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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-12-30

57-What town in Southwest
France Is the site Of a celc-
brated shrine and grotto!
6i-Who was the supreme god OF
the Morse?
62-What State tabbr.) is nick.
named "Old Dominion?
63--Prefix indicating the begin
ming of an epoch.
64-What famous university Is
located at New Haven.
Conn?
65-What is the chief food of
the Chinese coolie?
66-Man's name.
6S-What il the first name Of
the H Rider Haggard hero
called "the best shot in
Africa?
69-Celestial body.
70-Who wrote "The Cloister
and the Hearth?
71-Canvas shelter.
VERTICAL.
Who regretted that he had
but one life to give for his
country
2-What mountain range sep
arates Russia and Siberia?
3--Modern French psychology
zeal novelist
4-Where was the home of the
Greek gods7
5-What general of the Civil
War was elected twice TO
the Presidency?
6-Hire.
Half the square Of a type
(printer's measure).
s-With what Christian festi-
val is Palm Sunday con-
nected7
9-Whip used for flogging In
imperial Russia.
10-Dark spots on the suns sur
face.
1i-What mountain range In
Turkestan has peaks 10000
feet high?
12-Compose, soothe.
13-Girl's name.
22-Organ Of hearing.
24-Lessen gradually to a point
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-12-30
Jumbled Cities in Postmark Patches

HOW quickly can you discover
Az the real names Of the twelve
cities represented by these cut up
postmarks? Cut out the halves.
or just olacken them In with pen
Gil as you guess them. Either
way, il is good educational funl
You will find the largest city
of Arizona, settled by the Span
iards in 1776. An Eastern city,
formerly known as Old Fort
Schuyler, whose growth Is due 20
the completion Of the Erie Canal
in 1925. And the headquarters
of Commodore Perry in the War
of 1912.
Among the other cities that
are represented here in one that
was once the home of a former
President of the United States.
The is also an Eastern city, one
Of whose leading industries was
built on a woman's invention OF
an article of wearing apparel
for men.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-12-30

THIS coin and ring trick Is 50
\ battling and yet so simple
Of solution that the friends of
the amateur magician will won
der why they did not understand
how 10 perform il
Take a silk handkerchief, a
coin about the size of a quarter
and d curtain ring. Lay the coin
IN the centre Of the handkerchief.
Now gather together the four
corners Of the handkerchief and
pass them through the ring until
the ring touches the coin.
The coujurer now requests
four members Of his audience TO
come forward and each one hold
a corner Of the handkerchief.
Then any one Of the remaining
spectators il challenged to re-
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-12-30
Two Riddles

HOW good are you at guess
IL ing? You car quickly find
out by trying TO answer correctly
these riddles in one minute:
I. What Is the similarity be-
tween a stubborn child and the
letter d?
2. What man Is always guided
by strangers?
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-12-30
Coin and Ring Trick

move the coin without releasing
any one Of the four corner OF
the handkerchief. Several at
tempts are made and each fail.
The conjurer now performs
this bit Of magic by taking any
side Of the handkerchief and
rolling, il up until il reaches the
ring. Then he slips il through
the ring and pulls out an open
ing just large enough 70 permit
the coin 10 pass through.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-12-30
The Lost Dogs
THE dog-catcher Of Podunk sue

THE dog-catcher of Podunk sue
ceeded in rounding up a large
number Of lost and stray dogs,
among which were six CANNES Of
some value. The owners Of these
SIX dogs were advertised for and
when they called 10 claim their
pets IL was noticed that the spe-
cies of each dog was an indica-
ton of its masters vocation. The
dogs we're of the following va
riety: watch, water-spaniel, lap,
pointer. pug and bull.
Knowing the species Of each Of
the six dogs can you tell what
was the vocation Of each owner?
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-12-30

ORESTES KENELM is an &c
" centric old farmer. His or
chard Is known as the 20. X.
Orchard" because it was laid out
in the shape of the initials of his
name. which formed a maze Of
paths, as shown in the drawing.
One Fall, when a heavy wind
had shaken the apples on to the
paths. he told two lads that they
could help themselves to the
fruit on the ground, provided
they would enter at any of the
four gates and pick up all the
apples without crossing each
others path or going over the
same ground twice. Each lad was
to pick up the same number of
apples.
How did they do it7
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-12-30

