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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-12
SEVENTH EPISODE

Freneau In his Office going over the
mornings mail was In q bcastly en-
per. ne snapped al his clerk when
that CHEEKY young man wished him a
bright Good morning. BE made
short work WI Tire mildly %nirtatous
stenosrarhers attempt 10 begin the
dar broeziiy Tor him.
The air of the Office was ciCuIed
with FFencau's gloom when his part
ner. Mulry entered gavly and slapped
him on the back. The clerk and
s~tennarapher raused e1pectant. but
before he spoke Go Mulry. Frcneau
snarlel W them:
Get out ana stay Ont tin l send for
you"
The got cut.
Mulry was amused al his friends
bad temper. He chuckied. Wrong
side ~ the bed this morning. old bear?
What seems 10 ta your little trouble
now?"
Frcneau told him that Lois Stafford.
whom le was attempting 20 get rid al.
had learned of his engagement 20 her
sistcr-lnlaw. Gloria. and had become
u~InanaEgable.
She threatened that, unless ! gave
up m- proposed marriage. she viii con
frss tLe whole affair and then Kill her.
self"
Principally this meant To Mulry that
tho firm would have 10 refund the
large sum Of money Freneau had just
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Her Eyes seamed With Tenderness.
strength OF the engagement. Mulry
began pacing the floor also. chewing
his cigar. At last he chewed out an
idea that pleased him.
You make the trip 10 the branch
offices in my place. ana take your air
itormentOr along. Perhaps you can APP
pease her and get her into a reason
ablo state 0f mind"
Freneau did not care for the scheme.
He shook his head u g. .sion. Mulry
urged.
Al least "a would gain time for u.s."
NO. its out or the question: try
again Freneau snapped. She ~ 60
ing t1 The Cntskills for r week and
sha Insists On my tagging along
liulry rubbed his head. His massage
seemed No coniure Inn another idea tor
he began 90 rumnaee through his
desk. Pity beckoncd Freueau tc come
utNsr i1 hil and hcic M "dcllghlolly 0
EanaTui or miscellaneous papers. Free
man looked and saw merely y number
of sheets Cf writing Daner api eavel-
oPes rrnm various Oig aoieis a0Out tie
country. They meant nothing to him.
When ! stop at a hotel | always
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a lot OF lts paper and enve.

annex a lot or its paper and enve.
lopes."
Yes? And what have your par
simonicus habits to do with our pres
ent trOuble?" queried Freneau pa
tiently.
Mulry was disguised. Why. don't
you see, you poor Don Juan? You
take these letterheads and write love
letters on them to your sick hancee.
] take them with me and mail them
from the different towns | make. Then
Miss Stafford w III think you are there.
Meanwhile yol can 90 away 70 the
Catskills and meet your troublesome
Lois. III you can't rig mp some story
TO get -1lr letters back from her and
keep hcr qui until after U mar
riage, why y0u'Ec not the little bright
eyes ! always tool you for. See now?"
Frenoau did sec. lie was not en-
thusiastIc but this seemed the only
possible n N TO tide over the present
reef .n hi. way 70 the harbor OF mat
rimOuy.
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Room for Improvement.

The. FIBER industries at Japan number
aninns their employees nearly 2.000. 001
sin" girls. That country has just pass
~ ! factory law which might be termed a.
primary step toward solving the question
of { male employment. affording better
treatment 81 laborer-, and providing for
thcm , better means ~ improving their
moral surrounding and physical cordi-
tons Tbs Is ihc language IF the Japan
csc rl,o al .ha sarcaG of and
industry. lie titrn STATES that under the
new law iaio.ers may work only twelve
hours . day, There a certainly some roor
for isspsoa ement IN the Flowery Kingdom
Houston Post,
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-12
LORD C0WDRAY IS
EXECUTIVE
CNE OF ENGLAND'S GREATEST On
GAMERS GIVEN COMPLETE DI-
RECTl0k or AERlh WARFARE.
Especial wv The IIcrald.)

