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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-20

KANSAS CITY. June 2o.-CF-
Hogs: 5000: 10000 lower: top
sII00 on 15O-160 lbs; packing sows
5.75G9.85.
Cattle: 1000, calves. 500; fed
steers and yearlings fully steady;
she stock weak TO 25c lower; slaugh-
ter steers. good and choice 950-1500
lbs 1900 1925; yearlings. good
choice 750-950 lbs I3.O06I5.25:
heifers. good and choice $50 lbs
down 12.00914.50; COWS. good and
choice 9.G0d11.75; vealers milk
fed medium TO choice 9.00d 1880.
Sheep: 5000; lambs 25G35c lower.
sheep steady; lambs. good and
choice (92 lbs down. 13.50d 1885:
ewes. medium 70 choice Q50 lbs
down 4.5066.25.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-20
LIVESTOCK

FORT WORTH, Texas, June 20.
-lP)-Hogs: 1000; truck hogs l5c
lower; top S10.35; bulk better grades
1920 lbs. S10.00G10.20.
Cattle and calves: 4,7o0; she stock
extremely dull, weak TO ~unevenly
lower; yearlings up TO S14.50; fat
cows S7.75G8.O0; bulls 27G9; stock
steer yearlings S12; slaughter calves
heavieS above Sill.
Sheep: $500; fully steady: Q
year-old wethers s8.5048.75; aged
wethers $3.50; lambs S12G13.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-20

CHICAGO, June 20.-tP-Hogs:
2l.0OO; IS to 25c lower; top $11.3O;
desirable 160 to $40 ID weight 10000
lbs; better grade sows CTS to 10.15.
Cattle: $500; calves: $500; strong
on choice steers and yearlings;
steady on others; slaughter steers,
good and choice 950-1500 lbs 14.0O
to 1878; vealers milk-fed) good
and choice 1900 to 1880.
Sheep: 1900; steady: bulk ma
tive lambs 1850 to 1875. ranges
1925; yearlings 1885 to 1900; ewes
600 to CTS.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-08
THE DEADLY AIR MAIL

Men who pilot the air mail are hu- man beings and they like to live as well as the rest of us. Many of them are men of families. They should not be compelled to run unneces- sary risks.
 Air flying is risky enough in or dinary weather, as the high ratio of accidents abundantly testify: but ordinary flyers do not need to go aloft in unfavorable weather. Air mail flyers, however. go aloft in all kinds of weather. It must be an un- usually bad day to discourage the air mail from operating. Another air mail fatality has oc- cured in Connecticut. The weather was wrong for flying, but the air mail tried to operate regardless. The effect on the public would be bad if the air mail operated only in fine weather.
 Personally we prefer to see the thing made safe and are not much interested in any of our pseudo-im- portant letters arriving at their des- tinations half day earlier at the risk Of the lives of good men and tr,1e
New Britain herald., 1929-01-08
SNOW LOADING

Rather than accede to the exac- tions of private contractor who owned a snow loading machine the city has gone ahead and purchased it's own apparatus. Whatever the ex- actions were it seems to us that the contractor was at a disadvantage. He had money invested in the contrap- tion and had to stand prepared to operate it. And he had to figure in a little profit. Obviously. he had to charge a fair price for his work.
 The city. too. now has money in- vested in such a machine. but municipal enterprises don't figure like private folk. They figure like the post office-the money invested merely represents an appropriation and then there is no interest to worry about. What is paid for is past and there is nothing more to say. Likewise, the city has enough men in the public works department to operate the machine or not. and when they don't run the contraption they do something else. Lastly, there is no profit to figure.
 No. the contractor couldn't conn pete with the city. Municipal owner ship. even of such a municipal toy as snow-loading machine, is hard for a private individual to touch.
 But the question is, is there go- ing. to be any snow this winter? The today are quoted at 5o-5o.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-08

contains %. including enc woman senator. The League of Women yotsrs believes the total will increase constantly.
 This ought to satisfy the men. Tho average man legislator with dif- fculty finds tho time to attend the sessiona. Women as | rule have more time and they at least can pass no worse laws than some which have been passed.
 Some of the women legislators of the past have been more independent in their views than the average men legislators This Is 2 good sign.
 The fair sex is more than fair on capitol hill. May 1t continue to lend color and interest to the doings.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-08
SAFE-CRACKING

