Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 24, 1927 Page: 1 of 4
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For a Greater, Better Palacios Country—Agriculture, Industry, Commerce, Living
SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
PALACIOS, MATAGORDA COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1927
VOLUME XX NUMBER 47
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PALACIOS
CHILDREN'S COLUMN
The Editor of the Beacon wishes to
announce the beginning of a new col-
umn for children by Fairy Godmother.
It will run from week to week, and is
written by a Palacios lady who is quite
competent to do so, as is evident from
the original poem attached. We wel-
come her to our pages-, urge parents to
read the column, and also read the
column to their children who are too
young to read it themselves.
It is the intention of the Beacon to
obtain a correspondent in Blessing,
who will record the doings of town and
district. Blessing and Palacios will
thus be knit together in a closer bond
of fellowship. It is also the desire of
the Editor to have a Farm and Gar-
den column. The writer hopes that
the time will come in the Palacios
schools when the boys and girls will
be required, as a part of the curricu-
lum, to name at least 12 varieties of
roses, and name and classify the wild
flowers that are so abundant and so
beautiful in South Texas. We learn
many things at school that we forget.
One thing we learn, if we learn it
there, that we never forget—and that
is the love of the beautiful in nature,
in music, in poetry, and in lit-
erature. A friend said not long
. since that one of the things he re-
gretted most in his college life was
that he had been too busy to cultivate
a love of beauty. It requires some
training and some grace, but nothing
in life pays us such dividends. Keats
shut to the door upon himself and
beauty, until beauty became living and
vibrant before his eyes, and he penned
the well-known lines:—
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases: it shall never
Pass into nothingness; but still will
keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams and health and
quiet breathing."
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As' said above, it is the intention
of the Beacon to be progressive and
forward-looking, and the Editor hopes
that the other public institutions in our
city, the Chamber of Commerce, the
City Council, etc., will be just as pro-
gressive. In conversation last week
with General Hulen, th# General ex-
pressed himself a3 being much inter-
ested not only in the National Guard
Camp, but in the growth of the town
itself. ' He spoke of the time when
the two hard-surface roads would en-
ter Palacios, and hoped the city would
begin a paving program in anticipa-
tion of that time. He also spoke of
the necessity for taking care of the
Bay Front, and said that some day
he WOllhl lw glad Lo give u good price
for a piece of ground facing the bay.
One of General Hulcn's aides informed
the writer some months ago that it
was the General's intention when he
retired to build a pleasure boat to
cost a good many thousand dollars,
and have it in the Trcs-Palacios Bay.
General Hulen sees a healthy growth
for Palacis not only because of its
climate, its bay, and its artesian wa-
tear, but because of its agriculture.
It is a healthy "sign to find the Secre-
tary of the Bay City Chamber of
Commerce, Mr. R. M. Harkey, calling
a meeting at Blessing for Monday
morning next, Nov. 28th, at 10:30 a.
m. to consider in all its bearings the
bringing of a buitable class of farmers
into this community. The meeting
will be followed by a lunch at the
Blessing Hotel. The Beacon expects
to be represented and will carry a re-
port of the meeting in next week's
issue.
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The writer of this column had the
honor of addressing the High School
during the chapel hour on Wednesday
morning. The program was arranged
as a Thanksgiving one, a poem by Ed-
gar A. Guest, being recited by Grace
Evelyn Barnett, and the President's
Proclamation read by Burton Duncan.
There were about two hundred and fif-
ty boys and girls present. It is al-
ways a great privilege to address
young people, especially the young
people of our High School. They are
good listeners, and are interested in
the subject presented to them. Today
voung people are more conceited than
they were twenty years ago, bitt-they
are just as brave, perhaps braver in
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INFANTRY SONG
CONTEST CLOSED
Miss H. Trice, who entered the Song
Contest of "The Infantry Journal,"
Washington, D. C„ received the deci-
sion this week; and for the benefit
of the many inquiring the results of
the contest submits the letter and de-
cision for publication. The letter fol-
lows:—
Dear Madam:—
We regret to inform you that the
committee appointed to pass on the
manuscripts submitted for the Infan-
try Song Contest has reported ad-
versely on all of the songs submitted.
