Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 3, 1933 Page: 2 of 4
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Published Every Thursday
J. W. DISMUKE8 :-: :•: Publisher
One Year, $1.50 Six Months, $1.00
Entered at the Palactoe Post Office as
second class mail matter under Act
of Congress.
Schools and Business
THIS WEEK
In Palacios History
FROM OUR EARLY IILES
Considerable criticism has arisen in
certain quarters of late because of the
cooperation of groups of business men
with schools and colleges in the mat-
ter of text-book revision.
The critics assume that the inter-
est of business men in this matter is
entirely selfish and actuated by a
desire to direct the thought of stu
dents along lines in conformity with
big business. The business men de-
clare that they only seek to bring the
text-books up to date.
The subject is one of great import-
ance and one concerning which it is
not safe to jump at conclusions. Cer-
tainly it is in the interest of the stu-
dents, as well as in the interest of the
public, that they should have accurate
information in their textbooks.
The United States Bureau of Edu-
cation in an official statement some
time pgo said:
"In the past many text-books for
commercial subjects have been prepar-
ed by authors whose business exper-
ience, if any, was not sufficient to en-
able them to record accurately the
practices in business. As a result of
research 4,560 corrections were made
and reported to 26 publishers of the
text. The responses from the authors
and publishers have proved the worth-
iness of business men's efforts to put
commercial education on a fact basis."
No reasonable person could object
to such cooperation between business
men and the schools. It is only when
attempts are made, from whatever
source, to inject prejudiced matter In-
to school books that a halt should be
called. Each ease should be considered
on its merits, and wholesale criticism,
without discrimination as to the real
purposes sought, is unwarranted and
unjust.
10 YEARS AGO
T. F. Sifford of Collegeport brought
in the first bale of cotton for the sea-
son, while J. K. Darnell and H. M.
Sanders of north of town were just
behind him with their first bales.
The nation mourned the death of
President Warren G. Harding, which
occurred in San Francisco.
Miss Claire Hansen was given a
surprise birthday party, planned by
Mrs. C. L. Haynos and Miss Mabel
Hayes.
Miss Lorena Ifland was elected prin-
cipal of East Bay School. Miss Ifland
was doing some special work in a Uni-
versity at Long Beach, Calif.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Cunningham had
as their guest, their niece, Miss Gladys
Rhea of San Antonio.
Misses Grace Evelyn Barnett, Gladis
Fell and Elizabeth Sisson were on the
honor roll for doing the best work in
Miss Holliday's music class.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Luther were
driving a fine new Reo.
The Palacios Summer Normal, which
was drawing to a close had an enroll-
ment of 87.
The municipal wharf on East Bay
was the most popular place in town
for moonlight picnics and bathing par-
ties, while it afforded a wonderful
place for those who enjoyed fishing
during the day time.
The College Problem
College is no "snap," It is a real
task. It has its definite problems
which challenge the best in every
youth. Can you solve them ? Here
they are:
Problem One—GOING. Can I Go?
Yes, if you have the money. Many
thousand young men and women do
not have the money nor can they find
a job, thus they will be denied the ad-
vantages of higher education.
SOLUTION: Here is an EASY and
effective solution. GET A BUSINESS
EDUCATION. Many who are attend-
ing our school at this moment are do-
ing so as a means to a six-year pro-
fessional education. Several of our
graduates are now in college success-
fully earning their board, room, tui-
tion, and in some instances, maintain-
ing a cash reserve. Not a few of the
most successful professional men and
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Woman's Christian
Temperance Union
"For God and Home
and Every Land"
Mrs. W. C. GRAY, Local Pres.
WHY VOTE?
The figures show that several of the
states that legalized beer did so be-
cause the drys did not go to the polls.
Dr. W. D. Powell cast the first ballot
in his box against beer. He told the
writer that he has seven dry neigh-
bors who did not vote. Where there
should have been eight votes there was
one.
Using personal liberty to disfran-
chise one's self is an amazing contra-
diction. What if the brewers by the
power of the Democratic party under-
took to disfranchise all the drys in or-
women of the Southwest have used our ider to build UP theil' business and fill
1 their pockets, The Revolutionary war
A1 Smith's View
In the midst of the enthusiasm for
the "New Deal" sponsored by Presi-
dent Roosevelt there has lately appear-
ed criticism of some of the measures
whereby his program is to be put into
effect.
