Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-11-24
WITH THE EDITORS
ANOTHER QUESTION.

Replying to an inquiry from the
Brownsville Herald. What is a tuttel
famine?" STATE Topics Df i'olston re
on plies: TO live at a boarding house
where butter 'outranks' those who are
supposed to eat it, Which is an attack
on butter that has not acquired the art
of growing old gracefully San Anton
10 Express.
Merely another example Of the deadly
Typographical error. The Herald wrote
why is a butter famine?" State Topics
trying TO live on a newspaper mans
salary would need to ask. What is a
butter famine?" For the average news
paper man a butter famine is when but
ter is forty cents a pound or the mar
ket.
With its issue Of Saturday. State Top
les entered its fifth year. On that sub
ject its editor sayS:-
With this issue. State Topics be
gins its third year in Houston and
the fifth year of its Existence. Prior
to its publication in Houston. it was
published i'm Austin. and. for a
while. in Austin and Dallas stimuli
tan, ouSlv. In Houston. it has met
with as good treatment perhaps as
it deserved. if not altogether what
it expected. 1t has advocated what
il believed was for IIouStOn's best
interests. and it has gained many
e. 1A-. ,nnt.
pie, and of whose friendship it is
extremely proud BY b ing outspok-
en- on public issues. it has doubtless
gained some enemies. but this is
always to be expected by a publica-
ton that tries tO serve the public
by placing before that public, as
best it can. facts and conditions as
they exist.
Another thing. it only ROW cold
enough in Texas to put an c!ge on the
finest climate in the world. which is
concentrated in Galveston. Galveston
News.
Well. we'll. Have it that way if YOU
want to. No one in the brownsville
country will argue points Of cold wea.
thcr with amy n who lives as close
10 the north pole as Galveston.
General Carranza and his advisers
are manifestly taking too much for
granted. Because the United States gov
eminent has announced its opposition
to %IIncrta. and because the American
p Oplc have manifested sympathetic in
does not necessarily follow that tiencr
al CarranZa has vet created a rebellion
worthy of RI cOgnitiOn or !hat he has or
ganiZed a government which merits dip
iOmatic acknowledgment. Houston
Chronicle.
The editor of the McAllen Monitor of
ferS to entertain any old mans poker
cub that may drift that way from the
direction of Donna. Whether h, makes
the offer in his own name or in the name
of the people Of McAllcn he does not
say. We do not know what Brownsville
could do for tor to- Il visiting club of
poker PLAYER. but we have a few giddy
Youths who have organized a chess clut
and can get no answer to challenges
sent out to Houston and other ntighbor
ing villages.
The conStitutiOnaliSt cabinet refuses
to treat further with William Bayard
Hale. the presidents personal repre-
sentative. until he presents his ere
dentials. In other words. the C%arranZiS-
tas would havt Uncle Sam recognize
their status as befligerenFS and thus
give them standing among the nations.
However. it seems that our venerable
uncle is not in the recognizing business
just now. He is busily engaged in en-
deavoring to save a republic without
resort to arms. which TO a man up a
tree seems a hopeless task.-DennisOn