Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 21, 1935 Page: 4 of 8
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Look Out—Not In
Thin is a very old joke, but it makes
to point:
Ant- Iriahman bumped into a cross-
•yod nan. SBb^cross-eyed man growl
0j\i look where you are
upon the Irishman promptly
jd back, "Can’t yez go where yez
looking ? ”
at’s the reason we bump into each
so often. There are two ways
>king; One in, the other out. The
nmii s'lwjopka in is given to intro-
spection, which'is a short cut to pessi-
I mission. The person who looks out—
away from himself—is an optimist.
As soon as a person gets to looking
inward, turning over his own troubles,
, the comers of his mouth hook down.
Yourself is a dangerous thing to
i think about when you have a grouch
on. The snarl on the lips of the avei age
| man is either from dyspepia or intro-
spection. When a person gets to brood-
ing about himself he gets sore at him-
self, then enlarges his field of activi-
**es.
’"-‘■'now myself—which means study
r^elf to find yout equipments and
*bjgs, h not take posl-
W * ‘w* l°ta
,,,,-you can’t erase them by
NOBODY’S
BUSINESS
By JULIAN CAPERS, JR.
■V
,.*--'orld is a big proposition ami it
more interesting than you are ,who
**e only owe of its very small parts.
*7 Why shouldn’t you be as much in
^preste<f*in the whole circus as in your
wn particular sideshow?
b -
i Add similes: As exasperated as a
, 'newspaper paragrapher whose type-|
writer table Has a sway and a wabble
that b$ can’t locate.—The Memphis
Apepal.
contemporary claims that the
Average span of human life has
,_________It looked that way for a
_While, but we think the automobile
taken up all the slack—The Yaki-
" i.) Republic.
AND SKINNY
■WOMEN
AND CHILDREN
SlVti bv mw Valamint of Cod Liver
Oil ia
la Uiteleu UbleU.
of Wrin healthy flesh instead of
KS7 bones I New visor, vim and
id of tired listless ness I Steady.
I That is what thousands of
Ins throuKh scientists' latent
Vitamins of Cod Liver Oil
CUM In little sugar coated tablets
•ttjr_of its horrid, fishy taste or smell,
d Liver Oil Tablets, they're
irer Oil in Tablet*”, and they
Wonders. A little boy of S. seri-
ot well and gained 10 * ^ lbs. in
OBth. A girl of thirteen after the
gained 3 lbs. the first week and
week after. A young mother who
sleep after baby came got
_________k and gained 10 lbs. in less
_ g Month.
’on Stanly nu>t try McCoy', .t once.
■■nS.rH you don't rain «t lout 8 lb>. or
I naoltnr lloh in n month ret your money
mud and sat McCoy’.-the original
nod senulne Cod Liver Oil Tableta
—approved by Good Houeekeeplns
Inatltute. Refuse all au'
insist on the original
than are none batter.
Austin.—The legislature is enjoy-
ing a good laugh at the antics of re
presentatives of an out-of-state concern
which is attempting to suck into its
channels literally thousands of ad-
vertising dollars that normally go to
Texas newspapers and Texas printing
establishments.
The company in question is one
which is engaged in three enterprises,
that are carefully linked together.
They issue an annual edition of a book
which purports to “rate" insurance
companies, according to the “opinion”
which this company forms of each in-
surance company’s standing. An al-
phabetical designation is given each
company. An “A” company is supposed
to be best, a “B” company good, etc.
The rating company then sells
thousands of copies of the book each
year to the insurance companies it
rates. It also published an insurance
periodical, in which it sells advertis-
ing space to the insurance companies,
and sells rating charts, which are a
part of its “service.”
Trouble with this system has de-
veloped in many states and bills which
would prohibit the out-of-state con-
cerns from circulating alphabetical
ratings are pending in a number of
state legislatures at present, includ-
ing one by Sen. Holbrook in the Texas
legislature. In addition, a number of
companies, including many ranked
“A,” have notified the rating company
that they do not wish to be included
in the publication. These officials con-
demn the practice because they say
many insurance firms are loath to re-
fuse advertising to the rating concern
because of the effect it might have on
their ratings.
But the real laugh comes in at the
trick the rating concern has adopted
to fight the bill in the Texas legisla-
ture. Its representatives wrote a cir-
cular letter to the managing editors
of many Texas newspapers, telling
them the bill "threatens the freedom
of the press.” The bill has nothing to
do with the freedom of the press, but
it does forbid issuing ratings with one
hand and selling advertising with the
other. Any rating concern would be
allowed to issue ratings, provided it
did not sell advertising.
The freedom of the press is too prec-
ious to be used for the purpose of
cloaking polite pressure selling and
it is doubtful that Texas newspaper
men will fall for such tactics. It is
also probable the legislature will pass
the bill prohibiting the selling of ad-
vertising in connection with ratings.