The most prominent critic of the
law by which the government is em-
powered to exercise dictatorial powers
over business and industry, known as
the National Recovery Act, is Alfred
E. Smith, presidential candidate In
1928. In his magazine. The New Out-
look, he said, in part:
"This act if the terms are ca.rried
out, will cripple Initiative, legalize
and cv n encourage monopoly, raise
prices and require higher tariffs to
maintain the new structures. The little
man will be lost in the shuffle. I do
not want to see this land of opportun-
ity sink to a dead level in which we
shall all be civic servants .working
under political control. If that happens,
we shall have sold our American birth-
right for a mess of Communistic pot-
tage."
A great many patriotic citizens
agree with Mr. Smith that some of
the legislation passed by the recent
Congress goes too far in the direction
of placing everybody and everything
under government control. We can only
await the result of these revolutionary
measures, and in the meantime hope
for the best.
Sea sickness car sickness and air
sickness may be relieved by electrically
heating the back of the neck, accord-
ing to Dr. E. E. Free, the eminent
scientist, who declares the same treat-
ment to be helpful in many cases of
sick headache. It might even relieve
slightly that pain in the neck which
the average radio program gives per-
is above the moron class.
YOUR READING HOURS-
MAKE THEM PLEASANT.
If you squint and blink
your eyes when you are read-
ing you cannot relax and en-
joy yourself. Properly fitted
glasses will remove the strain
from your eyes and make
your reading hours a pleas-
ure to you.
Come in and see us. Wo
will examine your eyes and if
you need glasses properly fit
you with them at a minimum
charge. >And we will guar-
antee that you will have the
proper lenses.
JNO. D. BOWDEN
CRESCENT DRUG STORE
PHONES 18 & 59
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15 YEARS AGO
Returns from the Democratic pri-
mary showed W. P. Hobby's majority
over James E. Ferguson 250,000 or
more. Miss Anna Webb Blanton
"walked away" from both her oppon-
ents in the race for superintendent of
public instruction. Women voted for
the first time in Texas.
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. B. Skinner, of
Columbus, announced the arrival of a
new daughter at their home, and she
was the only little Miss in Colorado
County who had a great-grandfather
103 years old, reported the Colorado
Citizen.
A call was issued by the govern-
ment for male stenographers, and for
women demonstration agents in Home
Economics, and 113 boys from Palacios
were at the front and in training, bat-
tling for Liberty and world-wide De-
mocracy.
Charles Luther of Camp Stanley,
Ned Estes, of Ellington Field, and Sgt
R. W. Rhea, of Ft. Sam Houston, were
on a short visit to home folks.
The Friday morning's train took out
a large crowd of people who had been
here for the B. Y. P. U. All seemed to
have had a wonderful time and many
said they were coming again.
20 YEARS AGO
The County Court had fixed the
county tax for the year at 52V& cents
on the $100. valuation, covering all
county purposes. The rate in Palacios
road district on the $100,000 road
bonds was fixed at 91 cents on the
$100.
A Bay City Colony was being estab-
lished in the B. Y. P. U. grounds with
the Sims cottage as headquarters.
Mrs. Leckie was an able assistant of
Mrs. Sims, and more than twenty
guests were enjoying a vacation.
Announcement was made that Rev.
W. L. Shepherd would be installed as
pastor of the Presbyterian church at
the 11 o'clock service on Sunday. Rev.
Hill of Blessing, would preach the ser-
mon. Dr. T. C. Johnston of Houston,
would preach at the evening service.
The Ward Cattle Co. purchased a
tract of land of 244 acres lying on the
Tres-Palacios river from A. A. Hayes.
The first bale of cotton for the sea-
son brought to Palacios for ginning
was grown on the N. L. Hoopingarner
farm. Mr. Hoopingarner's farm in
Calhoun County gave the first bale to
be ginned at Port Lavaca.
The Beacon carried another story
taken from the Houston Post about
the rescue of seven Palacios men from
the stranded launch "Mermaid" by Mr.
Thos. A. Wells, stating Mr. Wp!Is had
three most valuable and necessary as-
sistants. They were Capt. Will Sutter-
field with his launch, "Clarette," and
Messrs. C. H. Dunbar and C. M. Rhea.
