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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-12-02
BUSINESS IS
Said TOBEA AT
YEARS. BEST
Federal Reserve Bank
Report Says Fall
Trade Reaches Top
Of Its Momentum

KANSAS CITY. Dec. 1.-P)-The
Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank
said a forward surge in industry,
trade and banking which began IN
the Tenth Federal Reserve District
with the beginning of fall gained
momentum during October and has
carried the volume of business 70
highest peak Of the year and con-
siderably above that Of last year.
The outstanding development OF
h season was a strong demand TOT
merchandise. said the report. which
credited improvement ind the agri-
cultural and livestock industry with
being responsible for the general
expansion in business.
While November floods retarded
business in some sections. there was
no general recession. the report
said, and business was moving 70
ward the end Of the year in record
volume.
distribution BY Wholesalers
continued the review. was larger
than in either September Of this
year or in October Of last year.
Trade at department stores and
single line retail stores. located IN
cities. showed substantial rains over
the preceding month and the
same month of last year. !. wss
observed that. for the first time IN
many months. all Of the leading
lines Of wholesale and retail trade
advanced at the same time, showing
uniformly large increases in the
volume of sales.
Improvement in the agricultural
and live stock situation accounted
mainly for the expansion Of general
business. With the crops practically
all harvested il was apnarent from
the official November reports this
years farm production exceeds the
production Of last year. and is 70
per cent above the average for the
ten years proceeding this one
October brought a seasonal In
crease Of movements Of live stock
to the markets. and a considerable
revival in stock-feeding operations.
"The production and distribution
OF commodities in the District was
s%easonally heavy in October. The
output Of pork and mutton at meat
packing plants was larger and OF
beef smaller than in the same
month last year. The production of
flour was the largest for a month
since August and more than 10 per
cent above n year ago. Canning fac
tories and beet sugar ~refineries con-
inued their s~easonally heavy opera
tons. The production and shipment
Of cement and lead ore. and the ac-
tivity Of petroleum refinerics. was
greater than the same month last
yeaf, while the output Of crude oil.
soft coal, and the shinments Of zinc
ore was not up TO that Of n year
ago.
Building permits issued in lead
ing cities during October was the
LARGEST monthly total since August.
1927. ard the value ~ permits was
the third largest Of the year. though
slightly less than IN the same month
of last year.
Demand for bank credit IN this
regional district exhibited more
than the customary fall activity. re-
flecting heavy movements of farm
products and live stock. expansion
in distributivc trade and n large in
dustrisl ont:ur."
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-12-02
TEACHER BODY
NAMES HEADS

SAN ANTONIO. Dec. 1--tFl-Rush
Caldwell, a Dallas high school
teacher. will head the Texas State
Teachers association as president
during 1929.
Teachers attending the associa-
tons golden anniversary here. last
night east 612 votes for Caldwell,
and 5e5 for y. G. Cochran or Del Rio.
r. L. Marquis, president OF the
North Texas State Teachers college
was elected vice president. Thomas
J.. Yoe. San Benito, superintendent.
ran second in this race. and II. w.
Glass. principal Of the Wichita Falls
high school, wcs third
The city which will house the per
manent headquarters Of the ~associa-
ton, was to be decided az the final
SESSION Of the three-day convention
today. San Antonio and Austin are
among c~ontenders.
Governor Dan Moody spoke on the
passage Of a proposed law providing
for the appointment OF county SUI
perintendents instead OF the contin-
uati0n of the present elective sys-
tenn. Mt n general assembly Of the
convention Friday afternoon.
Dean Thomas S. Shelby or the
University Of Texas was another
speaker, talking on the financing Of
school systems. DR.. r. 6. Reynolds
Of Teachers college. Colombia ami
yersity; DR.. r. o. Walton Of Texas
A. and M. college; Mrs. Katherine
Cook OF the bureau Of education nj
Washington: l.. II. Dennis, assistant
state superintendent Of Pennsylva-
MIA. and Or. William Bennett Bizzell
Of Okiahmoa university. were speak
ers on the Friday night program.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-12-02

this system will preclude the de-
velopment of large areas, and such
shortage will handle only an infini-
tesimal part Of the water that is
annually going to waste. The only
permanent relief. they state. is con-
struetion by the government Of i'm
pounding dams on the main stream
and its tributaries, and according to
engineers estimates between so and
so per ZEN of the flow OF the Rio
Grande can be utilized for irrigation
ard power
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-12-02

