Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 14, 1930 Page: 3 of 4
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W. C. ROUNTREE, M. D.
PELLAGRA A SPECIALTY
If you have many of the following
■yniptorai, I have the remedy, no mat-
ter what your trouble has been diag-
nosed: Nervousness, stomach trouble,
loss of weight, losg of sleep, sore mouth,
hurtiug in back of head, shoulders or
back, peculiar swimming in head,
frothy-like phlegm in throat, passing
of mucous from the bowels (especially
after taking purgative), burning feet,
yellow or brown skin, burning or itch-
ing skin, rash on hands, face and arms
resembling sunburn, chronic constipa-
tion, (sometimes alternating with di-
arrhoea), copper or metallic taste.skin
sensitive to sun heat, forgetfulness,
despondency, thoughts that you might
lose your mind, gums red and falling
away from the teeth, general weakness,
Iosb of energy, and look older than you
are. If you have many of these symp-
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Dept. 68-A
June Building In
Texas Over Double
That of June, 1929
June building figureu in Texas are
a source of economic comfort, for yiot
only were they ahead of the total for
May, but nearly twice that of June,
1929. According to figures from the
P. W. Dodge Corporation contaerts
for new construction let in June of
this year totaled $28,692,200 as com-
pared with $14,368,300 for May and
$13,822,000 for June of last year.
That the improvement has been
steady is seen in the further fact that
contracts let in Texas for the first
six months of this year aggregated
$124,903,000 as compared with $112,'
835,800 for the first six months of
1929.
i Texas utility companies are coming
fully up to their $70,000,000 program
for Texas improvements this year, and
the bulk of thes.e improvements are
not included in the building figures.
Making Trip Around
The World in Four-
Year-Old Chevrolet
RUMMAGE SALE
I
I The cogregaion of a Long Island
church read his announcemen in the
; weekly bulletin: "The ladies of this
church have cast off clothing of all
kinds. They may be seen in the base-
ment of the church any afternoon this
week."
Austin, Texas Patronize BEACON Advertisers
C!
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HEW WASH DRESSES
—IN THE LATEST STYLE—
Men's Dress Pants—Shirts—Work Clothes
STETSON and Other HATS
SHOES—For Men, Women and Children
"STAR BRAND SHOES ARE BETTER"
—"FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY"—
The clop-clop of wooden shoes ming-
led with the purr of multiple cylinder-
ed engines during the recent visit
here, at Chevrolet Motor Company-
headquarters, of Jan Hoppe with his
wife and two small children, natives
of the Netherlands now on a globe-
circling tour.
The Hoppe family presented a
strange picture of contrasts. Where
all the world is style conscioue, the
Hoppes are traveling in a fourlyear
old car and arc dressed in native cos-
tume, even to wooden shoes and the
peaked white turban of the wife and
daughter. And while aviators are
planning to lower the record for round
the world trips, the Hoppe family ex-
pect to spend five years on the tour.
The small island of Marken, in the
Zuider Zee, was the Hoppe home until
last December. They came first to
America, landing at Florida, and there
purchased a 19113 Chevrolet sedan to
use in seeing America. Despite a com-
bined luggage and passenger weight
of nearly a ton, the four-year old car
brought them on to Detroit without
mishap, where one of Mr. Hoppe's first
concerns was to have Chevrolet ser-
vice experts check the car to determine
whether it could be relied on to give
satisfactory service during the two
years they plan to spend in America.
When a check revealed the car in sat-
isfactory shape, Hr. Hoppe decided to
acquire a trailer for the luggage and
proceed with the car on his journey.
In answer to skeptics, who doubted
his ability to drive with wooden shoes,
Mr. Hoppe climbed into the car, and
drove it over the curb onto the side-
walk in front of the Chevrolet offices
with the skill of a veteran at the
wheel.
The Hoppes plan partially to work
their way around the world. He sings
over the radio, Mrs. Hoppe sells novel-
ties, and the family where possible
obtain short-term employment in line
with Mr. Hoppe's native training as a
restauranteur.
Mr. Hoppe states that if the child-
ren show any ill-effects of the trip,
he will immediately call it off and re-
turn to his home. So far, except for
quarantine for diphtheria last win-
ter, the children, Hans and Greitje,
have been having the time of their
lives.