Safe-cracking is a precarious oc- cupation. It is like gambling, or making pile on the stock market. The money comes easily and the en- terprise of the accumulators in- creases. Finally the crackers crack one safe too many and are caught. We have yet to learn of . judge or a jury who felt kindly disposed to- ward safe-crackera
 The jobs which have been per- petrated in this city recently give us the impression some saps are out for a terrible beating at some court of law. As is the case in a crowded bus, there is always room for three or more at the stately institution at Wethersield.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-08

tract for the city reports and there will be none this year. The Arm holding the contract has been months and months in preparing them, and they would have been a year old before they could be issued.
 The moldcrs at Landers. Frary and Clark did not go to work this morn- ing. and it was said ! committee would confer with the company dur ing the day. The trouble is oyer . cut on the price of one class of work.
 At the Russwin Lyceum Thursday evening: A sparkling three-act com- edy. ''The Real Widow Brown" Wholesale fun. splendid singing. rich costumes.
 Thermometers that registered 90 degrees below zero yesterday stood at 30 above today.
 The annual meeting Of St. Mat thew's German Lutheran church held last night showed that the church has had a very successful year. The following officers were elected: Trustees. Edward Grammitt Ru- dolph Linn. and Edward Koerber: school board, William Behnke: col lector, Edward Koerber: assistant, Julius Huck; school collector. Will liam Hausman; treasurer. Fred Hausman; committee to aid poor, Jacob Kumpf and Henry Roden- waldt: auditors. George Runke. Adolph konrad. Joseph Huck. Emil Lustke.
 A New Britain girl was in the float which won first prize at the Tourna- ment of Roses in Pasadena this year
 The New Britain members of the Sons of the American Revolution have begun their preparations for the annual banquet of the order in Hanna's armory, which will furnish the first adequate banQueting facili- ties in this city. Senator Sloper is chairman of tho committee and An drew g. Parsons secretary. Cover nor Chamberlain will be present.
 The fire department had long run for nothing today when the horses tugged the apparatus through the snow to Box l3 at West Main and Curtis streets, only to find no fire. It was subsequently, found that the fire was in tenement at Arch and Webster streets and that the alarm had been run in from Box IT. Superintendent George Cooley exam ined the box and found 1t in good shape. He thinks the persons who turned in the alarm shut the door again and cut off the connection.
 The situation between Russia and Japan is very grave and war is con- sidered probable.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-08
TAKE ME PACK TO NORTH
 DAKOTA

tBelng the Ballad of a Neglected State) You can have your Alabamy, With your faithful coal black
 Nanny: And perhaps those Georgia peaches
 give you thrills: It may warm your solar plcxus When you think of dear old Texas I'll concede that Tennessee ha:
 lovely hills. But there's one State thats
 neglected. By sweet singers undetected; It's the State to where my aching
 heart has flown. And though jealous bards may dread it, Some fine day shc'll get the credit North Dakota soon will come into
 her own.
 CHORUS Take me back to North Dakota, The land that's open, flat and free Of Swedes and Films she's got her
 quota: There's where I ever long to be. Her corn feeds chickens. hogs and
 cattle. To sustain them in life's battle. And her wheat. so 1t is said. Makes flour for the kiddies' bread Sc take me back to North Dakota There let my weary body rest. And I don't mean Minnesota It's just one State farther west! We'll. your sweetheart she may
 mourn va Out In sunkist California: Maryland may be just full ol
 orioles: And if nothing can be finer Than to be in Caroliner, Still Virginia's full of noble South
 ern souls. But the grand old State plead
 for Is the one we all have need for How with pride the eve of ever,
 patriot gloams! l refer to North Dakota, Where once again I long to float a. Long her funny little lakes and sill, streams. CHORUS Take me back to North Dakota, etc
New Britain herald., 1929-01-08
THE RAIDING INDUSTRY

