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PALACIOS BEACON, PALACIOS, TEXAS
Thursday, September 15, 1938
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Published Every Thursday
MRS. J. W. DISMUKES & SONS
Editor and Publishers
Entered at the Post Office at Pala-
ciost 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 $2.00
HEALTH NOTES
Austin, Texas, Sept. 13.—Deaths
from cancer in Texas reached a
total of 4305 during the past year,
indicating that a warning against
cancer quacks and so-called cancer
cures is justified by the State
Health Department.. Early diag-
nosis and competent treatment
could have prevented many of these
deaths, states Dr. Geo. W. Cox,
stat" health officer.
"While newspapers, as a rule, do
not carry advertising of this type,
there are many other ways by
which misinformation can reach the
public. Undoubtedly there are many
persons who, being thus detoured
from seeking proper medical ad-
vice, unnecessarily become cancer
victims, while others not having
cancer, are fleeced out of much
Wioney for a so-called cure," Dr.
Cox added.
"There are but two ways of
treating cancer. First, biy surgery
and second, by the use of radium or
X-ray. Treatment must be started
early and in the hands of a com-
petent surgeon. Surgery is relied
upon to remove cancerous tumors
and is used in nearly two-thirds of
the cases. X-ray or radium is used
to advantage for the remaining
group. Frea.uently the two methods
are combined. Self-medication, ser-
ums, colored lights, pastes, salves,
and diets are valueless.
"The great protection against
cancer is early diagnosis. Every
case is an emergency and it is un-
fortunate that the majority of
those with cancer do not seek medi-
cal advice early in the first stages
of the disease. No hope should be
placed in fake cancer cures or
treatments. Rather, the annual
physical examination and an im-
mediate reporting to your physician
of any symptoms which may be
suspected to be the beginning of
cancer should be relied upon. These
symptoms are: any unusual bleed-
ing from any body opening, any
lump in the breast or other part of
the body, any persistent sore, par-
ticularly on the face or mouth, and
chronic indigestion. These condi-
tions may not be cancer, but some-
times they are forerunners of the
more common types of this disease.
Where cancer is suspected, do not
delay, but consult your physician
at once.
THE BAD NEWS
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Austin.—His program for indus-
trial development of Texas is ap-
parently ranked next to pensions
in the mind of the gubernatorial
nominee, W. Lee O'Daniel, judging
from interviews he has given since
his nomination. Fortunately, this
subject is not, as O'Daniel seems
to think, an unexplored field. A
wealth of scientific data has been
accumulated both in and out of
Texas on the problem of industrial-
ization of the State. Some of it has
been compiled by experts who have
spent years in such work. A great
deal of money has been spent by
private industrial corporations by
utility concerns, by Chambers of
Commerce, the State Planning
Board, and other interested groups.
The best engineering talent avail-
able has been procured. The find-
ings of all these groups have been
substantially in agreement. They
have not been optimistic in regard
to a quick development of large in-
dustries in Texas.
* * *
Here are Basic Factors
Here are the requirements for
the location of industry generally
in any given place:
An available nearby market for
the product manufactured.
Available raw materials.
Available trained labor supply.
Available fuel and power.
The greatest of these require-
ments by far, is the first. And that
is the reason why manufacturers
in the East find it more profitable
to ship the vast resources of raw
materials produced in Texas to
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CONDITION your home
flow for #«llf Replace tho»«
Inttftquati, dark dingy
tempi with now, brighter
Masda* and enable the
wrfcolo family to road and
ororfc with oaoo and com-
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SAYS REDDY KILOWATT.
l/out Electrical Servant
"I'll say you do," affirm the millions of Ameri-
can women for whom he #loe« tlie ioha iWy
dread and dislike.
Reddy Kilowatt is a tried and proven serv-
ant who "gobbles up" the work for only u few
pennies a day. Magiciau-like, lie'lias turned the
old wash tub into a rapid, efficient Electric
Washer—the sod iron into a smoothly gliding,
Ihcrinoslatically-controllcd Electric Iron—the
smoking lamp into new, brighter Mazda lamps
—the old stove into an accurate and auto-
matically controlled Electric Range—the win-
dow bo*, the spring house, and well bucket
Into a modern. Electric Refrigerator—the
broom and the feather duster into on Electric
Vacuum Cleaner.
Reddy Kilowatt is the symbol of your elec-
tric service! Make him part of your plan for
living. You will find you spend less and enjoy
life more.
★central power and ught company
Eastern and Northern manufactur-
ing centers, and ship the manufac-
tured (product back to Texas to
supply this market, more cheaply
than they can manufacture here.
