The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 25, 1937 Page: 2 of 8
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THE MATAGORDA COUNTY TRIPUNE, THURSDAY FEB 25, 1927
THE MATAGORDA COUNTY TRIBUNE
BY TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY
Bay City, Matagorda County, Texas
Halting Recovery THE NEWS’
P— • POSITION
eerr
15-member Supreme Court
opposition, now, has 32 n.
muste: only 31. leaving a3
opposition needs only one w* s
a clear majority It is certain
to believe it can get the 17. i
sition in the house is growing
TEXAS INDUSTRY again faces the threat of
increased taxation.
A measure is under consideration in the state
legislature providing for a levy of five per cent
on the net incomes of all corporations which
have net incomes.
1 he bill likewise calls for a levy on all cor-
porations which do NOT have net incomes. 1 his
a tax of one-tenth of one per cent on gross
receipts.
It is unreasonable that such new burdens !
should be saddled upon industry just at the time i
nt when re-employment of the jobless is one of the
nation’s chief objectives.
Further, our legislators, in their zeal to find
new sources of revenue, should not overlook this)
‘America Speaks, by Dr Gallup - TRY PPP C5
rolling in from nearly all patofAT -
bably the Presi-Foudissiane lire
dent would hav ICTOEN SHO NEC
problem had his motive for abso-
lute control been less pronounced
Not Bloodless
important fact
Increased taxes on business are bound to
come out of the pav envelopes of the working
man or the purse of the buying public in the end.
San .Antonio Light.
rds the Fed-
A more fitting and timely
speech could not have been mad
than one Ce 1
when tiie Honorable Samuel B.
Pett ngill, member of Congre. s
dangers of the Supreme Cour I
an anythin
“This is
questions ever p
lic debate. In it
- the greate
s nted for pu
no pdace Republicans who favor
it should support it. Democrats j
on the other hand have not only
a citizen's right but a party duty
to oppose it.”
The senator continued. We
should leave personalties and
harsh adjectives out of this de-
bate and discuss the question
strickly on its merits We are en-
tirely unworthy of the govern-
ment for which George Washing-
ton fought and acrificed if we
do not discuss it on it merits.”
That is now being done. Of seven-
ty-l ve newspaper which support-
ed President Roo: velt for re-elec-
ystem of government without
los dshed. Nations have changed
heir system: by popular mandate
rs The word “revolution” im-
K - revolt against the existing
. • . it by a majority vote, that
n hardly be called a revolt.
Revolutions do not succeed un-
55 the revolutionists have con-
• armed forces of the
nat on. Th Bolshevik revolution
in Russia succeeded because it be-
gun in the army, with the organi-
tion of the Soldiers and Workers
I nion. The Fascist movement in
Italy would have been no more
than an ineffective rebellion had
not the army been behind Musso-
Ini. So, too. Hitler could never
have won and held power in Ger-
many without the army behind
him. The pi sent Civil War in
tion, including the Scripps How-Spain began with a revolt of a
ard chain, only twenty-four favor large part of the Spanish army.
the proposal. T ere is no way that . minority |
. can impo e its will upon a majori-
Aside from all other considera-ty without killing people. Armed
tions, thi is the deadly flaw in force and terrorism are th means
the proposal. It is more power whereby usurpers and diet tors
than a good man would want or, seiz and hold power. Once thi
a bad man shuld have." kihing begins, it has to be kept up
"On this point,” continued the whenever opposition shows it I
congressman, “let me refer again I head Only by making an exam-
to Washington’: Farewell
dress:
Ad-
ple of those who try to go con-
trary to the will of th dictator
If in the op nion of the peo- |
ple (not of congress or of the
president) th distribution or
modification of the constitutional
power be in any particular wrong. '
let it be corrected by an amend-
can the people be kept in proper
sub ction. Stalin, t Ru ian
dictator, is now engaged in
"purge", killing off active and sus-
pected enemies of th Communi it
ment which the Constitution desig-
nates.
regime, as a warning to the rest
of th Russian people that they
had better walk the chalk-line and
obey orders.
“ ‘Bu. let there be no chang Any talk of revolution in this
by usurpation; f - though this in country >• abusrd Alarmists and
one instant may be the instru-In pon sible pi ons who enjoy
ment of good, it the customary scaring folk have indulged in a
lot 01 loose talk about revolution,
ments are destroyed The pr ce-based upon nothing but sharp dif-
dent must always greatly over- ferenees of opinin on public ques-
b
partial or transient benefit which continued, might possibly lead to
the use can at my time yield, bloodshed, but w are not in dan-
ger of a revolution until the revo-
These words were penned in , lutionists are able to back up their
1796 They hav been accepted | threats with sup rior force, which
as the highest political wisdom by seems a very remote possibility
the people to whom they were — _________
“ ‘Bu let there be no chang
weapon by which free govern-
• STCC. President
Withdraws From
ripened wisdom of fourteen de-
cades of time.”