H. J. R. No. 11
PROPOSING A CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENT TO BE VOTED
ON NOVEMBER 4 1930
Be it resolved by the State of Tex-
as:
Section 1. That Article VII of the
Constitution of the State of Texas be
amended by adding thereto Section
16, which shall read as follows:
"Section 16. All and mentioned in
NEED OF BETTER
USAGE OF LOCAL
HIGHWAY FUNDS
TOO FREQUENTLY ROAD MONEY
IS SPENT ON TOO MANY
LOCAL ROADS
H. Paul Janes Writes
An Interesting Letter
to Readers of Beacon
Atlas Cement Co.
Will Eliminate 12-
Hour Working Day
By E. E. Duffy
Although nearly every state in the
Sections 11, 12 and 15 of Article VII, Union has a highly efficient state high-
of the Constitution of the State of way department, nearly half of all
Texas, now belonging to the Uni- roa^ mon®y is spent through counties
verstity of Texas shall be subject to townships for the improvement of lo-
taxation for county purposes to the ca' roa<ls.
same extent as lands privately owned:! Two things are indicated by this sit- ...
provided they shall be rendered for uation: Strictly local or farm-to-mar- j d!l 8'ver lsemi nt (l',aw n0„ "ng a^°
taxation upon values fixed by the ket roads are getting their share orj" elmg 2 acre lanc 68 or sa e"
State Tax Board; and providing that more than their share of financial at- ^ ^ew Worker once asked me "why
the State shall remit annually to each tention; and local communities, charg-i's over % the bank presidents
of the counties in which said lands are ed with the spending of two-thirds 'n ^ew York were born in Texas?"
located an amount equal to the tax of a billion dollars annually, should j That s a hard question to answer to a
imposed upon said land for county protect their citizens by guiding them- j New Yorker. To a lexan its easy.
Philadelphia, Pa., July 28.
Dear Beacon Friends:—
I've waited long enough — you've
been kind enough to asck me to write
something for the paper so here goes.
Your splendid article by Wm. A.
Black in a recent issue reminds me of
te fact that the conceptions of an
Eastern man regarding space and
time are so different to a Texan's
view. His bit of quoted verse on
"Three Acres'' brings vividly to mind
purposes.
Section 2. The foregoing Constitu-
tional amendment shall be submitted
to the qualified electors of the State
at the next general election to be held
throughout the State on the first
Tuesday after the first Monday in
Nove7Hber, 1930.
(A correct copy.)
JANE Y. McCALLUM,
Secretary of State.
S. J. R. No. 2
PROPOSING A CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENT TO BE VOTED
ON NOVEMBER 4, 1930
"Only a small fraction of the girls
in our country are working girls.
Most of them are working men."
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PALACIOS, TEXAS
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Be It Resolved by the Legislature
of the State of Texas, that Art. V of
the Constitution of Texas shall be
amended by adding a new section to
be known as Section 3a, to read as
follows:
"Section 3a. The Supreme Court
may sit at any time during the year
at the seat of government for the
transaction of business and each
term thereof shall begin and end with
each calendar year."
Section 2. That Section 3 of Art.
V of the Constitution of Texas shall
be amended by repealing the sentence
of said section which reads: "Thq
Supreme Court shall sit for the tran-
saction of business from the first
Monday of October in each year un-
til the last Saturday in June of the
next year, inclusive, at the Capitol
of the State."
Section 3. If the Constitution shall
not have been previously amended so
as to provide that the Supreme Court
shall be open at all times, then, in
that event the foregoing Constitu-
tional amendment shall be submitted
to vote of the qualified electors of
this State, at an election to be held
on the first Tuesday after the first
Monday in November, A. D. 1930.
(A correct copy.)
JANE Y. McCALLUM,
Secretary of State.
S. J. R. No. 7
PROPOSING A CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENT TO BE VOTED
ON NOVEMBER 4, 1930
Be it resolved by the Legislature of
the State of Texas:
Section 1. That Section 11 of Arti-
cle VII of the Constitution of the
State of Texas be amended so as to
read as follows:
Section 11. In order to enable the
Legislature to perform the duties set
forth in the foregoing section, it is
hereby declared all lands and other
property heretofore set apart and ap-
propriated for the stablishment and
mainteance of the University of Texas,
together with all the proceeds of sales
of the same, heretofore made or here-
after to be made, and all grants, do-
nations and appropriations that may
hereafter be made by the State of
Texas, or from any other source, shall
constitute and become a permanent
universtity fund. And the same as
realized and received into the Treas-
ury of the State (together with such
sums belonging to the fund, as may
now be in the Treasury), shall be in-
vested in bonds of the United States,
the State of Texas, or counties of said
State, or in school bonds of munici-
palities, or in bonds of any city of
this State, or in obligations and
pledges issued by the Board of Re-
gents of the University of Texas, or
secured by such obligations and
pledges, for the construction of dor-
mitories and other buildings for the
use of the University of Texas, or
in bonds issued under and by virtue
of the Federal Farm Loan Act ap-
proved by the President of the United
States, July 17, 1916, and amendments
thereto; and the interest accruing
thereon shall be subject to appropria-
tion by the Legislature to accomplish
the purpose declared in the forego-
ing section; provided, that the one-
tenth of the alternate sections of the
lands granted to railroads, reserved
by the State, which were set apart
and appropriated to the establishment
of the University of Texas, by an
Act of the Legislature of February
11, 1858, entitled, "An Act to estab-
lish 'the University of Texas,' shall
not be included in, or constitute a part
of, the permanent university fund."
