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PALACIOS BEACON. PALACIOS. TEXAS
Thursday. August 12, 193?
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I’ublisliid Every Thursday
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Editor and I’liblislu'rs
One Year, 11.50 Six Months, $1.00
Entered at the Post Office at Pnln-
'ios' Texas, as second class mail
matter, under the Act of Congress.
HEALTH NOTES
Austin, Tex., Aug. 10.—Now is
the time, according to State Health
Officer Geo. W. Cox, for every par-
ent to ask himself if his child is
physically ready for school. A visit
to the family physician will answer
this question and give time for cor-
rection of minor defects before
school bells ring out this September.
1 School children are exposed to so
much infection that where a defin-
ite preventive against disease is
known, parents should take advant-
age of it.
Vaccination against typhoid, diph-
theria and smallpox should be done
at once. These vaccinations may
save many days out of school, Doc-
tor fees and perthops life itself.
More thnn three hundred children
die each year in Texas from diph-
theria.
A child with defective vision can-
not be expected to do the required
work in school, until this hnndicap
is removed. Inflamed, watery eyes,
granulated lids, chronic stys, ner-
vous actions as habitual winking
may be caused by defective vision
and should be attended to im-
mediately.
The far reaching effect of infect-
ed tonsils on the system has been
recognized by health workers for
many years. Many of the ills of
later life as heart disease, arthritis,
deafness and the like, are directly
traceable to tonsils that became in-
fected during childhood and were
allowed to remain untreated.
Dental defects are found in more
children than any other imperfec-
tion, estimates the Texas State De-
partment of Health, urging that
children should be taken regularly
to the dentist for examination and
cleaning of tihe teeth. This pre-
caution keeps the mouth clean and
makes it possible for dental defects
to be discovered as soon as they
appear.
Postural defects are detectable in
children much sooner today than
was formerly the case. Have your
family physician see if your child’s
shoulder blades project and if his
arches are low. Simple exercises
while the child is young, dilligently
adhered to, will prevent later de-
velopments.
Some physical defects of child-
ren, particularly underweight or
malnouriahment, show no appreci-
able ptesent effect. If such a condi-
tion is not corrected it may result
seriously in later years.
Hard and fast rules for a child’s
weight at a certain age are diffi-
cult to arrive at due to variation in
children’s bone construction and
physical build, but some gain should
be shown each month. Average
weights for height-and-age, as com
puted by experts, may be had from
your family physician.
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Austin.—The courts took a hand,
and the legislature indicated it
would do SO next month, in the poli
tical controversy raging over the
$22 per capita school apportion-
ment this week. Hearing on an
injunction issued by the district,
court at San Antonio, forbidding
the stato hoard of education to re-1
duco the per capita apportionment
below the $22 figures set last
month, was scheduled, with A tty.!
Gen, Bill MeCraw in a warm spot
p.l tically. Bv law, MeCraw must
represent tihe board, and oppose j
making permanent the injunction;
but a majority of the board, led by
Ghent Sandcrford, Ferguson ap-
pointee, doesn’t want to do what,
the injunction foTbids the hoard '
from doing. So MeCraw has worked
out what he considers a nice solu-
tion. He will tell the court that the
injunction can not legally lie, and
should he dissolved; hut he will re-
assure the school lobby at the same 1
t:mc, but declaring the reuson it
shouldn’t stand is because the board
can not legally act to change the ap-
portionment after Aug. 1, and be-
cause schools have nlready con-
tracted obligations based upon the
$22 figure, and these obligations j
can not row be impaired. MeCraw I
declared he believes present tax
revenues will yield sufficient to pay
the full $22 apportionment, anyway.
If they do not, then the deficit re-
sulting will be ehnrgenble ngamst
next year’s per capita apportion-
ment, and this appears to be the
^ole actual difference between the
conflicting actions taken by the
state automatic tax board, and the
state board of education.
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Political Implications
But however small tihe actual
difference between the two boards,
the controversy has stirred a polit-
ical cyclone. L. A. Woods, the state
superintendent of education, up
next year for re-election to a fourth
term, has taken the stump and is
making speeches all over Texas,
lambasting Allred and Comptroller
George Sheppard for reducing the
ad valorem tax rate, charging the
schools have been robbed by the
“big interests.” Allred, leaving for
his Mexico City vacation, fired a
blart in the form a spirted written
defense of himself and Sheppard,
which he sent to every weekly news-
paper in Teaxs, with a promise of
more to come later. Meaiwhile, the
THIS WEEK
IN I'ALAt'IOS HISTORY
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10 YEARS AGO
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Buffaloe were
the proud parents of twins, a boy
and a girl.
