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In connection with the draft mach- inery the records show that almost all available doctors took some part of the burden upon their shoulders, in addition to other sacrifices that they were mak- ing and labor that they were doing. The records of the Texas Boards in sending clean and able men to the front ties Connecticut for second place in the low number of rejections, Texas having 5.12 per cent; Connecticut, 5.11 per cent, while Maryland hardly exceeded Texas and Connecticut, her percentage being 4.94.
There were during this war, 600 med- ical men on district and local boards, and 150 on medical advisory boards, to- taling 750. This, together with those commissioned in the Army, Navy and National Guard, 927, and 142 who had been recommended for commission at the time of the signing of the armistice, makes a total of 1,819, exclusive of the Volunteer Medical Service Corps. This large number of physicians serving on boards, and those actively engaged in war during hostilities, it will be remem- bered, was out of about 5,000 active practitioners of the state.
Everyone who made the sacrifice he was called upon to make deserves dis- tinction. Rank played but a paltry part in this great melting pot. Some one, some time, will tell the undying story of the bravery and chivalry of our sons on the Western front.
Without comparison or criticism and with a heart full of gratitude and ap- preciation, I desire to say that, what- ever else may be said, or whatever oth- er viewpoint may be taken concerning the part the Texas doctors played dur- ing this war, it must be conceded that they paid in full, and in every particu- lar, their debt to their country, to hu- manity and to liberty. Paid even to their pound of flesh, paid with their talents, their blood, their bones and their bodies; and greater, or more than this, none could have done-and yet, they paid it frankly, willingly and cheerfully.
And while you did only the thing ex- pected of you, you followed in the foot- steps of your forebears, and the exam- ples of your forefathers, who, when the tyranny of Mexico required our blood
and treasure to procure and perpetuate freedom; when the question of secession was to be settled by the arbitrament of arms on an hundred battle fields, laid their all on the altar of their country. Your action was none the less heroic.
Not the least soul satisfying thought that warms the heart of every doctor in the contemplation of this unparal- leled tragedy and unparalleled sacrifice is the realization that almost if not every physician in Texas did his or her part to the fullest. And it is pleasing and gratifying that there is an imperishable record showing that many who did not and could not for many reasons put on the uniform, did their full duty for hu- manity and freedom. Those who gave their lives, health, talents and time, to their country, serving in the very fore- front of the battle lines; those who spent gruelling hours over wrecked and torn humanity on operating tables in advanced hospitals; those serving in base and post hospitals, and canton- ments in this country, camp infirmaries and all, in whatsoever position they served, too much cannot be said in praise, and no State can be more proud of her sons.
I do not undertake to determine by what occult means our government se- lected physicians for this duty or that, or why or how the rang or status was fixed; who was sent overseas and who was left, or who was placed at the very forefront of responsible duty or kept in the rear; but this I do assert, the best was neither taken nor left, given higher or lower rank. And I, here and now desire to pay tribute to the doctor who, forsaking all else, clung to his country in her hour of peril, regardless of pay, emolument or rank, or where, what or how he served. Among them there must be no distinc- tion. If our government was short of surgeons in France, if our colleagues were overworked, if merical men were needed, the responsibility cannot be laid at the door of the Texas surgeons, for each of you know the constant cry from the beginning to the end from the Texas doctors was, "Here am I, send me." If you were marooned, forgot- ten, overlooked and left behind, the re- sponsibility was not ours. And thank God every Texas surgeon did his duty
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and his full duty, regardless of perso- nal equation and the refrain was "Place me where I can do the most good."
It is with the keenest pleasure that I now turn to the other side of the pic- ture and am able to say with pride and greatest pleasure, that while those in uniform were doing their full part, the civil surgeon was doing his and doing more. Too much cannot be said of and too much credit can not be given to the unfortunate surgeon who had to stay at home and still do his duty. The draft machinery, Red Cross, the increased work incidental to the departure of many surgeons, gave opportunity to those who stayed at home to pay and pay in full the debt that they owed their country, and it is unnecessary to say again that it was paid to the fullest. Especially should a wreath be laid at the feet of the older practitioners of medicine, God bless them, who had par- tially retired from practice when the war came, but who again picked up the thread of practice and devoted them- selves assiduously to the work that had previously been done by younger men. I know physic.ans over 65 years of age who during the war did not decline a single call; and I feel that more than this, no man has done. With examples like these, is it to be wondered that our younger men filled full the measure of their duty ?
