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PALACIOS BEACON, PALACIOS, TEXAS
irsday, June 15, 1939
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Publishcd Every Thursday
Editor - - Mrs. J. W. Dismukes
Asso. Editor - Jesse V. Dismukes
Business Mgr. - Hugh J. Dismukes
Entered at the Post Office at Pala-
•cios, Texas, as second class mail
matter, under the Act of Congress.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
1n Matagorda County:—
Six Months, $1.00; 1 Year $1.75
'Outside Matagorda County:—
Six Months, $1.25; 1 Year $2.00
HEALTH NOTES
Austin, Texas.—"No elaborate
equipment is needed to save a life
from drowning," is the opinion of
State Health Department officials.
"In fact, actual harm has been done
by the misuse of so-called lung
motors. Modern resuscitation ap-
paratus has been perfected so that
oxygen and carbon dioxide can be
used without inflicting more dam-
age to cases of asphyxiation and
drowning. It is tragic enough to
have a drowning accident, but it is
far more tragic if no one present
at the time knows how to save a
life by artificial respiration.
"The prompt application of arti-
ficial respiration is of primary im-
portance, and for this purpose the
prone pressure method is the eas-
iest ,simplest and most effective.
This should begin at once and con-
tinue rhythmically until natural
breathing is established—this may
take four or more hours. Proced-
ure :
First: Kneel, and straddle the
patient below the hips placing
hands on small of the back with
fingers over the lowest libs, tips
of fingers just out of sight.
Second: With arms straight,
while counting one, two, swing for-
ward bearing weight on body firm-
Jy but not violently.
Third: Swing backbard while
counting one, straightening up and
thus relieving pressure—this al-
lows air to be drawn into the lungs.
Fourth :Rest in this position for
two counts.
Fifth: Repeat these movements
rhythmically, forward and back-
ward, without interruption, about
twelve to fifteen a minute, until
breathing is restored.
Sixth: Meanwhile, if assistance
is at hand, a physician should be
sent for, the patient's tight cloth-
ing should be loosened at neck,
chest, waist and he should be kept
warm.
WHO GAVE HIM THE SAW?
NOBODY'S BUSINESS
By JULIAN CAPERS. Jr.
closer this weekend to having a 2
percent sales tax submitted to the
voters as a constitutional amend-
ment than they have been at any
time this session. The sales tax con-
stitutional amendment, called up
last week for what many had be-
lieved to be a final test in the
House of Representatives, fell nine
votes short, and went down to its
fifth House defeat, 91 to 56. But
the gain registered by proponents
of the measure, sponsored by Gov.
W. Lee O'Daniel, and backed by a
heavy majority of the special in-
terest lobby, was encouraging
enough to induce them to lay plans
for still another test in the House,
due for this week.
The division is so close that no
man can say for certain how it will
come out. The head of the special
interest lobby, who has been di-
recting the unprecedented pressure
drive for many, many weeks, pro-
fessed confidence that the neces-
sary nine votes would be picked up
„ . , ,, , i on the next test. It seems reason-
' -Ttarpat.ent should not be moved) aW certain thut the next test will
until he is breathing normally andj he the ]agf orc Th„ Lcgislatui.e ;s
Austin.—Texas taxpayers werel sales tax thus far, showed its re-
then snould not be allowed to get
up but should be carried in a lying
position to a place where he can
be kept warm and receive medical
attention.
sufrawit
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The More Folks You Tell
The More Goods You Sell
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about ready to pass the appropria-
tion bills and go home. If the sales
tax amendment is adopted, there
will be no need for remaining long
er in session. If it fails again, it
is probably that a majority of the
House see no chance of enacting
tax legislation at this session and
will be just as ready to go home.
The Senate has definitely indicated,
by its arrogant refusal to consider
statuatory tax measures, that it is
committed to a policy of the sales
tax frozen into the Constitution, or
nothing. House members joint to
their record of having passed two
statuatory tax bills, both killed
summarily by the Senate, as a suf-
ficient alibi, if no pension-paying
revenue is enacted. Leaders of the
anti-sales tax bloc in the House de-
clare their ranks will hold on the
next test, as they have on previous
ones.