Anybody who sets himself up to
“rate” banks according to his idea of
their safety would quickly find him-
self in trouble with the state and fed-
eral hanking laws. From the stand-
point of public interest, the arbitrary,
unsupervised rating of insurance com-
panies is not much different. The su-
pervision proposed by Senate Bill No.
147 is the least that should be im-
posed, many legislators asset t.
“THAT LITTLE GAME’
•NEVER MET HOYLE
THIS WEEK I
In Palacios History
FROM OUR EARLY FILES
10 YEARS AGO
Palacios sport fans enjoyed a great
wrestling match at Queen Theatre,
between Paul Jones, of Houston, and
Jack O'Brien of Philadelphia. Jones
was winner in a fast bout all the way
through.
East Bay School announced a Kite
Contest and baseball gume. Proceeds
to be used for benefit of school.
Infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
D. C. DuBoise of Houston was buried
in the Palacios cemetery.
C. W. Nester and family moved to
their new home, the Stanford prperty
near East Bay School house.
surveys show that Texas has 540 oil
fields, distributed among 122 counties.
Oil consumption increased 6 per cent
in 1934, while production was upped
only 1 per cent. The balance came out
of the stored oil, which has hung like
a weight around the industry’s neck
for years. The average price of crude
last year was 98 cents against 66 in
1933, and recently oil for June delivery
sold in New York for $1.25. With
better times ahead for the industry,
Thompson believes the legislature will
act favorably on the commission’s
desire for more operating funds from
the oil tax revenue, to enable it to keep
pace with the progress of Texas’
greatest cash crop.
An alluring picture of the future
of the oil industry, which nets more
than $1,000,00(7 daily to Texans is given
by Col. E. O. Thompson, chairman of
the railroad commission. Commission
The Texas Centennial appropriation
bill, as adopted by the house, con-
tained a “joker” which, unless it is
eliminated in the senate, may pre-
clude Dallas accepting ahy of the
money appropriated. The “joker” pro-
vides 1 per cent of the gate and other
Wider,Longer
"Harmonized"
Springs
Luggage
Compartment
In All Models
receipts shall be returned to the state
treasury. The debenture under which
the Dallas Centennial corporation is-
sued and is selling $2,000,000 of its
own bonds, provides all net profits
from the exposition, and 33 1-3 per
cent of the gate receipts, after the first
30 days, shall go into the corporation’s
bond retirement fund. The bill as
adopted in the house would mean the
Centennial, to retire its own obliga-
tions, must first make 15 per cent pro-
fit for the state, if it is to break even.
No exposition in history ever did that.
Chicago broke even, and set a world’s
record. Dallas can hardly be expected
to better that record.
The race horse people are full of
tricks. Perhaps that explains the race-
betting “compromise” which would
leave the question of race betting to
the various counties on a local basis.
Every lawyer in the legislature knows
that such a statute would be unconsti-
tutional, and that the only way local
option could be applied to horse rac-
Woman’s Christian
Temperance Union
“For God and Home
and Every Land”
Mrs. W. C. GRAY, Local Pres.
RANGERS’LL GIT YOU
O, the governor of Texas is a very
busy man,
He’s a gwinter do his duty the best
that he can.
He’s a fightin’ ’gin the evils he sees
all about,
An’ the Rangers’ll git you if you don’t
watch out.
The sheriff he don’t bother with the
liquor dealers, see—
He’ll not worry ’bout your bizness, no
sir-ee,
But you’d better pay attention to
Jimmy Allred’s shout,
Or the Rangers’ll git you if you don’t
watch out.
Business & Professional Cards
Dr. JOHN M. FEWKES
Physician and Surgeon
Office and Residence
RUTHVEN BUILDING
PHONE 14
PILES
I Cure any case of Piles, no matter how
long standing, without Cutting, Ticing,
or Sloughing, and without detention
from business or pleasure.
DR. W. R. STRASNER
RECTAL SPECIALIST
Office Over Ruthven Slore Palacios
WILL DO A GENERAL PRACTICE
C. GREER, MD.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Practice Limited to Treatment
Diseases, Eye, Nose and Throat
and Fitting: of Glasses
HEFNER BUILDING—EL CAMPO
9:00 A. M.—1:00 P. M.
