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FARM NOTES
By F. 0. MONTAGUE, Co. Agt.
J Change for the better in 1933. Our
^incere wish to people everywhere is
"Happy New Year" and better
mes.
This is stock taking time for each
us. How about taking "time out"
ting enough to look back over our
^jves for the past twelve months; note
here and why we fell down in doing
jir duty and our best w;fh the various
sks assigned us in 1933? And then
jw about planning* a course in 1933
at will make ujf bigger and better
) during L.hi4 twelve months just
eau of us? May we be happier and
[ore useful citizens at the end of this
ar. Staying busy at something use-
1 will make us more happy and the
e will pass so quickly. May we take
ne enough along the way to be
oughtful and ever mindful of other
ople's feelings, desires, and ambi-
ms, May we be men in 1933.
J. P. Barnett Killed •
In Auto Accident
How about the "eight point program
*^j|gorda and Texas farms in
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Ask us al'y 'fp '
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home market
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possible. As
ice what our
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^ all surplus of food
rducing the home liv-
to raise a little extra,
a rule in 1933 to never
to town without taking something
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Jse care before planting new cash
k. Some may prove profitable, but
iing is dangerous.
[Planting feed to sell thru live-
Even if livestock is cheap there
| better way of marketing food,
thru hogs, cattle, or poultry or
' them. I was talking to an old
'last week who has seen , much of
[and she said "we always counted
|>ur hogs to furnish us meat and
t j;\d pay our taxes." Just a case
fint.
tutting coSt of production to the
■pgfds abov^ the average and
below the average offer better
"pities for profit.
.Rising prices by producing qual-
!y products. Better quality, strict
grading, and studious marketing as a
rule bring premiums.
17. Preserving the land by crop rota-
lions. The present and future of agri-
;ulture depends upon building up the
(toil.
jjn two farms are alike. Map out
utilize each particular farm
liossible advantage. Thru
knd using his best talent
^particular farm will see
PI pull over the top of the
Jon his own power.
Joe Porter Barnett, born in Canton,
Texas, March 4, 1906, died Dec. 31,
1932, of injuries received in an auto-
! mobile accident on the Houston-Gal-
veston highway near Texas City. The
remains were brought here for burial
and after services in the chappel of
the Palacios Funeral Home Monday
afternoon, conducted by Rev. Carroll
B. Ray of the First Baptist Church,
interment was made in the Paalcios
Cemetery, under the direction of the
Palacios Funeral Home.
The deceased was married to Miss
Alien Duffy, on March 14, 1923 and
to this union five children were born.
He is survived by his wife and four
children, P'aye Marie, Billie Wayne,
Joe Donald and Margaret Ann, his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Barnett,
of this city; one sister, Mrs. Florence
Shannon, of Houston, two brothers,
Lee Barnett, of Canton, Texas, and
Guy Barnett, of this city.
We join the many friensd of the be-
reaved families in extending heart-
felt sympathy.
SCHOOLS FACE
DIRE SITUATION
AUDITOR SAYS
The "Bugler," Boy
Scout Publication,
Makes Initial Blow
"hese are indeed distressing times
td and the future seems to hold
dngers for all of us but old
|j>r blood and ingenuity will win
those of us who are of a stout
'and if we will persevere. Our
hers stayed at the wheel and
ft; so will we.
person who can occasionally
and consider his own prob-
m the viewpoint of an out-
pd from all angles, entirely
his own part in the matter,
(je being, has a tremendous
in working them out cor-
"hle to calmly consider all the
facts without emotional bias, and will
reach a far saner and more logical con-
clusion than the man who is unable to
eliminate his own personality while
considering a situation which requires
careful thought. A perspective gained
in this way is a fine stabilizer.
May the above thought give us the
ambition to do that very thing in these
first days of 1933. If there ever was
a time in our lives when we really
must give some sober thought to where
we are going and just what steps are
necessary to take in getting there it
iw.
n old lor of juot going out to
"gardless is no way to
11 only lonvp •
The "Bugler" is the title of the pub-
lication which made its initial appear-
ance this week, edited and published
under the auspices of the Boy Scouts
of Palacios. The Bugler is a neat
four-page paper, well filled with ar-
ticles of interest to all intrested in
Boy Scout work, and carries several
nifty ads of the progressive business
firms of Palacios. It will be published
semi-monthly by Troop 40 of Boy
Scouts of Palacios.
