Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 18, 1932 Page: 2 of 4
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Published Every Thursday
1. W. DISMUKES Publisher
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Entered at the Palactos Post Office as
second class mail matter under Act
of Congress.
Sun Eclipse August 31
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Often
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's Not A Picnic
An eclipse of the sun, total over a
portion of the New England states
and partial throughout the rest of
the country, will occur on the after-
noon of August 31, affording millions
of people the opportunity to witness
this most striking celestial phenom-
enon.
The extent of the eclipse will vary
From the total in portions of the East
to only 10 to 30 per cent on the Paci-
fic coast. In the middle West and in
the Southeastern states from 50 to
75 per cent of the sun's face will ba
obscured as the moon passes across it.
The earth is the only planet in our
solar system with a moon large enough
to make a total eclipse of the sun
possible. Mercury and Venus have no
moons at all; Mars has two. but they
are only about five to 10 miles in dia-
meter, so would only show as small
black spots when crossing the sun's j
face. The larger planets have several
loons, but none are large enough to |
eclipse more than a slight fraction of
the sun.
An endless source of wonder to the
layman is the ability of astronomers
to predict the occurrence of eclipses
with unerring accuracy yeai"3 and ovn
centuries in advance. It is known, for
example, that a total eclipse <'f tli • sun
will be visible along the southern bord-
er of the United States from Califor-
nia to Florida on August 12, 2045—
or 113 years hence. The eclipse which
will occur this month was predicted
and described in great detail in a work
published in Vienna nearly 50 years
ago.
But if we can not understand how
these wonderful specacles of the skies
are predicted, we may witness them as
occasion offers and marvel at the mind
of man which has discovered so many
of nature's secrets.
The Canal Project
Alhough few details of the propos-
ed Great Lakes-St. Lawrence canal
project have been made available to
the general public, it appears that most
people who know about the proposal
at all have jumped to the conclusion
that it is a most desirable scheme.
Some questions that are highly per-
tinent have been raised, however, by
Marlen E. Pew, editor of the news-
paper trade magazine Editor & Pub-
lisher. He asks what effect this canal
will have on Chicago's drainage supply
and on our internal water transporta-
tion plans. What of the diversion of
freight from American railroads and
American ports such as New York and
Baltimore and the effect on the thous-
ands of workers normally employed by
these railroads and at these ports?
Canada seems highly pleased with
the Rrospeet^,- perhaps for
ttt>"1p Sf J'good. For it is estimated
reject will cost the United
ksury some $700,000,000
dly a billion befoi-e the job is
neri—and that money must come
aii the pockets of American taxpay-
ers wh<* are already staggering under
a burdefv that can not much longer be
borne.
Maybe the canal would be a good
thing for somebody. But it might be
well to investigate who that some-
body is before embracing the idea with
too much enthusiasm.
trcasi
The only country in which regular
slave markets still exist is Arabia.
(Continued froiy Page 1.)
said that he then safr, with his own
eyes, Jim Ferguson twist and squirm
and heard,, with his own ears, Fergu-
son's acknowledgment that the accus-
ation was true.
"I got up and left then", he said, i
"What I had heard was enough for j
me, and ought to be enough for any
honest person who gives a rap for
his state. . . .
"They don't have to tell me a single
other thing to make me fight Fergu-
sonism so long as he tries further to
disgrace, disturb and humiliate this
state by seeking public office." I agree
that it is certainly a reflection on us
all that the one instance citied is not ;
sufficient to put Ferguson out of
public life in Texas forever. Because
we let this man, impeached on ten
counts, run in his wife's name over i
and over again, and because we seem
to feel it necessary to tell so many.
of his misdeeds, I charge that thous- j
ands of the youth of our State—the j
hope of the future—are weighing |
their elders in the balance and find- j
ing us wanting. Not a day passes that j
either in my office or at home I do not
hear some of them talking—these girls j
and boys—young men and women, and
they are questioning the very founda-
tion of our government. They are
questioning wheather integrity and
truth and honor—pay—'think of li>
They are wondering if people are not
coming to admire the grafter and
spoilsman in office, if we are really
fit for self government.
But I must not disgress—although
a book could be written on the subject.
Speakers and writers of unimpeach-
able integrity tell you daily how false,
how without any foundation in fact,
the scandalous charges being made
against Governor Ross Sterling are,
I know nearly all of these men per-
sonally; I thank God for them, and
I'd risk my life on the integrity of
most of them.
The charges, for instance, about the
State being in the red are so ridicu-
lous. The state does get behind at
times, probably will again. What per-
son, firm .corporation, city, county
or state or nation isn't behind during
these unprecedented times, and what
would Jim Ferguson do but make
matters worse? But the State certain-1
ly was not behind when I presented
my $16fi.(ifi warrant for payment for'
the months of June and July because |
I received exactly that amount each]
time, and the June and July warrants I
of every peison in my office were1
cashed without being discounted. I
know that.
