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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-11-22
A. & M. OFFICIAL IS
HELD: FUNDS SHORT
(Rv The Associated Press \

BRYAN, Tex, Nov. 21.-Charles A.
Felker, formerly chief clerk of the ex-
pertinent station system of the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical college of Tex
as. was bound over to grand jury action
today in the sum of $4,000 in thirty
two cases against him for shortage Of
funds. The hearing was before Judge
J. w. Hamilton of the justice court.
Felker was defended by Representa-
tive w. S. Barron of Brazos county.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-11-22
English Consider
Women for Ministry

LONDON, Nov. 21,-"Her Grace, the
Archbishop Of Canterbury" may be
known By the present generation Of
children in England.
50 evident IN the lack Of candidates
for the ministry in the ChHreH 0f Eng
land that authorities are being forced
to consider the problem of amItttng
women to the Holy Orders
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-11-22
Royal Livestock Show
At Kansas City Ends
(By The Associated Press y

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Nov. 2l.-The
twenty-seventh annual American Royal
Livestock show, which has been going
on here. all week closed tonight with a
horse show.
Most of the fine stock will be sent to
Chicago tomorrow for the international
livestock exposition.
total $4,000 persons visited the
show this year. The figures exceed
slightly those for last year.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-11-22
Solons Favor Extra
Session, Irwin Says

DALLAS, Tex, Nov. 21.-Hardly had
the ink dried on the court record Of the
latest major development in the state
highway mbroglio-Attorney General
(Contiued on Page Two.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-05

The survey, compiled from reports
of farm lands, dealers in thirty-one
States and two Canadian provinces.
gives a valuable measurement of
the present tendency in farm lands.
Members of the Farm Lands Divi-
sion of the National association
have submitted their records and
observations for the survey which
is made on the plan of similar re-
ports made for 1924 and 1928.
Movement Checked
There is a check in the movement
from the farm to the city. according
to the report. Only 26 per cent of
the replies to the questionnaires sent
cut indicates any decrease in the
local farm population, while the
survey Of 1923 showed a practically
unanimous report of decrease and a
third of the 1924 replies pointed out
2 diminution of farm land popula-
ton. Thirty per cent Of this years
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-05

Highway, has within the past two
weeks since, the new road was
opened, become one of the best
known around the city.
The Bowie races have attracted
thousands of motorists over the
new route and many have used
the new highway in visiting Herald
Harbor, the summer home colony
on the Severn river.
Many are finding the Defense
Highway a shorter route from Bal
timore and Washington and others
are now using that route from
Washington to Annapolis.
Extensive home development
operations are being planned for
property situated on the new high.
way and another season lis expected
to witness the Transformation of
this part OF the county from a
neglected area into one OF the
most actively developed.
Herald Harbor property owners
use the Defense Highway from the
Bladensburg Memorial Cross to the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-05

replies indicate an increase in the
number of people living in agricul-
tural districts.
The greatest percentage of pur-
chasers of farm lands are the
farmers themselves, not speculative
buyers, indicating continuing
healthy condition of the national
economic life. Buyers of land to
hold for increased prices are second
IN number. While the number OF
purchasers of farm land who ar"
preparing to hold for a long time
investment is third greatest.
Land Prices Rise
An actual increase in the price
Of land during the last year has
been reported by more than half Of
the brokers who reported and over
90 per cent indicates that future
rise is expected.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-05
FLORIDA OCEAN
FRONT LOTS
OFFERED
Miner Corporation to Open
New Plat in Boca Ration
Development

