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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-09-22
WESLACO TO Be
CITY OF HOMES
New Residences and Beau
LITIGATION Feature De-
velopment of City

Approximately 100000 has been
expended on residential construc-
ton IN Weslaco and vicinity since
january !, 1923, according to esti-
mates OF builders and realtors.
scores OF new residences have BEEN
sns<fted in or near the city. and In
kye rural sections numerous homes
AaVt been Improved.
While the building expansion has
not been so pronounced as during
1857, construction has been
steady. Several subdivisions which
nave been opened 10 the north. west
and south and completion OF the
paving program OF the Weslaco road
district have provided sites CT sur
passing beauty.
Residence construction of the past
three years has been of the most
substantial type. brick. tile and
stucco gradually replacing the
frame construction Of the earlier
period Spanish and colonial types
OF architecture predominant. fitting
admirably with the tropic setting
OF citrus fruit trees, palms and ma
tive growths.
One OF the most pronounced fea-
lures OF the past two years has
been the general trend toward
Identification throughout the entire
residential section Of the CITY.
Though only nine years OF age.
Weslaco already has lost the crude
appearance of newness. Well kept
lawns, towering palms and the dark
vendure OF mature citrus trees
have transformed it into one Of the
most beautiful cities of the South
A City Of Homes
ct was the purpose Of the de-
velopers Of the Weslaco townsite u
make this not only one Of the fore
most commercial points In the Val
ley but also to make it a city 81
homes. and that this purpose IS be-
ing accomplished Is very apparent.
was the comment OF n Of the
city's pioneers. Construction Is Of
the most substantial type and most
approved architecture. Home build
ing has gained momentum eacn
year. Identification programs have
been adopted as the city extended,
land the result is a city OF comfort
able homes, each with a beautiful
setting which adds to the comfort
and pleasure Of home life.
Every effort is being exerted %
make this city attractive to home
builders. We want that class OF
citizens. Our school system ranks
with the best; our churches are all
substantial structures: we have
many miles of paved streets; wa
ter, sewers and every modern con-
venience. All this has been accom-
plished in less than nine years, and
before nine more years have passed
Weslaco will rank among the large
cities Of the border country"
Completion CT the paving program
has served TO intensity development
throughout the Weslaco trade terri
tory. Paved highways now radiatc
in all directions from the city, pro-
viding the truck and fruit growers
easy access to market and opening
for Intensive development large
areas which heretofore were almost
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-09-22

BELFAST.-Robert T.. Moran was
arrested for stealing a letter in
which he got evidence to sue for
divorce.
Milford chronicle., 1929-07-19
MOTOR LAW VIOLATORS

Women may not know how to run
automobiles safely, as some people
claim, but there is another part of
the story shown by the records of
the traffic courts. In the National
Capital less than three and one-half
per cent of the offenders against the
traffic laws brought into court this
Summer were women. And that de-
spite the fact that women do a large
part of The driving in Washington.
The Traffic Bureau of the District of
Columbia expressed the belief that
women drive cars more safely than
men.
Milford chronicle., 1929-07-19
THE TWO TEMPLES

A builder builded temple,
He wrought with care and skill,
Pillars and groins and arches
We're fashioned to meet his will.
And men said when they saw its
beauty,
ut shall never know decay;
Great is thy skill, o builder,
Thy fame shall endure for aye"
A teacher builded a temple,
She wrought with skill and care,
Forming each pillar with patience,
Laying each stone with care.
None saw the unceasing effort;
None knew of the marvellous plan;
For the temple the teacher builded
Was unseen by the eyes of man.
Gone is the builders temple,
Crumbled into the dust,
Pillars and groins and arches
Food for consuming rust.
But the temple the teacher builded
Shall endure while the ages roll;
For that beautiful unseen temple
Was a child's immortal soul.
Viola B. Shepherd, Bridgeport,
Nebraska.
The Pathfinder.
Milford chronicle., 1929-07-19
SHORT SIGHTED YOUTH