And truly the doctor to whom my heart goes out the most, is the unfor- tunate surgeon whom circumstances and conditions prevented from going to the front when his soul cried out to join the innumerable caravan that was march- ing on to victory or to death. Texas
had many of these and they carried a burden and did a duty absolutely sub- lime in its nature and stupendous in its character; and the services they ren- dered to our State Association, to our institutions of learning and to many semi-public and private enterprises, of which the world could know nothing, were second to no duty that any son of the State has done.
I cannot refrain from here mention- ing the one man who stands out particu- larly prominent in this kind of service: the man who has carried the burden of our Journal and assisted in the affairs of our State Association, as no other man could have done. I refer to Dr. Ira Carleton Chase. When the war was apparently tumbling our house down around our ears, when it looked as though suspension and disorganization stared us in the face, it was he who stepped into the breach and gave us his time and his talent to a degree that could not have been expected of any one.
These things and more have been done by the doctors of Texas. We have done our duty, done it willingly and cheerfully, not boastfully, or arrogantly ; yet we do boast of one man, the valiant man of our profession whom we loaned to the line to command the most feared organization on earth-a regiment of Texas Infantry. I refer to Lieutenant Colonel Holman Taylor, who led a reg- iment of our boys through the fiery fur- nace. And now his duty done, he lays down his title and rank of Commission and proudly assumes that of Doctor of Medicine and becomes again our be- loved and efficient Secretary.
Publication authorized by Dr. T. T. Jackson and Dr. Holman Taylor, Secretary_ Editor Texas State Journal of Medicine
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DR. T. T. JACKSON, DECEASED President-elect Texas Medical Association Served With Distinction in the Spanish- American and World Wars. San Antonio
DR. E. M. SYKES Oculist and Aurist San Antonio
DR. HOMER T. WILSON Physician and Surgeon San Antonio
DR. EDWARD COLE CLAVIN Physician and Surgeon San Antonio
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DR. R. S. BARROW Physician and Surgeon. San Antonio.
DR. WM. E. LUTER Physician and Surgeon San Antonio
DR. E. C. FERGUSON Physician and Surgeon Beaumont
DR. CLARA G. COOK Physician and Surgeon San Antonio
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DR. T. W. YOUNG Physician and Surgeon Port Arthur
DR. B. H. VAUGHN Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist Port Arthur
DR. M. SWEARINGEN Physician and Surgeon Port Arthur
DR. W. E. CRUMPLER Physician and Surgeon Port Arthur
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DR. H. F. CONNALLY Surgeon Vice President Texas State Medical Ass'n. Waco
DR. R. SPENCER WOOD Physician and Surgeon Waco
DR. W. A. WOOD Physician and Surgeon Waco
DR. H. E. HOKE Physician and Surgeon Waco
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DR. M. F. KREISLE Physician and Surgeon Austin
DR. SAMUEL ALBERT WOOLSEY Physician and Surgeon Austin
DR. J. R. NICHOLS Physician and Surgeon Austin
DR. CHARLES W. RAY Physician and Surgeon Waxahachie
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DR. ROY A. OLIVE Physician and Surgeon Taylor
FRANK C. FLOECKINGER Physician and Surgeon Taylor
DR. J. I. COLLIER Physician and Surgeon Taylor
DR. E. W. STROMBERG Physician and Surgeon Taylor
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The Texas Public Health Association
Written Especially for the Standard Blue Book
THE Texas Public Health Association,
with state offices at 616 Littlefield Building, Austin, is a society incorpor- ated under the laws of Texas and formed by a number of prominent Texas citizens who are interested in health-especially the fight against tuberculosis.
The principal aims of the association are: To disseminate knowledge con- cerning the causes and methods of pre- vention of communicable diseases, in- cluding tuberculosis; investigation of the prevalence of such diseases in Texas, and the collecting and publishing of useful information; securing of proper legisla- tion to promote the relief and suppres- sion of such diseases; co-operation with other health organizations; promoting active public health work; and encour - agement of adequate provision for con- sumptives and those suffering from other preventable diseases, by establishment of sanatoria, dispensaries, and otherwise.
The activities of the association are financed chiefly through the sale of Christmas Seals and the gifts of friends interested in public health. All the funds received are used for health work, the association's share going to aid Texans in Texas.
The officers of the association for 1920 are: Dr. Z. T. Scott, Austin, predident; Dr. Elva A. Wright, Houston, first vice president; J. A. Allison, Fort Worth, second vice president; J. B. Rawlings, Fort Worth, secretary ; H. A. Wroe, Aus- tin, treasurer; and D. M. Alexander, Fort Worth, attorney.
