Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 14, 1939 Page: 4 of 8
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Published Every Thursday
Editor - - Mrs. J. W. Dismukes
Asso. Editor - Jesse V. Dismukes
Business Mgr. - Hugh J. Dismukes
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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 $2.00
HEALTH NOTES
Austin Texas.—Prevalence of ma-
laria in Texas this summer anil fall,
though less than in the past three
years, is sufficient to make malaria
control a matter of importance both
to communities and the individual
citizen.
The efforts of the State Depart-
ment of Health, and individuals,
and the prolonged drouths in many
sections of Texas have curtailed the
incidence of malaria in those same
areas, according to records of ma-
laria cases as reported to the De-
partment.
The summer months saw the
greatest prevalence of malaria in
'Texas—451 cases being reported in
June, 844 in July, and 613 in Aug-
ust, as contrasted to 102 cases re-
ported in January, 132 in February,
and 275 in May.
Malaria is caused by a micro-
scopic parasite and is spread by sev-
eral species of Anopheline mosqui-
toes; these are probably less abund-
ant than usual this season bccausc
the decrease in rainfall has dried
up pools in which the mosquitoes
■would normally breed.
From the standpoint of malaria,
The Price of Reckless Passing Comes High!
(Passing cars on th« hill or without sufficient clearance caused 36
deaths in Texas last year In 72 accidents.)
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Texas Good Roads Association
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NOBODY'S BUSINESS 1
Bv JULIAN CAPERS. Jr.
Austin.—The war in Europe has
brought no changes in Texas' state
governmental setup to date, al-
though there are several "war"
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PALACIOS BEACON. PALACIOS, TEXAS
Thursday, September 14, 1939
it is important to stop breeding of nationa, ,(, unitg robablj,
wr»Dr(intAoc tinrntn tmrl npflv PitV .....
mosquitoes within and near city
limits and homes. The draining of
ditches will help to prevent breed-
angles which promise to affect
many Texans directly. The first of
these probably will be the expan-
sion of National Guard units and
activities in all states as authorized
| by President Roosevelt, in connec-
tion with his executive order, plac-
ing the country in a state of alert-
ness, to preserve American neutral-
ity. The active and efficient Texas
will
be recruited to full strength, and
additional training activities in-
augurated shortly, as the first step
tion s neu-
creased demand for food products,
Washington farm officials warned,
and there is no occasion for farm-
ers to expand their production of
cotton, wheat and other basic food
and fabric products. They pointed
out huge surpluses of these com-
modities already on hand, and warn-
ed that whatever expansion may be
needed if a long-drawn-out war en-
sues can be quickly obtained, with
modern mechanized farming meth-
ods. There will be no war boom in
farm products, these officials point-
ed out, such as followed in the wake
of the world war of 1914, Cotton
prices generally will suffer, most
agricultural experts pointed out,
due to upset exchange and falling
off of world demand. They pointed
out there is a year's supply for the
entire world now on hand, and no
need to expand acreage.
Johnson Heads Pension Setup
mg of the common pestiferous mos- ations to d this state-s
•quito, and also of the Anopheline £ J tion in the nati
species; the latter, however, is move t
apt to be found m pools and the, „ „ „
larger ditches where weeds and' Texas Oil Important
plant life give harborage to the.
mosquitoes. I O" is as essential as gunpowder.
Chills and fever, which usually to modern mechanized armies, andj
occur every other dav after onset of with a goodly shaie of the whole. Adam Johnson, former member
the illness arc the chief symptoms j world s potential supply under Tex- of the board of control, ex-city
of malaria. The malarial parasite HS soil> naturally, Texans will im- manager of Austin, and director of
us readily found through examina-' mediately face new situations and State relief during the depression
tion of blood smears of the patient.; conditions with respect to supply- period, is the new director of the
| ing oil to the warring nations, and State Welfare Board, which will ad-
to non-participating neutrals. ! minister pensions, aid for children
Railroad Commissioner Jerry Sad and needy blind.
