Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 26, 1939 Page: 4 of 8
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Published Every Thursday
MRS. J. W. DISMUKES & SONS
Editor and Publishers
Entered at the Post Office at Pala-
cios, Texas, as second class mail
matter, under the Act of Congress
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
In Matagorda County:—
Six Months, $1.00; 1 Year $1.75
Outside Matagorda County:—
Six Months, $1.25; 1 Year $100
HEALTH NOTES
Austin, Texas.—"A public health
axiom, often proved, states that
'public health is purchasable and
within natural limitations any com-
munity can determine its own death
rate'. To no other serious communi-
cable disease can we apply this
axiom yith more dramatic results
than syphilis", states Dr. Geo. W
Cox, State Health Officer.
In the first place no more serious
disease is as widespread as syphi-
lis. Annually we have twice as
many cases of syphilis as tubercu-
losis, 13 times diphtheria, '28 times
typhoid and 50 times infantile pa
ralysis. Secondly the attack of
syphilis is devastating. It is a kill-
er and no pai't of the body is im-
mune. Syphilis cuts off life in early
adulthood at man's greatest period
of productivity. Annually in Ameri-
ca syphilis steals one million years
of life from the normal life span of
its victims, but before it kills, sy
philis seriously wounds and tor-
tures, bringing blindness, deafness,
chronic illness, crippled minds and
bodies to those it selects.
Approximately fifty million dol-
lars in taxes are &pent each year
for the support in eleemosynary in-
stitutes of those blind and insane
from syphilis. Fifteen per cent of
all blindness and 12 per cent of all
insanity are attributable to syphi-
lis. A small portion of this con
siderable tax money spent annually
."for education and disease preven
tion would more than pay for itself
through money saved in future
years. This economic argument is
less important when we consider
that by the same efforts we simul-
taneously reduce the appalling total
of misery and death resulting from
syphilis.
"Public health is purchasable."
Apply this to the syphilis problem.
If we would appropriate adequate
funds for syphilis control we would
save not only the tax bill for insti-
tution^^eare but we would also
"save-168 niiThon "dollars in wages
now lost to American male workers
each year because of illness attrib-
utable to syphilis and other vener-
eal diseases.
Funds for education and for find-
ing and treating cases of syphilis
are an insurance for future health
security. Educating the public to
the danger of syphilis and helping
them to guard against it means
fewer infections and exposures to
syphilis.
Individual and family health de-
pend upon public health at large
and as can be proved public health
can be purchased. Its cost is never
too high. Whatever public health
"may cost per capita outlay dwarfs
to insignificance when compared
to the tremendous cost of support-
ing eleemosynary and correctional
institutions, indigency caused by
disease, misery and ill health.
SO SAY WE ALLI
PALACIOS BEAl ON, PALACIOS, TEXAS
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Austin.—Staggering under the for instance, possibly add as much
Clerk: "Can I have the afternoon
off'to go shopping with my wife?"
Boss: "No."
Clerk: "Thanks."
impact of the most revolutionary
taxation proposal ever seriously
p/-ibmitted to Texas law-makers,
the Legislature this week-end pre-
pared to plunge next week into con-
sideration of Gov. W. Lee O'Dan-
iel's transaction tax scheme, and
its accompanying pension bill.
O'Daniel's carefully guarded
"secret" for solving the pension
question, revealed for the first time
in his message on Wednesday, the
day following his spectacular in-
augural pageant, turned out to be
nothing more or less than an adap-
tion of the crackpot program of
good old Doc Townsend, the Cali-
fornia druggist who is rated the
No. 1 man among the economic jit-
terbugs that pension agitation has
brought forth in the United States.