Among the members of the board of directors, numbering 48, are the follow- ing: Dr. R. W. Baird, Dallas; Mrs. W. S. Benson, Alvin; C. M. Bishop, George- town; Miss Annie Webb Blanton, Aus- tin; Dr. W. M. Brumby, Waco; J. W. Butler, Waco; Dr. I. C. Chase, Fort Worth; Dr. Boyd Cornick, San Angelo; J. S. Dickey, Jr., Henrietta; John W. Everman, Dallas; Mrs. Florence Floore, Cleburne; Dr. C. W. Doddard, Austin; Dr. Frank Gregg, Austin; J. C. Hardy, Belton ; Governor W. P. Hobby, Austin ; Howell Johnson, Fort Stockton; J. L. Lancaster, Dallas; Mrs. George D. Mor- gan, Galveston; Mrs. F. W. McAllister,
San Antonio; Dr. J. B. McKnight, Sana- torium; Mrs. Eltweed Pomeroy, Donna; W. F. Ramsey, Dallas; Edward Titche, Dallas; Robert E. Vinson, Austin; Mrs. E. A. Watters, Fort Worth; and Mrs. James B. Wells, Brownsville.
Dwight E. Breed is the Executive Sec- retary of the association, and heads a field staff composed of: Miss Winnie I. Bracy, assistant to the executive and Texas Modern Health Crusade Director; George F. Granger, field secretary; Miss Pearl N. Hyer, R. N., public health nurse; Wilbur A. Fischer, publicity sec- retary ; R. C. Ortega, Mexican secretary ; and F. R. Barnwell, lecturer to Negroes.
Some of the work done by the associa- tion in 1919 includes the distribution of 1,171,942 pieces of health literature over the state; 431 lectures given to 68,506 people by members of the staff; 326 school talks made before 60,227 school children; field workers conferred with 134,017 Texas people on health.
The association carried the Modern Health Crusade to 416,000 school chil- dren in 135 counties of the state; the public health nurse examined 2,827 chil- dren in 60 Texas cities and talked to 17,000 school children; health surveys were made in four Texas cities: the Mexican secretary lectured to 4,904 of his people, and formed health societies ; the lecturer to Negroes traveled 8,149 miles, addressed 30,654 school children and talked with 55,541 Negroes on health.
Other important work of the associa- tion for 1919 was: Inspection of sana- toria ; employment of publicity secretary to assist in public health education ; pub- lishing a monthly health magazine; sending a Mexican health exhibit, the only one of its kind in the United States, among the Mexican people; assistance of local anti-tuberculosis societies and co-operation with other health organiza- tions; health speakers sent to summer normal institutes; sent a field worker into 11 army camps where he lectured to 18,025 soldiers on health ; and furnished a speaker on health for the tour of the West Texas Chamber of Commerce.
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AUSTIN
Written Especially for the Standard Blue Book
By THE AUSTIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
The natural beauty of the country surrounding Austin was responsible for this particular point in Texas being se- lected for the location of the State Cap- itol.
Austin is the hub for a territory of 265,000 square miles, within which live nearly five million people. It is there- fore befitting that this city with the en- vironment which nature has given it, should be the leader of all the cities of Texas in art and education.
The State University, which is located in Austin, now has more than 4,000 students ..
The Texas School for the Deaf, the Texas School for the Blind, the Texas Wesleyan College, the Presbyterian Theological Seminary, the School for Defectives.
Surrounding the city there is rich ag- ricultural land. The major portion of this soil is black prairie land, all of which is under cultivation and is pro- ducing abundant crops of cotton, corn and hay. There is also a lesser portion of the county covered by the Colorado River Valley, practically every acre of which is under cultivation. This soil produces large crops of cotton, corn, oats, vegetables and fruits.
For centuries the Colorado river has been cutting its way through the moun- tains until it has left high cliffs and peaks which offer remarkable scenery for the pedestrian or autoist. Auto roads traverse the hills and valleys of this section. White perch, bass, buf- falo trout and catfish are found in large quantities in the mountain streams and in Lake Austin, which is nearly 28 miles long and offers a source of attractive outings all the year around.
The City of Austin has the commis- sion form of Government, which has proven most successful ever since its adoption in 1909. The aggregate wealth of the city is estimated at $75,000,- 000.00, and the bonded debt is $2,545,- 000.00. The directory census of 1920 gives this city a population of 47,409.
The Bank Clearings for Austin in 1919 were $213,728,048.82, and the Postoffice receipts for 1919 were $249,773.84.
