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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-21

wasn't a talker; kept his own coun-
sci. The town discussed him uncer-
tainly. The strange new. postwar
world was 20 strong. Most Of them
were. one way or another. caught up
in il. At bottom they we're a prac-
teal folk.
The independent human individual
these days had a rather mean ROW
70 hoe. Among the puzzling forces
that combined III that immense line
Of force called the United States
the dominant note was organization
Like old Ham. young lam Pew.
editor, stood alone. On his own two
legs.
There was something %apnealingly
cuixotic IN the picture. An old
fashioned personal survival ~ char
acter and conviction in a rather visit
fully old-fashioned town. He was
due for another fiGht-the biggest in
his life.
tRead tomorrow about Hams sis.
ter making a date a LAKELAND. the
rnadhnuse. on the sly.1
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-21
STELLA

A few ar the seveRteenth-century
dwellings,, blackened BY weather. still
stand, close 10 the old turnpike.
There are many well-kept white
homes Of the eighteenth and early
nineteenth centuries. some with brick
ends. others with fan lights and
carved door posts. each housing its
wealth of heirlooms finely
worked mahogany and maple and wal
nut Of the early days, luster and
pewter and copper. Stuarts and Cop
leys and Peales, pictured wall paper.
The lawns are clear, hedges and
shrubs neatly trimmed, the elms
cared for like the helpless old. There
has always been thrift and modest
wealth IN Ackland. and there has
always been taste.
Ackland knows its past and takes
wholesome pride in IL. From the
Green in front Of the town hall hus-
lands and sons marched off in home
spun TO fight King Phillips painted
From behind the stone
walls that still line the country roads,
the descendants Of those frontiersmen
took pot shots at the hired Hessians
Of George III. Washington maneuver-
ed ~hereahouts. Lafayette was feted
here. Openly. by day, years later,
John Bostford preached abolition. and
BY night struggled fugitive blacks
through toward Canada. Philosophers
and poets have found the village a
congenial home.
or the many pronounced charac-
ters with which the old place has
bristled. 10 be frowned over and
chuckled over in the guarded Yam
kee way. perhaps the last was Alex
ander Hamilton Pew. A bony. tall
man, with gray hair, bushing out
over a stiff collar. "A mar OF vigor.
Of sentcntious wit, Of unSpotted in
tegrity, he made the weekly Ackland
Age a paper TO be quoted from the
Atlantic 10 the Pacific; and this
in a day when Horace Greeley and
the Springfield Republican and the
Burlington Buckeye and the Detroit
Free Press held the humorous field.
when Bill Nye and Bret Harte and NJ.
Quad and Mark Twain and Eli Perkins
were names. indeed. He went 70 con
rress. old Ham Pew, and was felt
there.
Aekland. during the period of the
present story. was still aware Of the
Are and its history. and felt a neigh
borly respect for the sons. Young
Ham and Homer. who had inherited
the paper. IL seemed natural for the
Pew boys to he carrying on. Most Of
the old families we're still alive in
the town. Botsfcrds and Tinkhams
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-21
Washington
Letter

