davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-03-29

saIlow complexion win disap-
pear.
S.S.S. Is Natures own tonic
for restoring the appetite
building strengthened clearing
the body Of so called skin
troubles.
All drug stores sell S.S.S. in
two sizes. Get the larger size.
II Is more economical.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-01-28

The middle of the road man is seldom pop
ular. There is something in human nature
which makes us dislike the person who refuses
to take definite sides on any disputed question
but insists that the proper course is about half
way between the two extremes.
This is unfortunate, for it often happens that
the middle-of-the-road man is right.
Consider the Nicaraguan situation, for in
stance. One party insists that we have no
right there at all; another party insists that
we should go even further than we have gone
and put Nicaragua squarely under the rule
of the American flag forever.
We suggest that the truth must lie some
where between those two extremes. The vast
majority of Americans undoubtedly have benev-
olent feelings toward Central American repub-
lies and want to see them remain free and in
dependent; yet it is undeniably true that con-
slant disturbances such as Nicaragua INDUCES
in are unhealthy conditions for our own back
yard.
The middle course! It's so unpopular; yet
it's SO often correct.
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inside mirror set to keep the driver informed
of what is on the road Immediately behind him.
Every sticker pasted on rear window is an
obstruction to the drivers clear view to the
rear Careful drivers frequently use both the
inside mirror and another outside the car
body on the left, giving a special view of any
car attempting to pass from the rear.
The motor car sticker is out of place On
glass, no matter where. If a man wants to
turn his car into q billboard or display his
ideas Of bathing girls or safe driving, the only
safe spaces to do his motor bi-posting are on
the parts of the car that have nothing to do
with vision. Wise men will not obstruct mo-
tor vehicle windows.
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The natural beauties of Niagara Falls, ac-
cording to experts who have been making a
survey, are endangered because of erosion Of
the bed of the stream at the brink of the falls.
Expenditure of $1,750, 900, it is said, will pre-
serve the falls as they are now for future gen.
erations.
We don't know just whose province it is to
raise and spend this money, but we do believe
it would prove an excellent investment. For
more than century Niagara Falls has been
one of North Americas most popular scenic
wonders. It's beauty has delighted untold mil
lions of people.
If this great cataract is now in the process
of changing its appearance to such an extent
that the greater portion of its beauty will be
lost, money should be forthcoming promptly
to remedy matters. 1t will be worth whatever
it costs.
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EVERYTHING THAT MONEY
CAN Br1Y

You 80 often hear someone say,
II don't see why they are unhappy
they have everything that money
can buy"
Really, are those things which
money can buy very important in
producing happiness and content
ment?
Will money buy health? Not in
the slightest degree. You must
learn to live according to natures
law or you cannot be we'll.
Several years ago q famous rich
man offered q million dollars for a
new stomach. Did anyone earn the
million? They did not. He found
health only through restricting his
diet, exercising more, and devoting
a little less time to business. BY
these changes he is now enjoying
fair degree Of health and is nearly
four score years young. Money
played no part in his regeneration.
Those who have become wealthy
in a short time through some get
rich-quick method make the worst
kind of patients. They expect the
doctor to do everything and them
selves to do nothing, except to pay
any fee the doctor asks. Self-made
men who have won success slowly
because Of following careful business
rules make excellent patients, as
they will follow any health rules laid
down for them which seem reason.
able.
Can money buy happiness? Not
to any great extent. True happiness
comes from what we enjoy, not from
what we have. The humblest SER
want, conscious Of doing good work,
can obtain possession of greater joy
than q master dissatisfied with the
troubles which always come with
much opulence.
The hundred dollar month clerk
can be happy, if not wholly content,
If he associates with those having
the same income, and does not make
himself unhappy by living beyond
his means. The wise man is salts
fled with few things, while the fool
ish man is not satisfied with any
thing.
Can money buy love? Many men
have tasted disappointment who
thought SO. Affection is not a COM
modify which can be purchased;
it depends upon physical attraction,
admiration for good qualities, self
sacrifice, and many subtle attributes
which have nothing whatsoever to
do with anything financial.
How many times it seems that
attainment Of wealth and the power
that comes with it. are real agents in
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off to punch the time-clock of the
department store. And SO it
The rush for telephone booths
after 6 o'clock in the Times Square
belt. There's one public sta
ton that has to get new books about
once every two weeks. +.
The rush for cut-rate tickets from
1880 to $50. The rush for
shuttle trains after $3.50. The
rush for evening papers in Grand
Central station at Communication hour
The rush for shines from
$3.50 to 900 in the morning. .
The rush for Staten Island ferries.
(. The rush for tables in the
automats and for stools in the Broad
way drug stores. The rush
the rush. :! But that is
Manhattan!
GILBERT SWAN.
Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.)
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Editorial Comment
But There Is All Smith to Be Beaten
Duluth Herald)

