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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-10


1924 Hudson Coach
Looks and runs like a "26."
See this one.
1924 Overland Touring
Tires and geneva condition
good. Down payment $40.
1924 Oldsmobile Coupe
General condition very good
Down payment, $40.
1926 Oakland Sedan
This is a "27" series car and
carries full equipment.
1926 Dodge Coupe
This is a real transportation
at a cheap price.
1925 Jewett Coach
Four-wheel hydraulic brakes
and fully equipped.
1922 Studebaker Touring
General condition good. Down
payment $35,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-10

1925 CHEVROLET cOUPE-A-l shape:
good tires and appearances; S325; terms
HARE CHEVROLET CO., $40 E. Wash
ington ST.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-24

"The 40th legislatures act provided
. budget basis for he system which
enables IL 70 pay cash for it, sun
plies instead Of buying on credit and
paying high prices and high inter
est. As a result Of this new ar
rsnRsment, the pen~itsntiarys oper-
sting costs for 1897 were rsdnrs5
about $250.000 from the prersSirr
years total. Under the old mstheS
the state paid a premium for nrae-
ticaIly everything il bought. Now
prison supplies are bought at lowest
cash prices on q competitive a
ket.
THE seth legislature appropriated
s~a2,4l4s0o 20 oper7.e departments
Ind institutions from Sept. /, 1925.
. Sept. i. 1927. The present ad-
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-24

ministration inherited a long list Of
deficiencies, unpaid obligations and
departments and -nstituptions not
properly supported from the pre-
ceding administration. To meet
these, the 40th legislature should
have appropriated ~Ss.6S5.075. Thus,
the seth legislature should have APP
propriated $46.099.l57 for the period
from Sept. ], 1925 . Sept. ], 1927.
"The 40th legislature appropriated
SAT .056.333 to support the depart
ments and institutions. In other
words. the money Sct aside to sup
port the state from Sept. i. 1927,
TO Sept. !. 1929. was s957.l76 more
than the total for the preceding
biennium. The 40.h. however. pro-
vided s500,000 for vocational train
ing Of underprivilegci children. This
accounts for more than half the diff
ference. I approved the appropria-
tion. and while a like one was made
in the seth session. it was vetoed
by the governor who preceded me.
An increase Of more than 5000 900 to
care FOR the insane and unfortu-
nate in eleemosynary institutions ac-
counts for still more IF the differ
ence. Another appropriation-for
$500, 000-to build dormitories at A.
4 M. college for students who we're
living in huts. was made. These
necessary items explain the increase.
Aided Courts
"The preceding administration.
with a much smaller prison popula-
ton. spent s3.l49.l4f for prison
maintenance; during this admins
tration provision for an expenditure
of only s2.s1l,6s7 has been made.
THE people long nave asked for
judicial reform and the acce~leration
of litigation. They lave wanted
justice brought more nearly within
the reach of the rich and poor alike
Initial steps toward his goal were
taken by the 40th legislature. The
first requisite Of a successful jul
dietary is capable and courageous
judges. We have many capable judges
in Texas. but because Of meager
salaries paid. many Of our ablest
men would not offer for the bench
and many have retired. Salaries
have been raised and judicial service
made more inviting. Our appellate
courts are more nearly up with their
dockets than in years.
For a long time lie Texas law
on manslaughter vas n monstrosity.
Its technicalities made an avenue of
escape. The 10th legislature amend
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-24
WILL EXTEND
PHONE Lines
Next Directory TO In
clude All Valley
Towns |. Report

SAN BENITO, June 23.-Extension
Of rural lines from San Benito to
R~angerville, and to Holly Beach on
the coast are planned by the Rio
Grande Valley Telephone company,
according to officials of that COM
pany who were here this week.
At the time il was announced that
still another step is to be taken in
consolidating towns of the Valley in
issuing telephone directories. a. the
next directory will include every city
in the Valley, from Brownsville to
Mission, and Edinburg and Raymond
vile.
A number of extensions Of rural
lines are being made in other parts
Of the Valley. An exchange has re-
Gently been put in at Edcouch, and
n IL contemplated Mt Elsa o
Figures given out here by Off.
Gals Of the company show that San
Benito has more than twice az nan
rural phones as any other town con-
trolled by the company, with q total
Of $50. Mission is next with 40,
Mercedes has SO, San Juan 46; Edin-
burg az, and McAllen So.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-24
Structure Worth
100000 Planned
Near New Bridge
Especial to The Herald)

