Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 13, 1947 Page: 2 of 8
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PALACIOS BEACON, PALACIOS, TEXAS
Thursday, November 13, 1947
PHONE 63
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MRS, J. W. DISMUICES
JESSE V. DISMUKES
- HUGH J. DISMUKES
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ALACIOS
The Importance Of Little Things
There is a couplet, old as the ages fraught with a lot
of solid sense, that says:
“Little drops of water; little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean and the beautous land.”
And there is another couplet, not so old, but pregnant
with sound reason, that has it:
“Hail, ye small sweet courtesies of life,
For smooth do ye make the road of it."
The world, as a rule, hitches its kite to big things, and
ignores the small ones. They forget that “trifles light as
air,” are loaded with a terrific punch and carry a heroic force
when properly set adrift and aimed at a significant target.
Hence, we are cautioning our readers to watch the little thing
in life. It was Frank Hogan an attorney in New York who
said that—
“It was a little thing which caused the world’s first
brothers to quarrel. Abel, you remember, had killed a lamb
and brought it as a sacrifice to Jehovah while Cain had placed
some grain on the altar. The lamb was the more acceptable
-offering; this much the Bible tells us. Cain probably thought
Abel was laughing at him. Abel denied it. Cain asked his
brother to go away, and Abel refused. Whereupon Cain hit
Abel. But he hit him too hard, and Abel fell dead.
Fully half of the cases in our criminal courts originate
in little things. Barron bravado, domestic wrangling, an
insulting remark, a disparaging word, a rude action—those
are the little things that lead to assault and murder.
Very few of us are cruelly and greatly wronged. It is
the small blow to our self esteem, the indignities, the little
jolts to our vanity, which cause half the heart aches in the
world.
If orderly civility, the courtesy we expect to be shown, were
extended to every person with whom we come in contact in
our daily lives—would it not be a real contribution to human
brotherhood ?”
KEEP UP THE GUARD , . .
SHALL AMERICANS BE
SOLDIERS OR SLAVES?
(From Tho San Antonio Light)
The biggest mistake made by
this country after World War I
was disarmament.
The internationalists sold the
American people a bill of goods to
scrap the navy, reduce the army,
dismantle munitions industries.
They must have really believed
that World War I had achieved
permanent pence.
They must have hypnotized
themselves into believing that the
League of Nations would keep the
world from another war.
We know today how absolutely
wrong they were.
We know it in the cost of the
lives and time of our sons who
THIS WEEK
IN PALACIOS HISTORY
FROM OUR EARLY FILES
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10 YEARS AGO
Mr. and Mrs. Hortie Sullivan
celebrated their 25th wedding an-
niversary.
The finding of a gun by some
small boys playing near the high-
way just north of the city limits
led to the solving of the mysterious
disappearance of Tim Williams
from the Humble Station on the
night of Sept. 25, and Johnny
Physen was put in the County
Jail at Bay City charged with
murder and robbery after signing
a written confession.
The Red Cross membership drive
in Palacios was under the leader-
ship of Carlton Crawford and Mrs.
Duncan Ruthven.
VsTOP DREAMING AND TRY THIS PREMIUM GRADE
\ SINCLAIR OPALINE MOTOR OIL. IT MAKES OLD
\ TRACTORS RUN LIKE NEW BY CLEANING
I OUT SLUDGE AND OTHER DEPOSITS.
(ON THE LEVEL. OPALINE CLEANS AS IT LUB-
\ RICATES... KEEPS YOUR MOTOR CLEAN AS
\ A WHISTLE. USE IT REGULARLY IN YOUR
[ TRACTOR, TRUCK AND CAR. YOU'LL GET
v-^ MORE POWER, NEED
FEWER REPAIRS.
WE DELIVER DIRECT TO FARMS-PHONE OR WRITE US FOR
T. A. CASTLETON, Agent, Bay City
ARTHUR HENSON, Station, Palacios
PHONE 170 FOR WASHING AND LUBRICATION
15 YEARS AGO
Miss Hesel Harvey and Fred
Markwardt were married at the
home of the bride’s parents.
Palacios business houses were
closing for Armistice Day, and the
American Legion was in charge of
a celebration.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Prinzing
were the parents of a baby boy.
To publish a part of the delin-
quent tax list of the county the
Beacon carried eight extra pages.
J. H. Stevens, of Wharton, pur-
chased the stock of the Palacios
Food Market from C. F. Cormer
and Floyd Singleton, and J. H.
Brotemarkle moved his meat mark-
et next door east of the postoffice.
Election returns showed a land-
slide for the Democrats. Franklin
D. Roosevelt was elected president,
John N. Garner, vice-president and
Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson was
elected governor of Texas.
20 YEARS AGO
Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Bruer, of
Serena, 111., were here to spend the
winter.
Mrs. Emma Carrie Barnett, age
77 years, died Nov. 8 at the home
of her son, J. F. Barnett.
