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Evening star., 1928-11-04

~ IVILIZED man today is growing
4 handsomer, stronger, smarter
n and more independent through
~ the workings of the same laws
of evolution which In half
million years have raised him from the
dumb beasts, says Dr. Ales Hrdlicka,
curator of physical anthropology at the
National Museum, in the annual report
of the Smithsonian Institution.
Not only has the human race not
reached state of equilibrium with its
environment by the conquest of nature,
says DR.. Hrdlicka, but evolutionary
forces are causing as great changes now
as at any time in the past.
There is perceptible in the civilized
man of all races" he says, "a progress
slve refinement of the physiognomy,
with diminution of the protrusion and
size Of the cheek bones, lessening of
the size and massiveness of the jaws
and teeth, and more generalized beauty.
IheSe features, or a tendency toward
them. are being passed on to the
progeny"
Dr.. Hrdlicka finds. on the other hand,
that early badness and smaller and
less resistant teeth are becoming
hereditary as the need for them de-
creases.
DR.. Hrdlicka discards the popular
conception that man is becoming physi-
cally weaker than his distant ancestors.
Endurance Emphasized.
"The higher civilized man." he says,
has advanced in human endurance,
through the stresses of civilization and
the calls for endurance. He may not
have the more automatic strength of
some primitive people, but his eyes,
ears, body and. above all. brain are
evidently capable of greater conscious
eXertions and endure longer.
1.-THE last war taught much IN this
direction, and on every side may be
seen the great endurance OF the flnan-
cier, the industrial leader and the in
tellectual worker. The amount OF labor
they are able to perform, the strain en-
dured by eyes, all the senses and, above
all, the intellectual powers, are at times
astounding. Nothing of that kind is
evident in the old days except in rare
Individual mental giants. Qualities ap-
pear now manifested by multitudes
which in the past were barely mani
tested by individuals.
New ambitions and necessities, new
inventions and new and intense compe-
titions are acting powerfully upon pres
ent man in highly civilized communities
much more so than they have ever
acted in the past.
when we weigh the effects of the au-
tomobile, movies, radio, the daily news
paper, ETC.. when we contemplate what
groups of competing business men or
any other men go through, we can but
that things very potent are
developing in human relations which
Evening star., 1928-11-04
BY ARTHUR CAPPER,
United States Senator From Kansas.

TINE 1928 presidential election
will do more than determine
whether Gov. Smith or Mr.
Il Hoover will occupy the White
House during the next four
years.
1t will probably furnish an answer
10 the question whether we need and
shall have in America legislation to
compel citizens to vote.
Abraham Lincoln in his memorable
Gettysburg address, pleaded for gov
ernment of the people, by the people,
for the people.
Less than a lifetime after the deliv-
cry of that address we too frequently
have government by less than so per
cent of the people.
The indications at this time are that
there will be a record breaking" vote
throughout the country. The registra-
ton of voters is 100000 greater than
in the 1924 election. approximately
100000 people have indicated their
intention to vote. How many actually
will vote is the big question confront
ing both parties and candidates.
Problem Important Now.
The problem is of particular impor-
4ance in 1928 because of the possibil-
jty that the electoral votes of a single
State, or of a very small number of
States, may determine who will be our
next President. The party which Sue
CeedS in arouSing, registering and vot-
ing the greatest number of those citi-
Gems who in the past stayed home on
election day probably will win.
There is great reservoir of 26,000,-
600 people who might have voted in
1924 but did not, upon which either
or both parties may draw for votes. In
addition. 100000 young men and
women have attained voting age in
1928. They may hold the balance that
will tip the scale in favor of one of the
candidates.
Either candidate may have won the
election already by organized effort
which brings a preponderance of party
registration A failure to register even
few hundred or few thousand posi-
BILE supporters in any one State might
result in the defeat of either Gov.
Smith or Mr.. Hoover.
May Change History.
Eleven hundred additional votes for
Grover Cleveland in New York State
in 1884 gave him the States As elec-
toral votes and the presidency. The
vote in New York State this year may
be equally close-ard the failure of even
q few hundred men and women to reg
lister may change the history of our
Government during the next four years.
In the bitterly contested election of
1916 between Wilson and Hughes the
former carried Missouri by only $4,000 |
votes. Cox defeated Harding in Ken |
lucky in 1920 by 4,017 votes. Either |
of these so-called doubtful border States |
may furnish the answer to Hoover or |
Smith in 1929" II
Many millions of dollars have been |
spent by both party organizations in |
the present campaign. Why? Chiefly |
money to bring out the VOTE" The |
radio, the party speakers personally and
the newspapers have brought the po-
Evening star., 1928-11-04
Do You Live i'm a Home
or a House?
BY BRUCE BARTON.