WASHINGTON. May 2l.-Conserv-
alive folks. sick Of tho Paul Pry sort
Of investigations the ~senate's beer
carving on i'm recent years, thought
they'd won n great victory when
they blocked a senate inquiry into
the power industry a few weeks ago
and handed the probe over 20 the fed
craI trade commission instead.
N did look like a triumph OF the
%whitevash brush for n fact.
Not that ! mean To imply the power
industry needed any calcimine. Far
he IL from me 10 slur an industry
they counts its small change in bill
lions. still. W a lily has got "a b
painted, a competent decorators bet
ter than some darned blacksmith.
Anywav-nitv the poor industry
that gets caught hy a radical senate
investigation committee!
n may re AZ pure ~ alabaster 70
begin with; itll require compressed
air and n sand blast IN take the dirt
off. by tho time that gang gets
through paving IL.
That's what the power industrys
well-wishers kicked on.
Twas Tom Walsh of Montana who
proposed a senate scrutiny Of the
mower "~intrusts.' Twas Senator
George Of Georgia who moved %
amend hy having the federal trade
commission do the scrutlnizlng.
Time was when the federal trade
commission was considered about as
hol-shcev-ecky rs they make EN-. but
that was before our present national
administration - an administration
| not generally deemed u~nfriendly IN
"hir husiness-had finished reor-
ganizing r.
body, from to. :. bottom
Senator Walsh freely proclaimed
that Senator Georges amendment
was simply a scheme TO denature his
inquiry.
The pair fought all over the lot.
The whole senate forgot party lines
and helned 'em-the radicals ~
walsh's side; the conservatives on
Georges.
Al We know. the conservatives
came out on tor. The inquiry went
IN the trade commission. Everybody
said. "Shucksi that takes I'll the pep
out Of THAT investigation"
And then?
with a bl~ood-curdling Trotsky-
csaue veil. those five supposedly
| moss-hacked old commissioners sud-
denly woke VT ard started an in
auiry Fit to turn Senator Jim Reed
green with envy.
They began with the power indus
try's propaganda methods.
They revealed an army If the
country's foremost moulders If
thought. All the way from our lead
ing cx-diplomats and university pres
idents down ~ former associates OF
Bib Bill Haywood. ne on the power
FOLKS payroll.
They followed the trail Of the in
dustry's text books from our kinder
garetens clear IN into the highest
realms of science.
They developed the fact that sky
writings the only appeal "a public
opinion ii hasn't Vet experimental
with-and that may ONE next, now
it's been suggested.
"Now we're going into financial de-
tails" observed Commissioner Edgar
A. McCulloch. the member especially
IN charge Of this particular investi-
cation.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-21

who am 7? What sirplane flight
recently accomplished BY me drew
international attentionf What II nv
nationality
a historical figure is often refer
red to ss THE Man cf Destiny"
What vas his name?
A Euopesn nation passed a bill TN
1926 imposing a tax ON all bachelors
in that country. Name the country.
IN what city y tire Rockefeller In
situate situated
Gle that passeth hy and meddleth
with strife belonging MOI TO him is
Ike one that taketh a dog hy the
ears" Where does this passage ap-
pear ~ the Bible?
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-21

Il ~ a paradox, but a truth. that despite the over
whelming sentiment Of the people Of the United States.
the government Of the United States has for some
time past been q chief obstacle to every movement %
make war unlikely and to advance the cause Of inter-
national peace. Our public officials, and particularly
our senators, are greatly in love with formulas. but
when they come 70 close quarters with practical &C.
ton, they are ~ concerned with exceptions, reservl-
tion and provisos that their nominaIly good intentions
disappear ~ The smoke Of unreality.
But literally enormous progress has Just now been
made through the recent action Of the department Of
state, taken after informal conferences with members
Of the committee on foreign relations Of the senate.
What has happened in this respect since April 6, 1927,
when MIR. BRAND first made his public appeal u the
people Of the United States Il join France in the re-
nunciation of war as an instrument Of public policy.
is one more illustration # the power % public opinion.
There are several other things which the govern-
ment of The United States may do and should DO in
order to resume our traditional national policy and
to satisfy enlightened and progressive public opinioa.
In the first place. we should bring to an end me
preposterous agitation that has existed heretofore,
both here and In Great Britain, for increased naval
by leading the way in a revision Of laws
OF neutrality NY these affect sea-borne commerce.
IN the second place. the congress should adopt the
Joint resolution introduced BY Senator Capper IN De-
cember last which accepts a perfectly practicable defi-
ton n aggressive war and indicates our attitude to-
wards such aggressive war.
In the third place. since all the nations Of the earth,
except ourselves and Russia and Mexico, are banded To-
gether in the League Of Nations, which u the most
impressive development Of international cooperation
in all history, we should make IL our steady policy to
cooperate with the League Or Nations in its humane
and progressive acts.
Finally, We might easily remove the only possible
ground for unfriendly feeling toward u on the part
II the people Of Japan BY a very slight change in tue
Iapcuara of our axiStino iu,uforattnr Law which. while
not increasing the number Of Japanese who may lov
be admitted each year. would touch the pride If the
Japanese people by placing them on the same plane
with other foreign countries in respect Of immigration
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-21

aboard . liner nj Glasgow and hide
themselves in the f~ore-peak. They
were found, and made 70 work their
way "a New York and back, then
were turned over 20 the police. The
judge gave each the choice of n fine
Of $40 or 20 days imprisonment.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-21