A good many boys and girls, who
as yet have not gone far in their
school work, are likely not to re-
turn to school next fall. They do
not feel interested in study, do not
get along very we'll. But the motive
that appeals to them, is that they
want to earn money of their own.
They long for their own independ-
ence, when they will not have to de-
pend on odd jobs and what their
fathers can give them, for their
spending money.
Commonly they do not want this
money because they are forming
plans for systematic saving, and ac-
quiring of capital for some business
enterprise. They want to be able
to buy their own clothes, and par
ticularly to have money to spend on
good times and excitement and
thrills.
The boys want to be able to buy
or hire automobiles to take their
best girls to ride, and to take them
around to shows and dances and
suppers. The girls want unlimited
money to spend on clothes and self
Identification. 1t seems intolerable
to think of going on with the studies
that come hard to them, and on sub
jects that they regard as dull like
arithmetic and grammar and PEN
when with more money in
their pockets they would be making
a general whoopee around the
country.
Some of these young people may
be more suited to practical hand
work than to book study. But the
majority of them are not ready to
quit school, and their desire to do
SO simply shows their lack of fore
sight.
They give up the chance to fit
themselves adequately for life, just
for the sake of the immediate fun.
They are condemning themselves to
a life of mediocre achievement, in
which they can expect only small re-
suits, just by their lack of steady
purpose. Some person whom they
respect should try to show them
their mistake.
Milford chronicle., 1929-07-19
FAVORITE VIRTUES

Different periods of time have
special virtues on which they place
first emphasis. Sometimes people
seem to value one thing most, and
then they will turn to something
else as the ideal most to be desired.
It might be said that the virtue
that is most emphasized today, par
ticularly among a large element of
cynical and iconoclastic people, is
that of sincerity. These folks are
constantly crying out against hypo-
crisy, and they condemn most bitter
ly what they call the insincerity of
the older ideas which prevailed in
what they call the Victorian age.
Sincerity is a fine ideal, but it is
not the only one. Some people seem
to carry it to the point where they
think it makes little difference how
rotten a man is, if he is only sin
cere about it. They should logically
admire a burglar, since that gentle
man frankly admits his profession,
and does not pose as a benefactor to
humanity.
We need sincerity, but we need
something besides that. A lot Of
quite useless people, who will never
lift a finger to sweeten their person.
al or business relations, who never
take hold to help any community or
patriotic causes, are perfectly sin
cere. They never pretend to be a
bit better than they are, but they do
Milford chronicle., 1929-07-19
PATRONS SHOULD
SUPPORT POSTOFFICE

The United State Postoffice De-
partment ran behind $95,000,000 dur
ing the past year, and the disclosure
has brought an opinion from Presi-
dent Hoover to the effect that the
cost of the Department should be
borne by the persons who receive its
benefits, and not by the taxpayers of
the country. Therefore it may be
reasonably expected that an effort
will be made to have Congress in
crease many of the postal rates.
A method that has served to place
a tax on nearly every gallon of gas
oline sold in the country ought to be
effective enough to take care of a
postal deficit.
Milford chronicle., 1929-07-19
DISCOURAGED2

What's the use of worrying
When things don't go just right.
Stewin' and fussin' over trifles
Won't help you out a mite.
Life is full of 'ups and downs"
Andoften things look bad;
But that's the very time to think
Of things to make you glad.
OF course it isn't easy
To keep from getting blue
When it seems the whole blamed
world
Is picking Just on you;
But here's little thing to try
Next time things look black
Hold your temper-keep a smilin';
And soon you'll get the knack.
Curtis ]. Cox, Houston, Texas
The Pathfinder
Milford chronicle., 1929-07-19
PAPER MONEY

The new money has been released
through the banks of the country,
and it will continue to circulate
along with the old money. The old
bills will not be retired from circu-
lation until they are worn out. The
old paper money has been issued in
it's present size since 1861.
Milford chronicle., 1929-07-19
RAILROADS PLEASED
WITH THEMSELVES

Statements issued by the railroad
associations at the close of the half
year period ending with June, relate
that the railroads are carrying so
much profitable freight that they
don't miss the revenue from the pas
senger business, which they admit
has fallen off very heavily. Railroad
securities are considered among the
best kind of investments.
Milford chronicle., 1929-07-19

smash their own furniture. You can
judge something about the intelli-
gence of community, by noting
how far its public buildings, school
houses, parks, and Fairgrounds are
kept free from DETACHMENT or break
age.
Milford chronicle., 1929-07-19
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CRIME AND SCIENCE

