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For a Greater, Better Palacios Country—Agriculture, Industry, Commerce, Living
SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
PALACIOS, MATAGORDA COUNTY, TEXAS THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1928
VOLUME XXI NUMBER 31
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WAYSIDE CLUB MEETS
The Wayside Club met this week
with Mrs. Houston in her home in
East Bay, Mrs. Geo. Curtis and Mrs.
Houston were the hostesses. Quite
a number of members and a few
visitors were present, and all united
in interest of the Clubs' activities.
Mrs. Tanner is President and Mrs.
Pierce secretary. After the minutes
were read and added to, the roll call
was responded to by information of
the American flag and its proper place
and handling, A social half hour or
so was then put over as the zest of
feminity can do—and refreshed at the
wind-up with a libera! dish of ice
cream, angel food cake and dark cake.
The best part of the Club is that some
real good is being done in helping de-
serving characters to davelope their
latent ability, also aiding orphans and
the needy whwen possible.
Moody's Vote
Climbs Near
400,000 Mark
LATE TABULATIONS OF ELEC-
TION BUREAU SHOW FEW
CHANGES IN POSITIONS
@uick Introduces
New Model Cars
On Anniversary
"Silver Anniversary Buick" is more
than a phrase coined to designate the
new line of motor cars which Buick is
launching today. It is the owner's
assurance of authoritative design,
sound engineering, and expert work-
manship,—all the qualities which a
quarter-century > of fine motor car
building has taught us to embody in
Buick cars. Buick offers its new lines
with the conviction that these are the
finest motor cars and the most out-
standing values obtainable anywhere
today.
If Buick's record for the past 25
years were one of the haphazard meth-
ods, marred by sudden abandonments
of one design after another, and by
panicky efforts to discover and meet
the public's demands, the phrase chos-
en to designate this now car would
be far less significant than it is. But
very early in its history, Buick adopt
ed as an inflexible policy that plan of
making every proposed change justify
itself thoroughly before it could be
embodied in the Buick car. It is this
policy, which Buick has followed thru
the years and to which Buick still is
firmly committed, which make the Sil-
ver Anniversary significant.
Buick started out 25 years ago with
the valve-in-head engine, and „it has
built valve-in-head engines ever since.
The engine of today is a very different
engine from that of 1904, it is true,
but its valve-in-head principle re-
mains the same. It is the most pow-
erful engine of its size in the world.
Hundreds of refinements have ap-
peared in this power plant from time
to .time. Counterbalanced crankshaft
with torsion balancer, crankcaue ven-
tilation, triple safeguards against con-
tamination of oil, air and gasoline, are
only ^'1 few of the outstanding im-
provements which the passing years
have brought. None of them has af-
fected the engine's basic principle in
the least,' any m'ore 'than this year's
mechanical fuel pump, new carburetor
and manifolds,' and i-e-designed cam-
shaft, affect it. '
It is (man,v years now since Buick
adopted the torque tube drive and
cantilever springs which, in a highly
developed form, appear in every
Buiclt built today. The advantages of
this type of construction is that the
torque tube, which encloses the propel-
ler shaft, and the rear axle housing,
which encloses the drive shaft, take
the car's weight and the driving thrust
off the operating mechanism, great-
ly reducing the strain upon it. The
springs, which in cars of conventional
design perform double duty, are re-
lieved of the driving thrust by the
torque tube, and are thus left free to
cushion the famous sealed chassis,
which prolongs the life , of moving:
parts by excluding grit, dust and mois-
ture.
In the Silver Anniversary Buick. the
sealed chassis and torque tube drive
principles are not only retained but
developed to new heights of efficiency.
The tube and the rear axle housing
are stronger and heavier than ever,
and the cantilever springs' scats are
now bushed. There is special provi-
sion for more than adequate lubrica-
tion of the differential gears, None
of these improvements was made in
response to a need for it,—a need
made plain by trouble with existing
Buicks. Each was a purely gratuitous
improvement, adopted as additional
assurance of long, trouble-free ser-
vice.
Buick's history is replete with in-
stances in which a new and seeming-
ly radical engineering principle has
been adopted, sometimes in the face of
considerable ridicule from competition.
But the very fact that Buick has tried
out every such change exhaustively
before its adoption, seeking always ■f«v
the better thing, has made Buick's
record one of successive forward steps,
with sudden reversals conspicuously
absent. Never in Buick's long his-
tory has it been stampeded into light-
ly-considered action.
