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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-18
Concreting Canals

Authorization Of bonds in the amount Of $~1,600.0oO
by the voters of the La Feria irrigation district marks
another step toward ultimate elimination, through con-
creting. Of wastage Of Rio Grande waters and dam
age to lands.
The La Feria district is the third of the major
established districts Of the Valley to take this step,
the Pharr-San Juan-Alamo and Edinburg systems hav-
ing financed concreting by voting of bond issues last
fall.
Among the smaller districts, the West Brownsville
system has been brought under concrete. the McAilen
system has concerted part Of its canals, and all OF
the new districts have provided for concreting in their
bond issues. The wilscy county district, which Will
be the largest in the world, also has financed eoncret-
ing of its entire distribution system.
Experience has proved the value OF concrete sys-
tens, not only in preventing waste of irrigation water
and damage to lands. but also in reducing irrigation
costs. In many respects the intangible value OF con-
crete irrigation systems is very similar to that Of
highways. They return dividends in the form OF
greater efficiency, improved service and lower opers-
ton costs. California districts have established that
The direct returns in the form Of reduced operation
costs and high development Of lands are more than
sufficient to carry the interest and sinking fund 10
retire the bonds. In other words, concrete canals like
well constructed highways, pay for themselves.
The rapid development Of the Valley has brought
its water problems. problems which in periods Of low
flow often are serious. Conservation is Of primary
Importance. But conservation does not apply merely
20 construction Of impounding dams TO regulate the
river flow. It also applies to distribution of water
to the land. Within a few years wastage of Rio Grande
waters will not be tolerated. and il is obvious that the
Valley districts must make provisions to eliminate
that waste.
It is true that in recent years the duty Of irriga-
ton water has been increased very materially in the
Valley. due to improvement Of systems and education
of water users. But with the moreintensive develop
msnt Of the older areas and with hundreds OF thou
sands Of acre in the new districts coming under de-
velopment. il is apparent that there must be further
improvement in the duty of water. Several Valley
districts are now putting to beneficial use less than
s5 per cent Of the water diverted from the river; the
all-conerete systems are expected to prov so TO 90 per
cent efficient. In other words, the concrete system
will divert less than so per cent as much as the dirt
system to water the same acreage.
Irrigation leaders are predicting that within five
years practically all irrigation water will be distribut-
ed to Valley lands through concrete systems. When
this is attained the water losses will be reduced to the
minimum, damage to lands from seepage will cease and
land owners will be provided with irrigation facilities
which will permit intensive development upon a scale
without a parallel in the world.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-18
Dean Taylor and His
Brilliant Work

A life Of service in a noble field of endeavor. per-
haps the highest field Of usefulness, deserves recogni-
ton at all times. Students and ex-students of the
college Of engineering of the University of Texas hon
ored Dean T. U. Taylor at their annual banquet Sat
urday night.
II was an suspicious occasion. More than unusual
Importance was attached because il afforded oppor-
tunity for the presentation of a bronze bust OF Dean
Taylor to the university by the students, the ex-stu-
dents and faculty Of the college of engineering.
Dean Taylor had completed 40 years Of service to
the university and the presentation Of the bust marked
the elimination of a movement originated among the
students and heartily supported by the ex-students
and faculty and the college Of engineering to take
proper cognizance of his long and faithful period OF
service.
Forty years Of service! Pause for a moment and
think Of the material Dean Taylor has accumulated in
this period. his experiences and his efforts in mould
ing the minds and developing the brains Of hundreds
who are known in the world Of endeavor as representa-
tives of one of the greatest professions.
Dean Taylor began with the university when It
was q baby. Properly speaking, he has been one Of
its mudsills and one OF its chief props. His life has
been given to the cause of education and Texas owes
a vast debt to the dean and men Of his ealibre.
Men who have been developed and trained in his
department are found everywhere. There are Texas
engineers who have ridden to the highest peak Of
success.
II goes without saying that the dean Of the college
of engineering is widely known in the ranks of the
profession as well as beyond the pale Of the profess
sion and among his most intense and enthusiastic ad-
mirers are found in the ranks of those who came from
the college Of the university Of which he has been the
guiding hand as well as the directing head for many
years.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-18
The World amdAll
EINSTEIN M AFTER

