Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 22, 1946 Page: 2 of 8
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PALACIOS B^^N, PALACIOS, iRs.mfl
Thursday, Augu
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ASSOCIATE EDITOR.....JESSE V. DISMUKES
ADVERTISING AND BUSINESS MANAGER HUGH J. DISMUKES
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ROGRESSIVE
ALACIOS
J^TAAS GULF COAST
Fire Conscious
It generally takes disaster to bring action against neg-
ligence. This is particularly true in the case of fire preven-
tion. Even in big cities where it is doubly important to ob-
serve fire regulations, fire safety provisions are violatec
constantly. When a disastrous fire hits one of the big cities
in the nation, there is a feverish attempt to reduce potential
fire hazards.
New York City is carrying on two separate inspections in
an effort to avoid a repetition of disasters such as occurret
in Illinois, Iowa, and Texas hotels. One, to examine each
hotel and file appropriate remedial orders where it is fount
necessary to have additional exits, or enclose stair wells ant
elevator shafts. The other is to enforce compliance with fire
prevention measures and laws. It will report violations such
as illegal cooking, illegal alterations, blocking of exit stairs
and fire towers, defective fire escapes, accumulations of re-
fuse, and other fire hazards. After this double-barreled in
spection is completed, recommendations will be made for im-
proved laws and regulations to eliminate sub-standard design
and construction.
The country is taking fire prevention seriously for a
while. Every city and hamlet can cooperate and prevent
disaster that brings ruin and death without warning.
More Than Million Unnecessary
Government Employees
Civilian employees of the United States government
today number approximately 2,800,000 when 1,250,000 would
be plenty. Even this low figure is about twice what we had
six months after World War I. In short, government has
1,550,000 unnecessary hirelings now—more people than live
in The Bronx, in Los Angeles or in St. Louis plus all of its
suburbs. It is humiliating to think about.
All of this enormous host of people are eating out of the
public breadbasket. They are not to be thought about as if
they had private wealth and had retired to pursue some im-
practical hobby. Such people as that do, at least, distribute
wealth previously put away. The people I am talking about
are deadweight on the rest of us. They subsist on federal
tax revenue.
Since their average annual income is about $2,500 each,
they are costing the taxpayers of the United States every
year the staggering sum of $3,720,000,000 in salaries alone.
Everybody who hires salaried people knows well that salaries
are not all the expense they incur. They all have to be pro-
vided more or less space, lighted, heated and equipped.
Add to these items such matters as traveling expenses,
telephone calls and incidentals and the grand annual ex-
pense, as a result of having these people employed, will swell
to at least five billion dollars. That’s more than total federal
tax collections in any pre-war year. If such people could be
lifted off the public’s neck the money could be saved and the
public would surely feel the relief.
Such shortening of payrolls would be completely justified
by savings alone but there are plenty of other benefits.
(1) It would help to balance the federal budget, and if it is
not balanced the country will eventually go broke. (2) It
would help curb the trend toward bureaucracy, toward cen-
tralization of power and toward government by whim instead
of deliberate government by law.
(3) Not the least of blessings to follow laying off these
people would be to release more than one and a half million
persons for productive work, letting them create something
BEHIND THE EIGHT BALL
By NATE COLLIES
instead of living off the efforts of others. (4) Finally, it would
increase the hope of saving for future generations the finest
civilization the world has ever known. I submit unto you it
ought to be done.—George S. Benson in The South Texan.
THIS WEEK
IN PALACIOS HISTORY
FROM OUR EARLY FILES
10 YEARS AGO
Rev. George D. McClelland, pas-
tor of the First Baptist Church re
ceivcd a call ft-om the Baptist
Church in Fairbury, Nebr.
Mr. and Mrs. Cled Harvey were
the parents of a 10 V4 pound baby
boy, named Carroll Lynn.
A. N. Evans received his work
orders for improving bayshore, ex
tension to seawall and storm sewers
on East Bay.
R. J. Sisson purchased the J. H.
Steven’s Grocery store, first door
east of Post Office.
Brig. Gen. Claude V. Birkhead
was promoted to the rank of Major
General and appointed to head the
Tex. National Guard by Gov. James
V. Allred. He succeeded Major Gen-
eral George P. Rains.
Local Rotarians had their first
perfect attendance at a regular
meeting.
15 YEARS AGO
September 14 was announced as
opening date for the 1931-32 term
of the Palacios Schools.
Rice harvest had begun at Col-
legeport where more than 8,000
acres was planted to this cereal.
LeRoy Hogg met up with a rat-
tlesnake while out in the cotton
field and before he quit he had
found and killed seven of the rep-
tiles one of which had six rattles.
A celebration was held in the
Ewing pasture near Van Vleck,
marking the completion of a paved
highway from Houston to Palacios
via Angleton, West Columbia and
Bay City.
We Help You
Remember
We’ll help you remember what ierv-
ice your car needs and when it needs
it. We'll set up a card record for
YOUR car, showing the type of job
done—the date and the mileage.
Then, when its time for your car
to receive further attention—w«
will remind you by post card or a
phone call.
You’ll like this service—and it costa
NOTHING!