Peter Jensen was harvesting a fine
crop of Soy beans, a new crop for this
section.
Many rare collections of both domes-
tic and foreign stamps will be seen in
the stamp exhibit which is being ar-
ranged for the 1933 State Fair of Tex-
as by the Dallas Stamp Club. Co-op-
erating with the Dallas club will be the
State organization. Several very rare
collections of stamps are owned in
Texas and parts of these collections
will be placed on exhibit. The stamp
exhibit will be in the Main Exhibit
Building.
commercial training courses as a
means to securing their education. A
business education will double the av-
erage person's chances to go to Col-
lege—it will make going EASY.
Problem Two—STAYING. Can I
Stay? Maybe you can, but the chances
are against you. Only ten per cent
of those who enter ever graduate.
Ninety per cent fall by the wayside—
pathetic, expensive! Though you can
GO, ask yourself a hundred times, Can
I STAY? College values are assur-
ed only to the STICKERS.
SOLUTION: Train yourself to be
ACCURATE. Some students stumble,
blotch, blur, and blunder themselves
out of college. They are literally
knocked out with a red pencil. Many
others cut their grades to the mini-
mum passing grade. The Business
School furnishes a preparatory disci-
plinary training in accuracy which is
not only necessary in life's later bat-
tles, but which makes the details and
technicalities of future college work
delightful and EASY.
Many students quit college because
they cannot KEEP UP. They never
leave college. College leaves them.
They lack the double-quick step. They
are short in speed. Business Schools
specialize in SPEED TRAINING.
They prepare one for the college race,
as well as for the split-second age
They emphasize speed with the pen,
typewriter, figures, speedy decision and
execution. They put wings on one's
words by the latest shorthand meth-
ods, so that every phase of the class
room lecture may be preserved. Sev-
eral of the most illustrious men have
been experts in the use of shorthand
and have recommended it to all pros-
pective college students.
Thousands of students do not stay
in college because they lack DEFIN
ITE PURPOSE. Upon entering they
have no idea of what they can do best,
or even want to do. Thus, school be-
comes monotonous, boresome, hard, and
they quit. They need general orienta-
tion, specific direction, a breathing
spell, contacts with the great pul-
sating business world and men of af-
fairs. They must find themselves and
have a purpose, or they will be num-
bered with the ninety per cent who
DROP OUT.
Problem Three—GETTING. Can I
Get the Most? Hundreds of thousands
of young people will enter college this
year. Of those who pursue their
courses for a while, some will receive
no benefit whatever, many will be mod-
erately helped, but only a few will re-
ceive the maximum blessing. The pre-
dominant and final question, therefore,
of every college student should be:
How can I get the most out of my
course ?
SOLUTION: Train yourself in bus-
iness first. Until recently slight em-
phasis has been placed upon business
training as a means to a moer adequate
preparation for effective college work.
Students have been advised to go to
college and then take a Business
Course. This is but another illustra-
tion of "PLACING THE CART BE-
FORE THE HORSE." College rec-
ords will show that, other things be-
ing equal, the business trained college
students makes better grades. Such
students are not only able to KEEP
UP but to KEEP AHEAD, and this
is part of the glory of college life.
College is impossible for some, hard
for many, easy for a few. Our spec-
ially arranged Business Training
Course will make it EASY for you.
With it you can go to College, stay
in college, and get the most out of
your work while there. A few months
of intensive training with us will solve
your four-year college problem. Write
for our catalog. It tells you how.
TYLER COMMERCIAL COLLEGE
AND SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
ADMINISTRATION
Tyler, Texas
Name
Address
20 Miles of Chinese Elm
In 1932 there were 17,000 workers
employed in sawmills of Texas and
drew wages amounting to $14,000,000.
The lumber crop of that year brought
$45,000,000 into the state.
Perhaps one of the most versatile
young women in the world is Miss Uya
Zorn, described thus by a writer In
Grit. "She speaks seven languages
fluently; she is a licensed nviatrix in
the United States, a dramatic stage
star in South America, a hunter of
wild animals in Africa, a social favor- (
ite in London, and a successful fiction
writer in Portugal." She is said never
to have lived more than six months
J successively in any one country. j
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Relieves
HEADACHES
in ONE MINUTE
"As Sure As Sin"
would be appealed to in every pulpit,
school house and billions of homes.