Recently I saw a play called wings over Europe"
Not a great play, perhaps, and not faultlessly done,
but provocative Of thought. Well, a few nights earlier
I had seen a completely worthless play called "One
Way Street" 1t was so utterly empty and u~nsatisfy-
ing. and so badly acted, that I thought I had come
upon quite a treat in wings Over Europe"
This play, as you may have heard, has no woman
in it, and is practically devoid of action. 1t has a
great deal Of talk, the usual admixture Of hokum, and,
Of course, one pistol shot.
But there is a young man in the play who talks a
great deal about his newly discovered mastery over
the atom. He can rearrange the molecules or the
electrons or something such, and so he can do any.
thing. He can turn wood in to gold, sugar into dyna-
mite. He can suddenly resrrange the atoms making
up the earth, thus instantly turning this planet into
chaos and plotting out what we know as civilization
and society and the world.
Coming back from the play. l happened to fall upon
Einsteins latest announcements, with explanations
by sundry learned men.
1t seems that there is a good deal Of thinking TO
be done presently.
I have before me a typewriter which I have always
considered a marvellous mechanism. Anyway, it has
me wholly buffaloed.
But is it a typewriter. afterallr 1t seems, in the
light Of a few new formulate and a thought or two,
that it is merely matter in very small quantity, just
now funetioning as a typewriter. Or seeming so to
function.
II someone with the secret Of the atom should hap
pen along, perhaps he might instantly change this
into a glowing ~starbeam, a ~nightshirt with
pearl buttons. q beck Of poetry, q day in June, or a
happy thought.
Now. we begin to be mixed up.
Could the secret Of the atom result in the CONVEX
sion of a pound Of apples into a great thought? Could
the miracle Of the atom-doctor change a cold chisel
into a love affair?
This may be a bit post-Einstein.
! know that somehow. by a subtle alchemy we only
think we know something about. thoughts, good and
evil, proceed from a something that seems to reside
in a human body and function through a human brain.
and that apples and meat and carrots are somehow
changed into the life and energy that seem to make
the thought possible. And I think I'll sleep on that.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-18

vapor. Hamburg's experience last year was SO terri
flying that not even the government dares ship the
Cologne poison "o the sea" which Is regarded rs per-
haps the only place where the stuff might be dumped
without extreme danger.
The interallied commission long has had eognirancc
Of this gas existence. but it is as far ss the German
government from being able to suggest a remedy. The
relief now announced is that Of digging a deep mine
and the placing therein Of a steel chamber to hold
poison buried far in the earth. And at that, diggers
of some future century may be in for distressing sur
prises. It may be recalled that scientists have sus-
gested that the tomb OF King Tut Of Egypt may have
been protected by some subtle disease-bearing ma
some others Of the archaeologists who first entered the
burial vaults.
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Don't go yet" he said.

