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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-21
TEXAS DAILY PRESS LEAGUE
Foreign Advertising Representatives
A Trick of the Calendar

Inc absurd trick which the calendar plays on IN.
hsnsas legislature and governor the coming year is a
practical illustration Of ono Of the many reasons for
u present movement to adopt 4 rational calendar, is
the contention OF Meredith NJ. stiles, member Of the
national committee on calendar simplification.
IN accordance with tho Kansas state constitution.
the legislature will convene on the second Tuesday in
January. and tho constitution also provides that the
governor ball he insugura:ed on the second Monday
n January The intent Of the constitution is that the
now governor take over his duties and Be prepared for
the convening n the legislature.
In 1929 january / falls on Tuesday. The second
Tuesday Is January 3. The second Monday is January
- and the governors inauguration cannot take place
until Six days after the legislature convenes. This may
result in the Kansas legislature having two governors
messages TO guide its deliberations. but the probability
is the legislature will merely mark time after convcn-
ing until the new governor takes over his duties.
According to Mr.. stiles, the national committee on
calendar simplificstion Is now submitting to public
opinion a plan for a fixed calendar which eliminates the
possibility Of such an irrational situation as this which
must occur periodically with the annual shifting Of the
week days. IT the simplified plan is adopted the sec
ond Monday in January will always be January 2, and
the second Tuesday will always be January 10. II
WOULD put an end 10 the inconvenience caused by the
shifting of the dates Of the month to different week
days or the days or the week to different dates Of The
month from year 10 year. " Nouiu I'D 10y ate
week day names Of all periodical occurrences. such as
election days. Inauguration, all holidays. converting
dates for legislatures. all courts and other bodies.
The plan calls for thirteen months OF twenty-eight
days each. Fixity would be attained by regarding the
365th day and leap day As blank days without week day
names. to be observed as extra holidays.
Adoption Of the %simplified calendar might prove a
temporary inconvenience. but this would be infini.-
esimsl in comparison with the Inconvenience 70 be en-
dured year after year under the present sntiquated sys-
tenn. The next regular session of congress will hive an
opportunity TO pass upopn this proposed simPiification'
and there would he NO pronounced objection from the
American public n il were adopted.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-21

A representative Of q large port on the Pacific coast
said that he profited more by his visit to the Sabine
Neehes ports than to any other ports he had seen.
All Of which merely goes to show the difference be
tween experts and persons who merely pose as ex-
perts. The leaders in every form Of human activity are
men who keep their ears and eyes open. Whether they
manufacture steel. operate textile mills, condu Z
chain store systems or do something else. they never
quit studying their work. they never stop lesrning.
Even in banking, which is presumed to be the most
conservative OF all professions, the leaders are men
Of vision and initiative, who believe in progress. This
Is particularly true in the sciences, which are adding
every day TO the store of human knowledge.
So the spectator who furnished the theme for this
editorial need not have been surprised il important
visitors forget that they we're important and tried to
learn something they did not already know about sea-
ports.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-21
The World and All
UNDERSTANDING PEOPLE
By Charles Y. Driseoll

