Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 30, 1943 Page: 4 of 8
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This Ss Our Battle
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MRS, J. W. DISMUKES
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Our First Concern
Roane Waring is one of the 5,000,000 Americans who
took up arms in 1917-18 to “help make the world safe for
democracy.” He is now national commander of the American
Legion. To Commander Waring and most other Americans
of his generation democracy meant, for themselves, the sys-
tem of representative government and private enterprise
which had been functioning in this republic since its founding.
We are engaged in another world war to defend our right
to keep that system. But like many of his compatriots, the
'legion commander is alarmed lest we permit ourselves to lose
democratic capitalism through overcentralization of authority
in the federal government. It is the post-war problem which
most concerns a very large number of Americans in and out
of the armed services, Mr. Waring said in an address on Sept.
17—Constitution Day—to the Southern and Western gov-
ernor's conference at Denver. He spoke from observations
gleaned in a year’s travel over this country and the North
African war zone, talking to thousands of soldiers in training
camps at home and on the fighting front.
These Americans, he said, are frankly apprehensive of
the current tendency to submerge the personal endeavor of
the individuals and to suppress the free initiative of the citi-
zen “and to make of him the recipient of a regimented life
dictated and planned by federal bureaus.” Mr. Waring de-
clared that these people need leadership, and he addressed
himself to the governors in the belief that they, as chief
executives of sovereign states, are well situated to supply
that leadership.
Both premise and conclusion are eminently correct.
There is worldwide evidence that “the surest road to dictator-
ship is the road to federal paternalism.” Some of the gover-
nors, including Texas’ own Coke Stevenson, are standing out
boldly against this encroachment of the federal government
upon the rights of the states and of individual citizens. Too
many seem willing to drift with the tide, or at best to give
passive lip service to the endangered rights. In closing his
address, Mr. Waring thus stated the essence of the problem:
“Our first job, when peace returns, is to return our fed-
eral government to its normal functions, to take it out of
social work, out of private industry and out of other fields
of activity not contemplated by the federal constitution. It
means that we the people, with our local and state govern-
ments, must assume our responsibilities which we have shirk-
ed when the going was tough. If we expect to remain sov-
ereign in our citizenship, to retain our rights and freedoms,
we must assume and discharge the obligations that go with
them. Only by being vigilant can we remain the masters, and
not the slaves of the government.”—Galveston Daily News.
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precious gift he made worthwhile.
Not for the boy who is dying tonight, but because he is
dying, we can make our sacrifices to the cause of freedom.
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THIS WEEK
IN PALACIOS HISTORY
FROM OUR EARLY FILES
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30 YEARS' VrfO
Another big rain and the gunge
at the Palacios State Bank showed
5.6 inches during a 21-hour period.
The Palacios Baptist Academy
opened the fall! and winter term.
Rev. M. M. Wolf was president, and
he had as assistants, Miss Ida Bell
Ray of Victoria; Miss Linnie Wolf,
Rockdale; Miss Alma Nigro, Belton,
and Miss Edira Brown, Belton.
James M. ililletto. an employee
at HotU Palacios died of an acute
attack of pneumonia.
25 YEARS AGO
A call from the Red Cross for
funds to help our soldiers resulted
in a total .sum of $250.00.
"Butsy” the second son of Mr.
and Mrs. R. C. Huddleston suffered
a fracture s'leg.
Laurence Stewart, who had been
transferred from St. Paul, Minn.,
to Ellington Field, was visiting
with home folks.
Victory Bonds were being put
on sale. Thirty-seven businessmen
•of PHlaciOs sponsored a page spread
in the Bfcucon.
.» Town And Farm In Wartime —
A Rendezvous . . .
Somewhere an American boy has a rendezvous with
death tonight. Whether on a carrier’s deck in the Pacific,
upon the burning sands of North Africa, or in the tropical
forests of New Guinea—whether swift and perilous or ter-
rible and slow his going—he is giving to his fellow men the
greatest gift a man can give.