Texas, with its vast area, is thin-
ly populated, compared to Northern
and Eastern market areas, and it
is surrounded by sta,tcs similarly
situated. Production facilities in
this country have far outstripped
distribution machinery. The nation
today is equipped with existing
factories which arc tooled to pro-
duce nearly twice the requirements
of the present distributing facili-
ties. Economic conditions, of course,
have affected the power of the na-
tion to assimilate goods. But the
fact remains that a single large
shoe factory, for instance, (since
O'Daniel has used shoes as an ex-
ample), could produce in a few
months all the shoes that Texans
buy in a year. It could not market
the shoes it must make during the
rest of the year profitably in other
territory, in competition with East-
ern factories, which were located
in those market areas.
* * *
Freight Structure Is Wall
The Southwestern freight rate
structure, which has been built up
by the Federal regulatory authori-
ties over a period of years since
the days when an arbitrary advan-
tage was given to Southern and
Western railroads on the theory
that with light volume it cost more
to operate them, forms an artificial
barrier against industrial develop-
ment in the Southwest.
There is, of course, a certain
limited field in which it is profit-
able to manufacture near the
source of raw materials. Notably,
the processing of petroleum is the
outstanding development along this
line. The petroleum refining indus-
try, using water transportation
from Gulf*ports to offset high rail
freight rates, has become Texas'
leading industrial development. It
employs many thousands, at high
average wage rates and is pros
perous.
But the conditions fit only a few
similarly specialized industries, and
those who profit from development
of those industries have not over-
looked Texas. As a matter of fact,
the great industrial organizations
of the East, such as the DuPont
enterprises, the Mellon interests,
General Motors, etc., have assem-
bled over a period of years a li-
brary of data bearing upon possi-
bilities of industrial development
in Texas that far exceeds in volume
and accuracy any figures available
in Texas, studying constantly the
development of industrial oppor-
tunities. They are not slow to take
advantage of such opportunities,
as they develop.
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A Real Opportunity
The best opportunity for indus-
trial development in Texas lies in
the local organization and financ-
ing of small industrial units, de-
signed to supply local markets with
certain classes of goods, mostly
perishables, which are financed
with Texas capital. Big Eastern
capital is not interested in such en-
terprises, and Texas capital has al-
ways been relucant to seek this
field of investment, because it is
hazardous.
* * *
Other Elements
There are a dozen other elements
which enter into the picture. One
is the traditional location and as-
sociation of groups of allied indus-
tries. Nobody will build a wool
scouring plant in Texas, for in-
stance, because investigation shows
that he couldn't sell his scoured
wool. The,wool scouring plants are
g THIS WEEK
*! IN PALACIOS HISTORY I
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10 YEARS AGO
The Texas Gulf Sulphur Com-
pany was opening up a plant at
Newgulf.
The Crawford Packing Company
opened for the season.
J. L. Koerber who had leased the
Hill building was adding a line of
Furniture to his Hardware and
Sporting Goods stock.
Cotton was coming in every day
and 2125 bales had been ginned.
J. S. Litten died at his home in
this city. The body was prepared
for burial and accompanied by his
daughter, Rosa, shipped to Spen-
cer, Ind., for interment.
15 YEARS AGO
Palaetos had n hooth at the
Illinois State Fair with Carlton
Crawford president of the Cham-
ber of Commerce.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Stewart
wev the parents of an 8!i pound
boy.
Prof. R. E. Rogers moved his
family to Gulf, where he was to
be .principal of the school.
Miss Gladys Hillyer left for
Washington, D. C., to resume her
study in music.
located around Boston, where the
output is sold to the woolen fabric
manufacturers. For a (hundred
years, these industries have been
allied. Interlocking ownership, fam-
ily association, banking connections
—all tend to keep the wool scour-
ing industry centered around the
New England mills that consume
the scoured wool. A Texas plant
would be regarded as an interloper,
and the mills just wouldn't be in-
terested in taking its output.
Cotton goods is marketed tradi-
tionally through brokers in the
East. It goes into the market un-
marked, unlabelled. The output of
a dozen mills is mingled and sold
in one lot. A Texas department
store recently tried to buy some
cotton goods from a Texas mill, to
feature in a "Texas Made" sales
event. Its managers found the mill
couldn't supply it, because it had a
long contract to sell all of its out-
put to a New York broker. If it had
sold a few thousand yards direct
to the Texas store, it would have
furnished material for some nice
advertising for the store for a day
or two. But the broker wouldn't
have been interested in handling
the mill's output, after that—and
the mill has to ship; the goods it
manufactures nil the year, or shut
down.
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What Dallas Did
The greatest opportunity for
business development in Texas lies
in the attraction of sales offices,
warehouse stocks, small branch
houses, assembly plants and similar
small units of Eastern concerns
here. They will come if a profitable
market is shown them. The Dallas
Chamber of Commerce spent $500,-
000 over a three year period adver-
tising in national magazines and
newspapers to this group. They
brought more than 800 new con-
cerns to Dallas in three years, and
are still getting returns from the
investment, several years after the
advertising fund was all spent.
Gov. Elect O'Daniel is likely to
find the realization of a quick,
sweeping industrial development of
Texas more difficult to realize than
his pensions-for-everybody pro-
gram.