The staff of the Bugler is as fol-
lows: Editor-in-chief, Alton S. Queen;
Associate Editor, Louis Koerber, Jr.;
Activity Editor, Billy Gray; Business
Manager's, Geo. M. Curtis and Geo. L.
Hunter.
The Bugler creed is: We stand for
the progressiveness of our city, our
community and our Troop.
DIVERSION OF
GASTAXFLAYED
Houston, Jan. 1.—Only one-third of
the states of the union used gasoline
tax money for purposes other than
highways in 1930, and Texas already
diverts more of this money away from
roads than any other state, the Texas
Good Roads Association announced
yesterday,
"We want the people of Texas to
know that the dangerous tendency of
legislators to take tax money which
is being checrfully for a popular and
worthy purpose, and shift it to less
recognized activities is not a general
practice," said W. O. Huggins, presi-
dent of the association.
One-Fourth to Schools.
"By diverting one-fourth of its gas
tax to schools in 1930—a total of $7,-
381,774—Texas led the nation in this
respect. She still does. We do not
object to this, or to giving another
cent, as Texas now does, to refunding
county highway bonds.
"But we do object to any further
inroads into the two-cent portion which
now remains for highway construction
and maintenance. This provides just
enough revenue to keep up the system
and do enough new work to obtain
federal aid."
Florida Next.
Of other states, Florida diverted $3,-
500,000 to schools. Georgia used $2,-
250,000. Ohio gave $6,500,000 in gas
tax money for city streets and several
other states smaller amounts. The
figures were compiled by the maga-
zine, Business Week.
The reason there has been so little
objection to the gasoline tax, that
magazine holds, is that 95 per cent of
all the money from such a tax, the
nation over, has been turned to the
roads.
Austin, Dec. 30.—A grave situation
is faced by the state as the result of
the financial condition of the available
school fund. Moore Lynn, state auditor,
stated Thursday in a report to Gov.
R. S. Sterling on the status of Texas'
main educational fund.
Lynn's report showed that if the per
capita apportionment of $17.50 was to
be maintained during 1934 and 1935
and if claims for additional state aid
amounting to $843,200 were to be paid,
the additional revenue required would
be in excess of $19,810,000. The per
capita apportionment for the current
year, however, has been reduced to
$16.
Based on estimates made by Lynn,
the funds now in sight for 1934 and
1935 would allow the payment of a
per capita apportionment of $11.44
each year, as compared with $16,21
paid, and to be paid, in the years 1930
to 1933, inclusive.
. Lynn stated the total cost of edu-
cation to the state and its political
subdivisions in 1931 was in excess of
$83,280,000, of which more than $73,-
960,000 was spent for the public free
schools was derived from the per capi-
ta apportionment out of the available
school fund
Maintenance of the per capita ap-
portionment at $16,21 would require
more than $14,930,000 in additional
funds for the two-year period, Lynn
estimated. A reduction of $1 in the
per capita apportionment reduces the
amount of taxes required by $3,130,-
000.
The plight of the school fund' was
attributed by Lynn to adoption of the
constitutional amendment exempting
homesteads to the value of $3000 from
state taxation and to a deficit in-
herited in 1933 from 1932, which prob-
ably will be passed through 1934 and
1935. The homestead exemption amend-
ment was expected to reduce the in-
come of the available school fund by
$6,000,000 for the two years.
The deficit in the available school
fund originated in 1931 when the state
was able to pay only $16 of its per
capita apportionment of $17.50. The
$1.50 remaining from 1931 was paid
in 1932 and only $14 of the apportion-
ment for tht year was paid, leaving
a balance of $3.50 per student to be
paid out of 1933 funds. If this is paid,
the prospects are that an apportion-
ment of $12.33 will be the limit that
can be paid in 1933.
Action of the state board of educa-
tion in fixing the apportionment for
1933 at $10 was cntized by L,ynn. Its
attempt to protect the schools from
a bad situation in 1933, by postpon-
ing the liquidation of its $4,800,000
deficit, has had the effect of bringing
the school system to a point where it
faces an even worse situation for 1934
and 1935, Lynn stated
Lynn stated the board's power to
apportion funds not reasonably anti-
cipated had been questioned and the
attorney general had been asked for
an opinion.