It is our belief here at Flint that
the Buick chassis stands absolutely
alone as a piece of fine engineering.
It is not strange that this is so, for
after 25 years' adherence to a policy
of thorough testing before change, it
should be so. Turn away from the
Buick chassis, in any direction what-
soever, and you come up against the
merely conventional thing, in one
form or another.
It is an easy matter to sit down and
pay compliments to the product in the
design of which one has had a hand
for 25 years. And such compliments
would be meaningless but for one
thing: the public has bought more
than two million Buicks, and is buy-
ing them today at a rate which out-
strips any three competing cars.
Twenty-five years of honest building,
of keeping faith with its public, has
Dallas, Aug. 1.—Returns of Sat-
urday's primary compiled by the Tex-
as election bureau today from 251 out i
of 253 counties in the state, includ- j
ing 153 complete, saw Governor Dan
Moody only a few votes short of the
400,000 mark. His total of 399,9621
was almost double that of his closest!
rival, Louis Wardlaw, with 225,200. |
The vote:
Senator: Mayfield, 182,416, Con-
ally, 163,756, Owsley, 117,077, Blan-
ton, 112,958, Cunningham, 26,940, Mc-
Lemore, 9231.
Governor: Moody, 399,962, Warcl-
law, 225,266, Hawkins, 29,387, Wil-
mans, 18,589.
Lieutenant Governor: Miller 280,-
896, Love 181,185, Darwin, 42,040, Mc-
Call, 40,248, Parnell, 67,975.
Comptroller: Terrell 420,114, Jones
168,176.
State Treasurer: Hatcher, 377,780,
Harris, 198,093.
Superintendent of Public Instruc-
tion: Marrs, 281,270, Garner, 120,
475, James, 100,903, Davis, 89,017.
Land Commissioner: Britton, 75,-
506, Fl.ynt, 51,114, Robison, 280,013,
Terrell 162,568.
Railroad Commissioner: Lon Smith
418,719, Jefferson Smith, 152,488.
Judge Court of Criminal Appeals:
Morrow 369,502, Piersqn 203,325.—
Houston Chronicle.
Obregon s Assassin
Jose Dc Leon Toral, the assass
of General Obregon, President-Ele<
of Mexico. The assassin assume
responsibility for his act, refusing t
divulge suspected plotters.
Old Town Clock
At Bay City Now
In Rubbish Pile
Bay City Aug. 1.—Workmen are
busy' remodeling and enlarging the
Matagorda County Court House.
All the officers of the county ex-
cept the county clerk and district
clerk moved out of the building. These
officers are at present located in sev-
eral buildings fronting the public
square.
The present court house was con-
structed in 1895, and up to the present
year has served all purposes. The
growth in population of the county
made it necessary that a larger build-
ing be constructed.
When the building was erected, 33
Small Vote Cast
In Democratic
Primaries Sat.
HIGHWAY
PLANS ARE
APPROVED
Citizens of Matagorda County are
happy at the announcement made by
County Engineer E. N. Gustafson to
the effect that plans for the grade and
drainage structures on Highway
have been finished and approved by
the State Highway Engineers and are
in Austin awaiting final approval by
Federal Engineers and the letting of a
contract to begin construction at the
September meeting of the commission.
It had been proposed that a commit-
tee of citizens from the County appear
before the Court and the Engineer this
week in an effort to ascertain, if pos-
sible, the reason for the seeming long
delay in starting the construction work
on our State and Federal aid road pro-
ject. This matter being put before
Judge Harris, he called Engineer Gus-
tafson into consultation and the two
visited Palacios on last Wednesday
afternoon for a conference.
The meeting was called to order at
the City Hall, there being present a
very representative audience of resi-
dent and non-resident property own-
ers. A clear statement was made by
Judge Harris and Engineer Gustafson
explaining our road situation very sat-
isfactorily. It being the opinion of
several present that the explanations
were clear and that there was no rea-
son for any worry as to what would
be the final result. The statement
from Mr. Gustafson that much detail
had been put through and that at
present one set of plans had been ap-
proved and the contract let on High-
[
Assassinated'
COUNTY OFFICES SETTLED;
VOTERS FAILED TO FEEL
URGE TO COME OUT
years ago, a large town clock was
placed in the cupola. A few days ago
this old clock was destroyed, and is - ~
now a part of the rubbish lying on way r'8. and another finished and ap-
the ground near the building. To say ^oved and on file in Austin ready
! partly state the condition, as so many for the tetting; that ninety per cent
wn»iH n,,lv of the detail work had been compiled
on all of the plans for the entire route,
excepting of course, the Colorado Riv-
er bridge project, whwich is under-
stood.