II We could understand people, , g could get along
with humanity. In fact understanding generally in
crcascs our liking for people. | remember once con-
ceiving a violent dislike for a young man whom / met
in the course of a days work. A mutual friend after
ward invited me to luncheon, and mentioned that the
young man I had disliked would be there also. | said
Id better not 90. because the sight Of the disliked
young man would make me unhappy. My friend gently
persuaded me. | became better acquainted with the
fellow for whom I had conceived an aversion. and
eventually he became one Of my best friends. I had
disliked him because ! hadn't understood him.
A great deal Of attention is being given, these days,
to Analysing ourselves and our friends. The rise %
psycho-anslysis and imitation psyche analysis into pop
ulsr favor has brought with il \ renewed popular in
terest in human beings. We are all interested III per
scnalities As never before. Especially in our own per-
sonslities. The desire for self analysis has become :
craze.
an much interested IN a new book, Behind Your
Front, BY James Oppeuheim. II * an attempt "a fur
ther populsrize sef-snalysis by making it easy for the
average reader to snalyze himself and his friends with
the aid Of tables. diagrams, pictures and short, concise
descriptions. Perhaps classify j. a better word than
analyze in this case. Analysis u . serious undertake
ing, but anyone. with a good set Of hints and primary
principles can 60 far toward classifying and labelling
himself and his friend.
Arc you an extrayert or an introvert? Not that YOU
absolutely have TO be either. You may Be a combina-
ton OF the two. and probably are. But you NAV Be
more Of ono and less or the other. As soon a. some
BODY divides humanity into two classes, you naturally
want to know in which class you belong. Behind Your
Front undertakes to help you decide whether you're
an eNtravert, as was Theodore Roosevelt. or an intro
vert. as vas Edgar Allan Poe.
sss
such efforts to ropulsriss the understanding If hu-
msn behavior and human characteristics are very com.
~mendable, | think. After reading Behind Your Front
the reader ought to have vastly more charity toward
those who don't hapuen 10 be just like himself than h
ever had before. For you learn that Babbitt and
Mencksn. Jack Dempsey and Emmanuel Kant. Mussolini
and Nathaniel Hawthorne are all good and useful citi-
rens OF q delightful varied universe. and II would Be
difficult to get along without any one Of them. Know
ing people. you come To like them. or. at the worst. to
tolerate them and he forebesrine toward character
lstics that arc unlike your own.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-21
7. New York Letter

passenger on the same three-stacker
was the son of tho man who wrecked
her friends career down there where
Ar-cntines arc ar "hot" a. English
mustard. She decided to Theda Bara
the Kid. and succeeded right off the
bat. giving out plenty Of that $. A.
business, the lad going limp almost
as soon as she rolled those Great
Big Orbs and when she displayed her
M~istinguetts.
But the boy fell in love with her!
Nadly in love, and she Got That Way
about him too. Irony, | know, but
fact, and then she confessed the plan
10 make a chump out Of him. But he
didn't care. They never Dc, you
know. Not when they go" for that
great big thing some people call
Love! They Riviera'd together and
London'd and Berlin'd it when they
weren't Nominating.
They we're on the same wavc-brcak-
er America-bound. where they re-
sumd their Garbo-Gilberting. and he
notified his rebel pappy, who gave
his blessings. When you see her IN
any Of the local pash poison parlors
she Il buried under another mess Of
stones-that give most admirers kieig
eyes-all Of which came from me
same vaults that house the other TEL
lows stuff when he was king.
But they'll never be sealed. That
Is they probably never will be-. IL ap-
pears that he has n wife at this writ
ing and she has q letch for the local
finrerpointers. But it strikes u a.
being fodder for an ambitious short
story idea mendicant. and any Of
them are welcome to II.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-21
Washington
Letter
CONSIDERS
CABINET PERSONNEL
Rv GU Is A. TEN Ant