However, most questions asked me
concern the pardon records of the Fer-1
gusons as compaw d with Governor
Sterling's. These records are public
documents on file in my office and1
open to any one for inspection. In
this connection let me impress upon |
you the vast difference between a fur-1
lough, a parole and a pardon. When a
prisoner is granted a furlough, it is
for a limited time and practically al-
ways for an emergency such as severe |
illness or death in his family. Texas
has a parole law, and when a prison-
er is paroled it is in compliance with
this law and upon the condition of
good behavior; and he knows that for
the very first violation of this condi-
tion, he will be brought back to the
penitentiary to serve out his term.
The parole law is generally accepted
as one of the most effective measures
for reform over devised, and Governor
Sterling is to be congratulated upon
his sensible, successful administering
of this law.
But when a man is pardoned, he is,
as you know ,as free as if never in-
carcerated. Jim Ferguson stated in
his publication of July 2i (you may
verify this almost anywhere a.' this
sheet litters nearly everybody's yarci,1
under a typically Fergusonian caption
that I do not care to quote, that
". . . the number of pardon pro-
clamations issued by Gov. Miriam A.
Ferguson during her entire adminis-
m
W. LOOK
KT muE1.
JOHN.I MSH mo
HWRV rnTH "most THMG5
fSW> WELP fAE OPEN THV5 MO
GO GET OS SOWVE EKESH
MTEfc AND YDOK AFTtR
THE CH\U)R.EK AND -
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tered as tha statute required "u. their
own hands'?, and when the surprised
and over-wjielmed county officials tab-
ulated the {returns, they found a total
of 385,000: and even Ferguson admit-
ted in his Forum of August 1, 1918,
that he lost the women vote ten to
one—and how he did ravei Women of
1918 thus registered indignant pro-
test to Ferguson's inconceivable brag-
gadoia and as you know he was
over-whelmingly defeated.
These were some of the "Women
who dreamed Texas" for you younger
women, who caught the torch from the
hands of those first Texas pioneers
"Storm women-Laughing women,
women stout and small,
Bronzed wometi, broken women-
brave women all.
"And their look was far away,
For they gazed straight through
The sunset to the unborn day"—of
today.
And I know in my heart that wo-
men of today will not betray their
trust—that you will surpass the march
of the 385,000 of fourteen years ago,
in voting for the continuance in office
of a man who has stood four-square
and given you a courageous, honest,
'economical administration during the
most trying period in the history of
our State and Nation.
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H. CLIFF DRESSER
IN PALACIOS
WEDNESDAYS AND THURSDAYS
—Send Inquiries to Beacon Office—
"Doctor, tell me what's wrong with
me, in plain English, please."
"You're lazy," said the doctor.
"Now tell the scientific name so's
I can tell my wife."
For Kodak Finishing,
Enlarging, Copying or
Other Photographic Work, go 9
Blocks North from City Hall,
then l'/2 Blocks East, or leave
Films at—
MURIEL'S NOVELTY SHOPPE
H-U-N-T-E-R
PILES
I CURE any case of Piles, no matter
how long standing, without Cutting,
Tieing, Cauterizing or Sloughing, and
without detention from business or
pleasure.
Consultation and Examination Free
DR. W. R. STRASNER
RECTAL SPECIALIST
Office: Ruthvcn Bldg. Palacios, Texas
tration was 3324; by Gov. Sterling in
18 months of his administration,
3341."
Men and women of Texas, the fact
is that Governor Sterling during his
nineteen months in the governor's of-
fice has issued only sixteen pardons.
(Tabulation made August 9, 1932.)
Please get this exactly. I pledge you
my word both as a woman who be-
lieves in fair tilay and officially as your
Secretary of State, that all of these
records are in my office and that Gov-
ernor Ross Sterling has during his
entire 19 months as governor of your
state, granted only fifteen full par-
dons and one conditional pardon to
persons convicted for crime. He has
not nullified the acts of our courts.
Now then as our friend, the County
Judge, quoted before would say, isn't
this one thing enough to discredit
every other statement in that unmen-
tionable sheet? Why go further?
Why? Because the younger women
should be reminded of what the older
ones have long known and that is that
Miriam Ferguson has nsver represent-
ed even a very small portion of the
patriotic, intelligent womanhood of
this state. This is evidenced in Fer-
guson's own statement on July, 1926,
in his Foi-um. Among other up-lifting
things he wrote: ". . . mark what I
tell you. From this time on the pres-
tige of this high brov,' silk stocking
women brigade will begin to wane and
their inhuman treatment of Governor
Ferguson whom they should have sup-
ported will keep them from exercis-
ing influence in elections. . . No high
brow self important club woman who
has heretofore posed as the savior of
the republic ought ever to be allowed
the ballot hereafter when she goes and
voi^s to turn this state over to such
an ii. experienced and unworthy man
as Dan Moody." Do not be misled,
rural women were just as aw..led as
were the city .vomen and worked
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shoulder to shoulder, but Ferguson
always attempts to array city and
[county against each other.