She walked half a dozen blocks
at a rapid pace, so angry she was
not conscious of where she was GO
ing. So! She was not even to speak
to nice people any moreI She was
an outcast, a contaminated woman.
AS she walked her anger gradually
cooled, and she began to wonder
what Andy Adair and Harry Ford
thought. Would they. too, consider
her beneath their notice? Was all
the world as cold and as hard as
George?
She was reused from her revery
by the honking OF a car which fol-
lowed her along the curb. Other by
pnssers looked and smiled at 1t.
She raised her eyes to see Harry
Ford in his disreputable car, a doz-
en- new wise-cracks painted on its
sides. He pulled over to the curb
and threw open the door.
"Come on, fair one, and let's rat
tie and roll!" he invited.
His CHEEKY voice was music to her
ears. She got in promptly.
"How's the city's most advertised
daneer?" he asked.
"Out of a job, out of sorts, and
almost out Of money!" Betty laugh
ed, ruefully.
II have no job to offer, but | have
a lot of sorts and a couple of dol
lars. I will give you a few sorts
and one Of the dollars, and you are
two-thirds out OF trouble"
Where are you going?" she ask
ed.
Riding, wherever that is.
should put a new sign on Leah, ex-
planning that my passenger is the
notorious dancer for whom men
fight, bleed and die. Ny reputation
Is getting too good for this town,
| am no longer considered danger
ous. That might make me alluring
to the tender skirts of the city. May
| play moon to your sun and shine
in your reflected glory?"
you are more likely to share my
disgrace" answered Betty, her chin
trembling. some of my friends
suggested I not come around TO his
place Of business any more. My
landlady has asked me to vacate my
roof"
That's what comes Of having a
rooming house or a place of bus
inessi" declared Harry. 81 have
tried to make my father understand
that business and rooming houses
and things cause the downfall Of
the nation by making US a race OF
money grubbers. He wants me to
begin the practice Of medicine, and
his contacts with bushes have SO
biased his judgment that he even
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-18
81 am not through"

suggests cutting off my allowance II
! don't!"
81 wish l had never danced"
sighed Betty.
But you have danced. and you
must pay the fiddler!" reminded
Harry. "Gin tonight and hesdache
tomorrow, girls to dinner today and
hot dogs for yourself tomorrow, cats
today and fiddle strings tomorrow.
That's life! After that the river."
II wish you'd be serious"
II was one night, and kissed you
while in that humor. What was the
result? thought for two hour Of
marrying 0 and going to work.
But the next day it all passed off.
| was scared to death, and have
never been serious since!"
II don't believe you ever gave
anyone a serious thought" replied
Betty. "But what am I to do now
| must live. you know!"
Il suppose you see the necessity.
but / don't. II you work for some
thing TO eat, the work gives you
such an appetite that you have TO
eat more and then you have 70 work
more to get the additional food.
It's a pernicious progression in
which you either eat or work your
self to death, so why begin?"
"You are impossible." Betty
laughed in spite Of herself.
"You are laughing. and that's an
encouraging sign. Laugh I'D the
world laughs with you. weep and
you get N red nose and people nc
use you Of drinking. Now we can
get down to the real business of the
occasion. I know a sweet gal with
a sweet roommate in r. three-roon
apartment. Your old friend. Doc
who paved the piano for you be.
fore you became famous. is accom-.
panying me there tonight. Andy
knows both girls and Is welcome "a
their humble homes any time.
will get in touch with And anS
have him bring you. We will tweal
dull care by the nose. and put
orange juice to the use for which
nature designed It."
"Why couldn't I 20 with your
asked Betty.
"Oh. because 7 don't want YOU 10
and you don't want TO, and my new
girl would be catfish and And,
would maybe punch me like he die
Daubert. III those aren't reasons
enough I'll give you some more
Let's turn Leah's nose in the gen
eral direction Of Andy and see IL h.
IL dated m for tonirht.r
They found Andy mt d collegs
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-18
STEWART DISCUSSES WASHING
TON BLOWOUT
Nv CHARLES r. STEWART

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1s.-Police
have been doing their best lately to
clean up Washington, in readiness
for next months presidential inau-
guaration festivities.
Among others, four gamblers were
caught and convicted.
Mercy, in moderation, was offered
them BY Chief Justice Mccoy OF the
District Of Columbia supreme court,
il they would snitch. Wholesale, on
Washington gaming and gamesters.
The hardened culprits preferred
prison TO ~squealing, and each got
three years OF the former.
To the local underworld's per-
verted sense Of honor this reticence
on the quartet's part appealed to be
very noble. IL was resolved to pull
off a benefit performance in one Of
the capital thesters, to help their
respective families.
Anyway. the wife of n of the
csptives had been evicted from their
home, with her six smallish children,
and the seven Of them csmpec on a
rasttres in the street, in Is or 90
degree weather. when some tough
eggs who knew the woman's husband
rescued and sheltered them.
The benefit was a corking success
Actors and actorines Of every de.
gree OF excellence, musicicians
dancers, vaudevillains of all sorts
and both sexes gave their services
gratis until there was no room fol
more on the program.
The house was packed.
Fly cops say every b~ootlegger
racing tout, racketeer. Eangster
crook and near-crook In Washington
and Baltimore was on hand, hi
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-18