Judge Harris made a plain state-
ment that in his judgement no time
The county commissioners thought was actually being lost, but due to the
that modern ideas do not allow town mass of detail necessary it was con-
1 that it is being missed would only
j persons have for 33 years depended on
it.
! Its face was illuminated all night
j willi an electric light, and those liv-
ing too far away to see the hands
could easily hear its chimes.
clocks on public buildings, and, there-
fore, ordered it destroyed.
There is no doubt that many readers
The vote in Matagorda County last, .
Saturday was light, very light. The i ANSWERS WRITER OF
voters either did not feel disposed to
bother about it, or did not feel the
urge to come out because of the fact
that there were no county contests.
The biggest vote was polled in the
state treasurer's race, the two candi-
dates receiving 858 votes. Miller beat
Love substantially while Connally ran
Mayfield a close second in the race
for the senate.
The following furnished the Tribune
by Mr. W. S. Leslie, while not official,
is correct:
For United States Senator: Blan-
ton 128, Connally 140, Cunningham 26,
Mayfield 163, McLemore 7, Owsley 89.
For Governor: Hawkins 31, Moody
490, Wardlaw, 198, Wilmans 10.
Lieutenant Governor: Darwin 49,
Love 220, McCall 35, Miller 276, Par-
nell 40.
Comptroller: Jones 157, Terrell 521.
Treasurer: Harris 189, Hatcher 669.
State Superintendent: Davis 108,
Garner 98, James 83, Marrs 392.
Land Commissioner: Britton 171,
Flynt 15, Robison 305, Terrell 233.
Rail Commissioner: Jefferson Smith
171, Lon Smith 471.
Criminal Appeals Court: Morrow
479, Pierson 102.—Bay City Tribune.
TORNADOES VAGARIES
(Gravity Independent)
Returning to Lenox, Monday even-
ing after visiting the tornado district
north of that city, we were lined up
at a lunch counter, waiting for some-
thing to eat when George Hood, for-
mer resident of this place and well
known here for his ability to tell the
biggest story, came in and perched
upon a stool next to us. Freaks of
the storm were being discussed when
George sprung this one: He said that
the next morning after the storm some
one noticed a full grown rooster stick-
ing his head out of a jug. On exam-
ination it was discovered that the tor-
nado had blown the rooster into the
jug and that when the bird was re-
leased from his prison by breaking
it over a log the old rooster appeared
as lively as ever. That sounded like
whopper to us, but we had pre-
viously stated that we were ready to
believe anything told us about a tor-
nado, so were forced to keep still.
Just then a young fellow to our left
stated with all seriousness that he
visited the district the next morning
and he found a sack of flour hanging
on a broken limb of a tree. The flour
was all there but the sack had been
blown away. George slipped from his
stool, leisurely filled and lighted his
pipe, then with an expression of dis-
gust, left the place.
—— ■'
won Buick undisputed leadership in
its field.
"Buick" is synonymous everywhere
Wiith reliability, sound engineering,
and all else that goes to make up
what we call value in a motor car.
It has climbed laboriously to its high
position, and it confidently expects to
remain there, by dint of the same sort
of hard work. "Silver Anniversary
Buick" is a phrase packed with senti-
ment to many of us old-timers here
at Flint, and to the public it is even
more than that. It is a fulfillment of
the old pledge: "When Better Auto-
mobiles Are Built, Buick Will Build
Them."
PALACIOS" COLUMN
Burning much time to get started, it
being his opinion that by this volume
of detail being worked out, when we
did start on the actual construction,
that our troubles would be over befoi-e
wc realized it. It was also plainly
set out by Judge Harris that all roads
would bo properly cared for which had
been included in the bond issue, that
General Alvaro Ohregon, Presi-
dent Elect of Mexico, who was1
assassinated by a young Mexican
fanatic while atttnding a banquet.
Five shots were fired into Obre-
Ron's body. Obregon, reared as a
farmer, rose to richcs and power.