DEoPLE use words loosely.
- They speak of "owning
a house" and owning a
u home" as if both phrases
meant the same.
AS matter of fact, many
man who pays rent all his life
owns his own home, and many
a family has successfully saved
for a home only to find itself at
last with nothing but a house.
know one such case.
To Town their own home" be-
came a perfect obsession' with
the fan1ily--a false god to which
everything else must be sac
rificed.
To swell the sacred fund, the
father wore clothes so shabby
that his business progress was
retarded. The children were
undernourished, and two of them
died. Life lost every vestige of
III LIiG oitNtI9 0tIA9
gle to scrimp and to pay.
At length ambition was real
lied. They stepped through the
door of the house on which the
last cent had been paid. They
had bought their house, but in
the process they had destroyed
their home.
What is the ideal home?
! should say, first of all, II is
"cozy" plaee-a place not too
large.
The Vatican has $1,000 rooms.
The Pope could, if he would,
sleep every night for 40 years in
different room. The Winter
Palace at Petrograd is so vast
that, once when repairs were to
be made on the roof, peasants
were found living there in
fTnrvris
Evening star., 1928-11-04

must have an effect on mans future
evolution in mental as we'll as phys
ical direction.
About the greatest factors of contem-
poraneous and future progressive human
evolution, however, are the thirst and
striving for the better, for something
ever better and higher in every line.
This means desire and striving for
ever greater strength, beauty, bodily and
mental effectiveness mental freedom,
ability, power and true happiness.
This great factor was not so mani
fest in times past. A man then was
too often satisfied to serve another,
Evening star., 1928-11-04

provided he had enough food and a
little leisure. This action is ever re-
fining mans mental actions. The
promise is gradual orthogenesis of
man in the right direction, physically
so far as this may still be possible, but
above all intellectually"
Chance Operation in Past.
Evolution in the past, Dr. Hrdlicka
points out, has been by chance opera
ton of the forces of nature, but man
now is in position to control, to some
extent, his own evolution. Although
predicting that man will conquer, he
Evening star., 1928-11-04
Overcrowding of School Buildings
Held Serious Obstacle to Education

all-important thing is that he shall be
taught how to find and recognize truth.
not some ones opinion as to what truth
Is. If the public understood this better
perhaps there would be fewer efforts on
the part of the propagandists and other
interests to violate the proprieties in
their relationships to the school.
Evening star., 1928-11-04
ITALY RESENTS ITS ROLE
In AFFAIRS OF EUROPE
Franco-British Navy Negotiations With
out Consulting Rome Fans iii
Feeling in Nation.

The fact that Italy was an ally in 1914
and yet became an enemy in 1915 still
dominates German memory.
Evening star., 1928-11-04

Continued on Fourth Page.l
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-01
WEATHER

Continued from page one)
Years day. Rain was predicted for
New England, followed by snow.
On the comparatively mild Pacific
coast the forecast was for colder
weather, accompanied by rains but
with Greezing blasts in Washington
and Oregon.
Three Dead in Chicago
In Chicago three deaths were at
tribUted to the snowstorm that ragged
last night and collisions in the rail-
read yards and on the elevated there
today due to binding snow added
more than a score of injuries TO the
storms toll. Traffic accidents were
numerous there and in other large
cities. At Townsend, Mont, a man
died from exposure.
Air mail planes on the Chicago-Dal-
las route abandoned schedules due to
adverse weather. East-bound trains
were delayed in the m~iddle-west by
the bitter weather and snowdrifts.
In the Sierra mountains near Long
Barn Calf. twenty-five Boy Scouts
were marooned in a deserted lumber
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-01

