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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-12

NOTICE To CONTRACTORS
Sealed bids will be received ad-
dressed to the Honorable A. B. Cole.
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For Subdivision
100 Acres

Located I blocks froa the high
sehcol and closer to Brownsville
than the exclusive Los Ebancs
Subdivision. Winding resacn
running through property offer
ing natural lake front sites for
subdivision. This property is
for sale BY owners and can be
bought AZ a very attractive price.
Henscn-Lomax & Houston and
Brownsville Development Co.
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WILL SACRIFICE my last two beau
tiful homes. Better hurry; only
two left. . rooms and bath; textone.
two-tone finish. besutifuI light fix
lures; automatic water heaters. See
Mrs. Florence Stafford. owner. hayes
and 18th streets. Victoria Heights.
phone i075-M. K-l70
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AUTOMOTIVE

CHRYSLER Sport Roadster; perfect
condition. Room Ill, Del Walt ho-
tel. Moi
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OWNER OFFERS 10 acres west Of
Brownsville on Military paving, ripe
for subdivision: also 10 acres, two
acres planted 10 citrus, az Olmito.
! need money. the price is right. n. II
Parks. phone 6025Fl1, San Benito.
Texas. M263
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NOTHING STIMULATES ambition
rs much as regular reading Of the
classified ads.
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FOR SALE-lmproved % Of lots g
and 10. block "a, Adams I'LL. J. o.
hoyt, Box PSI, Monterrey, N. L.,
Mexleo. M-256
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THREE BEAUTIFUL terraced lots
Levee street corner. One Of the
best apartment house sights in
Brownsville. Must be sold at once
100000. Owner leaving town. s4s
West Washington. Phone 139sy.
N3O
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Fine Citrus Land

Ten acres, all in cultivation, located
Niger Bridge" fronting on
highway and resaca; beau
tiful bearing grove which was sold
tiful bearing grove whihc was soId
81 a much higher price than / am
asking for my land. OWNER, p. o.
Box 463, Brownsville, Texas. MOI.
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9 to IS inc. l0t-ss2s
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FOR SALE-Half interest in an es-
tsblished business. paying biggest on
investment any you can find. Small
cash investment viii handle. Too much
business for me 20 handle. Want &C
tive partner. Address Box 80,
Brownsville. N-Ss
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Typewriters
Insurance

DAVENPORT Typewriter Exchange
(Brownsville's Typewriter Housed
Distributors. New l.. G. Smith "Si-
lent" 8 end Late Corona 4 type
writer's Also sell Royal Portablet
and Factory" Rebuilts-all makes
We repair ali makes typewriter anc
adding machines. IlI2 Elizabeth St
Phone HOS.
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BARGAIN for quick sale. Five-room
house with gas, hot water and gar
age. 14i0 w. Elizabeth. J.. Haiti
ner, owner Mss
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Situation Wanted

JOB wANTED-Diesel engine man,
tractor or truck driver. any make.
Reference. G. W. Bays, opposite
Moss store. old Point road. MOS.
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CITY OF BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Covering up 10 January 31st. 1929
BUDGET CONTROLLING ACCOUNTS
ruAPCEc

Original Budget Requirements
Ascertained. since January LIST. 1929
Balance Requirements today
Surplus Available, in Cash
Surplus-Unnpplicd. in Unsolicited Revenue Asset
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BABY CHICKS-Hstches coming off
every Monday and Thursday. Gus
tom hatching a speciality. Write for
catalogue and price list. Cameron
County C~hiekeries, Box b, La Feria.
Texas. N57l
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SACRIFICE . German police pup
pies. Take your choice and carry
enc home. See Mrs. Florence Stat
ford. Hayes q 18th Streets. next TO
eoyners Victoria Heights. Phone
lo7S-M.
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FOR SALE OR RENT-6-roJm
house, new, never been occupied.
Victoria Heights. See Pete Psloche.
~ the Borderland. Mss
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CREDITS

CREDITS
Original Budget Appropriations
Obligations and Expenditures since 1-i-2o
Balance Unencumbered Appropriation tcda
Reserve for Accounts Payable
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FOR SALE OR RENT-5-room mod
ern house, nice corner location. SIS
West St. Charles. Those interested
call Wednesday afternoon. MOS.
Evening star., 1929-06-10
A Welcome Visitor.