THE mystic quality of the number 7 runs all through the Old les
Il lament For example, there r seven days of the week, seven
fat and lean years, the seventh year of Jubilee. seven times bathing
in the River Jordan, and many other references.
The ancient sages pointed out that the fraction seventy-sevenr
seventies gave eleven as the answer, and thus eleven also became a
mystic number.
Now here is an interesting puzzle based on the number z Ar.
range three figure sevens & that they are equal to twenty. instead Of
eleven. IS in the example Just given. This is very easy TO do. and
when you have solved this puzzle you will also have discovered that
any three similar dicits arranged in the same two ways will always
give eleven and twenty
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-12-30
HORIZONTAL

81 NANAI"
l9-Thus.
20-Pacify.
2l-Essential part
23-On what island in Ameri-
can Samoa Is Pago-Pago. its
capital, located?
25-Touch lightly. f.
26-One of the leaves or q
corolla
27-Smali mammal related TO a
monkey
3O-Distant
3l-What American playwright
wrote the song. Home
Sweet Home?
35-What ancient country OF
Greece was the site of the
plain where the first Olym-
pic games were heidi
36-Possessive pronoun.
37-What American poet wrote
81 Have a Rendezvous with
Death"7
3S-Symbol for neon.
99-What French navigator dis
lHt ~ LdHiCAiSC
River in 1887
41-Proceed.
42--Urges.
45-Indefinite period of time.
46--Girl's name
4S-Daughter of ones brother or
sister.
49-Play on words.
50-AnalyZe according to the
rules of grammar.
5l-Memher Of q South African
negroid tribe.
53-Exclude.
54-What Greek goddess of agri-
culture Is identified with
the Roman Ceres7
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-12-30

DEERE POGUE, a lumberjack, had q log chain consisting OF mr.
Il teen links, which he broke into five sections, each Of which
contained three links. He gathered up the five pieces of broken
chain and took them to the nearest blacksmith shop to have them
welded together Pierre figured out that four weddings, would be Re
quired TO put the entire chain together. He knew that the blacksmith
charged half a dollar for each welding. SO he expected the job to
cost two dollars.
Imagine Pierres great surprise when the blacksmith charged
him only one dollar and fifty cents, as he succeeded In repairing the
chain with three weddings Can you figure out just how it was done?
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-08-03

provides " the Bylaws provide, to designate two
or more of its members to constitute executive
mittee which committee shall for the time being,
proyded in said resolution in Bylaws of the corpora
ton have and exercise any all powers of the board
of directors in management of the business and affairs
of this corporation and have the power to authorize the
seal of this corporation to be affixed all papers which
may require"
Now the Bylaws of the corporation sustain this hole
in the wall perfectly Here is what they say under the
title Directors Section IL: The property and bust
ness of this corporation shall be managed by the board
of directors five 5 in number Directors need not be
stockholders They shall be elected at the annual meet
ing of the stockholders and each director shall be elect
ed to serve until his shall be elected and shall
quality Section 49, The directors may hold +heir meet
ings and may have one more officers, an ke 1e
books of the corporation except the original dupli
cate stock ledger outside Of Delaware, at the office II
the corporation the city Spokane Washing on, or
at such pl Us as time to time determine
Section L. In addition to the powers and authority
by these Bylaws expressly conferred upon them, the
board may exercise all such powers of the corporation
and do ali such lawful acts and things not by
statute or by the certificate of incorporation by
these Bylaws directed required to be exercised
done by the stockholders.
Section 15 There may be executive committee OF
two or more directors designated by resolution passed
bv a majority of the whole board. Said committee
may meet at stated time notice to all by any OF
their own number. During the intervals between
meetings of the board such committees shall ADVISE
with and aid the officers of the corporation In all
matters concerning its interest and the management OF
its business and generally perform such duties and ex-
ercse such powers as may be directed delegated
by the board of directors from time to time. The
board may delegate to such committee authority to
exercise all the powers of the board except power to
amend Bylaws while the board is not in session Va
cancies in the membership of the committee shall be
filled by the board of directors at regular meeting
or at a special meeting called for that purpose.
We see, therefore that the hookup between the Ar
tices of Incorporation and the Bylaws, IN regard TO
the unlimited powers of IAN executive committee OF
two or more members is complete. Mr.. Paddock
could not choke the Articles of incorporation with all
the questionable legal tricks He had to make some
things contingent the Bylaws This legal custom
of referring to the Bylaws makes the Articles of In
corporation read nice However, Mr.. Paddock saw t
it that the Bylaws would support the Articles of In
corporation. We have that they do so in full
measure
Next Week-"ResuIt of Previous Experience"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-08-03
WHERE'S PROSPERITY?