Interest in the County election
was beginning early and three can-
didates for sheriff had announced,
namely Frank Carr, C. E. Moser
and T. J. Ewing.
A Poppy Sale sponsored by the
American Legion and Auxiliary,
netted $21.65.
25 YEARS AGO
Guy F. Perry sold his insurance
agency to Mrs. Elizabeth Grant.
A prolonged spell of wet dis-
agreeable weather had put the
Palacios roads in a deplorable con-
dition and those who had planned
to take part in the fair at Bay City
were unable to attend.
O. C. Arnold, J. L. Waters and
Wm. Clement were having radio
sets installed.
The DeMarco-Aistrup Duo, the
first number of the Lyceum course,
sponsored by the Boy Scouts,
pleased a large audience with their
entertainment.
fought in World War II.
We know it to the tune of $310,
000,000,000 that World War 11
cost us.
We know it in the burden ol
debt and the hardships of taxes
for which World War II is respon
sible.
We know it from the fact tha
we face a mean, lying and treach
erous enemy who daily maneuver
and intrigues against the Unitec
States of America.
We know that the international
ists were wrong in the 1920’s ano
the 1930’s and that the disnrmcrf
of his country are wrong in the
1940’s, We know that they are
wrong today.
Still, they are at work wrecking
the defenses of this country. TheJ
have permitted our magnificent
organizations of research and
manufacture of nirplanes to be
scattered to the winds.
It was research and manufac-
ture that gave this country the
favorable balance against Germany
in the last war.
Until we threw this into the bal-
ance. Germany was winning that
war.
It was American planes, Ameri-
can ships, American tanks, Ameri-
can products of mill and factory
and research laboratory that out-
produced the German and the
Japanese and brought them to thei.
knees.
These guards of our national de
fense must not be dismantled, to
rust, to be useless, unmanned and
unproductive, because parsimoni-
ous internationalists dope them-
selves into believing that they can
produce world peace by speeches.
We can only be ready as long
as our instruments of defense are
more up-to-date, more effective,
quicker, surer, than anything thai
exists upon this earth.
We must have swifter planes,
better bombs, surer shooting, more
effective submarines, a stronger
navy, a better army, more read>
mills and factories, the best scien-
tific laboratories that have evei
been known in all the world.
Let our enemies come and look;
Let them report back what they
see.
And let them tremble!
Then and only then can there be
peace because no nation would
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Prissy's Got a Man!
* (Maybe)
V Yesterday Sis Martin, our li-
brarian, found an article cut from
their file copy of the Clarion. When
she compared it with another copy
that I gave her she found it was my
column on “How to Keep a Hus-
band Happy.”
I Nothing unusual about that. Ex-
cept the last person seen reading
the paper was Prissy Hoskins (our
town’s proverbial Old Maid)!
Well, if Prissy has finally got a
man, more power to her. And more
tolerance to both of them ... be-
cause that’s what my column was
about: Tolerance of a husband's
taste for old hats, old pipes, old
friends, and mellow beer. And tol-
erance on #ie husband’s part of a
wife’s tastes and habits.
From where I sit, nobody be-
grudges Prissy taking that clip-
ping from the Clarion. But I’d like
to hint that if she’d just Bubicribt,
she’d get my thoughts on tolerance
firsthand. And in return I’ll treat
her to a glass of beer.
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HEALTH NOTES
AUSTIN.,—It is the duty of every
citizen, young and old, to help in
preventing the spread of disease.
Every man, woman and child in
Texas has a personal obligation to
keep as well as possible, and to pro-
tect. others from illness. Even the
kindergarten age child cun be
taught to cover a cough or sneeze,
to help in preventing the spread
of colds or other infectious dis-
eases that start with the symp-
toms of a cold.
Dr. George W. Cox, State Health
Officer, emphasizes the fact that
the local health officer can do lit-
tle to break the chain of commu-
nicable disease in the community
if he does not have the whole-heart-
ed support of the people. Every
case of illness that looks suspicious
of being a communicable disease
should be promptly reported to
the health officer. Physicians report
to the county health officer tho
cases of communicable disease they
cmignose as such, but parents often
dare stand up against a might like
that.
Peace will come only from effec-
tive defense.
Peace will come only when the
war mongers dare not monger any
more.
Prepardncss—full prepardness is
the only assurance of peace.
PALACIOS
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FUNERAL DIRECTORS
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fail in this duty. The local health
officer cannot institute control
measures if he is not informed of
cases, or suspected cases of com-
municable diseases.
Some signs and symptoms which
often accompany communicable dis
ease are: red and running eyes;
running nose; coughing and sneez-
ing; dizziness or faintness; swell-
ing about the neck; sore throat;
unusual paleness; earache; irrita-
bility or other change in normal
behavior and appearance^
Help to prevent the spread of
communicable disease in yout
neighborhood by observing correct
health practices, and reporting
promptly and suspicious symptoms
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