Modern crime is a scientific thlng'
and it utilizes and takes advantage OF
every device and invention.
Take for instance, the substltu-
tion of the modern hashlight for the
old fashioned burgler's dark lantern
The Door old burglars of the pre-
flashlight era, must have had an
awful time with the primitive light
ing devices on which they used to
depend. Just think of their trou-
bles when a gust of air from the
window that they had broken open,
would blow out the Pickering flame
in their feeble little lamp, and how
they would be up against it in a
strange dwelling, with the owner
very likely gathering his shooting
irons together and preparing to pep
per them unawares. But now with
the modern fashlight, they move
surely and securely with their cat
light tread, as they illumine room
after room.
Automobiles are an every day IL
lustration of this thought. The use
of fast machines has been the great
est boon modern science has brought
to the crook business. The difficult
ties of apprehending the thieves and
gangsters are multiplied many times
by their possession of these cars.
What will happen, when the burg
lars all become aviators, and park
their planes in some outlying field,
from which they ascent after COM
mitting their deeds? In few hours
they will be 500 miles distant, with
out passing the inspection of any
traffic officers by the way.
Modern science gives the crook
element too many weapons. The
only thing we can do is to cut poll
tics out of our police and court
work, and back our forces of law and
order with plenty of money and
support. And then we have to
teach the young people that crime is
yellow, and spoils a mans life, and
brings him the contempt Of every
sane human being.
Milford chronicle., 1929-07-19
THE STAY AT HOME FOLKS

THE STAY AT HOME FOLKS
A considerable number of people
never get any vacation. Many oi
them are farmers, who in summer
are working about a Is hour day
while the city man complains be-
cause he has to work eight. Many
of them are housewives, who toll
nights, Sundays and holidays. Some
are harassed business men.
Something seems wrong when any
element of people can't get some
period of rest through the year. 1t
is usually true that people can do
more work in so weeks than they
can in So. The human mind and
body were not made for unremitting
toll.
Some people who theoretically get
no vacation, really get more than
they want, because their jobs are ir-
regular. That condition is one of
the big problems that modern indus
try has to solve.
How shall the people solace them
selves who have to stay at home 81
weeks in the year, and who by rea-
son of limited incomes or various
conditions, never get that rest and
uplift that comes from a good va
cation?
Many of them are quite philosoph-
ical about it, and are not anxious for
travel. Their tastes are simple, and
plenty of things are happening right
around them that strike them as
quite as interesting as anything In
Europe or some distant state. They
have learned that happiness is not
created by changing scenes. When
many people travel, they take away
the same old faults of mind and pooy
that made them unhappy at home
Travel trips should be refreshing
and enlarging, but people can De
perfectly happy and well without
them. Many people who stay at
home and read, can talk more intel-
ligentlv than many who have traV-
o1led all over the world. Many per-
sons who enjoy healthful pursuits IN
+hoir own gardens or in various d.
versions. have better health ana
LIVER than those who are continu-
ally refreshing themselves OS 'O''-'
io1Irnevs,
Milford chronicle., 1929-07-19
THE BASIS OF OUR WEALTH

THE BASIS OF OUR WEALTH
Ex-Vice President Dawes, in an
article recently printed in Outdoor
America" warns our people that
they can't continue to draw upon
the resources of nature without CIV
ing back something to nature.
The prosperity of our country has
been attributed more than anything
else, to the wealth of our soils, for
ests, and mines. What will happen
to the country, if we keep exhausting
these resources? Some day it will
bring us up against years of power
ty.
Every land owner in Delaware
should be urged to put back into his
soil enough fertilizer to make up
for all he has extracted. Every ow-
ner Of forest lands should be urged
to plant new trees, to make up for
those that will soon be taken down.
Milford chronicle., 1929-07-19
SHARING YOUR COMMUNITY
LIFE