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House Resents Pressure
The House which has blocked the
YOUR SILENT WITNESS
One of the greatest advantages of a personal
checking account is the part played by a cancelled
check. Once charged to your account by the
bank, it is returned to you as a receipt and legal
evidence of payment. It remains in your posses-
sion as a constant and irrefutable, silent witness
that a certain bill was paid on a certain date.
THE
FIRST NATIONAL
BANK
BAY CITY, TEXAS
sentment at the continued and tre-
mendous pressure to which it has
been subjected, when it cast 99
votes in favor of a resolution by
Bryan Bradbury, of Abilene, called
for a joint House-Senate investiga-
tion of the lobbying for the sales
tax. The Senate, which wants no
undue publicity upon the interests
which are backing the stand which
it and the Governor have taken in
favor of the sales tax, quickly kill-
ed the resolution by pigeon-holding
it in a committee.
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Thompson Gets on Record
Political outcroppings on the
sales tax issue, which will flare
immediately when the time comes
for opening next year's state cam-
paigns, continued throughout the
week. Col. Ernest O. Thompson,
Kail Commissioner and runner-up
to W. Lee O'Daniel for governor
last year, got on record with a
statement condemning the freezing
of a sales tax into the constitution
"Taxes ought to be statuatory,"
Thompson said. "And when folks
begin to vote themselves bounties,
it means trouble ahead. Almost
everybody will vote himself some-
thing if he thinks he will come out
ahead. About a year from now, I
might have something to say about
politics " Thompson is regarded as
a certain candidate against O'Dan-
iel and the sales tax issue will un-
doubtedly be the leading bone of
contention in the race.
Meanwhile, an incipent guberna-
torial boom was reported by the po-
litical gossips for Joe Hill, Sena-
tor from Henderson. Hill has been
the strongest opponent in the Sen-
ate of the sales tax program, and
he had denounced O'Daniel from
the Senate floor on numerous oc-
casions, with a bitterness seldom
heard in that forum.
Other political rumors were
heard this week to the effect that
O'Daniel, if the Federal govern-
ment should cut off grants to Tex-
as pensioners, under the liberalized
pension law, might take the field
against U. S. Senator Tom Con-
nally, up for re-election next year.
Maury Maverick, the extremist
New Deal ex-congressman, recent-
ly elected Mayor of San Antonio,
was also rumored as a possible op-
ponent for Connally. Maverick has
been making anti-Garner speeches
for several weeks.
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Loan Shark Decision
The State of Texas is without
power to restrain loan sharks from
charging usurious interest by in-
junction, the Supreme Court, in an
opinion written by Justice Richard
Critz held last week. Attorney Gen-
era). Mann, who joined the injunc-
tion suit brought by County offic-
ials in Travis county against 19
Austin loan concerns, declared the
only relief now is action by the leg-
islature. Mann, however, held re-
cently in an opinion, that a bill
proposed by Mason Harrell and
others, designed to legalize reason-
able interest and service charges
for small loans, intended to curb
400 percent loan sharks, was un-
constitutional. So it seems the loan
sharks will continue to operate un-
molested in Texas for another two
years, at least.
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Road Bond Bill Passes
The Senate finally passed the
road bond assumption bill, but it
was a far different measure from
the monstrosity originally sponsor-
ed by the Texas County Judges As-
sociation, which sought to put the
State's guarantee behind nearly
$200,000,000 of "dead horse" coun-
ty lateral road bonds. The Senate
amended and dapotcd the Tar-wa-
ter house substitute, which distrib-
ute the surplus in. the bond retire-
By PIERCE BROOKS
I hate taxes. And so do most
people. And there's a reason. So
many of them, like freight rates,
are discriminatory; are used to
keep up a favored political group;
are invested in senseless activities
and enterprises, and are mounting
year by year.
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Fellow Texans, did you know that
because of the debts incurred by
National, State and local govern-
ments that every man, woman and
child of this Nation's 130,215,000
inhabitants is in debt to the tune of
$460. You, each and everyone of
you, your wives, your children,
down to the habe born this very
hour, your fellow Texans every-
where in this great state, more
than 6,000,000 of them—each and
everyone, aged and new born, idle
and employed, rich and destitute
alike, because of debts incurred by
National, State and local govern-
ments, you owe to the money lend-
ers $460 and probably more .
