The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, January 1, 1926 Page: 4 of 6
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of juvenile
reform^
...Owner and Editor
.$1.50
One Year.
THE DAILY TRIBUNE
.$4.00
One Year
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' on the margin
The
the
HOUSES
LOTS
LANDS
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If not, how about mak-
ing it a NEW YEAR’S gift to them, and thus
President Coolidge
little
is
’ start the New Year off the best
We
for suburban homes.
go
further notice
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Bill
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The legisla-
Friendly
Old-Fashioned Greeting
season.
Dodge Brothers
motor CAR
HARDY-ANDERSON AUTO CO.
Phene 154
conscience of the people.
GOODYEAR TIRES
EXIDE BATTERIES
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Did you get the family that NEW HOME for
their Christmas gift?
The Sunday Night Exchursions will
to the Valley until
More Crime But Fewer
Prisoners
The Search and Seizure
Act
Uniform Invoice
System Used by
Motor Company
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
WEEKLY TRIBUNE
Centralization of
continuous
carriage s
Magill Land Co
Phone 86 Notary Public in Office Phone 86
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PRINTING COMPANY
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Producer’s First
For First National
Acclaimed Triumph
THE MATAGOI
BY TRIBI
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government
For full information on all these matters, either
come to see us or phone—
About the hardest task for many
of the newspaper writers and poli-
ticians have to handle now is made
up of the eighteenth amendment and
the Volstead act. And about the most
i amusing thing on earth to the gen-
1 eral reader is found in their efforts
1 to uphold them and at the same time
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greatly exercised—m- i . t -n their efforts to carry out
x/xl «-» nnnon AllTT’QP'P I ° . ,,
; the promises they made the people
before and immediately following the
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’’’■istnias failed to relieve us
period will finish up.
ever onward and,—
With his head pillowed against a
corner of the cement box, an Atlanta,
Georgia, man went to sleep in a mor-
tar of fresh concrete. He awoke en-
cased in stone and it was necessary
for him to visit a hospital to have the
covering removed under the directions
of surgeons.
To all our friends and pa-
trons, and to all who
drive and ride in motor
cars, we extend the sin-
cerest greetings of the
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entomologists
their
chief, Dr. Howard, formulated a plan
for stopping it, but the bill he intro-
duced in the Texas legislature failed
to pass and a thirty-year war against
the boll weevil followed.
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the echo from this enormous annual
automobile tax collection? And the
coast country is faring but little worse
than any of its neighbors. If we are
i to continue to pay this tax, and that’s
exactly what we will do, why not be-
gin a clamous for some system and
a little hurry up, too.
It is our earnest hope that
you will find good roads
over every mile of life’s
journey, and may you
never run out of gas.
as “the search and seizure act.”
To hear them talk, and read what
they have written, anybody who is fa-
miliar with the irreparable guaran-
ties of personal rights contained in
the constitution would suppose that
the legislature had deliberately en-
acted a law to protect bootleggers and
aid in the safe and successful viola-
tion of the prohibition act.
Those who do not know any better
would suppose the law was the work
of a “wet” legislature, whereas the
legislature is, in fact, overwhelmingly
“dry."
The law is simply a paraphrase of
the laguage of the bill of rights,
which, by the express terms of that
instrument is beyond the power of the
legislature to amend or change in any
particular whatever.
M'hom the Ford Motor
not do any business,.
Wl it for their use. |
■rm invoice advantages of
I quickly apparent. It is
pake up. It has only two
customer’s use, so that it ,UxUx
■Py e].en\eI?ts misunder- DecaU8e there is no fixed criterion of
accuracy. By the time various quali-
fying influences are taken into con-
sideration the figures become little
more than a general guide, and some-
times not even that.
