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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-22

FOR COUNTIES,
PLAN OF MEET
Idea Presented TO Sec
retaries at Corpus to
Seek Support in Re-
gional {. of C.'s

A tax for county publicity will be
discussed at the meeting Of the cham
Der Of commerce board Of directors
Tuesday night it was intimated a.
the office Of the manager, G. C..
Richardson Monday morning. This
IS a new note struck In the publicity
and community advertising schemes,
and was sounded in Texas for the
first time at the twenty-second an
nual convention and conference
school Of Texas Commercial Execu-
tives which closed Saturday in Cor
pus Christi.
Mr.. Richardson said ID had hit a
very responsive chord among the
hundred or more delegates present
and a move now in its inCipiancy
should become a statewide demand
for such legislation, he believed.
q. A. Rosenthal, president, expressed
himself in no uncertain and enthusi-
astic terms concerning the proposal.
Such taxation can be optional with
each county. Mr.. Rosenthal pointed,
and should meet every need OF the
Valley counties where the burden Of
publicity and county advertising is
becoming too heavy for cities and
individuals who compose chambers Of
M and other civic bodies 10
carry unaided. Counties already are
raising advertising funds in this
manner in other states. Mr.. Richard
son said. and named Florida a a good
example Of what taxation for pub
licity can accomplish.
In discussing the proposed taxation
on the floor Of the convention in
Corpus Christi, the delegates agreed
70 begin working for II by eduva-
tive measure, Mr.. Richardson said or
his return 10 Brownsville. This work
will be carried on by individual COM
mercial executives and through com
mercial bodies until the r%egious!
chambers, East. West and South Tex
as. are definitely behind the move. II
will then be taken to the legislature.
With regional chambers committed 10
support il, il is expected there will
be little opposition to the measure.
The conference school brought out
little else that is of vital import
ance to the Valley, Mr.. Richardson
said. Eight papers were read by ex-
perts and afterward were discussed
on the floor. A stenographer took
notes on all pepers read and all dis
cussion and a verbatim report OF the
school will be made in book form and
sent to all commercial bodies, schools
and colleges in the state. Joseph
Leopold Of the United States Cham
her OF Commerce addressed the meet
ing.
Ralph Bradford Of the Corpus
Christi Chamber was host. The visit
ors inspected a model OF the pro-
posed water front for that city made
BY Gutzon Borglum.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-22
$4,000 Fire Hits
Snake King Shed,
Animals, Sunday

Ratified rattlers ratified in vain at
$3.50 O'Clock Sunday night while a
few cats. "wompus' and otherwise,
screeched nostolgicly, rs a sixty-foot
wooden shed blazed in fiery glory
over their heads at the place Of W. a.
CSnake) King on Alice Road. All
hands fell to and dragged most Of the
yowling kitties to safety, but the
snakes had to 20 the way Of all
flesh when flesh is thrown. like fat.
into the fire. They were too heavy
and too numerous for their q
to be moved quickly enough to keep
the fierce heat from blistering the
otherwise willing
The fire. of unknown origin, was
already we'll under way when i was
discovered and the alarm sent IN.
When Fire Chief Roy Weller and
his fire eaters arrived, the wooden
she'd. dry. and famed hy 2 stiff
breeze. was a mass Of flames. Il
Vas totally destroyed.
Mr.. King after n hasty survey Of
the damage Monday morning said the
shed cost about $4,000. He could only
tell after an inventory the value Of
the snakes a. this Is dependent upon
market conditions, he said.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-22
MAYOR CARRYING
X y *
CITY BETS WILL
X X <
GET LARGE HAND

CHICAGO. May 2'.-(Pl-It il
said with every vestige Of verify
that almost all the 900 inhabitants
of Cary. Ill. had Reign Count ION
the nose" IN the Kentucky derby
Saturday; q not unlikely situation,
since Cary is Reign Counts home
town.
Mayor Ralph Powers acted as the
one who took the ayers TO Louis
vile and laid them on Reign Count
10 win.
Johha d. Hertz, husband OF the
derby winners owner. found a brass
band TO greet him on his return
Yesterday The band Is keeping
tuned M FOR the return Of tho
mayor and the bankrolL
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-22
San Benito After
1929 Credit Meet

