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TEXAS ALMANAC.-1943-1944.
(Texas Retail Trade -(Continued.)
Number of Sales
Kind of Business- Stores (Add 000)
Interior decorators.......... 29 $1,035
Antique shops ......... 93 444
Other homefurnishmings ..... 129 2,427
Household appliance dealers. 689 14,268
Radio-household appliance.. 219 4,730
Radio stores ...... 72 480
Radio-musical instruments.. 22 1,201
Automotive Group .. .... 3,531 $313,793
Motor veh. (new, trade-mi).. 1,580 235,957
Mot veh, farm imp dealers 51 2,383
Mot veh (ret -wholesale)... 41 19,759
Used-car dealers ........ 520 14,984
Accessory, tire, battery...... 1,300 40,032
Motorcycle dealers .......... 24 310
Aircraft dealers . ........ 1 368
Motorboat, yacht dealers ... 14 368
Filling Stations .... ........ 15,738 S150,127
Lumber-Building Group .... 2,460 $114,571
Lumber yards ......... 1,915 96,987
Building-material dealers... 117 6,081
Heating-plumbing equipment. 109 2,984
Paint, glass, wallpaper...... 259 7,597
Electrical supply stores...... 60 922
Hardware Group ............. 1,514 $46,574
Hardware stores ............ 906 22,592
Farm implements, hardware 608 23,982
Eating Places .. ........ 11,812 $92,886
Restaurants, cafeterias, etc.. 6,891 76,485
Lunch counters and stands .. 4,669 15,325
Soft drink, ice cream stands. 252 1,076
Drinking Places .... ...... 3,125 $18,283
Drinking places vith meals.. 2,048 13,300
Drinking places-other ...... 1,077 4,983
Drug Stores ....... ......... 3,319 $85,900
Drug stores with fountain... 2,218 72,831
Drug stores-other ........ 1,101 13,069
Liquor Stores (packaged goods) 1,249 $17,652
Other Retail Stores ........... 5,945 $90,932
Fuel and ice dealers......... 997 5.594
Fuel oil retailers ........... 15 405
Hay, feed (with groceries)... 172 4,480
Hay, feed-farm implements. 30 1,248
Hay, feed stores-other ... 996 20,325
Farm and garden supply..... 144 2,220
Jewelry stores .............. 566 16,251
Book stores ............... 75 2,866
Stationery stores .......... 49 571
Cigar stores, cigar stands... 232 2,843
Florists .......... 718 4,989
Gift, novelty, souvemnir shops. 218 1,195
News dealers . .. 215 1,390
Office, store equipmt dealers 195 6,907
Office, store, school sup dlrs. 88 2,866
Opticians . ........... 209 2,126
Photographic supply stores... 22 1,018
Sporting goods stores........ 95 1,653
Bicycle shops ............... 25 313
Luggage stores .. .......... 18 852
Piano, musical inst stores... 129 3,067
Scientific medical inst. sup... 34 625
Other retail stores........... 703 7,128
Second-Hand Stores ........... 1,781 $8,443
Book stores (second-hand)... 20 108
Clothing, shoes (second-hand) 290 623
Furniture stores (second-hd ) 422 1,612
Tires, parts (second-hand)... 731 3,645
Pawn shops (sales) ... 52 1,351
Other second-hand stores ... 266 1,104
*Previously published totals for the state for
1935 and 1929 are revised to exclude service
garages and other automobile service businesses
whose receipts from service sales exceed their
sales of merchandise
Postal Receipts of Texas Cities.
Compiled from monthly reports of the Bureau of
Business Research, University of Texas, Austin"
1942 1941
Abilene ............... $393,294 $339,603
Austin ............... 1,001,942 923,069
Beaumont ............. 415,415 363,467
Brownwood ............ 213,050 181,931
Childress .............. 44,609 31,224
Coleman ............. 40 885 33.806
Corpus Christi.......... 555 491 461,395
Corsicana ............. 91,518 77,164
Dallas ................ 5,091 473 4,961.747
Denison ............... 96 870 82.982
Denton ................ 107,433 96,503
Edinburg .............. (t (t)
El Paso ............... 809,753 772,630
Fort Worth ............ 2,196,206 1,969 468
Galveston ............. 484.794 439,449Graham ...............
Harlingen .............
Houston .............
Jacksonville ...........
Kenedy ...............
Lubbock ..............
Lufkin ................
McAllen ...............
Marshall ..............
Palestine ..............
Pampa ................
Paris . .............
Port Arthur...........
San Angelo ............
San Antonio............
Sherman ............
Sweetwater ...........
Tyler .................
Waco . .......
Wichita Falls .......1942
(t)
$118,303
3,568,706
47,608
24.993
(t)
'71,143
66,147
108,575
77,212
93,556
119,321
232,087
196,315
2,242,660
118,664
67,706
208,802
484,408
468,3251941.
$29,201
83,165
3,411,520
42,301
17,454
267,716
(t)
62,198
82,333
69,209
87,604
79,032
189,974
172,020
1,862,658
98,601
63,943
200,452
445,874
352,709Total $19,786,121 $18,055,485
'Not included in total. tNot available.
Constitutional Amendments.
Note -The following data on proposed, rejected
and adopted amendments to the Constitution of
Texas, and the opinions expressed, are from
DR. L. C. RIETHMAYER, department of govern-
ment, Texas Technological College, Lubbock, Tex-
as. Data are as of Jan 1, 1943.
The State of Texas has a Constitution which
is about five times as long as the Constitution
of the United States. Few state constitutions
are longer, and most of them are shorter.
The excessive verbiage of the Texas Constitu-
tion is due largely to the fact that it was
made at a time when it was felt that real
democracy could be obtained only by diffus-
ing authority in such a manner as to make it
Impossible for any official to exercise much
authority, and by prescribing minute limita-
tions on every agency of government. For the
government of Texas to perform those func-
tions demanded of it numerous changes by
formal amendment have been required in the
long and detailed document.
Since the adoption of the Constitution in
1876, about 1,700 resolutions proposing amend-
ments have been introduced in the Legisla-
ture. Of this vast number 161 received the
two-thirds vote necessary to bring about sub-
mission of the measures to the voters for
ratification. Of the 161 proposed, eighty-five
were ratified, one was never submitted to the
voters, one was submitted illegally and with-
drawn and seventy-four were defeated. The
number adopted in other states averages only
about one half the number adopted in Texas.
The measures submitted since 1930 have met
with more success than those submitted be-
fore that date. Of the fifty-five submitted
from 1930 to 1942, a total of thirty-eight, or
69 per cent, have been adopted, whereas of
the 104 submitted before 1930, only fifty, or
slightly over 48 per cent, were adopted.
Making changes in a constitution is theoret-
ically more important than merely voting on
candidates for office, but in Texas, as well as
in other states with long constitutions, usually
less than one half, and in some cases as few
as 5 per cent, of the voters are responsible
for changes in the Constitution Possibly the
submission of such a large number of amend-
ments, many of them rather inconsequential,
together with the lack of effective advertising
of these proposals, has been responsible for
the lack of interest.
As the Constitution Is long and detailed, the
majority of the amendments have dealt with
matters of detail. Most of them have merely
changed original details or delineated general
political principles with constitutional restric-
tions which allow the Legislature and other
organs of government little opportunity to
exercise discretion in applying the general
principles. Most of the constitutional meas-
ures were no different in substance from
other measures adopted by the Legislature in
the form of statutes and from rulings issued
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