Benavides Facts (Benavides, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, April 18, 1941 Page: 3 of 4
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BENAVIDES FACTS, FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1941
^Marine Corps
Offer Valuable
Course For Men
The United States Marines are
offering young men of draft age
a wonderful opportunity of serv-
ing their country in the Marine
Corps Reserve with active duty
dunnapthe present national emerg-
fcy only, with an assurance of
[reemployment upon return from
ractive duty.
Major J. D. O’Leary, Officer
in charge of the Dallas Recruiting
Office stated that it is the opinion
of Marine Qorps Headquarters
that the reemployment provisions
of the National Guard and Selec-
tive Training and Service Acts
of 1940 apply to all members of
the Marine Corps Reserve who
were on active duty on 27 Aug-
ust, 1940 or who since that date
.*have been or may be during the
present national emergency as-
signed to active duty, regardless
of enlistment or appointment.
The following is the oath taken
by men who enlist in the Marine
Corps Reserve:
“I, John Doe, do hereby ac-
knowledge to have voluntarily en-
listed as a PRIVATE in the Vol-
unteer Marine Corps Reserve for
a term of FOUR YEARS, unless
sooner discharged by competent
authority; and I do obligate my-
self during such enlistment to
serve in the Marine Corps in time
of war or during the existence of
Growing Number
Of Deaths By Cancer
Reported In Texas
“Next to tuberculosis, no other
disease in recent years has been
more emphasized in the press and
lay magazines, over the radio and
from the speaker’s platform than
cancer. Despite the widespread
and easily understood information
thus made generally available, the
number of cancer deaths in Texas
and in most states continues to
increase. This unfortunate situa-
tion in part is due to the fact that
fully one-third of these fatalities,
Texas Cotton Goods For Cotton Stamps
Connally On
Record Against
Strike Movement
a national emergency declared by
the President. And I do solemn-
ly swear (or affirm) that I will
bear true faith and allegiance to
the United States of America;
that I will serve them honestly
and faithfully against all their
enemies whomsoever; and that I
will obey the orders of the Presi-
dent of the United States, and
the orders of the officers appoint-
ed over me, according to the Rules
and Articles for the Government
of the Army, Navy, and Marine
Corps of the United States. And
I do further swear (or affirm)
that all statements made by me,
as now given in this record, are
correct.”
The male condor of South
America sometimes attains a
length of 48 inches.
Raising to the floor of the Sen-
ate last week, Senator Tom Con-
nally urged his colleagues to give
heed toward halting labor shut-
downs in national defense plants.
Connally emphasized his interest
in getting immediate legislative
action on the problem.
“It seems to me” said the Tex-
as Senator, ‘Sfchat fundamentally
there is no difference between the
employer refusing to go on and
produce and the employees refus-
ing to proceed with normal pro-
duction. So, if I had my way
about it, I would adopt a piovisi-
on directing or authorizing the
President, thru the Secretary of
War, or the Secretary of the
Navy, to take over any plant which
has a contract for the production
Texas History
By CHARLES O. HUCKER
University of Texas Library
Scenes such as the above will be
familiar sights in- Texas this sum-
mer when cotton farmers and
their families take the stamps
they receive for reducing cotton
acreage and exchange them for
finished cotton products m me
stores. Cotton farms all over the
state are being signed for parti-
cipation in the supplementary
cotton program, according to
Agricultural Adjustment Office.
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Watches — Diamonds — Jewelry
Sold on Easy Time Payments
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Alice, Texas
but for carelessness or ignorance,
need not have occurred,” declares
Dr. Geo. W. Cox, State Health
Officer.
“During 1940, deaths from all
causes in the State of Texas total-
ed 62,492. Cancer was responsible
for 5,345, or 8.6 per cent of all
deaths. Out of this number, at
least one-third of the cancer
deaths, or 1,780, might have been
saved had a physician been con-
sulted early in the course of the
disease. A loss of 1,780 sabable
lives is a factor that neither the
medical profession or public health
officials can view complacently.
Moreover, a measurable reduction
in this figure depends not so much
upon present-day scientific infor-
mation, but, rather, upon a more
general individual appreciation of
early symptoms and prompt pro-
fessional attention thei'eto.
“This suicidal indifference to
recognizable suspicious symptoms
is explained but cannot be ex-
cused, on the basis that in the
precancerous and early stages of
cancer pain is lacking, bone can-
cer excepted. Thus, a painless
lump in the chest or other parts
of the body; a pianless though
persistent sore, particularly on the
face or on the mouth; a painless
though unusual bleeding from any
body opening; and chronic indiges-
tion are frequently disregarded
until pain drives the victims to
his physician’s office. When the
disease has progressed to such a
point, often the treatment that
could have been applied success-
fully earlier no longer is of ben-
efit.
“While the above-mentioned
symptoms do not necessarily mean
that the cancer exists or is in the
offing, to assume that such is not
the case is to turn one’s back
deliberately upon warnings that
can only be properly diagnosed by
a physician. Tire sooner the facts
are known, the greater chances
the recovery, provided the diagno-
sis be positive.
“It is heartening to know that
in three-fourths of the cases dis-
playing usual symptoms, cancer
is not present. Nevertheless, it is
the height of folly and may re-
sult in what practically amounts
to self-destruction to be unap-
preciative of their potential signi-
ficance.
“In short, prompt diagnosis,
coupled with prompt and effective
treatment, is the greatest weapon
against cancer. In the light of
present-day cancer knowledge, the
cure of cancer depends to a large
extent upon early team work be-
tween the patient and his physici-
an.