As an illustration, we may take the
census of prisoners for 1923, on which
a preliminary report has been issued
by the bureau of the census, depart-
ment of commerce. The report com-
‘ pares the 1923 figures, in all their
The edict has gone forth in Austin
and it’s astounding. It says th—
must not be any public drinking there
New Year’s Eve. It seems to us, that,
a long time ago Atticus Webb told us
that prohibition would stop all kinds
of drinking, public and private, and
that papa would have just oodles of
money left with which to buy warm
sweaters for mama and wool stock-
ings for the little ones. But, horrors
and then more horrors, here comes
word from the great capital of the ■
greatest state, in the greatest nation
on earth that no “public” drinking
will be tolerated. ’Sawful, isn’t it?
ever?
Hearty,
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telligence to justify them even in dis-
cussing the question.
The next object of their criticism
and denunciation will in all likeli-
hood be section 12 of the
Rights, which reads as follows:
Sec. 12. The writ of habeas cor-
pus is a writ of right ’ and shall
never be suspended.
ture shall enact laws to render the
remedy speedy and effectual.
Some overzealous pro officer, encour-
h q.ged by some Anti-Saloon Leaguers,
is apt, without complaint or w’arrant,
to invade some citizen’s home and
arrest, him on suspicion, and some
honest judge, obedient to his oath of
office, will issue a writ of habeas cor-
pus and bring the arrested man be-
fore him, and when he finds he was
unlawfully arrested, will not only dis-
charge him, but compel the officer to
return to the prisoner such physical
evidences of guilt as he may have
seized.
When such a concrete case arises
a howl will go up from the Anti-Sa-
loo^ Leaguers that will be heard-from
Texline to Point Isabel. They will
ragd because the courts will not
tramfple upon the constitution and vio-
late their oaths of office in order to
gratify the wishes of a lot of people
who are ready to subordinate the
most sacred provisions of the consti-
tution to their fanatical aims.
None of them believe more strongly
in enforcing the prohibition law than
does the Chronicle. It believes the
eighteenth amendment and the Vol-
stead act, taken together, constitute
the longest step forward in social
righteousness and moral progress that
has been taken in a century.”
At the same time it believes just as
strongly that the enorcement of no
law either justifies or requires a vio-
lation of the natural rights of any
citizen.
If the Anti-Saloon Leaguers think
the people of Texas are going to even
try to authorize any officer or any
time or under any circumstances to
enter the homes of citizens without
complaint or warrant, and on mere
conjecture or suspicion, or to search
the person or any, even the humblest
citizen, on suspicion, however strong,
they are grievously mistaken, and the
sooner they find out that such is the
fact, the better will it be for their
cause and for their officers.—Houston
■^roaicle.
Figuring a little more on the $15,-
000,000 paid in on automobile taxes in
Texas annually, if that figure covers
it, and dividing it by 250 counties, we
find that each and every county in
the state could be given, every year,
a lump sum of $60,000, and this to say
nothing about the additional enor-
000,000, or more than the entire state
government costs every two years, ten
years ago. This money, if we are in-
formed correctly, is applied to high-
I way building, and has been Collected
i for several years, growing greater in
I amount every year. It is not to be
l wondered at that the people are tak-
• ing a keen interest in this fabulous
i annual sum. In looking about them
, they do not see the road improvement
I that such a sum should provide and
It got just as cold, if not a little
colder, down in the Valley than it did
here, but you’ll never get that bunch
of Yankees to admit it. No snow
balls were made and thrown here,
but that’s what happened in Browns-
ville, the farthest down place in the
Valley. If you want to keep warm,
comb here and—sit by a fire.
that'they are becoming curious to know
to > be true, they have”not'suffle'lent in- | “b0"‘£ p.""' might be good roads
| in parts of Texas, but the so-called
I and loudly praised “connected high-
! way” is scarce. In fact, scarcer than
j real genuine road building, which,
: within itself is scarce enough. Now,
we are not expert on road building,
but we have an idea that $15,000,000
ought to build a mighty good, long,
permanent road, all of a thousand
miles with fine bridges and every-
thing. And one thousand miles would
cross the state from extreme point to
extreme point in any old direction. As
before said, there are no connected
highways and, therefore, not one of
the $15,00-a-mile class in the entire
state. Coming close home and look-
ing up and down the coast country,
I where are the roads that should be
There are, perhaps, in Texas all of
one million automobiles, counting in
. all gas vehicles from motorcycles to
1 trucks. It is difficult to average the
license fees of these cars, but a safe
estimate would be fifteen dollars each.
