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The Washington times., 1929-02-25
LISTEN WORLD!
A CO-Cetter Who COt-WhGt7
By Elsie Robinson

through his fingers as the money
slips in
But David does not know they
are slipping away. With each
success, he grows more c0mpla-
cent and confident--more satisfied
with his shrewdness and common
sense. Nor does he become un-
pleasant to other men in his evO-
luton. He is respected and ad-
mired--his advice is sought and
followed.
He is so much the Mod Young
Man that you have an uneasy
feeling that you MUST have seen
him around some hotel lobby in
one of those Get Together
Lunches. Which you have. Hun
dreds of him.
And his lovely lady Emily Mat.
thews, you have seen her, too,
with her magnificent American
body and her passionately, de.
mandinR American spirit. She,
too, is on the make. She wants.
She wants admiration. She wants
excitement. She wants love. And.
of course, the necessary man, or
men, who win supply her with
these things. Presently, you sur.
mise, she will also want to JOS,
sess children and houses and well
protected bonds and plenty of life
insurance. All of which she viii
get, for she always gets what she
wants. Yet. mind you. here is
nothing grim or grabby in her
greed. She is direct as a child
merry, alluring, A happy hearty
female of the Go.Getter clan. But
with all her getting she misses
much. She never graspa those
subtler adventures of the spirit,
those dreams and rebellions and
strange, lonely pacts with pain
which flow beneath the hual of
life. That cleaning, negotiable
husk was enough for her and, like
David, she never knew what she
missed. Perhaps many will envy
her.
Some surely will envy her that
love which might have changed
the whole tenor of her life-might
even have given her the priceless
boon of poetry and suffering IL
she had followed it through. But
though she gave and took as joy.
ously as a bacchante, she let love
slip away forever through the fog.
Success-there you have it. The
story of a Go!Getter who got
what? What he wanted. God
sometimes gives grim answers to
our prayers.
The Washington times., 1929-02-25
Refrigeration Free Above
How Fruits Will Travel.

TWO Army fers trying for the altitude record at 10000
feet abandoned the attempt fuel lacking At that height
the temperature 76 below fact important to
future ers carrying pehabe ripe fruits and other goods
needing refrigeration.
The fier will take his freshly picked ripe peaches
berries avocados board in Florida California Louisiana
anywhere the Gulf Coast rise in the air. watch his
thermometer fly to his market and descend with fruits picked
ripe covering the journey at exactly the right temperature
no expense for refrigeration.
The future may giant airshps carrying from
Zealand and Australia to London depending entirely
upper air refrigeration.
The Washington times., 1929-02-25
WALTER voGDEs has written
w a remarkable book. 1t is

WALTER VOGDES has written
w remarkable book. 1t is
called. "A Great Man.
At first you think 1t Is going TO
be just another story of an Amer
lean success. II you're bit fed
up on American successes you
yawn.lift a bored eyebrow
Then presently it dawns upon
you that you are reading the
truth--the quiet, but completely
devastating truth about Big But
tern Egg Success, and you begin
to tingle. What is this person
Nodges about to say in that gem.
tie. almost drawly manner? You
walk gingerly. expecting bombs.
There are no bombs. But there
is something infinitely more dis
integrating than dynamite. There
is success-that awful juggernaut
rolling ruthlessly across mans
life, flattening him into a greasy
travesty of the thing he might
have been,
He is superb figure, this
young giant, David Frazer, who
comes sailing in through the
Golden Gate to seek his fortune
in the 40 gold rush. He had
planned to go 10 the mines but he
found opportunity closer at hand
in the money-mad boom town
that is now San Francisco. He
becomes trader, stepping into
his new vocation with all that
cool. tenacious deliberation so
strongly advocated by our best
success technicians.
He has nothing to sell at first,
but his energy and shrewdness,
but he makes 200 per cent on the
deal. He barters and bargains in
flour and wine, lumber and boots,
oranges and tobacco. He makes
money hand over fist in the most
approved American manner. From
the first page to the last he
makes money and as he disap.
pears, "a dark speck in the shim-
mering distance" he is still hard
at it.
1t is all very exciting. You are
consumed with envy at first. You
curse your luck because you
couldn't have been in on a good
thing like that. But slowly it be-
gins to dawn on you that David
Frazer is bartering with more
than flour and wine and boots-he
, is bartering with himself. He is
trading in the hot, sweet flower
of his youth--the gypsy joy OF ad-
veHture---his love of natural
beauty-his awe of God--his tol.
erance and tenderness for his fel-
low'men, Little by little, they slip
The Washington times., 1929-02-25
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
BY DR.. Louis E. Bisch-