T. A. CASTLETON, Agent, Bay City
CLAUDE B. CAVALLIN,
STATION, PALACIOS
PHONE 170 FOR WASHING AND LUBRICATION
20 YEAR AGO
Miss Nelle Armstrong and Mr.
Jerome Kimball were married in
Wharton, Rev. G. F. Gillespie of-
ficiating.
Rev. Herbert Haywood, of San
Antonio, was called by the Central
Baptist Church to serve as pastor.
A meeting of the Hug-the-Coast
Highway Association was held at
Austwell, Calhoun County.
S. M. N. Marrs, state superin-
tendent of education was working
for an apportionment of $15.00 per
school child.
Dr. and Mrs. A. E. Johns an-
nounced the birth of a baby dugh-
ter at the Loos hospital in Bay
City.
25 YEARS AGO
The first bale of cotton for the
season was brought in by L. L. Ed-
wards and was ginned by the Moore
Gin Co. It weighed 395 pounds and
sold for 11 4/5 cents per pound.
Twenty-eight seniors received di-
plomas at the closing exercises of
the third year of Camp Palomar at
Palacios.
(Members of the Wayside Club
with their families gave the LaGue
family a surprise farewell social.
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By CARL HELM
NEW YORK —It’* remirkabla,
It’a regrettable, how quickly the
■tranger who enters this stone Jun-
gle or Manhattan takes on a protec-
tive coloration. It consists of a stern
and sour puss, a deadpan manner of
face and speech.
But, as with any wise animal who
senses danger, it’a a matter of self-
preservation. If you, from the free
and friendly neighborliness of the
hometowns, were to go about smil-
ing and speaking to people as you
do out there, you’d be wide-open to
all the hurts and affronts of the
subways and streets.
So, you become as stonily In-
different to other human beings as
are the natives, when you’re outside
your own cave—and In that way you
assert that you’re no sap, you're
city-wise smart.
It’s just as remarkable, though',
how sometimes you’ll forget and
smile at someone and say a pleasant
‘Hello’ to a startled stranger—just
naturally, as you would back home
.. and the stranger, who might
have come once from the state next
to yours, subconsciously forgets
himself, too, and smiles back.
Then, suddenly, you both catch
yourselves up—because the street or
subway is watching you with sus-
picion. You both slap on your masks
and go grimly on your way—with
the fixed ‘Mind-your-own-business’
air, in the accepted New York man-
ner... because that’s the wsy It is
...and pity it is, and damned pitifuL
DR. JACK KAHN
OPTOMETRIST
Eyes Examined — Glasses Fitted
Phone 233 Collect for Your
Appointment.
Fifth Floor. National Bank Bldg
Victoria, Texas
"li muni have been thoie Wheatiei”
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VOTE
HEALTH NOTES
AUSTIN.—Because of the fact
that a venereal dist'ane is no re-
specter of persons, people of every
class and color, rich and poor, edu-
cated or ignorant are numbered
among tho victims, asserts Dr. Geo.
'W. Cox, State Health Officer.
“Venereal diseases arc among the
most vital health problems in the
State of Texas today," Dr. Cox
said. “Tho amount of suffering,
economic loss, insanity and even
death from venerea! diseases can-
not be accurately estimated but
would reach a shocking figure if
disclosed.’’
The State Health Officer point-
ed out that self-diagnosis and self-
treatment are extremely dangerous
and advised consulting a physician
for determining definitely whether
or not a venereal disease is pres-
ent.
“Only a reputable physician can
properly diagnose such a disease.
The presence of gonorrhea is not
disclosed by a routine blood test,
and the diagnosis, of syphilis re-
quires more than a blood examina-
tion,’’ declared Dr. Cox. “Both sy-
philis and gonorrhea are almost 100
per eent curable if discovered and
treated in their very earliest stages.
Thousands of deaths annually could
be prevented,’’ Dr. Cox said, “if suf-
ficient attention were given to the
early diagnosis and thorough treat-
ment of syphilis. Delay reduces the
chance of cure and in many cases
is the direct cause of death.”
Dr. Cox urges that every person
who might suspect a venereal dis-
ease infection have a physical ex-
amination, so that if present, the
disease can be brought under treat-
ment at the earliest possible date.
DR. J. E. MAYO
DENTIST
Office In Baptist
Encampment Grounds
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^ -House That Jack
This is the house that Jack built.
This is the wife that keeps house
in the house that Jack built
This is the washer that does the
wash that helps the wife keep
house in the house that Jack built.
This is the iron that irons
the wash the washer
washed, that helps the
wife keep house in the house that jack built.
This is the servant (Reddy Kilowatt) who
heats the iron, and turns the washer that does
the wash, that helps the wife keep house
in the house that Jack built.
This is the story of better living—of electric living—
in Jack’s house. The tale could go on endlessly. For electricity is a
servant of many talents, of which washing and ironing are but two.
The electric power that helps Jack’s wife is always ready,
dependable, available in any quantity at any time. And Jack doesn’t
need much jack to pay the bill.
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Dismukes, Mrs. J. W. Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 22, 1946, newspaper, August 22, 1946; Palacios, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth726197/m1/2/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Palacios Library.