As a means of bringing about gen-
eral uniformity in billing among bus-
iness firms of America, lessening of-
fice work, saving time, cutting labor
waste, insuring greater accuracy and
reducing mailing volume, the Ford
Motor Company is presenting for the
consideration of business executives
generally the uniform invoice, devised
by the company itself.
Everyone is more or less familiar
with the efficiency and economy ef-
fected by the company in standardiza-
tion as applied to its manufacturing.
The uniform invoice is standardized
efficiency carried into office practice
with the same economical results.
Invoices may seem to be small
things to the average person, but they
assume impressive proportions in
modern business. This is strikingly
exemplified in the case of the Ford
Motor Company. It handles more
than half a million invoices a year.
The incoming invoices covering every-
thing from toothpicks and cheese to
steel and railroad cars, to say noth-
ing of outgoing invoices for automo-
biles.
Out of its experience the company
developed the uniform invoice and
first passed it along to its own sup-
pliers for their consideration.
The response was more than ex-
pected. Many firms adopted it at
once, while others .endorsing it, held
off putting it into practice only until
their invoice stock on hand was ex-
hausted. But it did not end there,
for it was passed on from one to an-
other until at present hundreds and
hundreds of representative firms,
The superintendent of the Anti-Sa-
loon League, and many of those who, ~ ~
like him, are obsessed with the idea ' ~~
of enforcing the prohibition law at i ■ con(jemn drinking and crime,
hazards, are £— ” — •
deed seem to feel a sense of outrage
because of the enactment by the Thir- ucjluic ^uxcuxa^xj x.uxxU.. xxx6 eJL1c
ty-Ninth Legislature of what is known nactrnent eighteenth amend-
ment they are now engaged m acro-
traffic. They know too that if this
be observed “since it is written in
the constitution,” never realizing or
not seeming to try to realize that the
people had nothing to do with “writ-
ing it in.” But these writers and
these politicians who are so loyal to
the eighteenth amendment know the
hypocrisy of the whole situation when
they are writing about it or speaking
about it. They know the Volstead
law has never been enforced, is not
now enforceeable and will never be.
They know why it is not, but there is
not one in a hundred of them with
courage enough to “own up.” They
know that the Volstead law is the
rightful father of 80 per cent of the
crime in this country. They know it
is responsible for 100 per cent of boot-
legging and 100 per cent of the illicit
making of inferior liquors. They know
that it is responsible for 100 per cent
of the edaths from drunkenness and
they know that things will continue
“The New Commandment,” a society
melodrama, comes to the Grand The-
atre New Year’s Day for a limited en-
gagement. It is Robert T. Kane’s in-
itial production under his own ban-
ner for First National release.
“The New Commandment” is a
screen adaptation of Colonel Freder-
ick Palmer’s great novel, “Invisible
Wounds,” Sada Cowan and Howard
Higgin made the screen adaptation.
Higgin also directed this screen mas-
terpiece.
Blance Sweet, Ben Lyon, Holbrook
Pli.iL Effie Shannon George Cooper,
Pedro De Cord ? <-a, Diana k ane and
many others are seen in the greatest
roles of their careers in The New
Commandment.”
It s full of thrills, romance drama,
H'jLbs and patios and cffois lhe pa-
trons of the G.’-iiid Theatre the most
unusual cinema treat of ihe year.
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A Boston book clerk reading that
the only copy of Poe’s Tamerlane was
in the British Museum hunted for a
second copy. He found it and bought
it with nine other books for $1.50. He
A few
Blessed be the fellow who applied
for and got his auto license before the
rush. And how happy he would be
if he only knew that the from ten to
thirty he paid would go to the worthy
purpose of helping the 999,999 other
licenses paid in Texas to get better
roads. And he might be still happier
if he knew the money would reach
the roads.