* m *
Moreover, that debt is forever
growing greater, grows more in-
sufferable, sinks each and everyone
of you deeper into perilous quick-
sands from which none but the fav-
ored classes can hope to escape,
destined to engulf our democracy
unless intelligent direction be giv-
en in all public offices and depart-
ments of government.
This $460 debt is not just a fig-
ment of the imagination. You and
your loved ones are not exempt
from this indebtedness. Day in and
day out you are paying, not the
debt itself, but the penalty, the
pound of flesh, the interest to the
money changers to whom your
governments have put you and your
children in hock. You pay in every
tax, in every purchase of the very
necessities of life, in every trans-
action involving money.
* * *
Despite all this there is not
enough meat and potatoes on the
kitchen tables of our revered old
folk; despite the fact that more
than 43,000,000 people are on the
pay roll of Uncle Sam thousands
of able bodied Texans are jobless;
despite the fact that we boast of
our educational system and encour-
age our youth to prepare them-
selves in the school room multiplied
thousands of our young men and
young women, who have just com-
pleted their courses of study in high
school, college and university, will
this month leave their campuses
seeking the aid of a friend whom
they cannot seem to find and hunt-
ing for work which there seems to
be none of.
» * *
Can we wonder that our Demo-
cratic Party leaders are looking
ahead, knowing that, after all is
said and done, after the battle has
been fought and attacks have been
made from all sides, from Republi-
cans, other parties and from foes
of the American system of govern-
ment—after all the Democr J;ic
Party is the friend of the masses,
the people's party, and may be re-
lie# upon to steer the Ship of State
clear of shoals of Anarch and Reefs
of Communism, Dictatorship and
tyranny. Vice President Garner, a
native Texan to the manner born,
is being looked to in the crisis and
counted upon by many in the na-
tion to carry the Presidential
standard in the next campaign,
knowing him to be just the kind
of a leader needed Now.
THE POCKETBOOK
o/ KNOWLEDGE
B/
TOPPS
it is estimated that government in
this country will tax at the bath
of *26/600 a minute and spend
at the rate of *36,ISO during
1939.
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according to experiments
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treasury for
repemption
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oriqinatbd in medieval times when a bit op
TOAST was dropped in the 60biets, in the belief
that it added flavor to the beverage -
op the economic
activity in this country
is carried on by
individuals and personal
partnerships.
hook-up. That pays only for time.
The talent has to be paid, too.
The radio pay schedule is compli-
cated. For example, the night rate
on the NBC basic radio network
which Chase & Sanborn use in $8,-
400 an hour, but various supple-
mentary groups are available such
as the Canadian group, $520;
radios and soap, but hardly any lay ,Southeastern group, $1,000; South
person knows anything about ^the j Qen^ra] group, $1,400; Southwest-
ern group, $1,320, etc.
Big time advertising, whether
newspaper, magazine or radio, is
no game for timid or pinch-penny
people.
What Do You Pay
For Advertising?
Newspapers supply readers with
news about the receipts at public
events such as prize fights and
world series, and the public is price-
conscious about automobiles and
ment fund to counties, but an a
formula involving road mileage,
population, motor car licenses and
area, rather than on the basis of
the amount of bond debt owed.
Since the bill seeks to put the
State's credit behind lateral road
bonds, with which the State has no
concern, many legal authorities be-
lieve it is unconstitutional, and it
is regarded as virtually certain to
face a court test, as soon as it is
finally enacted, through acceptance
by the House of Senate amend-
ments, or by adoption of a con-
ference committee report.
prices paid for the advertising that
^1 of us read and hear.
We intend to supply some of this
information.
When you leaf through the first
section of your Sunday New York.
Times, please be advised that each CHIGGER CONTROL
page of advertising that you read j
or don't read cost somebody $2,980.1 Picnic goers and lovers of the
If you read the New York Daily ea*- outdoors may be interested
News on Sunday, which has a cir-.^° know that the entomologists of
| THIS WEEK
\ IN PALACIOS HISTORY
| FROM OUR EARLY FILES
10 YEARS AGO
C. O. Oakley, son of Mr. and
Mrs. B. H. Oakley, who was here
visiting his parents, had been
awarded his doctor of philosophy
degree by the University of Illinois.
He had received his B. S. degree
from the Texas University.