The editorial quoted gives the fur-
ther information that "Dan is a blowed
up sucker," that "his friends know it
—the dogs know it, the children know
it, the women know it. . ."(Character-
istically putting women after children
and dogs.)
| Why have women long realized that
Mrs. Ferguson never has and never
'can cause them aught but shame and
humiliation? A multiplicity of reasons
are available but lets select one or two
from the files, and in giving you these
facts from the records of 1925 of the
39th Legislature, let me assure you
that I shall gladly certify to them and
attach to my certificate what to me
is a sacred instrument—the great seal
of the State of Texas, of your state
and my state.
For one thing, Miriam Ferguson
voted—after it had passed both House
and Senate of course—the appropria-
tion of .$1800 for a Maternity Home
enforcement officer—and with a
stroke of the same pen she approved
an appropriation of $2500 for an As-
sistant Supervisor of Fish Hatcheries.
You older mothers know of the un-
speakable conditions that prevailed in
negro midwife supervised maternity
houses for unfortunate 'white women
in 1926. Was Miriam Ferguson repre-
senting you when she cut off all hope
of decent conditions for mothers and
babies? Was she?
Practically the first thought if not
the first words of every informed
young mother when she regains con-
sciousness after descending into the
valley of the shadow of death that a
little life may come into the world is
"Did they put the drops in my baby's
eyes?" She knows that 90'/f of blind-
ness at birth can be prevented by sil-
ver nitrate or similar drops.
So imperative is this treatment con-
- sidered that the Legislature passed a
law requiring the Board of Health to
furnish "such silver nitrate solution
or other prophylatic drops free of cost
to the poor of the State"—to the fath-
ers and mothers unable to buy it—
and prescribed a penalty for viola-
tion of the law by doctors, physicians,
midwives. nurses, or those in attend-
ance at child birth.
In 1925, Miriam Ferguson vetoed
this appropriation of $500, and at the
same time she approved a yearly ap-
propriation of $4,000 for the cultiva-
tion of oysters and improving oyster
reefs.
Did she represent you, the women
of this State, when she blue penciled
this pitiful sum that would have
brought peace of mind to thousands
of impoverished mothers and surely
have saved the sight of some little
unfortunate? Did she? I wonder if i
the $500 thus snatched by Mrs. Fer- j
guson from the appropriation to in-
sure the eyesight of new born babies
went to the fund that Ferguson used
to prevent the attorney general fore- j
ing the American Road Company and j
the Hoffman Construction Company to
bring back the $1,000,000 from Kansas
City to Texas.
Was Miriam Ferguson representing
the women of Texas when she vetoed
the salaries of two nurses, totaling
$30>00 a year and at the same time
approved a yearly appropriation of
$5,283.82 for Veterinarian Science in-
cluding a study of the disease of
cattle? Was she?
! I voice no objection to husbanding
the cattle and the oysters and the
fishes, but even the code of weather-
beaten seamen is, and always has been
"women and children first".
By way of comparison of the two
administrations, Governor Sterling ve-
toed $3,621,897.00—saved the tax pay-
ers this amount of hard cash. Never-
theless, he restored not only the Mater-
nity Home Inspector and the nurses,
but he was largely responsible for the
division devoted to Child Welfare and
he approved an appropriation of $1,-
200 per annum or a total of $2,400
for silver nitrate. (See Session laws,
42nd, Pages 685-6.)
| I have referred before to this wo-
man governor's pardon record. I cer-
tified to it first two years ago and
have since done so over and over again
as on file in my office and no one has
attempted to dispute the facts. I re-
iterate and declare lest you forget
that Miriam A. Ferguson for whom
some parties are trying to arouse sym-
pahy among the women of the state,
did, between the dates of December
16, 1926, and January 15,1927, grant
full, unconditional pardons to 124
robbers, 127 liquor law violators, 133
murderers and 39 rapists; that on the
days of January 15, 16 and 17, 1927,
she granted clemency in 160 robbers,
22 murderers and 10 rapists. Not pa-
roles or furloughs mind you, but par-
dons.
Was she representing". °r your
young sister, daught 01', grand- j
daughter, or any self lecting man
or woman in this state ®n sh° turn- j
ed loose to prey upon t" ' hese boot-1
loggers, highway robb( murders and
rapists? Was she?
Knowing these fact'an y°u> tvue
and intelligent wome'0'1 to repre-
sent to the utmost J1 the implica-
tion that this womav'P1'esents you ?
Can you fail to exfeverv ounce of
your strength and fluence and to
cast your vote ag>t this self ac-
knowledged tool of discredited hus-
band, who is one o>e worst enemies
women ever had ? wish I had time
to tell you the fulrue story of Jim
Ferguson's fight gainst organized
women.
The only state de record of wo-
man's participation politics in Texas
was made in 191 The revelaions of
the impeachmentf James E. Fer-
guson were fresfri their minds and
following the pliig of his name on
the ballot by the ite Executive Com-
mittee (and delf caused by certain
litigation) the 'men had only 17
days in which Register (in lieu of
paying a poll ts in order to vote in
the primaries fc-he first time in the
history of our ite.
Were they ovawed by Ferguson's
boasts, or too lid or indifferent to
vote ?
No, they mared as an army to the
250 courthouspver Texas and regis-
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