G~LASGOw.-Mrs. Jane Grallan
was arrested for bigamy two days
after she married her husbands
brother.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-29
How MIRRORS Produce the ILLUSION of GHOST

inclined toward the audience. Between the glass and the front of the stage was an opening in the latter invisible to the spectators Beneath the front part of the stage, and of course unseen, was the living person who took the part of the ghost-perhaps a woman dressed and hooded in white.
 Upon her was directed, from beneath the stage, the brilliant illumination of . calcium light. Her image was reflected upon the sheet of glass above, in way which the accompanying illustration plainly shows, and by that means the spectral image of the woman was made to ap- pear as if standing or walking about on the stage.
 When . person looks into an ordinary mirror, seems to be as far behind the rlass ss the her. son is distant from the front of it. The same principle, of course, applied to the reflection seen in the sheet of plain glass on the stage, and hence the ghost appeared to stand or move at some distance back of the elass making the illusion impressvely striking.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-29
What the Inventors Are Doing

tongs washes the outside of window. The de- vice takes the hazard out of window washing and makes it convenient instead for wherever. on the inside of the pane. the handle is moved. the washer will follow it on the outside surface.
 A contrivance for dog racing. in which an artificial rabbit, which serves as the object of the chase, is carried along by an automobile . motorcycle, has been patented by Charles C. Bathe, of St. Petersburg, Florida. The rabbit is fastened to the end of strong cord which hangs from the end of a long rod projecting hori- sontally outward from the side of the vehicle.
 An electric heater with which a fan is com. bined, to effect circulation of warmed air in a room, is the invention of a Philadelphian, John E. Marsden.
 A roll-top cover for the typewriter that does not have its own folding desk, is strong. dust proof, and disturbance proof. The folding top, made of strong fabric folded like an accordion, may be locked in place when closed. When open, there is nothing to interfere with satisfactory typins' A copy holder adds to its convenience.
 A regular nine or 1s-hole golf game can be played on a recently invented game. When . lever is pressed, the automatic golfer hits the ball which may make a hole-in-one or be "lost" in the painted lake. The player drives the ball first over the bunker into hole number 1; then over the bum ger and brook into number 2 and finally, long putt lands it in number B. Ar automatic score-keeping device is attached
 A rocker blade with two wooden handles is adapted to the preparation of chopped veeetables for small saladA
New Britain herald., 1928-09-29
" Earthquake Weather '"

IFS there such thing as earthquake weather?"
 The legendary idea of alarming conditions
 of air or sky supposed to presags great earth shocks is recognized as . proper subject for scientific inquiry by no less an authority than Prof. R. M. Wilson of the Section of Volcanolosy of the United States Geological Survey.
 In letter from the Hawaiian Volcano Re- search Association, Prof. Wilson mentions records kept by the Spanish priests of earth quakes which happened in the Philippine Islands especially the great shock of Nov. 30, 1895, by which the city of Manila was almost totally destroyed.
 The weather which preceded this dsaster is described by contemporary chronicler. It was "calm the sky cloudy and dull the air hot and tervas." An astonishingly large percentage of great earthquake shocks are described by wit nesses as being preceded by weather of much tnlS hlnd.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-29

