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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-18
TEXANS WILL
FEATURE meet
Southern Colleges To
Gather at Fl. Worth
Dec. Al

BIRMINGHAM, Nov. lT.-TexaS
educators will figure prominently in
the thirty-third annual session Of
the Southern Association of Colleges
and Secondary Schools TO meet at
Fort Worth, Dec. Al, it has been an
nounced by the association secretary
treasurer. President Guy +. Snavely
Of Birmingham Southern College
here. The session programs, just off
the press, are being distributed
among members institutions Of col
legiate and secondary grade all over
the Southern states.
DR.. II. Y. Benedict, president Of
the University Of Texas. will give
the address of welcome at the gen.
eral session at . a. m. Dec. 9. in the
Texas hotel, TT. Worth. Prof. W. j.
Battle, of the University, is chair
mar of the committee TO make a re-
port on the work of junior colleges.
Educators of the Lone Star State on
the committee of arrangements for
the association meeting are as fol-
lows: Colby ID. Hall, dean of Texas
Christian University; r. l.. Paschal,
principal, Central high school, TT.
Worth; Edward NJ. Waites, presi-
dent, Texas Christian University;
NJ. II. Moore, superintendent Of TT.
Worth public schools; Robert L. Mar
quis, president, North Texas State
Teachers College; II. E. Stout, pres
ident Texas Woman's College; Mrs.
G. II. Burke. Jr., president of the
Texas branch of the American Asso-
citation Of University Women, and
Mrs. W. W. Wilkinson, president of
the Fort Worth Parent-Teacher AS
ISOLATION.
DR.. II. NJ. Ivey. superintendent of
schools Of Meridian, Miss, is pres
ident of the Association. Vice-pres-
idents are Joseph Roemer, of the
University Of Florida, and Miss Sue
Powers, Of Memphis.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-18
TAKE NO DEFINITE
STEPS ON PETITION

HARLINGEN, Nov. 17.-No def
mite plans have been made vet Tor
carrying out the program Of widen
ing East Jackson street, which move
was endorsed By the city commission
Of H%arlingen recently, Mayor S. Fin
ley Ewing announced.
The commission has favored the
petition presented BY property own
ers of that street for widening" Mr..
Ewing said. "but no definite
ments have been made. II will BE-
worked out in the near future"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-18
EXPOSITION in

Continued from page one
xss5 at the fair grounds.
,bs Row Scout exhibit. the county
heal.h unit exhibit, the College Of
Industrial Arts exhibit. the Mis-
.ouri Pacific exhibit, and a large
ruusber Of exhibits by private con
cams in the Valley. and in other
r.rts Of the state and nation.
Poultry Stressed
These displays will be augment
- Nv the poultry and live stock
dsnartments the swine department
field crops. and many others. The
r,o.t recent addition 10 the live
.toek exhibit is a herd of seven
hcad Of the best cows Of the fam
ans Lasater herd Of Falfurrias, and
ssversl horses from Mr.. Lasater's
herd. Valley cattle. poultry. swine
snd other animals will be shown,
with departments arranged for all
~ them.
The poultry department is receiv-
,,c more attention than usual. due
"a the increasing interest In poul-
Nv throughout the Valley, accord
;ry 70 J. W. Kirkpatrick, Hidalgo
~ounty agent. who is in arge 81
this department
The amusements and entertain
rsnts which are arranged for the
fair this year indicate q continuous
,cund OF activity throughout the five
DAYS.
Horse racing will he held every
afternoon at the Valley fair race
track. with Shetland pony racing,
rotorcycle racing. and donkey rae
ing thrown In for side attractions or
..versi occasions.
Moody Coming
A football game has been booked
lstgssa .bs. largo aEs Harrington
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-18
ALLEGED ASSAULTER
IN N. Nj.

