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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-08
OFFICERS
TO

Orders for foreign service have rec
Gently been received by Captatu
Edward M. Pickett and =. wv. Rop
bertSon, 18th Cavalry officers sta~
toned at Fort Ringgold. They WIN
sail for the Philippine Islands, Feb. 8
Captain and Mrs. Pickett will leave
this month and will visit Mrs. Flc~
kett's parents In Austin and Captain
Fickett's mother IN Colorado mad
later will motor TO California.
Mrs. Robertson and her young SON
will visit her parents in McAllen
and Captain Robertson will motor
10 the West Coast.
Both families Will sail from San
Francisco. Lieutenant D. r. Buck
land formerly stationed at Fort
RilEguld and for the past two
years on special detail In Chicago
will sail on the same transport Tor
Philippine service.
Captain Pickett has served for M
longer continue period on the bor-
der than any other officer in the
regiment. Captain Robertson has
also spent considerable time at Dor
der posts but between assignments
To Fort Ringgold had a three year
special detail in New York.
Both officers have married Texas
girls. Mrs. Pickett. before her mar
riage was Miss Dorothy Mather. 0f
Austin. Mrs. Robertson wss Miss
Clara Archar Of McAllen.
PERSONALS
Mrs. Harold Smith and little
daughter. Betty have returned from
a visit to relatives in Gonzales
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Austin and
children have returned 10 their
home after "a short visit with Cap
tain and Mrs. Edward M. Pickett.
<. j. Guerra left Monday for Mon
terrey, Mexico. where he spent the
week. He will be accompanied 0n hlE
return BY hts wife and daughter
who have been there for an extend
cd visit with relatives
Mrs Virginia Cox Guerra Of Roma
has gone I'D her In ISlas Ranch
where she will spend the Christmas
holidays.
The Engineer Corps from Fort
Mcintosh, Laredo, will spend the
weekend III Fort RlngE0ld having
made a hike down the river road.
They will begin the return march,
Monday or Tuesday.
Lieutenant Classen has reported
I'D Fort RinEgold for duty where he
has been assigned To 18th Cavalry
Regiment. Lieutenant Classen was
on duty with the rifle team at Camp
Perry after which he went ON leave.
lie will he joined by hts wife.
Lieutenant McNally left Thursday
by plane for Fort Sam Houston Hos
pital where he went 20 receive
treatment for n disl0cated shoulder.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-08

Mr.. and Mrs. ID. W. Glasscock Of
Austin, formerly Of McAllen and
Mercedes. this week announced the
engagement Of the.- daughter, Miss
Mary Margaret. to Jacob Moore
Frazier. Jr., Of Austin. The wedding
will be Dec. IS, at the home Of the
brides parents, in Austin.
Miss GlasScock Is a senior stud
ent In the University OF Texas. She
is enrolled in the department OF
journalism and is president OF
Theta Sigma Phi, national honor
airy and professional journalism
fraternity for women. also Is pre-
sident Of Cap and Gown, organiza-
ton composed Of senior women
students in the university. She in
tends to complete her work in the
university for a degree in June.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-08

Rehearsals are being held by the
Girls Gee club Of the University
or Texas for the second concert OF
the year, 70 be given Wednesday
g. Fredericksburg.
One Of the members Of the club
Is Miss Elizabeth Greager Of
Brownsville.
The club gave a concert in Elgin
recently.
Students from Falfurrias enrolled
IN the University Of Texas his ses-
sion include Burleigh Gardner. Miss
Gladys Sanders, Miss Josephine
Jungemann, and Fred Jungemann.
Gardner Is enrolled in the COL
lege OF engineering. whilo I e Other
sturents are in the college of arts
and sciences.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
More Than Prison Reform