The first ocean front property to
be offered to the public at Boca
Ration by the Miner Development
Corporation goes on sale next Mon
day morning at the various offices
Of the company. The plat that con-
stitutes this initial sale of beach
property is known as north beach
addition and lies between Florida
coast line canal and the ocean.
The plat has been charted so
that all lots are uniform in width,
the size being 100-foot frontage
and varying in depth from 375 TO
$50 feet. The lots run right
through from the ocean to Contra
Costa, the new ocean boulevard DIT
Boca Ration. The Miner concern
did not anticipate putting any Of
it's two and one-half miles Of ocean
front on sale for another month,
but the demand has increased to
the proportions of pressure and il
was with the thought of pleasing
the great number of applicants
that Mr.. Fryhofer consented to the
sale next Monday.
Canal Frontage
A considerable portion of canal
frontage will go on sale stimuli
taneously. These lots are along
the Alba road and fronting on the
canal. They range from 100 feet
to 20 feet in depth and border
canal that is part of the waterway
system that forms the inland route
for yachts bound from Jacksonville
TO Miami.
Addison Miner, who will super.
wise and VINO conceived the plat,
has arranged yacht basin slips
for each canal front lot, these to
be installed and completed by a1l
at the expense of the Miner De-
Velopment Corporation.
Between the canal and ocean
front property are other lots more
moderate in dimensions, owing to
the narrowness Of the terrain at
this point and at convenient inter
walls throughout the section cross
streets traverse the plat from canal
to ocean. The lots in this section,
according TO Mr. Fryhofer, have
Of the opinion that but few days
will suffice to exha ust the plat.
Restricted Community
AS in every other plat in the
Miner holdings az BOca Ration. this
one will have the personal attention
of Addison Miner who must ap-
prove all buildings of whatever
nature. Restrictions are in keep
ing with the high class area. A
condition OF the sale states that all
applications for purchase are ac-
cepted by the sales company. sub
ject to the approval of the general
sales manager and checks and
applications can he returned with
out liability.
This latter phase is in keeping
with the policy Of the Miner or
EanizatiOn to keep ocean front
property in cOngenial hands.
With the acute demand for ocean
footage, there is no question of the
rapid disposal of the North Beach
addition.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-05

intersection with the Grain High
waye@ and from that point use the
Grain Highway. The total distance
from Washington to the Harbor y
twenty.seven miles over this route.
At least one bus line VIII %
operated over the new route ne1s
season, which insGres a new and
quick means Of transportation from
Washington to Herald Harbor. With
$50 homes already built and many
Others ordered for next seasons
use the bus line will afford an Ideal
ARRANGEMENT for commuters.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-05
BEES DANCE TO TALK,
SAYS GERMAN SAVANT

BERLIN, Dec Bees carry on
conversation by means OF special
dances. according to Professor Karl
Won Frisch, who has made close
study of the life Of the bee.
The professor says that bees
communicate by peculiar gyrationA.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-05
NEW TERRITORY
OPENED BY
HIGHWAY
National Defense Road Gives
Ready Access to Herald
Harbor

For years practically isolated
from most Of washington, that Sec
ton Of Prince Georges county
traversed by the National Defense
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-05
Farm Lands Market
Is Optimistic

An optimistic outlook fol the farmer based the
number of sales of farm lands easier credit at the banks
equitable scale of prices for farm products and
the value of farm lands indicated by the
Of the farm lands market which has been made by the
National Association CT Real Estate Boards
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-05
Lies Rough Journey

CHICAGO. dec. J.-"Life's road
Is too rough for people like me, -
said a farewell note written by
Miss Carrie Lawton before she took
poison.
Evening star., 1925-07-04
A Short Cut Proposed.

Announcement is made that the de-
fense in the Scopes case in Tennessee
will forestall a detailed trial of the
evolution teaching issue at Dayton by
an appeal directly to Federal court
to hear the constitutional question in
volving the right Of State to dictate
the manner and form of religious
teaching and educational procedure If
this move is made the Dayton trial,
which has been so widely advertised
as a sensational case, will be reduced
to nothing, and the proceedings, in
stead of comprising expositions and
arguments on the merits Of the evolu-
ton theory, will be merely a techni.
cality of law.
In point of fact, the proposed pro-
cedure is the right one to pursue. The
issue in this case is not evolution, but
the right of the State to prescribe a
mode and school Of education, with
Evening star., 1925-07-04
Speed and Street Accidents.