We are therefore returning your man-
uscript enclosed herewith.
Our committee feels that many of
the songs submitted had great merit,
but were not quite suited to the pur-
pose that we have in mind. The fact
that we have selected NO song as £he
Infantry Song and awarded the prize
to NO ONE, in no reflects on the merit
of the manuscripts submitted. On the
other hand our committee feels that
the conditions of the contest were per-
haps not the best. It is probable that
we shall reopen the contest in the
near future and under considerably
Very truly yours,
T. B. Catron,
TBC-H Major Infantry, Sec.
Miss Trice says she will not re-en-
ter the contest but will publish her
song in her own rights, copyright and
commercialize it and "bring home the
bacon." Had the song been accepted
in contest it would have, been the sole
property of the Infantry Association
Miss Trice feels that since she is only
one among many hundreds who lost
the $1500 premium for the winner,
that is sufficient consolation in itself—
obliged with the chance of getting full
credit for eher efforts later, and possi-
bly as much renumeration.
COLLEGEPORT SHIPS CAR-
LOAD OF FIGS TO MANILA
Collegeport, Nov. 19.—Collegeport
has established commercial relations
with Manila.
Saturday, a full carload of fig pre-
serves, the finest in this district, was
shipped to the Philippine Islands by
S. B. Sims, manager of the Collegeport
Fig Orchards Company. A full car-
load of the produce also was shipped
to Springfield, Illinois.
that there is less concealment. They
possess more knowledge, but they do
not possess more power, because char-
acter is not born, it is made.
The speaker told of a visit to Ply-
mouth Rock, and its monument to the
more than forty persons who lost their
lives that first winter, lost them ohly
to find them; the ancient cemetery,
and the museum; the tree at Cam-
bridge, where the "embattled farm-
ers" were summoned to meet the foe;
the monument at Bunker's Ilill, and
the monument outside New Concord
to the minute-men "whose shot was
heard around the world"—those places
where the freedom of America as a
self-governing, independent nation
was born. After speaking of our na-
tional traditions," and our individual
blessings, the speaker mentioned two
things. One was the solidarity of
the race, tlio' he did not use this big
word. We are all members one of
another, and bound together in the
bundle of life. We are dependent on
each other from the cradle to the
grave. The clothes we wear, the food
we eat, the trade we learn, the books
we read—all come to us from others.
Our education, our advantages, our op-
portunities, come largely to us through
others, tho' the use we make of them
depends on ourselves. In sickness and
in health we need each other. This
thought keeps us humble and thank-
ful.
And then a plea was made to the
boys and girls to be thankful for the
name they bear, whether Brown or
Smith or Jones;—the name handed
down to them by their parents, and
ohe that stands for principle and in-
tegrity. They were asked to carry
this thought, the thought of a whole-
some pride in themselves and the name
they bear, into the class-room and on
to the play ground, thus helping not
only themselves, but thair teachers
and their School. "It is pride that
leads man to adventure, pride that
steels him to endure, pride that brings
him an ultimate triumph. If you
would select the best craftsmen in a
factory, select those who are proud of
their skill. If you would select the
best article on the merchant's shelves,
select the one that has the manufac-
turer's name on the label. The label
isn't placed on seconds. Modern busi-
ness guards its pride no less carefully
than its profits."
Do not our hearts reproach-us at,
this Thanksgiving season that we have
not taken more interest in our schools,
our teachers, and our boys and girls.
Hug-the-Coast
Highway to Open
Up New Country
Houston Chronicle—
Because the returns from Southern
Jackson County's district bond issue
election a week ago trickled in slowly,
the full import of that issue's passage
has largely been overloked. True,
the amount was only $80,000, and it
provided for building only 4.5 miles
of highway, but nevertheless it was
epochal in its significance.