Among Lynn's recommendations
was one which would reduce the
number of administrative school dis-
tricts from 7425 to not more than 250
of 300 units. The school districts are
administered by 27,685 trustees. Un-
der the present setup, the school sys-
tem is not organized for economy and
efficiency in operation and a reorgani-
zation along business lines would re-
sult in important savings in overhead
and administrative costs, Lynn stated.
Lynn recommended that $50,000 an-
nually be saved by eliminating the
school census and placing distribution
of the per capita apportionment on the.
basis of attendance.
The report pointed out that esti-
mates of the prospective status of the
fund were based on present conditions.
Conditions in the East Texas oil field
are so uncertain that the estimates
from the gross receipts tax t>n oil may
fall far lince P reduction of 25
ccn* would cause the
MAURY MAVERICK
MAKES REPORT
FINDS WHITES ANI) NEGROES
LIVING TOGETHER; MISERY
AND FILTH IN PLACES
Hon. R. S. Sterling,
Governor of Texas,
Austin, Texas.
Dear Governor:
December 15, 1932, I was appointed
and commissioned by you to make a
! survey of destitute people in the state
t-but particularly in reference to the
1 destitute transient population, I have
J made a partial survey of the state in
. company with Hon. Pat Jefferson,
i member of the legislature and Harry
Futrell. We have made a thorough in-
spection of the San Antonio area with
side trips. Also we have gone from
San Antonio to Houston, Houston to
Hearne, Hearne to, Dallas, Dallas to
Fort Worth and back to San Antonio.
Our trip was by freight trains, auto-
mobile, and on foot. We attempted to
visit all destitute areas and railway
jungles.
I wish to report that there must be
between 50,000 and 75,000 wholly des
titute, shelterless, homeless people
within the state of Texas.
At the outset I wish it understood
that a careful survey which began
some weeks before my appointment
on Dec. 15. indicates that 90 per cent
of these people are good citizens who
wish to work.
In the days gone by, the average
"hobo" on the railroad trains was
worthless and would not work; now
the transient population are nearly all
people who are destitute, going from
place to place attempting to get work.
I found these people living in railroad
jungles, under bridges, camps, freight
cars and in every conceivable way,
and it was the lowest standard of liv-
ing in any country I have ever witness-
ed in my life.
They were miserable, filthy, hungry
wet, starving, cold and living in the
absolute lowest depths that a human
being can exist.
I found that approximately 25 per
cent were women, boys and girls of
which I would say 15 per cent were
unattached boys between the ages of
11, 19 and 10 per cent women and
small children (children ages; one
month to 19 years.) Competent welfare
workers say there are in excess of
200,000 boys who are transients going
from place to place and living in
jungles and inasmuch as Texas has 5
per cent of the population of the
United States, there would be at
least. 10.000 bnvs on the "Ioohp" in
Texas, whereas, I believe on account
of the weather being warmer, the per-
centage must be nearer 10 per cent
than 5 per cent, I will, therefore, make
a very low estimate and say there are
between 7500 and 8000 boys between
II and 19 who are living without par-
ents or friends to guide them and with-
out friends, and who are spending
their formative years in flop houses,
jails, jungles or any available shelter,
begging, pan handling and incidently
starving part of the time, living mis-
erably with a wholly improper diet,
no sanitation, no medical •'attention
and being chased from place to place
by the police in the various cities.
White women and little girls and
boys associate with and live on the
same plane with large numbers of
negro men who intermingle freely
with the rest of Lhe population.
These people come from every class,
bank officials, business men, salesmen,
lawyers, ex-convicts and every con-
ceivable strata of American life.
In general, I find that if my read-
ing of history is correct, that the pre-
sent condition is unprecedented in
American history. The situation is
desperately acute, and moreover dis-
graceful, and needs the emergency at-
tention of the federal and state gov-
ernments. The relief organizations
are being taxed to the utmost, have
insufficient funds but ar doing as
well as is pos«''' r the circum-
WHO WILL ASSUME
CANCELED FARM
MORTGAGES?