Washington -(FP)- Employment
in manufacturing in May 1928 was
4-1%o lower than in May 1927 and
payroll totals were $3.50 lower saws
the U. S. Bureau of labor statistics.
Only the vehicle group, of II groups
OF industries studied, showed increas-
ed employment (2.44o) in this 12-
month period.
pronounced decreases in employ
ment were shown in the misceliane-
Gus group, and in the chemical, stone,
clay, glass, textile, leather, lumber
and iron and steel groups. There
were gains of 1879 for Agricultural
implements, 14.29o for automobiles
and $3.50 in machine tools.
Per capita earnings for workers in
54 industries, combined, were 11%
lower for May 1928 than wear earli-
er. Decreases in earnings per capita
IN May 1928 over April 1923 were
shown in 20 of the 81 industries ONT
standing among these 90 were the
millinery, women's clothing. shipbuiId-
ing, rubber tire and petroleum rein
ing industries. Wage cuts averaoino
1910 and affecting 2938 empoI7ees
were reported for May from 25 esfab-
lishments in 10 industries. Waco in
creases in S3 establishments in I'd in
dustries affected 1878 workers and
average 10.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-08-03
CHINA RECOGNIZED

The United States government has recognized
Chinas de facto nationalist government This
red last Friday
The attaching of the signatures to this treaty, in
which the United States recognizes the tariff auton-
omy of the Celestial Empire, is in reality recogn
ton of the autonomy of the empire its absolute in
dependence and its place as an autonomous nation
among the nations of the EARTH it means that the
United States recognizes China's right to Manchuria
and repudiates Japan's designs it means that the
United States recognizes Chnas viewpoint as to the
extra territorial treaties and that eventually with
the moral support of the United States government
England France, Italy and Japan will be forced to
Withdraw their troops from Chnas soil and that for
elgn business interests will have to look to China for
protection instead of to the foreign courts set nm NV
the different nationals in treaty zones 1t means al
so that China will longer be the romping grounds
Tor all sorts OF missionaries without the positive per-
nit and consent fthe Chinese government which will
control their activities
1t also means, perhaps most important of all huge
American loans to China which viii mean roads, rail-
roads, sewers canals docks and the development of
Chmas national resources, Chinese basis This
will mean trade and commerce on gigantic scale
There are 4OO,OOOOO0 people in China Allowed bet
ter wages will mean market for surplus cotton
crops, corn crops and wheat crops The undermining
of China will provide wide and active market for
lumber, for cement for steel and ron metals auto
mobiles and gas and oil-and for few years heavy
and exporting nation, then look out!
China has gigantic resources: iron, COAL petroleum
metals and teemng populations educated for centuries
to hard work Cheap labor, cheap raw materials good
harbors, spells rapid industrial development In a
few years China will have large, splendidy trained
and equipped army great arsenas and FORTS thousands
OF alrplanes OF all kinds and huge navy with COM
mercal ships on every sea-Japan will come to be
dependency of China-European nations will be forced
out OF the Orient will be three great powers
America Russia and China and maybe India The COM
merce OF the world will be tiny as it is now in COM
parison with what it will be-
The signing of the tariff treaty between the United
States and China also means that we are padding
our own canoe, without advice from England in the
Orient.
The greatest act of Kellogg's administration of the
department of state is the signing of this treatyfrom
it will come great trade expansion and immediate pros
perity for the United States-whch means something
to everyone
The next step the recognition of Russia. Nav the
day be FASTENED
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-08-03