No. 2 of the cities which have come to grips with the crime situa- tion has attained public attention. After Police Commissioner Grover Whalen registered such success in New York, after only a week of ef- fort, 1t was natural to expect another city to enter the ranks of crime hunting. Let there be many more !: for if there is one thing the country needs thoroughly 1t is sembiance of energy and the iron fist by the vari- ous police departments.
 The situation in Chicago Heights. like that in Cicero, H., has long been in league with the underworld harons This inference Is strengthen ed by the news that the first thing that happned when the county au- that they put the police in jail. which no doubt Is where they be- long.
 Wherever crooks have been lnak- Ing sport of the law, let the police De jailed. If they knew they had that coming to them they would make better records ill such benighted cities where they are lacking in efficiency.
 Of course, this does not refer to New Britain If it did. however, we'd advocate the same sort Of treatment
New Britain herald., 1929-01-08
r. .ts undEoncies

The age Of discretion. Alas! doesn't arrive until you have lost the taste or capacity for indiscre- ton.
 One law for tfe rich and one for the poor and none at all for the criminal class.
 Still. the stranger feels free to take liberties if she's the kind of girl who will accept a ride with a stranger.
 Don't be too good to the kids. It's a shame to deny any child the oc- casional joy of martyrdom.\
 Radi speeches boastirg of pros- perity are all right. Those who aren't prosperous aren't listening in.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-08
DRAMATIC CIRCLE
 RECEIPTS A,000
Holy noss Society Ris Prospa- oas Yolr- -Nldolny President
Frank Nadolny. for the past year pfeeideut of the Holy Crose Dramat-

Frank Nadolny. for the past year president of the Holy Cross Dramat- ic circle. was reelected to that of- flee last night at the annual meeting of the circle held in the basement of the church on Pennington avenue. The reelection was unanimous but only after more than a half-hour's persuasion on the part of the ma jority. who insisted that he retain the office. Mir. Nadolny. through whose untiring efforts the circle ex- banded and prospered throughout the, year. was adamant from tho beginning and would not accept the nomination but finally was per- sualed to succeed himself.
 Rev. Stephen Bartkowski. pastor Of the church. was reelected unani- mously chaplain of the circle. and Rev. Victor Piaskowski. vice chap lain and also director of the plays. \. Czerepuszko was elected vice president to succeed Miss Emily Wendrowsl<i: Miss Helen Waskiele- wick recording secretary to succeed Miss 4. Rymsza. who was elected financial secretary: Stanley Karns- &ewicx was reelected to the office of treasurer.
 Tho report of the treasurer and financial secretary showed that the circle had realized approximately 3A,00o during the year from plays staged It different times at the '. M. T. A. | B. hall. Out of this sum the circle contributed nearly 33,500 towards the payment of the church pews and chairs in th4 meeting rooms.
 Father Bartkowski addressed the gathering and thanked the officers as we'll n tho members for their cooperation in making the year successful and expressed his pride in the circle for the excellent spirit that has prevailed.
 The circle. organized year ago. has grown from . limited number of members to a group of over 200 young men and women and has taken active part in the affairs of the parish.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-08

None of the big jobs are held by men who had rather lie and shiver than get up for an extra blanket.
 This age isn't more wicked than the age of our fathers. It just fails to pull down the shades.
 Boyhood ambitions don't always fail. Back in 1890. every boy wanted to hccome a law-breaker
 An economist is Q man who thinks We have achieved a high standard of living because we have established Q high standard Of spending.
 Americanism: Lacking the menev to buy a big thing because you couldn't resist spending your pocket change for little things.
 And yet nobody ever earned a bronze statue just by being ortho- dox.
 A grammarian ia one who doesn't care what the picture is if 1t has a gardy frame.
 The less they know. the less fg- norant they feel: and some people always are 'healthy" because they nre too ignorant to know they are sick.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-08
Observations :. On He Weatker