It was announced in The Herald last evening
that movement had been launched in the Twin
Cities, headed by Ivan Bowen, former railroad
and warehouse commissioner, to put this state
behind Mr.. Hoover's candidacy for the Repub-
lican nomination for president.
Mr.. Hoover is likely figure with many
friends and followers.
But is there any hurry about tying delegates
up tight, in this or any other state, to any can
didate? And is it wise at this stage of the
preconvention processes, to do that?
The Republican party wants candidate who
is in tune with the times and who, if he is
elected, will add by his administration to the
glory of the Republican party.
But it wants a candidate who not only meets
those qualifications, but who can win.
That candidate may be Mr.. Hoover, or Mr..
Dawes or Mr.. Mellon, or Mr.. Hughes, or some
body else. Who knows at this moment which
of these, and which of many others, is the man
who meets all these requirements?
And these needs are more important than
any individual.
There are many who haven't given up hope
that Mr.. Coolidge will yet be nominated. There
are many others who have not given up hope
that if it isn't Coolidge, it will be Hughes.
Either of these could beat AL Smith in his home
state, and that is going to be very important
factor.
AL Smith is going to be nominated by the
Democrats. The eleventh-hour furry against
him that is now going on is not hurting him,
but helping him. He is going to be nominated,
and when he is nominated he isn't going to be
as easy to beat as good many men would be
that the Democrats might dominate.
The wise thing in Minnesota, The Herald
believes, would be to pick good delegates and
send them to Kansas City with their hands
united, so that they would be free there to con-
slider the situation fully and to help pick can
didate who can command the confidence Of the
country and win the election.
These delegates can't do that if they are tied
to Lowden, or Hoover, or Coolidge or anybody
else.
It would not be move against Hoover or
Lowden or any other candidate to leave them
free.
It would be move to put the Minnesota
delegation in the best possible position to do
the right and wise and sound thing at Kansas
City.
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One of the disadvantages of cities Is that
they bar man from the stars. City smoke and
city lights are twin enemies Of astronomy. No
country boy, stepping out of doors on clear
and frosty night, can miss the knowledge OF
other worlds than ours. City lads are less for
tunate, for nothing forces them to look higher
than the lanterns of the skyscrapers.
Perhaps :here are compensations. lnspir-
alton is tickle jade, bestowing favors BY no
rule or rote. But it is no small thing that city
folk lose the stars.
Can it be entirely accident that the BIRTH
places of great ideas have been so largely spots
whose skies are clear? Would those somber,
glorious figures of the Hebrew prophets have
held the worlds thoughts for nearly thirty
centuries so largely in their fingers if the high
hills of Palestine had been forever overcast with
clouds?
It is hard to replace nature with art, but it
may be partly possible. Some communities are
interesting young and old alike in the useful,
interesting and romantic science Of astronomy
by fostering amateur astronomical societies.
And the larger cities, which alone have the
financial resources, are providing, telescopes
and planetariums picturing the entire whirling
universe as the astronomers know it.
The best gifts Of science to personal culture
come when the science is well loved hobby,
not gainful task. Humanity, Individually and
collectively, would benefit from universal TAX
ing up of such hobbies as astronomy, natural
history, the arts and every other department OF
human knowledge and nature.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-01-28
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Writer