PENNINGTON, n. NJ. Nov. IT,
QP-Lynch law, formerly an effect
i've deterrent Of thievery in western
states, yesterday was practiced BY
three masked men on Rafael Bena-
vides. a sheep herder, who was kid
mapped from a local hospital where
he lay critically wounded.
His body vas found a few hours
later swinging from a tree near
town.
He was believed by police to have
been the man who Wednesday at
tackled and seriously injured Mrs.
Charles Lewis, wife of a prominent
sheep mar q Aztec, y. NJ. then left
her unclothed in a canyon near her
home.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-18
OUTLOOK

South Atlantic and East Gulf
states: Mostly fair weather. prob
ably with temperature near normal.
except warmer near end Of the week
with possibility of showers over the
north portion.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-18

Dickey's Old Reliable Eye waite.
relieves sun and wind burned eyes.
Doesn't hurt All druggists.-Adv. ID
Evening star., 1928-12-29
THIS AND THAT M
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

very rich, was something to be treas
ured-at least for a day.
y n n y
The day after Christmas, however
they were all out on their shooters
and their skates, on their bikes and
their velocipedes, in their wagons and
their little automobiles.
Dick, years old, appeared in a
bright red dump truck, with a horn
that squawked and thick rubber-tired
wheels which went round and round
The wonder of it all had not yet
vanished from his eyes.
"Say," he said, breathlessly, "Do you
know that Santa Claus brought me
exactly what I wanted?"
It was plain to be seen that old
Santa was a marvellous fellow-had he
not guessed exactly what Dick wanted
and brought it to him upon the day
appointed?
Certainly 1t Is curious thing, how
knowing Santa Claus isl When one
considers abstractly the likes and dis
likes of city full of little children,
and realizes how much they get their
hearts set upon certain toys, it is really
marvellous how we'll Santa Claus does
by them.
| It was not always so.
| Once upon a time, when Santa Claus
was poorer than he Is today, few chill
homes Of the well-to-do few games,
some fruit and candy constituted the
entire bounty of the saint.
Nor were the children disappointed.
Many a child in those days felt as
| happy over a few popcorn balls as the
brightest boy of today does when he
contemplates that cleaning, expensive
| toy automobile of which he may grow
tired before the year is ended.
X + y X
What would a modern little miss
think, do you suppose, II she received
| a solitary silver spoon for Christmas?
Yet young lady this week told us
an anecdote along that line. When she
was child what the poets and plain
| people called hard times" were wont
to visit villages.
Then every family In the community
was hit the same way. It was during
such a period that Christmas came.
And this child hung up her stocking
with the same faith with which little
ones of today expect Santa Claus.
With exactly the same beating heart
| light" and investigated her stocking.
Dipping in her hand, she felt nothing.
Disappointment welled in her eyes.
Santa Claus forgot me-" she said,
mournfully.
Santa Claus forgot you? Why, GER
tainly not!" Her mother was cheerful.
Reach away down in the toe"
In plunged fist, and up came
A beautiful, lovely silver spoon, with
| flowers on It'll
Instantly the face Of the little girl
underwent a Transformation. Smiles
wreathed 1t, and satisfaction shone
upon it,
She was. so she recalled, as happy as
If she had received all the presents in
the world. Nor was she an isolated
| case. 1t was simply the spirit of the
times.
Today no child, 1t is safe to say, would
be satisfied with a spoon for Christmas
Times change, and with them the hopes
and expectations of the people. Possess
sion of means, widely diffused, leads to
enlarged standards all around. Christ
mas, it may be suspected, is exactly to-
day what it was a quarter of a century
ago: what has changed has little to do
with the real Christmas, which is of the
heart and mind
Evening star., 1928-12-29
Modern Marathons.