* * *
Sky Is The Limit
Briefly, O'Daniel would submit
a constitutional amendment to the
people, calling for imposition of a
tax of 1.6 percent on every busi-
ness transaction consummated in
Texas, except the payment of
wages, salaries and professional
fees, the payment of streetcar or
bus fares of 10 cents or less, the
first sale by a producer of agricul-
tural products and the street sale
of newspapers. The Governor esti
mated it will raise $45,000,000 an-
nually. The scheme has never been
attempted by any American gov-
ernmental unit, and all estimates of
what it would raise, therefore, are
pure guesses. John T. Smith, Aus
tin Tax expert, thinks it would
raise $120,000,000 a year, while
Senator Joe Hill guessed $90,000,-
000. The obvious effect of the tax
would be strangle business in Tex
as, actually imposing a sales tax
ranging up to 10 percent, when the
multiple features of the impost are
considered. It naturally would place
the Texas manufacturer, jobber and
distributor under a terrific handi-
cap in competition with similar
business outside the state, which
would not have to pay the tax on
goods shipped into Texas. It would,
STATEMENT OF CONDITION OF
The First National Bank
BAY CITY, TEXAS
As made to the Comptroller of Currency at the close
of business December 31, 1938.
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts $558,949.28
Stocks and Bonds 466,886.09
Banking House 10,000.00
Furniture and Fixtures l 00
F. D. I. C 1.00
Other Real Estate 403.38
Cash $680,362.26
U. S. Bonds 553,681.60 1,234,043.86
$2,270,284.61
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock $100,000.00
Surplus 39,000.00
Undivided Profits 41,834.66
Contingent Reserve 35,000.00
Reserve for Taxes 19,869.97
Reserve for Improvements 662.09
Dividends Unpaid 20,000.00
Deposits 2,013,917.89
$2,270,284.61
The above statement is correct.
E. L. McDONALD, Cashier.
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
as five sales taxes of 1.6 percent
each, onto the cost of a loaf of
bread, three to the cost of a sack of
flour, three or four to a suit of
overalls, two or more lu farm im-
plements, one or more to a bottle
of milk. It would impose the hard-
iest burden of all upon the retailer,
who makes the final sale of any
commodity to the consumer, be-
cause the retailer must add to his
price and collect from the consumer
all of the accumulated sales taxes
that have gone before—and absorb
all of the wrath of the customer
which is concentrated upon him as
the last tax collector.,
* ♦ *
New Pension Program
Under O'Daniel's scheme, a per-
son who had saved sufficiently to
accumulate an income of $15 a
month, for instance, would receive
only $15 aid, although he might
previously have enjoyed a large in-
come and a high living standard,
and be burdened with a costly ill-
ness. At the same time, a negro
field hand, who had saved nothing,
and who had never earned $25 a
month, would receive a full $30
grant, regardless of circumstances.
Reaction of the legislators to the
O'Daniel plan was slow -sincc the
pension bill was so long and com-
plicated it required several days of
concentrated study even to grasp
its essential elements. The consti-
tutional amendment, which the peo-
ple are supposed to understand and
pass upon at the ballot box, is seven
typewritten pages of highly techni-
cal legal verbiage. Many solons
THIjS WEEK
|| IN PATiACIOS HISTORY
FROM oYtt EARLY FILES I
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iEARS AGO
E. R. Allep captured a porpoise
weighing 50? pounds.
J. L. Koei >er took the local
agency for tht well known Stude-
baker cars.
Mr. R, A. Gates, father of Mrs.
John T. Price, died at the hospital
in Memphis, Ter^n.
Mrs. O. E. Pate of Citrus Grove
died and was buried here.
15 YEARS AGO
Howard Campbell purchased a
carload of fig cuttings in League
City and had them shipped to Pa-
lacios.
The marriage of Miss Ida Mae
Buldree, and Oscar Lee Dean, of
Willis, occured at the home of the
bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. H.
Baldree.
William I-Ierschel Sherrill and
Miss Mary Benham were married
Rev. Curtis officiating.
Roscoe Boiling and Arthur Gib-
son purchased the Palacios market
from H. P. Taylor.
20 YEARS AGO
Announcement was made of the
marriage of Miss Laura Mae Mont-
gomery to Edward D. Bishop, of
Port Neches.
The Palacios Board of Trade was
revived with about 40 members.
John E. Wolf, was made president,
and T. L. Tucker, secretary.
