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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-03
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new?" Nothing much. Same
people. Same crowd. What kinda
operation had Noel Coward? 1t does
not say in the papers That
dame in the corner has had too
much, hasn't she? Pretty kid,
at that You've heard that
Peggy Joyce is almost broke, haven't
you?"
"Chevalier will put the ziegfeld
Roof over if anything will. The
DuncanS are a bit stale, don't you
think?" You did good in the
show, honey, but it's not there, in
case you are not too sensitive"
Who's that well-kept grave with
the orchids on her?" Hello,
stranger! You haven't been here
in months. Busy?" -. mo. T
get uptown late, and Guinan's is
the only dive open. They all wind
up there. you know, and she hears
everything, anyway" .. That
Jack White keeps getting funnier
at the Madrid Same peoEgfi,
Same crowd isn't that Marpll3
boy friend with that Show Bs
thing over there?Y A bott-t
crash -. Whan! Boff! Oucha
WI SOlClld. : LlSl6ll mere, now.
What's the big idea starting a
fight in my place? He happens to
be my particular mani" I wish
Feet were here to let him have it
good He's always starting trouble
in my place. Put back the convert
charge on that rate!"
SMILES
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the better smile fashioners. They
have more opportunity than any
others to wilt a play or players,
anyway, and the smile route Is
said to be the most merciful. Two
of the better flippancies, recently,
were these: Her songs" wrote one
critic, aroused little appreciation,
for the audience was as cold as a
Rothstein clue"
A shaw was described as being
as dull as a Scotchman's razor.
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Timely Views
PROPERTY RECOVERED IN OIL RESERVE SUITS
MADE KNOWN

By CURTIS d. WILBUR, Secretary of the Navy.
Curtis Dwight Wilbur was born at Boones-
boro, Iowa, May 10, 1867. He is a graduate OF
the u. S. Naval Academy and holds honorary de-
grees from three other universities. He resigned
from the navy in 1883 and began the practice of
law at Los Angeles. From 1899 to 1903 he was
chief deputy district attorney for Los Angeles
county; then served as judge of the superior
court for Is years. In 1919 he was made asso-
ciate justice of the supreme court of California,
three years later being named chief justice. He
was appointed secretary of the navy in 1920.
The United States government has recovered, as
a result of litigation involving the naval oil reserves,
a total of SAT- 37, 6e6.2s in tangible and intangible
assets.
AS a result of the decision of the supreme court OF
the United States on February %, 1927, covering
leases and contracts of the Pan American Petroleum
company, on Naval Petroleum Reserve No. l, at Elk
Hills, Calf, the United States came into possession
Of cash and properties amounting to $34, 1891, 449.62
according to the statement.
From the Teapot Dome litigation, involving Naval
Petroleum Reserve No. 3 in Wyoming, which had been
leased by the Mammoth Oil company, the United
States received judgments amounting to s12, ,246.6S.
Of the total S3,05 ,512.39 is still due the government.
The following sums have been paid or are payable to
the United States treasury as a result of this decision:
Amount turned in by receivers, cash and bonds,
5000, 1927; amount due for oil taken from Reserve
prior to receivership but not yet paid, together with
interest to June 1, 1923. s3,o53 ,512.3o: total cash, So
056. 246.66.
In addition the United States has become posses
sor, as a result of this suit, of the land itself, COM
prising 9,281 acres of valuable oil land, improvements
thereon which cost the lessee approximately s5,0OO,-
900, and tanks and other improvements made by the
Mammoth Dill company at the Portsmouth, N. H,
Navy Yard at a cost of 100000. This is listed as
follows:
Turned in by receivers, cash and bonds, $3,0O2,-
734.27; amount due for oil taken from reserve prior
to receivership but not yet paid, together with inter-
est to June 1, 1928, $3,O53, 1929; Improvements made
by defendant on leases, approximately, $5,000,0oo
tanks and other improvements made by defendant at
Portsmouth, N. H., Navy Yard, s., 100000; total, $12,-
156, 246.66.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-03

Scoggins, Mildred and Marguerite
Unzicker, and Messrs. Undel Ken
dirk and o. Mcdaniel motored to
Carriers lake kodaking last Sunday.
Mrs. W. B. Rowe spent Friday
with Mrs. M. Unzicker.
Uldell Hendrix was a business Wis
itor in Edinburg and Weslaco last
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G.. Gilmore and
little daughter of McAllen were
guests of Mrs. Turner and Earlyne
this week.
Miss Eugene Loney was a visitor
in Elsa this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adolph Carlson
and children, MI. and Mrs. @. 0.
Carlson were dinner guests of Mr.,
and Mrs. j. w. Carlson of Edcouch
last week.
Mrs. G. Davis was shopping in
Edinburg last Thursday.
Misses Mildred Unzicker and
Earlyne Turner attended the show
in Harrington Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. McQuay Wis
tied at the H. A. Harris home In
WeSlaco Thursday afternoon.
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Men Of Millions

