Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 16, 1928 Page: 2 of 4
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second class mail matter
Tunney Leaves the Ring
Gene Tunney has announced his de-
cision to !eave the prize ring forev-
er. Naturally, it is with a twinge of
regret that we see him go, for he has
been one of the most respected ex-
ponents of the art of self defense and
certainly one who lifted the boxing
game to a higher plane. He showed
the world that a man might be pos
sessed of exceptional mental facul-
ties and yet engage as a fighter. Tun
ney was a success whether in tho ring
or before a class of college moil giv
ing a talk on Shakespear. He will
always be a ruccpss in whatever he
undertakes.
For he ha3 a keen mind, is acquaint-
ed with the best that has been said
and done in the past, and in addition
has strength and that quality known
as gameness. In his fight with Tom
Heeliey, he slowed up and j;ave the
Australian a chance to recover when
the latter was suffering from a badly
hurt eye. He has proven in this in-
stance and in others that he is a true
sportsman.
Sportsmanship counts everywhere
else as well as in the prize ring. We
may expect great things from Tunney,
He has the elements of character that
were instilled in him by his exper-
iences in the ring—here they are, as
he mentions them himself: "Stamina
confidence, patience, self-denial, bodily
fitness, mental alertness and cour-
age."
In leaving the ring, Tunney empha
sized that he had no brief against the
prize ring as such. He said rightly
that no man is bigger than his pro-
fession. He simply stated that the
period of a man's usefulness in the
prize ring is limited, and that he pre-
ferred to retire from it while still go-
ing strong. Good luck to him!
uation where chemists will convert
sunlight and gases of the air into food
that will sustain the human body.
Such a situation may arise only many,
many years from now, the scientists
agreed. We are glad.
Picture an existence where eating
would be mechanical. Think of hav-
ing a tablet of concentrated food or
a cake of yeast for each meal. Then
think of the turkey and fixings, the
cranberry sauce, and all the other de-
licious things we have on our tables
on Thanksgiving Day. Or, for that
matter, think of an ordinary square
meal. Which would you rather have
the tablet or the meal?
What a sorry thing life will be in
that far distant time predicted by the
scientists!
It reminds us of a story that Ste-
phen. 4->eacock, Canadian humorist,
once wrote, in which he visualized a
distant era when all food would be
concentrated in tablets. The big fam-
ily in this story sat about a table,
in the Jcenter >of which was their
Thanksgiving Dinner in the form of a
tiny pill. Before the father had the
chance to divide the pill into tiny
pieces for the individual members of
the family group, Baby grabbed it
and swallowed it. It was a dreadful
calamity. Of course Baby died.
But, says Leacock, he had the hap-
py smile on his face of a little boy
who had eaten all of a family Thanks-
giving Dinner!
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Mechanizing Food
Alarming news comes from chem-
ists meeting in Chicago. They pre-
dict the eventual wiping out of agri-
culture. They say thirty men working
in a factory the size of a city block
can produce in the form of yeast as
much food as 10,000 men tilling 57,000
acres. The time may come, it was
said at ths meeting, when the pres-
sure of population will create a sit-
Perhaps Gene Tunney left the prize
ring because he grew tired of the nec-
essity of reading all those classics.
» * »
Texas Guinan, who originated the
phrase, "Give the Little Girl a Hand,"
is getting it. But it's the hand of the
law.
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A party of marathon dancers from
New York to Bridgeport, Conn., on a
rn tor bus. Probably some of the bum-
py roads let to many accidental dis-
coveries of new steps.
* * *
There is no doubt any more as to
how to pronounce the name of Tunney.
The reports that he is leaving the
ring with $2,000,000 in his pockets
mal*'! it pronounced to rhyme with
money!
♦ * *
A blind man regained his sight in
the chair of a barber shop while get-
ting a massage. Male vanity being
what it is, we guess the miracle was
accomplished through the sheer in
tensity of his desire to see himself
"prettied up."
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PICTORIAL LIFE OF HERBERT HOOVER
No 1
By Satterfteid
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W. C. T. U. NOTES
By EMILY BURTON
(Press Agent)
1. Herbert lloover's iuiet>»tor», of Qiiukir faCth
came t<» America from France ond Holland
I Tlisy h came settlern first on la: ::! i t:> Mary-
land, thence moving to North Carolina uud Ohio.
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On Tuesday. August 14th, the W.
C. T. U. planned to meet at the same
dear home where they have -met for
the last year or more, to say farewell
to their dear and honored ex-presi-
dent, Mrs. A. A. Hayes, who leaves
for Norman, Oklahoma on Wednes-
day the 15th, but owing to forgetful-
ness a provincial message was not
sent, and the meeting was held at the
home of our president, Mrs. H. C.
Boyd.
Mr. an Mrs. Hayes expect to start
to Oklahoma on Wednesday, the 15th
inst., to be gone a year, perhaps long-
er. They go to make a home for their
daughters, Miss Mabel and Miss Nora,
who are at work there in Norman,
Miss Mabel in a bank, Miss Nora a
student in College.
Mrs. Hayes will be house mother.
Mr. Hayes will be busy as he was here,
| making garden and doing the "little
things" that in the aggregate count
for so much in keeping up the home.
The community regrets the going
I of such good citizens, and the W. C.
