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PALACIOS BEACON. PALACIOS, TEXAS
Thursday, August 18. 1935
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MRS. J. W. DISMUKES & SONS
Editor and Publishers
Entered at the Post Offlc at Paia-
closi Texas, as second class mail
matter, under the Act of Congress.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
In Matagorda County:—
Six Months, .$1.00; 1 Year $1.75
Outside Matagorda County:—
Six Months, $1.25; 1 Year $2.00
HEALTH NOTES
Austin.—"Thirty-five years ago,
a German scientist produced a deri-
vative of barbituric acid possessing
hypnotic qualities. For years it was
considered as non-habit forming
and harmless, and the type of drug
was sold freely over the counter
without a doctor's prescription.
But more recently the medical pro-
fession has realized that barbitur-
ates such as allonal, amytol, lumi-
nal, vironal, neonal et cetra are far
from harmless and definitely habit
forming when used indiscriminate-
ly," warns Dr. Geo. W. Cox, State
Health Officer.
"It is true that these slumber-
producing drugs play an important
part, in certain insomnia conditions,
as well as in the promotion of sleep
when pain makes it impossible to
obtain it otherwise. However, it is
one thing to have this type of drug
prescribed by a physician and ad-
ministered under his supervision
and quite another to employ it
regularly without professional
sanction.
"It cannot be too strongly stateu
that the prolonged use of these
Sleep-inducers can produce serious
reactions including skin affections,
impairment of speech and gait,
paralysis of the eye muscles, and
in extreme cases have been known
to cause death. Plainly, any drug
that, possesses such possibilities
should not be self-administered by
the general public.
"Moreover, it should be under-
stood that insomnia is a symptom
of an underlying condition which
may be due to any one of a variety
of psychological or mental causes.
The absurdity of habitual self-ad-
ministration of any hypnotic to re-
move insomnia becomes apparent.
"Consequently, if the temptation
arises to use a sleep-producing
drug on the say-so of a friend, it
should be avoided. And if already
relying on sleep-producing medicia-
tion, the brakes should be applied
at once with the assistance of your
family physician," Dr. Cox further
advised.
"To quote a recent author on this
subject: 'The only safe rule regard-
ing sleeping pills or potions is to
realize that if anything of that
kind is needed, one definitely needs
a physician's advice first.
Buy from those who advertise.
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NOBODY'S BUSINESS
By JULIAN CAPERS, Jr.
Austin.—Striving desperately, to
guage the effect of W. Lee O'Dan-
iel's precedent-shattering action in
endorsing a slate of six candidates
for State offices in the August run-
off primary, political headquarters
and political managers here this
week-end presented a scene of in-
describable confusion.
The first flush of joyful enthus-
iasm which pervaded the camps of
the O'Danicls blessed candidates
cooled rapidly, as hasty surveys in
every section of the state brought
in a wide variety of reports on the
situation.
The first axiom in the lexicon of
the politician is "Don't mess with
the other guy's race." O'Daniel
wiped that admonition off the slate
as calmly as he disregarded all the
rules of campaigning in the first
primary, and called for his over
half million supporters to elect
Walter Woodul, Judge C. V. Ter-
vell, Coke Stevenson, Bascom Giles,
and Judge Richard Critz and Harry
Graves. He said he needed these
men to assure the "business admin-
istration" that the voters asked
for. For a few hours, the blessed
candidates and their workers seem-
ed to think their races were "in
the bag." Then the squawks began
filtering in. Estimates of O'Dan-
iel's action ranged all the way from
a "courageous non-political act" to
"a double-cross." Supporters of
Gerald Mann and Jerry Sadler, op-
ponents of Woodul and Terrell
were loudest in their protests. It
became very obvious, very quickly,
that O'Daniel would not lead all
of his half million supporters into
the camps of the endorsed group.
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Allred's Hand Seen
O'Daniel spent a week in Galves-
ton as the guest of Maco Stewart,
insurance executive and political
power on the island. Stewart is
closely allied with Tom Holbrook,
lame-duck State senator from Gal-
veston. Then the governor-elect
visited in Austin with Gov. Allred
Holbrook is reported here to have
drafted the endorsements which
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radio talk. Allred is the enthusias-
tic backer of some of the endorsed
candidates, including Woodul, Ter-
rell, Giles, and the two judges.
Political circles here buzzed with
the report that Allred and Stewart
(the latter acting through Hol-
brook) were responsible. The story
that the endorsements were forth-
coming was freely told in Austin
hotel corridors two days before the
speech, and Holbrook privately told
the story to his friends, soon after
the Mansion conference with
O'Daniel and Allred.