WICHITA FALLS. Tex. May "
sF,-Some 200 or $50 delegates to the
state convention Of the Retail Mer-
chants association of Texas, the As
soria.ed Retail Credit Men Of Texas,
ana the Texas Retail Credit bureaus
had arrived at the time OF the open
ing session here Monday.
Delegations represented the entire
state. with those from San Benito
most IN evidence, as that city is bid
5;ng for the 1929 convention.
Earl Looney Of Brownwood. pres
dent Of the association, presided a.
the morning session.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-22
Open BIDS ON
AIR MAIL here
Lowest Price Made By
St. Tammany Gulf
Coast Anyways

WASHINGTON, May 2'@tP-Th
st. Tammany Gulf Coast Anyways,
Inc, was the low bidder on the new
air mail route from New Orleans TO
Houston, Brownsville and San An
tonic. Tex. 70 the Mexican border,
bids on which we're opened at the
postoffice department today.
The St. Tammany bid was 81 a
pound.
Other bidders on the New Orleans
to Mexican border route we're Walter
T. Varney, Inc, Wilmington, Del.
SI.S3 per pound, Western Air Express
Of Los Angeles, Calf, $1.95 per
pound; Texas Aero corporation, Tenn
pie. Texas, 1925 per pound; Prater
Air Line, Pittsburgh, Pa, S2.6S per
pound and Haywood helms, Houston,
SO per pound.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-22

The government advertised for bids
on alternate air mail routes, one from
New Orleans TO Houston and to
Brownsville, the other from New Or
leans to Houston, San Antonio, and
Laredo. Although Laredo is o men
toned in The Associated Press dis
patch today, il is assumed that these
routes are the ones on which bids
we're opened.
The Washington times., 1928-01-03
BANDITS ROB Z,
MISS THIRD

CoIored bandits last night held up
and successfully robbed two men
but failed to get anything on their
third attempt.
Abraham Shulman, brother-in-laW
and clerk for Hyman Freshman,
proprietor of a grocery store at HOO
New Jersey Ave. S. E., told police
he was alone in the store when
three colored men entered One pro-
duced q pistol and ordered him to
give them the contents of the cash
drawer. They escaped with $40
Freshman entered the store during
the hold-up and was. ordered to keep
quiet.
While at e Street and the Union
Station Plaza, Joseph Edwards,
colored, 1922 Sixth st. N. W., was
held up at the point of pistol
by three negro bandits and robocd
of $35 and his watch. He furnished
police with a description of his as
sailants.
Fred FuIcher. 444 Eleventh st.
S. E.. reported he was assaulted and
an attempt made to hold him up at
First and East Capitol Streets
Southeast by two colored men in
an old automobile. He made his
escape from them without losing
anything.
The Washington times., 1928-01-03
IS ARE INJURED
IN TRAFFIC

Injured when he is said to have
stepped from the curb at Eleventh
and @ Streets Southeast, into the
side of a passing automobile, John
Joseph Coffey, IS years old, I'LL @
st. s. E., is in a serious condition
today, in Casualty Hospital.
Coffey's injuries were caused by an
automobile operated by Alfred 70.
Luttrell, 616 Royal st. S. E. Luttrell
first took the injured man to the
hospital and then reported the acct
dent to fifth precinct police.
Mrs. Helen w. Stevens. 40, bzo
Gresham st. N. w, was treated at
Emergency Hospital last night FOR
injuries suffered when she was
knocked down at Ninth and + Streets
Northwest, by a bicycle ridden py
James Stonebraker. ID, 1855 rem
sylvania Ave. N. w. Her injuries
consisted of a cut on the left eye
and bruises to the legs and body.
Her condition is not serious.
A collision between the automo'
bile on which she was a passenger
and a taxicab, at Sixteenth and X
Streets Northwest, resulted in the
injury of Miss Hilda Campbell, %,
1926 M st. N w. She was treated
at Emergency Hospital for lacera.
lions to the foot and shoulder and
a bump on the head.
others injured, none seriously,
were Frank Princite, IL, SO6 9 st.
N. E.: Charlie Williams, colQred, So,
243 N st. N. W., and Raymond
Tyler, colored. %, 134 N st. N. e.
The Washington times., 1928-01-03

