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to Remain in Jail.
167 Delegates in
Attendance at Girl
Reserve Conference
Food Shortage Predicted Twenty - Eight
ments Found by In-
quisitorial Body.
Today there must be style in your watch
—true art in its design, distinctiveness in
its shape and finish. An old-fashioned, bul-
ky, over-ornamented watch may ruin an
otherwise excellent attire.
You insist upon style, of course, in your
clothing, your automobile, your home—in
fact, in almost everything that serves you
in this business of living.
Yet one point may have escaped you, as
it has so many others. And that is—your
watch.
It’s only when we do our best that
we get any joy out of work.
Hard work is a better tonic than
you can buy at the drug store.
by Indians,
and feedbag
Henry L. Qualls, Gonzales Couatys
oldest citizen, was honored with an
elaborate party at Gonzales on the
anniversary of his 100th birthday. The
Gonzales Chapter, U. D. C., entertain-
ed him, and friends and relatives from
all over the state gathered to help
honor the aged Mason.
An easy buyer is usually a poor
payer.
The best work is done for bosses
who know good work when they see it.
Human life is so short that we must
learn from the experiences of others
as well as our own.
It’s more sensible to try to reduce
costs than to wish for higher prices.
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According to advices received
here yesterday from Austin, the ap-
plication for a rehearing of H. P.
Fall, charged with the killing of
Camden Sanborn and wife on the
night of Februamry 20, was denied
by the Court of Criminal Appeals.
Shortly after the killing Fall -vas
denied bail by Justice R. F. Ande’*
son, of this city. An appeal was
taken and the case was heard before
District Judge Munson at Rich-
mond, when Justice Anderson was
upheld. Fall’s attorneys then took
the case before the Court of Crim-
inal Appeals with the result of bail
being denied for the third time. An
application for a rehearing was
made before that tribunal about
three weeks ago, and the rehearing
was refused.
In the meantime the June term of
District Court for this county was
called and the grand jury on Mon-
day, June 7, returned one for kill-
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What has been done and is still
being done in the Rio Grande Valley
is possible of accomplishment in
Wharton County, but it takes faith
and vision. That is what the pros-
perity of the Rio Grande section has
been founded upon. Here we haye
a more uniform climate; here any
sort of vegetable produced in that
section may be grown, with a shorter
haul to market and a consequent light-
er tax for transportation. But such
development will not take place until
there is some concert of effort toward
convincing those who are looking for
homes of these facts. Sooner or latef*,
however, the section of Texas from
Victoria to Richmond and south tb
the coast line will be the mecca to-
ward which unnumbered thousands
will be flocking ,for there is no finer
land in the empire state of Texas than
that which lies —hundreds of thou-
sands of acres of it yet in virgin state
—in Wharton, Fort Bend, Matagorda,
Brazoria and Victoria Counties —
Wharton Spectator.
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Tribune ads are business getters.
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this Morning
PASADENA, Calif., June 12.—An-
nouncing an offer of $500 for the best
poem in tribute to the rose and with
the further announcement that the
poem selected will be set to music by
Carrie Jacobs Bond and be adopted
as the official song of the Tourna-
ment of Roses in Pasadena, Calif., on
New Year’s Day, the Pasadena Tour-
nament of Roses Association today
asked the poets of the country to sub-
mit their verses.
No poem should be less than 12 nor
more than 20 lines long. No blank or
free verse will be considered. All
poems must be submitted to the Tour-
nament of Roses Association before
August 15, 1926, contestants should
keep a copy of their poem as none
will be returned. Competent judges
will make the award by October 1. A
tribute to the rose must be the cen-
tral theme of the poem. The compe-
tition is open to everybody.
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A book on the care of the teeth,
published in Paris in 1818, contains
the oldest known illustration of a
teeth brush. This pioneer brush had
bristles at both ends of the handle.
The average monthly pay of a farm
hand is now $34.38, with room and
board, as compared with $32.01 six
months ago.
cialties stressed the conference is a
self-governing body whose wouthful
officers confer with the trained ex-
ecutievs when it is deemed advisable.
Miss Grace Brett, Dallas, is the chief
girl executive and her quick wit and
nimble brain allowed her to meet her
onerous duties easily and satisfac-
torily. One of the first “official acts
of the conference was the health ex-
amination conducted by Dr. Vanzant.
Visiting hours have been estab-
lished and many are taking advantage
of the privilege of a peep at the inner
workings of the conference.
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Florida is the chin whiskers of the
United States. It is 600 miles long,
200 miles wide and three feet high.
It is bounded on the north by the
eighteenth amendment and on the
other three sides by the three-mile
limit.
Florida is inhabited
Americans, white men _ ______
* tourists, sometimes called tin-cannets.
