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THE MATAGORDA COUNTY TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1936
THE MATAGORDA COUNTY TRIBUNE
BY TRIBE NE PRINTING COMPANY
Bay City, Matagorda County, Texas
Clemorial ‘Day ‘Resolve
by A. B Chapin
SHERIFF’S SON
BREAKS LEG
John William Milner, seventeen
by friends and foes alike. One byWest than about the industrial
one, Senators who had earlier de East. The Republicans, however,
clared themselves in favor of the must carry New York to win,
| plan have announced that they had | while Mix Rosevelt could be elect-
been convinced by the array of d without it if he could carry
CAREY SMITH
CAREY SMITH, Jr
. Owner and Editor 1
Assistant Editor and Business Manager
months old son of Sheriff and Mrs. tacts
Harris Milner, received a broken
and arguments against it, three or four of the larger Middle
| until now it seems reasonably cer- | Western states in addition to those
leg at six-thirty Friday evening
ain that the Senate will produce of which he seems to be assured.
The nomination for President
Entered at the Postoffice at Bay City, Texas, as second cla s mail matter |
brought to the attention of the publisher
Any erroneous reflection upon the charac ter or standing of any person or any
business concern will I readily and willingly corrected upon it being
The progress and growth of any What is almost certain to come
town demands that industry be in the wake of the great develop-
encouraged and sustained. Any ment taking place in the Bay City
thing that employs people should | oil fields will be the building of
get the loyal and healthy support a huge refinery in or near the
of the town in which it is lon city. It is within the range of
cated. The peanut roaster should 'possibility that this is nearer at
be encouraged to the extent that hand than is realized, because it
s all a perfectly logical after-
is within the range of
cated.
he can do enough business to
employ two roaster and so on math of what is taking place now
up to the greatest to be found A more favorable location would
Not only should this be the case, be hard to find for such an enter
but it should be the duty of every I prise than Bay City Close to an |
ample supply of raw material,
accessible to three trunkline rail-
man to look out for and secure
new industries. A bucket brig-
ade pays big dividends. Be sure
you don't kill any of them.
What could be more timely or
of more benefit to Bay City right
now than one of the packing
plants as suggested for the Gulf
coast section by W. B. Mitchell,
of Marfa, one of the tale s most
prominent cattlemen, and a re-
finery as is justified by the abun-
dance of oil being produced here?
We believe that if we should
work for the bringing in of in-
dustries such as these as we
should, we will get them. Some
sincer efforts put out by a few
of our leading citizens will do
the work
roads and equipped, as the city
is, with a system of all-concrete |
highways, the location could not
be better. A refinery here will
start our progress along industrial
lines and give our town a needed
permancy which nothing else at
the moment can bring about. We
believe a little agitation on the
part of certain of our business
element will work wonders, sup-
pose we give it our best efforts
and see what will happen.
The
MOTHERS
OF
TODAY-
o I DEDICATE- MYSELF 1
ANEW t.
$ TO THE HIGH PURPOSE
" OF OPPOSING WAR, WITH ALL MY ENERGY
* THUS
A MAKING »T LESS INEVITABLE
- THAT MY SON
SHOULD MAKE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE,
WHICH THIS DAY .
7 SO FITTINGLY COMMEMORATES 7
% IN HONOR 7
", OF THOSE WHO HAVE----
when his foot slipped on a piece of a tax measure which will work,
newspaper that was on the polish- and which will not result in handi- |
capping business enterprises.
While the suggestion of this new |
method of taxation was originally didates must be men who have the
made by the President, it is under- best apparent chance of winning
stood that he has told the Senators
ed floor. His right leg was broken
i between the knee and thigh. He
was rushed to Loos hospital where
he is under the care of Dr. H. H.
Loos and getting along as well as
lean be expected.
The Tribune joins his many
friends in wishing him a speedy
I recovery.
TH
PIN
EEK
WASHINGTON. May 23 it i
and Vice- President . d the fram-
ing of the Republican platform
will be done w ith a constant eye
on these figures. The Party's can-
the support of voters in the agri-
that cultural states without being of-
they can do as they think best so fensive to the voters of the East-
long as they bring out a lull that ern industrail states, while the
will yield the $620,000,000 addi-platform must
tional revenue the Government enough to please
needs. Inside the Administration,
of the Finance Committee
as a matter of fact, the original ;
plan had no friends except among |
a very small group of Treasury |
i advisors. More or less openly
the President’s strongest support-
ers are expressing their opposi-
tion. The best judgment here is
ht progressive
the agrarian
West without being radical enough
to offend the conservative East.