"Made Good The Faith."
It made complete reality of last
year's wild dream; the Hug-the-Coast
Highway from Corpus Christi to
Houston. It made good the faith of
adjoining counties which had financed
their highways right to their county
lines without assurance that the mea-
gerly populated southern tip of Jack-
son County would come through with
its part.
As it stands today the Hug-the-
Coast Highway is financed from Cor-
pus Christi through Gregory, Rock-
port, Aransas Pass, Austwell, Tivola,,
Port Lavaca, Olivia, Palacios, Bay City
and on to the western line of Brazoria
County. There in Brazoria County is
a seven mile gap unprovided for, but
on east from that point all the way
into Houston and Gf.lveston the road
is built or financed with the actual
building soon to come.
The seven-mile gap in western Bra-
zoria County is of lesser importance,
however, than any other gap along
the entire route would be. Traffic
to and from Houston will be able to
use the newly financed Bay City-Whar-
ton road, and leave and comc into
Houston over Highway 12 between
Wharton and Houston, pending provi-
sion for the Brazoria County gap.
More Work to Do.
Actual construction of the Hug-
the-Coast will require many months.
There is a great deal of real work to
be done, but there is no doubt possi-
ble but that it will he completed as
rapidly as the energy of the men
along its route can drive on it.
The future of this road is generally
conceded to be extremely roseate. It
opens to the outside world a section
of Texas that will always have a charm
for the man or woman born and raised
away from salt water. It will be used
by thousands of tourists each week,
and northern people will probably use
it during the winter months when their
own roads are impassable, Tt will he
used heavily by hunters and fishermen,
for it makes accessible portions of the
Texas coast which heretofore could not
be reached easily.
The country through which k pass-,
cs is singularly fertile, and there is
every liklihood that along its entire
course will spring up a colony of truck
growers, fruit growers and poultry-
men.
Cooled by Guif breezes during the
hot months of the year, and paradox-
ically warmed by them during the win-
ter there is every reason to believe
that the whole Gulf Coast between
Galveston and Corpus Christi will be-
come something of .a Riviera, a colony
of vacation homes, resort hotels, and
the like.
The Mississippi coast, no more fa-
vored by nature than the Texas Gulf
Coast, has had a wonderful transfor-
mation under the influence of good
roads and the same, perhaps more
emphasized, should some to the Texas
Coast.
GULF COAST SHELL AND
CEMENT CO. RECEIVES CAR
LUMBER FOR NEW DREDGE
Conventions and
The P.T.A. and
Our High School
Recently at an evening meeting of
the P.-T. A. the financial needs of the
school were discussed, and all seemed
agreed that what our school lacks first
of all is MONEY!
If a little money was needed for
the school Library, or for the Athletic
Field, and if each Senior were asked
to contribute eight or more dollars,
there would perhaps go up a burden-
some groan from the parents, and
many of them would protest vigorous-
ly-
Yet within the last few days the
same class has paid out something like
one hundred and ninety-eight dollars
for Senior Rings. The rings cost
eight dollars and twenty-five cents
each, and the Seniors, with one or two
exceptions, bought them. This money
goes to some company far from Pala-
cios, and will never return. The agent
however, will be sure to return next
year to gouge another class.
This happens every year. Why do
the parents consent to it? The Sen-
iors work hard to get up a play each
year to pay graduation expenses
They carelessly spend seven or eight
dollars for rings, from which no tang-
ible good can ever be obtained.
If a Senior Class loves old P. H. S.
to the extent of one hundred and nine
ty-eight dollars, it could leave a beau-
tiful memorial with her in the form
of permanent tennis courts, good
books, or new stage fittings for the
auditorium. School boys and girls
like to do worthwhile things They
need only to be shown.
Think it over! —Parent.