I
age when a youthful appearance IS
Of the greatest advantage.
Nowadays, though, we don't have
the troublesome task OF gathering
the sage and the mussy mixing az
home. All drug stores sell the
ready.to.use product for only %
cents. improved by the addition OF
other Ingredients. called "Wyeth g
sage and Sulphur Compound. 1t
is very popular because nobody can
discover it has been applied. Simply
rnoisten your comb or soft brush
with II and draw this through your
hair. taking one small strand at a
time. BY morning the gray hair
disaupears. but what delights the
ladies with Wyeth's Sage and Sui
phur Compound. is that, besides
beautifully darkening the hair after
few applications, it also produces
that soft ''Istre and appearance OF
abundance which is so attractive.
The Washington times., 1928-01-03
Mexican Rebels Bomb
Two Railroad Bridges

MEXICO CITY, Jan. 8. = a re-
newal of rebel activity In the state
of Jalisco ushered in the new year.
The Cristeros, as the Catholic rebels
are called. took possession OF the
village of Aqua F'ria, on the line
of the southern Pacific and then
dynamited two bridges on the sys.
tenn between Acaponeta and Escui-
napa.
Federal troops have been sent
from Guadalajara to pursue the
rebels.
Many OF the newest makes and
models In Used Cars can be located
through the Classified Automobile Ads
today.
The Washington times., 1928-01-03
FIRE CHIEF rs HURT

Fire Chief r. II. Nixon. severely
injured while fighting fire here
Sunday, was improving today, al
though his condition is still con.
sidered grave. He was trapped be.
meath falling wall when three
of his companions were crushed
to death.
The Washington times., 1928-01-03

Call up Main $500 and have
The Sunday Herald and daily
Times delivered to your home.
Then you can start I'VE" which
begins Sunday in The Herald
and continues In The Times.
The Washington times., 1928-01-03
Turn Hair Dark
With Sage Tea
BIZ JEAN MACON
By JEAN MACON

The old-tiTne mix
ture Of Sage Tea
and Sulphur for
darkening gray.
streaked and fad
ed hair is grand
mothers recipe.
and folks are
again using it to
keep their hair q
good, even color.
which is quite
sensible, as we
nrA lfuinD in an
The Washington times., 1928-01-03

] !: T =: >: ]: J : !
These brushes have
splendid quality ster-
ilized bristles set in
attractive solid wood
backs. May be wash
ed and Sterilized
without injury. ~
The Washington times., 1928-01-03

Made Of genuine gum rub
Der and will give many years
of satisfactory service. The
popular 2-quart size. This =
indeed a low price for such
a good quality hot water
bottle.
Evening star., 1928-10-28

Preston has managed to show us how
man may take job, obscure In
itself. job woefully. inadequately un-
derpaid, and develop it into something
OF genuine service, something essential
to the lives of many people.
Preston, son of an old Washington
newspaper man, took a Job which
amounted to being a sort of superdoor-
man and put Imagination into it and
made of 1t a career, an ACCOMPLISH
ment. He made himself an inStitu-
ton.
Once he was recognized-the press
gallery bought him Ford. They say
he turned a delicate purple, looked
over his right shoulder and remarked
that he didn't know what it was all
about
Old newspaper men in Washington
say that Preston knows more and tells
less than any other living human. "If
he could write what he knows" they
say, he would beat us ALL"
He never will write it. He can't
even tell it. He just goes on being
Jimmy Preston, droll English colonel,
handsome in the manner of 1870, sensi-
tive and inexpensive, observant and
tolerant, indispensable croupier in the
games he may not play himself in tn
political halls of Washington.
Evening star., 1928-10-28