RALLY JAN. II
Washington Scene of
jackson Day Din
ner of Host

WASHINGTON, ID. c.. Dec. SIP
Responses to the i,4C0 invitations
sent ont by the democratic national
committee TO the jackson day dinner
here or January II have led Chair
man Glenn L. Shaver to believe that
this viii be the greatest party rally
on such an occasion in years.
This will be the first gathering
of the hosts of democrats since the
historic struggle at Madison Square
Garden in 1924 and it likely will
bring together the central figures in
that battle. Alfred 4. Smith and Will
liam G. McAdoo.
Both Of these men, the one now a
prominent contender for presidential
nomination and the other self-elimi-
mated from the race, have been in
vited to speak. Similar invitations
also have gone out to Reed of Mis-
scouri; Walsh of Montana; Robinson
of Arkansas; Richie Of Maryland;
Donahey Of Ohio. and others whose
names have been talked about in con-
nection with the presidential ncmi-
nation as well as TO several other par
ty leaders.
Chairman Shaver said today that
the responses to the invitations to the
dinner indicated that the gathering
would be very representative of the
democracy over the entire country
with large delegations coming from
west, north, east and south. the esti-
mate now is that there will be up
wards of 1000 gathered around the
banquet board when the chair raps
for order and presents as the toast
master John W. Davis. the party
standard bearer in the last campaign.
Claude Bowers, author and member
of the New York World editorial
staff will deliver the keynote address.
taking as his subject the life and
work of the man in whose honor the
day is named.
The banquet is coincident to the
meeting ofthe national committee TO
fix the time and place for the 1928
democratic convention. The COM
mittee Will hold its preliminary meet
ing in the forenoon OF january IL,
and is expected to conclude it's la
bors within three days.
While nearly q dozen cities are ex-
pected to make offers for the CON
v~ention. the chairman said that San
Francisco. Detroit. cleveland ana
Miami we're the most active at this
time.
st. Paul. Boston. Chicago and Hous-
ton are among the or er cities eX-
pected to bid for the convention
which likely viii open the last part
Of June, two weeks aftcr the re-
publican convention assemblies on
June Il in Kansas City.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-01
Road Engineer
Thompson Quits

AUSTIS. Tex. Dec. 31.-tR)-Res-
ignation of State Highway Engineer
+. A. Thompson, effective January
20. and appointment of Glib Gill
christ. Dallas, who held the place
from 1928 to 1925. to succeed him.
was announced today by the. high
way commission through Secretary
Claude Teer.
NJ. Thompson took the position
only on the arnest invitation of the
commission. Mr.. Teer said, and with
the understanding that he would be
relieved when an organization had
been built and the work started
well under way.
He (Thompson) feels that his
responsibility has been discharged
and plans, ! understand, to open an
engineering consulting office pos
sibly in Dallas" the secretary add
ed.
Gilchrist. Teer said, recently sew
cred connection with the firm OF
Maggie, Witt, Robbins g. Gilchrist.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-01
fBy The Associated Press.)

(By The Associated Press.)
Texas shivered tonight in q cold
wave that covered the entire state,
and prospects were that the first day
Of 1928 would be the coolest Of the
winter. A shining sun. however Will
brighten the beginning OF the new
wear IN most sections, according to
forecasts.
North Texas experienced the cold
est weather in the cold wave which
extended its icy fingers to many
southern points on the gulf with
freezing temperatures expected as lar
south as Corpus Christi.
At Dallas, the minimum tempera-
lure was IA, the lowest mark Of 2
season, with four degrees above zero
forecast for New Years day. Paris
reported a temperature OF IL degrees,
the lowest in years with n prospect
for colder and clear weather MA
A minimum of p was recorded az
Sort worth at 6 d. IN. the forecast
being for a low o. 10 degrees.
Wichita Falls experienced a minimum
OF l2 degrees and expected lower tenn
prratures Sunday.
Amarillo, in the Panhandle record
ed four degrees mt 8 n. m. Saturday,
with the Sunday forecast predicting
continued low temperatures. At Lub-
book, the lowest mark was lO degrees
with the prospects for still lower
temperatures during the night. Abb
lene was at grips with the worst
cold spell Of the year a new season
low Of IA degrees being recorded at
z a. m. today, and a minimum OF from
2 to 10 expected by January D.. Al
San Angelo the temperature was 20
about midnight.
S~ub-freezing temperatures were re-
corded for nearly all day at Austin.
while the forecast called for lows OF
! from u to is degrees by Sunday
morning. Waco reported a minimum
Of 90 and a maximum below freezing.
Southwest Texas experienced temper
| aturcs below freezing as far south as
San Antoine where the mercury rest
ed al 80 at S p. n. Temperatures OF
between II and 20 were expected BY
morning. E%dinburg reported AZ de-
grees at 8 d. m, Brownsville 46 al
z %. m. but citrus fruit growers had
not been warned Of sub-freezing tenn
peratures and had taken no precau-
tons to protect fruit,
Galveston expected the severest
| cold. a temperature Of 22 degrees
having been predicted. At Houston
the sky was clear, and the temper
AZURE lowered just above freezing,
while Is degree mark was expected
before morning. Corpus Christi re
ported clear skies with sub-freezinG
temperatures by the beginning of the
new year.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-01
MESSIAH AT
SAN BENITO
Handel's Product N
Sung BY Trained
Voices