~ -
MERCEDES, June 23.-Construe-
ton of a large casino and of a bull
ring and athletic stadium and field,
representing a total expenditure of
around 100000, on the south bank
Of the Rio Grande near the site of
the new international bridge south of
here is announced by the developers
Of that section.
Concrete work on the bridge has
already been started, and the resort
structures are to be started and fin
ished at about the same time as the
bridge.
Plans are being worked out TO
stage feature boxing events in the
new ring, probably racing, and bull
fights occasionally. The entire see
tion 10 70 be handicapped and beauti-
fled, and the developers will erect
other structures as needed.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-24
Electrical, plumbing
Examiners Appointed

SAN BENITo. June 23.-Appoint-
ment Of electricians and plumbers TO
boards in this city which will give
examinations 10 persons desiring 70
electrical or plumbing work was an
~nounced at the meeting or the city
commission this week.
W. w. Patty was appointed master
plumber. and Fred Christiansbn.
journeyma nplumber on the plumb
ing board. a. s. Higgons vas ap-
pointed master electrician on the
electrical examining board.
The commissioners ordered a safe
to keep records in, and also decided
that they will place four name plates
at each street crossing in the city.
instead Of two as originally planned
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-24

ed this law TO abolish manslaugh-
ter rs ID offense ard make all vol
untary killings mIrder. This Law
has been upheld BY the court Of
criminal appeals.
Law enforcement has been i'm
proved measursbly. In January,
1927, there we're about 5000 state
prison inmates; COW there are
around 1876.
State Aids Vets
"In the state banking system only
three banks have sailed and been
placed in liquidation since the pres
ent commissioner took office. The
l~iouidating department has been
placed almost on a self sustaining
basis and il Heretofore has cost
creditors of insolvent banks as per
cent.
MANY other pieces. too numerous
10 mention. of remedial legislation
have been passed. Among them is
one establishing of a state service
office to assist disabled World war
veterans in securing compensation:
another authorizing the highway
commission to build interstate
bAaAAeo that bOiS NScu mot DC col
lected; another writing a new health
code and taking the health DEPART
ment out Of politics; another gking
a wife control OF community pDp.
erty when abandoned by her hus-
band; another reforming the libel
laws that the truth may be pub
lished; another Masking the courts
Of civil appeals accessible ~ months
in the year
I'm the expenditure of public
money. the public has received a
dollars value for the dollars spent
and there has been no question con-
corning the integrity Of a single ex-
penditure- Whatever suspicion or
distrust lurked in the public mind
has been removed and confidence in
our existing systems nave been re-
established.
These and other matters I shall
discuss before the people"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-24

SANTA ROSA. Jure 23.-Organiza-
tion Of a local unit OF the Rio Grande
Valley Vegetable Growers ~associa-
tion was completed here this week. A
packing shed will be erected for use
next season.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-24
NAME DELEGATE

HARLINGEN, June 23.-weed A.
~Stockwell was elected delegate to
the United Spanish War Veterans
convention in I'll Paso, and L. B. Tay-
Tor elected alternate at a meeting Of
Spanish war veterans held here.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-24
BASEBALL KILLS RARY

CHICAGO.-A baseball thrown BY
Robert Theis killed his baby sister
as she lay in her crib.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-24

CHICAGO.-As he was served at a
club banquet il was found that Mar
vim {. Wellen had died.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-08-24
FREE TRADE WORKS BOTH WAYS