American agriculture is overcapital-
ized. It is overtaxed, too, but that is
easier to remedy than overcapitalize'
tion.
Our farming industry is capitalized
on the basis of $1.50 wheat, 25c cotton
and other commodities priccd propor-
tionately. The farmer who owns his
land unencumbered can revise his own
capitalization. It is merely a book-
keeping transaction. But the farmer
whose land is carrying a mortgage
based on prosperity prices has no such
easy way out. His way is out of the
farming business and into city bread-
lines unless he can salvage enough
from his meager income to pay inter-
est on the mortgage or unless the face
value of the mortgage itself is scalsd
down to his reduced income. '
The notion is fast gaining headway
that the nation's $10,000,000,000 farm
mortgage debt must be canceled or
drastically revised. Oddly enough, the
farm mortgage debt just about equals
the war debt which Europe is urging
us to cancel. It doesn't take an econ-
omist to see that mortgage cancella-
tion would go a long way toward put-
ting agriculture on its feet. But the
advocates of cancellation neglact one
important detail—who is going to
reimburse holders of farm mortgages ?
Perhaps it is taken for granted that
the government will assume them,
since the constitution protects citizens
from confiscation of property. Govern-
ment assumption would mean, of
course, that the mortgages would be
transferred to the taxpayers as a
whole. The. discouraging feature of all
these schemes for economic readjust-
ment is that the taxpayers finally has
to underwrite them.—Galveston News.
HORSES GIVEN
SECOND BLOW
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Washington, D. C., Jan. 2.—Trie ar-
my, rumbling along toward complete
motorization, today hit the horse an-
other hard whack and sent him closer
to military retirement.
The light field artillery now has
proved by tests that in its service the
motor is eight times as fast as the
horse, and that oats cost twice as
much as gasoline.
In the artillery, as in the cavalry,
which is already being mechandized,
it is the horse's insatiable appetite
which has hurt most, for a horse must
eat whether hauling cannon or stand-
ing in a stall.
Aflei a ycai of exacting tryoULs
with truck drawn batteries at Fort
Bragg, North Carolina, the army an-
nounced today the light field artillery
has concluded these vehicles are not
only far faster but much better fitted
generally than the horse for travers-
ing shell holes and rough terrain.
Now it will carry the test further,'
to ascertain the practicability of a
motor unit under cold weather condi-
ions. A battery of 75 mm. gus will
leave Fort Bragg January 3 for Fort
Ethan Allen, Vt., where it is to ar-
rive January 10. Upon completion of!
Bay-Tex Hotel Under
New Management
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Davis arrived
Saturday from Mason, whetfe theyi
have been for the past few morths,
having previously managed the Plaza
Hotel in Gonzales for several years,
to take over the management of the
Bay-Tex Hotel. Mr. Davis has had
wide 'experience in the hotel busi-
ness and is quite noted for his cour-
teous and efficient service and for the
splendid meals served in the hotel he
is managing.
The citizens of Matagorda County
should be very proud of this hotel
and in every way assist Mr. and Mrs.
Davis in making visitors in our city
proud to visit in this hotel. Another
thing, bring your family to the Bay-
Tex for a splendid meal real often
and show your true appreciation in
having such good people as Mr. and
Mrs. Davis.—Bay City Tribune.
COUNT.
$90,700 RL
OF ROAD M
JUDGE W. E. McNABB DUE
CREDIT FOR THIS GREAT
SAVING TO COUNTY
Cotton Conferrees
Ask Abolition of
Fed. Farm Board
Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 29.—Abo.'ition
of the federal farm board and all price
stabilization bureaus was proposed
here today by the Arkansas delega-
tion to the South-wide conference to
discuss methods of increasing the price
of cotton.
Presented by Bob Snowden, million-
aire planter of Hughes, Ark., the plan
calls for appointment by the president
of a trustee to take over the cotton
now held by the federal farm board.
The cotton, under the plan, would
be held as a perpetual threat over the
heads of farmers to prevent them from
producing a surplus crop, under penal-
ty of having the reserve "unloaded"
on the market.
The Arkansas delegation, headed by
Governor Harvey Parnell, declared the
plan has the approval of Prof. Ray-
mond Moley, advisor to President-elect
Roosevelt and will be presented to the
presidcnt-elect for his consideration.