The situation is complicated by
the fact that all the recent and
most accurate polls of political
opinion indicates that the Presi-
that the outcome will be a mod-
erate increase in general corpora-
tion taxes and a very moderate
step in the direction of taxing
corporate surpluses, instead of re-
lying upon the latter tax to raise
dent's greatest strength is in the
big cities and the western farm-
ing districts. Nobody is talking
yet about any possibility of any
of the states of the "Solid South”
going Republican.
easy to poke fun at the August all of the required additional reve-
representatives of the people of nue.
the United States sitting in Cong-
To Our Subscribers
Of the 3,191,584 miles of public
roads in the United States, only
about 1,043,500 miles have re-
ceived any kind of surfacing ma-
terial, and only 157,500 miles have
high-type hard surface, most of
which has been constructed after
a generation spent on experiment-
al road building. In Texas about
$32,000,000 is collected annually
in gasoline taxes, enough to build
1600 miles of all-concrete road-
ways at $20,000 per mile. Twice
across the state each year and all
paid for with the gasoline tax
would be doing fair enough. With-
in five years at such a gait, the
state would be paved for the next
50 years without much outlay for
up-keep, as concrete is afe, per-
manent, comfortable and fine
looking, the only really worth-
R. B. Creager, of Brownsville,
National Republican committee-
man and nominal head of the Re-
publican party in Texas sees the
possibility of another coalition of
Texas Democrats and Republicans
similar to the one of 1928 which
gave the State to the Republicans
for the first and only time in his
tory. "There are hundreds of thou-
sands of Democrats in Texas who
nre not going to support Roose-
velt and it may easily be that
after the nominations are made
and the platform adopted there
will be an anti-Roosevelt consti-
tutional Democratic movement in
the state, having as its object the
defeat of Roosevelt and the res-
toration of the Democratic party
to its hime-honored principles
ficient production and distribu-
tion methods, would do much to
increase both purchasing power
and employment. The great bulk
of citizens live up to their in-
comes almost 100 per cent. When
prices are high, they must re-
trench, and buy fewer and cheap-
er articles results, less employ-
ment. When prices are low, they
of important labor leaders went
on record for him. Theoretically.
the American Federation of Labor |
Boat Building Industry
Convention Talk
As has been the custom with
this office, we are sending, on
ress assembled on Capitol Hill,
and it is quite reasonable at times,
to ridicule the peculiar antics in
which both the Senate and the
House of Representatives fre-
quently indulge, especially as elec-
tion time approaches and the boys
are talking for the voters in their
home district.
But once in a while the Senate
of the United States justifies its
proud boast of being "the greatest
deliberative body in the world."
It is showing signs now of qual-
ities more statesmanlike than it
has exibited for a long time. The
House, in effect, threw up its
hands when it came to considera-
tion of the new tax bill and tossed
into the Senate's lap a document
upon which both friends and foes
of the Administration for once
find themselves in agreement.
They were unanimous in declar-
ing the bill providing for taxing
undistributed corporation surplus-
es to be a hastily' thrown together
mass of incomprehensible and un-
workable clauses.
Senate Goes To Work
The political pot boils with in-June 1, to all of our subscribers
creasing vigor as convention time
approaches. Discussion is shifting
from the question as to who will
be the Republican candidate to-
ward his chances of election, who-
ever he may be. Gov. Landon's I mediate remittance,
friends are claiming that the de-
| whose times have expired or who
I are in arrears statements of each
individual amount due us, with
i the belief (and hope) that you
I will gladly respond with an im-
We are giving you a good p per.
feat of the Hearst-Merriman effort |
to elect Landon-instructed dele- |
dates in California has helped the
Kansas Governor's chances. Opin-
ions differ sharply on that. The
view is held by some experienced
observers that the result of the
California primaries brings Mr.