Many parks are scattered about the city, their grassy slopes dotted with live oaks ages old and mountain laurel grows in profusion. Among these are Wooldridge Park, Pease Park and City Park at Lake Austin.
The area of the city is 16 square miles, and the altitude ranges from 650 to 900 feet. There are several attrac- tively parked additions to the city, among which are Hyde Park, Aldridge Place, Enfield and Travis Heights. There are 185 miles of streets, 21 miles of which are paved. There are 66 miles of sewer mains and 63 miles of gas mains.
Every church denomination is repre- sented in Austin. Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. buildings contribute to the building of character. The golf links at the Country Club are unexcelled. Be- ing kept in perfect condition they are well known throughout the country. The transportation service, to every section of the city, with over 21 miles of street railway and the reduced fare to school children, does much to assist in home building.
The drainage of Austin is perfect and complete. The city is located on hills, and the many miles of streets, paved with bitulithic and brick, drain perfect- ly. All paved streets are washed and swept, and the unpaved streets are sprinkled.
Main line railroads to Austin are the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway; In- ternational Northern Railway and South- ern Pacific Railway.
There are many cities which are greater commercial towns or more act- ive industrial centers, but there is no city which excels Austin as a place in which to live. Its people and its insti- tutions, as well as the natural environ- ment surrounding the city, make it a place where character stands above ev- erything and where the best to be found in life can be obtained.
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BEAUMONT
Is located in Jefferson County, Texas, on the Neches river, connected with the Gulf of Mexico with a 26-foot tide level canal, and is the only fresh water har- bor on the Gulf; a sheltered port free from tropical storms. Through Beau- mont and the Panama Canal commerce will find an easy and short route to the western coast of South America, a coun- try rich in resources and heretofore in- accessible to the United States except through San Francisco or around the Horn. It is, by reason of the location and concentration of railroads, the cen- ter of great natural wealth in Timber, Oil and Minerals.
Beaumont's proximity to the Gulf tem- pers the summer sun, and it is cooler than in the central Mississippi valley, a southeast breeze from salt water pre- vails in the hottest months. In the winter the temperature rarely goes be- low the freezing point, and the days are warm and balmy.
It has a population of 43,000.
Assessed property valuation $35,000,- 000.
Tax rate, $1.57.
Bonded indebtedness, $2,485,900.00.
Accumulated sinking fund, $590,215.
Municipally owned and operated wa- ter supply system furnishing 3,000,000 gallons of pure and wholesome water daily. Maximum capacity of the plant, 12,000 gallons every twenty-four hours.
Thoroughly modern wharf and dock system, municipally owned and oper- ated.
Five brick fire stations, all well equip- ped and the most efficient fire depart- ment of any city its size in the United States.
Thirty-five miles of paved and shelled streets.
Ninety miles of concrete sidewalks.
Thirty miles of main sewers. Thirty miles of gas mains.
A well organized and efficient health department, with health board, bacte- riologist, sanitary inspectors, meat, food, drug and dairy inspection, city garbage collection and incinerating plant.
Beaumont is the great jobbing and distributing center for Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana. It enjoys the advantage of low inbound rail freight rates, due to actual water competition.
Beaumont is the center of the largest rice producing area in the United States, and one of the fastest-growing fields of diversified agriculture in the Southwest. It is in the rain belt with an average of 48.88 inches of rainfall annually, well distributed through the year. Ideal cli- mate and fertile soil permit farming the year around, with a harvest possible ev- ery month. The home of the South Tex- as State Fair, the second largest agri- cultural fair in Texas, is at Beaumont. The headquarters of the Southern Rice Growers' Association are at Beaumont.
Beaumont is one of the centers of the great Southwestern oil fields. Here is located the far-famed Spindle Top Field, the site of the famous "Lucas Gusher," the discovery well. Beaumont, through her oil pipe lines, is at the mouth of nearly every producing oil field in the Southwest. Four big controlling line companies and eight lines center here. It is also the chief city of the extensive Yellow Pine, Cypress and Hardwood Lumber manufacturing territory of Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisi- ana. There are 135 saw mills within Beaumont's trade territory, with a daily output of over 10,000,000 feet. With crude oil and water transported coke and coal, fuel is cheap and great in- dustries draw an abundant supply of labor.