THE SAN SABA PADRES
MEET THE COMANCHES
The history of Eighteenth-
Century Texas is essentially the
story of its first large-scale pion-
eering movement—the rise, pros-
perity, and sudden decline of its
Franciscan missions, which, though
given up in 1794, prepared the
way for permanent settlement by
Anglo-Saxons in the 1820’s.
They were not easily discourag-
ed, the padres of those missions;
yet, as all pioneers must," they
met some severe setbacks. In his
third volume of “Our Catholic
Heritage in Texas,” a seven-vol-
ume work being published by the
Knights of Columbus, Dr. C. E.
Castaneda of the University of
Texas gives a detailed account of
the most dramatic of them—the
San Saba massacre of 1758.
The mission on the San Saba
River, near present-day Menard,
was founded in 1757 as the first
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of essential national-defense arti-
cles, arms or ammunitions, where
disputes between the employer
and the employees, or other la-
bor disturbances, are impending
and delaying production.”
Law exists now for the gov-
ernment to take over plants where
the owner refuses to cooperate in
the defense drive; Connally feels
that the law can and should be
amended to permit the Govern-
ment to take a hand in cases
where employees refuse to cooper-
ate and tie-ups defense produc-
tion.
“There is a law against striking
against the United States,” re-
marked Senator Connally. “If the
government should take over a
plant as it did during the World
War, governmental boards would
determine in each particular fac-
tory what is a fair wage and what
are fair working conditions.”
Connally’s legislature record
has long been considered as
friendly to labor; yet at the pre-
sent time he considers “the Union
of the United States as Union
Number 1 in this country, which
is superior and paramount to any
other union.”
of a chain which were to bring
the gospel to the Apache Indians
of central Texas; but it was a
great disappointment. For after
eleven months—by March, 1758—
no Apaches had presented them-
selves, except in passing. Only
three still-hopeful padres remain-
ed: Fray Alonso de Terreros, Fray
Jose Santiesteban, and Fray Mi-
guel Molina.
ENTER THE INDIANS
On March 2, however, a great
horde of warriors from the north,
mostly Comanches, appeared in
the neighborhood—but in war
dress, come to wipe out their anc-
ient enemies, the Apache tribes.
And on the 16th, early in the
morning, they called on the mis-
sion, two thousand strong. Many
had rifles.
The padres, who had refused to
take refuge in the fortified presi-
dio across the river, received them
with friendliness. Fray Alonso
gave them tobacco, but without
effect. He stood quietly by while
they looted his storehouses. And
when they announced that they
were going on to the presidio to
seek out Apaches, he gave them a
■message for the commandant urg-
ing him to admit them peacebly.
The Spanish officer, however,
had decided to take no chances,
and when the Comanches ap-
proached, his men fired a volley
which sent them scurrying back
to the mission. Now Fray Alonso
offered to return with them and,
taking one of five soldiers he had,
rode calmly out of the patio. Then,
without warning, both were sud-
denly shot down, and the mas-
sacre was on.
A DAY-LONG RIOT
From early morning on through-
out the day it continued. Fray
Santiesteban was struck down as
he knelt in prayer; his head was
cut off and played with as if it
were a ball. The soldiers were shot
and cut to pieces. Only eight per-
sons, including Fray Molina, held
out beyond noon in a barricaded
room.
There they were by no means
safe and twice had to flee to new
refuges to escape roasting to
death, fqr the Indians were firing
and destroying everything they
could not carry away. By night-
fall only Fray Molina and three
companions survived, the padre
with a broken arm; and in the
darkness, somehow, they reached
the safety of the presidio.
For three days the Comanches
lingered, considering an attack
on the fort. Then at last, on the
20th, they seemed to have gone,
and the few soldiers in the presi-
dio ventured out to the mission.
It was ashes and ruins, and the
bodies of eight victims lay in and
about it, all mutilated.
This was the death-blow to the
missionary movement on the San
Saba. Although the greatest pros-
perity of the Franciscan missions
in Texas was still to come, hence-
forth the Apaches and their
northern neighbors were left to
their own religious devices.
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100 YEARS AGO IN TEXAS
“Andrews and Hammeken have
completed the drilling of piles and
the frame-work of their excellent
wharf. It reaches 12 feet water,
which is 90 feet distant from
high tide; the cap of the T is 80
feet long by 40 broad. The same
enterprising individuals have for
some time had in successful oper-
ation a powerful and well con-
structed cotton press, capable of
compressing 75 bales cotton in'
twelve hours.”—San Lius Ad-
vocate, April 13, 1841.
“There candidates for the Vice-
Presidency, at the election in
September, are already in the
field, Gen. Hent, Hon. Wm. Meni-
fee, and Col. M. B. Menard. Gov.
Smith has been addressed by a
meeting of his friends in this city,
asking leave to place his name on
the canvass for this office, but
his reply has not yet been receiv-
ed.” - <
“A Fair Hit.—During the late
debate in the House of Represen-
tatives upon Mr. Picken’s Report,
that gentleman took occasion to
say that Mr. Granger had ’doled
out a set speech with all the regul-
arity of the notes of a bag-pipe.’
Mr. Granger retorted by saying
that if he could not produce such
musical or such boisterous notes
as thq gentleman from SoYitlT Sari
olina, it was because he had liQp
been able to fill his ‘bag so full of
wind.’ This hit at Mr. Pickens,
whose style of oratory is pompous
and inflated, convulsed the House
with irrepressible peels of laugh-
ter.”—Telegraph and Texas Regis-
ter (Austin,) April 14, 1841.
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Beaman, J. L. C. Benavides Facts (Benavides, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, April 18, 1941, newspaper, April 18, 1941; Alice, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth884641/m1/3/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Duval County Library.