T. U. will find it hard to do without
Mrs. Hayes. She was alive to every
| interest of the Great Cause for which
they are working, talking, writing,
| doing-—most faithful. No doubt she
will be appreciated, and will soon make
| friends among the people of her new
I surroundings.
Their gain will be our loss. We
shall miss her, but we feel sure that
she knows that our heart-felt wishes
for her happiness go with her. We
wish every good thing for her that
comes to make life worth living.
We are consoled by the hope that
when the year is over she will come
back to us.
The meeting, after an hour or so
of pleasant converse, and the enjoy-
ment of refreshments,—ice cream,
cake and lemonade, and a prayer for
blessings on us all, the meeting was
dismissed, sine die, on account of the
bad weather.
Opea pirpand pltnl food
E. E. BURTON CO.
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FEATHER & SON
8. In 185:1 the Uoovorti migrated to loivu, where tin-j
und their neighbors founded the town of West Drone,h.
4. Before clearing the land tor tholr farms,
these Quaker pioneers built a Meeting Houso.
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WHAT IS WORTH
WHILE
The difference probably between the
man of good judgment and the scat-
ter-brain is that the former empha-
sizes the important things and lets
alone the unimportant, while the lat-
ter is equally in earnest about them
all.
A man has reached a great point in
his career when he can see a lot of
things make no difference to him.
He has a certain end in view and
only appreciates the things that bear
on that end. Other matters make no
difference.
The line that divides the successful
man from the unsuccessful is usually
the fact that the successful man never
loses sight of the goal he has in view,
while the unsuccessful man runs about
hither and thither like an ant. He
has activity, but it is largely waste
motion.
Every once in a while you hear on
"What's the
BIG MEN FROM
SMALL TOWNS
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER
organizations for study and research
is an inspiration to all mankind.
For many years now, Rockefeller
has carried with him bright new dimes
which he distributes as souvenirs to
persons with whom he comes in con-
tact, particularly children. Often he
speaks to children and gives them a
few well-chosen words on thrift, en-
deavoring to set their feet firmly
on the path of success.
For John D. Rockefeller has a love
of mankind that has manifested itself
in many ways, particularly in his de-
sire to transmit his own wisdom and
habits of-thrift to others. While a
Add similes: As easy as finding a
cigarette butt in Scottland.
* * *
It doesn't take the reports of air
plane companies to convince us that
women are getting more flighty all
the time.
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Now that trans-oceanic telephone
communication is possible, the opera-
tors will be giving us the wrong coun
try instead of the wrong number!
The father rushing up to the nurse
as she emerges from the room and
asking, "Well, will it use a razor or
a lipstick?"
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PAT-ACIOS, TEXAS
lew of us can ever expect to gain the
riches of Rockefeller, the example of
his life shows us what one boy born in
a small town could do; how he has
been able to reap great benefit through
industry and thrift, and how he has
shared his good fortune with the world.
the street the expression
big idea?"
The big idea comes to stand for the
main and informing purpose for which
anything is done or said.
The big idea is like the perfect de-
sign of the building in the mind and |
the trestle board of the architect. I
He gives to every man his work and j
puts every piece of material in its i
place.
I have read some novels that seem- j
od to be a mere fritering away of my
time, for there was no dominant
thought about which they were writ-
ten.
Religious belief in a way simply
means that a man has some big idea
about his life, and all of his words
and deeds must conform to this plan.
Music is only merely a pleasant
succession of sounds. It must have
unity and form and individuality.
There must be a big idea behind it.
Nobody needs to be told who John
D. Rockefeller is. His name has reach-
ed the fui'thest corners of the globe
And everywhere he is known as one ,
of the richest men of all time and
one of the wisest. (
To say "John D." is enough. "John j
D." stands for Rockefeller, just as f
"Teddy" stood for Rosevelt. You can't ■
say "John D." without everyone im- I
mediately knowing whom you mean.
"John D."—-John Davidson Rockc- ^
feller—the genius of Standard Oil—
the charitable man of millions.
Not everyone knows that John D.
Rockefeller was born in a tiny town, 1
Richford, New York, and that he is 89
years of ago. He is a marvel of physi-
cal well-being for his age. That is
only another result of his wisdom,
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of life. "John D." has taken such
good care of his body that he can
still play a spectacular game of golf at
89.
This small town boy who was later
The idea is bigger than the man to have control over a tremendous
has it. A man becomes great only fortune started work as a clerk in a
when he allows himself to be ab- Awarding and commission house. At
1SJ he was a partner m a firm of com-
sorbed in the idea.
Mayn people suffer because their
energies are fritted away. They have
no cohesive plan, and everything they
do is hit or miss. They never amount
to anything, because there is no big
idea behind them.
Search yourself carefully to find
your dominating desire, and see that
it is such as can merit your giving
up all your life to it.
Then you will come to success on
board a big idea when you never
would have attained it otherwise.
mission merchants which later en-
gaged in the oil business. Out of this
finally developed the gigantic Standard
Oil Company. Rockefeller was presi-
dent of this institution until 1911,
when he retired.
The total amount of money given
by Mr. Rockefeller for philanthropic
and charitable purposes up to 1911 ex-
ceeded $500,000,000.
Never has there been such a gen-
erous giver. Thousands and thousands
of persons have benefitted from his
philanthropic work. Rockefeller is a
self-made man who deserved all of his
success, and his generosity to his
fellows as expressed in his frequent
and bountiful gifts to charity and to
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