A MoNG the conditions that be.
"A come serious problems in the
education and general upbringing
of children are those which
might he classed as mental de-
fects due to arrested develop
ment'
Although the sndresult may
practically be the same as In
those cases where defect exists
from birth, children suffering
from arrested development are
born normal AMI develop normally
for a while, only disease of some
kind develops during childhood
which seriously interferes with
the continuance of such normal
development.
Meningitis, for example, is such
a disease. A child of six. let us
say, may suffer meningitis. This
inflammation of the coverings OF
the brain may be so severe as
to impair seriously the childS
mental development in the future.
As a sequence to the n1ening1tls
the child may become definitely
mentally defective.
An accident to the skull may
have similar results. Due to hem
orrhage inside the brain normal
brain cells may become destroyed.
Epilepsy in children may cause
arrested mental development.
Acute infectious diseases be-
sides meningitis, as well as tumors
and blood clots, may be respon.
sihle.
The distinction existing be-
tween mental defect caused by
arrested development and that
! existing at birth Is important
from the parents point of view.
Parents who happen to have a
feeble.minded child are often fear
full of having another child be-
cause of some hereditary defect
that may render the next child
abnormal at birth. And such
parents are right in being fear
full of such a possibility.
But parents who have a feeble
minded or otherwise defective
child as a result of severe Illness
OF that child need have no fear
that other children OF theirs may
! be born defective. Nor need they
fear that any of their children
who are living and normal will
develop mental defects later on In
their lives.
A severe dieease affecting a
child's brain may cause arrested
development of that child no mat.
ter at which age the disease oc.
ours. Generally speaking, how
ever, the younger the child when
It contracts the disease. the more
disastrous will the mental ef-
fects be.
The severity of the disease is
factor as we'll as the resisting
powers of the patient,
The inherent and undeveloped
mental power of the child also
plays a part. For all children do
not have identical powers of ulti.
mate mental development.
On mental tests children suffer
ing from arrested development
sometimes show considerable un-
evenness in performances. In other
words, they may be almost nor.
NAL in the development and capa-
bility of certain mental faculties,
very deficient in others, and SO on.
The care. training and education
of arrested children is about the
same as that for congenital cases
except that in the former more In
dividual attention and study II re-
duired to stimulate the chAld'A
mentality to; the utme.
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But as long as, she can conjure
up thrilling, exciting and terrify-
ing visions Of what a man u do
ing while he's out Of her sight,
q wenaan's life viii never be dull!
The Washington times., 1929-02-25
Hearst Papers Advocate:

/. An agreement of Engsh-speaking peoples to pre-
serVe peace among Themselves and to promote the
peace of the tOorId
2 Proportional representation in the United States
Senate no State to haze less than taUo Senators.
Legislation to enforce prompt constitutional reap
portionm,ent IN the House of Representatives..
8. separate Department of the Army, of the Macy
and of the Air Forces, all united under Secretary
of National Defense.
A. Federal action to the limit of Federal pOa0eTs to
abolish iteracy in the United States under Seere-
tGry of Education
s. Election of Congress IN NoUember. Installation
the 1st of January folIoWing. Inauguration of the
President 1st of January nert after November
election.
The Washington times., 1929-02-25
THREE-MINUTE JOURNEYS
BY Temple Manning.

0F ell the out.of-the.way spots
" in Europe where the inquisi.
tive tourist may find surcease
from the drab monotony of rou.
tine travel, few offer more pic.
tnresque possibilities than that
tiny romantic Rusticania known
as the Grand Duchy of Luxem.
burg.
Sprawling across almost impass-
able mountain heights between
the Walloon region of Belgium
and the French region of Lor.
raine, Luxemburg has been a
strategic factor in virtually every
European war for 13 centuries.
Modern armament has rendered
Its Intricate system Of under.
ground fortifications much less
formidable, but even during the
recent World War the ancient
tortrAsE Of Luxembourg was one
The Washington times., 1929-02-25