Two little boys have been killed by
motor cars in the streets of this citv
within two days. The director of
traffic declares that if the drivers of
cars aye not more careful, the speed
limit, which now permits a rate of
% miles an hour within the city. Will
be reduced
The death of these children could
have been avoided if the machines
which hit them had been more per
fectly under control The children
themselves undoubtedly were careless
Children usually are, in the streets
1t is the fact that little folks are con.
stantly in the streets, playing there
for lack of suitable safe spaces, or 60
ing on errands, that imposes a special
ec1Eation upon all drivers to be alert
to avoid accidents.
A motor car thar is being driven
at high rate of speed through the
streets cannot be diverted from its
course or checked in time to prevent
accident when a child runs out from
the curb. Many, indeed most of the
streets of the city, are choked with
standing machines, which narrow the
driving space and prevent clear view
of conditions at the curbs. A child
suddenly emerging into the driving
space from behind a standing car is
in instant peril. 1t is up to the driver
of an approaching car to avoid hit
ting him. 1t matters not that the
child is violating the rules by leaving
the curb in the middle of the block
No rule can possibly prevail to pre-.
vent little folks from going into the
street wherever and whenever they
wish, however inconvenient it may be
to drivers to avoid them
The only rule of safety is that every
Evening star., 1925-07-04
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES L. TRACEWELL.

Here is a fat woman with a fat
Japanese parasol.
l am sure the Nipponese worker
who framed that gay thing of bamboo
| and paSU c8uld not have had the
lady in mind, yet, If he had, he could
not have better harmoniZed 1t with
| her frame.
Rotund to a degree, ample of
girth, face of moon proportions, the
| lady exactly fits her round, ample
parasol, under which she walks like
one of those "contented cows" we
read about.
There Is an old balloon man, given
an onward urge. 1T seems, by the lift
| ing power of his wares, which
struggle in a gay array aboYe him.
But now the balloon man is
| anchored.
He stands by a letter box, talking
| sleeves. Animated conversation pre-
walls. accompanied by jerks and sal
| lies of the yellow and red balloons.
No, not only children love ball
looms! Many men and women harbor
| secret longings to buy them and
| some there are who give away to the
urge and invest in the gay wares,
which they take home and tie to the
chandelier in their room.
| Lucky is the man who has a child
| to buy his balloon for, 1t is like
taking the children to the circus"
The old man has a longing to see the
three great rings, himself, but he is
| ashamed to admit it.
So he "just takes the boys"
Blessings upon thee, children!
What would the grown ups" do
without you?
| We pass the towering antenna sys-
TEN of great broadcasting station.
How goes the radio game now? 1t
does not seem that as many people
are talking radio as formerly. What
do you think?
We pass store after store-candy,
| restaurants. pastry, cooking utensils,
music, dry goods, drug stores, station
cry stores and countless others. AL
most anything that man requires can
be purchased along Fourteenth street.
The accent seems to be upon the
shops devoted to things to eat. After
all, what a perpetual interest we have
| in grub! Show me the man with
stomach so dead who never TO himself
hath said, Let's go in there and get
a soda water" and l will show you
the gentleman who ought TO seek a
doctor.
Everything and every one goes
| here. There is life, motion, noise,
music, hustle, hustle, laughter, talk,
groups, knots, parked automobiles al
most hiding the street car lines from
sight, bells, horns. dignified old gen
tlemen, jolly young fellows, animated
girls, children eating lollypops, dogs
running in and out, matrons carrying
home baskets of provisions. dark
faces working men, night, electric
lights.
If you grow tired of life come to
upper Fourteenth street and lose
yourself in the flowing crowds. There
you will find a sort OF noisy oblivion
an animated Nirvana, a peaceful
hurlyburly. in which you may rest.
1t reminds you of the Atlantic City
Boardwalk. No one pays any particu
lar attention to you, yet you feel at
home. Immensely so. On upper Four
teenth street the pedestrian, whether
chronic or occasional, shares this feel
| ing.
Go to Fourteenth street. then, If
you are sad, but go especially if you
are glad, for this is the street that
Santa Claus visits every night in the
year,
Evening star., 1925-07-04