A Daily Thought
Talent " nurtured In solitude,
character is formed in the stormy
pillows Of the world."-Goethe.
Answers TO Foregoing Questions
1. Duke" Schiller: the flight 70
Greenly island. first 70 reach the
Bremen's crew after its transatlantic
flight; Canadian.
2. Napoleon ~Bonaparte.
3. Italy.
Z. New York City.
3. Proverbs, XVI. II.
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Today's Horoscope
Persons born under this sign are
slow in thought and decision. but are
very energetic. They need much
love and are extremely sensitive 10
neglect. They are fond Of sport and
amusement and rather reckless In
business affairs.
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SCOTCH STOWAwAYS IN BAD
Efforts or three Scotch boys 20
ret "a America ne s~towaways caused
them a. land back in Glasgow 10
face a fine or Jail sentence. Peter
Mclean. rs, Henry Moore. 10. and
Harold Hosack. Is, managed 10 get
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Timely Views
METHODS or OBTAINING WORLD PEACE
SUGGESTED
BY DR.. NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER
President az Columbia University.

Or. Nicholas Murray Butler was born in Eliza
beth n. j, IN 1862. He was graduated from CO.
lumbia university in 1882. and later studied at va
rous American and Europe universities. Upor
ms return 70 the United States, Or. Butler became
professor Of philosophy at Columbia university,
and dean Of the faculty Of philosophy at the uni
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ba university since January, 1902.
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The Grab Bag
JIMMY JAMS

JIMMY JAMS
Today I'm the Past
On this date. in 1927. the InteFns-
tional Economic Conference met at
Geneva, Switzerland.
The Washington times., 1928-04-07
EASTER
BY DR.. Frank Crane

EASTER Christian festival that uizes the phenomenon Of
IS nature to impress moral truth
That phenomenon j. the sprnging into existence of
countless forms Of life which have been dead for time The
that se upon stepping Of dead
selves" and better terms Of life
It is all question of how going to utilize the past.
bufengs and failures despair
will your life forget the it
possible hope and to better things
Salvation Army motto is "A be down. but he is
out" And it saying that it's long lane that
has turning.
So spite the past and all its dsappointmen let grid
ourselves for the future
His
symbols of the possibilities that Not only
world there held the failure but it
possible for to remake our life in this world
therefore, and the determination to again.
spite Of all that happened good resolution for all of
crowd all of and there thou
failure We blame others and blame
environment blame ourselves
begin anew
Now renewing its life is good time for
and will and to Strengthen
the things that remain"
give pl It long lane that has turning and for
of yielding at last to the determined
have of terms of failure
his short writing prison for onse
he committed John Bunyan his immortal
work to Jail. the blindness Milton that
Of Paradise Lost.
victory will
determine to 20 max the Of it.
The Washington times., 1928-04-07
By ELSIE ROBINSON


wholesome, constructive play that
tied youngsters up to healthy
adult life in the old days-and
that will tie them UP to healthy
adult life now II they can get 1t.
Baseball and doll dresses, swim
ming and clay modelling, houses
in trees and treasure hunts
wrestling and dancing-stuff that
puts a punch into mind and body
and shaping spirit.
Country Day Schools" are
private schools as yet, but pretty
soon wen adapt our public
schools to the same purpose.
Wen have to.
"But that's coming pretty close
to state supervision of childrenf8
you mutter.
Close? That IS state super
vision of children. But what
are you going to do about it? Sit
down and weep for the old
fashioned home? You'll waste
YOUR tears, my friends. Stand
up and cuss against new tangled
methods? You'll waste your
cusses. Better face facts. This
is the twentieth century. For the
average youngster, swimming
holes AMT. No attics nor
Easements nor guardian mamas.
But the finest schools in the
worId-WE HAVE EN-. And we
have in them women who know
more about taking care of chill.
dren in one minute than the
average mother knows in 20
wears. Then let's pay them decent
salaries, and keep Jimmy off the
street.
The Washington times., 1928-04-07
SECRE TS OF
HEALTH
BY DR.. G. "A. 4. Reed