MONDAY - WEDNESDAY - FRIDAY
QUALITY
FOOD MARKET
“The Friendly Store”
(Next Door to Post Office)
-SPECIALS EVERY DAY!—
STEVE and BROTE
D. S. PRINZING
LAND—LAW
INSURANCE
NOTARY PUBLIC
OFFICES—in Bldg. So. of Bank
ALLEN’S
LAUNCH LIVERY
BOATS—FISHING TACKLE—BAIT
—GROCERIES—
—SEA SHELL SOUVENIRS—
MODERN CAMP CABINS
—75c AND UP-
PHONE 78
PALACIOS
FUNERAL HOME
FUNERAL DIRECTORS r
AND LICENSED EMBALMEllf
AMBULANCE SERVICE S
PHONE 8 PALACIOS, TEXAS
M. K. FEATHER, Mgr.
1
*
FEATHER & SON
REAL ESTATE-
FIRE, TORNADO,
AUTO AND LIFE
INSURANCE
B—o—N—D—a
-NOTARY PUBLIC—
For Kodak Finishing*
Enlarging, Copying or
Other Photographic Work, go •
Blocks North from City HaB,
then l'/j Blocks East, or lesro
Films at—
MURIEL’S NOVELTY SHOPPB
H-U-N-T-E-R
J. L. PYBUS
PLANING MILL
Manufacture all kinds of wood
Wood yard in connection with
Plant
PHONE 27.
PALACIOS
What other *ities have done, your
city can do in proportion to its ca
pacity.
The man who hustles gets the busi-
In these days there is little room
for sentimental slogans in order to
gain foreign trade. The fact is that
our export trade has never been
shadow, and we don’t want it to be-
come one. To place any obstacle in the
way of this trade would be tantamount
to community commercial suicide.
Ford
Economy
MORE FOR YOUR MONEY THAN EVER
►You get the combination of features shown above only
in the new Ford V-8 for 1935. And you get them in
addition to low first cost and low operating cost.
This year you also have the most important develop-
ment Ford has offered since the introduction of the
Ford V-8 engine ... the new, exclusive Full-floating
Spriogbase with Comfort Zone Seating—resulting in
•front seat riding comjort” for every passenger in the car!
See this new Ford V-8. Drive it. You’ll realize then that
i the greatest car value Ford has ever built.
10IHIZED FORD DEALERS OF THE SOUTHWEST
Standard accessory troop including tampers
land spare lira extra. Easy terms throe tb
Universal Credit Company.
When citizens of a community get
together, stay together and pull to-
gether, they accomplish great things.
* * * *
The famous Peabody Hotel at Mem-
phis, Tennessee, is running advertise-
ments in many newspapers in the
south, inviting those who can to spena
a week-end at the Peabody. The ails
tell of their superbly appointed rooms
and their five famous restraurants.
This plan should be carried out by
hotels in nil large cities. Tliry would
draw much bu iness by advertising
in the newspapers in smaller cities and
towns.
Everyone is inteersted in good roads.
They should never let up—keep ham-
mering away until they get to ride
over good roads in every direction.
’Spose you paid a thousand dollars
to old Uncle Sam,
Fer the right to peddle liquor—well
you’re sho in a jam,
Fer Uncle Sam won’t help you when
it comes to a bout
With the Rangers who'll git you if you
don’t watch out.
ing would be by a constitutional
amendment. But if the legislature
passes a local option law, and forgets
about repeal and later the courts in-
validate the local option law—as they
surely would—that would leave horse-
race betting unmolested until the legis-
lature meets again.
BE READY FOR EASTER!
BEGINNING—
MONDAY, MARCH 25
I WILL HAVE SOME VERY—
SPECIAL PRICES
ON—
PERMANENTS
—Also Other Kinds of Beauty Work—
Call or Phone For Appointment
BAYSIDE BEAUTY SHOPPE
NAOMI MARGERUM phone 160
CURRENT FACTS
• • •
BY C. P. ANNELL
(CENTRAL POWER AND LIGHT COMPANYI
HOUSE
fUBRIDHINGS
xncmcostI7%
MORE THAN
TWO YEARS
AGO.
(AAT/tWAL AVERAU
Any city that cun truthfully adver-
tise itself as a good city in which to
live and make a living should loudly
proclaim that fact to the world.
Our politicians would learn much
if they would listen to what is said
about them and read what people think
of them. They don't seem to learn
much by experience.
COULD NOT DO HER
HOUSEWORK
THE NEW
VVTHEN every-
W thing you at-
tempt is a burden
—when you are
H nervous and irri-
" table—at your
wit's end—try
this medicine. It
may be just what
you need for extra
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ON A
energy. Mrs. Charles L. Cadmus of
Trenton, New Jersey, says, "After
doing just a little work I had to lie
down. My mother-in-law recom-
mended the Vegetable Compound.
I can see a wonderful change now.”
VECFTABlf COMPOUND
T
NAT/ON A L AVERAGE
CLOTH ING
is up l2%ovm
TWO YEARS AGO
iccTftic Service
THAT COST $ ]J(1£©
TWO YEARS AGO AAi
NOW COSTS ONLY 0\>T
While Even/thing Else Goes Up. E LECTAICITY Goes Down!
Food, house furnishings and clothing figures are from U. S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics. Electric) figures are Central Power and Light Company average.
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