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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1937
Page
2
A Texas Weekly summary laments mass turnover of county officials across 254 counties. It argues untrained successors hinder efficiency and urges reform, citing Arnold Foundation findings on rigidity, governance, and fiscal controls, with proposed charters and executive heads as solutions.
ATLANTIC CITY. Miss Pearl Gardner of Cornell reports at the AAAS convention that cows outrank horses in learning by observation after studying 72 horses, 48 cows and 11 sheep. She notes cows catch on quicker, remember longer, with milkier cows among the sharpest. Polo ponies and draft horses share similar errors. sheep can be taught tricks too.
W L Blackstone, Arkansas tenant farmer and member of a 40 person committee chosen by the president to study tenancy, says even given land and mule many tenants end with nothing. He urges Resettlement Administration to pick tenants needing minimal supervision to avoid excessive supervisory costs.
Washington. Milburn L. Wilson, newly named undersecretary of agriculture, said the soil conservation program would become permanent as a partnership between private farmers and the public. He urged continued crop control machinery and highlighted his farming background, ties to Secretary Wallace, and prior roles in agriculture.
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics forecasts 1937 will mirror 1935 in many ways with farm prices staying high though easing later. Cotton acreage may rise, wheat output up, rice stocks large and prices unfavorably affected, hog production tight, and cattle prices rising to multi year highs as demand improves.
Quote from Hugh Chalmers classifies men into three kinds based on initiative. The note recalls the Pacific Northwest’s first school, opened in 1833 at Fort Vancouver. The fragment ties leadership traits to early regional education history.
New York report quotes Edith Marie Reuss, a color consultant, advising young women to wear white evening gowns to provoke marriage proposals. She argues white signals fragility and desirability under moonlight, while colors like red suggest playboys. she also links tie colors to male character and notes wine and purple as aging or romantic choices.
A dialogue pits a man and a woman on women’s strength of mind and willingness to take power. He questions whether women could refuse a crown like Caesar, while she quips that she might test the idea to see how it looks.
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