Dodge Merges
With Chrysler
THIRD LARGEST AUTO CONCERN
IN WORLD CREATED BY
CONSOLIDATION
of the Beacon miss the "Palacios" the budget had been approved and the
column. The writer is in many of his funds set aside for each and money
remarks unique, fearless and interest- would be expended according to the
ing. All of us do not always agree budget.
with all that he writes, and now with j
a barrier of some twelve hundred
miles, one of us would like to appear
very brave and answer a remark of
his.
A few months ago, he made refer-
ence to cattlemen as profane. As the
fertile plains prove more and more
valuable ■Tor farming of various kinds,
the old catleman is becoming more and ISSUE
more a man of the past; and it be-
hooves us older people who knew a
gi-eat many catlemen to correct this
decidedly erroneous idea. One of the
outstanding catlemen of this commun
Wharton Sells
Highway Bonds
OF $200,000 WILL COM-
PLETE IMPROVEMENT OF
ROAD THRU COUNTY
Wharton, Aug. 2.—Two hundred
ity, living at Victoria, would not em- thousand dollars of road bonds sold
ploy a man who used profanity. j to provide funds for completion of
If one can generalize in this way,1 Highway No. 12 through this county
he can only say that, influenced by his j brought the handsome premium of
constant life in the open and his close-! $8142.50. Nineteen bond houses were
New York, August 1.—The Dodge-
Chrysler auto merger, through which
the Chrysler corporation acquired the
properties of Dodge Brothers, Inc.,
has become a reality.
At a special meeting of the stock-
holders of Dodge Brothers in Balti-
more, which had been adjourned from
Saturday, plans for the merger were
approved by holders of 90 per cent or
more of the Dodge stock.
By approving the merger plan the
Dodge stockholders in effect sold their
property to the Chrysler Corporation
for about .$11,000,000 and in addition
Chrysler assumed approximately $60,-
000,000 in obligations of the Dodge
company which still are outstanding.
The merger makes the Chrysler Cor
poration the third largest auto concern
in the world. It is exceeded only by
the Ford Motor Company and General
Motors Corporation.
It will have a line of cars ranging
from the new Plymouth, only recently
anonunced by Chrysler, up to the
Chrysler "80" which sells at $3500
and more for special bodies.
In adition to the Chrysler and Ply-
mouth lines, the consolidated company
will have the three models of Dodge
cars, four standard, Victory and Sen-
ior Six, and this week will bring out
a new Chrysler model, the DeSoto to
sell at about $850. It also will build
Graham trucks, now being made by
Dodge Brothers.
The company will have a working
capital of $80,000,000, and total re-
sources of $175,000,000. Its gross bus-
iness is expected to be around half a
billion dollars annually.
The company will have 76 plants
with a total capacity of Plymouth, De-
Soto, Chrysler and Dodge cars and
Graham trucks of 700,000 autos an-
nually.
ness to the beauties of God's world,
the real Texas cattleman is as free
from the use of profanity as a man
of any other profession.
represented at the sale. George L.
Simpson & Co., of Dallas, were the
successful bidders.—Houston Press.
BEG PARDON!
BUMPER COTTON CROP
Matagorda County farmers are all
smiles this season, as the opening
The following ilems were found on bolls greet them each morning ready
the floor after last week's issue of to be sacked and ginned for the mar-
the Beacon had gone to press, we are ]fet. This county has the best crops
very sorry this happened and will it has had for several years. Wagons
try to be more careful from now on: loaded with cotton are seen most any-
Mrs. A. C. Dow and daughter, El- time on the streets on their way to the
sie, of Houston, and Misses Vesta and gins.
Mcta Belle Anthony, of Wharton, are
guests of their relatives, Mrs. Nelson
and daughter, Miss Meta Baxter.
O. C. Arnold returned Tuesday from
Houston, Mrs. Arnold will remain un-
til the first of the week with her sis-
ter-in-law, Mrs. Jas. Sartvvelle
family.
A new gin was built in Palacios to
take care of the bumper crop. The
old gin has been delayed in starting
up, on account of a piece of machinery
being delayed in transit from the fac-
tory.
Already 210 bales have been ginned,
and Cotton is grading up well, and the
prices are pretty good.