LONDON. Jan. l2.-Lord Cowdray. who
has just taken over the organization and
development 81 Englaud'~ aerial warfare
with the announced purp@e WI maintain
ING the present uir supremacy at the cn-
tente allies. In better known To the public
ut large as Sir Weetmau Pearson. which
was the name he bore before hi- elevation
~ the pceragc several vear- ago. For
many years ne has had the reputation of
being one Of England's greatest bushes,
organizers. This reputation has extended
across the Atlantic. for ~ America Lord
Cowdr0v i- widely known m financial ana
Industrial circle, by reason of his success
ful competition with the Standard on com
pany for control of the Mexican ol fields.
IN lss9 Lord Cowdrav paul hi- first Wis
i to Mexico. thereby making the opening
wedge iu that republic for the English
arm Of -. Pearson q Son. Limited. Of
London" Porfirio Diaz. then safely in-
Itrenchcd N the presidency 81 Mexico. took
" wonderful liking to the young engineer.
From that time until after the over
throw Of the Diaz regime the Pearsons
were never without some great Mexican
contract Oh their hands. 'ne first Pear
son scheme in the republic resulted in the
drainage Of the valley around the CITY of
Mexico. IN the years that foll, hey
Quilt railroads and electric limos -bor-
and waterwork~ they acquired i' i- ir
mining properties, investments in ute, and
iinally-the biggest transaction w them
all-they secured S0o,000 acres of land
containing the greatest oil fields IN the
world.
The deal IN the Mexican oii lands lad It'll
most immediately ~ the British government
taking q close interest in the Pearson firm.
For several years previous me British ad-
miralty had been developing I'LL war-hip-
along oil-burning plans. with the intention
n time of replacing the coal burning an.
p%afatus entirely with the newer fuel. p'ae-
liz va stations All over TIC globe. so that
Is dreadnoughts might he cared for IN time
of war.
III England and the possessions Of the
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Pierpont Stafford. banker and railroad
ter. Gloria. ls wiutgIiuE III Palm Beach.
Gloria is a vivacl0us but Wiiliui young
lady who Chatcs under the Teatr4lt4E
peafeiiy rarHnea Her childish can rs
cause young Doctor Royce t0 itli ir iLve
with her. She steals from her room Al
night and in an auto pllnges into the
surf where SHE leaves Tire cHr- Becoming
lost III TIE everglades she fails intu the
hands ~ the Seminole Indians. She Is
rescued END returned 10 her father wHp
had offered a eWara for DER RETURN.
Gloria fails in love with her raaEutr. tre-
neau. Five years later She leaves school
and meets FreUeuu az the theater. lla at
stention having been occupied with TER
sistcr-in-law he has forgotten Gloria.
Gloria feels TINA hrr ORC dream ~ atlt-
tered. i-4fer Freueau persuaaes aeI 20
forgive hln. GlnrlA'S kisterIn-lAW. I~ s.
becomes Intensely jealous ana b1ttpr
Royce discovers in her ar ATS t0 assist
"a thwartlng Eraueau. Doctor Royce
warns trercau THAT there l= anlt tr
woman besides GIuriai Ireuelu GOES
knowledge. TIL results iu pneumonia ror
Gloria. whose family becomes inceuaed az
Ertnpau Witcn Trey learn the trlth.
Royce ~ summoned fo alleviate GlariAs
suffering IrtreAu'H finances NttmE How
he aprrnHe Hes firrfuut stafford fur 4
loan Lnrfrf ltus again worms From II
~ lis corlurt. Eut Lois. learning of D re-
beams thtrufMaI fn Gloria. threatens N.m
with dire punishment Hcr husband. Glu-
rla.s brother NHFfi. becomes suspicious.
Nr plans ~ crap fr Digs W4tr.
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With Other Editors
Is Malicious GOssiD.