Prime Minister j. Ramsay MacDon-
aid, head of the new British govern
ment, is seriously considering visit 10
Washington, according to dispatches
from London. Report has it that Mr..
Macdonald is coming here to discuss
with President Hoover Anglo American
relations. More particularly 1t is be-
lieved he plans to take up with Mr.
Hoover the matter of further naval linn
itation, subject which was a. very real
issue in the recent British campaign,
resulting in the election of the present
House of Commons. ..... ...
Should the British prime minister de-
termine to make such visit to WASH
ington he would find a warm welcome
here. The administration has given evil
dence from its inception of a keen de-
sire to strengthen the friendly relations
which exist between the United States
and foreign nations. During the last
four years Americas relations with the
Werld continued to improve and former
Evening star., 1929-06-10
Drug Dims Emotions,
Betters Self-Conirnl

Controlling rage or terror or even eX
J cesSive transports of love or jealousy byI
| doses of alkaloids, much as physicianA|
now control pain, is the promise sug-
gested by recent experiments of DR.. ri
r. Hill of the Metropolitan AsyIuml
Board of London. In a report to theI
British medical periodical. the Lancet,
DR.. Hill describes his success in prevent
ing emotional outbursts by patienfsI
whose brains had been damaged by
sleeping sickness. employing small doses
of the long known but seldom used plant
alkaloid called bulbocapnine. The uscI
of the drug for these mentally abnormal
unfortunates is less important, however
than is DR.. Hills theory of how the drug
works. 1t acts directly, he believes, onE
the nerve centerS in the lower part OF
the brain which control the primitive
instructive emotions. In apes and other
animal ancestors of mankind these emo
tional centers control. psychologists bel
lieve, most of the animals actions. Fear,
rage and the like are the dominating
impulses of life. Man has deyeloped
higher brain centers which usually over
ride these lower. emotional ones, But
under intense stress mans emotional
centers sometimes take charge again.
That Is when the victim. as people say,
"loses control of himself" Certain drugs, |
like alcohol, relax the usual rigidity OF
this control by the higher, thinking por-
ton OF the brain, so that primitive emo
tions sometimes break loose and aston
ish everybody. even the victim. The AZ
kaloid studied by DR.. Hill possesses. he
suspects, precisely the reverse effect. II
seems 10 depress the primitive emotional
centers, so that the self-control OF the
individual is even more perfect than
Evening star., 1929-06-10
Looks Into Patients
Eve for Bad Teeth
RY z. E. FREE. Ph. d.

An eve for a tooth and a tooth for an
eve is the revision threatened by mod
ern medical science of the ancient Bib
lical maxim. At the recent interna-
tional congress of military medicine and
pharmacy, held in London and attended
by delegates from the ma jority of the
European army medical corps. Mai A.
F. MacCallsn of the British Army called
attention to what he b.lieves to be the
intimate relation between infected teeth
and disorders OF the eye. Every case
of liberation OF the front membrane
of the eye which he has seen could be
traced, the majo asserted, to teeth with
infected roots. More than four -fifths of
the army officers found on examination
to be in need OF glasses we're also found
to have tooth assesses. Young people
who get a cataract may usually blame
this misfortune. he believes, on some
kind of tooth infection. Even the mild
disorder of the mouth evidenced by the
accumulation of tartar on the teeth
may be sufficient, Maj. MacCallan be-
lieves. to cause troublesome infiamma-
ton OF the membrane that surrounds
the pupil of the eye. Looking into a
patients eye, indeed. may be an easier
way 10 diagnose tooth infections than
exanlinat tion Of the teeth. The links be-
tween teeth and eyes are believed to be
poisonous substances produced by the
infected teeth and discharged into the
blood, the eye tissues being apparently
especially sensitive to these poisons.
Evening star., 1929-06-10
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE.