What a contrast to the int
CC Nomination
THOUGHTS
ABOUT CENTRALIZATION
lozen small ne wspa
needed
By HARRY AUSTIN CLAPP cared
When one thinks of centraliz - | money
al requirements
or. There is
for any of our
tion one’s thoughts at once go
back to center and central and 1
one is bound to reflect and enquire .
as to what these words mean. We w
find upon examination that center
means “to collect to a point; to . it Deci
concentrate; a point equidistantloaed
from all sides." Central while
commerce and the Gulf Coast De-
close kind to center, means just vel ment •
a bit more for instance, "relating .
1direction of that peerless and ef.
to the center; situated in or nearfici nt le de E o .,. I
the center or middle.” Centraliza-
tion got , farther and we find that
it means something quite definite,j.
the ct or process of centralize the county whether We SREll E
ing or the state of being central: ,
.forward, sit still and twiddle our
the act or process of combining -
, . I . fingers or lowly lip back Ho
or reducing sey ral parts into a
whole, as the centralization of.......9
power in government.” During the W en Mi Farl v was reg
past few years all of us who read to provide a steam heating plat 1
the press or d iscuss such things for the local post office he assent-
with others have heard about a led but placed delivery the last of
centralized government. We have May. The unnecessary delay x-
thought of this in federal terms, posed our postmaster to the chills sore b) the 1 ol
but have given small thought to of winter and as a result he h
what centralization means to us been seriously ill from influen
let us go back a quarter of a cen- bed. First Assist int G neral Hat-
tury right here in Matagorda coun- tie has been istributing t
Adr
method You buy something tan-
gible. The cost is just as legiti-
I Corpu Chriti. Max Starcke I mate as the cost of rent, clerk
South hire distribution of your products,
ilt i mor. truly . shrewd business
expe nse than some others. These
ty. In the early days of that mails and also the males during
period of this country, there exist- the illness of our l'. Al Gla dt set led € item
ted local publications in several report that he wi soon be on the on T
| communities. The following towns hand shaking out the mail sacks|in a
printed very interesting papers: and Mr. Farley may keep his old wa the chi f crimir I with M
Matagorda, Markham, Blessing, steam plant. I receivednice Liggett, Mi
Palacios, Collegeport and Bay City, cut little Valetine from my
seven publications in all. When Vice and from it had the idea
are they this day? Gone with that she had at last settled down,i(almo ’ now) a
the wind. We now have two pa-i but lo, to my surprise I find she
pers, the Daily Tribune at Bay has gone to New Orleans' and
City and the Beacon at Palacios, taken on a milk route. I could
Thi.se two survive and they have hardly believe it but I must be-whether shy floats 01 sinks. Mr
s rved well and continued week lieve my eyes, for she sent a fotoI atricia M rtyn,
after week to carry to the worldshowing th* outfit. A two wheel | health nurse, here Thursday with .
the happenings of this imperial cart, a bay horse, two big milk | the Puppet Show handled by two I
land. Wonder how many of you cans It is * fine rig, the harness
notice what is happening to the or the best, the car: beautifully
Tribune. It has growing pains, painted with a top folded back.
For years we have seen it as a whip in socket and believe it or
four page paper, but now several not just as you wish, but there
[times in a while, out it comes as sat my Vice all dolled up with
a six sheefer and at times blos-a new sunbonnet and dealing out
soms out in a eight pager. It has the milk. Dogburn me, 1 hope
dreams and mbition to put in a she hangs onto this job for a few
press service. All that is required weeks, forthen I'll know where the
is enlarged use of its columns by cute littl rascal is. Our local
merchants. These papers have fisherman, John Shoemaker wet
something to sell. Something as his line in the slough back of our
truly valuable as the goods on a place and pulled out a fi h that
merchant's shelf. You are not was something less than fifteer
extending ch rity when you buyinches long and weighed less than
pace in these papers but instead twelve pounds. John was filled
are buying something that will with delight and I am sure Lutie
carry your message farther for
less cost than any other known
was pleased when John brought
in this big bundle of meat.
Mrs. Hester Hendricks has beer
n and two
lences. This bur
they just don’t
goldar:
0
delivered yesterday by Honor able
Samuel B. Pettingill to the motive 9 Seguin, president of th
of the Pre dent. On the birthday Texa Chamber of Commerce, has
of the gr it founder of this coun-announced his w thdrawal from
try, one man holds him in high I nomination as a member of the
esteem and the other attempt a Board of Directors of the United
move contr -y to his teaching State C. of C.