and shops purveying the most costly
luxuries to the rich. The Daily Her
aid comments:
Presumably Woolworth's will not
miss her very much. There are so
many other girls available. But is
this firm, which is owned and con-
trolled by an American millionaire,
proud of the payment it made to Jo-
sephine ?"
The tribute to Russia is from the
pen of Mrs. James Morton, widow of
an English worker who accepted lady
Astor's offer to pay the travelling ex-
penses of any worker who would 60
to live in Russia Mrs. Morton writes
that she is receiving a pension from
the Soviet Union of about S58 a
month and continues:
"When you stop to think of what
would have happened if we had re-
manned in England during Jim's lon,I
illness, then I think I am fortunate
in spite of all our misfortune. BY
this time in England we would all
have been in the poorhouse. / can
never tell you how kind they have
been to us all the time during his
illness. We had the best physicians
professors, hospital treatment and
nurses. Nothing was spared to make
1T better for him and for the rest OF
us as we'll"
But workers are the privileged
class in Russia. There are no Wool
worths.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-08-03
oisoned Profit.

Two items in the same issue of the
London Daily Herald suggest a re-
markable contrast. Both deal with
tribute, one the tribute paid by an
English working girl to the multimil-
lionaire oligarchy in America, the
other the tribute of an English work
er's wife to Russia. But paid in very
different coin.
Josephine Wilson was the English
working girl who paid her tribute to
American capital 1t was her last
tribute, for she paid it with her life.
She poisoned herself because life did
not seem worth while on the "a shil-
lings $500 week she received from
Woolworth's.
Yes, her employer was the same
Woolworth that exploits thousands of
girls in the and 10 cent stores scat
tered throughout the United States.
The Woolworth chain extends to Eng
land where it employs girls at about
$3.50 week to pile up part of its
enormous profits. Last years profits
of $780, Alb represented return
of more than 10000 on the original
investment of the owners.
Room rent absorbed more than half
of Josephine's earnings. In fact af-
| ter paying for the room and morn
ing cup of tea she had less than $2.70
a week left for food, clothing, car
fare and the other necessaries of
life. And her workplace is surround
ed by gorgeous hotels, restaurants
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-08-03

afflicted with the ambitious and self
seeking politician who came to the move
ment in the hope of obtaining place and
power, but soon learned that it was bar
rem field for such exploits; these come and
go, but the mass of the rank and file have
remained loyal to its basic purposes
MANY things have been learned by the
experience through which the movement
has passed; it has been found that 1t re-
Ouires something more than burst OF en-
thusiasm to give vitality and permanency
to it. Intelligent understanding, cOmbm-
ed with patience and determination are the
qualities which account for its survival In
the face of the antagOnistic forces encomt-
cred during the past ten years.
The Farmer-LabOr party has a mission;
it aims to effect fundamental changes In
the industrial system through progressive
legislative action; this end cannot be
achieved through state action alone, bur
requires national action also. This fact has
become evident from study and experience
and the goal of the movement must be the
building of national organization to Sc
cure effective legislation.
The sentiment in Minnesota among the
students in the movement is clearly for
national party; but the formation of such
should proceed in "a way that its form and
mission fully meet the requirements.
state movement like that of the Farmer
Labor party of Minnesota, whose objective
is essentially national in character, can
not endure unless intelligent and practical
efforts are directed toward that end.
For ten years the prOgressives of Mime
sofa have kept the watchfiers burning and
have urged other states to initiate like
movements in the hope that national action
might be taken when the opportunity pre-
scented itself; but nothing very definite has
occurred. There has been much agitation
for the formation of national party with
out state organizations or any very def
mite constituent elements.
The Minnesota Farmer-LabOr party is
now engaged in a state campaign for the
election of a U. S. senator and representa-
tives and state officials, but presents to its
supporters no national ticket; they will
have to scatter their votes among the var
iOus national parties. The effect of this Is
necessarily weakening and tends to wean
them away from the movement. If the
Minnesota Farmer-LabOr party stands for
definite aims which are at variance with
the old party purposes it is destructive of
Farmer Labor ideals to have its following
wander into old party fields.
The present campaign in the state will
test the fibre of the Farmer-LabOr party
to make Roadway will require prolonged
persistent and intelligent campaigning to
make clear to the voters that the move
ment stands for something different from
the old standDat parties. Unless the vOt-
ers are convinced that the movement is not
a mere political lark of Office-seekers il
cauuot
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-08-03
A RARE OPPORTUNITY

