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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-17

ed in any case. no doubt. for the effectiveness Of labor
would be lowered.
More leisure for the industrial worker would mean,
clearly, a greater demand for goods which the worker
consumes. With more leisure, he will spend more
money. Demand, then, will creep up slightly as pro-
duction falls slightly. The inevitable effect Of that
would be an increase in the price Of goods. And IN
that event. the public as a whole would DO the goat
But these are mere idle speculations. The age OF
the five-day week isn't here, but 1t is measurably near.
Not until It becomes general will there be any positive
assurance Of what effcc. it will have Some effect il
will have, certainly. Whether salutary or harmful Is
a question which will never be settled until 1t 10 tried
out.
Organized labor can be depended upon to wish 70
preserve the era which it is enjoying now. II it be-
comes evident that the ~five-day week will wreck in
dustry, organized labor will have the power to recog-
nize that fact. And. recognized, Il is certain that la
Dor viii strive to save itself and, with it, American
industry.
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Congress Aids Motorists

A summary Of the work Of the last session Of con-
sress discloses that five major pieces Of legislation,
Of special interest to the motorists Of the United
States, involving $780, 900, were passed. Four bills,
also Of considerable interest to the motoring public
were left pending before the various committees, and
one measure, the Oddie-colton bill. involving slo.5oo,-
600, for the construction of gaps in the federal aid
highway program, failed by virtue of the presidents
veto after the bill had passed both houses.
Thetfiv measures passed were the Si65,O00.000 fed
eraI aid bill: the 500, 10000 automobile excise tax
elimination bill; the S~4,200.000 appropriation for the
Mt. Vernon memorial highway; the 100000 flood
relief measure for the reconstruction Of highways in
the states Of Vermont, Kentucky and New Hampshire,
and the Oddie amendment to the federal highway act.
The oddie amendment marks the first step the
federal government has taken in Identification of the
federal highway system. It authorizes the planting Of
trees along the federal-aid routes and provides that
the government shall share with the states on an equal
basis in the original cost Of tree planting and main
tenance.
The four measures now pending before various
committees, and to be considered further at the Short
session which starts in December, includes the
RECOMMENDATION bill, authorizing a special highway
building fund Of S407,34l 900 and which, It is estimated,
will speed up highway construction to five times its
present rate. The second is the Dupont athbone bill,
providing for the construction Of a 50O-foot highway
across the United States to be financed by the leasing
Of business sites throughout the 3,OO0-mile length.
Federal regulation Of interstate motor bus traffic
recommended BY the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion and Endorsed by more than a score Of national
motorists and commercial organizations, failed, bu;
will be taken up early in December, according to the
author Of the measure. The fourth measure, which
did not reach a final vote, was a 81, 900 appropria-
tion for the widening Of the National Defense High
way, linking the nations capital with the Naval Acad-
envy At Annapolis.
A etermined fight will be made at the short ses-
sion. beginning in December, for heavier appropria-
tions for federal highway aid. Proponents Of federal
aid assert that the rapid increase in the use Of motos
vehicles has made highways linking all parts Of the
nation an economic necessity, and take the view that
the federal government should be more liberal in
financing routes which will prove important factors
in the handling Of interstate passenger and CONNER
cial traffic.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-17