D. IN ID 70 40 ATl#Hw# a HNvH
1890 SiLh
49, H. Toy Lone
srhas..5ar IAnJ ] E-
GOOD guess a. IIcrbert Hoover. IVY
Rotary Of state. He was ho7lcu-.
by nr. ROYAL s. Copeland Con tho
senate, from New YorL. having wv.
.iyrod ae awbnrr7dn- tn rnr r-- tb,
office thrrrb bo nnv ~.p- L.-l ",
London.
When : candidate Y. licked IA WV
polls. his administration feel. al.
mos, under absolute ALLEGATION N,
rive him eorn irrrrfan, ',-rr-t-li.,.
rffice-to show tha vntrr. h1.r UI NV.
M ,hi,ar ,nI ul-L ..
| ,-ha-a4a I.
RL Mnen ''ol'uE ZIG
However many pr0EHnHticators
lhihh Dwight M- NOTION, Whn
"~tr-lgntcHed out america troubles
win MeXlco as amnassag'r on that
slde OF the NO Grahoe' mas Z 1lnSh
on me state p~ortlollo and anS oo9l
Wno nas 4 nlEh fe-afa lor wlri'hnlN
relatlphs hetNl tnlA ''uN. anu
.n
mt '"A' 7" "'U'N '"''
'V,
but let the prophets say what theE
will-here's betting "a scent cigar
that N will ~ offered tu senator
William nv Borah first
senator GcorEc ~. Moses mould
not be left off the lat. either. tie
considers that he did more thsu any
other single influence Z" elect Nr.
Hoover. Unless ho lands nm0fhin-
mighty choice-the senate majority
leadership ~ lsatt-thEre Will hs
one grand row.
Secretary Andrew ". Mellon seems
now TO be generally agreed on as q
permanency in the treasury post UNI
~ he drys W and blows away.
The talk also iS that Dwight l
Davis will continue as secretary XIII
war. Harry s. New ~ ~postmas.er
general. and that curtis ID. Wilbur
will remain as navy chief. pending q
vacancy On the federal supreme
bench. when hc h. SUPP v % bc
slated to get that
This fats to provide fur Basrcm
Slemp. who was understood t1 coytt
Harry New berth.
However. NJ IS safe 10 wager even
a l0-cent cigar that something hani-
some will be- done for Bascom. Ee-
Wondering that nc was the M. M M.
campaign committee most trusted
advisor on the southern states, and
how the south went, anybody who
takes this offer up will be a chump.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-21
Other Papers
PORT AUTHORITIES WANTED TO LEARN
(Reaumont Enterprisel.

spectator at ono Of the meetings Of port authori-
Alas held in Beaumont last week was impressed by the
desire Of the visitors to learn about Beaumont and the
s.h;ne-Neches district. EEgerness for information was
- a, evidence during the inspection tours made in
this district.
suncrficial person would assume that men who
=. officials Of some Of the largest ports in the country
would not be interested in lesser ports. Such an as
,nmotion would be unjust to port authorities who were
recent guests Of Beaumont. They did not adopt supe'
ror airs and act as if there was nothing pertaining 70
= seaport that they did not already know.
On the contrary. they showed themselves to be quite
u;Iiing to profit by any lessons OF port management
- .nc,st;on the Sabine-Neches district had to offer.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-21
Private Planes
Rare In Germany

BERLIN. Nov. 2i-tPl-The Off
cial German list of licensed air
planes owned by private persons
industrial and commercial concerns.
shows that in all Germany. there
are only es5 planes in private pos
session. A big circus leads with
five planes. next come the well
known Ullstein newspaper concern
with three. thereafter follow indus
trial firms. cigarette and car9v
manufacturers. The state of Bsvs-
ria is wncr OF two planes.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-21

Who I'm n, What did General Fcch
call me- Where ss NV home.
Who is national superintendent or
the Anti-Saloon League?
What Is the nickname n South
Carolina.
--
What arc McNicans sometimes
called along the border?
For he that IS not agaire' Ne is
IN our part" Where i- this prss-Es
found IN the Bible 2
Today IN the Fast
ON this day. IN 1890. the Pilgrims
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-21

A New York official has been given a jail sentence
for a $4,000. 900 public-Works scandal. Petty graft Is
dangerous. That fellows mistake uas not going In
for oil.-San Diego Union.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-21

Persons born on this day arc in
dependent thinkers. They are prompt
aud reliable and no one can worm
secrets from them.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-21

The woman, devoted 70 him Che is
very old now vowed to avenge things
some dav with the man who clowned
him off his throne. Not long ago she
voysged to lurrop on one of the
tonier liners and discovered that a
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-21

Anthropologists always 70 away from home 10
search for the missing link. Thanks for the compli-
Blade.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-21

Perfect pOise. we would say. Is not looking self
in a Lumbermsn.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-21