THE POCKETBOOK
of KNOWLEDGE
AlAMMOTO P'.Jrirs WERe ONCE
-THE VOSUE IM EARLY ROME
MANY FAMILIES 0MEP S/IV£R
P'SHES WE/6H/N6 OVER,
/oo pounps AP/Ece/
&
A RU«UKI TPPAy
MUST WORK ALMOST
TEN TIMES M
LONG M 4N AMERICAN
TO FARM PN0U6M TO
guy A PACK1 OF
CIGARETTES
*Xt% OF OUR
"TOTAL POPULATION!
ATTFNPJ SCHOOL!
IN EN6LANP THE
lOuRe is OMiy /6 y« j
IN FRANCE, II '/•, IN GERMANy,
13* j m itall 12%.
THE JAPANESE GROW T«ff£#
in FLOWER POTSt
the PWARP TRWEi Of
JAPAN, /ARE PeKFKTiy
FOMEP MATURE
TREEi WHICH HAVB
BEEN iO CULTIVATE!?
THROUGH THE CENTURA*
THAT THEVARS NOW 5M4LL
ENOUGH TO GROW IN ,
FiOV'ER POTS.'
THE
103.52 v,coo
TAX &1LL
OF ONE
LARGE OIL
COMPANy
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GREATER tHAM
THE WAGES
PAIP IT#
I 72,000
EMPioyee*
Placing the Blame
Human nature is so prone to
blame others in general for the ills
around us, that most of us get to
the point of forgetting or ignoring
our own responsibilities entirely.
In discussing the practice of some
of the people in every community,
who ignore their lack of loyalty
and forget their own interests in-
terlocked with the welfare their
community, to the point of pa-
tronizing neighboring town mer-
chants and mail order houses. . . .
the writer is usually greeted with
"Yes, if these darned so and so's
would spend the money they earn
or make here, with local business
firms, this community would" etc.,
etc., conveniently forgetting to in-
clude themselves in placing the
blame for a practice to which they
were very likely a party. Several
years of emphasizing the evils and
inconsistency of earning or mak-
ing mony in one community and
spending it in another, and at-
tempting to locate and place the
blame for the practice, has con-
vinced the writer that there are too
many people in every community
who are getting up in the mornings
by the alarm of a clock bought
from a neighboring jeweler and
button mail-order-house suspenders
to trousers bought from a neigh-
boring town dry goods concern. Too
many of them put 011 mail-order-
house shoes and eat breakfast from
a table bought in a neighboring
town furniture store. Too many of
them use free air from a local ser-
vice station in mail-order-house
tires on a car bought from an out-
of-town dealer. Too many of them
wear ties bought from peddlers and
shirts made-to-order by some fire
sale concern in Chicago or else-
where. Too many of them use a
toothbrush from a neighboring
town druggist with toothpaste from
an out of town five-and-ten. Too
many of them live in houses built
with imported labor, painted with
a mail-order-house mixture and
protected (maybe so) with insur-
ance bought from a smooth-talking
and too-much-promising agent for
a mutual concern in Buncoville or
somewhere. Too many of them
wear frocks bought in a neighbor
ing town dress shop and far-from-
silk-hose bought from an all-silk-
hose peddler. Too many of them
trust their surplus money to a wild-
eyed, high-pressure promoter in-
stead of investing it in home-town
property. Too many of them send
the local newspaper man a state-
ment 011 a mail-order-house bill
head with an envelope printed in
Washington. Too many of them en-
joy the shelter, protection and con-
veniences of community institutions
and commercial enterprises that the
other fellow is supporting. . . and
then they expect to enjoy the
peaceful slumber and rest of the
righteous on a bed that was not
bought in their home town.
Strp Poker: A game in which the
more you lose the more you have
to show for it.
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v/iys so large a part in your life.
You can't get the financial service
you need from a machine. A machine
will add up a column of figures and
give you the right answer in a jiffy.
But when you have a real financial
problem you feel the need of talking
things over with a friend who can see
things from your viewpoint.
This is the kind of personal banking
service which we try to give you. We
consider it a real privilege to co-
operate in every way we can.
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Learn to look for the red, white and blue Humble sign
when you need gasoline, motor oil, lubrication and
washing. For aside from the excellent quality of the
products they handle—it's second to none!—Humble
stations are equipped to render you Service spelled
with a capital S.
Restrooms are spotless, driveways are scrubbed,
bright woric shines. There are free air and water for
your car, free ice water, road maps, highway informa-
tion for yourself. Humble station men, all neatly uni-
formed, are carefully trained to give your car the care
it needs to keep it running right and looking good, to
speed you on your way. They have a friendly, neigh-
borly, Texas welcome waiting for you.
Next time, stop for service where you see th®
Humble sign.
HUMBLE OIL & REFINING COMPANY
A Texas institution manned by Texans
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Mrs. J. W. Dismukes and Sons. Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 15, 1938, newspaper, September 15, 1938; Palacios, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth411862/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Palacios Library.