"We also recommend that future
administration of feed and seed loans
be placed in the hands of local coun-
try bankers," the Arkansas delega-
tion declared.
Two other plans for crop regulation
also were before the conference. One,
a revival of Huey Long's "cotton hol-
iday" plan, would prohibit by legisla-
tion the planting of cotton in 1934.
second would effect a partial re-
duction of production by specifying
the amount to be planted by the var-
aun ctstcj, counties and individual
farmers.
O.K. is O.K. and so is
Words, "Oh, Yeah!
>>
Los Angeles, Dec. 28.—"O. K. is O.
K. and so is Oh, Yeah!"
That observation found as the seven-
teenth annual convention of the Na-
tional Association of Teachers of
Speech opened.
Ralph B. Dennis, dean of the school
maneuvers there the battery will re- i of speech, at Northwestern University,
turn to Fort Bragg. In February it asserted that wide usage of slang to-
will make another overland drive to
Fort Sill, Okla., where tests are to
be continued which, later on^ may in-
clude a trip to the Mexican border.
Discussing advantages of the mo-
tor over the hovse, Major General
Harry G. Bishop, chief of field artill-
ery, said in a national emergency that
"potentialities of this t "of artill-
ery appear unlimited,' "rue1'
drawn battery could
gunners and spccia'
a comparatively shoi
to take the line.
day assured much of it becoming good
usage in the future.
"Slang is both colorful and graphic,"
Dr. Dennis declared. "It plays an im-
portant part in human expression: for
example, "Oh, Yeah!" tells volumes
in two words."
More than 1000 educators are here
for the conclave which ends Thursday.
H) IIOND ISSUE
' $22,500 VOTED
"ONA !)?•
The people of Matagorda County
owe a debt of gratitude to Judg^ W.
E. McNabb, assisted by County En-
gineer E. N. Gustafson, for thp
cellent work recently performo
curing a refund of $90,695.6!
money to this county on two
projects, viz: Highway 57 fro
cios to the Jacks<
county's part of wl.
and Highway 60, «fr;
Wharton county li
part of which was si
Recently Judge McN
ied by County Engineer U
peared before the Highway
sion and succeeded in securing i
fund of the entire amount to i.
county, and as it now stands these two
projects have not cost us anything.
The following letters from State
Highway Engineer Gibb Gilchrist to
Judge W. E. McNabb, which were tak-
en from the minutes of the Highway
department, explain this transaction
in-full:
The State of Texas,
State Highway Department,
Austin, Texas.
S. P. 969-D. July 19, 1932.
Hon. W. E. McNabb, County Judg^,
Bay City, Texas.
Dear Sir: Please be adv'ised
following action was taket^ W the
state highway commission ' July °
making an appropriation f-
struction of eoncrcteD^0^pur*u
part of HyrliWyayTjI^overed Vl
above project.
In Jflatagoida County, an ini
propriation of $79,315.59, state
are hereby made to be expendeo
der direction of the state highway
gineer through the construction di
sion on state highway No. 57, S.
969-D, extending from the Jacksi
County line to an intersection wit
Highway No. 58, a distance of 5.94
miles, for the construction of con-
crete pavement on condition that said
county will furnish $39,657.75 for such
improvement, and with the further
understanding that should the cost of
improvement exceed the foregoing es-
timate" Matagorda County shall fur-
nish its proportionate share of the
additional cost, which is one third.
Minute No. 6300. Yours very truly,
Gibb Gilchrist,
State Highway Engineer.
Augus.t 16, 1932.
Then the minute 6300 was amend-
ed and the state appropriated $118,
973.28 for that part of Highway *57, a
distance of 5.949 miles, thus assuming
the entire cost of Matagorda County's
part of 57, at the same time making
the road 20 feet wide insteal of 18
feet.
The State of Texas,
State Highway Department,
Austin, Texas.
S. P. 969-D. Pec. 20, 1932.
Hon. W. E. McNabb, County Jir'-
Bay City, Texar>.
Dear Sir: Fur your information
quote you minute passed by the s
highway cominissibn on Deceml-
relative to county'participafion
above project:
"It is ordeerd by the
in line with the comm>
No. 6680, dated Aug
agorda County '
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