Mr. W. O. Kaiser, of the Kaiser Ad-
vertising Service, of Wharton, was in
Palacios Saturday and made the Bea-
con office a pleasant call. Mr. Kaiser
is a great booster for Wharton, says it
is full of contented, prosperous citi-
zens, and that although new houses
are going up there all the time it is
almost impossible to find a house to
rent that the merchants there are
all prosperous and are the best ad-
vertisers to be found in any town in
the state the sizs of Wharton. In fact,
! Mr. Kaiser said, a merchant would
not last long in Wharton wwho did not
advertise. Mr, Kaiser is a successful
business man himself, his opinions on
such matters have a great deal of
weight and are accepted as authori-
ty. The Kaiser Advertising Service
takes care of the bill posting sign
boards in fourteen towns in the Whar-
ton section.
B. M. Flynn, of Dallas, drove in
last night to join his wife and baby,
who have been spending the past two
or three weeks hero with Mrs. Flynn's
mother, Mrs. J. A. Tollerson. Mr.
Flynn and family will return to Dallas
Saturday in his car.
Here's All About Texas, Where Flows
the Only Dusty River in the IVorld
Wharton—In the lobby of the
Wharton Bank and Trust Company,
at Wharton, hangs a framed im-
pression and description of Texas
as written and signed by "A Texas
Visitor." This vivid description
of the Lone Star State was re-
produced from Commerce and Fi-
nance of July 18, 1923.
Here it is:
"Texas occupies all the continent
of North America except the small
part set aside for the United States,
Mexico and Canada. Texas owns
all the land north of the Rio Grande,
the only dusty river in the worid;
also the only one with the possible
exception of the Trinity which is
navigable for mudcats and pedes-
trians.
"Texas is bounded on the north
by 25 or 30 states, on the east by
ail the oceans in the world except
the Pacific, and on the south by the
Gulf of South America, and on the
west by the Pacific Ocean, the Mil-
ky Way and by the sidereal uni-
verse.
"Texas is so big that the people
in Brownsville call the Dallas peo-
ple Yankees, and the citizens of
El Paso sneer at the citizens of
Texarkana, Texas, as being snobs
from the effete East.
"It is 150 miles farther from El
Paso to Texarkana than it is from
Chicago to New York, Fort Worth
is nearer St. Paul, Minn., than it
is to Brownsville, Texas.
"The chief occupation of the peo-
ple of Texas is trying to keep from
making all the money in the worid.
The chief pursuit of the people of
Texas was formerly Mexicans, but
now it is land buyers, steers and
Texas crop records.
"The United States with Texas
chopped off' would look like a three-
legged Boston terrier.
"Texans are so proud of Texas
that they cannot sleep at night.
Unless your front gate is 18 nnles
from your front door you do not
belong to society as constituted in
Texas. One Texas's gate is 150
miles from his front door and he
is thinking of moving his house
back so that he will not be an-
noyed hy passing autos and ped-
"Other Texas landlords have
whole mountain ranges and rivers
on their ranches. One Texan has
40 miles of navigable rivers on his
farm. If the proportion of culti-
vated land in Texas were the .tame
as in Illinois, the value of Texas
crops would equal that of 47 other
states.
"Texas has enough land to sup-
ply every man, woman and child
in the world with a tract of five
feet by 20 and have enough left
over for the armies of the world
to march around the border five
abreast.
"If the alfalfa grown in Texas
were baled and built into a stair-
way it would reach the pearly gates.
"If all the hogs in Texas were
one big hog, he would be able to
dig up the Panama Canal in three
roots,
"If all the Texas steers were one
big steer, he would stand with his
front feet in the Gulf of Mexico,
one hind foot in Hudson Bay and
the other in the Arctic Ocean, and
with his tail brush the mist from
the Aurora Botealis.
"Some state."—Houston Press.
Crowd Goes to
Bird Island (or
Picnic Supper
On Wednesday evening of this week,
Dr. and Mrs. A. R. Cairnes graciously
entertained about fifty guests from
Palacios, and a few visiting guests
from Houston and Bay City, at Bird
Island. It was indeed thoughtful of
the Dr. and Mrs. C. to provide an op-
portunity for "The Gang" to go out
to one other of the many play grounds
of Palacios-by-the-Sea, and it afforded
something new for many of us to vis-
it the habitat of the Sea Gull. It was,
at once, pleasant and pathetic to see
one and two gull squabs sprawled flat
in their nests—just an indentation in
the shells and sand, only a few feet
apart, Nature camouflaging them with
the coloring of the shells and sand so
that one had to be very alert to keep
from stepping on them—likewise their
eggs—two and three in a nest and of
the same color of their door yard. Af
ter prominading the Island a while
someone (a man I think), sounded the
supper gong "when do we eat?"