Hoover more strongly into the
convention picture, not so much
as a candidate as an influence,
and Mr. Hoover's influence will
for the money. We will willingly
put it up against any in the coun-
try. We believe you realize it to
be worth all we ask for it and
more, so please do your part by
us just like we are doing by you.
Your amount is small, very
small, and you can i. sily spagit.
Remember it is only one of U
dreds just like it and every
counts big at this end of the line. 1
Palacios Beacon
Boat building is becoming quite
an industry for Palacios and dur-
ing the past year there has been
one or more under construction
the greater part of the time. Some
weeks ago one which had been
built in the Grant Lumber Co.’s
yard, was launched and taken to
Freeport making the trip in about
six hours we were told. It is own-
ed by Matthew Burton and was
, . I built by A. II. Gallot, who is cap-
come a king abou tain. It is 48 feet long equipped
permit the millions of citizens of a lack of co-operation on the part with two Buick engines so arrange
average means to buy beyond the of others. If you do your part, ed as to give extra speed and will
bare necessities of life. To achieve you’ll not need so much co-oper- be used for fishing parties. It
lower prices, government mustre- ation anyway, was christined “Riptide” and is a
well kr.....vn Nieinlly incite the costs of Tro- Y outh Points A Way
Ruction o costs on distribubuilt at this yard, one for M. I
tion and retailing, at the expense .Cox with Amel Pierce and Capt.
possibility. It is the Tribune’s of the consumer. There is a defi- Pointing out t drivers Ivo Herman Hod doing the work. It
firm conviction that if Texas nite movement on foot to penalize o is to be used for both pleasure and
o through taxes restrictive leg la- in more than one-fifth of all motor,
Democrats would vote as they,1work, and will be quite an addi-
deep down in their hearts think, tion, merchandising systems that C 1 11 ,o tion to Palacios’ fleet, J. C. Payne
Texas would most assuredly go have made it possible to narrow quarter of all fataliceidents the is building the other one which is
Republican this fall. It is our the spread in the cost of commo-National Student Federationto be used for fishing and shrimp-
candid belief that not one Texa dities betwe n producer and con American has called upon the col ing
Democrat out of three really sumer It is apparent that such ege you Tor merica aecer I The second boat to be built in
sanctions the Socialistic and com-a movement. If successful, will its share of the responsibility for
munistie Meas which have been raise pric.....- a lea l make low-the traine accident situation.
put into practice by the present er prices impossible. We’ve tried , “This problem needs to be tack-
National administration. Not one artificial inflation of commodity, led by youth, says a. Federation
1price nd th noade dent bulletin going to 1,700 presidents
in a dozen approves the orgy of Dices andat na ni made a dent 11 *: ,
wanton extravagance coins on atl solving the unemployment prob-of student councils and editors ot
. 7 Tom ThAn wtv in the amegristudent newspapers. So long a i
Washington or will give his ap-cm Ch Win in C name O13
proval to the roc set-ups withreason should more law - be pa - | the wily hich annually takes. 36c : Plenty of space for iceing shrimp
which we have been surfeited, ed to reduce purchasing power to 000 l ontinues uncontrolled, and fish. A six cylinder Buick
But the lure of political favor it-the inevitable detriment of em youth S faced with a n
ism and the single of free and ployment:
easy money constitute an alluring
political pot pourri' and the "Exalt the citizen ... Make ,,
boys are hanging onto the band him wit-rep ting, Mf-^h
wagon like leeches. Creager is and responsible.
under the leadership of Demo-
crats who believe in the consti-
tution and in American funda- 1
mentals, and such a movement |
might easily again throw the elec-
toral vote of Texas into the Re-
publican column,” Creager said
While it is the belief of this paper
while road. Of course it will that Mr. Kreager is
never be known what experiment-
ing with the various highway optimistic it
, 2 ■ I fa st that, what he hope will take
building materials has cost the, T
place is well within the range of
state. Beyond a doubt a fabulous
sum has been so wasted. Why it
continues in face of the positive
knowledge that concrete is the
only high class, dependable and 1
permanent road-building material
known and, in the end, vastly!
more economical is a mystery to
all of the people who are inter-
ested n an improved highway
system
According to a new item pub-
lish t elsewhere in this isuue, W.