The Gulf Coast Shell and Cement
Company, Inc., received a car of lum-
ber through the Price Lumber Co. to
be used in the construction of its new
ten-inch dredge. The dredge will have
a capacity of over two thousahd yards
of mud shell or gravel per day. It
will take some time to complete the
dredge and the six new barges but it
is the aim of the company to be in op-
eration soon after ths first of the year.
Federation Will
Meet in Blessing
Matagorda County Federation of
Women's Clubs will meet in Blessing
on Saturday, December 3rd, 10 a. m.
All Club members, their friends and
acquaintances are most cordially in-
vited to be present.
Besides the speakers, musical pro-
gram and luncheon, there will be an
exhibit of Matagorda County artists
work, as well as a school art exhibit
ffom Fort Worth, an exhibit of prints
of "Old Master's" paintings and possi-
bly the C. I. A. exhibit of "Arts and
Crafts."
Anyone in Matagorda County who
has pictures done in any medium is
urged to send them two days before
the meeting, December 1st. Address
packages and letters to Mrs. A. B.
Pierce, Chairman.
Sewing and embroidering of any
kind, any arts and crafi, work as well
as original poems and prose writings
are solicited for this exhibit.
Mark each article plainly with the
owner's name and address, the artist's
author's or maker's name and address,
and whether the article is original or a
copy. Pack carefully and insure if
sent P. P. Schools are asked to send
small exhibits also.
The New Ford
Is In Houston
It is a newspaper's duty ti give news
while it is news, we received thi^ tip
and when we pressed Mr. Koerber for
information, he advised that he had
been called into Houston for Friday,
November 25th to see the new car and
receive all advertising matter, and dis-
cuss the future policies concerning the
new car, and last but not least, ot ride
in the car.
This meeting is for dealers only,
and the car will be released to the
public in the next few days.
Air. and Mrs. L. E. Addiuon, Misses
Dorotha Green and Elizabeth Scudder
of Houston, were week end guests of
home folks. They were accompanied
by Mr. Addison's mother.
THE BEACON AND GOOD ROADS
The following leter has been receiv-
ed from a valued subscriber:—
Palacios citizenship as a whole have
displayed a wonderful feeling coiicern-
ing the good roads program for Mata-
gorda County and for the neighboring
counties, working continuously and
earnestly for every possible improve-
ment program brought to their at-
tention. Wc hope that they will con-
tinue to be patient on the project, real-
izing that it takes time to put such
a program in operation, and the prep-
aration that is necessary, even after
being finished locally, has to be approv-
ed by the State and Federal Highway
departments. These departments are
flooded with work, much of which is
far ahead of our own from the point
of being ready, others having voted
bonds and laid out rights of way long
before we did.
Of course it is natural, after the
long, hard fight for good roads, that
we would be interested to know just
how much longer we will have to wait,
but it will come before we know how
it happened.
Commissioner George Harrison is
working daily on our program and let-
ting nothing hang fire that can be
helped, is spending his time trying
to get the proper alignment settled
in his constituents' minds before the
Federal Engineer arirves. In this he
is not having any too smooth sailing,
because many want the road to run
right along by the side of their ¥arms,
and some do not want it close to their
homes;—and taking it all into con-
sideration none want to be in Mr
Harrison's position until the kinks are
straightened out at least. All the
commissioners are having trouble,-
possibly the same cause affecting them
as Mr. Harrison.
The people on the east side of Mata-
gorda County seem to be well pleased
with the work laid out and contract-
ed for; no doubt we will have the same
feeling on this side very soon when we
have a contact let and can see a little
activity. At least let's be patient a
little while longer and see what Santa
Claus brings us, and in the mean time
get the nccconary information to Mr,
Harrison concerning the right of way,
He needs our support in this matter,
C.L.G. Self-serve
The ir Worth Grocery to Open
Saturday, Dec. 3
BY R. M. HARKEY
Secretary-Manager Bay City
Chamber of Commerce
It would be a rather difficult task
on the part of anyone to try to tell
the public the real worth of a conven-
tion well attended, and in order to give
the members of the Bay City Chamber
of Commerce and to the citizens as a
whole of Matagorda County some idea
of what happened in the Lower Rio
Grande Valley on the two occasions
that we hdve had the pleasure of at-
tending the Intra-Coastal Canal con-
vention, the 6th and 7th at Harlingen,
and the South Texas Chamber of Com-
merce convention at Brownsville on
the 14th and 15th, we will jjive a brief
account.