The belief that the farmer would be
able to purchase manufactured goods
at a low price if the tariff bars were
let down is largely mythical A large
proportion of his important equipment
is duty free, and has been.
There are unquestionably other
articles that cost him little more
because of duty imposed on them for
the protection of competing American
manufacturers. If free trade were to
be established the farmer could buy
these at a lower price. This is OBJ
vious.
What may not be so obvious is that
at the same time the quantity OF bus
own produce that could be sold to
American consumers would be greatly
cut, and the price decreased to equal
ize competition from foreign produ-
GERS, who have the advantage OF cheap
labor. Free trade works both ways.
In other words, the farmer would be
losing dollars to save a few cents.
The tariff has grown steadily in i'm
portance. 1t is more necessary now
than it has been because of vary
ing world conditions, and the widening
discrepancy between the standard OF
living and wages paid here and else
where. Its greatest benefits come to
the farmer and the industrial worker
1t Is to their interest that it be main
tanned. In fact the tariff should be
increased, especially on farm pro-
ducts.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-08-24
FAvORS $1OO,OOO,OOO HIGHWAY
BOND ISSUE.

In an editorial headed Needed,
Progressive Leadership" the Hutchin-
SON Leader advocates bond issue
much larger than that advocated by C.
M. Babcock, state highway commits
sioner. The editorial, pointing out
the need of modern roads to fit mod
ern conditions, says:
There Is need n Minnesota of a
political leader of vision and foresight.
For instance, the state should have
a forward-l looking highway policy. We
confess that we have not heretofore
advocated anything revolutionary. We
have been as conservative as the
worst, but we are beginning to see the
light. Minnesota is marking time in
highway development and getting no
where. Modern conditions demand
good roads. We have passed beyond
the age of horse-and-wagon transpor-
tation. It Is too expensive to maintain
dirt and gravel roads for heavy traffic
and causes too much wear and tear
on cars and trucks.
The pay-as-you-go policy will never
build hard-surfaced roads, at least in
time for this generation to use them.
Why should we who are here now, and
never will be on earth again, be denied
modern facilities of transportation?
We have the cars, but lack the roads
required for economical motor travel.
Hutchinson should have at least two
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-08-24
SUPPOSE 1T WERE YOURS"

Suppose you had a piece of property
upon which you were dependent for
your living, and it was necessary to
have other people around to whom you
paid salaries and wages to help you
run the place. What would you say
if some of those people persisted in
doing things which kept you on the
jump all the time to keep the place
from burning up? Suppose you heard
one of them say, when asked why he
was not more careful about where he
tossed his cigarette butt, why should
I care, it isn't my mill" Frankly now,
what would you say?
After all, isn't that practically what
we reply when we are persistently
careless not only with fire but with
other things, too?
There are hundreds of ways in
which we can prevent fires. We can
be careful with matches and with
cigarette butts. The largest single
cause of fires in this country is cigar
ettes In 1926 fire losses of $50, 160,0 900
were caused by this one thing alone.
Before you throw away that match
or cigarette be sure it is out. Before
you throw away your lunch papers
look for the rubbish can.
Do unto others as you would like
others to do unto you. This is one
of the BEST rules of life ever present.
ed to man. In your habits, is it too
much to ask you to SUPPOSE 1T
WE'RE YOURS?-From Safeguarding
America Fire.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-08-24
THE BENEFITS OF HIGHWAYS.

Highways are an investment that
pays real dividends and shows profits,
according to Frank Page, Chairman of
the North Carolina Highway Commits
sion. In a recent speech, he showed
what benefits have come to that state
from it's fine roads.
AS the first item, Mr. Page listed re-
lief to towns and counties and savings
to road users, through reducing wear
and tear and losses.
Second, educational opportunities.
Third, the rapid, cheap and safe
transportation of agricultural products,
Fourth, factories avoid congested
centers and labor needs no tenements
in town.
Fifth, increased accessibility of re-
sorts and places of scenic interest.
Sixth, the appeal good highways
make to potential residents.
Seventh, social advantages, by doing
away with isolation.
These are highways dividends" that
are paid in every state and every 10
cality. A community that neglects
building good and adequate roads is
condemning itself to mediocrity and
retrogression.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-08-24