; in the same way just as long as mil-
lionaires are made over night in the
trafic. They know, too, that if this
government would take over the'
liquor traffic as Canada did that all j
of the bootlegging and consequently:
80 per cent of the crime would cease ■
j were:
j 1. One insertion of invoice form in
i machine instead of 17.
2. One writing of heading instead
of 17.
3. Saving in typewriter travel that
measures a loss, due to wear on the
machine as well as time loss for the
operator, of 29 feet 1 3-4 inches.
4. Conservation of paper. The uni-
form invoice was just twice as long
as the other single order form.
5. Saved writing of 17 individual in-
voices with possible loss of postage
through separate mailing.
6. Saved extra envelopes, preventing
paper waste.
7. Saved seven square feet on in-
voice paper on originals alone.
8. Reduced paper handling by cus-
tomer.
9. Lessened congestion in files.
Presented in cold type, as it is, the
uniform invoice, at first glance ap-
pears to be a very rigid and sec form
of invoice, but its adoption, as worked
out for months by the Ford Motor
Company, has shown that it is most
flexible and applies to every type of ■
industry. Uniform invoices from
bakers, shoe manufacturers, forg’ng
companies .steel mills, lumber mills,
boat builders, chemical manufactur-
ers and many others in the files of
the company all attest to the practi-
cability of the form.
The uniform invoice requires no
change in systems in any office organ-
ization. It is simply one of typo-
graphical arrangement of the basic
elements required for every type of
invoice.
It is adaptable to any form of bill-
ing machine or typewriter and has
been successfully used in fanhold,
multifold and pad forms, through Hex-
tragraph and other duplicator sys-
tems. Furthermore, the uniform in-
‘ voice in no way interferes with any
other clearances -which are used by
some firms when issuing invoices to
their customers.
Since the adoption of the uniform
invoice, the Ford Motor Company has
found that, aside from the great sav-
ing in the volume of incoming in-
voices, it has simplified office work,
eliminated annoyances that were ex-
pensive one way or another, and af-
fected a direct saving of money
through reduction of personnel.
It is because of this that the com-
pany is presenting the plan of the uni-
form invoice to American business
for general adoption so that all may
share in its advantages and economic
values.
CAREY SMITH.
Entered at the Postoffice at Bay City, Texas, as second class mail matter
under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879.
Any erroneous reflection upon the character or standing of any person or
business concern will be readily and willingly corrected upon its being
brought to the attention of the publishers.
The paper will be conducted upon the highest possible plane of legitimate
newspaper business.
O^ev-
ffay and
just
(the
every
cold snap is fine' because it rids us
of insects, but every spring and sum-
mer and fall we have more insects
than ever before. The bug knows bet-
ter than man when to go in, how long
to stay and when to come out. And,
nevei’ fer, he and his minions will
be out and at work in full force again
next year regardless of how much
zero weather we have this winter.
Wand difficulties in an invoic-
Wrtment.
zone one meets all the re-
P^yints of modern invoicing with
Wstinct advantage of the “cus-
Mrs order” column permitting con-
BB.ated as well as single billing.
Hue two, devoted to the customer’s
BFeds, is in keeping with the idea of
^service on which all business is de-
pendent for its success. It reserves
for the use of the shipper’s customer
a. place for any data he may wish to
affix in his method of checking or ap-
proving charges. The customer be-
gins to save time with the arrival of
the invoice in his mailing department
and on through his whole office or-
ganization.
Briefly the advantages of the uni-
form invoice may be summed up as
follows:
For the shipper:
shipping data; continuous writing
spaces; natural carriage shifts for
speed in typing; fixed column for cus-
tomer’s order number, permitting con-
solidated billing—that is, all ship-
there ments for one day, regardless of or-
der number, appearing on one invoice,
effecting a reduction of 25 per cent
in papers to be handled by shipper
and customer.