Than supper seemingly sprung up
out of the ground—or rather on a
table long, Mother Nature had pro-
vided-—and such a spread. Good sand-
wiches of all kinds, and the "goodest"
pickles (like "Eva" makes) and cakes
—sh-nuff-cakes that somebody made.
The eats poured out of boxes and bas-
kets like ants out of an ant Bunga-
low on a dusty day—and the guests
got about as busy lowering stacks of
sandwiches, "devilish" eggs, a big bas-
ket of peaches and cakes with "goo"
generpusly put on—then swiging cold
ice water to help facilitate things.
John Richards (on the Claire M) was
full—before supper and a good over-
flow of guests restored to the Copious
Allen boat, running so smoothly, that
the games of "42" went on without a
bobble. The Sunset over tfoe water
(was almost simultaneous with the
moon rising over the opposite shore—
and it was altogether a delightful out-
ing.
Those who have not made the trip
owe it to themselves to honor nature
and this Play Ground at the"'- door,
35 minutes ride, and visit the h h.
The following were the happy par-
ticipants: Mr. and Mrs. de St. Aubin,
Rev. and Mrs. Campbell, Mr. and Mrs.
Joe Feather, Eddie and Rob. J. Feath-
er, Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Harrison, Mrs.
A. M. Stadig and Elizabeth, Mrs.
Forehand and Byrle, Mr. and Mrs. E.
A. Robinson, Rev. and Mrs. Roberts,
Mrs. M. A. Bell, Mrs. V. Windle, Har-
old Feather and Virginia Lee Feather,
Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Arnold, Jimmie
Sartwelle, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Nestcr
and Mai'ion, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Bar-
nett and Price and Jno. Jr., Mr. and
Mrs. R. J. Sisson and Elizabeth, Miss
Anderson, Miss F. Simpson, Dr. Hale,
Mrs. G. H. Crawford, Mrs. Stone, Mrs.
Taylor and four children, Mrs. Castle
and son.Miss H. Trice, Mrs. E. G.
Crawford, Dr. and Mrs. A R Cnirnes
Miss Ora Henry, Jno. Coblbe Richards.
School to Install
New Heating Unit
The School Board has let a contract
for new heating equipment of the
High School. In the contract an agree-
ment was made to the effect that if
the equipment was not fully install-
ed by Sept. 10, $25 per day will be
paid by the contractors until finished,
also they furnish a five year guarantoe
against rust.
Chevrolet's New
Truck Announced
■rn—mmmmmmmm
The Chevrolet Motor Company,
whose unprecedented sales and pro-
duction record of placing on the road
750,000 "Bigger and Better" models
since January 1, established a new
mark for the sale of a new model,
announces this week the addition to
its lino of a new utility truck. The
now truck, which cmbodin several
improvements, chief of them a four
speeds forward transmission, four
wheel brakes and channel steel bum-
per, went into production in the var-
ious Chevrolet plants July 2. It will
be on view next week in dealers' show-
rooms throughout the country.
The four speeds forward transmis-
sion will insure a more efficient appli-
cation of engine power. The extra
low speed gear provides maximum
pulling power on heavy roads and
steep grades while normal driving re-
quirements are met as usual with sec-
ond, third and fourth speeds. A pow-
er take-off port, to which various
power devices can be applied, is a fur-
ther feature of the transmission.
The four wheel brakes are non-lock-
ing and supply a total of 317 square
inches of braking, aside from an en-
tirely separate and independently op-
erated set of emergency brakes on the
rear wheels. The front wheel brakes
are of the internal xpanding type, the
rear wheel service brake of the ex-
ternal contracting type, insuring quick
and positive stops regardless of grade
or speed.
A new loading height, 41 inches
from the ground, is made possible by
a spccial "kick-up" feature of the long
chassis. An unusually long frame
support, extending behind the center
of the rear axle, assures proper load
distribution.
Rigorous and exacting tests, cover-
ing thousands of miles over all types
of roads and under winter and summer
climatic conditions, were applied to the
new truck at General Motors Proving
Ground before the Chevrolet engineer-
ing division approved of it for produc-
tion.
