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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-07

Who am +? With what other Rus
sian leader was l once associated in
the Soviet government? When 1 was
in the United States Of what paper
was l the editor?
The daughter of what president of
the United States married jefferson
Davis, who later became president
Of the COnfederacy?
Who is the father of modern NH
losophy?"
The mother of what promineI
American recently taught in IT,
American Women's college in Tu
key?
But he that denieth me befo.
men shall be denied before the az
gels of God" Where is this passat
found in the Bible?
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TOday'S HnroSrnnn

Persons born on this day are
prone to demand a reason for every
thing. They do nothing without
knowing exactly why they are doing
it.
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AnSMnrS 70 Enrnrninr Or

Answers TO Foregoing ON
l. Leon Trotzky; Nikolai
Novy Mir.
2. Zachary Taylor.
3. Rene Descartes.
4. Charles A. Lindbergh.
5. st. Luke xii. q.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-07

On this day, in 1876, the first tel
phone patent was taken out by d
eXanoer Graham Bell. ~
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-07

AREN'T WOMEN FUNNY?
CHICAGO.-Mrs. Agnes O'Brien
asked the police to arrest a neigh
Dor for sending her an anomalous
letter.
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A Daily Thnurht

"NoJhing is more wretched than
the mind Of a man consciOu tot
guilt."-Plautus.
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nm. ~ About -Waoa
aI lgRtth New York .RV1EK

NEW YORK, March From
Allan Semel of the N. Y. Times
comes the news that at a recent af-
fair a pest annoyed Beatrice Lille,
the star Of This Year Of Grace"
MY dear" persisted the bother
some person, II spent six dollars
to see you in your show"
"Pul-leez," chirped Miss Lille as
she gave that indefinable toss of her
head, refunds are made at the box
office, not here!"
FLIP CRACKS
1t is Groucho Marks theory that
the Long Island sound is the pop
ping of champagne corkS-and to
hear him argue it, the auto has
come to stay, "but not in the
Broadwhalen districtl'
REASONS ENOUGH
Two theatrical producers met at
And street and the Stem, yesterday,
according to Marc Lachman.
"Hullo! How are you?" asked
the first.
It don't feel so nifty" said the
other.
whats the matter?"
Evening star., 1929-12-01

sir!" Probably it has been shining
Cor raining) for the past three days
and looks like going on for a week.
But If you are green to the game you
assent courteously to this daring OBJ
servation and get a nip of the scissors
for your pains.
Then he tries horse racing, of which
YOU may know nothing and care less.
"I see Twinkletoes is odds on for the
$50, sir!" You say "what?" and get
your ear gashed.
This seems to discourage him, ana
for few minutes he holds his tongue.
Then the sight of blood revives his
memory, and on he starts again. Ter
rible affair, that in Chicago, sir"
"Terrible!" you reply, not having the
least idea of what he is talking about,
but hoping for the best. Eyes, sir, I
had an aunt by marriage who lived
in Chicago for many years" This in
formation thrills you. Yes, sir, she
came over here for a time. but she got
kind o. lonesome without the bombs.
Wonderful 'ow you misses things, isn't
It, sir? I remember 'ad pet canary
once. what did you say, sir? Oh, did
nip you? Very sorry, sir"
How to Stop Him.
There is but one way to quell a Lon
don barber on the warpath. The secret
may be useful to American visitors. so
I offer it free to all. As soon as you
settle down into the chair open news
paper and meet all his sallies with a
grunt The paper seems to discourage
him with the more copious chatter of
its printed pages, or perhaps 1t is that
he feels no longer compelled by good
manners to save you from the per1S Of
too much introSpection.
suspect that the ancient Greek King
who would allow none but his daugh-
ters to shave him was trying really to
escape from the conversation of the
court barber rather than the assasSin's
dagger True, in his order that the
young ladies should use red-hot poker
instead of razor to remove his beard
seems somewhat odd. But to judge
from some BARRIERS I have known, he
may we'll have felt no difference!
This fear of being slaughtered in a
shave recalls to mind the only barber
who has strutted as a villain on the
English stage. He was Mr.. Sweeny
Todd, the demon barber of Fleet street.
This gentleman really lived more than
o hundred years ago in Fleet street,
London, which is now famous as the
heart Of the British newspaper world.
For many years he talked and pros
pered as he shaved the chins of lazy
burghers and tied the powdered locks
Evening star., 1929-12-01
BRAZIL, ALARMED AT GAS
IMPORTS, MAY SEEK OIL
Economists Urge Government to
Prospect Nation to Keep
Money at Home.