SAN BENITO, Dec. 3l.-The an
nuai presentation Of The Messiah"
oratcrio by Handel, will be given
for the sixth time in the Rivoli
theater Sunday afternoon beginning
at 2:30 o'clock in the afternoon.
The presentation includes n group
Of four well known Texas soloists
and sixty voices in the chorus, Sc
lected from Valley talent.
This production is divided into
three parts, the first including the
prophecies of the Savior's coming,
the second concerning his actnal APP
pearance on earth, and the third
makes known the truth Of Christi
anity. What Is considered the most
beautiful portions OF the work are
obtained in the second part, the
Passion and the Triumph. In this
portion are the soul, Behold the
Lamb Of Cod" and "All We Like
Sheep Have Gone Astray," and also
the soprano aria, Il Know That My
Redeemer Liveth." Lastly the
"Hallelujah Chorus" the most won
derful of all h~allelujahs.
Soloists are Sherrod Durant, Mrs.
William Airing, Mrs. L. r. Kier,
and Card G.. Elliott and have been
pronounced by critics to be each
we'll trained in their individual parts
50 that Partially to their singing is
impossible.
Mr.. Durant is n young singer but
is said to handle his parts with the
ease and smoothness of a veteran,
Mrs. Airing, soprano, Mrs. Kier,
alto. and Mr.. Elliott, bass, are all
singers Of ability. ,
The chorus has been spending
weeks of practise on the production
and is reported to &c in excellent
training for the parts. many of them
being participants during the pre-
vious years that the work was given
in the Valley.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-01
III GOOD YEAR
BANKERSFIND
Bank Credit Abundant
For All Business
Reserve Board

WASHINGTON, d. C.. Dec a.
ml-.pespite the recession in recent
montns. American business, in the
board, closed its books TODAY af.sr
. year of activity, second only to
record breaking 1926.
Throughout 1927. the board said
IN . business review of the year,
Dank credit was abundant for all
classes cf enterprise and money
rates were relatively low, particu-
iariy after midsummer and early
autumn when discount rates were
reduced The supply of capital
funds arriving from national saw
lngs was exceptionally large. and
~fiotations Of domestic and foreign
securities were in record volume.
The board summed up the situation
In this language:
industrial and trade activity in
the United States showed q further
decline in the last weeks of 1927,
"nen allowance is made for the
usual seasonal trend, and at the end
wholesale trade were in smaller vol
m than at the close OF any year
since 1924.
Notwithstanding the recession in
business in recent months, the vol
m Of activity for the year as a
whole was nearly as large as the rec
ord established in 1926 and larger
than any previous year.
The output of mines and fac
tories and the volume of building
construction was somewhat smaller
than the year before though larger
than in preceding years. Factory
employment showed a slight decline
for the yea and earnings of indus
trial workers were somewhat re-
duced, while the value of farm pro-
duets was larger than in 1926.
Distribution of commodities to
was maintained on a high
level and there was no evidence of
undue accumulation of inventories.
The general level Of commodity
prices. which had been declining for
agout two years, turned upward in
the early summer of 1927 and at the
close of the year was only about l
per cent lover than at the end OF
1926.
"Cotton and silk consumption was
larger thar in any previous year and
the wool and leather industrise re-
covering somewhat from the depres-
- - A~<~A~ S%1
active than for any year since 1928.
In October and November these in
dustries showed some decline in out
put. along with other Industries but
continued somewhat larger than q
year earlier.
Agricultural developments during
the year were in contrast to the
course of industry" the review con-
tinued. Agricultural prospects,
which at the beginning of 1927 were
not as bright as the industrial out
look, improved considerably in the
latter part of the year. Late in the
spring prices of agriculture COM
modities began tn rise, rejecting
chiefly increases in the price of cot
ton. corn and cattle. Subsequently
prices Of other products also adj
vanced and as wholesale prices Of
non-agricultural commodities show
ed little damage during this period.
the purchasing power of a%gricultur-
nj products was considerably inn
proved"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-01
Shipments Total
z Cars Friday