THE POCKETBOOK
o/ KNOWLEDGE
stead a different scheme. Briefly,
it would deduct whatever income
the pension applicant might have
from $30, and pay the applicant the
difference between his present in-
come, if any, and $30. O'Daniel
thinks the State would pay half
this amount, and the Federal gov-
ernment half. Pensions experts
here, as well as many legislators
who have heard the representatives
of the Federal Social Security ad-
ministration outline the Federal
policy on numerous occasions, de-
clare the scheme does not meet the
Federal requirements and would
not qualify the State for Federal
pension aid now received. O'Dan-
iel's scheme contemplates a mini-
mum income of $30 a month to all,
made up from private income and
governmental grant combined. The
Federal government has repeatedly
pointed out it does not sanction
any scheme which puts all benefic-
iaries on an equal footing, regard
less of standard of living, individ-
ual need and similar variable fac-
tors.
» * »
Who Wrote It?
Speculation as to who is the
actual author of the twin legisla-
tive monstrosities filled the capital
corridors and hotel lobbies. Most
observers attributed it to a lobby-
ist who is employed by a group of
natural resource and public utility
concerns, and whose mission in life
has been for years to work up evi-
praised O'Daniel's courage in pre-i dence against any and all tax pre-
senting a definite program,
there were few legislators
were ready to approve it.
buLJ posals. Those who thought this lob-
who
Takes Load off Rich
O'Daniel's scheme proposes to
abolish the Confederate pension
fund, transferring the Confederate
beneficiaries to the old age assist-
ance roll; it would abolish all State
ad valorem taxes amounting to
$20,000,000 a year, replacing the
Constitutional revenues for schools
from other sources, and transfer-
ring the ad valorem burden to the
backs of the poor through the pyra-
mided sales tax scheme.
Coupled with the tax scheme, the
Governor offered a 56-page type-
written bill in which it is attempt-
ed to recamp the Old Age pensions
system. He abandoned entirely his
campaign program of $30 for
everybody over 65, later amended
at the Beaumont convention to $15
for everybody, and offered in its
byist wrote the bill, based on their
knowledge that O'Daniel held many
conferences with him, ventured the
opinion that the legislation was a
deliberate effort to accomplish one
of two purposes:
1. To arouse such a public resent-
ment against this terrific burden of
taxation that the legislator would
wrangle throughout the session,
and pass no tax bills at all.
2. Failing in this, to make a sim-
ple sales tax of 2 or 3 percent look
so mild, in comparison with the
dizzy transaction tax program, that
the Legislature would either adopt
a sales tax, or adopt a resolution
submitting the sales tax question
to the people.
The sales taxers were ready, with
bills and resolutions already intro-
duced in house and Senate, to jump
either way. Meanwhile, a wave of
prote&t from businessmen—one of
the two rocks upon which O'Daniel
66
Oh, Boy—A
Real Cleaning!"
—And he thought the suit was done for! But some-
one suggested: "have Fields clean and press it." He
took the tip. No wonder he's pleased. It's good for
another season!
SUITS—
Cleaned, Pressed
50c
DRESSES—
Cleaned, Pressed
60c
WE DELIVER
Pklacios Tailor Shop
P. L/FIELDS
PHONE 89
MONEY IS CALLED
'LUCRE" V-ROM THg
LATIN WORD
"LUCRUM' MEANIHO
, "gain:1
/
There are 3,2.90,000 federal, state
amd local' government employee5 not
counting 339,000 in the army and
naw and over 4,000,000 on
various relief projects.
MAPLE HEAF 2/ />/
'J.2. tNCHti! . .txwamo
M THE /S37 CAMP/AH
CONTEST FOR "LARGESTANt>
METT/EST'MW/E LEAVES,.,
A german factory worker
must work 5* TIMES as LONb
4s AN AMERICAN to
^ buy an automobile
and an italian TEH
TIMES AS LONG
Matagoi
Second
Ja County is
Cest'» State
"tS, "f M«<»-
ruberculosis and
' Ha!',!,939 "m '*
al1 the night of
'•1,1 •Bay City.
ttle Executive
°ard of I)i.