The Asiatics have been taught nationalism al Amer
alism is an "anti-foreignism" and many Of the orien,als
observed that the white man sets himself UP as a social
superior everywhere, that is, except in Japan.
In japan We treat the Japanese in terms ~ cquality.
The Chinese know that We do not do this merely cut
of justified respect for the qualities Of the Japanese
civilization and of the Japanese people. The Chinese
have equally high qualities, but they do not get equally
considerate treatment. They know perfectly we'll that
X u because the japanese have a strong government
end a great army and navy.
George Washington did not warn US against en-
tangling alliances in Asia. An Asia awakening polit-
ically, industrially and socially confronts Us. for our
good or our harm. Whatever happens there. We shall
not escape involvement.
Asia faces new problems which in Europe and
America are cid. They are problems which we in the
past have solved only by war. Unless Asia shall better
our example, unless ii shall adapt its thought and its
institutions TO the new world more rapidly than Amer
lea has done. il will inevitably solve them in war also.
And, since the world has become a city, there is always
the danger that a fire anywhere may become a con-
flagration. America, for itself. could, IL Necessary, iso-
late itself from the new organization Of the world.
I. might thereby contribute 10 shrinking the League or
Nations into = European organization. Europe, by itself,
could perhaps survive that. too. BEt Asia could not.
And the rest Of us might find il hard Il stand unde=
the consequences or ~isofating Asia to solve it, nev
problems in the old way.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-21
A Daily Thnnghi
JIMMY JAMS

The prosperous cannot easily form
\ right idea of misery."-Quintilian.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-21

NEW YORK. Nov. 2l.-The sue
cessful short story writers have been
clicking with romantic tales which
pack all the trimmings that 70 with
mad love and adventure. Right here
IN New York there il az least one
yarn. and Il is far from being a fable.
II is strictly on the up and up, this
romance, and il concerns At least one
we'll known person. Perhaps YOU will
recognize the lady. Even IL YOU don't
IL will not matter. What ! started
out 10 suggest was that the ambitious
members Of the literati-those whose
walls arc papered with rejection slips
might take the synopsis and per-
hapS peddlc IL 10 4 mag editor. IL
has been done.
The girl II not hard % look ~. but
her jewels ere more attractive. They
are costly and beautiful gems. None
Of US around the incandescent sector
ever took the bother 20 find out from
whence the jewels came. But the
other yawning ono of the stay-up-
lates unfoldcd the inside a. she
told IL TO him one heavenly dawn IN
the corner Of n sizzling sw~allow-and-
choke.
The Broadway crowd used 10 make
wild guesses about those stones. One
lad would have had his listeners be-
lieve that the femme was rewarded
with the crown jewels of deposed
monarchs for her aid to various in
telligence departments during the
heavy tiff over there. But that
theory blew up like Tammany Young
when he is caught crashing 4 gate. or
like loose skirts over a subway
grating.
The real story. il appears. goes this
way: The lady was once greatly
admired by the president OF a small
South American country. who show
cred her with sparklers. Several
years z his government was toppled
by a rebel leader, but he Houdini'd
in time. salvaging SEINE Of his count
less millions and most Of his valu-
ables. Today he resides w one If the
New York midtown hotels. unsung.
unhonored and unwcpt by the news
papers-but they probably do not
know that he Is m town.
The woman. devoted 20 him Che is
very old now vowed to avenge things
some dav with the man who clowned
him off his throne. Not long ago she
~voyeged to lurrop on one Of the
TONER liners and discovered that a
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-21
The Grab Bag
Today H~orOhcnnc

adopted the famous Msyflower Com
pact.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-21
Timely Views
= ASIA SEE As coNrRoN.1NG WORLD

~ NNTN NEtN AS IUNT .TNG MURIn
BY CHESTER HOWELL, Editor.
Chester Harvey Rowell was born at Bloom
ington, ILL.,, Nov. 1, 1867. He is a graduate Of the
University Of Michigan and the universities Of
Halle, Berlin. Paris and Rome. From 1889 ID 1891
he was clerk Of the committee Of elections n the
house Of representatives. He taught in academies
# Kansas. Wisconsin and California after that.
and Vas instructor IN German at the University II
Illinois. From 1928 to 1920 he was editor srd pub
Usher Of the Fresno Republican, lecturing At the
University Of California and Stanford from time 10
time. he was chairman of the California republi-
can state convention N 1910. and has been deleg gate
70 several national conventions Of that and the
progressive parties. lie is a regent Of the Univer-
sity Of California, and for the past five years has
been engaged in foreign travel and newspaper syn
licate writing. His home is in Berkeley, Calif)
Imperial Valley press., 1928-02-07
Capitalist Hurt
At Horse Show