The effect of prohibition upon the coming genera
tion Is so grave and 80 serious that all women who
have come to this conclusion, and ! believe there arc
thousands OF them, should organize and work for a
repeal of the Eighteenth amendment and in its place
a substitution Of some law that will bring about true
temperance and respect for law.
| was one Of the women who favored prohibition
when | heard it discussed in the abstract, but ! am now
convinced it has proved a failure. 1t is true We no
longer see the corner saloon, but in many cases has
il not merely moved to the back Of a store, or up or
down one flight under the name Of a "speakeasy?"
1t is true that in our universities groups can no
longer 20 together TO a rathskeller and drink their
beer genially and in the open. Is is not true that they
are making their own gin and drinking Il furtively in
their own rooms! Indeed, the authorities Of certain
colleges have instituted the practice of searching the
students rooms without their consent and during their
absence.
1t is against the Law to sell alcoholic beverages.
but hundreds Of thousands Of respected citizens are
daily conniving at the breaking Of that law by buying
1t. And most of them realize that the beverage reaches
them through channels extending through a long line
of law violation down to the consumer.
| have no respect for the person who votes one
way and lives another. Unfortunately, | know this
practice exists among many Of our public officials. /
am convinced there will have to be a meeting Of minds
so that the prohibition law may be amended to bring
about the temperance desired by every one. This can
only be accomplished by complete tolerance of one an
others viewpoint.
The adoption Of the Eighteenth amendment was
DUE TO a great extent, to the influence and efforts Of
women. They conscientiously believed that the result
would be beneficial, but ! think there has been a ire
mendous change in the sentiment Of women during
recent years.
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Kellygrarns
BY FRED c. BELLY

pick out these color words from 9TH
ers in a sentence. You say TO him,
go into the other room and bring
me that red ball" At frat you place
great emphasis on she word "red.v
Gradually you can place less and less
emphasis on the cue word until
finally a bystander would scarcely
perceive any difference 10 all.
An easily taught trick. always as-
founding Co those not familiar with
dog training, " this: You offer your
dog N small piece or food and after
doing this several times remark az
you hand him another piece. "ThiS
one i'm poison" OF course he doesn't
know anything about poison or its
possible action on his stomach. He
only knows from unpleasant expert
cnce that III no starts to take the
food when he hears the word "poi-
SON he will get a little slap on the
Jaw. Possibly tho tone Of voice even
On q certain syllable In more import
ant than All the rest OF a sentence.
Which recalls this anecdote BY Lloyd
Morgan. famous British student az
animal psychology:
when said waiskey to my fox
terrier. he would AZ 3nce sit UP and
beg; not because his tastes we're ~
depraved nv those 0f his master, but
because the 'isk' sound. common both
~ 'whiskey' and biscuit was what
had for his ears suggestive value.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-17
YouR DOGS VOCABULARY

II seems logical enough to say that,
X a dog can be taught his name. NJ
can be taught other words. r N
he knows ten words. he may learn
many more. Thus -ae gradually &C.
quires q considerable vocabulary ana
in 4 sense, can almost follow . con-
~versation. No wonder we often hear
a proud owner declare: my dog
understands everything ! cay 70 him.
Let W examine, though, what Ac-
tually happens when u dog IL taught
n trick In which he appears 20 fol-
low somewhat complicated instruc-
tions.
Suppose you wish 20 teach your
dog to select a certain article out
OF several. You place n ball, d stick
and q handkerchief on fhe ground and
ask your dog 20 bring you the one
wanted. You reward him with kind
words and food when he brings the
right one but rebuke him when he
brings the wrong one. He learns in
a short time exactly what "ball,"
stick" and handkerchief" mean
The same plan may Be followed in
teaching difference in colors- By
using. say. q red ball. a green ball,
and q blue ball. il Is possible TO
train him 70 associate the name OF
each color with the proper object.
Professional trainers assure me that
II In surprising how coon he can
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-17