has little account which hes trying
TO square with Minister WI and which
hasn't to date lent itself to settlement
1t concerns the archaeological expedi-
tions OF Ray Chapman Andrews, the
American explorer who is digging his
way through Far Cathay on behalf of
the New York Museum of Natural
History. Andrews brought % or 80
cases of priceless specimens out OF
Mongolia last year, but has never been
able to ship them to the United States
because of the embargo of the Chinese
government. There seems to be a very
potent institution at Peking known rs
the Society for the Preservation of
Chinese Antiquities. 1t has vetoed the
expectation of Andrews discoveries.
Meantime he's all dressed up to 60 on
another expedition into Mongolia, but
until the State Department can secure
doesn't seem to be disposed to embark
upon any fresh conquests.
X X Il
Margaret Grace Bondfield, member
OF Parliament, the worlds first woman
in the United States as the representa-
tive of British labor groups. In 1919
Miss Bondfield came to Washington to
attend the international labor conven-
tion in the capacity of an adviser. A
year or two previous she was the official
British delegate visitor at the annual
convention of the American Federation
of Labor in Atlantic City. During the
short-lived Macdonald ministry of 1924,
Miss Bondfleld was parliamentary Sec
retary to the then minister OF labor.
so, in succeeding to that. cabinet post
now, she inherits a portfolio which is
no stranger.
Here's an instance of a misstatement
Leading to fact even more interesting
than the supposed fact 1t was recently
stated in this column that President
Hoover's % honorary degrees included
one from the University of Virginia.
The source of that information was
Who's Who for 1926-27. Now comes
the president of the University OF Vir-
glnia Alumni Association and deposes
that Mr.. Hoover can't possibly hold an
Ii. d. from the university which Thorn
as Jefferson founded, because 1t has
never awarded an honorary degree to
anybody. The alumni chief thinks
Charlottesville is probably unique in
that respect
tCopyright. 1922
Evening star., 1929-06-10
Reform Schools.

The Children's Bureau plans an in
tensive study of the effects of institu-
tional life on delinquent children.
Little trustworthy information is avail
able on this debatable subject. There
is, however, a growing conviction that
the old "common-sense" methods Of
dealing with bad boys and girls are
productive of little but evil tnat even
the best regulated institutions may be
schools of viciousness. Few reform
school children get into the Who's Who
class. Many OF them recruit the ranks
Of adult criminals.
Two simple explanations might be
offered: First, the children are inner
Evening star., 1929-06-10

There seems to be growing tendency
on the part of young business men to
talk about nothing in particular when
they get together at lunch.
Incessant discussions of business and
its problems have given way to more
general conversation, summed up in
the phrase used above.
When one says he has talked about
nothing in particular" it usually
means that he has been discussing very
heavy topics.
1t Is way Americans have of belit-
tling great things, a somewhat ashamed
attitude in the face of matters intel
lectual
When one stops to think of 1t, 1t is
curious that along with a general men,
tai culture has run a counter feeling
against the "highbrow"
In institutions of higher learning,
where young men go to study, there is
distinct feeling against the grind"
or the shark" as the ultra intensive
scholar is sometimes called
The pure student, for a variety of
reasons, Is held in open or covert scorn
Perhaps the generality of feeling against
him is due to the innate common sense
OF the people, who realize down in their
heart of hearts that emotions occupy a
far greater part in the average life than
intellectually.
In most scholastic bodies the bov or
girl who gets high grades must temper
1t with a dash of Outside activities" :"
If the student gets high grades alone
he is regarded askance, but If he is cap
tain of the foot ball team to boot he
is fine fellow"
vrnie San,a aft;tndn .o,,;on -.
the everyday attitude of young business
and professional men. Perhaps it is
Just another case of "All work and no
play makes Jack a dull boy"
Our country is young country. after
all. Its different periods of growth
have gone more rapidly than in perhaps
any other nation in history. We are
only now coming to the genuine cul-
tIral epoch. 1t is perhaps true that the
increase in wealth and leisure among
most classes has given more wide
spread culture than any other nation
ever enjoyed. Even in intellectual
France, the poverty Of the poor is such
as to keep the higher branches of sci
ence, literature and art something of
mystery to them
In America today general culture is
simply matter of genuine desire We
have so many and varied institutions.
so many magazines, newspapers and
books, and so many courses" of all
kinds that almost any person with
genuine desire to learn NAV do so If
he have the requisite determination and
will power.
But just as there has been dislike
for the pure student" so there has
been AN inclination to avoid grave and
even serious topics in conversation
Our mode of living has somehow
seemed to call for light talk We strain
every nerve to be clever: we want
our conversation to scintillate. to SPAR
kle, to throw off sparks.
The phrase "wisecracking" is not so
much significant for its wisdom as for
its cracking. The idea of whip is
there. Snap, sparkle, pep-these are
the desired qualities.
They are in line with the great effort
of the land to amuSe itself a desire
which always exists with any nation.
but which only appears in full force
when there is enough money to pay for
1t and enough leisure in which to enjoy
Evening star., 1929-06-10
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES e. TRACEWELk
it on the part of enough people to max
1t profitable for D,lryeyors