Shipment of ~ cars of fruit and
vegetables over the Missouri Pacific
lines Friday. according to report
from the office OF a. e. Waldron,
general agent at Harrington, sen the
total movement for the eason over
hat railroad above the 1900 car mark
and put the 1000 car mark rear
enough that it likely will be reach
ed during the first week OF the new
year. The exact total over the NJ.
Il. to Friday was 1904, including C53
cars of fruit.
To last Saturday the Southern pa
cific had moved 179 cars during the
season. and it is likely shipments
from both roads totaled well owe
100 cars at the close of business
Saturday night, the last day of the
year.
The 70 cars shipped Friday con-
sisted of fruit s cars; mixed vege-
tables 81, beets ], beets and carrots
s, carrots 4, cabbage %.
Total shipments over the Missouri
Pacific to Dec. 80 last year we're
1914 cars and the Southern Pacific
was not operating at that time.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-01
DOMINIQUE

Continued from page one)
ism which drew upon him the eyes
OF the entire nation, but besides
making him a hero the incident
cost him his right arm and 10 some
extern permanently impaired the
sight of his right eye.
When the negro soldiers broke
from restraint Of their officers
and made their attack upon the
city they first riddled the home
Of c. l.. Cowan near the Fort
Brown wall with bullets and next
directed their fire at the lighted
windows Of the Miller hotel.
Unmindful of the danger. Domin-
que rode down the bullet-swept
street and ordered the soldiers to
dispense. His action drew upon him
self the fire that was being direct
Cd toward the hotel. A Springfield
bullet struck him in the right arm
ard as he rceled in his saddle his
horse was riddled with bullets and
fell. This probably saved his Ire.
as the horse fell between the
wounded man and the m%utineers,
forming a barrier which protected
his body.
Mr.. Dominguez first became con-
nected with the city police force in
1878, just after he had returned
from an ox-cart trip to Waco, where
he had been q cowboy on his IA
theirs ranch. Later he went into
the quartermaster department AT
Fort Brown, where he met Genera
McCock, an cid army friend Of his
father, who recommended him to the
Cameron county officers for the po-
sition Of deputy sheriff, n position
he filled for ten years.
Later he again accepted a position
on the city police force, a post he
held up TO the time OF the negro
raid. After convalescing from his
wounds he was rendered the poss-
ton OF deputy customs Inspector, and
held this position until 1912 wn-n
he resigned TO become the city hall
officer on the Brownsville ponce
force.
With the exception OF n few
months on his fathers ranch near
Waco ana a trip to Washington In
1906. when he was called as a wit
ness in the federal investigation o.
the negro mutiny. he had never been
far away from the enyirons Of his
native city.
He lived in Brownsville during its
most turbulent days. Though only
ten years of age at the time. he re-
tanned a very vivid recollection Of
the raid upon the city in 1883 by
General Cortina, the Mexican bandit
leader. He saw the trenches dug
along Tenth and Eleventh streets to
protect the thin line Of Americans
who manned them TO protect their
homss against the force Of the IA
nous border bandit. The youngster
placed on sentry post. and thus
did his part in defeating the at
tempt Of t,e bandits to secure per-
msncnt possession Of the American
border city,
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-01
Big Double Bill
To Be at Rivoli

An unusually good program is
scheduled for the Rivoli theater at
San Benito for today and Monday.
On the screen one of the worlds
most popular stars. John Gilbert.
I of the Big Parade" will APP
pear in Man, Woman and Sin
This is a story Of modern life with
the usual big thrills and plenty Of
love and romance.
On the stage will appear Happy
Golden and his minstrel memories,
an organization of burnt cork com
edians, singers and dancers. One
OF the novel offerings in vaudeville
today is minstrel Memories" Sew
eral ~aristocrats of MINISTRIES prove
that audiences today like the same
kind of entertainment that audienc-
es of % years &c liked. They will
also introduce a quantity Of up to
the minute entertainments.