There are 14,OO0 persons in the United States VINO
are worth 81 600 900 or more. A person who pays a
tax on an income of 100000 is estimated to be worth
ST .ooO, ooo.- And last year 1905 persons made returns
upon that amount. Many persons worth sl'ooo'ooo
paid less because their wealth included tax-exempt
securities.
In 1927 the number of persons who had net IN
comes of more than s1,000.00O totaled 283 and this
number also was expected to be increased this year
Chief Actuary Joseph S Mccoy of the treasury de-
partment estimated that the number of persons filing
returns this year also would be increased due to pros
porous conditions prevailing in 1928.
There are billionaires in America and the Rookie
fellers and Henry Ford are not the only billionaires.
There are Millionaire banks. There are Millionaire in
dustial interpretations. There are no millionaires or
billionaires found in the ranks of the farmers, the
tillers of the soil, the men who raise the stuff that
feeds and clothes the family of man.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-03
think the chain stores h

the farmer and poultryman as
much as any other one thing, she
writes. You will always see their
advertising marks down the price
of eggs the first of any of the
stores. Because they sell cheaper
than the other stores, farmers will
trade with them when they have
cash. But let the farmer need his
cash for taxes or something else,
and try to buy from the chains.
They mighty soon tell him no; it
must be cash or no goods, no mat
ter how good his credit is.
And then the chain stores buy
nothing from farmers. They won't
buy butter, they won't buy eggs.
They have their own brands. They
keep depressing prices of all farm
produce with their cut prices. /
know people that work by the
month, who go around on pay day
and stock up for a month with the
specials at the different stores.
I do not believe in farmers pat
ronizing them at all.
Let us make no mistake-this is
a real problem.
It is not visible in the big cities,
of course, where not one grocery
buyer out of a thousand is also a
producer of food-a farmer.
But in the small towns, where
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more than half the trade is with
farmers, and where the chain
stores have made such amazing
growth in the last few years, the
trouble is a real one.
o
It is most acute, of course, in
parts of the country where diversi-
fled farming is the rule, where but
ter, cheese, eggs, poultry, vegetables
and fruits are raised, and where
they are sold locally and not ship
ped away.
In such sections the farm income
is quite generally swelled by large
sales of these products, and the
narrowing of the market is a SER
ious matter. The farmer is driven
either into selling to the few re-
naming storekeepers who will take
his stuff, or the even less favorable
alternative of selling as a buck
ster, direct to housewives.
This is in no sense an attack on
the chain stores. The chains are all
right. for their purpose is the mass
distribution of foods to the town
distributing cost. They are eco
nomically sound.
But it is beginning to appear
that their selling and buying poll
cies are not well adapted to the
small towns Of many sections, de-
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National
Outlook

pendent chiefly on the agriculture
of the surrounding townships for
their very existence.
And what my correspondent
points out is very true-that the
whole power and weight of the
chains is thrown against the sta
bility of farm prices. Their huge
buying, and their willingness to sell
specials" and leaders" at cost, or
neal it, alike tend to depress prices
of products at the farm gate.
1t would take an equally power
full and ruthless organization of
farmers - something extraordinar-
lily difficult to construct-to meet
the chain store peril on equal
terms.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-03

