. Carelessness
regarding mouth hygiene is usaually
the basic cause for the condition.
The family dentist can usually re-
move the cause of the trouble, Dr,.
Cox said, and when this has been,
done intelligent routine home-care'
of the mouth by the patient will ef-
fect a cure in the majority of early
cases.
Concern regarding pyorrhea should',
not be based upon the misguided no-
tion of its incurability, according to'
the State Health Officer, but rather-
that it be discovered by the dentist
when still in a curable stage.
Basic English:
Basic English is a simplified form
of English developed by C. K. Ogden
of the Ornithological Institute in
Cambridge, England. By means of a
vocabulary of 850 words used in ac-
cordance with a few simple rules, it
can express anything that may be
said in English.
Ordinarily it is indistinguishable
from ordinary English, which it is
not intended to replace, but it does
tend to give English- speaking people
a valuable corrective to improve their
vocabulary and to improve upon all
the words they pronounce incorrect-
ly-
Recently the New Testament has
been translated into basic English. It
Golden Days:
Not many of us lived in the “Gold-
en Days” but from all I’ve heard
about them they were days in which
there were no dangerous gunmen, no
traffic cops, no road hounds. In the
fall the green leaves turned yellow
and the greenbacks turned to yellow
twenties. Everything multiplied
without any effort at all, including
fleas, flies, mosquitoes and other per-
sonal prodders.
Everybody was well and happy,
with a few exceptions, and those who
were crippled were left to get around
the best they could. In those days the
brodacasting was done by village
gossips and the food was cooked in
fireplaces seasoned with ashes, smoke
and soot.
All rivers were full of “milk and
honey” and the work hours were
from daylight to dark. Not many
people bothered to pick up the beans
they had spilled because, in those
days, there were plenty of beans.
All men and women were filled
with good thoughts, maybe! All were
generous in deed, perhaps! In those
days there was no jealousy, I don’t
think. Folks wore flannels and there
were no bathtubs. Brown sugar was
a luxury, charity was a town charge,
tolerance was unthinkable, real re-
ligion unworkable and churches in
cooperation were unknown.
One year of life now is worth a
century of life then. In those days a
piece of beef was exchanged for a
string of glass beads.
Don’t let any dreamer sell you
something that never existed, the
golden days, for the only “golden
days” we have are the ones we’re liv-
ing in now.
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Time magazine reports on two “polls” which seem
to us far more significant than the political type sur-
veys usually encountered. They concern what we
Americans know and don’t know about current events
and about the Bill of Rights of the Constitution.
About current affairs, the Gallup poll found, among
other things:
27,000,000 U. S. adults do not know that the Japs
have taken the Philippines.
54,000,000 have never heard of the Atlantic
Charter.
85,000,000 do not know what a reciprocal trade
treaty is.
Two-thirds of the population do not know that
the U. S. has received reverse Lend-Lease aid
from Britain.
More than half the adult population does not
know that the U. S. never belonged to the League
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The University of Denver questioned Americans
about the American Bill of Rights and found that:
23 % had never heard of it.
39% could not identify it.
15% gave hazy or wrong definitions.
23 % were reasonably acquainted with the first
ten amendments.
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Doss, Glenn. The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 1, 1944, newspaper, June 1, 1944; Whitewright, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1331703/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Whitewright Public Library.