Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 1, 1928 Page: 2 of 4
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Published every Thursday
J. W. DISMUKES Publisher
One Year $1.50 Six months $1.00
Entered at the Palaclos Post Oflice as
second class mail matter
Known and Unknown
Soldiers
Again we are to celebrate Armistice
Day. Already the war is almost for-
gotten; America is back to peace-time
conditions of prosperity; the wounds
of conflict have healed swiftly, and
former foes are friends.
Many are the persons the world
over, however, who are still grieved
because of the loss of their nearest
and dearest, a loss that no circum-
stance can make less tragic. It is
those who live, whose loved ones laid
down their lives for their countries,
who are the sufferers. Their sorrow
shall last the length of their lives,
and on Armistice Day it is only fit-
ting to give thought to them and their
noble sacrifices.
The symbol of the Unknown Sol-
dier is beautiful, his grave a fit shrine
for all who love America. Armistice
Day should be marked with the ut-
most respects to those who perished
in the conflict, identified and uniden-
tified. But our respects must also
be paid to these known "soldiers" who
are our neighbors—the mother whose
son gave all, the father who mourns
the loss of his boy, the widowed wives
and fatherless children of American
soldiers.
On Armistice Day, in additi ..i to ex-
pressing our boundless joy at the pi es~
ent state of peace aiid amity bttv oen
nations, we must give a thought to
these known "soldiers," and do what
we can to alleviate their pain and sof-
ten the sting of their memories. Th y
deserve not only our sympathy, but
also our whole-hearted respect and
love.
Insidious Propaganda
The ways of the propagandist and
publist arc many. He does his work
under false pretenses, he get •; his mes-
sage "across" to the peopel by taking
advantage of unsuspecting editors and
publishers.
Take the case of B. M. Hofer, of
Portalnd, Ore., who testified before
the Federal Trade Commission that
the power companies were subsidizing
Ilofer's "independent'' news service.
The electric power interests hand-
ed Hofer eighty-four thousand dollars
a year. During the last four years
his news service has sent out 3,328
editorials to 14,000 newspapers.
An accurate check on the manner
in which the articles were used
throughout the country shows that
an average of 1,935,702 inches were
used per annum, or a total of 7,743,-
108 inches for the four-year period.
This figure represents 64,520 solid
newspaper pages.
Think of it! These 04,526 solid
pages of newspaper space were filled
with propaganda puid for by the pow-
er trust, through the agency of an "in-
dependent" news service.
Permitting propaganda of this char-
acter to enter newspaper columns is
an imposition on the reading public.
We pride ourselves in being quite
able to differentiate between real news
and propaganda and have always
maintained a rigid policy of not per-
mitting propaganda of any sort to en-
ter our columns.
One of the greatest assets .au edi-
tor can have is the knowledge of just
when to use the waste basket. We
have a big one handy!
Our idea of enterprise is a surgeon
advertising a "removal" sale.
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We don't know which we prefer, the
whispering campaign or the things
that have been snid openly!
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The surgeon who cut his own appen-
dix, in addition to being brave, must
have had Scotch ancestors.
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"All women are alike," says Lady
Allenby. This thought should be a
great comfort to many husbands.
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A Russian scientist says he has in-
vented a fireproof coal. Many home
owners know that is by no means a:
new invention.
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Now that Gene Tunney has been
referred to in the papers as Mr. James
Joseph Tunney, we can believe he has
stepped out of the ring.
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A judge permitted a divorced violin-
ist to remarry because he behaved
himself for more than five years. The
law certainly does push punishment
to extreme limits!
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Turkish schools are sending home
gh'ls whose skirts are too short to
have their skirts lengthened. If this
were done here, our girls' schools
would be practically empty.
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Mussolini says the newspapers may
not criticize his government, but may
say anything they want to about his
violin playing. However, we doubt
that the Italian papers want to fiddle
around with that.
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WAR ANYWHERE
DISASTROUS
President Coolidge delivered a mes-
sage on Declaration Day of this year
in which he pointed out the fact that
no matter where a war might break
out in the world it would be prejudi-
cial to this country.
War is simply lawlessness and des-
truction and the commercial interests
of the United States today are so
widespread, our investments and trade
relations are so far reaching that it
is almost impossible to conceive of
any conflict anywhere on earth which
would not affect us injuriously.