BY the Associated Press.
RIO DE JANEIRO. November 3d.
Economists are alarmed at the increase
in gasoline imports here.
They are alarmed, too, at the conse-
ouent flow of money to foreign coun-
tries, mostly to the United States, and
are urging the government to seek oil
in Brazil.
Imports of gasoline have increased
200 per cent in five years. In 1924
there were imported 89.303 tons, and
in 1928 the total reached 254,324 tons.
This last amount necessitated the pay
ment of more than $l2,0o0,000 to for
eign companies.
President Washington Luis IS pledged
to a program Of highway construction
and two important roads have been
built, one connecting Rio with Petrop-
olis-the Summer capital-and the 9TH
er between Rio and Sac Paulo, dis
tance of more than 300 miles.
Other roads have been constructed
in states distant from the capital for
the purpose of using motor trucks in
stead Of paying the high freight rates
charged by railroads.
Evening star., 1929-12-01
PREFERS AMERICAN BARRIERS
Visiting Engshman Declares Ceaseess Chatter of British
Tonsorialt Happily Missing From Glass
Front Shop Here.

of local mashers. But gradually ugly
tales began to get about-hoW strangers
had gone into his shop and never been
seen to come out and how Mr.. Todd
always kept his window blinds drawn
close.
The Law Steps In.
At last the officers of the law raided
the house and Sweeny Todd's dread
secret was revealed. In his shop was a
special chair in which he always shaved
rich-looking customers who were not
known in the neighborhood. Beneath
this chair was a secret trap door which
opened when hidden bolt was drawn
and tipped the customer neatly on his
head into a stone cellar IL feet below,
where the genial barber could pick his
pockets at leisure. The bodies were a
difficulty at first, but Mr.. Todd was a
smart chappie. He cut them up and
sold them cheap to an old hag who kept
a pastrycook's next door.
Such a story was too good to be over
looked for long by enterprising writer's
of blood-curdling "thrillers' for the
stage. So many London audience has
chuckle of the demon barber and his
sinister I'll soon polish you off, sir!" to
likely looking customers in hurry.
I do not know whether Washington
ever has had a demon barber. The
fact that most BARRIERS here seem to do
their work in glass-fronted saloons look
ing straight onto the sidewalk makes
me doubt it very much. It is so dif1-
cult to avoid ill-natured gossip If you
cut a mans throat while a crowd OF
newsboys and peanut vendors are gap
ing through the window! But any,
way. I would rather be polished of" BY
a Washington barber than by my Loll-
don friends: for at least I would not
have to listen to his chat about the
weather before he dispatched me to a
warmer cline.
Evening star., 1929-12-01

medicines and advertised his wares. The
canny Roman got there before the mar
ket was overcrowded, for he operated
/ 800 years ago.
A relic of his business has been dug
up in Moorgate, London. 1t is an at
tractive little pot of the bright red ware
that is known as "Samian," and on it
there is two-line Latin inscription
that reads:
"Old Man Lucius julius salve for sore
eyes"
When the British matron of the
period Of the Roman occupation had
finished the salve she used the pot for
one of thousand household purposes.
Presumably the old fellow was a Lon
don druggist. but his pots must have
come from Gaul. as Samian ware was
never made in Britain.
Evening star., 1929-12-01

courteously to any
observation y o u
may hoo Sc to
make, and even
venture a discreet
suggestion of their
own. But there
they stop unless it
pleases you to lead
them further in the
conversation.
Contrariwise, the
London barber is a
babbling brook. He
starts flowing as
soon as you get
into the chair. His
opening gurgle is
almost always the
same: Very fine
Tor wet) morning.
Evening star., 1929-12-01
OIL INVESTORS LOSE.
End of Australian Boom Featured
by Stock Declines.