the same way copy was supposed to
have been thrown out through the
transom in the Cleveland convention
OF 1924"
THIS year at Kansas City and at
4 Houston, Preston installed the fin
est kind of mimeographing machines
and a squad of typewriters. He then
persuaded corps of young reporters to
work all night with the committee pre-
pairing releases" For he knew that
these were, for the press, words more
binding than the law: Released for
publication at. such date"
1t is great step forward in justice
to the public.
Knowing intimately more politicians
and more political writer's than any
other man, and being this hound for
detail, Preston became the officially
recognized stage manager of the press
gallery in Washington and Of the ma
tional conventions. Then he added the
arms conference. And then-to him
personally the greatest joy-those ma
tional sports events in which he is
personally fan. Notably the world
series In Washington and the city golf
Journeys, wherever they may be held.
He fused about the mikes that first
carried a Presidents voice beyond his
own speaking platform and he Sug-
gested that the Houston platform be in
the middle of one side of the hall, and
1t was all-all these and a thousand
details like them-part of the extern
sion of his Washington job.
But when he steps off into the world
OF pure, unadulterated democratic golf
with very small d. he rises into his
own empyrean.
You see, in that convention work
there is something a little marrying
There, for example, are all those out
slders" land every one not in the press
gallery is an outsider) who can't get
into convention any other way and
fall back on trying to get press seat"
Preston is the fortress they try to
storm.
Then you will see Preston, with his
slightly worried look, his eye occasional
ly turning toward space over his right
shoulder. shyly but firmly evading de-
mands for tickets.
When that is done with his spirit
scars. He arranges for newspaper men
10 have cards to the country clubs in
Kansas City and Houston. He an
nounces the cups and prizes for which
they may compete on the links.
And If you try to find him after
the Congress has adjourned you must
look for him. not In Washington. his
home since childhood, but in Phila-
delphia or Buffalo or Cincinnati or
wherever else there may be going on
at the moment contest among munich
pal golf clubs.
Nearly every morning during the year
he Is out on the municipal links before
breakfast with some well known Sen
ator.
1T Is" he thinks. "the most democra-
tizing influence in the world. I've seen
one of our richest bankers followed
right along by the man who hung
the paper on his wall and then Sena-
tor So-and-So right after him, and
after him a taxi driver, right here In
Washington"
Through his tirelessness. his devotion,
Evening star., 1928-10-28
Butterflies Not Silent.

.ONE does not think of butterflies as
making any sounds whatever, or OF
caterpillars as noisy creatures; yet, ac-
cording to the Investigations of certain
scientists the careful person will find
some use for his ears when observing
the habits of these creatures.
1t appears to be a fact that certain
butterflies produce sound during certain
movements The whip butterfly, when
surprised. makes a noise like the snap
Of lash, by opening and shutting its
wings In quick succession. Some hiber-
mating butterflies, when disturbed.
make faint kissing sound. by slowly
raising and depressing their wings. The
noise thus produced resembles tnat
made by blowing slowly through closed
teeth. other sounds resemble the fric-
sior. :: Sandr&per.
Many caterpillars make sound by
striking the head against the leaf on
which they are feeding or resting, or
by swinging the head froE: side to aide,
catching the mandibles in the rough
ness of the leaf, or on the silken threads
upon 1t. 1t Is said that a certain kind Of
chrysalis, when disturbed, emits slight
sharp chirp or clicking noise.
Evening star., 1928-10-28

rent of the dynamo is large enough it
will jump the gap between the plates
and stream of glowing electrons will
flow from one electrode to the other
through the gas. The neon lamp has
the property of changing lis light in
simultaneously according to variations
in the current. And as this current
greatly magnified, comes from the
photoelectric cell at the other end, the
moment there is change in the light
falling on the photoelectric cell there
is a corresponding change in the light
of the neon tube
X
THIS system, however, would not give
the details of a picture, but only
the total amount of light being reflect
ed from 1t. Therefore, in the television
apparatus, length and breadth are
translated into time. Only one tiny
portion of the transmitted scene is re-
ceived at given moment But the
tiny images follow each other so rap
idly that the eye sees what appears to
be complete image.
This is because Of a physical phe-
nomenon known as persistence of
vision" The eve does not react in
Stantly to light changes out takes about
one-twentieth of a second in the proc
ess. Motion pictures, flashed on a
screen at Is per second, give the ill.,
sion of continuous motion, although be-
tween flashes the screen goes dark. The
Image of one flash persists in the brain
almost until the next flash occurs
Suppose a picture to be divided in
$500 tiny sections in so rows of so
each. If these sections we're lighted one
after another for one -thousendth
of second each. the whole picture
would be lighted within one-twentieth
of a second, and the vision of the first
flash would persist until the last had
occurred. Now If these tiny sections
flashed forth with different intenSlties
the details of the picture would be re-
vealed.
Look closely at a half-tone photo
graph as printed in a newspaper 1t is
simply large number of dots of differ
ent sizes, which when all are seen at
once give the illusion af picture. The
same effect would be produced If q
Evening star., 1928-10-28