The overcrowding of prisons has been cited so
frequently the immediate for the recent sue
cession Of riots and mutinies by prisoners that it is
more than likely many states and perhaps the federal
government will engage in program of enarging
prisons and at the same time make conditions in them
nearly approximate those of civilized if simple
life.
The drastic problem needs immediate relief There
be doubt of it.
When patient suffers intense pain, the physician
deyiseS whatever quick and ready remedy comes to
hand But then, If he be good physician, he studies
the thoroughly and tries to determine the
real cause of the pain.
One of the most aggravated causes of our dsorderly
wholesale fingng of men and women behind the
bars is the haste with which their treated
and dependence on rule and roe, instead of humane
understanding, in dealing with them.
And yet in spite of this dependence on formality,
we have no unified or standard method. We pre-
tend that have it, and that we make the punish
ment fit the crime, but this is not actually the
On the same day that the Auburn riot occurred, a
Texas man was sentenced to life imprisonment for
stealing 30 cents and pie
If ever there was problem that affected the entire
country, and the solution of which ought to bring
about a common and humane method of treatment,
it is the problem of what to do, not merely with the
behind prison bars. but with him who stands
before the court on a criminal charge.
1t is likely that shall have to follow the lead of
the juvenile court, and devote attention to the
accused person than to the ofense with which he is
charged 1t is likely that shall be forced by the
logic of events to suppant the bench politician with
the understanding socologist and psychologist.
Il els likely that shall have to cleanse many
of first instance of their present atmosphere of
greedy hangers-on hasty procedure, Intellectual fines
and WorKnouSe sentences of few days. and shall have
to approach the entire matter from a new point of
view.
This is not the point of view which considers the
daily batch of prisoners in the bullpen NUS
ance, to be ground through the mill of court pro-
cedure summarily possible. Tt is the point of
view which seeks to solve the individual problem
presented in each case with much justice, mercy
and understanding as the law allows
Inevitably, then, this newer point of view is going
to be forced on system Of justice. If we reach
it through such sinister underworld and prison up
heavas as we have witnessed In the recent past,
society at large will be the loser.
If, however, we reach it by taking thought and
focusing attention those lower courts where pris
and organized society first meet face to face,
society at large will gain immeasurably For that is
getting rid of the pain by going to the real seat of
the trouble.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
Horizons Expand

TIME basic effect OF modern
l. communication and transpor-
tation is to expand horizons, to
force a concert of action in ever
widening fields, and, therefore, to
develop Capitalization, not SO much
for the sake Of power, as for the
necessary cooperation.
Statecraft yields to the pressure,
Just as it has yielded to every similar
pressure in the past, and adapts it
self to the march of events.
The danger does not consist in the
abandonment of old Institutions,
but in the rise of new problems.
Where we once had sectionalism,
we now can look for factionalism,
for the grouping of people according
to tradition, profession, or interest
instead of according to locality.
Where local prejudice once con-
stituted the greatest threat to Or
ganized government, we face the
possibility of class prejudice.
You can see the drama shaping
itself by what is occurring in Rus
STA on the one hand, and what is
occurring in this country on the
other.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
REASON By Ff aAaDls