A local newspaper is an agency by
which its readers obtain their share
of the advantages of their home
towns. You read in your newspaper
that certain entertainment, con-
cert, or address is to be given, in
which you are interested. You want
to be present on that occasion. If
you had not read that announcement
in that newspaper, you would prob
ably have missed this valuable fea-
ture of the community life.
You read in your home town news
paper about the activities Of some
organization. You would not prob
ably have known much about that
society, had it not been for the
newspaper. You discover from these
reports that that organization is do
ing certain things that are interest
ing, and beneficial to the community
and its members. You are led to
Join it, and you obtain these bene-
fits, which you probably have failed
to share had it not been for the ser
vice of the newspaper.
You read about some friend who
is visiting here. You want to see
that person and renew old acquain-
tance, and you are thereby led to
call, and you have a happy evening"
Someone reads in the newspaper
that you have been away and nave
returned, and your friends are
thereby led to come and see you.
More pleasant hours are spent all
due to the local newspaper.
You read in the home town paper
the advertisements of the local
stores You discover that you can OBJ
tain certain needed articles for less
than YOU would ordinarily pay YOU
obtain these necessary goods at a
low price, and make direct Saving
in cash. Thus you share the econo-
mic advantages of your home toWn'
The Milford Chronicle performs
services of this kind in every issue
The more the people read the renee
+ion of the community life which II
contains. the more they get out Oh
the life of many towns and commun-
tiles.
Milford chronicle., 1929-07-19
STANDARDS OF BUSINESS

In spite of all the crookedness
which one sees in modern life, it
does seem to be true that retail
trade is more reliable than formerly.
The idea has spread widely through
the business community, that it is
necessary to represent goods for
what they are. In the great ma
jority of retail stores today, if you
ask the store people what goods are
made of, they will tell you if they
know themselves.
Now this is quite different from
conditions years ago, when no end
of fakes were worked off on the pub
lie. OF course there is still great
deal of substitution of inferior ma
terials. But not many business men
will recommend an article as strict
ly high grade, when it has inferior
elements. Whether or not they are
more honest than they were, they
are anyway afraid of the comeback
if they misrepresent stuff.
It would be interesting to ask
what has created this higher stand
ard. Probably organizations Of bus
mess men have done something to-
ward it, by constantly preaching the
idea of rendering good service to
the public.
One would guess that the princi-
pal force toward creating this high
er standard, has been advertising.
Business people who make study
of advertising, are nightly afraid of
misrepresenting goods in printers
ink. If a dealer has inferior goods
which must be worked off, he does
not want the customer to come back
and say he misrepresented the stuff,
as that would make him no end of
trouble. He does not advertise goods
of that type, or if he does advertise
them, he sees to it that the customer
knows what he is getting.
Advertising does lot to give peo-
pie the quality of goods they pay
for. The more people read and stu
dy it, the less likely they are to get
inferior quality stuff.
Milford chronicle., 1929-07-19
uo,r,rmpv TOWN PROGRESS

The question is often asKeu' "H'',
.on ho dome for the development anu
..rosnoritv ~, of the towns OF Dela-
wareq Our cities seem in most III
stonces to be doing well, but a Iew
% os'. 4ho rural communities complain
that their young people are leaving
t1,or, particularly those who are tne
most CAPABLE and best educated
The Milford Chronicle is impress
ed with the idea, that the thing that
would do the most to make the
country towns of its section success
ful and prosperous, is to accomplish
a nerfect harmony between all ele-
1nents in these communities. One
thing that handicaps a lot OF these
towns. is that there are so many dlt-
ferent factions.
There seem in many of these COM
munities to be different elements
that do not work together we'll One
element may go to one church, anu
the opposite crowd worships some
where else. These people know their
own associates well, but those VINO
attend across the street they are not
so well acquainted with. They like TO
work with those of their own crowd
and if anything is started by those
of the opposite bunch, they are not
interested. Or the same division may
exist between members of different
societies or social elements.
What such towns need is for peo-
pie to get together in good commun-
ity movements. They need some or
SANITATION which all good citizens
interested are asked to join. If they
form such an organization, the OIL
GERS should represent all elements.
In many cases these people need
to unite churches or social organi-
cations. If they will start on this
broad basis, and forget factional diff
ferences, they will find that almost
any country town has enough bright
and energetic people to accomplish
whole lot of progress.
Milford chronicle., 1929-07-19