For the customer: Reservation cen-
tralizes customer’s approvals; elimi-
1 nates customer’s use of rubber stamps
I and sticker riders; prevents defacing
i invoice and obliterating important
i data.
dis-
The
per-
by a lot of well paid sleuths, the min- formed well and have the confidence
Moreover, they have
set an example or two in economy
that ought to be valuable to evex y
state and county in the union. If
President Coolidge wishes to succeed
himself, there is not the slightest
doubt but that he will be able to do so.
of> valence of crime. Other and more #
direct crime statistics are available, a
though there is probably no branck
of statistical research so incomplete
as that dealing with the actual com-
mission of crimes. As to murder, rob-
bery and most of the major Crimea,-,
however, there is no possible doubt
that the tendency is steadily upward.
The average individual with a capac-
ity for observation whose adult mem-
ory goes back to 1910 will answer
unhesitatingly out of his own impres-
sions that crimes of violence are far
more frequent now than fifteen years
ago. So, on that basis, it is at least
a plausible conclusion that our dwin-
dling prison population is an indica-
tion of greater laxity in law enforce-
ment rather than a sign that crime is
waning. Does it not seem likely that
there is more crime because there are
fewer prisoners, and not fewer pris-
oners because there is less crime?-—
Galvston News.
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The Mt. Pleasant grocer who re-
ceived a check recently for a bill of
groceries bought from him in 1905 no [
doubt can look at it as one amongst
hundreds that he has not gotten
checks for. Even in a printing office
we get our share of these deadhead
accounts, and for which a check never
arrives.
various adaptations, with those for
1910. On the face of it, the report
would seem to indicate that popula-
tion increase considered, very satis-
factory progress is being made toward
eliminating that condition of lawless-
ness of which prisons are the con-
crete symbol. The prison population
of the United States on January 1,
1923, was 109,619. On January 1, 1910,
the prison population numbered 111,-
498. But, of course, the general pop-
ulation of the country largely increas-
ed within the thirteen-year period.
There were in 1910 121.2 prisoners for
each 100,000 general population, as
against 99.7 per 100,000 in 1923. That
would seem to be an unmistakable in-
dication that crime is on the wane.
However, as the report it careful to
point out, prison population is not an
entirely reliable index to the preva-
lance of crime. A large proportion
of law-breakers are not apprehended.
Of those who are
part are indicted and convicted.
ally, the growth of the suspended sen-
have bargains in Bay City homes, also desir-
able farm lands adjoining the City limits, ideal
Next year is political year and it
promises to open early. Fact of the
matter is, there are those who have
never quit running and they are still
in the race. If defeated, they will
keep on running. Candidates for all
the offices from the little one to the
big one will be numerous and the
campaign will carry the usual amount
of heat and steam, so, never fear, it
will all be interesting enough.
MPWTssor
about his
css. Yes,
sold Tamerlane for $1950.
years ago it brought $11,000.
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When Knud Rasmussen took his
journey through “the Northwest pas-
sage” in 1923 with a solitary sledge
and a single dog team, he completed '
the longest sledge journey ever made.
any, LHC £>1U¥YL.L1 UL LUU OUbpCUUCU #--
fence, or probation system, since 1910 , mailing,
tends to defeat any accurate conclu-
sion as to increase or decrease of
crime by comparing prison statistics studied the boll weevil, and
for the two periods. The practice of
dealing with juvenile offenders sepa-
rately has also largely developed
since 1910, and the figures do not in-
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Christopher Sholes, inventor of the
first practical typewriter and at one
3 xiw apyxciivuueu. time editor of the Milwaukee Senti-
apprehended, only I nel> was the first man to Print the
Fin-1 names and addresses of subscribers
of newspapers for
elude inmates
atories.