Mt is a shame unat Things can not De arranged SO
u that Ware and Grundy could have their fight for
the senatorial toga right now when things little
shaky, for that will put money into circula
ton and more men the pay roll than any other
thing think Of
Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi fell far below
his usual standard of humor when he warned Mr..
Coolidge that Mr. Hoover wishes him to run for the
senate to get him out of the presidential in 1882
Everybody knows that Mr.. Hoover can have the
nomination in 1882 if he wants it and if conditions
such that he does not want it, then it will not be
worth having.
The marine has lot in common with the guinea
pig, since the government tries everything and
strange the leather neck.
If it is a simeon in the Philippines an earthquake
in Palestine flood in South America, revolution
in Nicaragua, plague in Abyssinia, fight in Haiti
spontaneous combustion in China, it's always the
same old cry: Send the Marines!'
ID ANISAY MACDONALD'S apparently radical offer
N to scrap all batteShipS was only bonbon for
the dove of peace, since naval evolution already has
scrapped the batleshp in favor of the swift armored
cruiser.
Another war will put all warships except subs and
aiplane carriers, the scrap pile for while nations
now know that the air navy has put the water navy
down and out, they await the absolute demonstration
of that fact by
letter written by Confederate soldier, while con-
fined in prison at Columbus o., just has been de-
livered in Memphis after sixty-seven years
1t would have been a great thing for everybody,
except the proeers. if it had taken that long for
Austria to get her ultimatum to Serbia.
TT is something of jar to learn that Eihu Root our
J. representative to the international conference
which revised the terms which we may enter the
world court was selected not by President Coolidge
but by the League Of Nations
1t may take little while to get used to having
our representatives selected for in Geneva, instead
of in Washington.
It wasn't so serious when another man took the
hat of Governor Emmerson of Illinois when he visited
the White House. but think what will happen in the
senate If fine day Grundy walks OF with Cara
ways chapeau.
The slogan in the Lake county booze and election
fraud seems to be "All of the defendants out
of the courthouse by Chrstmas!"
The greatest mistake we made in this country was
to debate the farmers instead of these ladies who
are suing old men, with one foot in the grave, for
breach of promise
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
Questions and AnszUerS

What do the words 'fEstados Uni
dos" mean on MexicOn silver coins?
The words mean Union Of
States" and are on Mexican cur
rency because Mexico, like the
United States, is q union Of states.
What is the particular kind of
steel used for deck armor on
American battle cruisers?
1t is called special treatment
steel by the navy department.
What proportion of persons who
travel on railroads are killed in
year?
In 1927. s4o,O29, $50 passengers
were carried on railroads in the
United States and 102 passengers
were killed.
What are the names of the chill
dren in "Our Gang" in the movies?
Joe Cobb, Jean Darling, Farina,
Wheeler, Jackie Condor, Mary Ann
Jackson, Harry Speer, Bobby Hutch
ms and James Allen.
What factors determine the vol
tage of storage battery cell?
The circuit voltage Of a
storage cell depends upon the active
material Of the plates, the concen-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
The Crime COMMISSIONS Job

Judge William S Kenyon Of the federal court just
has rebuked certain unlawful acts of government
forcement officers. In his decision in an Omaha
prohibition search case he attacked the practice OF
law officers who violate the legal rights of citizens.
This is significant because Kenyon is member OF
the Hoover crime commission.
The most reassuring action by the commission
to date is the decision to investigate aweSSneSs by
the government and its agents in enforcing the law.
The chairman of the special committee to supervise
KENYON This promises well for work OF the COM
mission.
The question is how far and how deep its inquiry
into this subject will go? 1t is easy enough for any
committee to repeat to the public the of official
awlessless which already have appeared in the news
papers and in court records The fact that afdavts
in the Mooney case charge the use Of perjured test
mony by the prosecuting attorney has become known
widely because defense organization is interested.
For similar reasons, the public long has known
of the filing of afdavts in the SaccoVanzetti case,
charging prejudice and unfair conduct by the trial
judge.
But there are many cases in which lawlesSness by
government officials never is brought to light That
is the Job OF the commission.
Obviously it should make its investigation just as
the people involved The commission has been given
an appropriation by congress. and the money could
not be better spent than for this purpose. If more
money is needed the commission ought to go to
gress and get 1t.
It is not so much the professional criminal who
Rters from government wrongdoing. He generally
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20

The people who support white
bread admit these things, but they
point out that the human being does
not live on bread alone, and that
therefore, it is unnecessary to choose
brown bread when all of the impor
tant factors can be had from other
things in the diet.
Whether as result Of advertis-
ing propaganda or other means of
promotion. the average Anglo
Saxon prefers to eat white bread.
In addition to brown bread and
white bread there is whole wheat
bread, for which the same argu-
ments can be made as are made for
brown bread.
To get some scientific evidence on
the subject, Drs G. A. Hartwell and
V. H. Mottram of the University of
London fed to, white rats in the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
White Bread or Brown? About Equal

laboratory standard diets similar to
those used by laborers, except that
the quantities were suitable to the
size of the rat, and associated with
these we're white bread and brown
bread.
The experiments indicated that
the rats fed on brown bread do not
do any better than those on white
bread; there was but small increase
in growth, and there were physical
and nervous symptoms in the rats
living on predominating brown
bread diet which indicated some
thing in the nature of an imbalance.
AS result of their experiments,
the British Investigators are con-
WINGED that the propaganda for
brown bread as a part of the diet
of the working class is without
scientific foundation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20