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Dorsey, son*
Ray and Donald and daughter,
Dorothy, arrived here from O’Don-
nell, Texas.
Mr, and Mrs. Calvin Dougins, an-
nounced the arrival of n son, Jnmca
Hugh Douglas.
Thirty miles of telephone wire
were used to build the seven lines
from Palacios Exchange to Camp
Union by the 38th Division Signal
Company.
The BOth Division Texas Nntion-
al Guards openod ramp with Major
Gen. John A. Ilulcn in command.
Ladies of the Thirty-sixth Divi-
sion, from the highest officer’s wife
down to the wives of the privates
were entertained with n lawn party,
by ladies of Palnc-'os, at the home
of Mrs. J. F. Barnett. Music was
furnished by tlto? Service Company’s
bund of the 132nd Fidld Artillery.
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Constitutional
Ay MAX BERNS.........
The Judicial Power
senate committee seeking better; with the law.
What Is meant by the judicial
power?
This Is the power which our Con-
stitution vests in the Supreme Court
and other Federal courts to con-
strue or Interpret laws.
The Supreme Court, like a Jury,
merely passes upon cases submitted
to it. And the judges, like jurors, are
supposed to be Impartial. Before
being accepted for service, every
prospective Juror Is asked whether
he has any prejudice for or against
the plaintiff or defendant and wheth-
er he will construe the law as writ-
ten whether he likes it or not. He
Is not there to write, rewrite or re-
peal statutes or condemn or praise
them but merely to decide contro-
versies submitted in accordance
Constitution—by the Supreme Law
—he seeks relief by going to Court
The Court bears the arguments of
both sides, and If constitutionality
of the statute la challenged, it de-
There’s NEWS in the ADS!
ARE YOU ONLY A
THREE-QUARTER WIFE?
TVff EN,become they are men.can
1YA never understand a three-
quarter wife—awlfo who Is all love
and kindness three weeks In a
month and a hell cat the rest of
the time.
No matter how your back aches
—bow your nerves scream—don't
take It out on your husband.
For three generations one woman
has told another how to go "smil-
ing through" with Lydia E. Pink-
ham's Vogetable Compound. It
helps Nature tono up tho system,
thus lessening tho discomforts from
the functional disorders which
women must endure In tho three
ordeals of life: 1. Turning from
girlhood to womanhood. 2. Pre-
paring for motherhood. 3. Ap-
proaching "middle age."
Don’t be a three-quarter wife,
take LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND and
Go "Smiling Through,”
supervision of rural aid distribu-
tion, met with the board of educa-
tion, and heard two members. R. S.
Bowers of Caldwell and Ben F.
Tisinger of Dallas, caustically criti-
cize Woods’ action, charging him
with being “derelict in his official
duty,” and rewrote 16 sections of
the regulations to remove any pos-
sibility of “pressure” being put on
the assisted rural schools to buy
unnecessary phonographs and other
rqu'pment as a predicate for receiv-
ing aid grants.
So also with the Supreme Court.
It hears and acts upon no more than
the case immediately before it as
brought into Court by some litigant.
If two laws conflict, a citizen can-
not obey both of them simultaneous-
ly because in obeying one, he dis-
obeys the other. Or, If enforcement
of a statute causes a citizen to sac-
rifice rights guaranteed him hv the
.... To Big Spring, ns the best
lorntion, wont the new $2,500,000
state insane hospital authorized by
the regular session this spring. It
will house 540 patients and relieve
county jails of insane patients which
existing insane hospitals can not
accommodate. . . . Improvement in
conditions on Texas prison farms,
where wholesale escapes and other
un atisfactory incidents have occur-
red recently, is expected by state
officials, following appointment of
Dr. C. W. Bulter Jr. of Crockett and
Denver Chcsnutt, widely known
Texas newspaper publisher of Ken-
nedy, as chairman and board mem-
ber, respectively. Chcsnutt, former
president cf the Texas Press asso-
ciation, has written this column that
he “hopes to be able to render a
teal service to Texas” in the new
post. ... To Sen. and Mrs. Grady
Woodruff of Decatur were born
twins—a boy and a girl—at Seaton
Infirmary, in Austin. They are the
couple’s first-born.