The reds live on the Everglades, the
blacks live on the whites, and the
whites live on the tourists, and the
tin-canners on the municipal camping
grounds.
Florida’s principal sources of
AUSTIN, Texas, June 14.—A spe-.
cial Supreme Court Saturday reversed
the Texarkana Court of Civil Appeals
decision and affirmed that of the Dos-
trijct Court in the case of Mrs. Kate
G.; Bailey vs. Sovereign Camp, Wood-
man of the World, from Dallas Coun-
ty.; ^Jembers of the regular court
wesi-a disqualified because of member-
ship in the Woodmen of the World.
Mrs. Bailey, who sued for payment
of a benefit certificate issued to her
husband, was given judgment for
$1514 in the District Court. The Ap-
pellate Court reversed this decision
and rendered judgment for the fra-
ternal order.
After a session of seven days, the
Matagorda County grand jury of the
June term of District Court adjourn-
ed Tuesday after returning 28 in-
dictments.
Of this number, 18 were for
bootlegging, two for murder, one
for cattle theft, one for aggravated
assault, one for embezzlement, one
for theft, three for driving while
intoxicated, one for attempted rape.
Duncan Ruthven, of Palacios, was
foreman.
Even a child can understand that
there must be profits made in any
business or it will be abandoned. If
Uncle Sam could not make enough
money in the government business,
he would have to retire and turn his
shop over to a king or a soviet.
This thought was emphasized in a
recent address by Owen D. Young,
who helped Europe get on the finan-
cial basis of a going concern. In his
opinion ,a highly profitable business
is not necessarily one opposed to pub-
lic interest, and it is not necessary to
apologize for concerns that make
profits, if they are honest and render
good service.
He asked why an unprofitable con-
cern should be permitted to use our
labor or our capital, neither of which
is so abundant that we can afford to
waste them.
This brings up the general Ameri-
can idea, that we are a successful
people, that success is normal and
failure is abnormal. “Success is
health; failure is disease.
A paralyzing government investiga-
tion into the operation of a business
rendering a public service merely be-
to meet life fairly and squarely and
carry their
solve its
They live
together for these ten days; they work
and play together; they must give
and take good-naturedly or step down
and out. That this great educational
work may be facilitated and its spe-
Life seems to consist mostly of in-
terruptions.
Most of our good times come unex-
pectedly.
One thing that puzzles every mar-
ried man is why every bachelor isn’t
rich.
At bottom, every man feels that he
belongs on a farm—that he is just en-
joying a leave of absence.
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Florida’s principal sources of in-
come are hotels, fruits, alligator skins,
tourists and vest-pocket press agents
of California. But the one big out-
standing feature of Florida is Its
fruit: Orange raising coming first, of
course. Raising oranges in Florida is
a cince; all that is required is enough
money to live on while raising them.
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Woodmen Win in
Insurance Suit
(Houston Chronicle)
There is a venerable adage
“No man liveth unto himself,” and it
is based on sound principles of so-
ciology.
No man can rightfully isolate him-
self from all interest in or care for
the welfare of his fellowmen. Such
a situation is abnormal and out of
harmony with basic principles of so-
cial duty.
At some time or another every man
will have the need of the help or serv-
ice of his fellowman; no man is suffi-
cient unto himself.
What is true of individuals is true
of nations. No nation is sufficient
unto itself, but every nation, even this
most powerful of all nations, is de-
pendent upon other nations, in many
senses to a far greater extent than the
average citizen realizes.
Hon. W. C. Redfield, formerly secre-
tary of commerce, has written a book,
entitled, “Dependent America,” which
points out in a most striking way
how grievous would be our situation
if we became involved in war with
some of the very remotest of the na-
tions.
Of course, everybody knows that
we depend on other nations for our
silk, tea, coffee, spices and other lux-
uries, and we are dependent also for
many metals, fibres, woods and
chemicals.
In steel making we import 40 com-
modities from’ 57 countries, among
which are aluminum, chrome, anti-
mony, asbestos, chromite and copper,
and other minerals.
In one day 800 crates of honeydew
melons came into one market in New
York from Africa; 4000 crates of veg-
etables from Cuba; 10,000 packages
of vegetables and 1700 barrels of po-
tatoes from Bermuda; 4000 crates of
onions from Chile, and 18,000 bags of
onions from Egypt.
It is said that all the ingredients
which together compose one radio set
have traveled 250,000 miles betwee;i
their place of origin and the factory
in which they are finally combined.
Other nations are, of course, in the
same state of dependence. It is said
that there is never in England enough
food supplies to last a week, and if
none were received for a week suf-
fering would result.
Because of such state of dependence,
we have commerce, which is but the
exchange of commodities, but there is
a lesson to be learned from it, and
that is that we can not, and do not,
live to ourselves as a nation.