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Candidates Still Wonder
Both the endorsed candidates and
those left on the doorstep were
wondering what the effect will be.
Concensus of belief was that
O'Daniel would recruit some votes
for the blessed slate, but there was
much doubt expressed here as to
whether he would be able to carry
the whole ticket. But O'Daniel has
upset the established rules of poli-
tical campaigning so consistently
and with such success that few ob-
servers here were willing to make
any forecast as to the outcome of
anything he has done. At the week-
end O'Daniel was reported here to
have admitted protests he had re-
ceived out-numbered commendatory
messages about two to one. Poli-
ticians here universally agreed the
endorsement will bring out a high
vote in the runoff primary, when
a light vote had been anticipated
previously.
* * *
Flood Probe Drags
A boom for Sen. Albert Stone,
of Brenham, to make the i-ace for
congress two years hence against
Lyndon Johnson, was one political
development in the wake of the
lower Colorado river flood this
week. Stone was non-eommital, and
two years is a long time for the
voters to stay mad, even if they
wei'e washed out by floods.
The Senate investigating com-
mittee, which is delving into
charges that improper operation of
Buchanan Lake aggravated the
June flood, halted its inquiry after
two days of testimony, in which a
direct conflict of engineering opin-
ion developed—the Colorado River
Authority engineers contending
there was no improper operation,
md Dean Taylor of Texas Univer-
sity engineering school taking the
opposite view. The probe is to re-
sume when engineering data said
to be needed to determine the facts
about the flood, is assembled this
week. Meanwhile, the Department
of the Interior, which sent an in-
vestigator to the scene, made pub-
lic his report, exonerating the
Authority management, and causti-
cally charging that a "flood of
propaganda" had been stirred up
among the washed-out valley farm-
ers by persons opposed to the Fed-
eral power development program.
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Austin Notes
The University of Texas will
open its long session next month
without a permanent president,
members of the Board of Regents
said after a meeting here this
week. Dr. J. W. Calhoun, comptrol-
ler, is acting p resident. . . . The
long-standing political feud be-
tween Gov. Allred and Rep. Martin
Dies broke out again when Dies
announced in Washington that he
will appear before the Senate judi-
ciary committee in January and op-
pose confirmation of Allred as Fed-
eral Judge for South Texas. The
bitterness between Allred and Dies
flared up two years ago when
Clyde Smith ran against Dies for
Congress, and Dies claimed Smith,
assistant Secretary of State dur-
ing Allred's first administration,
was put into the race against him
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THIS WEEK
IN l'ALACIOS HISTORY
FROM OUR EARLY FILES
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Miss Dessie Sullivan was elect-
ed as a teacher in the primary
grades, at a meeting of the Pala-
cios school board.
Nelson Slaikeu died at the home
of his son, L. J. Slaikeu at Caran-
cahua.
Over 700 bales of cotton had been
ginned by the Palacios gins.
15 YEARS AGO
Joe Edward, weight 10 pounds,
arrived at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. John Richards.
The summer session of Camp
Palomar closed with a number of
events, among them a trip to the
gulf, a picnic on the Carancahua
and track meet all of which were
enjoyed by the students.
The address made by Captain F.
B. Chilton at the memorial services
held for the late President Harding
was printed in full, copy of which
was sent to Mrs. Harding at Mar-
ion, Ohio.
by the Governor. Inasmuch as the
Allred appointment was arranged
by Senators Morris Sheppard, and
Tom Connally, and Vice President
John Garner, Dies' protest—if he
goes through with it—isn't expect-
ed to carry much weight. . . Capi-
tol employes were wondering after
the O'Daniel endorsements, if the
unreserved commitments made by
the endorsed group might mean that
they will be forced to let O'Daniel
dictate the patronage in these four
extensive State departments, if the
endorsed slate wins. The Attorney
General, Railroad Commission, and
Land Office control a good many
hundred fat jobs, and the Lieuten-
ant Governor also has some pa-
tronage. Should O'Daniel seek to
curtail employes to save expense,
many employes feel, the endorsed
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candidates, if they are elected, t ceedure. Usually, bitter debate
might have to stand for substantial t rages for weeks, and then the re-
reduction of personnel in these de- form bills die in committee
partments. . . O'Daniel'« announce
ment that he will seek to speed up
court proceedure was another dem-
onstration of either courage or ig-
norance. No question ever comes
before the Legislature that causes
more strife. Most of the solons are
lawyers, and each has a different
idea about reforming court pro-
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