motor car shall be always in control
against the possibility of a sudden
emergence of a pedestrian. X the 22-
mile rate does not permit this degree
of control, it is undoubtedly too high.
But it is not matter of mileage rates.
after all 1t is a question of intelli-
gent and considerate car management.
Car drivers may be greatly annoyed
by the children in the streets, but
they must remember children have
been using the streets for many geRs
erations, long before there were nl@~
tor cars. 1t is idle to seek to put th
responsibility upon the parents. They
cannot personally watch the children
every minute of the day. They are, Of
course, concerned vitally in the safety
of their little ones. They tell them to
keep out of the streets at play and
to be careful when they cross, but
they know that their admonitions are
often futile.
The drivers alone can prevent the
accidents, by always keeping their
machines under control to meet emer-
gencies. Reduction of their speed to
the point of safety for everybody is
not hardship. A safely driven car
gets its occupants to destination al
most as quickly as a car that is driven
at a pace that leaves no margin of
safety against the suddenly appearing
person, adult or child. There is no ad-
vantage in speed that compensates
for the injury or death of anybody,
old or young. No driver who has had
such an accident can ever feel justi-
fed for having crowded the legal
speed limit.
Punishments, severe enough to ad-
monish all drivers, should be inflicted
in all cases where severe personal in
juries or death result from street
collisions. The responsibility, after
all, rests upon the driver of a machine
that by its momentum infiicts damage.
for it is assured that by driving at a
lower speed through the city he is al
ways in a position to avoid accidents.
Evening star., 1925-07-04

reference to a religious belief What
ever may be done in the Dayton court,
IL the case is heard there, the vital
question of the States right to dictate
the course of education must eventual
ly be heard in the Federal courts, ulti-
mately in the Supreme Court.
The fortunes Of the teacher, Scopes,
are only involved incidentally in this
matter He is simply the lay figure of
the test. The beliefs Of religionists
are likewise only incidentally involved.
The State Of Tennessee has under
contrary. it is held, to the Constitu-
ton. No local jury is qualified to de-
termine this question of fact. No
local court has jurisdiction over the
question OF law involved. A Federal
court must pass judgment, and it were
well to carry the case by the shortest
route to the point of final determine
ton.
Removal of the trial from Dayton
would be sore disappointment to that
oliliAi community, WHICH, mas pLScIlcu
itself over its notoriety and has pre-
pared for a gala time when the legal
and religious leaders gather there for
the great battle and the crowds of
curious people assemble to watch the
proceedings. Naturally a shortcut
move to secure decision on the funda-
mental question by the Federal courts
would deprive it Of a profitable at
traction. But the country would be
better off in the avoidance of a futile
debate upon what is actually in this
situation, a moot question.
Evening star., 1925-07-04
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

A Yawn.
So this is the Fourth Of July.
High Ho!
The rockets will course through the
sky
And merrily dazzle the eye
AS they go.
High Ho!
Please pardon this bit of a yawn.
High Ho!
We tell Of the days that are gone
When men gave their brains and their
Drawn
Faith to show.
High Ho!
Their words and their deeds we re-
call
High Ho!-
To avert what might sadly befall.
This tributes amazingly small,
Dull and slow.
High Ho'
Evening star., 1925-07-04
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