"In days Of old, when knights were
bold" men matched their strength and
skill In the lists for the light in a fair
lady's eyes, the curl of her lashes or
| for the mere pleasure Of hacking each
other to pieces. In these tanner days
the promoters are reaping harvests out
of all kinds Of endurance contests,
dancing marathons, and the latest,
vocal marathons. What an up-and-
coming promoter might have been able
to do, with little press-agent work, at
the court of King Arthur, when 1t was
possible to stage real fights with lance,
sword and mace at any time Of the
year or day, is enough to make these
modern efforts pale into insignificance.
The promoter who thought up and
staged the vocal marathon which is
now under way in New York City must
at least have had sense of humor. It
is contest In which women and men
both have entered. For ages it has been
said that woman could out talk her
male companion. What will happen in
the event man is declared winner in
the talk race in New York? Women
may be content to let it go at that.
They swim the English Channel, fly
across the Atlantic Ocean, so why
bother with mere conversational test?
The old phrase mother tongue" may
give way to father tongue"
A promoter of parts might reap
golden harvest if he could sell admis-
sions to the talkfests in which the Sem
ate of the United States has been
known to engage in the past. The Sen
ate itself has some famous long
distance takers. It was not so long ago
that Senator Smoot of Utah held the
floor for dozen hours or so, and Sena-
tor Burton of Ohio, clad in easy slip
pers, paced the Senate chamber all
night while continuous stream OF
words fell from his lips. Some bill, per-
haps a river and harbor pork barrel
measure, was the object of their "hli-
buster" At all events they stood like
Horatius at the bridge, or Foch, in mod
ern days, at the Marne, and the bill did
not pass. So far, however, the Senate
has insisted that only one speaker talk
at a time. The New York promoters
have arranged to have all the speakers
work together. Each has his little stage.
and the spectators wander from one to
another, listening to each orator who
is straining his voice and his health
for money prize.
Evening star., 1928-12-29
10 Downing Street
Credited With Pact

To the Editor of The Star:
1t seems to me regrettable to make
The Stars policy that of keeping up this
bitterness of 10 years. That w. Wilson
never in the slightest way took to him
self the credit of conceiving or of writ
ing the covenant Of the League Is
known to the most casually informed,
from his own spoken word, and DR..
Van Dyke is merely stating a historic
fact and not unearthing secret. What
w. Wilson did do was to make it a
living thing, and 1t Is for that that
Geneva, with its splendid work, and the
whole world gives him credit.
To step aside for an instant, I take
it that you would be shocked and
doubling to hear that the archives of
the State Department. contain equally
convincing proof that Monroe never
wrote the Monroe Doctrine, but that it
too, issued from No. 10 Downing street,
it's actual author being w. Canning,
Englands prime minister at that time.
What President Monroe did was to
make it living thing.
MARGARET HOLMES COULSON.
Evening star., 1928-12-29
Quack Remedies.

The callousness of quack doctors is
proverbial. Their ludicrous cure-alls
have been exposed over and over again,
only to reappear in new packages under
other names. Year after year they con-
tinue to reap bountiful harvest, only
occasionally stepping far enough out
side the law in their advertising and
use Of the mails to render themselves
liable to prosecution.
Some of the most recent examples of
the worthless remedies foisted on the
public are revealed in the annual re-
port of the food, drug and insecticide
administration of the Department of
Agriculture to Secretary Jardine.
Among the products which received
fraud orders" says Walter G.. Camp
bell, director of regulatory work of the
department, "were an alleged consump-
ton cure, consisting Of turpentine gum
favored with cinnamon; a tuberculosis
cure made of number of worthless
mixtures and marketed by one wholly
ignorant of the disease; so-called
cure for cancer through the use of
a bread and milk poultice; pernicious
anenia cure consisting largely of
ground granite; two imported sirups
similar in composition to New Orleans
rnolasses, CLAIMED to cure all ailments
of the kidneys"
1t is well enough to say that these
ouacks succeed only because people are
sufficiently simple minded to believe
their silly claims and that what is need
ed is campaign of public education
This is not entirely true. 1t is doubtful
whether any practicable amount o.
public education would do much good
for the simple reason that the quack'
are dealing with almost uneducatablt
factors of human nature.
In the first place, they are preyine
upon persons with hypochondriacal
delusions. Such delusions, in more
or less pronounced form, are very wide
spread among people of middle age anC
those on the threshold of senescence
In extreme cases they are symptoms
of various types of mental pathology
but in their milder forms they are al
most universal accompaniments of Ger
tain stages in human life. It is from
Athesc people that the quacks get thei
affidavits, sworn to before notaries
Eaacernipg the miraculous cures ei
Evening star., 1928-12-29
The Wilson Foundation.