LOS ANGELES, Feb. Hugh
Rurdick, retired capitalist, who was
knocked unconscious and severely in
jured when a runaway horse reared
and fell into a crowded box at the
Los Angeles Horse Show last night,
was reported resting easily today.
Burdick suffered cuts on the tenn
pie, a dislocated shoulder and other
injuries. Eight others in the box
were badly shaken and received
minor bruises.
The accident occurred as 10 en-
trants in the fine harness horse ev-
ent were wheeling about tie Ambas-
sador arena. Bright Spot, owned and
driven by Marjorie Ladewig, of Bev-
crly Hills, reared and overturned the
rig. Another horse crashed into the
pile-up Of seven vehicles and in a
moment Brigh Spot cleared her har-
ress and plunged into the boxes.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-02-07
'KINC DECLARES
NEW TREATY IS
BEING STUDIED
Opens Parliament With
Reference to Coolidge
Communication.
By United Press Leased Wire
BY G. P. WILLIAMSON
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, Feb. 7.-Great Britain
is studying carefully and sympa-
theticallyn a new draft of Brit
ish-American arbitration treaty,
which President Coolidge communi-
Gated to the foreign office Decem-
Der 26, King George announced in
his speech from the throne today at
the colorful opening of Parliament.
The new treaty, the king ex-
planned, would replace the Root
treaty.
"It will be considered in COM
munication with my governments in
the Dominions,' King George said.
The kings statement regarding
consultation with the Dominions
was a revelation that the new sys-
tenn of treating them as equal part
ners in the empire, is fully operat-
i've.
"My relations with foreign pow
ers continue to be friendly,' the
king continued in outlining recent
events. "It is the constant effort
of my government in cooperation
with the League of Nations to Sc
cure the settlement of international
differences and promote the cause
of peace"
King George placed emphasis on
the improvement in conditions in
China.
Conditions in the principal indus
tries of Great Britain, the king said,
continued to cause serious anxiety,
"but there have been many encour-
aging signs of progressive improve
ment both in home and external
trade'
1t was the first time in King
Georges reign that Queen Mary has
not accompanied him to- the state
opening. She was at Buckingham
palace, suffering from a cold.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-02-07
Gas Explosion
Injuries Man

POMONA, Calf, Feb. IA gas
explosion which wrecked two
story frame house caused probably
fatal injuries to C. r. Thompson,
23. here today.
Thompson, who was alone in the
house at the time, rushed into the
street with his clothes afire. HIS
ear drums were hurst by the eN-
plosion and he suffered second de
gree burns about the hands, face
and feet. Doctors said he had little
chnrcc to live.
The cause of the gas blast was
undetermined. While the house re-
manned standing, the roof was hang
ing in a precarious position and one
wall was blown outward.
Thompson and his wife had been
separated for two months and he
was living alone, neighbors said.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-02-07
Letter Writer
Believed Crazy

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 7-Letters
purported to contain threats against
Aimee Semple Mcpherson, the Rev.
"Fighting Bob' Shuler and leaders
of the Bible Institute, led to the
arrest of Gibson Johnson, 58, la
borer, here today.
Detectives were attempting to
learn whether the writer of the let
ters had any connection with the
recent bombing at Shuler's Trinity
Methodist church. The man was
believed to be q religious fanatic
and was booked on suspicion of in
sanity.
The notes did not threaten death,
but scriptural quotations led police
to believe that the man may have
plotted against the lives of those to
whom he sent them.
One of the notes, which Johnson
is said to have admitted writing, de-
clared that "preachers are too
much in politics" and quoted the
scriptures to show that ministers
should confine their activities to re-
ligion.