SYDNEY, Australia, November 80 Up.
Last years "oil boom" has left many
spectators poorer. sadder and wiser.
Shares which we're rushed at $50 are
now hard to sell at So.
What sent the stock UP was the an
nouncement that motor cars at Roma
the seat of the principal bore in a
group of about 20 that were sunk -
that region Of South Queensland-.-were
running on oil produced from the gas
that was issuing from the earth.
The existence Of the gas was accepted
as proof that the oil was near. It
may be. but it has not yet materialized.
Evening star., 1929-12-01

America by the novels Of Sinclair Lewis
as to judge ireland by Joyce's Ulysses +"
Evening star., 1929-12-01

In answer to q radio appeal for help
Meanwhile other workmen wearing gas
masks entered the hold and brought the
injured to the deck. Two OF those at
first thought dead later recovered in
hospital here.
The White Star liner Celtic ran on
Jagged rocks near the entrance to this
harbor while attempting to make port
through a thick fog on December 10,
1928 Efforts to refioat her failed and
for months salvage workers had been
stripping the hull of all valuable ma
tArialS
Evening star., 1929-12-01
M. P. Raps Hollywood Graduates.

LONDON, November 80 (P.-In the
opinion of Rev. r. Sorensen, Labor
Member of Parliament, boys and girls
employed in the cinemas are graduated
from Hollywood University with first
class honors in vulgarity. And so he is
urging a bill limiting the hours Of en-
ployment for minors.
Evening star., 1929-12-01
SALVAGE WORKERS DIE
FROM POISON FUMES
Gases Escaping From Hold of
Wrecked Liner Bring Death
to Two Men.

BY the Associated Press.
Cobb, Irish Free State, November
3o.-Poisonous fumes, which had ac-
cumulated in No. hold of the wrecked
and abandoned liner Celtic, yesterday
killed three salvage workers and gravely
gassed two others.
Several other workmen recovered in
a short time from the effects of the gas.
The men were climbing down a ladder
when overcome and they fell into the
hold. The British destroyer Seawolf
sent launch with nurses and doctors
Evening star., 1929-12-01
U. S. CULTURE Defended.
Irish Chief Justice Lauds Ameri-
can influence.

CdI 4HuUEuCEs
DUBLIN, November 80 (R.-Amer-
lean culture found a stAnch defender
in Hugh Kennedy, K. c., the irish Free
State chief justice, who visited the
United States last year.
He told the Solicitors Apprentice So
ciety here that the critics who deplore
the influence of American culture on
Western Europe knew nothing of Amer
lea.
Critics of America take their i'm
pressions from the current talk in Eng
lish newspapers and from books which
achieve the distinction Of best sellers by
the easy method Of attacking some
thing" he said.
1T would be just as wrong TO Judge
Evening star., 1929-12-01

Chatter from barber is still chatter.
be it in English. French or. PORTUGUESE.
but AIRED p. Perry. British journalist
befteres that the WASHINGTON barber is
naturally Tetfcent. Perhaps he has been
forced to gield his "rf0kts' to the gentle
OF the Waiter Hines Page fellowship, is a
subeditor Of Reuters In London.
Evening star., 1929-12-01
Dog Tries to Warm Dead Miner.

COBALT, Ontario, November 80 (P).
Boxer is shaggy sheep dog, faithful
to his master even unto death. At the
Ahultain Mine, miles from Cow
ganda. he was found stretched across
the body of Joseph Fletcher. veteran
prospector and caretaker, to keep him
warm. Fletcher died a few hours later
of pneumonia.
Evening star., 1929-12-01

here are many new and effective
esigns that will combine nicely
18th any homes furnishings-in
II dimensions from room to the
CATER sizes-and in grades from
Administers, 9x12 it,, at $33 to
American Orientals" Gulistan de
Luxe at $4,000.
Evening star., 1929-12-01
Bremen to Take Christmas Load.

NEW YORK, November 80 R.-
Santa Claus is going across the pond in
the fastest ship. The Bremen, which
holds the transatlantic speed record
will leave December II with the last
gifts that will reach the other side by
Christmas.
Evening star., 1929-12-01
ANCIENT SOLD SALVE.

Roman Made Patent Medicines, in
100 A.D.
LONDON. November 80 (P.-O1d
Man Lucius Julius made patent eye
Evening star., 1929-12-01

In native parts of Africa under Brit
ish rule, "ju-ju," the magic" Of the
witch doctors, still exists.
Evening star., 1929-12-01
BY ALFRED p. PERRY.