Of Germany's most valuable and
effective outposts.
Perhaps no city in Europe has
finer scenic background than
the weather.beaten old capital of
the diminutive duchy. Out of the
highland rocks a stream has cut
a steep ravine of serpentine shape.
Running into the lover curve. a
silver thread of rill water has cut
another tremendous moat. Thus
defended on all three sides. a
great black, hollow crag juts out,
supporting the ruins Of Siegfried's
castle and the stronghold of blind
John of Bohemia.
Complaining this picture of me-
dieval ramparts is modern pat
tern of derni-lunes, chains Of bas-
tions. mighty vaults. redoubts,
and a plainlookirg, but intricate,
system of forttfications.
The Washington times., 1929-02-25
MEDITATIONS
OF A WIFE
By Helen Rowland

Where Is My Wandering Boy?
THREE-oUARTERs of the aver
L age woman's life is spent in
wondering where some man IS
This is a wanton waste of time,
energy and beauty sleep. Be-
cause any woman's attempt to
keep tabs on a man is a lost
cause from the start.
The only thing of which you can
be absolutely certain, in this
world, is that no man is ever
where you THINK he Is!
When you visualize him in fault
less evening clothes, entirely sur
rounded by dangerous and allur-
ing women or dining with
chorus girl, he is much more
likely to be serenely sleeping with
his mouth open-and dreaming OF
you.
And when you picture him sit
ting wistfully by his lone fireside
dreaming OF you, he is probably
sitting in at an all-night' poker
game, or singing "Sweet Adeiine'
in a fearful falsetto, with his
arm around another mans neck.
When you sadly imagine him
Shaving down at the office. he may
be merely hanging around the
hotel lobby, flirting with the tele-
phone girl, or joking with Tony,
the barber.
And when you have visions OF
him stroIling in the moonlight
with another woman or dancing
with 4 starry-eyed debutante, he
may be sitting in his lonely den,
smoking his pipe and consclen-
tiously writing home to mother.
When you have been waiting
for him a long, painful half hour,
and are shiverIng with apprehen'
sion at the mental picture of his
mangled body under the wheels OF
a taxicab or lying on stretcher
in the hospital, he is probably
only finishing game of pinochle
or standing on the street corner
exchanging a few good ones
with 'one of the boys"
And, strange as it may seem.
not EVERY man who leaves word
that he is sin conference" I" is out
lunching with a blonde. No, really.
SOMETIMES he is in conference!
You never can tell!
Nothing, except the future life
or the weather, or a prima don
mas temperament, IL more UN-
CERTAIN than mans where
abouts!
And nothing except an airplane
can travel faster than a womans
imagination, while she's waiting
for him. That is probably the
reason why a man never TELLS
a woman anything. He knows
that the simple, truth would be
SO much less thrilling than the
things she THINKS about him.
But as long as, she can conjure
up thrilling, exciting and terrify-
ing visions Of what man y do
ing while hes out Of her sight,
q wenan's life win never be dull!
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y
hinder the House Appropriations Committee the most
autocratc committee in Congress from seeking to lsgsat
when and in instances succeeding IN us P
poses despite wise rules making such legislation SUD-
ject to points Of order.
This committee placed in the District appropriation bill
provision deprvng graduates Washnton normal schools
lust they had for appointments as teachers
in school system gave preference 10 only pO"Vn
That provision though absolutely violation of Congress
siona rules through the House because there was no
body in body interested enough in Washington normal
school students to object single objection would nave
forced the provision out Of the bill
When the bill was in conference between and Senate
the provision amended to provide fouryear normal
school course District and ultimately opening teacher
appointments the whole country That Of course, VIII
subject our system officials Congressional and other
for teacher appointments something we have never
had and will become evil unless the Board Of Education
finds some way Crcumvent it. This the board should do
In the District appropriation BILL therefore enacted
new law which had opportunity to be considered care
fully by proper committees both houses of Congress and
which is distinctly unfair to District people,
The House Appropriations Committee much further in
denying regular legislative processes By placing in the second
vice employees and reducing their alariesclear usurpaton
the functions of other committees and due legislative
Even if ustifiabe under what is known as the Holman
rule-savng money to the Governmentit is taking from
press to the Appropriations Committee regards the
proper thing in fixing salaries and in settling differences be-
the Comptroller General and Personnel classification
Board
The duty of recommending to Congress the remedyng Of
forced the Comptroller Generals interpretations
the Wch act rests with the House and Senate Commit
tees Civil Service and bills from them pending In
Congress, awaiting action These committees should not
willingly forfeit their rights to the Appropriations Committee
unless they want to the responsibilities belonging
them.
The Wech bill intended to be salary increase bill
AS interpreted by Mr. McCarl gave big salary increases
Ito higher ups and almost nothing to thousands Of undpd
employees. The House committee proposition is salary
duction bill taking away many of the increases large
numbers of which deserved The Wholesale reductions
contemplated unfair the failure give rghtful
increases
Much money could be saved to the Government half Of
the Congressional machinery could be abolished and
the duties turned the House Appropriations Commit
Itee The Personnel Classification Board could also be
abolished and its duties turned to the Comptroller Gen
eral.
The Washington times., 1929-02-25
Wrongs of Legislation in
Appropriation Bills