not accomplish anything to make the
world better.
Enthusiasm is a quality that is
equally necessary. There are lot
of people who have been more or
less self deceived, perhaps humbugs
to some extent, who entertain a
higher opinion of themselves than
is warranted, yet who are tremend-
ously useful because they are gen.
erous and unselfish with their time
and their money. They take hold
and work their heads off to bring
benefits to the community. We can
put up with bit of their pretenses,
in view of their usefulness.
Insincerity is an unlovely trait,
but selfishness, censoriousness, and
lack of enthusiasm are equally so.
Milford chronicle., 1929-07-19
MILFORD, FRIDAY. JULY 10. 1929

PEOPLES TIME may be valuable,
but it is not so valuable that it pays
them to cut across their lawns or
those belonging to their neighbors
or the municipality. Plots of grass
with their edges and corners all
worn off, make city or its homes
look like a man with ragged coat
and frayed trousers.
Keep off the grass" signs should
not be necessary. When grass is
grown for ornamental and landscape
effects, people should guard 1t as
carefully as they would some hne
rug they bought to decorate their
homes. A trim grass plot, with its
edges and corners squarely CUT
gives any location an air of finish
and beauty. We should care tor our
public and private lawns in that
manner here in Milford and in every
town or highway.
Milford chronicle., 1929-07-19

information and give publicity to it
so that every individual and every
industrial and commercial enter
prise, big or little, may have it and
may be in a position to make sure
of it."
Milford chronicle., 1929-07-19

puDl1c ana private lawns
manner here in Milford and in every
town or highway.
THE YEAR 1880 WILL BE of un-
usual interest to all Of us because II
is the wear in which the official CEN
Sis will be taken. All of us Will be
glad to know how much the old town
has grown in ten years, especially IL
IT has grown vigorously and well. An
interesting story of the preparations
being made for taking the, census
together with history of our census
taking will be found in the current
issue of the National Republic. 1t
was written by William M. Steuart'
Director of the Bureau of the Census
of the United States Department OF
Commerce, under the title Uncle
Sam to Go Visiting" In setting out
the history of the. development OF
our census taking in America, Mr.
Steuart says in part:
Some three thousand years ago
King David set out to number the
people of Israel and Judah. 1t took
nine months and twenty days to
make the count, and the returns
showed 100000 valiant men that
drew the sword
"At the beginning of our own ma
tional existence, we took census
approximately equal in magnitude to
that taken by King David. The Uni
ted States marshals, to whom the
task was assigned, were allowed
thirteen months for the enumeration,
and returned a total population OF
a less than 100000. The census Of
population was established as de-
cennial event by the Constitution OF
the United States, and is the only
current statistical inquiry which
rests on such fundamental legal au-
thority.
prior to 1890, the date of the
first census of the United States, lit
tie had been done in any country to-
ward establishing regular periodic
censuc of population. Since that date,
the nations of the world have been
developing methods and machinery
that make possible a speedy count
ing of the people and the accumu-
lation at the same time of a vast
amount of data regarding education
al. social and economic conditions.
The development of modern statisti-
cal methods has probably gone far
ther in the United States than in
any other country, and the director
of the census is required in one
month to enumerate 120,O0O,0O0 peo-
pie and to obtain rather extensive in
formation for about six and quar-
ter million farms, $4,000 mines and
quarries, and more than 100000 irri-
cation and drainage projects.
"The population of continental
United States is now increasing at
the rate of 1,4OO, 900 persons per year
or approximately one person every
twenty-six seconds. The total in
crease is made up Of the annual ex-
cess of births over deaths, which
amounts to 1,150,000, and the excess
of immigration over emigration,
which amounts to an additional 240,-
900 per year. By 1880 the population
will be more than thirty times as
great as it was in 1890 and nearly
twice what it was in 1890, or only
forty years ago.
"History records no other in
stance in which the population has
so rapidly. Further, there
has been no other nation in which
the increase in population has been
accompanied by such improvement
in the comfort and weIl-being Of the
oeople. AS a statistician, I believe
hat this advancement has been due
n no small degree to the definite
we have Of our produe-