Yet millions of voters by not going
to the polls, disfranchise themselves
and help the brewers.
How can such a man or woman have
any respect for his or her patriotism ?
A wet vote is a vote directly, de-
liberately and surely for the pockets
of the brewers. They may get mil-
lions from the people, as in other days,
but my vote or my failure to vote is
not going to put the price of one bot-
tle of beer into any brewer's pocket.
There is no use in confusing this
question. There is just one thing to
settle. Here it is: Shall I vote to fill
the pockets of the brewers and make
them powerful to do the things they
want to do? I WILL NOT, SO HELP
ME GOD.—Baptist Standard.
The Lubboel Station's introduction
of the Chinese uiin in 1919 and its ex-
tensive propagation and distribution
of this tree throughout West Texas
since that time has resulted in the
planting of thousands of trees in this
regian every year. This past spring,
through cooperative efforts between
civic leaders in Lubbock, the State
Highway Department and the Experi-
ment Station, plans were worked out
for planting an avenue of Chinese elms
for two miles on each side of the five
main highways leading out of the city.
These trees, which were planted on
well prepared ground and are cultivat-
ed and watered by the Highway De-
partment, are making a nice start this
year, according to D. L. Jones, super-
intendent of the Lubbock Substation.
This roadside planting of Chinese elms
equal to a single row twenty miles In
length required about 4,000 trees, 1,000
of which were furnished by the Sta-
tion for further trials and demonstra-
tion of this tree for roadside planting
in West Texas.
STUDENT DRINKING IN TEXAS
COLLEGES
The allies of liquor had so much to
say about our youth drinking, that Dr.
Atticus Webb decided to get the facts.
He wrote to practically every collcge
president in Texas, with the following
results:
Colleges answering, 42.
Total enrollment session 1931-32,
38,237.
Boys before the Committee on Dis-
cipline in whose case liquor was a fac-
tor, 87.
Girls before Committee on Discipline
with whose case liquor was a factor,
19.
Total students among the 38,237 who
at some time during an entire school
year were brought before the Commit
tee on Discipline, in which liquor play-
ed some part, 106.
Many hastened to emphasize the
fact that drunkenness was not involv
ed.
Comparing the situation with those
in saloon days, several said "conditions
are twenty-five times better" or "con-
ditions are a hundred times better."
Some said "conditions are a thousand
times better," and some said "there is
no comparison, conditions are so much
better."
One university, in the suburbs of a
city said that during saloon days on
Saturday nights the faculty had to
have a member to meet the late street
cars from the city and put the drunk-
en students to bed. A far larger stu-
dent body today has no need of such
and has few cases of discipline from
drinking. The only two schools that
seemed to have liquor problems were
a state school where conditions have
never been quite so satisfactory as
with other schools and a private school
patronized largely by the wealthier
citizens. One school in a city refused
to give data.—West Texas Baptist.
Texas is the 4th State in the Un-
ion in the production of Southern Pine,
and ranks 7th in the Nation in the
production of lumber.
A special parade of all prize win-
ning animals shown in the Livestock
Department at the 1933 State Fair of
Texas, will be held for school children
of the state, on Saturday, Oct. 21, it
has been announced here by Frank P.
Holland, Jr., director in charge of the
department.
"I'm sorry," said the diner who hop-
ed to get away with it, "but I haven't
any money to pay for that meal."
"That's all right," said the cashier,
"we'll write your name on the wall
and you can pay the next time you
come in."
"Don't do that. Everybody who
comes in will see it."
"Oh' no they won't. Your overcoat
will hang over it."
B0-SANNI
TEA
Reducing Agent
PAR EXCELENCE
REDUCE
A SAFE, SURE
PLEASANT WAY
"Prepare and Serve as Tea"
ALSO A SPLENDID
HEALTH-BUILDER
Crescent Drug Store
Rural School Problem
WAITC
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Elimination of small rural schools
which have outlived their day and the
development of larger schools that
may be made real centers of commun
ity life are recommended by Dr. Wil
liam J. Cooper, United States com
missioner of education.