hasn't got quilts that would hurt like
sixty to handle.
a great big. money-bloated indus
try Is the ideal thing for q political
party TO jump on. and kick the tripe
out of-provided too. many people
aren't interested in 1t. It's all right
for them to be very rich, but they
mustn't be very numerous. Other
wise. Of course, their votes count.
and their sisters and other cousins
and their aunts' votes
The oil industry's a nice industry
to lambast. Except when a boom q
on. every Tom, Dick and Harry
doesn5t own oil stocks. They're
largely punched. in the hands Of a
few multimillionaires.
But there's a suspicion that power
stocks are vastly scattered.
Indeed, it's pretty definitely known
that the industry's astute business
management has made a practice ~
scattering 'em around, in little
blocks Of a few hundred dollars
apiece, and up, among folks in quite
moderate circumstances-but on
awful lot of EN-.
p Nevertheless, il isn't an issue 10
itician pause and with him.
self, before taking the cork out ~
an issue that he hasn't carefully
reckoned the consequences Of.
Suppose he does stir a housewife
up into a fever of indignation over
the cost Of power for her vacuum
cleaner.
What good does that do?-if the
old man comes home presently and
explains to her that they're more
than making It up in increase divi-
dends on their power stock.
/. On the contrary, isn't II a favor
able lad" for the industry!
A good many "intrusts' thought q
this scheme quite awhile ago.
But what's anybody going to d.
about IL? The shares are sold per-
fectly legitimately. There's no rea.
son why a man with n small banl
account shouldn't invest in q few
But certainly the systems ex'
tremely we'll calculated to pull tbs
punch from congressional investiga'
tions into such outfits.
No Acknowledgement a small one
lis apt to wax enthusiastic at tn,
prospect Of governmental action K
slump the value OF shares in "hii
company" Neither, maybe, Is il fail
to expect him to whoop il up for I
candidate who proposes to run OF
that issue.
How widely the power industry
stock is distributed is a puzzle foI
one to guess on.
The best bet seems TO be tina
there's a pile Of it around loose.
It's a state Of affairs for a politi
clan to devote prayerful considrea
tion 70, prior to doing anything
reckless.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-17

NEW YORK, June 16.-Lunching
with the filters, Keel, Fitzmaurice
and Won Huenefeld, aboard the liner
Columbus. before they sailed back
home, | discovered that the latter,
the baron, il POSSESSED of a rather
ohtuse sense of husnor. He endeav-
ors to embarrass his companions on
the hop from Ireland to Greenly
island BY pretending to forget their
names. During the cours Of the
lunchecr he referred TO the Irishman
variously as Jones, Fitzpatrick, Kelly
and Cohen. Captain Koehl tthe Ger
nan present pronounced II some
thing like kurlD he professed 70
have met somewhere: he remembered
the fact but not the name.
Koehl, considering his modest
English, turned rather a neat phrase:
The newspapermen's accomplish
ment il greater than our: we only
made N flight, while they made three
heroes"
Fitzmaurice told of his futile eff
forts TO induce the Baron to substi-
tute a pair of horn-rimmed spec
tacles for his monocle, explaining
that il was the baron's monocle that
always prevented them from escap-
ing recognition whenever they at
tempted to escape crowds.
The Columbus. like other liners, Is
more like q hotel on Park avenue
than a ship. Modern ship designers
try to remind ocean travellers Of the
ocean as little as possible.
However, there rnmafn largo ann
bers OF persons who prefer the
smaller transatlantic boats, in which
they are assured of plenty OF marine
atmosphere. Accommodations on
freighters that make leisurely cross
ings are still in big demand. although
passage ON n of these boats costs
as much as the fare for correspond
ing Accommodations on a big ship.
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Other Papers
MERE GUEssWORK
CORPUS Christi Caller).

TNWET~" W"'"ET ~"ENET
Organised labor Is turning, more and more, to ad-
~ocacy Of tie five-day week. Organized labor being
what il is, exerting the influence that it does, there
is every probability that it will be but a matter Of a
few years until the five-day week is an accepted fact
in many lines Of industry.
Industrial leaders are not wholly agreed upon the
effects the shortened working week will have upon
industry, upon production, and upon the country gen
orally. Dire things are predicted; but, il must be re-
numbered. dire things were predicted when the eight
hour day, now generally accepted in industry, was first
advocated.
Among other things, the five-day week will tend 70
cut down unemployment, which Is at a rather dis
rouracinr height just now, despite the roseate views
- the republican administration. Industry. as 9
rhole. cannot afford TO reduce its operations to five
avs pei week. Production would be slightly lessen
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-17
New York Letter