I like these Washington BARRIERS. They
do not feel it their duty to keep up
ceaselesS chatter to drown the click,
click of the shears. They will reply
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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-15
The World and All
WHAT'S YOUR REMEDY,

Crime has increased vastly in the United States
since the World war. or course, violent crime always
increases after every war, everywhere. You can't take
the young manhood Of a nation and drill it to shoot
and club and disembowel other young men, without
paying a penalty in increase of violent crime. A GER
tain per cent Of the well-driIled young men will come
back home and kill and mutilate private enemies in
stead Of saving these attentions for the public enc
mics whom one is duly authorized to kill.
So a part Of this increase in violent crime is easy
to understand.
But the thing that is not quite 50 easy to compre-
bend is why there is more crime in the United States
Of America than in other civilized countries.
sss
Fl. Arlington Bruce, writing in the February Cen
tury, points out that four times as many criminals
are now in prison in New York state as in the whole
of England. Also, that ten times as many automobiles
are stolen in Cleveland as in London, which is about
ten times the size Of Cleveland.
There are several ways of looking at these figures.
One reason why we might be expected to have more
persons in prison than England, for instance, is that
we ~imprison people for acts that are not offenses
against the law at all in England. IL is not against
the law in England to sell and manufacture liquor,
while in some Of the American states one may 90 20
prison for life. under certain circumstances. for pos
sessing even the smallest imaginable quantity Of
Of liquor.
Then. too, while London Is much larger than Cleve-
land. Clevelanders probably own more cars than Lon
doners-
But even such considerations and allowances do
not explain all of the difference.
7 remember comparing the homicide figures Of Lon
don with those Of a Kansas town. more than 80 per
cent American born Of American born parents, where
I once lived. Although the Kansas town was less than
a hundred thousand in population. its annual murder
toll was twice that Of London for several years.
In that particular case, ! knew that unbeautiful
local politics which offered sanctuary to certain kinds
Of criminals. was responsible for more Of the crimes Of
violence. How much does crooked political manipula-
tion Of American city governments have to do with
the crime situation in this country II would be in
teresting TO have an intelligent study OF this question.
And what are we going to DO about it?
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-15
The Willacy District

Settlement Of the controversy which has ragged the
past six weeks between the associated water districts
Of Cameron and Hidalgo counties and the Willacy
county district without recourse to court action now
appears assured. The districts have filed their pro-
tests to granting Of a permit for diversion Of water
from the Rio Grande; the Willaey district has replied
with the assurance that none but flood waters will be
diverted, and, as the matter now rests, IL appears that
the districts have assured protection Of water rights
so far as possible under existing laws
Further assurance is expected to Re obtained from
the final plans of the willacy district, which must be
submitted TO the board Of water engineers for ap-
proval. Arrangement Of the intake will determine
whether the district can divert any of the normal flow,
and in the event it is SO designed that only flood
waters will be diverted, It is probable that no serious
objection will be raised. Directors of the Willacy dis
triet have given assurance that the intake would be
designed with a view Of diverting flood waters only,
in such quantities as would be required to maintain
sufficient in storage reservoirs to assure supplies Tor
the 12s,5Oo acres the system is designed to serve.
The willacy district has presented a complex prob
lem. There Is no objection on the part Of the asso-
ciated districts to diversion Of flood waters. Those
residents of the Valley who would not welcome de-
velopment Of the rich acres Of Willacy and eastern
Hidlago counties under irrigation are not numerous.
They realize that those fertile lands ara destined 70
prove an important factor in future wealth production
of the lower border country.
There Is only one factor involved in the controversy
protection OF other valley lands 70 ko Nrahue wa
tiers. IL the engineering plans OF the Wiliaey district
provide for diversion Of flood waters only. the major
cause of that controversy will automatically be elimi
mated when the plans are approved. The valley as
tricts in filing their objections TO granting a permit
have established a basis upon which to predicate III
ture litigation in the event there should be an infringe
ment Of water rights, which seems to be as Tar as the
districts can 90 without becoming involved in a mass
Of litigation with the probability that many years
would elapse before a definite determination could ne
reached.
Having safeguarded their individual and collective
interests 20 far as possible, and having received the
assurance Of the willacy district that it will carry out
in good faith its resolution TO divert none but waste
waters, the Valley districts should extend their coop
GRAFTON in solving the problems Of the new district
The Valley is bound by mutual interests. Develop
ment Of WilIacy county under irrigation viii add I'M
menselv 10 wealth production. and it IS TO the inter
est Of the entire valcs II the diversion Of that water
i nermitted. 10 cooperate in making IL bring TO TINS
section as large returns as possible.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-15