B Mitchell, a prominent stock-
man of Marfa, believes the next
step in Texas cattle industry
should be construction of packing
plants along the Gulf coast.
Slaughtering plants along the Gulf
coast would solve the problem of
buy more and better articles, run-
ning the gamut all the way from |
is non-partisan—but it is known
that it likes Roosevelt. President
of the Federation, William, Green,
never misses an opportunity to
praise the President in his speech-
es, has intimated that his return
1 to office is highly desirable to
labor.
be against Gov. Landon's nomi- please
nation.
Whomever the Republicans may
nominate, he will have to carry
15 doubtful states, if the political
Let's get even again. If you
TRIBUNE PRINTING CO./
21-2« w.
groceries to radios result, great-
er employment Every factory in
the land hums when the general
price structure is low enough to
If your town is good enough to
live in, it is good enough to work
for. Do your part and cease for
all time to
observers are right. The best of |
these give Mr. Roosevelt 248 elec-
toral votes from the states which
are regarded as certain to go
j Democratic. The Republicans are 1
Rid Yourself of
Kidney Poisons
The Senate Finance Committee onceded only 72 electorial votes
has gone at the job in a serious| It takes 266 electorial votes to
way. It has practicality discarded arry the election. There are 211
everything that the House did, dectorial vote in the 15 state
I More than that, it has gone down which are regarded doubtful. In
| to the bottom of the whole ques-some 05 the Restate the
| tax upon corporate surpluses the Democrat to tii Repu
would yield an increase in govern- compared with 1932, would
a ment revenues over those obtain- to carry them. They are: Ne
able under present tax laws, asYork, Connecticut: New Jersey
well as whether such a law, of Maryland; Ohio; Michigan; Indi
general application, would not ana; Illinois: Iowa: South Dakoto
I work to the benefit of the big Nebraska; Kansas; Wyoming; Col
corporations and seriously injure orado and Idaho.
smaller enterprises
The GOP Problem
DO you suffer burning, scanty or
L too frequent urination; backache,
headache, dizziness, loss of energy,
leg pains, swellings and puffiness
under the eyes? Are you tired, nerv-
ous—feel all unstrung and don't
know what is wrong?
Then give some thought to your
kidneys. Be sure they function proper-
ly for functional kidney disorder per-
mits excess waste to stay in the blood,
and to poison and upset the whole
system.
Use Doan's Pills. Doan's are for the
kidneys only. They are recommended
the world over. You can get the gen-
uine, time-tested Doan's at any drug
store.
the J. L. Pybus yard was com- The Senate Committee has Republican politicans studying
pleted this week and w ill be listened with great seriousness to these figures are, naturally, more
launched in a few days. It is for i analysis of the proposed measure. I concerned about the agricultural I
the Crawford Packing Co., and |
was designed by Jack Shultz. It |
is 13 by 45 feet, with a nice deck |
roomy quarters for the crew uc
motor will i
power. It
e used for pro
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“Ue-s-Ui-aa-er-tece NosnefUfe-te-ncllfeeecrcfyfeet-nelten-eINeee
exports and that of Texas beef
returning from Chicago and otheragon like leeche Creager and • ■ * w ing against the futility of an
points by rail. From such slaugh-absolutely right in his statement abortive, short-sighted campaign,
ter houses meat could be shipped that there are hundreds of thou- the Federation emphasizes that a
directly to different part of Tex i nd of T Democrat who Some sp. 1. I neluc ing me ■ Spring program ought to be under-
and to meat-eating states of the are not going to support the Demo- whose view, are listened to with taken with the expressed purpose
' cratic ticket. The difficulty is the utmost respect- adopted a of laying the ground-work for a
conciliatory tone. Such a speech long-term program next fall. The
was made by the Chamber’s presi- proposals are aimed at two speci-
dent. Harper Sibley, in a plea for fie phases of the problem as it
constructive cooperation between especially affects colleges They
government and business. But are, (1) influencing on any away
these talks were pretty well sub-from the campus, (2) establish-
merged by the wave of criticism.
Atlantic se board by water, the
cheapest of present-day methods."
they are not organized.
said Mitchell. What more logical
place can be found for such
purpose than this part of Texas
for the fruition of the idea sug-
The present course of unlimit-
ed spending must be abandoned
if the country is to be solvent.