Who am I? In what great wom-I
ems movement did / take part
Where Is my home?
Who is the governor general OF
Canada?
Who laid the first corner stone
of the capitol at Washington?
What countries comprise the
once notorious Barbary coast?
"For to this end Christ both died
and rose, and revived, that he might
be Lord both Of the dead and liv-I
ing" Where is this passage found
in the Bible?
Today In the Past
In 1915, this was the eve Of the
bombardment of the D~ardanelles
forts BY the British and French
fleets.
Today's Horoscope
Persons born on this day are saw
ing Of their money and they know
how 70 look out for a rainy day.
They do all things slowly but well.
A Daily Thought
Woman reduces US all % the
common denominator."-George Ber-
nard Shaw.
Answers 10 Foregoing Questions
/. Mrs. Emily Newell Blair; suf-
frage movement; Joplin, No.
2. Viscount Wellington.
g.. George Washington.
4. Morocco, Algeria, Tunis and
Tripoli.
5. Romans xiv. Q.
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Other Papers
MONSTERS NANIMATE
New Orleans Times-Picsyune'

NNeW OEIeans lImeS-FIcayuucJ.
The production of an inanimate monster teo pow
erful for control by its human creator is familiar 70
literature, but until now we believe no writer has
thought of making copy Of an inanimate monster pos
sessing that same insuperable menace. But such a
case has developed in Germany in the vicinity OF Co
logne. Recently there has been discovered there. on
the premise Of q disused dynamite factory, n tank con-
tanning q large quantity of wartime poison gas Of
the "Blue Gross" variety.
No, the material was not preserved with any inten-
tion Of uses but had been abandoned because there
could be found no means Of disposing Of the poisonous
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-18
CHAPTER XVIII


Betty was up early in the morn
ing after she had read the story In
the Tattler. She went for a walk,
and felt that everyone she met must
have read the story. Che wished
she did not have to face them.
She felt there was no chance for
her now. This publicity might be
worth something in a professional
way if she could induce one of the
decent newspapers to tell her side
Of the story; but she felt the mat
ter was not Of enough consequence
to interest them.
She had but a hundred and fifty
dollars, and wondered what she
would do. She was sure there was
no chance for her to get other work
dancing in the city. Almost uncon-
~sciously she turned her steps to-
ward the restaurant George Harris
managed. George was q steady
rock, and had always stood by her
in every crisis.
During the lull of business be-
tween breakfast and lunch, the res
taurant was almost empty. Betty
sat at n of the tables and asked
the attractive head waitress il she
could see Mr.. Harris.
AS George came out of his Of
flee she saw his eyes sweep the
room 70 see who wanted him. She
also saw his jaw tighten, his lips
compress to a narrow line, and dis-
approval come into his face.
He came across to her and said,
very formally: "Good morning, Bet
ty. What can / do for your"
am not sure you can do any
thing, George" answered Betty. Il
have lost my position and"
"That disgusting thing in the
Tattler was called to my attention!
l should think a nice girl like you
would be ashamed to be mixed up
in a drunken street brawl!"
"But George, it was not my fault!
II wasn't a drunken brawl, anyway.
/ gave that nasty Daubert no ex-
cuse for what he did. l am not to
blame!"
"You are entirely to blame. 1t
was altogether your fault. He had
every reason to believe you were
not a good girl!'
why, George Harris!"
at is true. You can't handle pitch
without becoming defiled. You
can't expose yourself when you
dance without men misunderstand-
ing you. / told you where you were
headed when you began this dane
ing business. Now you are dis
graced, and you have no n to
blame but yourself!"
Betty rose from her table.
Don't 20 yet" he said. Il am
not through. Whenever you tell
me you are through with dancing
I will do anything I can TO help you,
Betty. You are a good girl at heart,
but IL you keep on with this work
you are going to the devil.
SIN sorry to say this, but it is
true. I hope you won't be angry.
When you have given up daneing
and the wild men and women who
play around night clubs, / will be
glad to aid you
But until then, I ask you to make
your visits here on an entirely bus
mess basis. I have made a sue
cess by strict attention to business.
I am contemplating buying this bus
mess. / will have to depend on the
banks to loan me a part of the
money. Banks are particular about
their moral risks. I cannot afford
to be known ts u friend o. a girl
who dances in night clubs and let's
into brawls in the street L hope
you will
Betty walked out Of the restau-
rant.
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nm. ~ About I'M sce1
New York FF