If you can hurt me- In either case 1t Is Mir. Average Man who will be hurt
 But natural toughness alone is not enough to herent quality by careful Ii living; he must I de- M velop it to the highest degree by scientific train ing; and, of vital importance, he must acquire physical speed, quick thinking and skill in box ing science. Almost every champion of modern times has emphasized clean living as the first es- sential: Irregular or evil habits that interfere with the body's smooth-running mechanism al- most always have proved disastrous in the end
 'Whsn two finely conditioned fighters meet, the outcome is likely to be decided by the ability of one to reach one of the few particularly vul- ss:s s the s' Rsy psts e9y knockout n we know, are on either side of the point of the jaw, and the solar plexus. A wel-drected blow on the button momentary paralyzes thesnerve centers of the brain, producing unconsciousness. A lifting blow on the solar plexus has brusing the lower limbs.
 "One solid punch to either of these vital spots is enough to fell the average man. A frst-class fighter, however, can shake off the effects of many hard punches to the jaw. It takes swift succession of them to bring him down; Some
 ''The early minutes of fight are particularly dangerous, for then the body has not yet had time to warm up, and all sensitive points are particularly vulnerable. That is why most box CTS proceed cautiously in the first round It is in this cold period that most of the one-punch knockouts are scored"
 Professor o. Herring, of the University of Cologne, m eminent European physologist who has been investigating the mystery of the knock out, recently found that the carotid arteries, the sides of the jaw. are other particularly vul- nerabe points. They are the arteries, which carry the blood to the head. A hard carotid" punch. he says. will produce senselessness
New Britain herald., 1928-09-29
Living Headless
 or B0dyless

IT EADLESS bodies and bodyless heads both can live-a few seconds or minutes with
 the higher animals-for hours or sven days with certain insects. Recent striking ex- periments are described in the French journal La Science Moderne:
 "As everyone knows, the survival of the head. when removed from any of the higher animala is very brief" say the experimenters. Tt is true that 8 certain degree of muscular excita- bility may persist for hours, and the cells of some tissues may preserve their elementary life; but the most important element of cephalic life, the nerve tissue, is already inert long before the tissues of lower organization and function have ceased to live.
 'In the lower animals the survival of parts and tissues is much longer. Edouard Patigaud has published some interesting experiments that were made on insects. It was observed that female moths of the genus Saturnia lived when decapitated from eleven to fourteen days, that is to say, much longer than their normal term of life, which is only eight or ten days
 ''The insect generally, when decapitated, ex. hibits agitation and convulsive movements of head becomes calm, but the body continues to move, often in an uncoordinated fashion.
 If the decapitation has been correctly per formed, there is no loss of blood, and normal respiration and circulation continue. Nourish- ment of course is faulty But in some adult forms it does not exist at all. The larvs of tho moth has already absorbed and stored up all tho reserve nutriment necessary for its normal adult life This suffices also for its headless life, for it hardly moves, and it's expenditure of energy is thus reduced to minimum.
 "Now, what happens to the head? Herr tho stored-up nutriment is relatively slight. Despite this, there is actual survival but it is numbered in hours, not in days. The head of the insect, when tested for vitality by means of various kinds of stimulation, reacts, by moving its palpi and antennae, for a variable perod-three, sx. or twelve hours; sometimes twenty-four or thir- weight. Generally, however, there is first spasmodic phase lasting few minutes . phase of immobility and inhibition. lasting. perhaps, three to twelve hours, and finally phase in which there are intermittent, isolated move ments, and also movements of reaction to stim- ulation. It may be easily understood that the head will not survive 50 long as the body when the two are separated. It has neither circuls. ton nor respiration and contains no reservss."
New Britain herald., 1928-09-29
F c CHAMPION BOXER Should

