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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1933
Page
4
The Whitewright Sun announces subscription price and postal classification list. It states all admissions events and memorials will be charged at regular advertising rates and promises corrections for erroneous reflections upon any person, firm, or corporation.
The Texas campaign for repeal of the 18th Amendment gains momentum with Crusaders posters and radio ads urging tax cuts and repeal ahead of the August 26 referendum. Prohibitionists marshal opposition with Senator Morris Sheppard as leading figure in the dry drive.
In a nationwide set of votes on repealing the 18th Amendment Indiana, once dubbed a dry state, voted about two to one in favor of repeal. The outcome marked the smallest margin of any state so far, signaling broad support for ending prohibition nationwide.
The article argues the 18th Amendment will likely be repealed within a year, leaving alcohol regulations to individual states. It contends a majority should decide locally, citing Texas as an example, and notes prohibitionists rely on Southern states’ rights to keep the amendment.
Texas Press Association held its 54th annual convention in Houston with charter members attending. The tour included visits to the San Jacinto battleground Sylvan Beach and Sugarland prison plant where inmates produce canning goods and food for state institutions. The Sugarland unit costs about 500000, houses 400, and runs a 10000 can daily canning capacity.
Visitors observed the underbuttressed prison reform program led by Mr. Simmons emphasizing voluntary night schools across 22 camps and Huntsville Sugarland units. Enrollment rose from 66 in 1911 to 2,529 by March 1933 with over 500 inmates taught to read and write in 1932, while 840 illiterates remained enrolled and only 2 percent had completed college work.
The passage reflects on the idea that revenge often fails to deliver lasting satisfaction. It suggests that even after causing harm, the avengeful person may realize the pleasure was short lived and the original injury remains unresolved. The tone questions the utility of revenge as a remedy.
An exchange cautions that dwelling on vengeance harms the self more than the target. Hatred poisons happiness and will intrude daily, keeping the injured mind from normalcy. It urges forgetting offenses, likening the pain to a pit in a walk.
Dave Taylor of the Pilot Grove community sold the first load of 1933 wheat Friday. The sample tested 62 pounds and graded No. 1. Lester Haile, local seed and grain dealer, bought it for 60 cents a bushel. Taylor noted about 17 bushels per acre.
The Southeast Zone B S T S meeting, part of the B Y P U, convenes next Sunday at 2 PM at First Baptist Church Whitewright. Attendees from Antioch Bells Bethel East Sherman Ida Kentuckytown Pilot Grove Rose Hill Tom Bean Luella expected. banner awarded to church with highest attendance. The program features Devotional Bryant Dean Tom Bean. Start Something Boyd Newman Whitewright. music by Bethel. Serving the Lord in the Days of Thy Youth Lula Lee Vestal Whitewright. Magnifying the Church Through Service Noel Ashinhurst Pilot Grove. An Estimate of My B T S Rev Van Arsdele East Sherman.
Boy Scout troop No 2 of White Wright met Monday night in the Scout cabin with eight present. Dr F D Layman spoke on teeth cleaning and care and risks of neglect. Members included James Erwin Hughes Jack Meador patrol leader Jim Pat Meador Jack Lewis Yeager Fred Coley Merriwell Vineyard Hamilton Vestal. Next meeting set for Tuesday June 20 at 7 30 PM.
John Wood of Timp son was named chairman of the Texas Highway Commission by Governor Miriam A. Ferguson and presided at his first meeting with W. R. Ely of Abilene and D. K. Martin of San Antonio. Ely relinquished the chair after three years saying the post was an empty honor yet appreciated the distinction and would not contest Wood's right to it.
Vice President John N. Garner confirmed reports that he rejected a radio deal offering 52 weeks at 1000 dollars weekly for five minutes per week totaling four hours and twenty minutes of air time. He declined to comment on the proposal, saying he never accepts pay beyond his public salary and believes accepting would capitalize his office.
The United States Civil Service Commission announces examinations for 175 cotton statistics collectors in Texas. Applications must be on file by June 27. The duties include visiting cotton gins consuming establishments and storages to secure reports of cotton ginned to specified dates and monthly reports of cotton consumed and held and measurements of spindles and active spin.
The notice invites applicants with at least two years of recent experience in growing or ginning cotton or manufacturing cotton goods. Applicants must be 21 to 59 on the examination close. Pay ranges are 648 dollars in Grayson County, 642 in Fannin, and 720 in Collin County. Application blanks available from the Civil Service Commission in Washington D C.
Washington committee approved Patman of Texas resolution to coin 3 000 000 silver half dollars commemorating the 100th anniversary in 1936 of Texas independence.
The Post reports a threat to kidnap 14 month old Sarah Delano Roosevelt, the president's granddaughter, disclosed Wednesday amid a mysterious house fire at James Roosevelt's summer home in Little Beard's Head New Hampshire. The item notes the first railroad locomotive was built as the result of a bet.
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