1t on the part of enough people to make
IT profitable for purveyors.
X
Serious consideration about what
may be termed high things, such as life.
immortality, religion, Is gaining new
life in this country as the result of the
interplay OF the factors which we have
named
The cycle of cynicism is coming to
an end, and is being replaced by an
other turn of the wheel The lure of
novelties in amusement is somewhat
palling; we are getting back once more
to the ancient idea that there Is Moth
ing more interesting under the sun
than human being, and that a pre-
rogative OF human beings Is serious dis
cusSion.
II you will keep an ear wide open in
restaurants, hotels and other eating
places. where men gather for luncheon.
you no doubt will hear evidence OF this
change
Let 1t be stated that the thing is as
yet not rampant. There are many who
are tentatively feeling their way, as 1t
were, into less selfish topics of general
conversation.
1t does not take much discussion of
the marvels of avistion to lead a group
to a consideration of what is above the
OF who or what put 1t there in the first
place.
Nor must the mistake be made of re-
garding this new seriousness as having
been unknown before. OF course. there
always have been men who delighted in
just such topics of conversation.
Certain lines of activity made 1t GER
tain that dollars and cents would not
be the sole topic OF discussion with all
men,
What is significant. it seems to us, is
that men have reached the point OF
sophistication where they are turning
back in conversation to the great stand
ard subjects of life and living. just as
families, having gone through the
phase of giving their children fancy
names, come back to plain Sarah Jane.
The next step in this wholesome re-
turn will be TO the old-faShioned letter,
in which honest delight was taken in
the writing of letter for the letters
sake
Gently in picking up a volume OF Ben
jamin Franklin's letters to several
young women, written when he was an
elderly man.
Franklin had genuine style. If his
fame as statesman, scientist and gen.
eral man Of affairs had not eclipSed his
fame as a writer, no doubt he would
have fingered on the American scene
solely as an author.
His letters in this interesting volume
are of type which no one today would
think OF writing, especially to young
women. Imagine one of our statesmen
writing to his young lady friends about
the tides, of rivers and canals and
about the way to relieve thirst aboard
a vessel at sea without fresh water.
Letters were something of novelty
in his day, but that cannot account for
the delightful formal style. Men took
themselves seriously then. The smart
aleck style had not yet become fash
ionable. The desire to impress others
with ones cleverness had not taken the
place OF calm, serious consideration
of serious topics. The "playboy" atti-
tude had yet to be born.
With the return of serious topics to
general conversation, there must be an
increase in the serious sort of letters,
for men wrote about what they think
about and, above all. what they talk
about
Evening star., 1929-06-10