The year unlived—the warmth and the laughter and the
tears, and most precious gift of all—his sons that might
have been. All these he is giving.
No effort of ours, now, can stave the speeding bullet that
has his number on it. What to him, now, are the bonds we
buy, or the guns we build?
With nothing that is bought or sold, with nothing that
is made of human hands, can we share his sacrifice.
What gift can we give to match his—what sacrifice can
we make? The answer will come from that still small voice
within our own hearts.
For no one can tell us how many bonds to buy, how hard
to work on the guns and planes and tanks we build, to keep
his gallant effort from having been in vain. Yes, we must
each decide the measure of our own obligations—the gasoline
we do not use, the pints of blood we donate, the food we do
without, and all the other appeals we answer—to make the
Your Farm is on
my truck route
My truck delivers Sinclair gasolines, kerosenes, motor
oils and a full line of Sinclair greases for farm use. Also
Sinclair Stock Spray and P.D. Insect Spray. Over a sea-
son, these high quality Sinclair products will save you
real money.
Let me deliver to your farm
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T. A. CASTLETON, Agent, Bay City
WINFRED JOHNSON, Station, Palacios
PIIONE 170 FOR WASHING AND LUBRICATION
Ration Reminder
Gasoline—In 17 states of eastern
shortage area A-6 coupons are now
good. In states outside the eastern
shortage area A-8 coupons are now
good.
Sugar—Stamp No. 14 good for
five pounds through October.
Stamps Nos. 15 and 16 are good for
5 lbs. each for home canning pur-
poses through October 31.
Shoes—Stamp No. 18 good for 1
pair. Validity has been extended
indefinitely.
Meats, Fats—Red stamps X, Y
and Z good through October 2.
Brown stamps A and B good
through October 2. Brown stamp C
good through October 30. Brown
stamp D becomes good October 3
and remains good through October
30.
Processed Foods—Blue stamps U,
V and W expire October 20.
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Cut Expected In Shoe Ration
The new shoe stamp, No. 1 on
the “Airplane” sheet in War Ra-
tion Book Three, which becomes
valid November 1, probably will
have to last six months, OPA has
announced. At the same time OPA
said that stamp 18, originally
scheduled to expire October 31, is
extended indefinitely and will over-
lap the next stamp. OPA’s present
plan is to eliminate expiration dates
on shoe stamps and to make new
stamps valid as soon as supplies
warrant. This enables a person to
save shoe stamps until shoes are
needed.
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More Soap Provided
Consumers will have greater soap
supplies within a few weeks. The
War Food Administration has an
nounced a program to provide a
28 percent increase in soap pro-
duction for civilian use. WFA em-
phasized that there will still be no
excess and urged soap-saving by
every possible method.
• •
To Issue Ration Book Four
War Ration Book Four, which
will last approximately two years,
will be issued to more than 120
million persons through schoolhouse
distributions during the last 10
days of October, OPA has announc-
ed. The book combines point and
unit stamps. It has eight pages con-
taining 384 stamps, printed in blue,
red, green and black.
• •
U. S. Casualties To Date 105,205
Announced casualties of the Unit-
ed States Armed Forces from the
outbreak of the war to date (whose
next to kin have been notified)
total 105,205, according to War and
Navy Department reports. This
total includes: dead, 20,104; wound
cd, 28,226; missing, 32,905; prison-
ers of war, 23,970.
• •
One Corporal Gets Five Japs
An army corporal, who failed to
get the order to withdraw, recent-
ly killed five of an attacking eight-
man Japanese patrol, then found to
his astonishment that he had been
left alone far in advance of his
marine companions. Corporal Hen-
derson, whose home is in Cannon-
ville, Utah, explained: “I figured
they were still with me, so when
the Japs came in sight I opened up
with my tommy.” After he had kill-
ed five of the Japs, the other three
ran. It was then Corporal Hender-
son discovered he was alone. He
spent the night in the jungle and
walked in for chow the next morn-
ing.