Q. How much should a girl who ex-
poets to go to college four years al
low for clothes?-S. r. T.
A. A girl can dress attractively and
appropriately on $3.50 a year If she
has most of her dresses made at home,
if she shops carefully, buying coats,
etc, out of season, and if she plans
deliberately. A fair allowance for the
girl who must buy most of her clothes
ready made is $3.50.
@. How many telephones are there
in the United States?--M. T.
A. The latest compilation gives a.
BAT, 1896 telephones for the entire coun-
try. Nevada has the fewest, having
1898, and New York the most, hav-
ing 1,7S0,563.
Q. Is there likely to be any change
in the present immigration law?-D.
Il.
A. A law providing for the admis-
sion of immigrants to the United
States on a selective rather than the
quota basis is to be urged upon Con
gress at the next session by the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers.
They maintain that any plan of selec-
tive immigration has the advantage
over the present plan; that the ques-
ton of who is to be admitted would be
answered at the home of the person
seeking to come to the United States,
and not at Ellis Island and other i'm
migrant stations.
Q. Has the Dominican Republic a
good system Of roads?-T. w.
A. A fairly adequate highway sys-
tenn supplies land communications;
there are about a thousand kilometers
Of roads, some macadamiZed and
others paved with asphalt. Neverthe-
less, for commercial purposes pref
erence is usually given to water com.
munication, carried on small national
coasting vessels, which render efficient
and inexpensive service.
Q. How much dressed meat did the
average American consume last year?
IT. G.
A. The Bureau Of Animal Industry
says that the average American con.
sumed 164.9 pounds Of dressed meat
for the year 1924; Of the per capita
consumption pork accounted for 8S.S
pounds. Beef ranked next in favor
with 62.6 pounds. Veal stood third
| with 8.3 pounds and mutton and lamb
combined. were fourth with SO
pounds.
Q. What is meant by the term SIS
as used on affidavits and similar docu
ments?-W. NJ. B.
A. "Scilicet." 1t has the significance
of that is to say; 10 wit; namely" II
is employed in the jurat Of an affidavit
for example, to particularize the place
of execution.
Q. When and where did THE Little
Minister" open?-G. r. s.
A. Maude Adams opened in this
play ION an intolerably hot night,
September IS, 1897, in the Lafayette
Square Theater, Washington. The re
ceipts for the first week were only
| $3,500, but the play was a spectacular
| success from the time it opened il
New York.
Q. VIII bamboo grow in the United
States &C. o.
A. The Department of Agriculture
| says that bamboo trees will thrive in
the South Atlantic, Gulf Coast and
Pacific Coast States. and in some OF
| the States of the lower Mississippi
valley. The giant timber bamboo
| and one or two of the smaller grow
| ing kinds, such as the stake bamboo
would be most valuable for these
| farm home groves. These groves, il
properly handled, in the course OF
s TO 10 years would prove not only
Evening star., 1925-07-04
The 149th Anniversary.

Independence day has come again,
the 149th anniversary of the signing
of the Declaration by which the Ameri-
can Colonies asserted their right OF
freedom from British rule. Close upon
a century and a half has passed. and
the Republic founded upG~ that procla-
ma ation of liberty still lives, tIIo -trong
est government in the world.
1t is difficult for US today to vision
the situation in 1776, when the signers
placed their names upon that docu-
ment at Philadelphia. The present
generation of Americans knows moth
ing of the peril that attended that
act. Every man who inscribed his
signature upon the Declaration was
signing his own death warrant in case
the experiment failed. He became sub
ject to the vengeance of the govern
ment at London.
There was small chance, indeed, for
the success of the establishment Of
an Independent government The Col
onies were not closely united. They
were widely divergent in interests.
The elements of disunion were pres
ent in the temperamental and in
dustrial and social differences which
prevailed. Not all of the colonists were
In favor of a secession from the Brit
ish authority.
1t required the highest courage for
the signers to declare themselves, in
h. ,ft he zf
They had no military organization
and their resources We're slender. They
had just cause, but justice does not
always win in the affairs of nations
They trusted in the spirit of independ
ence which had been developed among
the people who had settled and de-
yeloped the wild lands of America
In 1875 there Were no means of
rapid communication, to weld the peo-
pie into unity of thought and action.
BY courier alone was the word of the
signing of the Declaration carried
forth. The few newspapers. printed
infrequently, gave only the text of the
proclamation some time after the
Yet the response of the colonists to the
summons to sacrificial service was i'm
mediate and sincere.
Had the success of the Declara ton
depended alone upon its instant in
dorsement by the people there would
have been no doubt of the triumph of
the Colonies. But there remained the
need of conducting a long and costly
warfare that tried the spirit of the
Nation. Discoura gements and losses.
sproportionate to the numbers and
resources of the people had to be suf-
fered. The faith and the military skill
of one man, the leader in the field,
George Washington, surmounted these
obstacles to success. But for his serv-
ice, his wisdom and his unfiagging
confidence in the righteousness of the
cause it would have failed, and the
Declaration of independence would
have become but a paper writing of
historical interest. The world would
have suffered loss even greater than
the colonists, for the cause Of human
liberty would have been set back and
the inspiring example of American in
dependence would have been lacking.
Properly to observe Independence
day now calls for a consideration of
those sacrifices and sufferings entailed
IN carrying out the brave pronounce
ment which 149 years ago was made
by 55 Americans in the name of their
fellow men.