NEW YORK, Nov. Recon
mended to diversion seekers: Bow
cry Murder" in the March 10 is
sue Of Short Stories Tommy
Mitchell in Little Accident" . /.
Street Scene" at the Playhouse
-. Old Man Sullivan in the Nieu
Yaukur Elsie Mccormick in the
World /. S. N. Behrman in last
Sundays Times Mooseer Shev-
aI-yay on the Ziegfeld Roof . :.
Ralph Barton's Gods Country" GA.
A. Knopf) Phyllis E. Bent
ley's The Spinner OF the Years
(Henkle) III Get BY" via
Brunswick platter 4156 P.
Whiteman'S Columbia disk of Lets
Do 1t" . Okeh's Rhythm King"
and Louisiana" plenty swell . i.
And a more fascinating game than
solitaire. Take any twenty-five
cards from a poker deck and toy
with them until you arrange five
pat poker hands.
IN FEWER WORDS
The best opinion of Broadway
ever jotted down Is credited to VIM.
Anthony Mcclure, playwright. by
Master Skolsky. Paste it in your hat:
"Broadway's a great street when
you're going up. When you're going
down. take 9Th Ave"
SOUNDS AND SCENES ON THE
STEM AT SUNUP
Pretty sign, that Broadway Mel
ody' thing The Paramount
Clock has stopped again Sar-
dis restaurant . . BY noon it will
breathe again with Somebodies and
Melodies The Aston. where
they will throw a feed in honor of
VOltaire very soon, and someone
probably will wonder which is the
guest of honor Early shots for a
Thicker . How weary they look
. Jeff Machamer (Judge Jr.,)
who beat the roulette wheel at
Bradley's, in Palm Beach, for a pair
OF grandS . . Reuben'S, and the
steWs coming to Whats
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REAL ORATORY MARKS WIND
UP OF CONGRESS
ca 90 aUA
&Ms1kkY
By CHARLES P. STEWART

by II. w
WASHINGTON, March 2.-Con-
gress is winding up its present ses-
sion with a magnificent burst of
oratory, but in the midst of its usual
frightful last-minute jam of un-
finished legislation, which must go
into the discard whole on March 4,
only to be begun all over again
later on.
If 1t were disposed Of for keeps,
it might not be SO painful-as to
some Of it, anyway. Unfortunate
ly, the time spent on it hitherto
simply has been wasted. The tie
up now does not mean that it is
finished permanently.
The expected special session will
not help much. That will be called
merely to transact extra business.
At all events, the new administra-
ton is going to hope SO. 1t will
do it's best to prevent anything but
the farmers troubles and a few
tariff changes from being discuss
ed.
The farewell oratorical display
is spoken Of as having been ex-
ceptionally fine.
The senate is the only place where
old-fashioned oratory is still to be
seen-rather than heard. 1t can
be heard even yet, over the radio,
but of course the radio knocks all
the gesticulatory features sky high.
The radio orator cannot gesticulate
for his own amusement, to say
nothing Of his audiences euifica-
ton, because it takes him away
from the mike.
However, the senators stick to
the original system of 100 years
age. They both sound as II they
were making speeches, and looG
like it, too.
Senators Jim Reed and William
E. Borah, by common consent, stag
ed the great argument, not only
OF the session, OUT III tllS SuiACA1'
generation of lawmakers.
Quite aside from the merits OF
their controversy, some think that
Reed gave the finest performance
and some say Borah did.
Reed is the fiercer OF the to.
A 1.-the, active man, he distinctly
has it on the Idaho Solon in the
matter of athletics.
On the other hand, Borah pos
sesses an advantage over the Mis-
sourian in the superior length and
fluffinesS of his hair, which ne
shakes like a lion, as he makes the
rafters ring. Reed can't do it to
save his life. Toss his head as he
may, his snow-white hair stays
slicked down.
Reed is more pungent than
Borah. His voice rises higher and
it has an astonishing flexibility
Also Jim expresses views with It
that peel an opponents skin right
off.
Borah can put a solemnity into
his deeper rumble that Reed lacks
Borah is powerful, grave and
earnest. Reed gets fighting mad.
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Other Papers
OBSTRUCTION is NOT CONTROL
CORPUS Christi Caller)

CORPUS Christi Cdller).
Houston has prided itself on its traffic control
system of late, despite the fact that eighteen or more
persons have been killed in automobile accidents
since the dawn OF 1929.
II must have been a rather severe blow for Hous-
ton when Gardner S. Rogers, city planning expert Of
the United States Chamber of m told the
CITY that it's traffic control system was ridiculous, and
contributed to nothing save the delay of motorists
intent upon getting some place in the shortest posi-
BILE time.
FL Paso was described by Mr.. Rogers as the best
traffic controlled city in Texas. Why?
'They have no regulations at all III Ell Paso. You
can drive to your left. your right, stop or go when
ever you please. Consequently there is less inter-
ference with traffic, and people get along much
better"
Traffic control, to most cities, not excluding Cor
pus C-hristi-means the installation of an elaborate
set of rules, designed to protect the fool driver at the
expense Of the good driver. Lights change at stated
intervals; stop signs are erected at the most unex-
pected places; bells ring. and all sorts of caution sig
nails shrek for attention.
Not much is accomplished. to be sure. But it all
looks good. The driver on q trip of . dozen blocks,
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Who am I? Where was I born?
With whom did / first tour Amer
lea?
What is another name for Korea?
What Roman NEUROLOGICAL god
compares with the Greek Zeus?
At whose court, in China, did
young Marco Polo spend some
years?
"And he said unto them, The sab
bath was made for man, and not
man for the sabbath" Where is
this passage found in the Bible?
Today in the Past
On this day, in 1899, De Iberville
reached the Mississippi.
Horoscope for Sunday
Persons born today are clear
minded and have great ability.
They are very cautious especially
in money matters.
A Daily Thought
"Let the man who does not wish
to be idle fall in love."-Ovid.
Answers to Foregoing Questions
/. George Arliss; London, Eng;
Mrs. Patrick Campbel1's company.
2. Chosen.
4. Jupiter.
4. Kublai Khan.
s. st. Mark Ii, 81.
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ELSA
URPRISE SHOWER