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A VANISHED BUGABOO
SOME REAL CALVINISTS
JAILERS AND CRIMINALS
THE TALKING MOVIES
Dread of big Business fades.
Raskob, financial he^d of the four
billion dollar General Motors
Company, is Democratic Natior.a!
Chairman. Owen D. Ypung, chair-
man of the Board of the Gene 'al
Electric Company, one of the t g-
gest corporations in Atperj< a, is
asked to run for Governor by
Democrats in New York.
William Jennings Bryan,\wh_re
he dwells in bliss, doubtless
shudders at all this. But ;hese
are practical days; big businesr is
practical, and it is well to recog-
nize things as they are.
Some Calvinists, it seems, an still
Calvinists like old John. Quedn
Wilhelmina, of Holland, will io*t
attend the Olympic games. Cab fo-
ists in Holland ate urged to .ay
i iway from what stern pre: .hers
call "a carnival of the flesh "
Dutch Calvinists say the pic
games turn men away from ol-
gotlia to Greco-Roman pagai n.
A majority of human beinjs have
abandoned the John Calvii t.i >ry,
which included the burning si' j of
Dr. Scrvetus on slight pro- o:. on,
believing that the good Lord nts
people to enjoy themselv. occa-
sionally
V
Crime organization seem' to
reach almost everywhere. One .tin-
Jay morning two dangeroi'S ..lan-
killing gunmen escaped frcnl Sing
Sing Prison.
The same morning two Si igr ..jng
Prison guards were arrested, ac-|
cused of blackmailing mot "is's on
the highway ■ i-
No wonder prisoners escape,
when the jailers by night ar high-
way blackmailers by day A fine /
example to the prisoners, in
forming" prison atmosphere.
feritza will talk and sing in a
"talking movie." "These Talkies"
make a good start with this arti3t.
The singer will get $10,000 a week
or more. And while she rests the
film will go on si'-ging,_ millions
hearing it. Wond< fill invention,
time and labor savi.,g.
Dr. Ira S. Wile says the popula-
tion is "growing older." It lives
longer, the birth rate is lower. But
old people, he says, are no longer
proud of their age and little rov. r-
ence is paid it. Today the number
of those past fifty is fifty per cent
greater than in 1870.
Age is nothing to be proud of,
since we grow old in spite of our-
selves. But to be hard at work
when you are old, and EFFI-
CIENTLY at wo! k, is something.
Voung ladies that "don't seem
to get any proposals" will marvel
on hearing that our Peggy Joyce
is about to be married again.
This will be her fifth husband
and her second nobleman. Once
Miss Joyce was the Countess
Gosta Moerner, but she gave that
up. The Commoners had "good
money." Happy No, 5, if ever /-
thing goes smoothly, will be Lord
Northesk, whose wife, formerly
Miss Jessica Brown, is now di\orc-
ing him.
"How docs she do it?" young
ladies ask. How dicf Helen of
Trov do it, or Cleopatra?
Miss Joyce, it is said, has a cer-
tain dash and swing in a night club
that elcctrify the atmosphere.
There are many "live ones" in
night clubs
"COMING OUT THE LITTLE
END OF LIFE'S HORN" AT
CENTRAL BAPTIST SUN.
•'Coming Out the Little End of
Life's Horn" will be the sermon theme
of the Central Baptist pastor for next
Sunday night. O! the horroro of a
wasted life! Yea! the stinging Jain
of failure! The stigma of squani 3red
energies! Is there anything - lore
costly than just to "flunk out" in ife?
Success is much cheaper than fa ure,
infinitely so. A wasted life har but
one superior disaster, namely, th lost
soul. The life and experiences if Cing
Saul will be recounted as the Scrip-
tural basis of the message for Sunday
night. All who can are cordially in-
vited to be with us that we might
think together, pray together, and talk,
together over these all important life
questions.
Remember S. S. 10; Pretchii g at
11:00; B. Y. P. U.'s at 7:15; j 2t hing
8:00.
CARD OF THANKS
We take this means of exj' ising
our thanks and appreciatic.i to our
friends and neighbors for ,h< help
and kindness during the sie and
death of our darling wife a.iu other
The grief is made easier t • , ar by
their tender words and act., of kind-
ness also the hrnutiful flo vere that
expressed their love of our mot ler.
A. L. Dyer and children.
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