r~v1Ls of new legislation on appropriation bills do not
T. hinder the House Appropriations Committee, the most
auocratc committee in Congress from seeking to isgsas
when it desires and instances succeeding In It's pu
poses despite wise House rules making such legislation SUB
ect to points of order.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-17
SOLONS' WORK
IS COMPLETED
Third Special Session of
Legislature to End Sat
urday Noon

AUSTIN. July 17.-Although sine
die adjournment has been put OH
until Saturday noon, the third spe-
cial session of the 41st legislature
had virtually completed its work
today.
With all appropriation bills, to-
falling SAT, 792, 1886, having gone &c
the governor, as well as the measure
withdrawing from the market un-
surveyeS public school lands and
beds and channels of rivers, only
miner business remained unfin-
iShed.
The senate had the Coltrin house
bill making it more difficult for
condemned prisoners to obtain a
hearing before a district court on
a plea CT insanity. Under its pro-
visions an affidavit of a sheriff,
county physician or warden or ply
sician of the penitentiary would be
necessary to obtain a sanity trial
for a prisoner. Under the present
law any individual could make oath
that he had reason to believe the
prisoner insane and the court be
compelled to order a hearing.
The house had cleared it's deck
and adjourned until 2 p. m. today.
1t will be almost solely a matter
OF adjourning from day to day until
Saturday in order to save bills in
troduced yesterday and today from
the constitutional inhibition that
they be not considered II introduced
within three days Of fiAal adjourn
ment.
Governor Moody has indicated he
would accept the appropriation bills
as repassed with totals more than
100000 under the measures dis
approved by him at the end of the
second special session on July 2. He
intimated he would veto some items
from the bills to reduce the total
OF all appropriations authorized by
the regular and special sessions OF
the 41st legislature to approximate
ly 100000.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-17
VETS SEE HOPE
IN PROHI note
Enforcement Message Gives
Hope to Both Sides
Liquor Question

WASHINGTON, July 17.-(P-
Proponents of both the wet and the
dry viewpoints have found some
thing to their liking in the sugges-
lions bearing on prohibition con
tanned in the letter Of George w.
Wickersham, chairman of Presi-
dent Hoover'S law enforcement
commission, as read to the COVER
nors' conference at New London,
Conn.
Comment was withheld in some
quarters pending a clearer interpre-
tation of his remarks On the sub
ject. Among the dry spokesman
who did comment, the suggestion
that prohibition enforcement re-
sponsibility be divided between the
state and federal governments re-
ceived the greater emphasis, while
the vets apparently were more i'm
pressed by his remark about the
possibility of modification.
The sentence in his letter which
thus proved at least partially pleas
ingto both groups read:
IF the national government were
to attend to preventing importation,
manufacture and shipment in in
terState commerce of intoXicantS
the states undertaking internal po-
lice regulations to prevent sale, sa-
looms, SpeakeaSies and so forth, the
national and state laws nights be
modified so as to become reasonably
enforceable. and one great source
Of demoraliZing and pecuniarily
profitable crime removed"
The sentiment contained in that
and preceding sentences favoring
more cooperation in enforcement
efforts by the states brought prompt
expressions Of approval from AS
sistant Secretary Lowman Of the
treasury, and Commissioner Doran
Of the prohibition bureau, but they
declined to comment on other as
poets Of the letter without further
examination.
At the same time, the letter was
hailed by Senator Walsh, democrat,
Massachusetts,, a wet, as IAN en-
couraging sign" that "a new leader
ship may arise which will substitute
a sane rather than an unreasonable
and purblind attitude toward the
prohibition question"
Dr. Clarence True Wilson, gen.
eral secretary of the Methodist
Board Of Temperance, Prohibition
and Public Morals. was absent, but
DeetS Pickett of that organization
said "our own opinion for years and
our statements have been in agree
ment with Mr.. Understands pro-
poSal that the detailed police work
should be done by the states and
the municipalities"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-17
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Furnished by Valley Abstract Co.