The President also expressed the
fact that the United States is engaged
in warfare only for the protection of
American citizens. It is incumbent
upon every nation to protect its own
citizens.
Unfortunately the plan of Woodrow
Wilson for a league of nations did not
receive universal support. While this
-writer enthusiastically supported Mr.
Wilson's idea he holds no brief for
any one plan.
Equally to be approved are the ef-
forts of Secretary of State Kellogg
to conclude a treaty willi European
powers for the complete outlawry of
war. Just so we arrive at a stage
of civilization by what route we get
there.
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Mr. Colidge also laid stress upon the
best argument of the moat intelligent
pacifists, to wit, that "the chief de-
fenses of America lied not in her arm-
ed forces but in the industry, pros-
perity an patriotism of her people;
these are of far greater importance
than preparedness."
The same day at Thiaucourt, France,
General Pershing addressed an audi-
ence where he said that "millions of
graves *cry out against war, and the
big nations must show the way to dur-
able peace."
He continued that war threatened
civilization because of the "fallacious
theory that war is an essential ele-
ment in the national policy of a gov-
ernment," and an erroneous belief that
nations become groat through aggres-
sive undertakings.
General Pershing insisted that his-
tory disproves that the expansion of
one modern civilized nation at the ex-
pense of the other can be permanent.
"There would appear to be no longer
any reason," he-said, "why the lead-
ing civilized powers could not agree
among themselves to the general prin-
cipal of the elimination of war as an
avowed instrument of national policy."
It need not interfere with the neces-
sities of reasonable armament, he
sakl, "nor the fulfillment of consistent
obligations."
The day is coming when public opin-
ion, that final arbitor of destiny will
rapidly turn against war.
BIG MEN FROM
SMALL TOWNS
GENERAL JOHN J. PERSHING
Nobody needs to be told who Gener-
al Pershing is, but a fact not gener-
ally known is that he is a product of
rural America, born at Linn County,
Mo., in 1860. He attended Normal
School, then graduated from the Unit-
ed States Military Academy in 1880.
He married the daughter of Senator
Warren of Cheyenne, Wyo., in 1905,
and there were four children. His
wife and three daughters, unfortunate-
ly, lost, their lives in the burning of
the Presidio in 1915.
His long record in the army goes
back to 1886, when he was a Second
Lieutenant in the 10th Cavalry, and
his rise in the ranks was rapid. In
the emergency of 1917 he was made a
general, and in 1919 this rank was
confirmed by the United States Sen-
ate, who gave him the title of "Gen-
eral of Armies in the United States."
He retired in 1924.
His services ore so numerous it
would take a volume to give an ade-
quate idea of them. His decorations
and honors are so many in number
thu bare list would take an entire
! column to print. Thousands of stories
I have -^een told of his courage, of his
wisdom' tmd inspiring guidance both in
Mexico an<T"«4uring the great conflict
"over there" when he led the American
Expeditionary FNfces.
It is only natural pay tribute and
feel respect for such a^nan, and only
natural for all rural Arri«j*icans to be
proud of his origin. A rdtol.hcro, he
is one of the world's makers o'f his-
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The less a voter knows about you
the longer he is liable to vote for you.
I believe that these other two boys
that are running for President would
both have been better off if they had
pulled a Coolidge and got down in
their shell and not come out till the
votes were counted.
If I was these boys I would kinder
fight shy of a public Clinic. I believe
if they had both stayed behind the
microphone out of sight of any audi-
ence and shot it to 'em at long range,
they would have been better off.
This thing of meeting our hero and
getting acquainted with him is awful
liable to make you start hunting an-
other hero. A1 and Herb have both
done things which are on the record :
and I believe I would let folks look
over the record instead of the patient, i
As the presidential candidate of the [
Anti-Bunk Party, I am going on the j
theory that it is better to read about
a brown derby than it is to see one.
When we know that a man has put
the Nose Bag on Belgium and made us
eat bran mash like a cow instead of
bread, why we are" going to look for
a mighty commanding and magnetic
personality.
I don't think I am betraying any
national secret when I say that both
of these boys are liable to get more
votes if you can't see 'em. Campaigns
have ruined more men than they ever
made. —WILL ROGERS
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