Billions pumped into trade arte-
Bay City can be found the positive I ries have stimulated buying of
consumer goods, but unemploy-
since the place is almost the geo- ment has been reduced but
graphical center of three of the i slightly. Manufacturers Record.
gested by the Marfa stockman. In
hub of a great meat industry.
graphical center of three of the
state’s six biggest cattle-producing •
counties, Matagorda, Brazoria and
Wharton, with another one of the
The recently promulgated theo-
ry that the surest road to pros-
perity lies in lower, not higher,
six, Victoria, hardby and still an-
other, Kennedy, a little farther commodity prices, says Industrial
News, is receiving an extraordi-
The Administration Was repre-
sented by Secretary of Commerce
ing rules to govern undergradu-
ate us of the college and the com-
munity, not only locally, but in
Roper, who made a number of the community-at-large,
conservative suggestions. Str e- | ■■•■
tary of State Hull also spoke, but |
That youth should recognize and
he confined himself to a topic
close to his he art, reciprocal trade
act upon its responsibility in one
of the nation's gravest social prob-
lems, is itself a heartening indi-
captain,
at, and w:
ping and
Bay and Gulf of Mexico
TEN YEARS AGO
FRIDAY, MAY 11 1936
Miss Pauline Blair is visiting in
Gulf for the week, the guest of
her brother and family.
Mr. Sam Richarson, of Houston,
is in the city for a few days, the
guest of his sister, Mrs. P. G.
Secrest.
The Sulphur Industry
is one of Texas' many outstanding assets. Three mines
produce practically all of the nation’s supply
down the coast. Houston is now
operating packing plants, butnarily enthusiastic
should have more, according to from many important quarters | Upshot is th it it seems inev ’it-
Mr. Mitchell. In this connection Apparently experiments designed able that the President will go
it may prove interesting to the to further "an economy of scar-into the 1936 campaign with just
reader to know that the six big-city," and to artificially raise and
gest cattle-producing counties in stabilize the price level, have con-
Texas are Webb, in Southwest vinced unprejudiced experts that
Texas, and Mat agorda, Braz oria the nation needs something diam-
Wharton, Victoria and Kennedy in etrically different. One doesn't
the Gulf coast section, three of I have to be an economist to ap-
which are in a block in this im-I preciate the fact that reasonable
mediate section, prices made possible by more ef-
treaties, and did not attempt a cation of a new thoughtful spirit,
defense of other Administration There is extraordinary good sense
endorsement acts affecting .industry.
stabilize the price level, have con-
ISA:
about 99 per cent of business men
on the side of his opponent. It is
impossible to estimate how this
in the recognition that establish-
ing traffic control is a long-term
proposition an important fact
which older persons have some-
times failed to grasp The Feder-
ation is to be commended, too, for
...0 acknowledging that traffic safety
will affect his chances. But he is not something they know all
has lost valuable support, 1
A 1 . , . , [about They have secured the
On the other side of the fence advice and cooperation of the Na-
the President recently gained tional Bureal of Casu alty and
valuable support when a number Surety Underwriters, one of the
------------------------------------- outstanding national organizations
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RO
Mr. Raleigh Sanborn, of Hawk-
insville, spent today in the city
on business.
Mrs J. Cookenboo, of Hous-
ton, is in the city for a few days
visiting her parents. Mr. and Mrs.
C. F. Baker.
Capt. J. C. Carrington has re- ■
turned from a visit to Caldwell. 1
He was accompanied home by Miss ■
Clara Belle Carington who will
remain for a visit here. B
for improved traffic control.
Youth can, and it is hoped that
it will, do much to eradicate the
evil which is "a menace to its
' security and welfare and an
affront to its intelligence.''
The Gulf pavilion will be open-
ed for the summer with a big 1
dance tonight. Music will be fur-
nished by Jamie's orchestra.
Its easy to tell who owns the
car. Just pull the door shut The 1
owner always opens it again and
slams it louder."
I The heavy rain Saturday kept
the usual shopping crowds down
to a lower lovel than is customary
on the week end. Unpaved roads
over the county are impassable.
DOUGH
MTS
e DIE IN THE HOUSE
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