Thursday night a surprise shower
was given for Mrs. D. Graham, re-
cipient of many beautiful gifts at
the Giese home.
The house was wonderfully decor
ated with white and pink carnations
and roses. Delicious refreshments
we're served by the hostess, Mrs.
G. 7. Adamson, Mrs. Curt LoveleSs,
and Mrs. Malvin GieSe to the fol-
lowing guests: Mr.. and Mrs. Porter
Davis, Mesdames w. H. Moore, Rel
mels, Miller, j. Stokes, B. Marley,
Adolph Carlson, VIM. George, Misses
Evelyne and Carolyne Schmidt,
Mesdames G. M. Unzicker, Knox,
Farris F. Smith, j. Gieser B. Kelly,
and Leslie Derley of Weslacc.
FAREWELL PARTY
Saturday night at Rio Rico a
farewell party was given to Mr..
Marsh and Mrs. Reisert. both of
New York City, who left for home
by the way of Florida last Sunday.
The following guests were present:
Messrs. and Mesdames j. Schmidt,
j. Giese, Fender of Mercedes, Siben
Of New York, Misses Evelyn and
Carolyn Schmidt, Mataldia Reinels,
Mesdames Reinels and Miller.
PERSONALS
Misses Earlyne Turner, Margaret
Unzicker and Larone Scoggins visit
ed in McAllen and Edinburg We'd
neSday.
E. E. Mackbee was in Elsa and
Edcouch this week transacting bust
ness.
o. Stone and Mr.. Pool of Weslaco
were transacting business in Elsa
Thursday.
Udell Hendrix and sister, Mrs.
J. S. Beck visited friends and rela-
tives in Mission last Wednesday.
Mrs. William George, Mrs. Melvin
Giese attended a bridge party We'd
nesday afternoon given by Mrs. r.
A. Rowland of Weslaco, 'honoring
Mrs. Finley, Mrs. Rowland's sister
from Scotland.
Messers. Marsh, Roberts, Wicks,
Kennels, Mrs. Schmidt's brother, all
of New York City have been visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. Schmidt for the past
week.
S. S. Lovelace and B. F. Lovelace
Of Verdon. Okla, father and brother
of Curt Lovelace are visiting in Elsa
this week.
Misses Turner, Mildred and Mar
garet Unzicker of the Juniors
Booster club of Elsa helped with the
entertainment at the chamber OF
commerce meeting in Edcouch
Thursday evening.
Joe Yarbro and family, Mrs. j. P.
Sims and Mrs. Ora Lindamood were
callers at the G. G. Luberville home
Sunday afternoon.
Camren Rives of Weslaco was
visiting friends in Elsa Monday.
Mrs. w. w. Leggette and Mrs.
Massey, Pauline and Lawrence
Bowles, Hugh vittatoe and Mary
Cortar. Silbey Tuberville and Ted
Lankersley were callers at the G. c.
Tuberville home Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Blunck and
children attended church In Mer-
cedes Sunday.
Mrs. Turner was a dinner guest Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Lorey Of Ed
couch last Sunday.
Kenneth Mill visited friends and
relatives in Rio Hondo last week.
Misses Earlyne Turner, Lorraine
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-03
BY ARTHUR III. JENKINS
Editor the Farm Journal

I had a letter this week from a
farm woman, interesting because
she presents from the farm angle
a new problem that is beginning to
perplex the massive brains of eco
nomists.
1t is not a very well written let
ter, but it has about it the ring of
sincerity and hard experience. It
is about the chain grocery stores.
I think the chain stores hurt
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-03
RULE