"A body % men who are senti-
mental about old-time ocean vessels
are endeavoring to save the majestic
BENZ. r. Packard, last OF the Ameri-
can-built wooden clippers. from being
clipped and shorn or her sails and
reduced to service a. q coal barge In
the harbor. The three-master holds
numerous records for trips around
the Horn. Other idle clippers can be
bought for the price or a good auto
mobile.
Not long ago IL was the fed OK
fashionable New Workers to make
nocturnal visits to Harlem dives, and
even dance with ebony partners they
found there. Then the flea circus In
Forty-second street became q center
OF interest, and the fleas we're put
through many extra performances
nightly TO satisfy the curiosity OF h
Nanderbilts, Biddles, et NIL. Now the
popular diversion Of the Bo-cnlled
Smart Set, who ever are looking for
something to preserve them FROM
boredom, is visiting the night court
in West Fifty-fourth street. The
docket, to those who can smile nc the
misfortunes OF man, in usually as
good as a show.
The other night visitors TO the
court were treated to the spectacle of
Lon Clancy. the cinema actor, help
ing the magistrate try the cases.
Those who 70 10 stylish places IN
terror or eating something with the
wrong implement, may take comfort
from a critical revelation made 70 me
by a waiter at the Ambassador. (T
get to eat there when n movie star
comes to town and In hospitable.)
He said Queen Marie of RoumAnia
ate an oyster cocktail there with U
srOoni
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-17
Clean Fields To
Hold Pickers' Is
Harding's Advice

Especial TO Inc heraldD
RAyMONDVILLE, June lev. A.
Harding, local developer, in an open
letter 70 the farmers OF Willacy
county. warns them to be careful to
keep their cotton fields well culti-
waited and free from weeds. He states
that this is the only way they may
be sure of getting and keeping cot
ton pickers 20 gather their crops.
Nh. Harding states that he has
made a trip through the cotton sec
tion Immediately north of the Valley,
and there he has found thousands Of
acres Of cotton that Is only about ten
days behind that Of the Valley.
There he says the fields are well cul-
tivated and kept free from weeds.
The great majority OF pickers for the
Valley, he goes on TO state, will
come to the Valley through that sec
ton, and can not help but notice the
clean and well kept fields. II the
farmers Of the Valley neglect to keep
their farms free from weeds, the
pickers will not drag n sack through
IL, but will return to the fields to the
north OF the Valley, after those
fields have opened up.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-17