DURING the greater part Of the
~ year 1 pay little attention to
the society pages, but in late De-
cen1ber I look to see what is hap
pening in Palm Beach.
You see, was there once and
that single trip may serve me a
lifetime. It is always possible Tor
me to make reference to the last
time I was at Palm Beach"
In fact, I made the society
column myself on two occasions,
which was pretty lair considering
that only stayed week. In each
instance the report said, among
other guests" and so on for several
paragraphs, winding up and
Howard Brown"
But I was the one they meant.
There wasn't any Howard Brown.
During one entire year I was in
the Social Register. And that was
almost twenty years ago, before
Gene Tunney or even Lindbergh
ever had been heard of. At the end
of a single season my name was
dropped and it never has appeared
again.
The cause of this discrimination
always has been complete mys-
terry to me. I am just as social now
as was twenty years ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20

has his lawyer selected before he commits his crime
The real sufferer is the who has for the first
time in his life got into trouble, the who is
innocent and is being railroaded because officials
want scapegoat and areN not competent enough to
find the real criminal.
The commission has obtained two able experts
to probe this subject Professor zecharah Chaee al
ready has made survey of lawlessness by the gov
eminent in interfering with rights of free speech
Walter Poak recently made a convincing study of
the unlawful actions of an important government
official
With two such as experts, and with Judge
Kenyon actively aroused, the country has right to
expect thoroughgoing investigation
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
Myself

EOR myself I don't care, but I am
Z beginning, to worry about the
attitude my son may take when he
begins, if ever, to go around with
really nice people. Up till now he's
been kept in experimental schools
where the issue never came up.
Later on he's likely to feel that
by some unfortunate chance he got
himself born into the wrong branch
of the family. Sooner or later he'll
be wanting to know, why did they
kick you out OF the Social Register"
If I answer him and say that 1t
was merely capriciousness on the
part of the ruling classes he is
likely to think that I am holding
out.
1 must invent something which
will make me seem q martyr in the
matter. I might explain it, per-
hapS On the ground thai oas yeaZ
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20

tration of the electrolyte and the
temperature. For practical pur-
poses, however, the working voltage
of the cell on discharge is of more
Importance, and this depends upon
the current drawn and the internal
resistance of the cell in addition to
the other factors.
What is the name of the poem
beginning ''The Sabbath day was
ending, in village by the sea-"
1.-The Last Hymn" by Marianne
birmingham.
What do the names Agnes and
Doris mean?
Agnes, pure" Doris, 'the sea"
In which states is sheep ranching
carried on most extensively?
Idaho and Wyoming.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
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Is l7t7|e
| ANNIVERSARY
.tSSzSl[5
SOUTH CAROLINA SECEDES
December 20

NN Dec. 20, 1860, South Carolina
~ seeded from the Union.
The state long had been dissatis-
fed with the tariff policy Of the fed
eral government, and as early as
1928 the South Carolina EXPOSE
ton" was adopted by the legisla-
tlre.
On the passage Of the Clay tariff
bill in 1882 a convention was called
which declared that no duties should
be collected after Feb. /, 1888.
President Jackson was resolved to
enforce the law, but compromise
ayerted an actual conflict.
When President Lincoln was
elected in 1860 a convention was
called Dec. 20 which unanimously
passed an ordinance of secession.
The Civil war began the following
April.
Today also is the anniversary of
the adoption of Kentucky of the
state motto, United we stand, di-
vided we fall"
On Dec. 20, 1916, President Will
son issued his peace proposals to
belligerents in the World war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
SCIENCE
70 nAWn DIETZ-
y
Scientists Agree That All
Continents Once We're Con-
nected and Rock InUeStigG-
ton Supports Theory.