Sec. 2. Said proposed amendment
shall be voted on by the electors of
this State qualified to vote on con-
stitutional amendments at an elec-
tion to be held throughout the State
on the first Tuesday after the first
Monday in November, 1930.
(A correct copy.)
JANE Y. McCALLUM,
Secretary of State.
selves by the activities of the more 1 told him that there were at least
efficient state highway departments, three things entering into it:—
No one would care to estimate how! (1> Manhattan Island looks like a
much money is poorly spent through i back Pasture "catch-all" to a Texan
local roadbuilding agencies. Counties ™its b'Kness doesn't astonish him—his
and townships of limited resource^ f,rst (luest'on it. "is that New York ?"
cannot provide themselves with eitiher jin a "brinK in y°ur bi« town" style,
the best equipment or men. Their) (2) After being in New York a
road funds, so they say, must be j while he begins to wonder why people
spread over too many miles of high j allow themselves to be herded and
ways to permit of permanent con-1 driven about like cattle—he soon
struction. I learns to crack his own whip.
Here is where one of the great j (3) Unlimited horizons and almost
problems in local roadbuilding enters. I unlimited perspective developed thru
Oftentimes circumstances or politics j his experience with big things makes
prevent those in charge of roadbuild- j an ideal man to think in terms
ing from concentrating money on one j of. see visions of and develope plans
or two important local roads, but j for business on a scale that a man
rather compel the spreading out of the j whose experience is limited to the
income over all the roads in the com- crowded and stifled streets of a city
is incapable of.
Its strange how an Eastern man
with no outside experience does value
little Worthless things. I know that
is supposed to be good little business
but its bad big business.
Rockefeller once said: "The only
things that come to the man who
waits are the caste-ofT things of some-
body else.'' A Texan is a hustler and
delivers the goods.
Next Sunday I have the privilege
of representing the millions of Texans
by speaking on Texas Day at Valley
Forge. There will be many Texans
present. The biggest bell in the car-
rillon will be the Texas bell. I wish
you could hear it ring as I will.
Many people here in the East have
the "Nazareth" Complex about any-
thing not Eastern. They think it im-
possible for anything big to come out
of any other place than New York
and environs. Like the man I men-
tioned earlier, when they discover that
the big people, by and large, in their
own cities are from elsewhere they
want to know why.
Last year I delivered the Texas
Day address. When I had finished a
gushing old lady came back to the
study ai'd grasped my hand and said:
"I have never heard the English lan-
guage used betta" and then asked:
Who on earth rote your speech for
you?"
When this is printed the address
this year will already have been deliv-
ered—I trust that Texans will be
proud of it. If my Beacon friends
desire it, I will send you a copy.
With best regards,
H. Pal Janes.
munity, regardless of their import-
ance.
In the township and county, as in
the state, the most used roads should
be improved first. If at all possible
they should be hard surfaced, for this
gives year-round service with a neg-
ligible upke n cost. These main lo-
cal roads, perhaps leading into the
chief markets, serve the most traffic,
the logical aim of any well planned
program. Then, after they have been
improved, attention can be directed
to feeder roads.
For the most part, the larger the
roadbuilding agency the greater the
efficiency and the better the value
received by taxpayers. In some in-
stances, counties have grouped them-
selves in road districts. By concen-
trating their funds on the most trav-
eled roads, through the larger road
body, they have, at no greater cost,
speeded up construction and laid more
hard surfaced pavements.
Cameron County, Texas, Vermillion
and Champaign counties, 111., Kent
County, Md., and many others have
discovered that the road problem will
remain a problem so long as tempor-
ary road surfaces are permitted. These
counties have capitalized on their
yearly incomes by issuing bonds well
within their resources. Pavements
were built at once with this bond is-
sue money and now, instead of putting
money into mud holes and ruts, they
are retiring bonds—they're surprised
that the rest of the world isn't doing
the same, for they have found it
cheaper and more satisfactory.