for the gallery by sending out wired
copy" yet who are equally the recipients
Of Government handouts.
Three hundred and thirty-five publi-
cations and news services in both
Americas and in Europe are represented
in the gallery, and scores of others re-
ceive occasional articles.
x X x
WHEN Preston first went to work,
w there was no such thing as a
Government hand-out''-those mimeo-
graphed copies of speeches about to
be delivered those data which pile the
desks in the publicity departments"
of nearly every Government bureau to-
day. Reporters who covered" the pro-
ceedings of Congress or the work of
the Government executives had to
scratch about for it themselves.
The Older system may have been one
of special privilege. But the system to-
day, which gives complete statements
to all reporters, requires that. to handle
and digest it properly. they must have
a certain amount of background of edu-
cation, of experience and even, perhaps,
a slight touch of prophecy. The day of
the scoop" is just about over. But
the day of Interpretation" has come.
In that writing room, back of the
pink-marbled seats in the Senate, over
which this cheerful Cerberus presides,
Preston must keep on the bulletin
board notices and schedules ready for
reference along every line in which
the reporters of current news are in
terested. Being living encyclopedia
of senatorial tradition, he Is ready with
the high spots Of the history back of
any legislation in that news.
Uarl fNr Io ~ 11n d
Immediately the Baedeker for the new
conner, smoothing the fledglings way and
loved in turn by him.
Enploye of the Senate, yet executive
for the combined press, Preston proves a
man can serve two masters. A born
stage manager. with passion for detail
to be envied by a French dress de-
signer, 1t was natural that Preston
came soon to be the press manager
for the national conventions of both
parties. He had to be, and he Is, both
as non-partiSan as an express train and
as Secretive as an oyster.
This year, owing largely to his efforts,
the news of both national conventions
got to the eyes of all the reporters
equally and at the same time.
1t came about through Preston's al
most mystical belief in both the honor
VI tlle press anu Tic clnCdCy VI the
"hand-out."
Historically. reports of platform COM
mittee and of resolution committee had
always been the journalistic bone which
every newspaper dog most hoped to
drag off for his paper.
I'm 1920" Preston remembers. "one
paper got a scoop becsuse-it was said
"a certain member of the resolution
committee kent nf1e conv In his r1orket
and handed 1t to pet reporter. In
Evening star., 1928-10-28

flected from the scene passes through
a small square hole cut in a piece of
black cardboard Behind this aperture
rotateS the scanning disc" and behind
the scanning disc is the photoelectric
cell.
The scanning disc is circular metal
shield punctured around its outside
edge with tiny holes. These holes are
so spaced that only one of them passes
the aperture at a time, and they Sre so
arranged that every part of the aper-
tllre has been passed when the disc
makes one complete revolution. Since
the disc revolves about 20 times a sec
ond the whole picture is revealed to the
photoelectric cell-one detail at time
within the limit of persistence of
yision," or one-twentieth OF a second.
At the receiving end just the reverse
takes place There is the same small
aperture. the same scanning Gisc, but
behind the disc is The neon lamp in
stead of the photoelectric cell. The
holes of the scanning disc are arranged
the same as those on the disc at the
sending end. The two discs start at the
same corresponding point and rotate at
the same speed. The eye looks directly
at the scanning disc. and through its
the neon tube. Since the light varies
according to the action of the photo
electric cell at the other end, the eye
receives the illusion of a complete image.
\ X
CUPPOSE, for instance, that the pic
~ ture to be transmitted Is composed
of vertical black lines. The first hole
on the scanning disc begins to cross the
aperture at the upper right-hand cor
ner. At this point there is white
space. Light reaches the photo
electric cell through the hole and 1t
gives forth current. The current
greatly magnified, reaches the neon
lamp at the receiving end, and the
amp shines brightly. At precisely that
moment the first hole of the receivers
scanning disc is also at the upper
right-hsnd corner of the aperture. At
that point therefore, the eye sees
little spot of light.
Then the hole on the sending
scanning disc moves further to the left.