THE Pacific ocean resembles a
l. great pond while the Atlantic
ocean resembles a great river.
This is one Of the interesting pieces
Of evidence brought forward to sup
port the Wegener hypothesis, the
theory that all the continents were
once united into a single continent.
According to this theory, the origi-
nal continent cracked into pieces,
which then drifted apart on the low
er layer Of the earth's crust, glass
like layer Of heavy rock upon which
the upper layers of the earth's
crust are literally floating like logs
wedged into the ice on a pond in
winter.
DR.. Harlow shapley, famous Har-
ward astronomer, has suggested
sinking a three-mile shaft into the
earth as a means of testing the
Wegener hypothesis.
The evidence for the theory is
summed up by Edwin Tenny Brew
ster in his interesting book, This
Pulling Planet"
Contrast the Atlantic ocean with
the Pacific he writes. There are
marked and curious differences be-
tween the two, though these are a
good deal obscured by our ordinary
maps and are best to be looked for
on a globe.
THE Pacific is round basin. a
sort Of gigantic pond; but the At
lantic is a sort Of gigantic river that
winds from the top Of the earth to
the bottom, always of about the
same width
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
Story Phon8d by Radio

FROM the Leviathan 2,4O0 miles
Il at sea, Roy w. Howard tele-
phones the story of a stowaway.
1t is the first news story ever de-
livered by radio telephone from ship
to shore.
Mr.. Howard's voice comes clear
and distinct.
The story is taken down as he
dictates it, without change or repe-
tition.
These three incidents show how
far we have gone in improving
methods of communication, and how
definite those methods are being
wrought into our daily life.
They also show how those meth
DDS are compelling a new and broad
err kind of cooperation, not only
within the business itself, but among
nations.
AS a, matter of common sense, the
radio, telephone, telegraph and cable
are forcing lis into a new economic
hookup, and that economic hook
up gradually is changing our politl-
cal attitude.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
Good Fit

TN fact" Brewster continues, If
l. one went by the shape of the
coast on the two sides of the At
lantic, one well might say that
South America has cracked off from
Africa, the eastern extension of
Brazil once occupying the Gulf Of
Guinea, the western end of the
Sahara belonging to the Caribbean
region, Greenland Jammed UP
against the west coast of Norway
and Newfoundland one of the
British Isles.
"If one could push the two
Americas eastward and a little
north, so that Greenland lay against
Canada on one side and Norway
on the other, with Newfoundland
and the British Isles pushed into
the North Sea, the fit would be
surprising.
''There really Is not a little rea-
son for thinking that the uniform
width of the Atlantic and the re-
markable fit between its two sides is
something more than accident.
There is a good deal of evidence to
show that during most of geologic
time, and up to what for a geologist
is rather a recent date, North and
South America actually we're parts
of Europe Asia Africa, but cracked
loose and floated Off"
All biologists, whether they agree
with the Wegener hypothesis or not
hold that +bnsn continents nnca
we're connected in some way. Some
biologists think they were con-
nected by land bridges, which later
sank into the ocean and dis
appeared.
This theory is supported by the
fact that the same land animals
and plants seem to have appeared
in both the old and new world
at approximately the same time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
TT SEEMS TO ME By HF BFo0S

I gave a course of lectures at the
Rand school.
Possibly the bravest course would
be to ascertain the name of the
dignitary who controls the list and
then go down to his Office and con-
front him.
The plea could be impersonaI,
Never mind, about me, I've gone
as far as I can co." might be a
good beginning. And then I could
slap my fist sharply upon the desk
or escritoire and say sternly, "But
sir, I demand that you give my
child a name!"
Copyright. 1899. BY The Tines