President Coolidge left heritage of
good will to his successor which the
latter is intent upon augmenting.
In this country and i'm Great Britain
there is desire for continued amicable
relations between the two great English
speaking nations. Unfortunately, two
years ago an effort to reach a further
agreement on naval limitation failed.
The representatives of the two nations
we're unable to see the problem in the
same light. This failure was responsible
for measure Of GOODNESS which sprang
up between the two. There ensued talk
of naval building race. The United
States made 1t clear, indeed, that if
no agreement in regard to naval respect
could be entered into 1t did not pro-
pose 10 permit itself TO be shouldered
aside.
The Washington Conference on Naval
Limitation in 1922, resulting in limita-
ton in ca pital ships, is to have its sequel
at the close of the ten-year period. At
that time, unless the nations sigma
toried to the Washington treaty seek an
earlier opportunity, the whole subject
of naval limitation probably will be
gone into again. The agreement reach
ed in Washington by the great naval
powers was hailed as real step in the
interest of world peace. ANY backward
step would be regarded AS sinister.
Both President Hoover and the Brit
ish prime minister have the cause of
naval limitation at heart. Both would
like to see an end of technical objec-
tions raised to a real limitation of ar
A conference between the
two, entered into in that spirit, could
scarcely fail to have important results.
The subject of naval limitation reaches
beyond the United States and Great
Britain, of course. There are other
maritime nations with powerful navies
which must assent to the proposed
agreement However, if the difficulties
which have delayed so fFF an accord
between this country and England on
this subject can be wiped out, 1t will go
far toward making possible general
reduction OF armament.
Evening star., 1929-06-10
Getting Out the Vote
Concerns Body POlitic

From the Fort Worth Record Telegram.
The greatest concern of the bodv
polite OF the United States is that one
OF causing people to take the trouble
to vote. First and last, probably every
State Legislature and innumerable
Congresses have heard bills introduced
on that subject. None has had the
slightest effect to date.
A recent attempt was made in the
Legislature OF Western State. 1t
took on the form of a species of brib-
ery-most of them being forms of COM
puis1on or csjolery. This legislator says
the way to do 1T is to compel each and
every potential voter to pay $40 on the
nrst day of every year, of which the
voter would receive a refund at every
election. A perfect record would rep
resent the franchise at no expense
The "slackers." partially. or wholly.
would be the only revenue producers by
way of poll taxes or registration
charges.
splendid idea! All there is left to
do Is to collect the $40 each year. The
bill doesn't seem to provide for a stand
ing army OF collectors, nor does 1t so
arrange things that recalcitrant citizens
may be by their bodies taken and in
carcerated in the common gaol" or
some other prompt and efflcacious pun
ishment. Evidently 1t contemplates the
acquiescence of every male and female
citizen between the ages of 81 and 65
and the line of $40 bill bearers forming
to the right bright and early each New
Year morning
We may get out the vote some day.
II we can make all the people angry
at one time, 1t can be done. II crisp
So bill awaited each voter at the polls
all OF us would probably be there except
the golfers who figure they could make
more than that out of their foursome
prospects for the day. Most of us will
go to a little trouble for So, but even
that would not make voting unanimous
What trick of psychology or quirk of
human nature will 1t take to make
voters of us? The inventor OF that
process will be at least another Bur-
bank
Evening star., 1929-06-10

emily vicious: second. they are thrown
| with criminal associates who exercise o
bad influence over their plastic char
acters.
1t is doubtful if either of these ex-
plantations for the failure of the reform
school system has much validity. The
reasons must be sought much deeper
among the tangled roots of human ex-
perience.
Modern psychology has discarded
almost entirely the concept of Unborn
viciousness. The effect of bad asso-
ciates might be eliminated by a re-
arrangement of the institutional system.
But the real problem is to get at the
underlying reasons for the criminal
tendencies. So long as they remain
untouched discipline hygiene and char
acter training are not likely to have a
marked effect.
We might state the basic problem
quite simply. Many child criminals are
the victims of overactive imaginations
Few children steal for greed. They
steal for the adventure of stealing. They
steal because imsginatively they have
identified themselves with coIorful
thieves. The reform procedure should
be to snblimate this imagination-to
turn it into worthier channels of iden-
tihcation.
What actually happens is quite differ
ent. The child is placed in a disciple
nary system which, however judiciously
and kindly it is administered, is calcu-
lated not to sublimify the imagination
but merely to wall it off from overt
manifestation The root of the trouble
is untouched. 1t will sprout again as
soon as the restrictions are removed. 1t
will gather strength during the long
years when it must remain buried in
the warm darkness of the child-soul.
Thus the short-sighted methods of
the reformatory institution so often fail.
On the other hand, ill-considered dis
cipline may kill the imagination alto
gether. The result is an ineffective,
aimless, commonplace individual doomed
TO remain forever submerged in the.
crowd.