Washington. Jan. s.-Forecast foi Southern New England: Cloudy with rising temperature tonight and Wednesday: probably light snew in western Aassachusetts tonight: fresh winds mostly west and south west.
 Conditions: The, area Of high pressure that was over the northern Mississippi valley yesterday morn- inr moved southeastward and ts nov central over tho Appalachian dis tricts and tho Ohio valley. Temr peratures are considerably. lower in the Lake region, Ohio valley. Ap- palachian regions and the middle and north Atlantic states. Tho tenn perature at New Haven this morning was IS degrees. the lowest for the season to date. Pressure ia .di- minishing over the northern plains states and the Canadian Northwest and temperatures .are moderating throughout these districts.
 Conditions favor for this vicinity fair weather with slowly rising temperature. t,. f...
New Britain herald., 1929-01-08

This freak spelling. like "Ye Print shoppe." apparently was used on early hot-dog stands. There is, for example, the Palace of the Doge. Atrocities are destructive meas ures taken by an enemy before you are equipped for the same tactics.
 Nations renounce poison gas and then keep on experimenting in or der to be ready in case temptation should overcome them.
 The trouble seems to be that one set of men signs the peace treaties and another set manufactures fight ing material,
 South America resenting a Mon- roe Doctrine that protects her against her will. should try living up here where each legislature in- vents a few more like it.
 Correct this sentence: Y had rather say worth while things in hum English.' said the college pro- lessor. than to speak platitudes with grammatical perfection"
 Copyright. 1929, Publishers
 Syndicate
New Britain herald., 1929-01-08

At York, Pa. they are having the first witchcraft trial in 200 years and 200 newspaper men are on hand to chronicle the unfolding of this page from the modern Americana. There was no such publicity in the Salem business and that perhaps is why there has been so much conjecture ever since.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-08

! to cot considerably more for two to live together as one. with the result that Cupid is frustrated in his at- tempts to interlock loving hearts. The more prosperity we have the more inclined the young seem to be toward enjoying the fruits of pros- perity rather than taking chances with loves lottery. Too many young men, instead of saving up to pur- chase a home and installing fixtures therein-as we'll as g wife-flrst take to the notion that an automobile Is necessary: and when the first ma chine wears out: they trade it in and buy another. They are in debt to the automobile dealers practically all the time, which discourages deep thought about financing a house warming. In the endeavor to oper- ate sport models over the public highways they are aided and abetted by the young things themselves. who nowadays don't seem to wish to travel with a young man who can- not furnish an automobile.
 The girls, too. have become more particular as to who they care to marry, having come to the notion through their extensive reading and education that nothing is easier than to WOO unhappiness by listening to the blandishments of the wrong kind of fellow. With automobiles on the one hand and extreme particularly on the other it is a simple calcula- ton to find that the marriage rate drops steadily. Occasionally couple works up sufficient courage to enter the so-called holy bonds of wedlock, but they do so with prudence and care.
 Meanwhile the divorce rate stead lily increases. the field of operation extending all the way from Paris to Reno and thence to Mexico.
 Tn spite of this drab picture we are optimistic enough to believe that the future of the race Is not entirely blank. It may be useless to oppose an inevitable marriage retrenchment in the annals of the Nutmeg race, but when the merry month of June trots along we again will take heart.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-08
ANOTHER CONGRESSMAN
 POSSIBLE


 Connecticut is justified in. being exceptionally interested in the re- apportionment battle in Congress. and for two reasons: l) A Con- necticut congressman, E. Hart Fenn. of the first district (Hartford county) is the national leader in re- apportionment. (2) Connecticut would gain a congressman by reap portionment.
 Reapportionment every ten years is demanded by the U. 8. Constitu- ton. Congress temporarily nullified this mandate of the Constitution when it failed to reapportion con- gressional representation after the 1920 census.
 New England is vitally interested in the Tenn bill also. but for reverse reasons. New England would lose two congressman under it. bringing the total down to 50 members in- stead of 32. Massachusetts, Vermont and Maine would each lose a con- gressman.
 Reapportionment. as practiced from 1850 to 1900, produced two paradoxes-results which had their influence in causing Congress to withhold reapportionment in 1920. or shortly after the decennial census of that year.
 In the case of Alabama: In 1888. 299 representatives were apportion- ed to the states, and Alabama re- ceived eight. When the number of representatives in Congress was in- creased to 300, Alabama received only seven.
 1 In the case of Maine: In 1900 there were 3S3 representatives in Congress, and Maine received four. When the total of representatives went up to 3S6 Maine received only three; and came back to four when the total representatives reached /, 3Ss; it dropped to three when the total was 3S9 or 39O. and returned to ! four when the total reached 391.
 Thus mathematical calculations surprise even congressman and cen- sus bureau officials. The same. rule doesn't always seem to work the same way. Congressman from Maine and Alabama began to regard the apportionment system as a species of shell game.
 The difficulty lies in the words. equal proportions" The method which has been followed is to have the ratio or representatives to popu- lation as nearly as possible the same in all states. Reapportionmen ex- perts declare that no system can be devised which, in view of population fluctuations, will not cause some states to lose congressman and others enjoy gain, either actually or relatively. It is distressing to learn, therefore, that the congress- men from Maine and Vermont are reported opposed to reapportion- ment, although those of Massachu- setts are slated in it's favor. i The principle laid down by the Fem bill is that if no intervening or supplementary legislation is passed after 1930. 194o and other censuses. the membership of the House shall automatically be reapportioned by the "majc, fractions" method on a basis of 435 members in the House
 The debate on this bill is due to start when Congress reassembles. The bill deserves passage.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-08
THE CROATS AROUSED