NUMBER OF years ago q
N preparation known as stear-
ate of zinc was very popular a.
baby powder. # could be
lightly rubbed on the skin, form
ing q kind OF protective film that
prevented irritation from urine.
But 1t WIS soon found that, as q
skin protective the remedy was
worse than the disease. Emme-
line Coolidge, after inquiries adj
dressed to child specialists, general
practitioners and hospitals, q
thousand OF each. found that zinc
sterate, which often forms the
base OF infant powders, deserves
the bad name It holds. Among the
1000 answers to the question:
naire 229 cases were reported
where zinc sterate had caused
asthma, bronchitis, pneumonia,
commissions or zinc poisoning.
All the authorities laid stress
on the importance of avoiding all
highly scented, gritty and impure
powders. and of selecting one that
will not lump, cake, swell, clog
the pores, irritate or cause any
kind of poisoning effect, however
slight. They warn mothers
against vegetable powders be-
cause these, although smooth or
iginally, are liable to swell with
in the pores and interfere with
the excretory functions OF the
skin. There are too many pow
ders easily obtainable which con.
tain strong scent. grit, asbestine,
silicate particles, extraneous dirt,
mica. lime. lead and, even arsenic,
all of which are certainly harm
full to the infant skin.
Although ordinary scents may
seem harmless to those who DO
not know about them. the ma.
jority of the answers spoke very
strongly against them. The COM
mon highly scented powders dis
guise their Inferior qualities uIl.
der their pleasant smell and have
the additional drawback that they
prevent normal odors from the
infants skin from being noticed
and used as guides to Its correct
care. The perfumes themselves
may irritate a delicate skin ana
spoil the efficiency of its re-
actions. Infants have ultra-sen-
sitive nasal membranes, ana
heavy scent may cause nausea or
asthmatic symptoms. The latter
may develop into a serious ana
phylactic shock" effect before the
cause in discovered. A really gooo
scent costs about a hundred times
aa much as the ordinary cheap
scents, and even these can only
add TO the expense of the pow
der. The cost OF the scent Is
therefore betrayed in cheap pow
ders by the use OF inferior OF
impure ingredients.
The Washington times., 1928-04-07
The Fate Of the Street Railway
Merger in Congress

DHE amended street railway merger approved BY the
Public Utilities Commission and the traction interests Of
Washington be rushed to Congress in the hope Of
favorable action this session Indications that there
wiz be no approval before Congress adourns.
Senator Capper and other members Of the Senate Committee
on the District Of Columbia that the bill to be
submitted Congress will be gone into most thoroughly with
extensive hearings They doubt that there will be time
enough fully consider and pass upon the merger scheme
Senator Capper will insist knowing every detail connected
with the merger before makes up his mind and he will
that public interests safguarded before any legislation
ii approved he knows that the traction interests well
satisfied with the status Of affairs but he will also want to
know that there is public satisfaction and approval
merger could legally approved BY the Public Utilities
Commission without Congress having anything to do with it
except to give mere approval but the street railway
are quite DESTROYS that Congress should take hand and enact
legislation which will SEW THINGS UP FOR THEM FOR
At LEAST TEN YEARS This commission cannot do that
The traction heads have yielded to guaranteed seven
per They willing to accept the customary
wording reasonable return but they stated there would
be no merger If they did get $60O00000 valuation
The commission agrees that valuation and furthermore
agrees that this valuation shall remain in effect period
81 ten years and thereafter until revaluaton is made
This the main point that Congress will SO into and may
not relish
why commit this community to paying returns upon
$50OO0000 valuation for TEN YEARS when il might be
extremely advisable to make reyauatiOn IN two OF three
years?
Nobody knows what may happen nthe future 70 transit
affairs Nobody say that these properties Will be worth
$50000O0O il five years reproduction costs should
materially decline value Of local transit propertiea
present fixed upon reproductoncOst bassight not be
worth szOOOooOO even adding in capital expenditures
They might be worth than $6000OOO0 but the future
should take care of itself.
What traction magnaes want most is recognition Of
S5OOO0OO0 valuation BY both the Utilities Commission and
Congress- and they want that valuation to BIND Washington
FOR not less than ten years.
The Public Utilities Commission bind itself this
city for ten years The commission bind is
iii office law Of Congress will however be binding not
repealed and any attempt ct repeal would be met courts
with the familiar plea Of Confiscaton Of property
The commission agree to $6000OOO0 valuation and
that base but what Is eagerly desired Law
approving that valuation and making good for years
before revaluaton be made
Congress may do nothing Of the kind unless couples with
the approval provision that and bus fares SHALL NOT
be increased in the years and may be decreased conditions
warrant It.
The Washington times., 1928-04-07
Somebody Else's Son