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PX Profits Equip Chapels
Profits of $6,800 from Army Post
Exchanges in Africa are being used
to provide religious equipment for
the army’s five permanent chapels
there, the Whr Department has re-
ported. The- money, spent by Amer-
ican fighting men on soft drinks,
candy, and cigarettes in the over-
seas PX’s, is buying reed organs,
hymnals, Bibles, and other relig-
ious supplies for all denominations.
20 YEARS AGO
Ml', and Mrs. T. W. Barr were
preparing to move to Houston.
Mia* Myrle Bell! left for (Nash-
ville,. Tcnn., to attend Peabody Col-
lege;: Mils Madge Clement went to
Richmond, Va., for college work
and Miss Luella Smith to Belton;
THe usual September rains had
everything pretty wet. Chris Will
limns reported a, five inch rain one
night according to his guage.
Mrs. Lillian {Herman opened thtt-
Turtle Bay school with an enmllr-
tuent of 22.
15 YEARS AGO
Lester Dunkleberg and Miss Ruth
Bnrro> were married' in: San An-
tonio. _ ,
W. IT. Lawson difd ur Tuft and
remains were brought heie f°'
burial.' „ ,
Jacamo Glaros, fattier of Manuel
Glaros. died in Port Lovaca.
“Tlu* * Way of All Flish,” star-
ring Emil Janning*, was being
shown at the Queen rhea ter.
It) YEARS AGO
Miss Lois Alton ami Powell Nel-
son were married, Kbv. C arroll B.
Kay orfferatud.
Joseph Martin Baldwin died at
his home in this city.
Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Slone, an-
nounced the birth of a boy on Sep-
tember 26.
A fenry boat service across Cor-
pus Christi Bay was being used un-
til the causeway which was dam-
aged by the September 4 hurricane
could l.e rebuilt.
The - BunillW of the Palacios
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Partain and
childrom «f Houston, were week-
end guests of Mayor and Mrs. A. G.
Skinner and other Palacios rela-
tives.
Mrs A. H. Petersen- Miss Ann
Lee Petersen, Mrs. T. Oglesby and
Mrs. HU l Waterman spent Monday
in Houston doing some shopping.
schools was entertained by the P.-
T. A. at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
C. L. .tto St. Aubin.
PALACIOS
FUNERAL HOME
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
& LICENSED EMBALMERS
AMBULANCE SERVICE
PBONK 8 PALACIOS
FEATHER, Mgr.
15 BILLION DOLLARS
[NOM-BAHXlNO^QUOtM)
H. C. (Howard) CAMPBELL
GENERAL INSURANCE .
Corner 4th & Commerce Phones: Res. 103, Off. Hi
Your War Bonds •
BUILD
THEM.
Free America made these ships and these guns! They were made by free industry and free labor.
The Lower Colorado River Authority supplies power that helps so vitally to make not only guns
and ships like these but many other articles for our fighting men. But industrial genius, patriotic
labor or electric power cannot do all the job. It takes money—everybody’s money—to carry Amer-
ica and her Allies to the victory that means a FREE WORLD.
Your Lower Colorado River Authority's power has been on the fighting line of
production since before Pearl Harbor. Now its dollars fight, too! Every cent of
available money in our reserve funds is being invested in War Bonds—in the future
of a free America. All the counties in which the LCRA operates get a share. The
share credited to MATAGORDA COUNTY is $15,000. And it counts on your county’s
quota in the Third War Loan Drive.
The chips are down and the time has come. There must be no easing up at home. Just as our boys
must fight harder as they close in on Hitler and Hirohito, so must we at home back them with
greater production with more money. Let’s go over the top and more on the War Bond front.
Give our boys the ships, the guns, the tanks, the planes, all the supplies they need to win the most
glorious victory in the shortest possible time.
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Dismukes, Mrs. J. W. Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 30, 1943, newspaper, September 30, 1943; Palacios, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth747234/m1/4/: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Palacios Library.