NEW ORLEANS. La,-Marion Tur-
pie. the sweetheart of the links"
is champion again.
This little New Orleans girl, not
yet 20, is the South's greatest girl
golfer, a worthy successor TO Alexa
Stirling and one of the contenders
for the national championship.
Marion won the southern golf
championship for the second time
at the Shades Valley Country club.
Birmingham, Ala, from the finest
field that ever teed off in this event.
After winning medalist honors
with an 81. Marion went through
four rounds Of match play, always
close to women's par figures. Then
in the final round, with Mrs. Melvin
Jones, former western champion and
one of the finest women golfers in
the United States, Marion shot an SO
and a 40, the latter a new course
record, breaking the former mark
the So which was shot in the morn
ing round by both players.
The mems par for this curse Is
n, which gives an idea of the calibre
Of golf Marion Turpie shot.
Three weeks previously Miss Tur-
pie had the low score in an exhibit
ton at the Metairie Country club
here, in which she paired with Mrs.
Dalton Raymond, 1927 southern
champion, against Glenna Collett,
former national champion, and Mrs.
Lee Mida, of Chicago.
A few days before this exhibition
Marion met Glenna Collett in the
finals Of the Pan-American golf
championship az the Edgewater Gulf
hotel course, Biloxi, Miss, and after
playing ever for Is holes, succumbed
to the splendid golf Of Miss Collett.
In between the Pan-American and
the exhibition, Marion won the city
championship for the third year in
succession. In this tournament she
was always under IS.
Miss Turpie intends to play in the
trans-Mississippi, the western and
national tournaments this year.
Marion was one of n golfinr FAM
lily. Her father is George Turpie,
now Audubon Golf club pro here.
and her uncle Is Hsrrie Turpie, who
taught Chick Evans how 10 play the
mashie.
Miss Turpie has been playing golf
since she was able to swing q club,
starting in with a specially built set
Of clubs when a mere tot.
The ambition OF her father Is 70
have Marion win the British women's
golf championship, and he will take
her over the pond next spring.
Papa George caddied for Dorothy
Campbell Mrs. Hurd) when she
played at 81. Andrews in the Brit
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ish championship, and he will caddy
for his own daughter when she
makes her bid for the title in 1929.
1--WE had a dream that Marion will
be the first American girl TO win the
British championship, and we're GO
ing over next year to make that
dream come true" said George, after
Marion won the southern again.
Marion Turpie is to New Orleans
what Bobby Jones is to Atlanta.
When she returned from her con-
quest at Birmingham, a fleet OF
yachts from the Southern Yacht
club, gaily ~bedecked, met the train
enroute TO New Orleans and brought
the southern champion home, via
Lake Ponchartrain.
Mayor 0'Keefe and q committee OF
business and professional men par.
ticipated in the homecoming cele-
bration.
Miss Turpie was born in Scotland,
but when only q few months old
was brought to America and has re-
sided in New Orleans since.
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Washington
Letter
CAMPAIGNERS MAY GO
EASY ON POWER TRUST
Nv CHARLES y STEWART


KANSAS CITY, June 16.-The
power industry's iniquities, if any,
may be a big issue at the Houston
convention and thereafter through
out the presidential campaign.
But republicans at the Kansas
City convention believe not.
Upon due reflection, the demo-
cratic bosses are liable to decide
that the industry isn't iniquitous.
They certainly will decide that way
Of they make up their minds that !.
wouldn't be a safe issue to start on.
II looks rather tempting.
It's new. It's been considerably
advertised in connection with the
federal trade commissions recent in
vestigation. The very dickens could
be given to some Of the industry's
propaganda methods.
It's an issue which would hook up
well with Al Smiths record-if he
should happen 10 be nominated AZ
Houston.
Nevtreheiess, IL isn't an issue 70
be tackled thoughtlessly. The boss
es must first make sure eAat "
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-17

Who am II? What position do I
hold? Whom did | succeed?
What is the capital Of australia
An immortal character in litera-
ture had a tilt with Tindmills. What
Is his name?
What do the initials /. W. W. stand
for?
"But 7 say unto you. Swear not at
all: neither by heaven; for IL liz
Gods throne" Where does this
passage appear In the Bible?
Today I'm the Past
On this date, in 1866, the Fourteen
tn amendment, securing to the freed
men the right of citizenship, de-
claring the validity Of the national
debt, and regulating the basis Of
representation and disqualification
from office, was declared ratified by
congress.
Today's Horoscope
Persons born under this sign have
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-17
The Grab Bag

n quiet. generally happy disposition.
luxury and ease. love their
ard have musical tastes, but
are impractical in business.
Horoscope for Sunday
Persons born under this sign are
idealistic and sensitive, and are oft
en- subject 70 melancholy. They
have many warm friends. but they
are not always able % help because
OF q secretive attitude.
a Daily Thought
"Men are made by nature UNEQUAL.
IN ~ vain, therefore, 70 treat them
as IN they were equal."-Ercude.
Answers 10 Foregoing Questions
I. Friedrich Won Prittwits; Ger
man ambassador 20 the United
States; Baron Ago Won Maltsan.
Q. Canberra.
g. Don Quixcte.
4. Industrial Workers or the world.
8. St. Matthew, W. 90.