"All the loose and irresponsible talk
that j. going on in congress over the al
legged leak in regard to The president
note 10 the bclligerents Is in itself an az
gravated scandal" declares the New York
World. Charges hat are not supported
by sworn evidence are worse than worth
less. Testimony that Is not given under
oath j. either idle or malicious gossip. y
congressional investigation would ut least
have the merit OF dignity and authority.
Fort Worth Record.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-12

Cheeks should be made payable 10 The
Brownsville Herald Publishing 90. business
communication should be addressed 10 the
company. and items, letters. etc, intended for
publication should be addressed t. Editor. The
Herald. Brownsville. Texas. Letters intended
for publication should BE- signed with the fun
name Of the writer. The name will not be
printed If not desired. Bot it viii b. evidence Of
good faith On the part "a the writer.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-12

Brown7vIlle'9 Rotary club ~ promoting
the buy home habit IN nm unique and
effective way. At the january Rotary
"l.adies Night" the wives of the members
were pnt ~ n practical tests a- wv h1w
m1nr NJ NJ, member af tha club each was
efficiently acquainted with to write their
name, "0i businesses correctly and state
their bu~inc-- ard horne adlrc--e~ ac-
curaielv. When the women WI u rpmmui-
I'll gct ~ know each other ard each uth-
er's husband and hin business a-
thoroughly a~ would he called for w fll
this test, mail order house. viii have wv
PIT up bettor appeals than those contained
N the present run of catalogues 20 i'm
veielc money away from that community
IN return for article that can ~ pro-
cured AZ home.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-12
American Citizens of
65 May Be ? ensioned

WASHINGTON. u. C.. Jan. l2-Everv
American citizen over % who In incapable
Of manual labor and whose annual income
Wy less than 5000 annually. would gct - W
week pension under 4 bill before the house
pension committee.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-12
THE WEATHER FORECAST.

The following weather forecast for
the lower gnlf cnast states and the
Magic Valley Is issued hy tie United
States weather bureau at New Orleans:
Tonight unsettled: colder: Saturday
fair. colder. fresh to strong -oufher-
N winds. shifting to the northwest
Saturday.
Tho following IucIi weather olserya-
tinms Irn i-snnH TODAY hy MR.. IA. mr.. Reed.
lnited St.frs official weather OBSERVER at
EruWrHvil anl COVERS thr period rf
twcnty-faar harrs erIine al : g.. IA. TODAY.
Maximum temperature ...... ESQ
Minimum temperature ...... sl5
Barometrc pres ure ......... 5000
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Not Affected.

Friend-Well. rows the wan: affecting
youar
o-t-cubi-t-impre--ioni- scrptor-Not
"a bit. old chap. ! never sold anything be-
fore it stdrtcd-and ! haven't sinceE
Punch.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-12
Zeppelin Alarm Tulns
Out To Be Aeroplanes
lIlv Assneiatch rress.l

PARIS. Jan. IA Zeppelin alarm was
sounded here last night but ia turned out
Ia be aeroplanc~. The city wa- Immediately
plunged nto darkness and street ears were
stopped. There was little excitement and
few PariSians left their fire-ide~ to ~cc
what was happening. There was 10 dam
ace.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-12
M'CORMACK SEEKS CITIZENSHIP.

III NrFVtlFTFN HISS
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Jan. l2.-john
Mccormack, the singer, today applied to
the federal court fir citizenship. HE was
born in ireland.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-12

There ~ uc citrus cankcr IN the Magic
Valley, saws Dr. j. j. Morton. citrus in-
snec'or for the United State agricultural
department p lhe Lower Rio Grandc coun-
try. The only hing the matter with the
citrus industry wv far seems IN ~ y short
are N acre nlnntnh.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-12

An electric light that an Ohian has in
vented to illuminate the key hole in a door
y operated ny u push hutton on the door
knob.
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Subscribers in the city Of Brownsville who
fail to receive The Herald regularly are re-
quested to notify the Office promptly. Telephone
No. Z. New subscribers should receive their
FIST paper lot later than the second day after
the order is in the Office Of The Herald. Every
subscriber even in the most distant sections Of
the city. should not receive his paper not later
than 600 D. Ia.
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Entered as second class matter in the post
Office at Brownsville, Texas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-30
Purified as by Fire