paek IN the days following the Civil war when ont
laws infested central and western Texas, clashes h2-
tween the bandit bands were not infrequent. hu'
.ver A. the hey-day Of Texas gunner and bandits, his
4orv does not record such a massacre as was perpe-
trated Thursday by the modernized bandits Of Chicago
In the DAYS "when the border was young and the
six-vun was the supreme law. many ssnguinary nat
Ties were fought; but the most depraved bandits q
those DAYS did not carry their feuds SO FAR As 70 m
duire in cold-blooded massacres.
The Iaw-abidinr citizens Of Chicago are not mourn
inc over the deaths OF seven eangstcrs, who doubtless
were as depraved as their ~slayers; but the wholesale
massacre has brought home 70 them the TACT that
the city has developed n class Of criminals which for
heartiessness and savagery rival the Apaches OF 'he
old frontier. So long as these criminals cirect tneir
activities toward determination Of their own kind. no
.~s.t harm Is done. but the massacre is an index
- the wartonness and savaeery q the criminal de-
v,,ored under modern conditions in the great eenters
of population.
CHICAGO has become accustomed to gang wars 70
~,urders az individuals. hold-ups and hijaeker battles
mt the complaisance Of Chicago citizens VINO nave
became calfous 70 ordinary crimes, was shattered ~
,hs wholesale massacre. the direct result. II Is be-
,i.ves. Of n bcotleggers' war. Il should serve 70
awaken Chicago 20 a realization Of the menace ana
should create 4 demand that the law be enforced ana
the sanRsters eliminated.
One Of the most amazing facts. and when = n
;,.sls an indictment OF Chicago law enforcement. was
the ready Identification Of the slain men BY the po-
I;ce. One was pronounced ca notorious gang leader
ana another described as his lieutenant. A third was
identified ms "a notorious hootlegger, and three were
classified as "hoodlumS.- Apparently. these men nad
the ~ The city. They were known gangsters' men
who rreved upon society. but the Chicago police, an
narentlv. made no effort to round them up or 70 sup
press their activities.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-15
Washington

NEW YORK, Feb. 15.-In this
town of ours: That Lucky Strike
Observation-Disclosures gRg was
tried out Us a local, but was SO sue
cessful - million will be expended
for a national campaign hat
mfrs, scared by the growing bald
head epidemic. have engaged z press
agent and will spend 100 Gs for
propaganda "A new mag, the
Observer, II due in Sept, 70 com
pete with Forum, Scribner's. Allan
tic Monthly. ct al. -.- W. T. Wood
ward, Mark Van Doren. Stuart Chase
and Paul Sifton will head the edi-
torial board.
a Weilich gave y. Joyce a rock
almost as heavy as her $500 600 one
before she went to the old country
and stranded the Locke boys : . .
j. +. McEvoy won 80 cents pitching
pennies in the Hoboken Ferry depot
from Lincoln Ortiz for Maxi Schus-
ter The Bud Fishers are On
The Verge Kuhn. Loeb 4 Co,
have a dining room in their Wall
&. place, where Otto Kahn feeds his
guests sumptuously while he dashes
off two bowls sof Acidophilus (ritz
for goo.)
A manager and his actress bride
are only living together until the
1st, when their new apis. will bc
ready ...A Rose by any other name
would still be Fannie Brice
George, the captain AZ the Algon-
quin. would rather have your auto
graph than your tip. provided of
course. you're a higgie The re-
port OF Eugene O'NeIll's illness was
on the urp-and-urp He got sun
struck in the Suez belt They
found n portable monograph under
n az the seats after the Philhar-
monte recital the other eve One
Of the rhemme movie critics Ia
promised n raise every time She
leads the VARIETY Box score, as Il
is ~laughingly called.
Harry VI. Marks, the tome dealer
will peddle a SIPS 900 book 10 Yale
soon that will make the front pages
Wilbur Fauley cf the Times IA
the only local reporter socially reg
istered ... Chas. Pomcroy Ives, I'd
managing ed Of the mag. Enrenics
will succeed Amos r.. Wilder fThorn.
tons pappy) as associate ed Of the