ductless glands. At the approach of danger these stores released their chemicals into the blood. steeling and stimulating the muscles to in- stant flight, or combat They doubled his strength and endurance"
 This marvellous chemical mechanism survives today, in greater or less degree, in every man. Very recently Dr. Charles E. de M. Sajous, Pro- lessor of Endocrinology at the University of Pennsylvania, told of the discovery of three of these chemicals of the body and how they act to make billions of tiny muscle fbers contract or relax One of them, he said, proves to be the active basis of adrenalin, the wonderful gland extract which has aided in restoring people
 "With advancing civilization. however," Mir. Theis continues, land the removal of many of the perils that beset men, the response of the body's chemical mechanism has grown sluggish easy life, comparatively free from hardships and danger, have made men soft and incapable of quick response to physical emergencies. Among the outstanding exceptions are the born
 "Any trainer will tell you that the most skill ful boxer in the world, unless he has the ability to take it, has not much chance of gaining the muscles enough to make the greatest fighters
 Another secret of great fighters endurance lies in the mechanical perfection of little shock absorbers which Nature has distributed through our bodies consists of frame or chassis of jointed bones actuated by the muscles through moving tendons In cavities in the joints, be- tween muscles and tendons-in fact between all moving parts where friction might develop-are placed little pouches containing lubri- eating fluid called synovia.' These serve as shock ab6orbers. Their condition determines the resiliency of the boxers body in absorbing not only the shock of being hit, but that of hitting. They determine his ability to travel with or from blow without apparently moving from his position. And just as there are bumps in the road which an automobile shock absorber cannot too much for the human shock absorbers. Then comes the knockdown.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-29
Sugar for Energy

NNE of the best sources of fuel for the human body is sugar, and when used in
 the correct proportion to the other necessary food elements, sugar is . valuable article of diet It serves only the one purpose. that of supplying the essential carbohydrate, but 1t is the quickest, cheapest, purest and most ehicient fuel for the human engine, according to Hygeia. It is likewise valuable as flavor and in this capacity renders palatable important foods that would otherwise not appeal to the taste.
 Sugar, properly employed, has many advan- tages as . nutritional commodity. In the first place. 1t is . quick source of energy. Cane or beet sugar, for instance, begins to burn in the human system in about five minutes after it has been consumed. The value of such an article in the diet of those who do heavy physical work is apparent and experience has shown that athletes snd manual laborers profit from the use of sugar. Members of college crews are frequently fed sugar before grueling race, and marathon runners also find this food of advantage Many Pri2e fighters consume large quantities of sugar eAocolstsA
New Britain herald., 1928-09-29
The Celestial Lotus

IN legend . symbol of ancient and sacred
 mystery, in science . marvel of structure
 and adaptation, the lotus is the most strangely fascinating of flowerA To the people of Japan, Korea, China, Siam, Java, Psrsia and India. it is a sacred flower. the very center sf religious and mythological symbolism.
 There are but three living kinds of lotus The old world species, with roseate flowers, is by far the best known and is popularly called Egyptian lotus, writer in Nature explains, because 1t is supposed to have been sacred to the Nilotics. Al . matter of fact both Psychologists and botan- ists are pretty well agreed that like papyrus, 1t was not native of the Nile and was not brought there until the Egyptian race was in its old ses in the period of Persian influence. The sacred water plant of early Egyptian times was . true water lily, which has floating leaves.
 A genuine lotus may, even in conventionalissd designs, be easily distinguished by the way in which its leaves stand upright on stiff stalks, high out of water. So there s little doubt that >"Egypian lotus" is something of misnomsr e the plant was only cultivated along the Nile he. tween 500 B. c. and 1000 A. D.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-29

NIFTY years have elapsed since mirror-made ghosts made their first appearance on
 the stage. No illusion has ever since ap- preached them in cleverness, ingenuity, and spectacular effect. Presented originally in Lon- don. and later in America. these ghosts com pletey mystfied the public for long time and still do so, for that matter.
 In full view of the audience, . ghost would appear on the stage, plain to the eye but unsub. stantial. A living actor. threatened by the specter, would stab at it with knife, but hs
New Britain herald., 1928-09-29

weapon passed clear through it. In other in- stances skeletons, equally immateral. appeared on the stage, gruesome to behold.
 The explanation was simple enough It de- pended upon fact familiar to every woman who pauses in front of shop window to see herself reflected therein Ordinary window glass. par ticularly if there is behind it dark background. is . pretty fair mirror.
 For the production of the illusion, huge sheet of plain glass was erected upon the stage, at some distance back of the foot-lights. and
New Britain herald., 1928-09-29
HIT YOU