A reunion of the W. L. Ellis fam-
ily was held at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. C. D. Sanders at which
there were 12 children, and 23
grandchildren present.
Capt. and Mrs. E. R. Allen enter-
tained 71 friends with a moonlight
ride aboard the Lady Pilot.
Mrs. Robert Drummond Jones,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Solomon
Cole, died. Remains were shipped
to Iowa for burial.
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Sherman,
citizens of Palacios for 21 years,
were taken to Indiana by their son,
to make their home.
The city square was to be paved
as a result of a special meeting of
the City Council.
Mark Lowery, had accepted a
place in the First State Bank for
summer work. He was a member of
the high school faculty.
15 YEARS AGO
Alvin Melton, 8 year old son of
Mrs. James Bates died at the home
in this city.
The fifth annual session of the
Matagorda County Teacher's Nor-
mal opened with H. M. Morris, Oak
Cliff high school, in Dallas as con-
ductor. He was assisted by Miss
Turner also of Oak Cliff, Misses
Ima and Linnie Wolf and Prof. W.
A. Smith, of Palacios.
20 YEARS AGO
Camp Palomar opened with a
good attendance. J. C. McElhannon
of San Marcos was dean.
A. E. Johns, city health officei1,
was making a strenuous effort to
put the city in a sanitary condition.
The civic league was sponsoring a
general clean-up.
George M. Hillyer received his
B. S. degree in C. E. at the Uni-
versity, at Austin.
culation of more than 3,000,000,
i the U- S. D. A. offer them a relief
you may like to know that eachfrom the blood-thirsty chiggers
page (much smaller than the
Times' page) cost $2,000.
An advertiser has to pay the De-
troit News $1,205 a page in order
to tell the 329,944 readers that he
is in business.
To reach more than 3,000,000
This joy-killer, also known as the
red bug or harvest mite—the bug
which has made many a picnic a
sorrowful memory—may be effec-
tively controlled. According to the
information available, one needs
solely to provide one's self with a
pmall quantity of very fine dust
buyers of the Saturday Evening, j„g sulphur and dust this on the
Post with your advertisement on j parts likely to be affected, and re-
one ordinary page, printed in black j ]ax.
ink, you have to lay down $8,000.
If you want to sell Coca-Cola or
cigarettes, using the back cover in
full color, you pay $15,000. Life,
guaranteeing 2,000,000 circulation,
gets $5,700 for a black and white
page and $10,545 for the back cover
in four colors.
If you tune in on the Charlie Mc-
Carthy hour and Charlie isn't as
good as you have heard him, you
may be sore but you won't be as
sore as Chase & Sanborn who
plunked down about $15,000 for the
If these pests have invaded your
lawn or garden, apply dusting sul-
phur at the rate of one pound per
1,000 sq. feet, or 50 lbs. to the acre.
During the season, from May to
August, three applications will us-
ually suffice. The first should be
applied as soon as the chiggers ap-
pear, and the others at two week
intervals. If a heavy rain occurs
after dusting, another application
should be made as soon as possible.
Perhaps this knowledge will help
make your summer more enjoyable.
25 YEARS AGO
Paul Elder, son of Mrs. M. A.
Elder met death suddenly while
bathing at the B. Y. P. U. Pavilion.
A charter was granted the Pa-
lacios Fisheries, Co., J. J. Burke,
president; Mr. Arlla, secretary and
treasurer.
Taking the school census was
completed and 530 were found of
school age in Palacios.
The 1914 graduating class of the
Palacios Baptist Academy had
seven members.
PALACIOS
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FUNERAL DIRECTORS
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THAT IS THE BEST PART OF BEAUTY-
WHICH A PICTURE CANNOT EXPRESSE
When he penned this passage (in his Essayes and
Counsels) Lord Bacon possibly was thinking of cer-
tain effects on printed words. The "Best Part" of
beauty doubtless does occur in the minds and imagi-
nations of men and women. A few printed words
are capable of suggesting unlimited beauties of
thought and of form. Our assortment of types have
the qualities to suggest a variety of thoughts and
things that pictures cannot adequately express. Esti-
mates and proofs will be given upon request.
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Dismukes, Mrs. J. W. Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 15, 1939, newspaper, June 15, 1939; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth411899/m1/4/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Palacios Library.