road; 1921 in passing standing street
car; 691 passing on wrong side; 938
making wrong turn; 631 passing on
curve or hill; STA disregarded officers
signals; 382 drove through safety
zone; 1920 did not have right of
way; 1,750 disregarded arterial stops.
The usual remedy suggested by
those unfamiliar with the situation is
elimination of railroad grade crossings.
at grade crossings and grade crossing
accidents are responsible for but a
small proportion of total fatalities.
If accidents are to be reduced and
driving on the highways made reason
ably safe, there must be written into
our statutes regulations which by
driving qualifications will prevent the
reckless, inexperienced, or physically
incapacitated individual from obtain
ing a drivers license.
Railroad crossings, boulevards and
densely travelled intersections and
highways should be made arterial
stops. With nearly 24,OO0,OOO licensed
automobiles in this country and in
creasing every day, and with about
$4,000 accidental deaths occurring in
1927, of which 22,251 resulted from
automobiles on the highways, the time
has come when, for the public safety
and welfare, definite and remedial
action must be taken to curb primary
conditions responsible for such results.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-08-24

in prima facie evidence that you have
been. driving at greater speed than
is reasonable and proper.
To avoid confusion 1t is much simp-
Ter to remember this rule:
DRIVE SLOW ENOUGH SO YOU
CAN STOP IN THE CLEAR SPACE
AHEAD.
If you stick to that rule you will
be safe from arrest except in a very
few communities where they make ar
rests for technical offences instead of
careless driving. Fortunately the
number Of such communities in Min
nesota is growing smaller and smaller
But more important than helping
you to avoid arrest, this rule If gen.
orally observed would cut down ac-
cidents at least ninety per cent.
1t is well to study the state law rela
tive to speed, as well as all other parts
Of the traffic act. Anyone can OBJ
tain copy by writing to c. M. Bah
cock, commissioner of highways, ST.
Paul. But since few can remember
the whole traffic law, 1t is worth
while to repeat this rule:
ALWAYS DRIVE SO YOU CAN
STOP IN THE CLEAR SPACE
AHEAD.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-08-24
A LOGICAL ALTERNATIVE.

at often happens that injury tc
person or property is wrought by a
careless automobile driver who Is
utterly irresponsible financially" says
the Duluth Herald. "He has no money
to pay damage claims, he does not
even have large enough equity in
his car to help, and he carries no in
surance
1.-THE offhand reaction to that was
the early demand for compulsory in
surance. Compel everybody who oper-
ates an automobile to take out liability
insurance" was the cry.
"Well, though one state, Massachu-
sets, has adopted the plan, it has not
grown in popularity, nor has the Mass
achusetts experience improved the
case for it. Insurance authorities, who
might be expected to be for it because
it would bring insurance companies
much business, are unanimously
against it. It demoralizes the insur-
ance business, it takes away from in
surance companies their right to select
risks, and it does not decrease acct
dents though it greatly increases DAM
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-08-24
HIGH TAXES PREVENT PROGRESS

In front of home in Western
town a sign informs the world of the
high tax rate in effect. 1t says: Taxes
on this little home are $166.37 year,
or $13.86 a month. 1t does not pay to
own your own home in this city"
Commenting on this Capper's Weekly
remarked that "such signs could in
justice be put up in many American
cities, and perhaps if they were some
thing would be done about it sooner
than will be-"
An exhorbitant tax rate will pre-
vent community's progress more
certainly than anything else. 1t is a
bar to prospective home builders and
businesses Industries, to whom taxes
are of paramount Importance, will
pass it by in favor of other localities
where a fair rate is charged.
The wise community will refrain
from voting bond issues and improve
ment programs for which it is not
prepared AS much as possible it will
pay as it goes along, so that taxes
may be kept down. In that direction
lies real growth and progress.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-08-24