Woodrow Wilson, with that clear-
ness of vision which he unfailingly
manifested and that felicity of speech
in which he excelled, stated our re-
lation to the rest of the world:
“The interests of all nations are our
We are partners with the
What affects mankind is inevit-
ably our affair as well as the affair
of the nations of Europe and Asia.”
When our dependence upon the rest
of the world and their dependence
upon us is understood, it is readily
seen that national isolation is as im-
possible as it would be undesirable.
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$500 For a Poe m
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(Palacios Beacon)
Once more it gives Palacios great
pleasure to greet that wonderful
throng of glorious budding woman-
hood, the Girls’ Reserve, who came
Saturday to enter a ten-day confer-
ence in Palacios-by-the-Sea. Many of
the well-wishers of the girls drove
their cars to the station to meet the
167 delegates and take them to the
B. Y. P. U. grounds where the con-
ference is being held. As is gener-
ally understood the Girls’ Reserve is
the branch of the Y. W. C. A., which
takes care of the girl of the ’teen age
and this conference embraces dele-
gates from four states, Texas, Louisi-
ana, Oklahoma and Arkansas. There
are 35 adult directors, including sev-
eral national and state workers, with
the girls, among whom are Miss Em-
ma Knuass of New York, a national
Y. W. C. A. executive;
Hogsett, Houston, and Mrs. Boyd Red-
ding, Galveston, hostesses; Dr. Fran-
ces Vanzant, Houston .health execu-
tive, and Miss Minnie Mae Wilson,
-Houston, recreational director. With
*he exception of Miss Knauss, these
ladies were with the girls last year
and Mrs. Hogsett and Miss Wilson
were also here at the time of the
Methodist encampment, hence do not
feel at all like strangers in a strange
land.
The prime object of the conference
is to aid in fitting these young girls
be better qualified to
share of its burdens and
many intricate problems.
Just as he was approaching the river bridge
this morning at about 10 o’clock Ben Sweeny saw
a baby playing on the bridge across the Colorado
River near here, but before he could reach it the
little one had crawled off the bridge and fallen into
the water below. Mr. Sweeney says he could have
saved the baby but it got caught in the whirlpool
just below the bridge. He was trying to reach it
when it fell and one minute more would have been
sufficient time for him. He and Tony George took
the child from the water and brought it to town. A
pulmotor was applied, but life was extinct.
The child was a little more than a year old, the
baby daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Haynes.
Just before this occurred a party of men were
returning to town from work at the intake and said
they had met a woman carrying a child. The be-
lief is that the mother, Mr. Haynes’ wife, and
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Brent Hatchett, put the
child on the bridge, hoping someone would pick it
up, and then jumped into the river, as she has com-
pletely disappeared.
A searching party headed by father and hus-
band are making a vigorous search for her in the
vicinity of the bridge, but up to press time no trace
of her has been found.
cause it makes good profits, is not
logical. Why not investigate the
business that fails to make profits and
thereby wastes capital and labor?
Mr. Young said development of our
American industrial system to the
point where what is known as a “cul-
tural wage,” could be paid—that is,
wages above mere necessities of life —
is being considered by many em-
ployers.
How far American captains of in-
dustry can go on this line is not
known, but Our Country has discov-
ered that a period of general good
wages is the period of highest pros-
perity. Continually we are coming to
understand that not brief periods, but
a steady and general policy should,
dominate the rate of wages.
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Another great move in the right
direction was made here yesterday in
that “Hug-the-Coast” highway meet-
ing. From these small meetings big
organizations grow and from big or-
ganizations come progress. The coun-
ties interested can get the coast some
mighty fine roads by hammering the
thoughts and suggestions offered at
yesterday’s meeting home with the
people and the authorities.
(Kansas City Star)
The National Farm Schools confer-
ence in New York was doubly warned
of the possibility of a food shortage.
Dr. A. C. True, director of the states
relation service of the United States
department of agriculture, presented
statistics indicating an ultimate food
famine in the great cities of the
United States. He stated that 865,000
more persons, left farms for the cities
in 1925 than migrated from cities to
the farm. Frank O. Lowden, ex-gov-
ernor of Illinois, asserts that a food
shortage will result if agriculture con-
tinues its backward trend. He stated
that “no one can go on indefinitely
producing unless he at least receives
cost of production. The result will be
fewer farmers and, of course, a smal-
ler production of food must be a con-
sequence.”
Such statements are based upon ap-
parently sound logic. The trend of
population toward cities rather than
away from them is deliberate. Those
who leave the farm for the city do so
because they feel that the benefits
will be greater than the disadvan-
tages. Many of them are not adapted
to farm life. Others are attracted by
the shorter hours, higher wages and
opportunities for amusement which
the cities afford. Still others who
actually prefer country life have be-
come discouraged by the inadequate
returns for time and labor spent on
the farm during recent years.