15 YEARS AGO
The Protestant women of tho
community met at the Queen Thea-
tre and formed an organization;
with Mrs. Ellic/tt, dfrairman and
Mrs. Ifland secretary. All women
in favor of prohibition were invited.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Minich took over
the Park Hotel.
A two-story building on the west
side belonging to E. Garcia was
destroyed by fire, starting from a
defective flue.
A number cf cattle in the east
part of the county bearing no brand
were termed as wild cattle and the
Commissioner’s Court ordered they
be rounded up and sold at auction.
This was being done to assist in
riding the county of ticks.
PALACIOS
FUNERAL HOME
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
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AMBULANCE SERVICE
PHONE 8 PALACIOS
M. K. FEATHER, Mgr.
Mrs. Ella Little and daughter,
Miss Dorothy Little, of Houston,
visited relatives and friends here
and at Bay City, last week while
on their vacation.
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Phones 111 and 103
elites whether the statute conforms
to or conflicts with the Supreme
Law—with the Constitution.
Congress and Congress alone may
write or rewrite laws or repeal them.
All the Supreme Court does is to
construe these laws and the Su-
preme Law—the Constitution.
Copyright 1937 by Max Berns
Mr. and Mrs. Claude A. Beck and
two daughters, of Granger, Iowa,
visited Palacios this week and were
guests at Camp Allen.
Montgomery Named
Julian Montgomery, lauded thru-
out the state by his colleagues as
one of the most capable engineers
in Texas, will becom? chief highway
engineer Oct. 1, unon retirement of
Gibb Gilchrirt, who becomes dean
of engineering at A. & M. college.
Montgomery, who headed the PWA
setup in Texas—the government
work-relief orga-'zation operated
by Ickes. which got something per-
manent in the way cf improvements
for every dollar it spent—has been
the final authority on expenditure
of many millions of federal money
in Texas, sums comparable with the
millions the highway department
•s to build and maintain roads.
Incidentally, his appointment was
forecast in this column two weeks
before it occurred, ahead of any
daily newspaper in Texas, and while
one of the leading dailies was de-
claring him eliminated and not be-
ing considered.
* * *
Another Forecast
To be state pension commission-
er, administering the firemen’s pen-
sion law enacted by the regular ses-
sion of the legislature, H. B. Sat-
terfield of Lufkin, is named by those
on the inside as Gov. Allred’s choice,
with the appointment to be made
soon after the governor returns
from his Mexico City visit.
* * *
Governor Isbell Serves
From Rockwall, tiniest county in
Texas, this week came a new gov-
ernor of Texas—Claude Isbell, gen-
ial and popular state senator. Is-
ball served by reason of his being
president ad interim of the senate.
With Gov. Allred in Mexico, Lieut.
Gov. Walter Woodul paid a \isit to
Oklahoma, where he taught school!
20 years ago, and Isbell automatic
ally became Texas No. 1 executive
during his absence. More than 100
friends and colleagues gathered at
a hotel dinner to pay tribute to Gov.
Isbell and his aharming wife, with
cx-Sen. George Purl of Dallas (who
may try a comeback next July) pre-
siding as toastmaster.
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Notes
To Palacios, for intensive train-
ing at the national guard camp this
month, were to go many pol lical
and business notables including
Chairman Myron Blayblock of the
state Democratic committee, Col.
Ernest O. Thompson of the railroad
commission. Secy, of State Ed Clark
Maj. and Mrs. Charles M. Craw-
ford, and two children, of Childress
came in Saturday for a two weeks
stay. Maj. Crawford is in service
at Camp Hulen also visiting his
mother Mrs. E. G. Crawford.
Mrs. Leafa Addison ami Miss;
Dorothy Green, who have beep do-
ing some special work at the Uni-
versity in Austin this summer,
spent the week end here with their
sister Mrs. John Fox, before return-
ing to their home in Houston.
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hours and the rest of the day
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what I call economy.”
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Mrs. J. W. Dismukes and Sons. Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 12, 1937, newspaper, August 12, 1937; Palacios, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth725536/m1/4/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Palacios Library.