Do
^■ged to at-
contribut-
' fund for
pfdtcating
attend
Jffll funds
rivpn. Alsn
ien|ses and
only /iOflSBS are
THOROUGHBREDS. ■.
other animals are
called "PURE BRED."
stood during his unprecedently suc-
cessful campaign for governor—
poured into Austin upon the legis-
lators.
Significantly, Ex-Governor Jim
Ferguson, who berated O'Daniel
fiercely during the primary cam-
paign last summer, and who has
advocated a sales tax for years, en-
thusiastically approved O'Daniel's
message.
See the Minstrel from Dixie at
the High School, Friday night.
Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Rector, who
visited the former's father, A. M.
Rector, just before Christmas re-
turned last week from their trip
to California. After a short visit
here they went to Houston and
from there on to the East coast, in
the interest of his company the
Superior Fireplace Heat Circulator,
of Los Angeles, Calif.
L. Bruse called at our office this
week and stated he was in receipt
of a card from Nebraska friends
informing him of the death of Mr.
Gerndorf, who will be remembered
by many of our citizens when he
resided in Palacios.
A flue burning out at the Tiome
of John Shannon on the West side,
Tuesday morning caused the fire
alarm to be sounded*. Our fire boys
responded in such a way as to be
able to extinguish the flames be-
fore any damage was done.
The Social Workers met at the
home of Mrs. Charles Hansen last
Friday afternoon. The time was
spent in quilting out a quilt. Mrs.
L. Bruer had charge of the scrip-
ture reading which was followed by
the repeating of the Lord's Prayer
in unison.A most appetizing lunch
was served by the hostess.
The first
gorda Count
Health Associa
held at the
Jan. 26th, at 7:3(3
All members
Committee and of
rectors are especially1
tend. Everyone who ha:
ed to the Christmas Se
aiding in the work of
tuberculosis is invited
also.
A complete report of
received to date will be giv
a Budget for 19119 expenses and
work will be outlined ana i, offered
the meeting for adoption or
changes. If anyone knows of any
special work that should be done at'
once, now is the time to present it\
to this group.
Miss Pansy Nichols, State Execu-
tive Secretary of the Texas Tuber
culosis Association, will be here
from Austin. Miss Nichols writes
us that this county has averaged
second best in Texas in their per
capita donations for this work this
year. Being 'a newly organized
county and only organized since Oc-
tober 1938, the response has been
exceptionally good.
This will be the last meeting
until May when election of new of-
ficers will take place, so everyone
is urged to give this much of their
time, and aid us by coining to the
meeting with advice and sugges-
tions as to our future work.
Mrs. A. B. Pierce, Pres.
(> IV
! FEATHER & SON
REAL ESTATE
AUTO and LIFE
FIRE, TORNADO
INSURANCE
BONDS
—NOTARY PUBLIC—
PALACIOS
FUNERAL HOME
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
& LICENSED EMBALMERS
AMBULANCE SERVICE
PHONE 8 PALACIOS
M. K. FEATHER, Mgr.
The Sulph ur Industi
—Is One of Texas' Many
Outstanding Assets!
SULPHUR, FROM ITS VARIOUS SOURCES,
IS ONE OF INDUSTRY'S MOST ESSENTIAL
COMMODITIES.
ITS PRESENCE IN TEXAS, THEREFORE
CONSTITUTES ONE OF THE STATE'S MOST
ATTRACTIVE INDUCEMENTS TO THE DE-
VELOPMENT OF INDUSTRY WITHIN ITS
BORDERS.
Texas Gulf Sulphur Co.
MINES:—
NEWGULF, Wharton County, Texas
LONG POINT, Fort Bend County, Texas
HEADQUARTERS :—
Second Nat'l Bank Bldg.
Houston, Texas
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Mrs. J. W. Dismukes and Sons. Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 26, 1939, newspaper, January 26, 1939; Palacios, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth411679/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Palacios Library.