GAINESVILLE, Fla, March T.
R-Red heads reign royalty at the
University Of Florida. No less than
three sorrel-tops have been named
captains Of various varsity teams.
Bill Duckwalls leads the golfers,
Edgar Curry shows the pace for the
leather puShers and Gus Feuer
tops the tennis team.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-03

You can get along at Christmas without holly, but
you must have the berries-Virginian-Pilo
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-03

Spooks! The proposed change. in the calendar
would give us thirteen Fridays the 13th.-Toledo
Blade.
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Illinois is said to be making rapid progress as a
fruit-growing state. We hope the figures aren't
based on pineapple observation-disclosures Gazette
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perhaps, must wait q total Of four or five minutes at
a red light, while no traffic passes on the intersecting
street. He must pause-theoretically, that is-at
boulevard stops, when there is no earthly reason for
stopping. And so on. Regulation is a fetish.
The best traffic control, Mr.. Rogers believes, Is
no control at ali. In that statement he exaggerates
for the sake of emphasis, undoubtedly. There are
certain regulations which are observed generally. be-
cause the motoring public recognizes the need for
them. But regulation is a fever that grows upon the
average community. If one ordinance is efficacious,
two are doubly so; that seems to be the theory. Reg
~ulations were meant, originally to speed up traffic.
make the way of the law-abiding motorist more
pleasant. They have developed to the point, in most
small cities, where they obstruct rather than facilitate
the flow of traffic.
The toll of automobile accidents grows daily, none
the less. And the solution, apparently, is the enact
ment of more regulations.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson Brown Wis
tied Sunday at the parental Brown
and Heagy home. Irene Heagy
also spent Sunday with h I
mother.
Quite a number of farmers of
u neighborhood were shipping
cattle last Thursday. Ernest Pen
rose went to Chicago with cattle
and from there will go on to visit
his father, John Penrose, of
Goshen, Indiana.
Francis Mead and Dalton Brown
returned Tuesday from a trip to
Miles City.
Mrs. Anna Bensch is visiting
with her daughter, Mrs. Fred Nc
Neil, who lives at Edgerton,
Wyoming.
Chas. Jorgenson came after mail
Thursday.
&C. B. c." riders are still gath
ering horses. Seven riders pass
ed through this vicinity Thursday
morning.
Mrs. d. Brown, Dalton and Lola
Brown and Mrs. Fred Lyons made
a trip to Frazer and Oswego Sat
urday afternoon.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Archie Sullivan
have moved to their new home
east of Castle Rock.
John Taylor returned from
Michigan Wednesday, by motor to
visit at home.
Fremont Green and c.. D. Tay-
Tor were Wolf Point callers We'd
nesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. Evans of Balm
vile and A. Gatewood called at
the c. D. Taylor home Sunday
evening.
R. B. Taylor made a business
trip to Scobey Saturday.
Tom House spent Sunday at the
home of L. Kimmel.
John Taylor, Archie Belgrade,
Lawrence Readicker and Ronald
Securely spent Sunday afternoon
at the Simenson home.
C. D. Taylor called at Frank
Dier's Sunday.
Mrs. Leonard Sullivan called at
Fremont Green's Wednesday.
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The Vida Ladies' Aid meet this
week with Mrs. 81 Estensen. A
large number was in attendance
and a social good time was en-
joyed. The next meeting will be
held August 18th with Mrs. Cam
eron. Everybody welcome.
The Kellys returned home Sat
urday after a week spent with
relatives in Canada.
Geo. Verstegen is working for
Ray McFarlane through harvest.
Miss Iva Nefzger was a Wolf
Point shopper Monday.
The Monroes are here from Gull
bertson visiting the Vine families.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Anderson
are enjoying a visit from one of
Mr.. Anderson's sisters.
Mrs. Wilbur Clark drove to
Wolf Point Tuesday and brought
Mrs. Merriman and little Marjery
Lou home from the hospital with
her.
Gust Trichelt and family return
ed home Sunday after spending a
week with relatives in Dakota.
R. H. Berreth is at home again
and feels somewhat better. This
is good news to his friends here.
j. NJ. Holland and family visit
ed Sunday in the E. J. Erickson
home.
Harry Stebbins and wife are
out from Wolf Point looking after
farm duties.
Mrs. Cecil Wallace is in the
restaurant for a few days.
J. 0. Jorgensen and family call
ed Sunday evening at the j. M.
Holland home.
Mrs. J. Normand and sister call
ed Tuesday in the home of Mrs.
Leo Doyle.
P. M. Krebsbach and John Green
were in Glendive Saturday on
business.