 Although Sherman's description of war is true, war has already done some good things for this country. It has caused certain laws that have long handicapped business to be set aside, at least tempo rarily. It has been great social leveler, the rich man and his former servant training or fighting side by side. It has stimulated patriotism and national unity among people gathered from the fcur corners of the earth. It has in- spired thrift in place of extravagance ity and sobered the minds of the peo- pie.
 Every city and community in the neigh borhood of a training camp is called upon to cooperate with the war camp community recreation service in provid- ing all forms of wholesome recreation and the social privileges of home life for the soldier at liberty. MT. John D. Rocke- feler Jr., whose report as chairman of the grand jury Investigating vice condi- tions in New York city, opened the eyes of the public. is backing the effort to raise s4000,o00 with which to help safe guard the moral and physical well being of our soldiers while in training and to elevate moral standards throughout the land. This movement will not only in- crease the fighting efficiency of our army but will also have tremendous in- fluence on the moral purity of the next generation. It deserves the most earnest support of every patriotic man and woman.
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turing plant, if desired. You can even use it for making electricity and let it work nights and bottle up the work in a storage battery. The tractor of the future will carry the crops to the market, and do all the hauling of fer tilizers and other materials.
 "But how about the cost of fuel?" I asked. twill not 25-cent gasoline pre- vent any such industrial evolution?"
 T doubt whether gasolinle will be the tractor fuel of the future," was the reply. Kerosene is now being used on many of the machines which have been invented, and in the future the fuel will probably be alcohol and it will be made on the farm. You can manufacture alcohol out of almost any kind of vegetable matter from grain to wood and from potatoes to hay. The refuse and waste of every farm is enough to make all the alcohol needed to run it's machines, and the inventions of the future will probably make this an easy possibility. As it is, the whole business is in it's infancy. There are several score of factories working upon it and new machines of many kinds may be expected within the near future" FRANK CARPENTER.
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duced more than 100000 bushels. The average yield per acre of that crop, the | United States over has never been more than 90 bushels, and that notwithstand- ing the boys of the corn clubs of many of the states have been raising 100 bush els per acre and upward. We had more than 100000,000 acres in corn last year, and had we raised 50 bushels per acre the crop would have been twice what it was, and We might have shipped 300O,- 00o,000 bushels to Europe or other food stuffs, which would have taken their place.
 Already a great part of Henry Ford s farm is being worked with it. This farm will compare favorably with many of the European estates upon which the ma chimes are to be employed. It lies nine miles from Detroit and it consists of @vV acres. \ large part of it, l am told, is worth upwards of $100O per acre, from which you will see that it will have to yield mighty big crops to pay any kind Of an interest upon the millions involved
 in the investment. But that, I venture, cut but little ice in Mir. Ford's calcula- tion His ownership of the farm is large ly sentimental, and the same is true of his work on the tractor. He was born upon a part of the farm and he probably fol- lowed the blow horses in helping his fath- CT put in the few hundred-od acres which made up the old homestead, and as far as l can judge. it was no easy job. Much of the farm is made up of heavy soil, a mixture of clay and loam which would be difficult to work when at all wet. A great part of this has been underdrained, the surplus water be- ing carried off into the River Rouge, which runs through the property. This river has now been dredged to depth which permits Mir Ford's motor boat to move in and out by 1t, and I have heard it intimated that the raw materials for the tractors may be brought in by this stream.
 The whole farm is as flat as a floor. The fields are large and they are sur rounded by common wire fence. The most of the place is under cultivation and all the work is done by tractors.
 When I visited the farm they were cut ting wheat on some parts of the estate and in others they were blowing for the crops of winter wheat to be harvested next year. Altogether there were 1900 acres in grain, and the little tractors were dragging the reapers over the fields each tractor pulling one reaper. I got on one of the machines and drove it across the field. It was where the grain was already in shock and the trip was merely to show me how the tractor worked I sat on an iron seat as on a sulley blow, with a driving wheel like that of a motor car in front of me. Beyond this wheel, comprising the front part of the machine was the hood which covered the engine, and also the gasoline tank. Attached to this was another tank known as the air washer. All the machinery is inclosed in the hood, but there is so much
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-30