The Intra-Coastal Canal convention
was for the purpose of interesting the
renowned gentlemen from congress as
to the real value of extending the In-
tra-Coastal Canal from Corpus Christi
via Harlingen to Point Isabel, the deep
water port.
There were 2 men attended this
convention from Matagorda County
and never before have we attended any
convention of this type where a rep-
resentative set of business men gave
such close attention to the real thought
of what this convention meant. Very
few people along the line of the Intra-
Gonstal Canal from New Orleans to
Corpus Christi have really studied
what this canal will do for South
Texas and the Gulf Coast. Many of
our citizens in Matagorda County do
not realize the real worth of this mat-
ter and while this is discussed, there
are others that have studied from a
standpoint of business, the real bene-
fit, we will gain from a deep water
freight rate through Matagorda Coun-
ty, and in time to come the men who
produce the different commercial crops
will know what it is to have a cheap-
er freight rate. As for Bay City, we
do not believe Lhere has ever been oc-
casion before where five noted con-
gressmen were in attendance, of a
meeting, these men representing the
strongest committees in congress and
many people have not stopped to think
of the advertisement to Bay City the
visit of these gentlemen gave to our
town.
During the whole conveniton a spirit
of good will was shown and every man
and woman who attended realized that
the future South Texas and the Gulf
Coast depended in cheaper transporta-
tion for our products.
As to what this convention meanth
to the Lower Rio Grande Valley we
wish to say that in our humble opinion
no price could be set and no amount
(Continued to page 2.)
Palacios is gradually getting out
of the small town class and beginning
to put on metropolitan airs. Large
cities that boast of their Piggly-Wig-
gly, Humpty-Dumpty, Woolworth, Q-
P; J. C. Penny and other money-sav-
ing sLores of like nature, are to have
nothing on the City-by-the-Sea, after
next week, when the new Self-Serve
Grocery Store will open in the Ilillyer
building, first door east of the C. L.
Onss Dry Goods Store, with Mr. Gass
as proprietor.
This store will carry one of the
largest and most complete stocks of
groceries ever brought to this section,
the prices will be plainly marktd on
each article, and all you have to do is
go in, help yourself and pay for what
you get as you go out, thus saving
the cost of expensive clerks and book-
keepers that most stores have to em-
ploy, and Mr. Gass, who has been in-
vestigating the operation and prices
of the big chain stores, says his prices
will be even lower than some of these
big stores he has investigated.
Read his big ad on page three, and
watch next week's Beacon for further
information that will mean the saving
of money for you.
Oscar Barber Asks
To Be Re-Elected
Our genial Tax Assessor, Oscar Bar-
ber, was in Palacios Monday and was a
welcome caller at the Beacon office,
and requested us to place his name
in our announcement column as a can-
didate for re-election to the office he
now holds, subject to the action of the
White Man's Union Primaries.
So well and faithfully has Mr. Bar-
ber served the county as Tax Assessor
that his many friends will be pleased
to learn he is again seeking the office,
and it now seems doubtful that he will
have any opposition.
Mr. Barber will appreciate every
kindness shov.n him in this race.
Mrs. T. S. Forehand returned last '
Friday from Llano, where she had
been for several weeks assisting in
caring for Mr. Forehand's father.
Mr. Forehand received a message on
Tuesday advising him of the death
of his father, which occurred that
morning. We join the many friends
of Mr. and Mrs. Forehand in extending
heartfelt sympathy in their bereave-
ment.
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