The people of Montana have number of destin-
gushed progressive candidates to vote for at the COM
ing general election.
Hon. Joseph M. Dixon heads the list republican can
didate for United States SENATOR followed by Yelling
ton D. Rankin republican candidate for governor Then
there is Maury the democratic tick for chief Justice
of the supreme court and Angstman and Ford for as
sociate justices the republican ticket Miss Ireland
on the republican ticket for superintendent of public
instruction and either Attorney General Foote on the
republican ticket or Judge Bourquin of Butte on the
democratic ticket for attorney general The voters of
the Treasure State have wonderful opportunity to
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-08-03
Economic Articles
By Leland Olds, Federated Press
Fire Railroaders but Keep Profits

Railroad profits of $S76,555,819 in
the f1rsU five months of 1925 show
how the cold blooded arrangements
have been trimming down pay rolls
by speeding up their workers. These
profits represent a decline of less
than $10,0O0,OOO from the first five
months of 1927 although gross reven-
ues have fallen more than 100000
900. The money saved for dividends
means loss of jobs to thousands of
railroad workers.
Total railroad revenues for the five
months amounted to $2,404 1885,, 500
compared with $2,507, 487,897 the pre-
vious year. Expense was cut from
81 1926, 290,226 in the first five months
of 1927 to $1,83O,579,871 this year.
The ratio of expense to revenues fell
from 1870 to 1910.
How the railroads have cut expens-
es is illustrated in the cost of main
tanning equipment on the st. Louis
Southwestern or Cotton Belt road
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-08-03

al cartels in Europe's economic and
political life. 1t points out that care
fully organized national cartels, call
ed trusts in America, play a leading
part in this development.
In the United States the year so far
has been an unprecedented succession
of industrial mergers. Oil, steel, au-
tomobile, building material, coal food,
drugs, amusements, public utilities,
banking, in all these fields financiers
have been working toward control of
competition.
The great Standard Oil units are
revamping their structure in order to
control petroleum fom the well until
it it delivered to the consumer. Re-
public Iron and Steel merged with
Trumbell Steel. The Chrysler-Dodge
merger is still in the air when the
Studebaker-P ierce-Arrow combination
is announced. Certain-teed Products
takes over the Beaver Board compan.
les. Continental Can and u. S. Car
combine. The smokeless coal produc
ers of West Virginia work out the
details of the first large consolida
ton in the bituminous industry.
United Drug merges with Sterlins
Products. The Keith companies JON
the Orpheum Circuit. The Posta
Telegraph Commercial Cables com
panies combine with Internationa
Telephone and Telegraph. American
Power and Light and Montana Powe
form a new giant power combine an,
other great power holding companie
continue to absorb utilities. Tn
Washburn- Crosby Co., the Red Sta
Milling Co. and other flour mills, a
the direction of National City BAN
interests join to form the Genera
Mills, Inc, becoming the largest uni
In the field. Trade associations ar
becoming an important factor in cor
solidating industries.
Throughout the capitalist worl
this revolutionary change in the in
dustrial order is proceeding RAPIDLY
In England as in America echoes tn
refrain that "free competition is ey
erywhere tending to end in forms q
monopoly" The financiers want t
remove legal restraints on price, Pre-
duction and market control.
If labor merely acouiesces in til
legal changes advocated by organize
capital, its fate in the new era {
state franchised monopolies will NJ
differ materially from that of servi
or slave populations in the past.