Graham Daily Reporter (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 183, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 2, 1940 Page: 2 of 4
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THE GRAHAM DAILY REPORTER. TUESDAY. APRIL L 194*.
The Graham Daily
Reporter
Mi at
■ second-class mail mat*
the postoffice In Graham,
under act of Congress of
t. 1979.
Every Afternoon Except
Sunday Ry
GRAHAM PUBLISHING CO.
lea of Publication, IIS Oak Street
Graham, Texas
it raw,
as $25 per pound.
Texas has beqn selling
to SO cents per pound.
The same wool, dyed, spun and I
woven into cloth, is worth several J
dollars per pound. And when tail-
ored into men’s suits or women’s I
unscoured, and buying it back at
prices a hundred fold higher.—The
Austin Daily Tribune.
locals
ton.
Mary McFarland of Graham
waa elected to this position. The
Dallas and Houston nominees were
withdrawn in Mary
favor which left her s
What should be America’s tariff
policy ?
What should be America's perma-
McFarlane's nent farm program?
clear field, i What should be America’s
policy
Ruben Loftin was a business vis-
itor in Archer City Monday.
BEX). T. SPEARS............Owner
H. L TROUT......Editor-Publisher
T. J. Gardner of Newcastle
Graham visitor today.
is a
Vice
over
TOO MANY
PROMISES
I J.
end
W. Cuts hall
in Muskogee,
spent the
Oklahoma.
week
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ADVERTISING RATES WILL BE
GIVEN UPON APPLICATION
Any erroneous reflection upon the
character of any person or firm
IfPMriDK in thee® columns will be
gladly and promp.ly corrected upon
being brought to the attention of
the management.
Candidates for any legislative or
executive office, from that of Pres-
ident of the United States or mem-
ber of the Congrese down to a mayor
and city councilman, through all the
grades of governor, state legislator,
county commissioner or whatnot,
who promise in their request for
votes to give the people a balanced
budget by reduction of expenditures,
are doing something they ought not.
What they can fairly and honor-
__ [ ably do is to say that they will use
Obituaries, their best endeavors to achieve this
J. H. Ballard of Abilene visited
in Graham Monday.
Glenn Burgess made a business
trip to F'ort Worth Monday.
After three days spent in delib- toward gold?
eration on important national prob>| While resolution* on other sub-
lems, the members of the National jects may be introduced, every mem-
Student Congress will on the fourth her should come especially well in-
and fifth days meet as Democratic formed on these three major prob-
and Republican conventions, draft lems.
party platforms, and nominate pres-, Wilbur B. Pettigrew of Fairfield,
idential candidates. la., has been chosen to preside over j events. One credit point will be
Congressman Karl Mundt, our Na the House as Speaker. Mr. Petti- gjVen for each session attended and
tional President, has indicated three grew has had intimate practical ex- o, J, or 2 points for each speech
major problems around which most | perience in the field of lgeislative on the Door of either house accord-
of the students deliberations should procedure which should add to his ing to the judgment of the official
revolve: effectiveness in directing the delib- scorer.
eration of the House.
T. C. Bond of Niles, O., as
President will again preside
the Senate.
Mary, like all the other students
in this Congress, is to have bills
drawn up and ready to present be-
fore going. These students debate
the question and vote on them as
done in a regular session.
Each student receives credit points
in this as he would in other speech
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Dalton arc on j
two Weeks’ visit to San Antonio.
GOING BACK TO SLEEPI
Dr. and Mrk. Will Gruby went
Fort Worth Sunday afternoon.
Ail Cards of Thanks,
and like notices are charged for at i desirable condition. No one man Dallas,
half the regular rates. ] can bring about a reduction of ex-J.
lightening of the Misses
Mrs. Ruben Loftin
daughter, Mrs. W.
is visiting her
R. Steen, in
---—r-IT" iUenditures and
of The Graham Dally loa(i_jt a majority of the and F.dna
The liability
Reporter and of its publishers for
pay error in any advertisement is
Batted to the cost of such adver-
Anna
Pearl
in Fort Worth.
Subscription
1 Month ......
• Months ..........
1 Year ...........
and Billie
week end
Prather in
. 35c
$1.75
$3.00
Margaret Gilmer
Dowdle spent the
tax-levying and tax-spending body week end
[ to do that—and no candidate has j -
j the authority to make this promise Misses Wynell Wheat
on behalf of other candidates who Ruth Wheat spent the
j may be seeking election to such a w'*k Mr. and Mrs. W. W
j body and who may be chosen to be Loving.
I his associates. i -
Mrs. Clint Cambin of Craig, Colo-
The executives can only recom-1 rado, is visiting her sister, Mrs.
mend that certain economies be T. B. Wilson.
made—the members of the tax levy- _
ing and spending body are the final) Mr. and Mrs. Harry Fisher and
word. Ththe past few days we | Mrs. Helen Fisher of Navasota were
have the action of the Congress as the week end visitors of Mrs. Fanny
illustration. The President submits Fisher,
a budget and recommends its adop
KEEPING WOOL
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.tion. The Congress increases it.
We have had instances of a Texas
governor suggesting means of mak-
ing savings in administration and
of a Legislature going far beyond
his recommendations.
This is a practice that is not con-
fined to one state, but is general
over the Nation. So many candi-
dates feel it necessary to
To
-Mary McFarlane
AT HOME
The sheep have nibbled in Texas
Mil, for a century and a half, b«t
the wool clip has gone to Philadel-
phia and Boston to be scoured and
woven into cloth.
Now the Rhea brothers, after a
aeven-year struggle, have started promises in order to be elected,
operations in their new wool and be* charitable in our opinion of them | dent
mohair scouring at San Marcos. They we may gay 'they really believe they meet
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dramatic, and oratorical declama-
tion. i Then there is a poetry read-
ing contest conducted by Ted Ma-
lone of the N-.RC., and also a radio
make such announcing contest.
| Two years ago a "National Stu-
Congress” was organized to
_ connection with this meet,
hope to scour a million pound*-of can do the things they promise. If I This district is entitled to two Sena-
wool and mohair this year. ~|so, they are deceiving not only them-' -- —-- i
These Texans are pioneering an selves but the people as well—if not. j order to get they office they seek,
old industry in a new location—in they are misleading the people in J—Paris News.
Texas, the greatest wool and mohair ---- —
producing state in the 'Union. Their
should find a reward, their I
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enterprise easily may . be epoehalr
like the advent of newsprint paper
making in the new $6,000,000 plane
■t Lufkin.
Woolen textile jnanufactuie in
Texas has been handicapped fatally
by the absence of scouring plants.
Now, ptrhaps, it will take sound
root, grow, help to provide employ,
meat for the half-miHron-*trarb" c'tv,p-
pers who have been pauperize^, by
collapse of the export market fur
Texas eott«*n.- -
Here is an excerpt from a daily
market report on wool in Bovton:
"Outstarding in the west has been
the sale unshorn of a Montana half-
blood and fine clip at 28 cents,
which, it is figured would mean a
clean cost at Boston of aboat S')
certs."
This means that the grower eon
tracteri to sell his wool at 28 rent?
on th' sheep’s back. Shearing, an
inexpensive process, togetU“r with
freight charges to Boston and the
cost of scouring, ran the price up
tailored attire, it sells for as high
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Trout, H. I. Graham Daily Reporter (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 183, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 2, 1940, newspaper, April 2, 1940; Graham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1116215/m1/2/: accessed May 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Library of Graham.