C LEDGE HAMMER fists crashing against
 stone walls of human flesh. Either fists
 or human walls will be smashed under the terrific punch Yet amazingly, both survive, until, perhaps, well-calculated blow finds vul- nerable spot, and one fighter crashes to the can- vas. Even then he often recovers before the fatal count of ten is reached
 What enables him to do this? How can pro- fessional pugilist receive with smile blow that would surely knock you out!
 One man who surely can answer these ques- lions is Grover Theis, boxing expert, who ex- plains in Popular Science Monthly what the tiny chemical arsenas of the body-called ductless t'shock absorbers' may decide bout; where the most vulnerable-spots are, and how boxers en- durance differs from that of a Marathon runner.
 '1 have talked on the subject of boxing with athletic trainers, physicians, psychologists, and snatomists," says MT: Ihes. "and most of them in real athletic physique, skill and prowess. A boxer, to be of championship caliber, must com bine the endurance of Marathon runner, the agility of tennis player, the skilled timing and judgment of baseball star, the speed and alert ness of hockey player, and the nimbleness of toe dancer. And besides all these. he must have an abundance of that mysterious quality com monly called fighting heart
 How are such champions made? In sense, they are not made at all, but born. Especially Is quirements- so-called fighting instinct, and the ability to withstand punishment. These elusive qualities, science has found, are not ac- quired primarily by training. They are natural products of the wonderful chemical factories in the human body. Some possess much of goes far back into history. Primitive man in the jungles was surrounded by. powerful enemies: As a means of self-preservstion Nature supplied him with little chemical arsenals-endocrine or
New Britain herald., 1928-09-29

N SCAR HULSE, of Bondebosch. Cape Province, South Africa, has patented re-
 gently design for a railway coach with an underslung body that has two decks, afford ing seats for a greater number of passengers. It's arrangement is such that people can con- veniently enter and reach the seats, or leave the coach. on either the upper or the lower deck.
 An armliks device consisting of new lazy
New Britain herald., 1928-09-29

"In the average bout in which there Is no knockout the quality of the shock absorbing come Often the man who does most of the hit ting tires as fast as his opponent who takes the most punishment
 "An average man, with no better than average shock absorbing mechanism, could hardly hope to endure more than single blow from a cham pon: Moreover, he might about as well drive his fist against stone wall as to accept pugi- lists invitation to Init me in the stomach and see
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-05-01
Elimination More Imperative

Recently newspapers and railroads gave wide
publicity to a decision Of the United States ST.
preme court defining the respective RESPONSE
bities of railroads and motorists at grade
crossings. Among other things the ruling
said:
when man goes upon railroad track he
knows that he goes to place where he will be
killed if a train comes upon him before he is
clear Of the track lie knows that he muse
stop for the train. not the train stop for him.
In such circumstances il seems to us that if a
driver cannot be sure otherwise whether a
train is dangerously near. he must stop and get
out of his vehicle. although obviously he will
not often be required to do more than to ston
and look. II seems to us that if he relies upon
not hearing the train or any signal and takes
no further precautions, he does so at his own
risk"
With responsibility for his own life thus
placed squarely upon the individual, it would
seem that he could be persuaded to exercise
greater caution in crossing grade crossings
1t would seem so, but it has not worked out
that way. No diminution in grade crossing
highest tribunal handed down its ruling.
This only serves to place additional en-
phasis upon the urgent need for grade cross
ing elimination, better safety and warning de-
vices. and greater care OH the part of Tire
driver. And the knowledge that they are not
financially liable for accidents which have
cost them dearly in the past should not in
fluence the railroads and their employees into
relaxing their precautions against crossing &C.
cidents.