 lation of l3,Oo0,000 which makes up JuRoslavia demand more autonomy than they have been receiving. Their refusal to recognize the parliament or its parties was somewhat justified in view of what happened last June. when their leader Stefan Raditch and two other Croat deputies were shot by a member of the Serbian Radical party. The riots and murders which followed resulted in boycott of the parliament by the Croats. But the Belgrade government failed to meet their demands, sending instead a military governor to Zagreb. the Croat capital. and suspending what ever local autonomy remained. Con- sequently the suspension of the Jugoslavian constitution by King Alexander leaves them in no worse situation than they were. rather clip ping the wings from the Serbian Radicals, in control of parliament. who have been doing their utmost to countervene the political aspirations Of the Croats.
 All executive and administrative authority of moment is now in the hands of the king, and 1t remains to be seen whether he as a dictator will grant autonomy or 8 semblance thereof to the Croats, or whether he will attempt to improve upon tho past tactics of the late parliament.
 The Croats are too large part Of the nation to be stepped on per- manently. For the king to attempt this might lead to revolution. and poor and politically battered state is in no position to combat revolu- tions. The king probably believes he can ameliorate the problem by deal ing fairly with his 100000 rebel lious subjects in view of how the former parliament failed for lack Of effort. It means, however. one more dictator in Europe.
 The difficulty in Jugoslavia is due to the fundamental error of the Treaty of Versailles in creating Jugo. slavia out of such heterogeneous strips of territory as Serbia, Mon- tenegro, Bosnia. Herzegovina. Dal. matia. and Croatia. The old Austro- Hungarian empire was patch quilt; but the present Jueoslavia is no bet ter and possesses less cohesive strength. The treaty framers prob- ably anticipated that the representa- tives of the various states would pull together: in reality, they have pulled apart.
 The monarchy and the unity of the kingdom are at stake. The king has taken hold in q bold manner. Forced cohesion, or an explosion, is in prospect.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-08
Deny Bad Feeling in
 Mexico Over Hoover Trip

Mexico City. Jan. N-Denial was made at the foreign office today of rumors that relations between Mexico and the United States had become strained because of Herbert Hoover's failure to extend his tour of Mexico On the contrary 1t was said that relations between tho two countries were the most cordial in the world.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-08
Roman Court Ordered to
 Mourn for Duke Nicholas

Rome, Jan. : (UP)-The court has been ordered to 70 Into mourn ing for . month for the death of Grand Duke Nicholas.
 Social functions planned by many Roman noble families were post poned.
 The grand duke was q brother-in- law of the queen Of Italy.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-08
WHY FEWER MARRIAGES

For three years 1t has been neces- sary for the public prints ill Con- necticut to record both a falling of in the marriage rate and the birth rate. In spite Of the widespread prosperity We read about it seems
New Britain herald., 1929-01-08

We note with amazement that one of our super-valued contemporaries nrinted m editorial denouncing the state politicians for running up the cost of government, and on the same page printed another editorial adVo- eating that the state purchase Charter Oak park.