MISUNDERSTANDING that the
recent shouts Of high prohibition
enforcement officers against the
methods of the Civil Service COM
mission in qualifying candidates for
enforcement jobs have aroused GER
tain interest in civil service, this is
a good time to write something about
the commission.
Your correspondent has the forty
fourth annual report OF the Civil
Service Commission at his elbow
and all that's necessary is to pillow
through lis pages and unearth the
most interesting portions for pub
lie inspection. =
Going outside the report for a
moment, it ought to be said that
the commission, which has the job
Of examining and certifying the vast
majority Of government employees,
has done as good a job as anyone
ever had right to expect. 1t func-
tions without regard to political
consideration and has been able to
Withstand political pressure, perhaps
not entirely as it claims-although
that is matter of argument-but
certainly to an astonishing degree.
Civil service was instituted by
Congress in self-defense. Not so
very many years ago, the average
member Of Congress spent an enor-
nous amount of his time filling the
scores of jobs at his disposal from
among hundreds of applicants for it.
He still has patronage, but no more
than he can handle, and he doesn't
have to make so many enemies by
refusing applicants for whom there
aren't enough jobs to 60 around.
He politely advises his constitu-
ent that it's really all up to the
Civil Service Commission and that
he will do what he can and then
let it 60 at that-unless expediency
actually demands more vigorous
effort. Congressman still get plen.
ty of requests for aid in landing
federal jobs. Some readers have
even written for such aid from your
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Windshield stickers have been barred by
Pennsylvania law. The driver who peers out
through flock Of bathing beauties or from
behind couple Of safe driving posters or 2
pattern of stripes is taking chances to which
the rest of traffic should not be exposed.
The windshield of q car is no place for adj
vertising or for display Of decoration. It is
intended to afford the clearest possible vision
of the full width of the roadway. A sticker
as big as q mans hand will completely hide
= pedestrian at close range, and car few
yards away. It is simply adding to the risks
of motoring.
The rear window Of car is about as inn
portant q means Of vision, with the customary
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ESa9ii!!!!tt: ,1 S

Hope. Makes me feel guilty, rather,
and I'd have sworn I loved her as if
she were my own"
"It's-different," Faith conced-
ed, reluctantly. but we must be
careful not to hurt Cherry by show
ing difference. There she is now.
Oh, Bob, she looks so tiny I'm afraid
the wind will blow her away. Don't
you think she's thinner? And there's
Rhoda! Oh, it's good to be home"
She was still very weak and the
excitement of the fifty-mile trip
from barrow and of her welcome
home wore her out. But it was
delicious to lie in her own bed, in
her own beautiful room, 50 differ
ent from the white austerity Of the
hospital cell which had been her
home for a week.
After one of Rhoda's incompar-
able dinners, which tempted Faiths
capricious appetite far more than
any delicacy that the hospital had
been able to offer her, Bob carried
her into the living room and made
her deep, soft nest among the
cushions of the big couch.
II want Rhoda to sing for me"
she announced.
As Rhoda's amazingly true and
flawless voice accompanied the
trained voice that poured in a gold
en-, lyric flood from the Victrola,
Faith sighed with deep contentment.
But before the passionate love song
was finished Cherry sprang to her
feet from the ottoman beside Faiths
couch and ran from the room, her
smothered cry of anguish causing
Rhoda's voice to falter and then trail
to q stop, while the record spun un-
feelingly on.
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We know two Democrats who
weren't suggested for the presidency
ct jackson Day dinners, but they are
keeping quiet about it.
When Lindbergh flew over Mica
ragua why didn't he drop a little Of
that good will cement on the enemy
Senator Dill proposes every desk
in the Senate be equipped with q
microphone. The radio Is amusing
enough as it is.
The statisticians tell u there are
2,600, 900 feeble-minded in the, United
States. The men who write the
movie subtitles, however, are said to
draw prinesly salaries.
Il General Sandino Is captured hs
shouldn't b shot,. Bring him to the
United States and make him : pro-
hibition officer:
One hundred Kansas bachelors
49, 1pgmed : club t. resist naatri-
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IN NEW YORK