_______| The nomination of Starcke was
papers are here to serve but they
accorded a seat on the local school
board and 1 am suspecting that
the will make a good board mem-
ber. She has one of th qualifi-
cations she is the mother of
school pupils.
canot serve without th
elation of our p ople.
co-op-
No mer-
; rights under the law."
hich lines of reasoning does
harmonize with previous ut.er-
es and The Post hastens to
to its way of thinking
• Houston Post
Citor’s comment:
Climbing Taxes
TO LIVE is to be taxed.
The report of the twentieth century fund
shows by incontrovertible figures that taxes are
higher today than they have ever been in the
country’s history. : . ONE
Every man, woman and child is pay ing ( 2. •
HUNDRED DOLLARS A YEAR in taxes.
That is, the day a child comes into the world it
pays 30 CENTS TAXES forthat day.
Each person, on the average, pays $44 a year
in taxes to the federal government. He pays
$36 a year to local governments and $20 a year
to state governments. 1
If you are out of work, ill or dy ing. TO0CI AI
that the best way
> make them lar
In the city we have a group of instituted by the Corpus Christi
boys who have taken up the build- C hamber of Commerce and was
ing of airplane and boats, and endorsed by a score or more of
other miniatures for pastime andchambers of commerce and other
for a bit of learning These boys members of the United States
have an en rgy that must be ex-chamber
pended. They hive not found it Starck expressed his intention
of withdrawing from the nomina-
tion in a letter to Glover Johns,
president of the Corpus Christi
necessary to make a few nickles
with work so they must have an
outlet for that energy. Thi ys-
tem works with a charm. They
like the building f the miniature
They are learning something, or
their hands are learning some-
thing and they are ke ping out of
mischief, as the old saying goes
Their parents know wher they
are. That is consoling. The day
organization. He said, after ex-
pressing his apprec lation for the
honor accorded h m in placing his
name in nomination, that "the
South Texas Chamber of Com-
have gone, it seems, when a book
is read by a boy out of school. I
He goes to a picture show or
down to the radio and, to his mind,
gets the entire book or piece of in- |
formation he seeks in a few n r |
utes where to read a book many
mercer of which I am president,
has greatly expanded its activities
nd my interest in this work, to-
gether with my various other
duties, will not permit me to
ties
thi time."
hours may be required. So what
is he to do with the remaining
tim on his hands? He must de
something— he simply must get out
and do something. And so he
doe: Those boy who are building
airplanes may never make aviators
but they will have a keener know-
ledge of aviation They are doing
• omething at any rate. There are
many differences of opinion as to
Announcement has been made
by Ray Leeman, vice president
and gc neral manager of the STCC.
hat the organiz lion has named
Starcke as national councillor of
tle United States C. of C. Dele-
gate • in addition to Starcke,
named by the regional organiza-
tion are Joseph F. Meyer, Jr,.
President of the Houston National
Bank, and R. L. Blaff r of Hous-
ton, chairman of the board of di-
rectors of the Humble Oil and Re-
fining Company.
chant could exist without the co-
operation of the people he serves.
Thi is just an example of cen-
tralization. We ned go no far-
ther but we still have another ex-
ample Now take banking for ex-
ample. One time we had banks
in Matagorda, Wadsworth, three
in Bay City, Markham, Midfield.
The Supreme Court of the e
United States is due a real spank-
ing for read this from the United
Stalls News, j quote “from 1789
to 1937 Congress has passed 24.-
902 laws and that naught Court
has from 1789 to 1937 declared 73
of the more than 24,000 uncon-
stitutior.il. of the 73, eight of
them have been decis ions during
the last two years and all of them
the President’s pet sch me No
wonder the Prefdent is peeved
Blessing, two in Palacios, and Col-
legeport. Eleven banks to serve
less than fifteen thousand people, and desires to castigate the court.
Total deposits sufficient for one Any person with an ounce of
What has centraliza-brains can atglanc over his-
institution. ________..........
tion done in this field? Today i tory disclose the reason for the
we have in th county just twolstrain of conflict between the
banks, the First National Bank of President and the Supreme Cour
Bay City and the Bay City Bank 9 between the President nd the
and Trust Company, with three Constitution. Many time during
and a half million’s of deposits. ! the last 150 years people have beer
Centralization'1 Sure thing and to.
the advantages of the people, with ing our Constitution and th
refined service. A service un- I
known in the p st. The natural '
result of centralization. Not at all |
necessary to visit Washington for 1
an example of centralization. Mat-
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Made in u. 8 A.
FOR HAIR AND SCALP
Different from Ordinary Hair Tonics
IT’S A SCALP MEDICINE!
Me a v. FEEL IT WORKI At All Druggith
Write for FREE Broklet “The Truth About
I The Hair." National Remedy Co., New Yers
President and the Supreme Co.
obliged to stand firm in protect-
JL ST THE SAME.