It Is Easy to Be Philosophical About Him.

ERE good paragraph from the editorial page Of sena
4 tor Arthur Cappers Topeka Daily Capital
Sentencing youth e year and day II Federal
industrial home Judge Pollock expressed the judgment
that 1T i better than uniOersity for boy" For
Stunning he has
What would that Judge have said had somebody gug-
gested sending his to reforming institution which Ia
fact kind Of prison instead Of sending the To Coegef
The Judge probably would not have considered an In
dustrial home exactly the thing for HIS boy.
to good politicians who feel that the public schools
good enough and expensive enough in fact little
TOO EXPENSIVE.
Many Of them send their children to the public
schools preferrng private school, other school to
the public school
that is easy for them feel that public
schools good enough though the buildings be old
and dilapidated, and the ventilation none too good.
The Washington times., 1928-04-07

Mothers skirt and played house
in the honeysuckle arbor-yes?
Nobody attached much impor-
lance to those after school hours.
then. But now, looking back, you
know they built the foundation
for all your life. Gave you some.
thing sweet and safe and strong
in which to sink the eager young
roots of your spirit. Many a
time since, when you've been
racked by life. you've thought
back to those carefree hours and
been grateful for the way they
braced you for all that was to
come. And marvelled at how
much you had learned when they
thought you were only playing.
That's the way you spent your
hours after school. HOW DO
YOUR LITTLE BOY AND GIRL
SPEND THEIR HOURS AFTER
SCHOOL?
No swimming hole for them in
the crowded city streets, no
sunny back yard, or gentle flow
of village life. And, all too often,
no mother waiting for them when
they come home from school.
Mothers down at the office
homes A. four.room apartment
their chums live blocks away,
across roaring streets. There, on
the streets, the children must
play II they play at all. INTENDED
play, death menacing their bodies,
vice menacing their minds.
After school hours-a dan
serous time for youngsters in
1928. We reap the sorry crop
from those hours in our police
courts. But new scheme is
getting under way. Country
The Washington times., 1928-04-07

Verify. there is q worse thing
than the brevity Of spring love;
and that is & summer cold and a
love that hangeth on. after the
glamor hath departed and the
illusions are dead.
Yet. there Ii naught that man
taketh so much for granted as
the gift of a woman's love. But
when she seeketh to take back
the gift, he cannot BELIEVE it!
For his mind Is as a nonrefillable
bottle.
The Perfect Lover Is like unto
the dynosaurus. Many volumes
have been written concerning him;
but WHO hath ever met one in
the life?
Say not of the philanderer, "He
NAV have deceived and dallied
with others; but with ME-. it will
be different" For. in his loves
as in his daily habits. man run
meth true to form.
Bachelors flee whom woman
pursueth; hut married men are
hold as lions. For what have
they to fear? Yet, a second mort
gage on a mans affections Is
worthless, when the holder of the
marriage certificate putteth in her
claim.
The Washington times., 1928-04-07

The chain smoker lighteth one
cigarette from the dying end of
another and the "Chain lover"
ughteth one flame from the dy.
ing smhera ~ another But the
fool VIM maketh love ~ ail
women is AR the MT VIM would
ilnht the whole paCk ~ cigarettes
wllh one match
Ths faaa ~ pleasure BE- hrasa
and ffnu aHd hui nuif tuo mst
Haffl tha NnHd tn UnmHu.e
Thsfffnfs BE- disfumInauna n
thf intaa