NEW YORK, Feb. l7.-They credit
Norma Talmsdge, the noon pitcher
star, with II. IL concerns two fell
lows who represented the front and
hind legs Of a horse in a picture now
being completed in Hollerwood. The
lad doing the front legs interrupted
the proceedings by suddenly remov-
ing part of the horse makeup and
shouting 70 the director: Say, do /
get screen credit for this z"
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Absolutely, OF counsel" retorted
the impatient megaphone juggler.
To which the chap doing the hind
legs chirped: whatever you do,
don't give me any screen credit. /
don't want TO be known a. IN type
LOVE Is A TERRIBLE THING
Recently il was recorded in "Thia
Town of Ours" that m lad who
loyed nm immense rep ms columr
Tor a western rag was In New York
distributing phone directories. Since
then we learned why. His heart
u stock actress, stranded him to ac-
cept IN local stage job, and the sep
aration drove him mad. He followed
her here, but she kept giving him
the w~ell-known prairie, and finally
instructed the stage doorman to Keen
him out His paper, believing him on
n holiday, urged him to return, but
ne ignored the plea.
The gel In a bit Of n ham, with
high aspirations, and can't be both
cred. The night her show premiered.
howeevr, he discovered he was down
10 his last dollar and n quarter, but
ne spent ninety centimes OF Ii 10
send her a telegram wishing her
luck. Al present ne IS dustIng plates
and doing other duties demanded of
a bus boy in n Coffee Pot directly
across from the stage entrance OF
her theater, for which he rates two
bucks per night.
The first twenty years are the Cd
dest, is right.
FLIP QUIPs
BY Wayne G.. Haisley: Wives Of
great men all remind US OF IL.
When in Rome do the Romans
a fool and his money are some party.
IL is more blessed to give than re-
eeive a dig.
'Tis love that makes the world 20
round with that panied expression.
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READ THIS FIRST:

READ THIS FIRST:
At the death Of her parents,
Betty Brown is forced to take up
professional dancing, the only way
she knows to make a living. The
unwelcome attentions Of many men
come to q climax when Jake Dau-
bert, a local politician, tries to drag
her into his limousine at the en-
trance Of the night club where she
dances. Andy Adair, a school
friend. knocks him down and takes
her away. but Daubert brings in
fluence to bear on the proprietor,
and she is discharged. A local
scandal sheet tells the story, and
she is asked to vacate her room.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY)
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DINNER
Stories
SAVED

SAVED
The soft lights gave a fairy-like
touch TO the dance swaying
couples drifted about the floor .
the music rose and fell in plaintive
entreaty -. she looked up into his
face expectantly.
did | understand you to say that
you are taking philosophy 450 off
of Professor Bone? ?"
you certainly did, and Of all the
dumb dodos that fellow Bone takes
the prize"
Sir, do you realize who / am 2"
she gasped in horror.
why no. can't say that I do
well, I want you to understand
that ! am Jane Bone, P~rofessro
Bones daughter"
"All ! a say is that life played
you n dirty trick. Do you know
who I ann"
"No."
thank g~oodnessi"