By PIERCE BROOKS
"He kept us out of war" was the
baile cry in the Woodrow Wilson re-
election campaign. It is now hoped
that this will be the same message
carried in the next presidential
election, namely, that both major
parties, the Democrats and the Re-
publicans are responsible for the
U. S. not being drawn into the orgy
of wholesale murder called War and
they are pledged to keep us out of
war.
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The Texas department of the
American Legion held its State
Convention just recently in Waco.
It was common to hear high notes
of patriotism there, and in the same
breath you could hear old front line
veterans declare that they do not
want any more of it, "for ourselves
or for our sons, or for the sons of
our fellow citizens, if future wars
can be honorably avoided."
With the sound of war ringing in
Europe and with a memory of the
last war in which Texas boys par-
ticipated alongside of their buddies
from neighboring and all other
states of the Union, our country
should continue its policy of not
permitting loans to any nation
which is at present in default in its
I indebtedness to America. We should
1 not make the mistake of loaning bil-
lions to other countries at war, in
order to enable them to purchase
, various commodities from this coun-
try, thus creating a false prosperity,
accompanied by inflation, and fol-
I lowed by disastrous deflation, with
j the extended credit probably de-
stined never to be repaid.
The United States should not
enter into any agreement or any
foreign entanglement which might
result in sending any armed forces
to fight in some other country. Let's
be truly Neutral and hold our heads
while others seem to be losing
theirs. Let us heed the words of
the great Master who said, "Bless-
ed are the Peacemakers" and let us
observe the rules that promote
peace and goodwill.
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In the meantime, let's not forget
our old folk and lend a helping hand
to Adam Johnson, the recently ap-
pointed head of State Welfare Work
in Texas. He has a big job to keep
our aged fathers and mothers out
of the war against want.
THE POCKETROOK
of KNOWLEDGE
Jack tar, a popular
PtSISNATION OP A SAILOR,
WAS filVEH HIM ON
ACCOUNT OP THE TARPAULIN
■overalls donned By him
IN STORMV WEATHER.
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If olo away with all- machines, all
able-bodied persons in "this country,
marking ii hrs. a dav, could provide
us with only a fraction of the
goods which we now consider
necessities.
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the DORMOUSE, small
squirrel-like rodent, spends
hali= the year Sieepina.
A METHOD HAS SE-CN DEVISED
to TREAT MEAT WITH ELECTRIC
RAYS FOR KAP'D cuR/NS AND
TO MAKE TOU6H CUTS TEMSR.
THIS WEEK
1 IN PALACIOS HISTORY
;; FROM OUR EARLY PILES
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10 YEARS AGO
Palacios schools opened with an
enrollment of 409.
The Pure Oil Company had leas-
ed a large acreage in Jackson Coun-
ty.
Of an estimated cotton crop of
1500 bales for the season, the Pa-
lacios gins had turned out 300,
Citrus Grove 115 and El Maton 15.
j. F. Barnett was selected by
Greenwood Post No. 47G, American
Legion as Palacios' most dis-
tinguished citizen.
TM| S/V7, VOC.OCO TAX BILL LAST VEAfl Of A LABCiE TELEPHONE COMPANY WAS EQUAL TO$550 PER EMPLoVeB.
Warsaw Has Seen More Warfare in Past
300 Years Than Any European Capital
"My dear wife, I have taken you
safely over all the rough places in', *
life, haven't I?"
the week-end wired the The pension authorities have been
"Yes I don't believe vou missed Fede,'f Bu,'eau of,Mille,s' « adding pensioners to the roll, under
1 d y revised estimate of market demand previsions of the new "liberalized"
any of them."
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for Texas oil for the hearing sched- pension act of the last session, so
uled for Monday. Sadler expressed j extremely slowly> that the addi-
I belief the declaration of war, made: ^onaj names have so far made little
since the Bureau's last estimate for! difference in the pension payments.
j 1^,..^ v..w „ ^ .v.. „ anierence in the pension payments.