All of this will definitely increase
the number of consumers. It is bare-
ly possible, though hardly probable,
that the trend from the country to the
cities will become so great that suffi-
cient forces will not be left on the
land to provide food.
Before this condition is brought
about the surplus foodstuffs which are
now exported will be absorbed at
home. Profitable prices, which may
result from diminished supplies, will
increase production tremendously.
The agricultural lands now in use
could be made to produce much more
abundantly by intensive methods if
prices obtained would justify such a
change. Large areas now devoted ’.o
the production of commodities which
have a low nutritional value could be
devoted to crops which
much further in supplying
mands for sustenance of
bodies.
The problem before the American
farmer is not of ultimate failure to
produce food for an excess city pop-
ulation. His immediate concern is to
shape his policies and plans so that
an adequate reward may be found for
production under normal conditions.
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Hit or Miss
Efficiency is nothing but a combi-
nation of cleanliness, orderliness,
good health and plain, old-fashioned
hard work.
ing Camden Sanborn and the other
for killing Mrs. Sanborn.
Last week following these indict-
ments Fall collapsed and was con-
veyed to the hospital for madical
treatment. He recovered and was
sent back to jail.
Early this week Judge Munson
set June 30 as the day on which
Fall’s trial for the killing of Cam-
den Sanborn will begin. A special
venire of 300 men has been ordered
by the court.
Fall is represented by George
King, of Houston; Pat M. Neff, for-
mer governor ,of Waco, and W. E.
Davant, of this city.
The state district attorney will be
assisted in the case by Judge Sam-
uel J. Styles, of the firm of. Styles,
Krause & Erickson, of this city, and
Judge W. M. Holland, of Houston.
Both, Judge Styles and Judge Hol-
land ,have been district attorneys
of this district. Judge Styles also
served as district judge for several
years prior to Judge Munson’s elec-
tion, and resigned to go into pri-
vate practice.
The case has attracted statewide
attention and will be a long drawn
out and expensive one.
(From the Los Angeles Times)
Birth control has won in the upper
house of the British parliament. By
a vote of 57 to 44 the loards accepted
Lord urkmaster’s proposal that the
government should instruct married
women as to the best way to limit
their families. There was consider-
able debate, the opposition urging that
birth control was a problem of self-
control; but when Earl Balfour arose
and delivered a stirring appeal in
support of the resolution the opposi-
tion weakened and the birth-control
propagandists won.
Lord Balfour called attention to the
present overpropulation of the British
Isles, warned his colleagues that in-
dustry was approaching its limit and
that some barrier must be erected
against increased population or a con-
dition of misery would be inescapable.
Self-control has been preached for
centuries, but it had failed to limit the
families of those who were unable by
their own labor to support several
Mrs. L^ M. children. It was a condition and not
a theory by which they were confront-
ed. England must adopt the remedies
available to limit population.
Curiously enough, at the very time
the British government is seeking to
limit the size of families the French
government is searching for ways and
means to increase them. France is
appalled by the high birth rate in Ger-
many and the low birth rate at home.
A century and a half ago France was
the most populous state in Europe. It
could place more men in the field
than any rival nation.
The World War found that condi-
tion changed. The number of men
capable of bearing arms in Germany
was about double that in France. Both
France and Germany continue to
think in terms of cannon fodder. They
still regard every young man coming
of age as a potential soldier; and
France still places its security in its
man power.
From an industrial and economical
point of view the French are in a
much better position than the Ger-
mans. Each country can support
about 50,000,000 population with the
products of its own soil. France pro-
duces enough each year to supply its
home consumption and a surplus suf-
ficient to feed 10,000,000 people. Ger-
many, on the other hand, possesses at
least 15,000,000 more than it can feed
with the products of its own soil. It
must bring that much food in each
year from abroad or starve.
England’s condition is similar to
that of Germany. The products of the
British Isles will feed not more than
one-half of the population. And Eng-
land thinks in terms of peace. The
government is not concerned that Ger-
many can place more millions in the
field in time of war; but it is extreme-
ly concerned about how the 40,000,000
of population are to be fed in time of
peace. 1
Birth control is a problem for over-
populated countries. The time may
come when it will be a vital issue in
the United States; but that period is
at least a century in advance. It
would be possible to produce enough
in the United States to feed four times
the present population. If it were
necessary, the world could produce at
the present time in any year three
times the" present volume of food-
stuffs.
As generations pass and the inter-
dependence of all the peoples of the
world is better understood, it is pos-
sible that an international plan may
be evolved through which the excess
propulation of one country can be
placed upon the productive but un-
cultivated territory of another. Either
the birth rate of th e overcrowded
countries must be limited or some
such plan must be evolved, if the
dream of providing living conditions
for all the people of the world is ever
to reach materialization.
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