New York, Jan. 28.-Manhattan
snapshots: The tiny slip of a tree
that has been poking its way
through a broken sidewalk on Eighth
street. Eighth street is a
life, least of all plant. life. :. /.
Within an hour l watched hundred
people stop and look upon the frail
green thing with a certain awe and
unbelief written upon their faces,
as though a miracle were taking
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WASHINGTON ~
LETTER SKI

correspondent, who has no more pull
here than DR.. Cook or George Remus.
But to get back to Civil Service
this commission, when it finds
that politics is entering the business
of selection of federal workers, is
empowered to investigate and act
as it deems justifiable.
In those jobs where the appoint
ing officers and the politicians can
pick one man out of a list of three
eligibles certified, politics very often
wins. But if the commission finds
that prior to an examination for a
postmastership or some such job
under its control, the word has gone
around that So-and-so has been
picked by the politicians and that he
is bound to be selected, no matter
who gets a higher rating, it often
sends out representative to drum
up trade, stirring up real COMPETE
ton which frequently becomes so hot
that the politicians man can't land
among the first three.
The annual report shows there
were 559,138 employees in the entire
executive civil service at the close
of the last fiscal year, which was a
decrease Of 1857 from 1926. Some
423, 900 jobs are subject to COMPETE
tive examination.
A majority Of civil service work
ers are postal employees, more than
30S, 1000, which added 2755 employees
during the year, while other services
were showing a decrease of 1922.
There were 10000 civil service
employees right here in Washing.
ton and the rest outside, but Of
course there are goodness knows
how many thousands who are con.
nected with the government here
who aren't under civil service.
TOMORROW: Bureaus and De
partments.
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The good old times are always far back. The
age when chivalry was anything else than
combination of cruel crooks has rever been dis
covered by anybody but Mr.. Chesterton. Mod
ms consider Mr.. Chesterton's times as much
after than their own, as Mr.. Chesterton con-
sidered those Of his fathers better than his own.
Today the night club is one of a number Of
manifestations proving that everything has
gone to the worst in the worst of all possible
worlds. But $50 years ago Boston had night
clubs, and they were the cause them as they are
now, for jeremiads about the country going to
the dogs.
Writings of the times reveal that even in
Boston, scene Of all piety and purity, this de-
stroyer of American innocence was the evil
spirit of 1.-THE degeneracy and increasing dissi-
pations of the times"
At the very time when Sam Adams was howl
ing against the Cincinnati, whose officers tex
allied themselves and their family upon the
ruins of the common liberty" the Sans Souci
Club, it's name borrowed from common oppres-
sor Of the time, was scattering "levity, vanity
and dissipation among the virtuous inhabit-
ants of town highly dedicated to morality and
purity.
Then as now it seems night clubs rested on
no frivolous social instinct, but on the perennial
political consciousness and conscience of man.
kind. In the day of John Hancock and Sam
Adams public officers who winked at clubs that
actually encouraged card-playing and dane
ing" opened themselves to attacks from their
political enemies and all "right-thinking pee
pie" for condoning vice. How familiar that
sounds to the ears Of modern man.
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One week from the day she had
left it, crazed with jealousy of
her sister and her husband, Faith
returned to the pretty brown stuc-
co house on Serenity Boulevard.
She looked at the dear, familiar
place with enchanted eyes. Home!
The home Of the Hathaway family!
The word family had breath-tak-
ing new significance for her now.
This would be her child's first home.
She could see, as plainly as if they
existed, his roller skate on the
cement path, the print Of his sturdy
school shoes in the soft loan Of q
spring flower bed.
"Good to get home, SWEET" Bob
whispered, his eyes shining as if
they too had seen a vision.
cts heavenly" she choked. What
q relief it would be to confess to
him that when she had left it just
one week before she had never
wanted or expected to see it again
the house in which she had striven
for his love and failed as she thought
then. But she could never know the
relief Of confession and dissolution.
Bob must never know that his sons
mother had been so unworthy
II don't think I'll build on that
lot adjoining" Bob remarked
thoughtfully, as he helped her up
the walk. ut will make a dandy
playground for the boy"
$50 you were seeing our home
through his eyes, tool" Faith
laughed softly. But, darling, We
mustn't count too much on it's being
= boy, or you may be terribly dis.
appointed"
"Girls need Fairgrounds, to,," BOZ
contended, as if he didn't really care
whether it was a boy or a girl
Funny, isn't it, but ! d,-'t think
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place before their eyes; as though
q Hindu fakir had appeared and
made rose bushes bloom from the