The Woodrow Wilson Foundation will
make no award for the advancement OF
The cause of peace in 1928, it is reported.
The foundation is we'll within its rights
to determine whether an award shall
be made or not. But for a principal
speaker at the annual dinner OF the
foundation in New York to take occa-
sion to deride the efforts of this Gov
ernment. through the multilateral treaty
renouncing war, for international peace
is at least questionable propriety.
Henry Morgenthau, former AmbaSSa-
dor to Turkey in the Wilson administra-
ton, addressing the foundation and its
guests, eulogized the late President Will
son and his conception of the covenant
of the League of Nations. But he did
not stop there.
"And now," the former Ambassador
continued, "even the outgoing admin
istration at Washington joins the ad-
niring ranks (of Wilson admirers. Pres
ident Coolidge declares that the crown
ing achievement Of his seven years in
the White House is the multilateral
peace compact weak thing, to be
sure, a timid imitation, mere shadow
Of Wilson's great conception Of the
League of Nations, but yet the COM
pact is conceived in admiration of VIII
sons splendid vision"
@I,a yxy0ad~oYxy HKyifc0y1 ofioy1
does not believe that the Kellogg multi
lateral treaty renouncing war, signed
by all the great nations Of the world
and about to be ratified by the Senate
of the United States, is worthy of any
award, that is the business Of the
Woodrow Wilson Foundation. But why
is 1t necessary to drag criticism OF the
treaty into a eulogy of the late Presi-
dent? It would have been in good
taste, since the foundation did not care
to make an award to Secretary Kellogg,
not to say anything about the multi
lateral treaty. For whether the foun-
dation regards the treaty as great
step toward international peace or not,
there are millions of people in this
country and abroad who do believe that
the treaty renouncing war and pledg-
ing the nations to settlement of inter-
national disputes through peaceful
means is a real step in the direction of
better relations in the world.
The address delivered by Mr.. Nor
genthau will be interpreted far and wide
as criticism, if not an attack, on the
multilateral treaty. 1t comes at time
when the movement for the treaty is at
its height. 1t comes at time, too,
when the chief critics Of the treaty in
the Senate are men who were stren-
uously opposed to the League Of Ma
tionS.
Evening star., 1928-12-29

fected by mixtures Of salt, water and
ground nutmeg. Such delusions come
and go Of their own accord. General
health education has little effect on
them. It is not likely that the quack
remedies do a great deal Of hurt to the
hypochondriacs, other than reducing
their pocketbooks.
The activities Of quacks among the
second class Of victims are far more
serious. This class consists Of the truly
sick, frightened and despairing. Their
ailments are chronic. The progress OF
medical practice is slow, uncertain and
often merely palliative rather than cura-
tive. In their terror and lost faith
these people will clutch at any straw
however strong may be the arguments
as to the worthlessness of the proce-
dure. They are beyond education. Mere
ly as defense reactions against the
thoughts of approaching death they
built up systematized delusions. Such
persons not only are defrauded but
killed by the quacks.
Evening star., 1928-12-29
Young America was awheel.

Young America was awheel.
It was the day after Christmas, ant
all through the community every crea'
ture was stirring.
On shooters, two-wheeled bikes, roll.
er skates, velocipedes and in wagons
they rolled along, according to the1l
age and ability.
There went Tom, years old, in 8
large and glistening wagon which hi:
short legs barely managed to push
Yet he made a very good job OF it
thank you.
Mary was out on her gayly enamelec
what the manufacturers designate a:
sidewalk bicycle.
Bill and Ben and John went whir.
ring along on roller skates. It was the
Joyous day after Christmas, in some
ways the par of Christmas itself, since
/ the former is dedicated to the indoors
while the latter Is strictly exterior.
On Christmas the children made
only tentative experiments with thei1
new vehicles. Santa Claus had left
them so many other things, many oi
| them impossible to bring outdoors, that
they were willing to remain indoors
for the day.
There was the morning excitement
of the cleaning tree, the midday feS-
tivity at the dinner table and the long
| afternoon spent with various floor toys
games and books.
Who is there old enough to forget
| the breathleSS expectancy with which
Christmas morning is awaited by a
child.
Fourth of July may be celebrated for
weeks in advance, but Christmas is
never observed except upon the day
itself. Even the littlest youngsters
know that.
* X X X
The observer who might have ex-
pected to see the sidewalks swarming
with brightly dressed little ones on
Christmas morning was disappointed,
since the self-same little ones studious-
ly kept indoors. The same quiet pre-
vailed in the afternoon.
OF course, If there had been snow
one would not have thought much of
1t, although no doubt the white cover
ing would have attracted last years
sleds. Did any child receive a sled
this Christmas? It is doubtful. The
boys and girls Gf today, especially in
this particular ?'itude, where snow is
observed more theoretically than actu-
ally, prefer vehicles on wheels.
These latter range from the wagons
and bikes mentioned to elaborate
toy automobiles and trucks made in
striking imitation of the real thing,
elaborately fitted up with windshields,
horns, lights, etc.
The rolling stock was so shiny, so
very new. that even careless boys and
girls hesitated just a bit about taking
it out for its initial airing. How nice
1t looked. too, sitting so gleamingly
beneath the Christmas tree. The COL
ored lights reflected themselves in the
enamel and shone from the nickel
work.
1t was pleasure, even for a rest
less modern child, nurtured in homes
where the automobile occupied almost
the place of an ancient god, to be able
to contemplate SO much of bright
beauty as yet unsullied by contact with
the crude world of hard sidewalks and
still harder curbings.
Somehow even the smallest boys,
whose regard for property amounted
to almost nothing, were able to grasp
the fact that this beautiful wagon,
which Is years ago would have been
found only in the homes of the
Evening star., 1928-12-29
Pan-American Unity Forged
By Hoover Southern Trip