The old one-room schoolhouse serv-
ed well in the period when sparse
settlements and lack of good roads
prevented the assembling of more than
a few pupils in any one place for in
struction. If it did not serve well, it
at least was the best means available
for its purpose.
Much progress has already been
made in the direction of consolidated
schools, but the movement has not
kept pace with the need for better
planned instruction. Dr. Cooper be-
lieves that all small rural schools
might well be eliminated in districts
where good roads make transportation
of pupils for longer distances prac-
ticable.
Where this is not feasible for all
pupils, he suggests that those of the
sixth grade and above should be trans-
ported to the larger schools which
should be made community centers.
In no other way will it be possible to
give farm children an education com-
parable with that enjoyed by those of
the towns and cities—and all children
should have equal opportunities so far
as it is possible to provide them.
The matter of rural education is
one of the most pressing of the prob-
lems which confront our educational
system. It deserves the most earnest
consideration at the hands of educa-
tors and the general public alike.
J. David Stern, Publisher of the
Philadelphia Record, says:
"Advertising is becoming more intel-
ligent. During the past thirty years
there has been a constant rise in the
level of advertising appeal. Not only
are the large advertising agencies,
which prepare the big national cam-
paigns employing better talent to de-
sign and write the advertising, but
they are attuning their copy to a more
intelligent audience.
"The day is past of flamboyant, bal-
lyhoo advertising with crude illustra-
tions and absurdly superlative claims.
"Advertisers have abandoned the
idea of editing their copy down to the
masses. As a result American ad-
vertising has become one of the great-
est educational and cultural forces in
our social organism. It has changed
our diet, telling us what food to eat,
and when, and how to prepare it. It
has changed our home life by introduc-
ing a multitude of labor-saving de-
vices which lessen the drudgery of
housework. It has influenced our
styles of architecture, and the mater-
ials with which we build our homes;
the way we dress, the shoes we wear,
the books and magazines we read. It
has inculcated laws of health and hy-
giene, standards of personal cleanli-
ness. From baby's food to burial plots,
the whole course of our lives has been
influenced tremendously by advertis-
ing, which has become more forceful
as it has become more intelligent.
"Future Historians tracing the trend
of our Civilization will recognize the
Great Influence of Advertising upon
our Customs, Styles and Ideas. It
has Speeded up the Development of our
Nation. What is More Important, it
has Knit Together the Nation by Mak-
ing the Development Uniform Thru-
out the Land."
Patronize BEACON Advertisers
IT IS COMFORTING TO KNOW
THAT EVERY DETAIL OF
FUNERAL DIRECTION
IS HANDLED BY—
Duffy and Rittenhouse
Undertaking Company
PHONE 54
Post Office Bldg.
PALACIOS
FUNERAL HOME
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
AND LICENSED EMBALMERS
AMBULANCE SERVICE
PHONE 8 PALACIOS, TEXAS
M. K. FEATHER, Mgr.
dr. a. b. cairnes
DENTIST
OFFICE:—UPSTAIRS IN
BANK BUILDING
dental x-ray
PHONE 51
Graduate of University of BufFalo, N.Y
Post-Graduate Northwestern Univer-
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dr. t. f. driskill
DENTIST
Member American Academy of
Applied Dental Science
Pyorrhea, Oral Prophylaxis and
Dentistry
OFFICE HOURS: s%»k
PHONE NUMBER 96
Southwest Rooms, Ruthven Building
PALACIOS, TEXAS
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then 1 fi Blocks East, or leave
Films at—
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Manufacture all kinds of wood
Wood yard in connection with
Plant
PHONE 27.
PALACIOS
The Sulphur Industry
—IS ONE OF TEXAS' MANY OUTSTANDING ASSETS.
—Three Mines Produce Practically all of the Nation's Supply
SULPHUR IS INDUSTRY'S
MOST ESSENTIAL COMMODITY
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Its Presence in Texas, therefore, constitutes one
of the State's Most Attractive Inducements to
the Development of Industry within its borders
Texas Gulf Sulphur Co.
"The World's Largest Producer of Crude Sulphur"
MINES:
GULF, (Matagorda County,) Texas
NEWGULF, (Wharton County) Texas
HEADQUARTERS:
Second National Bank Building,
Houston, Texas
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