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BRENHAM
Written Especially for the Standard Blue Book
By THE BRENHAM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
BRENHAM is the most important point on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe between Galveston and Temple, and the most important point on the Houston and Texas Central between Houston and Aus- tin, hence is worthy of more than ordi- nary attention. The history of the Lone Star State is so firmly bound to Wash- ington County and Brenham that the names of these run through almost every chronicle or narrative of early days. In those earlier days man liked the fertile fields that surrounded Brenham and chose it for a fitting place to live. From a pioneer village of the Texas Republic days Brenham has grown into a modern little city, with every advantage, in edu- cation and environment, that is found in larger places.
Brenham was attractive to those good old Southern families who belong to the group of the Cavaliers. The ease and grace with which they builded this little city upon the chosen hills is still evident. Then came a thrifty group of immigrants -men and women of splendid stock, who had chosen America as their home, and with these and those who later came from other States Brenham gradually de- veloped, until today, while largely de- pending upon the farms for its prosperity and growth, it boasts of important manu- factories.
There is no better farm land than that which surrounds Brenham, and especial- ly that found only a short distance away in the valley of the Brazos. But so va- ried are the soil conditions about Bren- ham that every character of crop is grown, and the forests are filled with the choicest woods. Stock and poultry rais- ing have made great strides in recent years and fruit raising comes in for an important place. The largest Japanese persimmon orchard in Texas is located near Brenham.
The principal manufactories of the city are: Cotton mills, cotton seed oil mill, iron foundries, cotton compresses, gas plant, machine shops, bottling works, tin shops, farm implement manufactory, peanut butter manufactory, creamery,
products, saddles and harness and mar- ble and granite finishing works. The city has two daily and two weekly news- papers.
The city public schools are affiliated, with substantial credits, with all South- ern colleges and many others of the Na- tion. Blinn College and the Sacred Heart convent are located here, with valuable properties, school buildings and dormi- tories. There are churches of all the well-known denominations, with splen- did edifices.
Brenham's four wholesale grocery firms supply a large trade territory. The retail stores are the pride of the city. They are modern in every respect. This city offers splendid opportunities in ev- ery line of trade. The banks, all with substantial capitals, reserves and depos- its, reflect the prosperity of the com- munity. They show total deposits of $2,000,000.00. The taxable valuation of Washington County is $12,000,000 while that of the City of Brenham is over $3,000,000.
Oil developments have attracted con- siderable attention to Washington Coun- ty, and with wells in the field near the city which are producing a small quan- tity of oil and deep tests which soon will be made, the petroleum possibilities of the county promise to be thoroughly ex- ploited.
Bonds have been sold for the expendi- ture of $1,500,000 on roads of the coun- ty, one of the principal projects of which will be completing the Washington County portion of the Houston-Austin highway. Wonderful possibilities of growth are opening up. New houses are being erected and new businesses are constantly being started. Brenham is in the real road of progress. Its property values have increased tremendously and with the new incentive which it is receiv- ing toward material growth it offers op- portunities in almost every line of en- deavor and appeals, as a place to select for a real home town, like few other places in the State.
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CORSICANA "THE CITY AWAKE"
Written Especially for the Standard Blue Book By THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
CORSICANA is the county seat of Na- varro County, and is located in the "Heart of the Black Land Belt" of Cen- tral Texas.
Corsicana has the distinction of hav- ing the first Oil Field discovered west of of the Mississippi river. This field was first brought in in 1896 and has been producing ever since, in fact the first wells brought in are still producing. The daily production of the Corsicana field is now 1,500 barrels of high gravity oil. The present production all comes from shallow wells, but there are now nine deep tests going down and twenty more proposed. This field has never had a deep test for oil and as all of the other oil fields of this State and Oklahoma have been shallow fields before the deep oil was found, the operations now in progress and those to follow will un- doubtedly find the deeper sands and the daily production will be increased many thousand times. Corsicana is the home of the Magnolia Petroleum Com- pany, which company owns many pro- ducing wells in this field and has a big refinery located here. The output of this refinery is several million dollars annually. In addition the Magnolia Pe- troleum Company has three eight-inch pipe lines running through this city and county, two from the Kansas, Oklahoma and North Texas fields to the Gulf and one from the Ranger field to the Gulf. One of their largest pumping stations is located here. Two other refining com- panies are being organized and will soon be operating big plants near this city. The Texas Company has two eight-inch pipe lines running through this city and county from the Kansas, Oklahoma North Texas oil fields to the Gulf and have located here one of their largest pump stations. Corsicana is the home of the American Well and Pros- pect Company, which company manu- factures rotary oil rigs and oil well sup- plies and sells its products all over the world. The annual output of this com- pany is several million dollars.
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