I he report says:
“EVERY INDIVIDUAL PAYS SOME-
THING.. FOR IF HE DOES NOT PAY DI-
RECTLY TO THE GOVERNMENT, THE AI
LEAST HELPS OTHERS PAY THROUGH
INCREASED RENT AND PRICES FOR
FOOD, CLOTHING AND THE OTHER
NECESSITIES IF LIFE."
Every housewife knows that this is true.
Normal taxes are perfectly legitimate. Or-
ganized society rightly requires its members to
contribute to the upkeep of government and Ate
t protective agencies.
But how can such enormous tax rates as we
.Americans are paying be defended when the
NATIONAL DEBT IS INCREASING AND
TH IE DEFICIT CONTINUES TO GROW?
e years. An amend-
The American people
the idea that no mat-
vrong with these great N
man does not
the methods to
It just doesn't make sense.
Light.
San Antonio
the Al me on dif f| Porter, Billy Thompson, Samuel
e week. Lyle, Alex Lyle, Sidney Denn,
Instructions will be given the Frank Craf Jr., Bu k McKelvy,
members in construction design of | Robert Lyle, Mickey Engle, James
flying models, endurance models Gibson, Raymond Fields, Herbert
and r plica models. A course in McDonald, Stacy Harrison, Jack
airplane design will be given by Prye, Dick Harrison, Earnest
S o a competent instructor wh ha Kappe, Everet Bond, Milton
* home ! T eauss promised his services. Greenberg, Bobby Baker, Johnnie
Frink Long. Chas. Schaedel Jr.,
MANVAV lyand a meeting will be held next Ben Kidder, Jack Glenn, Tony
MANY BOYS eek for the election of office c Roy Lott Virgil Sansing.
ENTER MODEL The time will be announced at the Delbert Verser, Waylan Rice, Her-
N A VINIA Ar A hel Cor ne N (. rroll
MAKING CLASSES Further information may be ob-
statesmen and
liberty loving blood to give
ntered the
tallied at the Alcove.
The boys who were present at Mrs. F. R. N rton was a busi-
held the first meeting were: Walton 1 ness visitor in Houst in Tuesday.
3 EI*
young folk from the St ite Board 1
of Health. The object of the show
is to teach the importance of clean
teeth. Besides the school about
fifteen of our interested mothers
were present. Coming from the
show Wednesday a little Negro
girl was instantly killed while
they were discharging pupil it
the hom destin tion Had the
Road
DC
DIE IN THE HC
The Old Reliable Exterminator
Used the world over for many generations,
to kill rats, mice and noxious animals. A
sure way to do away with dangerous pests.
Safe to handle Sold by general stores and
druggists, 25c. 50c a box. Manufactured by
K •. WELLS, Chemist
ldren are bein
taken on this would not have ha
pened.
HOW LONG CAN A
THREE-QUARTER WIFE
HOLD HER HUSBAND?
VOU have to work at marriag
I to make a success of it Mer
may be selfish, unsympathetic
but that the way they re mad
and you might as well realize it
When your back aches and you
nerves scream, don’t take it ou
on yourh isband lb can’t possibly
know how you feel.
For t hreegenerat inns one woman
has told another li w to go smil
ing through" with Lydia E Pink
ham’s Vegetable Compound |
helps Nature tone up the system
thus lessening the discomforts from
the functional disorders which
women must endure in the three
ordeals of IT I Turning from
girlhood to womanhood. 2 Pre
paring for motherhood 3. Ap
proaching “middle age."
Don’t be a three-quarter wife
take LYDIA E. PINKHAM’S
VEGET ABLE COMPOU N D and
Go ‘Smiling Through."
“ use the
BABY POWDER
ANTISEPTIC
mu Don’t be satisfied with ordinary
baby powders that are notanti- |
septic. Without paying a cent 1
more you can get Mennen Anti-
septic Powder—w hich not only
doeseverything that other baby |
powders do, but also sets up an
antiseptic condition all over !
baby’s skin and fights off germs
and infections. It stops chafing
and rawness, too So get a tin of
Mennen Antiseptic Powder at
your druggist's today.
MENNEN Antiseptic POWDER
*****
WS
The Sulphur Industry
is one of Texas’ many outstanding assets. Three mines
produce practically all of the nation’s supply
Ikan
Sulphur Is Industry’s Most
Essential Commodity
BepPla
Its presence in Texas, therefore, constitutes one of the
state's most attractive inducements to the develop-
ment of industry within its borders.
Dail’s
TEXAS GULF SULPHUR COMPANY
“The world’s largest producer of crude sulphur”
Mines
GULF HEADQUARTERS
Matagorda County Second National Bank Building
Texas Houston, Texas
NEWGULF
Wharton County
Texas
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 25, 1937, newspaper, February 25, 1937; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1696592/m1/2/?q=%22Business%2C+Economics+and+Finance+-+Communications+-+Newspapers%22: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.