from this historic journey will begin to
come in evidence after Mr.. Hoover Is
inaugurated as President" remarks the
Pasadena Star-News, "and after he be-
gins to lay down his policies and his
recommendation to Congress. Already
there is a wholesome reflex of good
feeling toward the Government and the
people of the United States from the
republics of Latin America. This in
itself is worth the entire journey made
by Mr.. Hoover. But much more than
this will result" The Altoona Mirror
holds that "it is apparent that he be-
lieved one of the essentials at this time
was a friendly demonstration"
Throughout the tour" says the
Madison Wisconsin State Journal. lit
has been the evident aim of Mr.. Hoover
to impress upon South American coun-
tries that the relation between them
and the United States should be one of
comradeship and belief in mutual de-
pendence. y If this has indeed
been accomplished, his trip has been
one of great results, not only to the
United States, but also to the world
Mr.. Hoover has been an ambas-
sador of great value to his country"
His use of the four-month interval
between election and Inauguration" ad-
vises the Cleveland News, sis commend
able enough to be initiated on future
occasions of the kind. And certainly
there Is no popular impatience on this
occasion because the action Of the elec-
torate is so long in taking effect. But
we surmise that the movement tc
shorten the interim may seem some
what sensible to Mr.. Hoover himself be-
fore March A." The Brooklyn Eagle
thinks that he comes back with the
knowledge that he has made an out
standing contribution to the closer in
tegration of the New World"
The Manchester Union offers the ver-
dict: He has not been able to make all
our Southern neighbors our trusting
admirers and friends. To do that would
be to work an international miracle
But unquestionably he has made great
progress toward securing a better un-
derstanding."
Evening star., 1928-12-29
Censorship and Cigarettes.

In righteous wrath the Restaurant
Owners Association has protested to the
Federal Radio Commission against that
brand of cigarette advertising which
might lead the listeningin public to be-
lieve that cigarette smoking is more
beneficial to the human system than
the eating of ham sandwiches. AS the
Federal Radio Commission has no power
of censorship over radio programs, the
action of the restaurant men must be
construed as blowing off steam. If the
cigarette advertisers take the logical next
step, they soon will be advocating the
substitution of cigarettes for nursing
bottles and milk as the ideal food" for
infants. But the Radio Commission
could do nothing about it, no matter
how mournful became the cries of the
milkmen.
The restaurant owners and others
whose business or sensibilities might
be injured by radio advertising will
find that in the end their refuge and
strength lies in the common sense of
the public. 1t is certainly safer refuge
than censorship of radio programs. For
If censorship ever came to pass where
would it end?
A large body of public-spirited, solid
citizens might protest heatedly against
allowing male quartets on the air, for
instance. These citizens could strength
en- their protest by citing figures and
facts concerning the demoralizing in
huence of listening to male quartets
and allege that the only thing that
could possibly be worse is a female
quartet. But if the Radio Commission
attempted to censor from the programs
all efforts by quartets of either gender
there would come an answering howl
from those who can think of nothing
more stimulating than listening to a
male quartet. This sort of thing would
go on without end. Political claims
and - coHnterclaimswwlaat : wonderful