I September, would material y change Approval by the San Antonio office
PHONE 8 PALACIOS
M. K. FEATHER, Mgr.
PALACIOS
FUNERAL HOME t the figures. He wanted the infoi- 0f g0Pja] Security Board of the
_ i mation in connection with study of Qon+nmViov
FUNERAL DIRECTORS jldata fol. a new statewide order 1 o=L V, \ ,
x t tri?M«jpn fmr a t MFR9 i' • ,2500 new names added, and a slight
& Ij 10lliJ\ oliiJL) xiiMDALI'lulvb | which admittfidlv will cjiII "for an in- • • i.i_
. I wnitn aumiLteuiy win can iui an in increase in the average payment, to
AMBULANCE SERVICE ! crease in East Texas production,' a few cents over $14 per pensioner.
| j and a reduction in other fields, in However, repayment of the bank
| compliance with a Federal court de- j loans made by the pension fund>
J jeision. At the same time, Ernest and substantial increase in the
•> , Thompson warned against increase number of pensioners added during
in the allowable beyond a figure tho next month> mav hasten the
O——— ithat wil1 conserve pressure, and a crisis in pension finances which is
'similar warning came from Secre- inevitaMe> in view of the fact no
tary of Interior Harold L. Ickes, pension revenue was raised by the
i the tireless advocate of Federal | regular session. Many legislators,
I control of oil. Ickes indicated he visiting Austin, are asking for a
.was ready to take advantage ofI special session, but so far Gov.
j wartime conditions again to push O'Daniel has given no indication he
J his movement for U. S. Control,• wjjj ca]j one
• which virtually all Texans oppose.
FEATHER & SON
REAL ESTATE
AUTO and LIFE
FIRE, TORNADO
INSURANCE
BONDS
—NOTARY PUBLIC—
Farmers Are Warned
The war will bring no great in-
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Ready
to serve
you
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connections with other
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through membership in
the American Bankers
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supply facilities to serve
you or your business on
a nation-wide scale.
THE
FIRST NATIONAL
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Notes
Tom King, the "biggest man in
Austin," was reappointed State
Auditor by Gov. W. Lee O'Daniel.
King is six feet four, and weighs
around 250 . . . William Lawson,
secretary to Gov. O'Daniel, who
visited a San Antonio hospital to
check up on Claude Tcer's condition,
just a day or two before Teer's
death, paid another hospital visit
this week. This time he went as a
patient, with an emergency appendi-
citis operation . . . Harry C. With-
ers, who began his newspaper ca-
reer as editor of the Denton Record-
Chronicle and later joined the Dal-
las News staff, was this week nam-
ed managing editor of The News,
succeeding John King, who goes to
Washington as staff correspondent.
Mark Godwin, veteran News man
in Washington, is retiring and re-
turning to Austin to live. . . Harry
Withers is not only one of the ablest
but one of the kindliest and best-
liked newspapermen in Texas, who
has started scores of youngsters on
brilliant journalistic careers, thru
his careful, considerate teaching and
handling . . . This correspondent
was one of his early pupils . . . .
This columnist has a letter from
W. F. Bieknell, Justice of the Peace
at Cason, Texas, who reads "No-
body's Business" in the Dainger-
field News, and he doesn't like it,
because he thinks we are unfair to
Gov. O'Daniel ... At any rate,
Judge Bieknell, you and I both
ought to thank God we live in a
country whore we can criticize a
politician without having to go to
a concentration camp for it ... To
The Saturday Evening Post this
week, Texans are indebted for pub-
lishing an extremely interesting
short story of the career of John
Garner, Texan No. 1, and his boom
for the presidential nomination. The
New Uses For
Cotton May Revive
Texas Agriculture
j Regarded by many as the key to
the future of Texas agriculture, a
movement to develop new uses for
cotton is spreading on several
i fronts. Its fruits may mean the
! economic salvation of thousands of
farm families in this state.
I The Texas cotton crop is still the'
I most valuable crop grown in a sin-
• gle political subdivision in the
world. But as a source to Texas
farmers, it is doomed to a gradual
decline unless domestic consumption ]
is substantially increased.
How to increase consumption of j
cotton is receiving more and more,
attention from farm experts as they j
come to realize that government
control is not the answer to the j
farm riddle. Despite government.
efforts to control production, the
surplus carryover of cotton two
years ago was 11,500,000 bales, or j
65 per cent of the total crop of the
nation.
