Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-18

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CCIENCE is all stirred up over the
O discovery OF a new world. While
gazing around az the skies at
Flagstaff, Arizona. a speck hove
into view. This ended a system
attic search to prove a semitic
theory.
Upon further investigation the
speck was found 70 be larger than
the Earth but smaller than Uran-
us. Sorter between major and a
colonel. 10 use army terms again.
Prof. Harlow Shapley Of the Har-
ward university says: The planet.
yet unnamed is beyond Neptune. 7
II is beyond us, too, speaking con-
fidentially. The mind really can
not grasp the situation. But there
is one thing that might be grasped.
II a planet larger than the earth
is seen as a speck, how many OF
such planets are there out in space
which We cannot see at all. II
makes some Of US who think we
are such big pumpkins get some
what Of an impression Of how
small we really are-in the scheme
Of things entire.
But then, again We are not so
r-lall after all. Each cell in the
body when properly magnified
brings 10 view a system OF things
that are. and active, which for IN
explorability constitute a solar sys-
TEN Of a magnitude similar TO
looking at the sky with the naked
eye.
The psalmist once said We are
fearfully and wonderfully made.
Looks like to us the entire uni
verse Is thataway.
WHENEVER a thing begins 70 be
wv q daily occurrence, the hand
- ling Of the details are apt TO
get careless unless governed by a
strong hand.
For instance masked bandits
robbed a Shreveport bank OF be-
tween eight and ten thousand dol
lars yesterday and overlooked $500.
America is not going to hold the
place in crime she now occupies If
such slipshod methods continue.
rPEAKING Of crime, Mexico
~ newspapers are beginning 10
show a tendency to pay no at
tention to it. At least Excelsior,
OF Mexico City, one Of the leading
newspapers OF the nation. has ad-
vised that it will no more print
crime. II further sets forth that
II gives the tourists the wrong
idea Of the heart of the nation.
That is very commendable in
Mexico. but how are the tourists
going 70 be made TO feel at home.
II they cannot have crime with
their grapefruit, even If it IS in
Spanish?
vITITH income taxes all In, gov
WV eminent officials are sitting
back and counting the coins,
and with no little trepidation over
whether the total amount will come
up to the s550.o00 900 the govern
ment needs from that source this
year.
The fear that II will be short is
founded upon the tax cut, and
whatever effect the capers the
stock market cut last fall will have
on the receipts.
That market crash What a
fear IL threw into the nation. Most
OF it probably only too much fear.
II has been likened TO a poker
game OF salaried men. where two
or three players got all the money.
What If they did?" IL was asked,
they only got money and did not
bother the amount of food or cloth
ing in the world"
Yes. but what IL they will not
lend the other players any none
to carry them until next pay day?"
was the reply.
The market crash Is not quite
that bad. The food and clothing.
or wlatnot, is still with us. Worse
times than that have faced this
nation. No one Is going to starye
to death. They simply will not be
50 much, or such high-handed fl
nancial play.
Money is a medium OF exchange.
and not a necessary substance in
the economic scheme, fundament-
ally. If IL should happen that
three men in the United States
should grab off all the money. they
would simply have to be Jared
loose from IL by some method, or
some other medium OF exchange
adopted to get the food and cloth
ing that Is here. 1t has been done,
at times. you know. although some
times rather crudely. But the peo-
pie did not perish. Southern homes
still have some statues made of
ground Confederate bills, II we re-
member correctly.