hard-surfaced trunk highways, one
running east and west, one north and
south. Under prevailing policies she
will never get them, in our time. Not
only Hutchinson, but the whole region
round about is in the same predica-
ment. Mcleod county could be well
served by two east and west paved
highways and two north and south,
and should have them.
This requires bond issue. We think
Commissioner Babcock with his twen-
ty million dollar bond proposal is all
too timid and modest. 1t would take
a hundred million dollars to build the
roads the state ought to have. The
highway department could furnish
figures to show why it would be econ
omy to borrow even that enormous
sum to build the roads at once, rath-
er than waste the same amount in q
long period of gravel and dirt road
maintenance.
A bond issue presuppoSes sound
system for sinking funds and retire
ment in due time. 1t Is not neces-
sarily imposing an unjust burden on
posterity. Borrowing money for some
purposes is entirely justificable. This
is one such purpose. Modern bust
ness is largely conducted on borrowed
capital. 1t is the only way to keep
the surplus money of the country
working.
Benefits to farmers of this county
from four such trunk roads as sug-
geSted above in saving on wear-and-
tear, in improved facilities for mark
citing products, in increased farm
values, in better prices, in saving OF
time, would more than offset interest
charges on bonds, though there would
be no need of charging interest OF
principal to general taxation.
Some other states are awake to the
highway needs of their people, but we
are still sleeping. Where is the man
of vision and enthusiasm who car
wake us up?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-08-24

age claims, many of them trumped up.
But the menace of the irresponsi-
BILE driver still exists, and something
more than an argument against COM
pulsory insurance is needed.
Edison S. Lott, President of the
United States Casualty Company, has
done better than most. He has sug-
gested an alternative. Instead OF
compulsory insurance, he proposes that
any man who has an unsatisfied
judgement against him for automobile
damages caused by him shall not be
allowed to register or operate an auto
mobile until it is paid.
'That sounds like likely remedy,
much likelier than compulsory insur-
ance which would bring more evils
than it cures, and it deserves study
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-08-24
ON THIS OCCASION
Continued from LIST page. J

trips throughout the state and at no
place was it necessary to build a high
priced fence to keep out some neigh
boris cow, in fact, the scarcity of fences
was the deciding factor in the running
at large of cattle. With the fences re-
moved, 1t will be up to the cow owner
to care for his stock and fence the
animals and not put the burden of
their keep on the city council and the
lot owners. Fenceless lots are for the
identifying of the city. Tourists re-
mark on the cleanliness of our alleys
and streets and then wonder why it is
necessary to build fence around your
property. When six thousand people
are at the mercy of about 60 or 70 cow
owners, 1t does not speak well for
city The. state laws regarding the run
ming at large of cattle are very explicit
and covers every township and city IN
the state. The law does not compel
you to build fence to keep cattle out
but puts the burden on the owner or
cattle to see tina. they do not tres
pass on lots, gardens, boulevards and
oCIler private properly.
We hope the Senators here will look
at the matter from the standpoint of
not only the Backus affair but also
from the standpoint of the timber
situation. The county commissioners
of Lake and Cook counties yesterday
told the Senators at LutSen of their
problems and the problems that would
follow were they deprived of more tax
values.
The rotogravure section of the Min
neapolis Journal had a picture of what
will follow should the dam PROPOSE
ton be carried through. The picture
told the truth and was taken by the
Congressional committee at Crane
Lake and depicted tumble of dead
and down timber killed by the raising
Of the water by the dam built there
several years ago.
AS we have said before in our re-
marks anent the Backus proposition
to make an ocean of the border waters,
we are not in favor of the plan. Meth
er are we in harmony with those VINO
wish to remove this country from the
opportunity to aid established indus
try and place it in park. Under the
Department of Agriculture, a program
has been worked out and is being car
ried through by which timber for
woodworking industries and the mines
will be available for an indefinite per-
iod. Place it into park, and these
industries will suffer and Lake and
Cook counties will be deprived of the
larger part of their taxable lands.
Pete DeSJardins, who learned to
swim in the Arrowhead Country, won
two championships in diving at the
Olympic games. Arrowhead products
are known the world over and many
an embyro champion is In the making
in this section of health, climate and
progress. DesJardins was taught to
swim in the Rainy River when his
father managed the King Edward
Hotel at Rainy River several years
ago.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-08-24
STATE SPEED LIMIT.

What is the speed limit in Mime
sota?"
That is common question, espe-
cially at this time of the year when
tourists from other states are most
numerous and when many of the
home folks are taking their annual
vacation trips.
To give complete answer and
quote the sections of the law giving
the reasonable" speeds at various
places would take a half column in
this paper, and after you get all
through you have to explain that
these are not maximum speeds, but
simply that going at higher speeds