Copyright. 1917, by Frank G. Carpenter)
 Detroit, 19l7
 WRITE today of the farm tractor 7 as a coming asset in our great war
 with the Germans It is an old
 saying that an army can move only
 upon it's belly Cut off the food supply and the troops are defeated This was never so true as now, when not only the soldiers, but the nations side for the most of their food. The United States has become the bread basket of the nations. We must have food, not only for our 10000O,00O peo- pie at home but for the hundreds of millions of our allies and the armies abroad. From now on the cry from the "far-off Macedonia" over the ocean will be food, food and still more food How shall we supply it? We have the land, but not the men to cultivate it. Our laborers have been decimated by the draft and Uncle Sam is calling more and more men from the farms to the army Our only salvation is the use of machinery. We must make gasoline. kerosene and alcohol take the place of the human muscle we are forced to put into the trenches, and new inventions must enable one man to do the work of ten.
 Among the most important of these inventions is the farm tractor We have thousands already in use and the great factories here and at other in- dustrial centers are putting in new machinery to add to the number. They
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-30

should be aided in every possible way,
 and the Council of National Defense should see that they are furnished with men and supplies I understand that ] one sewing machine company has re- 1 ceEtly taken an order for $30000,000 worth
 of tractors to be built after a new de- sign, and l know that Henry Ford & | Son have accepted orders to make thou- sands of cheap tractors for Europe and
 that they are now preparing the tools | and plant to supply 5000 to England in 1 time for the blowing next spring. Mir
 Ford says it is better business to aid our allies to increase their own food supply | than to aid our farmers in raising food which must be shipped across 5000 miles 1 of water infested with submarines, whose business it is to destroy such supplies. Therefore, the first of his tractors will be sent to Europe, and it will probably be some time before they are ready for the American market It is only a few weeks ago that Mir. Lloyd George made speech as to the government plans for increasing the crops of the British Isles. At that time he said they had ordered thousands of tractors, and that England would have 5000 breaking sod at the close of this winter Many of the famous estates are to be devoted to the raising of food,
 and parks and lawns upon which the grass has grown for centuries will be turned up by these tractors. Every acre of cultivable land is to be used, and the tractor is to make up for the loss of
 the labor demands by the battlefields of France.
 If such a policy could be adopted and
 carried out in the United States, we could feed all the people upon this big, round earth, and supposing space could be brtdged, have enough left over for every man, woman and child on the planet of Mars. Our farming area to- day covers only a small part of the
 union. The total amount of our land is
 more than 200O0OO,0oo acres. That
 means 100000, ,000, GOO. and so far we
 have less than 1000, 100000 acres in farms.
 The actual amount is SIS, GOO 900 and of
 this only 47S,0o0,000 has ever been turned
 up by the blow. Nevertheless that com
 paratively small area has produced in
 one year more than 40C0000O00 bushels
 of corn and wheat, which at the cur
 rent prices of today, $1 corn and S2 wheat
 would be worth more than 1000 900 GOO.
 If we could bring all the farm lands
 now owned into use, this crop could be
 doubled, and the waste land that might
 be cultivated would make it many
 times more. The deep blowing of the
 farm tractor and the intensive cultiva-
 tion possible through other farm ma
 chinery could easily make two bushels
 of corn and wheat grow where one is
 now growing, so that the potential food
 stuffs of the United States are really
 beyond the dreams of the widest i'm
 agination.
 Take the corn crop. Tn 1917 we pro-