Weighing all of these qualifying
factors, the report becomes practical-
statistics bearing on social condi- ily valueless as an index to the pre-
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for the shipper’s use and varyjng interpretations Very seldom I
customer’s use, so that it can taken at their face value,
Thomas Whiteside, who aspires to
represent Harris County in the next
legislature is frank, open, honest in
his public discussion of the prevailing
liquor laws. But Thomas will not
get far. Everybody knows he spoke
the truth and spoke it well, but he’s
up against a gigantic hypocritical
farce and hypocritical politics is
mighty hard to down. Every man,
woman and child in Harris County
knows that Whiteside “told it
straight,” but the truth cuts no figure
in a matter of this kind. Drinking
poisoned liquors by the wholesale is
common the land over. Drinking those
poisonous concoctions is commoner
than ordinary drinking ever was. Ten
young people, especially of the female
class, are drinking today to where one
drank under the old order of things.
No party is complete these days with-
out its battery of hip pocket flasks
and it is popular for all to “take a
nip.” And what do they take? Infe-
rior, poisonous liquors, of course.
Whiteside is to be commended for his
honesty and frankness, but as long as
the hypocrit can talk and vote one
way and drink and sell and wax opu-
lent another way, he will have an up-
hill trip of it. But, with it all, White-
side s frankness and the open, honest
expose that this damnable farce is
getting throughout the land shows an
awakening of the honest, honorable
Be-
! sides that, Americans would become
: upon every time they turned around ] President and his cabinet have
■ ions of a system that is draining the of the people.
: pocketbooks of the taxpayers of the' set an exampl
: nation to sustain. The eighteenth
amendment was written in the con-
stitution, but not by the people. It
can be written out of the constitution
and will be when folks become honest
with themselves once more and speak
the truth.
data.
The desirability of the “customer’s
order’ ’column feature of the uniform
invoice, which permits accumulative
billing, was forcibly brought out in
a recent comparison made by the com-
pany with another form of invoice,
designed for single ordex' billing.
i This case was that of an account
I payable invoice of the uniform form
• on which 17 items were listed as com-
1 pared with the other single order
■ form:
o | Advantages shown for the uniform
mous amount paid in on the gasoline ; invoice
tax. When we begin to get down to I
figures and to analyze what $15,000,- '
000 in cold cash really is, it causes all
of us to wonder why there are no
connected highways in this state,
Smallpox is popularly known
“Heavenly Flowers” in China,
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night, to shcc,
how little he
ant’s) winte; \\sji
Since there are others besides the
members of the Anti-Saloon League
who are critics of the act, it may
serve a helpful purpose to set forth
just what the law is and what it
means.
In order to do so in plain terms,
it is logically in order to quote sec-
tion 9 of the irrepealable, unamend-
able bill of rights, which is a part of
the constitution which every legisla-
tor has sworn to support. It reads as
follows:
Sec. 9. The people shall be secure
in their persons, papers and pos-
sessions from all unreasonable seiz-
ures ox- searches, and no warrant
to search any place, or to seize any
person or thing shall issue with-
out describing them as near as may
be, bi’ without probable cause sup-
ported by oath or affirmation.
It must be obvious to the most cas-
ual reader that what is meant by the
term “unreasonable seizures or
searches” is such as are made without
warrant based on sworn complaint;
therefore, any search or seizure made
in that way is unlawful, because it
is a violation of, and trespass upon, ;
the inherent natural rights of the cit-
izen which he possessed before there
evei’ was a written constitution. It
did not create those rights; it only'
guarantees their protection. It is ob-! A
.... . A million cars, therefore, means $15,-
vious, too, that houses, papers, per- nnn nnn .Uxx... _x_A
sons and possessions are put under
equal protection.
The legislature merely phrased the
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80 Dftr CADt. of th a crimp, would pmra '
! immediately and that no more deaths doesn’t it?
; would result from alcoholism.
free once more and would not be spied i turbed over the Lowden boom.
constitutional guaranties into statu-
tory form. In doing so it obeyed the
constitution.
As has been said before in this col-
umn, it could not have by affirmative
legislation constitutionally authorized
that to be done, which, by negative
legislation, is forbade.
If those who indulge in vitrolic as-
saults on the law do not know 1
about it.
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, January 1, 1926, newspaper, January 1, 1926; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1304298/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.