place before their eyes; as though
a Hindu fakir had appeared and
made rose bushes bloom from the
gutter. For a growing thing
on Eighth street, as in SO much Of
New York, is q miracle. It is
a miracle, even when you plant it
yourself and nurse it and see 1t grow
green and blossom. For every
plant you succeed in causing to live,
q dozen are blighted and die. New
York is not easy on any form OF
life, least Of al plant life. .
And 80 the crowds gathered as the
night wore on and, after . while, I
saw an old woman come. q. She
carried q rusty tomato can. /.
And she stopped to give the little
Just a few blocks away, at the
edge Of Washington Square, there
is another old woman who appears
every afternoon at 4 o'clock with
a little sack of liver. And all
the cats for miles around seem aware
Of her coming. For the cellars and
roof-tops the fences and garbage
cans give them up. More than
once ! have gone to her bench and
cried "Come, kitty, kitty" But
never q kitty. ;. Yet, when
the old woman approaches she has
but to whisper the faintest, "Come,
kitty" before half the cats in New
York are on their way. They
are a wise crew-these New York
cats. In sense they are
the hardest Of the city's dwellers.
/. For they survive in the face
of the most unbelievable handicaps
|. Theirs is a predatory life; q
life that goes from back yard ia
back yard and from ashcan to ash
can. They seem to have lost
all capacity for feeling. They
greet bricks and kicks with equal
unconcern.
The wash-lines Of New York.
Every day, apparently, is "blue
Monday" in Manhattan. The
waving of petticoats, shirts and un'
mentionables is the city's eterna
pennant. 1t is about the first
thing one notices and remarks or
when the trains from the outside
world whisk past the Bronx.
It is the last impression one has Of
Manhattan. From roof-top,
from fences, from lightwells, from
every open space weave the net
work Of clotheslines. Thu
clotheslines of the tenement belt,
tell you of old poverty and new pros
creasing population. The pail
Of silk stockings hanging from TIL
hall-bedroom window tell you Of tn
cash girl who arose with the dawl
so that she might be prepared fol
an evenings party before she RAJ
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Bsllamy accidentally swept some Of
tho flowers to the floor and stepped
on them Ia her bare fest.
With . squeal Of pain Miss Bel
lamy hoped around, clutching her
bruised foot and exploded q one
syllable word Of four letters that
commences with?
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Editors Note: Recent COM
plants of prohibition officers about
our Civil Service have given occa-
sion for this analysis of the service
as it is today. The story following
is the first Of three articles appear
ing daily in the Tribune.)
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mony. We don't know who pro-
notes these good will tours, but
Peggy Joyce isn't working.
Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.)
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KFYR Radio
Programs
Sunday, January %

Sunday, January 20
$3.50 to 1880 q. m.-Music.
1890 to 1900 noon-Church SER
vices, First Presbyterian church.
100 to 200 p. m.-Variety pro-
gram.
300 to 800 p. m.-Program by
Swedish Lutheran church.
Monday, January 80
$3.50 to 11:0O q. m.-Music, com.
plete weather forecast.
1880 to loo p. m.-Old time
program.
1:15 to 1880 p. m.-Aunt Sammy's
household chat.
$3.50 to 1880 p. m.-Nale quartet.
1880 to 7:45 p. m.-Weather, mary
kets and news items.
7:46 to $500 p. m.-Radio farm
school.
Wallace McCutheou, actor and
former husband Of Pearl White,
commits suicide in Los Angelei
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the destruction Of true affection!
When wealth comes in the front
door, love often flies out the second
story window.
Count your blessings, and learn
to realize that happiness can come