Electricity Will Solve
Farm Home Problems
Mrs. R. M. Brown, rural home ex-
pert, in a recent address enumerated
five home problems for which elec-
tricity furnished a solution, mention-
ing these:
1. They shorten her hours of labor.
The average work-day for farm wo-
men is 11.6 hours, and 87 per cent of
farm women have no vacations at all.
Electric lights alone will give her two
days' vacation a year as the result of
time saved by not having to care for
lamps. Laundry and other equipment
can cut her work-day to 8 hours.
2. Electricity reduces the manual
labor otherwise necessary and so in-
creases her wealth and well-being.
3. Electric service gives the home
more beauty and comfort by the use
of electric lights, the radio and num-
erous other appliances.
4. Health is safeguarded by elec-
tric refrigerators and similar equip-
ment, all of which bring the country
family to the physical par of the city
dweller.
5. Electric service enables the farm
wife to make money. Many women are
now operating hatcheries, poultry
ranches and similar industries who
could not do this otherwise.
SHE HAD HER PREFERENCE
A chap was rattling along a eoun-
try road in his flivver when he over-
took a girl who was crying. He stop-
ped and asked if he could help her.
"Yes," she said, "please give me a
lift. I was in a Lincoln car with a man
and he tried to force me to kiss him
and I wouldn't, and he told me to get
out and walk."
"All right jump in," said the stran-
ger. The girl sat in the rear seat and
the car bumped and jerked along. Fin-
ally she could stand it no longer, and
leaning over, tapped her benefactor
on the shoulder. "I'm sorry, but you'll
have to let me out,' she said. 'I'd rath-
er be kissed in a Lincoln than shaken
to pieces in a Ford."--Buffalo Blade.
"Tommy, can ou tell me one of the
uses of cowhide?"
"Er, yes, sir. It keeps the cow to-
gether."
A final elimination of the twelve-
hour working day, involving shorter
hours for men on that schedule »nd
giving employment to others, is being
worked out this week by the Universal
Atlas Cement Company, at Waco, Tex.,
according to C. A. Wallerstedt, plant
superintendent. ,
| The Wuco mill, built last year by
the Atlas company, came under United
States Steel Corporation rules thru
its merger in January with the Uni-
versal company, a Steel Corporation
subsidiary. One of these rules is that
no man may work more than ten hours
per day or more than six consecu-
tive days.
Formerly men employed in the
grinding departments for rock, coal
and clinker, and in the burning de-
partment, were working more than
ten hours, most of them twelve hours.
Substitution of an eight-hour basis
will be completed by August 1, said
Mr. Wallerstedt. Shop employees,
whose "day" is ten hours, were not
affected.
The Waco plant has a production
capacity of 2500 barrels of cement
per day. As cement making is a con-
tinuous process which keeps the kilns
burning 24 hours a day, three shifts
are needed.
A similar adjustment is being work-
ed out at the Universal Atlas mill at
Leeds, Alabama. This will place all
company plants on the- same working-
hour basis.
COTTON FIELD SOLVES
UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM
Ancient Autos Cause
Many Motor Accidents
Finding that ancient motor cars, in
all sorts of physical decrepitude, are
responsible for 15 per cent of the 33,-
060 fatal motor accidents in 1929, the
National Conference on Street and
Highway Safety has recommended rig-
id inspection requirements of old cars
before licenses will be issued. Need
for periodic inspection of all automo-
biles as to the condition of brakes,
lights, steering gear and other me-
chanical parts is stressed.
Customer—"I'd like a nice birth-
day present for my little boy which
won't make too much noise. He likes
something to blow."
Clerk:—"How about a handker-
chief?"
Texas' great cotton fields despite
the fact that the staple is selling at
low levels, are solving the unemploy-
ment problem of the state.
Cotton pickers' wages are by no
means princely, but they are sizeable
enough to keep the wolf from the
door of anyone who doesn't enjoy the
companionship of the grim beast.
This type of employment is, of
course, temporary. On the other hand,
when the cotton is picked, employ-
ment increases in other lines. Rail-
road crews will be expanded to carry
the cotton to the markets; longshore-
men will become busy storing it in
ships; classers, buyers, ginners, com-
pressmen—all of them roll up their
sleeves and go to work.
King Cotton still possesses the mag-
ic touch which releases the stream of
gold—a stream which inundates the
whole South. And by the time this sea-
sonable activity ceases, unless our
economists are as far from the truth
as they have sometimes been, the full
tide of prosperity will have returned
to the land.
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