State Agricultural Commissioner j
J, E. McDonald believes that farm
famiiles themselves offer one of i
the principal opportunities of in-
creasing consumption of cotton.
Merely filling tho needs of farm
families for towels, pillow-cases,
mattresses and other cotton house-
hold articles, he says, will take up
hundreds of thousands of bales of
the surplus slack every year.
Three other outlets for cotton are
now in the process of promotion.
These are:
1. Insulation material.—The U.
S. Bureau of Agricultural Econom-
ics has found that cotton is much
better than any other material for
insulation purposes. Moreover, it is
much cheaper. A process has been
developed in Taylor whereby cotton
may be made fireproof. This will
encourage its use for insulation pur-
poses, McDonald believes. He esti-
mated that 300,000 additional bales
may be used for this purpose with
the spread of air-conditioning.
2. A movement is under way to
substitute use of cotton in making
bagging for cotton bales. Imported
jute is now used.
3. Cotton may be used instead of
jute as a linoleum rug base. Mc-
Donald believes a tariff on jute
would encourage the substitution of
cotton for this purpose, and the
consumption of cotton would be in-
creased considerably.
Warsaw, beseiged today by Ger-
man troops probably has seen more
warfare in the past 300 years than
any other capital in Europe.
Its history dates back obscurely
to the ninth century, when Conrad,
Duke of Mazovia, is supposed to
have built a castle on the city's site.
The same site was fortified by Casi-
mir in the 11th century, but it was
not until 500 years later that it
came into European history. In 1550
Sigismund Augusus made it the
capital of Poland. Its military his-
tory since then follows:
1G55—Captured by Chai-les Gus-
tavus of Sweden.
July, 1656—Retaken by the Poles.
1702—Beseiged and occupied by
Charles XII of Sweden.
1703—Restored to independence
by peace treaty.
1764—Captured by the Russians,
who elected Stanislaw Poniatowski
King.
1773—Given to Prussia in the
first Polish partition.
November 1794—taken by Russia.
1795—Back to Prussia in the
third partition.
November 1800—Occupied by Na-
poleon.
1807—Set up as capital of Na-
poleon's "independent" Duchy of
Warsaw.
April 21,1807—Seized by Austria-
June 2, 1809—Restored to inde-
pendence.
Feb. 8, 1813—Retaken by Rus-
sians,
Nov. 29 1830—Seized by Polish
revolutionaries and held a year.
Sept. 7, 1831—Captured by the
15 YEARS AGO
Miss Myrtle Morris and Mr. Jack
Waldren were married in the Metho-
dist Church, Rev. G. T. Hester of-
ficiating.
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Haynes an-
nounced the birth of a baby boy.
The Matagorda County Federa-
tion of Women's Clubs met in Col-
legeport Miss Josephine Callaway
was voted to have use of the
Scholarship Fund.
A 20-page catalogue for the
Deutschburg Community Fair was
printed in the Beacon office.
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20 YEARS AGO
Government bacon was selling at
31 cents per pound F. O. B. San
Antonio. Orders were being taken
by Mayor Harrison.
The Girl's Canning Club of the
County held a two-day encampment
in the B. Y. P. U. grounds, under
the direction of Miss Betty Hart,
County Home Demonstration Agent.
The Moore Gin was destroyed by
fire. It was a modern plant, valued
at $10,000 with no insurance.
Russian, Paskevich, and held under
military rule until 1856.
1863—Revolt suppressed by Rus-
sians who retaliated with mass exe-
cutions, deportations and confisca-
tions.
1905-06—Rioting for independ-
ence.
1914—Russian army base estab-
lished
1915—Caplured by Germans af-
ter four attacks had been beaten
back.
1918-—Seized by Poles with de-
feat of Germany in World War.
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Patronize those who advertise.
The heart that boasts it ne'er
was broken, is too hard a heart
for me.
piece is by Marquis James, one of
the ablest of American biographers,
author of The Raven and of Andrew
Jackson.
Is One of Texas' Many
Outstanding Assets!
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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.
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Dismukes, Mrs. J. W. Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 14, 1939, newspaper, September 14, 1939; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth411871/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Palacios Library.