Cameron County
Harrington Orchards Co., to Valley
Properties, Inc. east 10 acres. block
IA, Briggs & Coleman subdivision,
survey %. plat 4-68, SO, etc.
Valley Properties, Inc, to Cam
eron County Water Improvement
District 1, east 10 acres, block IA,
Briggs 81 Coleman subdivision, sur
vev %, plat 4-68, $4,000.
Valley Dew. Inc. to Geo. r. Ward.
ct Tx, south 5 acres of north 10
acres. block 81, Kempner Citrus
Grove subdivision. $3,450.
r. Lee Kempner to Valley De-
velopment, Inc, south 5 acres Of
north 10 acres, block 81, Kempner
Citrus Grove subdivision. SO, etc.
I. l.. Vincent to Talmadge Vim
cent, 30 acres, lot 8, Patrick Jones
subdivision. 81. etc.
j. <. Hibbets ct uX by Constable
to Jas. Dick. Farm Mtge. Co., south
20.87. acres farm block 1873, share %,
Ell Jardin re-s1b, plat 4-48, $3.50.
w. Z. Hale ct al by sheriff to G. r.
Smith, lots 6 and z. block 206, San
Benito Land and Water Co., sub
division. containing Is acres, plat
LIS, $500.
Cuates Dev. Co.. to Edith M. Alb
bolt ct al, west 10 acres, block 219.
San Benito Irrigation Co., ESpiritu
Santo grant. $4,000, etc.
fedora D. Vida. de Moreno to
w. @. Mathes, lot II, block Is, Co
lonia La Palma shown Of map OF
Combe Reserve, plat TAO, $40, etc.
w. G. Mathes ct al to Mrs. Teo-
dora d. VIDA. to Moreno, lot II, block
Is. Colonia La Palma Map Of Combe
Reserve In and adjoining San Benito
plat tbs, $40. etc.
.Hidalgo County
S. M. Martin to Peter Voth, west
5 acres. west 10 acres, lot 2, block
A. Alamo tract, S625.
Progreso Development Co.. TO
Lloyd c. Daley, north 5 acres, lot
1O4, Llano Grande subdivision, $3.50.
Stewart Van Berschot ct Tx to
John Van Berschot. Jr.. lots 9 and
10. block 80, Capisallo district. $8O40.
E. NJ. Goodwin to Rose Wandell,
lot 80, block 8. Goodwin tract, sub
division I, $7471.50.
Progreso Development Co., to Eric
d. Lindberg ct ux, east 4.93 acres,
west 9.89 acres, lot rs, Llano Grande
| subdivision. .,
Progreso Development Co, to Eric
D. Lindberg, ct TX. west 4.96 acres,
Pat JOY ct ux to Laurie Timmons
| Callicutt. lot 2, resubdivision, lots
is and Is, block 2, Hammond sub
division, $500.
Mrs. G. M. Terrell to J. L. Erwin,
lot 4 and north one-half lot 8, q. M.
Terrell subdivision, $4,000.
j. L. Erwin to L. B. Ogden, lot 4
and north one-half lot 3, Mrs. G. NJ.
Terrell subdivision, $4,000.
Mrs. E. G. Holmes. ct vir to O. o.
Bayless, ct ux lots l and 2, block 2,
McColl subdivision. $f0,750.
L. r. Walker to South Texas
Lumber Co., lot 8. block 4. McColl
subdivision, $4,000.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-17
Selecting Slogan
Is Topic at Meet
OF Chamber Scribes
Especial to The Herald)

NORSNANA W. &AAS 44SA wv
SAN BENITO, July 1.-THE ex-
act method to be used in selecting
a winning slogan for the Lower Rio
Grande Valley in the present Slo-
gan contest will be discussed at the
meeting of Valley Chamber of Com
MERGE secretaries Friday Of this
week at Donna, according to j. E.
Bell, chairman Of the slogan COM
mittee.
Bell said that the committee Of
bankers and chamber Of commerce
secretaries has never worked out in
detail the method of selecting the
prize winning slogan, and that the
secretaries will discuss it, and later
the committee Of secretaries will
discuss with the bankers the mat
ter.
The secretaries also will take I'D
the suggestion Of placing a Valley
exhibit at the State Fair in Dallas
in order to compete with the. Flor
ida and California exhibits.
The meeting Of secretaries was
scheduled for last week, but was
delayed until this week.