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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-25
Along Elizabeth

Along Elizabeth
Chief OF Police John Armstrong
...... dressed in the latest styles
$500. circulating around 5000. Joe
Calderoni $500. called Pepe .....-
mixing drugs $500. talking 70
friends ...... A. w. Buchek $1,000.
driving along ...... not saying much
$500. Maurice Brulay $500. driv-
ing a small truck somewhere ......
dressed for work with q light hat
with a green visor 1900. Lee Crum
...... working at Patteson's motor
company ...... dishing out parts
for crippled Fords $500. Ralph
Grove $500. listening TO his wife
$500. with no back talk ...... ].
g. Douglas. contractor 1890. talk
ing about big money 1900. Morris
Clint ...... insurance ...... with
a handful OF papers ...... keeping
step with q friend ...... ex-mayor
A. b. Cole ...... sliding UP the main
stem in his big 81 ...... Owen
Combe, president Of the Southwest
ern concrete pipe company 1890.
on his way to interview a prospect
...... Wallace Harwood 1890. own
er of Palm Courts 1890. hoping for
a deluge Of summer tourists 5000.
We're in the movies now.
Brownsville has broken into the
movies again. Fridays Herald says.
This time, the talkies.
First thing you know you'll be
seeing yourself a. others see you.
Innocently paying your so cents at
the local theater, Paramount Sound
News will flash On the screen and
maybe You'll be among those shot"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-25
CHAPTER /
Behold the Lily.


1T WAS Linda's father. Haver-
a hill. who planted the idea SO
firmly In her mind that II took the
root Of all noxious weeds and -four
ished there. He loved the child.
and the hardest thing about dying
was the thought OF leaving her ; yet
she had TO live and face life and
he honestly believed that he was
telling her the truth.
They were together in the big
third floor front bedroom that
looked upon the avenue. Sounds
came dimly there, but far away,
breaking through the sullen muir
muir Of the streets. they could hear
a band playing. 1t was the sixth
Of September. and that year Ii fell
upon a Monday.
Tie house was not their house.
II belonged to a distant cousin Of
Linda's mother who had lent 1t to
the Haverhills while she was In
Europe. She did not know that she
had provided a place for Jim Hav-
erhill TO die in.
Linda was just then seventeen,
with all the promise OF the great
beauty soon to be hers. Every
thing about her was of a slightly
exaggerated scale-her slimness,
the excessive grace or her young
body. Her eyes were a trife too
large and deep-too black. Her
pallor and the pathetic line OF her
red lips were too compelling. One
looked at Linda with suspended
breath, plying her for her lowell
ness. because IL is well said that
women who are too beautiful are
never happy. and Linda was OF that
sort.
II "a a warm day with the IN
easy sultriness OF September. Lin
da's long white arms had drawn
the daybed close to the window,
and her father lay there gasping
for the elusive air. Tapped In the
staid magnihcence OF the borrowed
house and longing through his I'M
ruly spirit to be out and away from
IL ell, even while his flesh clung to
the girl beside him. He was the
spectacular ruin OF what had been
a charming person, too fine for
what had befallen him. but not big
enough to evade il. Even now he
wore a purple silk dressing gown,
and his linen was so pure that even
the intense humidity could not de-
grade It. He was as carefully
dressed as he had ever dressed for
dinner, and he looked with dlsap-
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-25

Ice cream, 11.6 quarts Of ice cream.
Or, for the better INSTALLATION of
those who buy by the pint. 23.2 pints
Of ice cream. Expressing 1t in pintS
also proves that your correspondent
was very nearly right when he said
previously that there was one pic
kle for every pint of ice cream, or
vice versa.
OF course quite a few Of these Is
pickles may get themselves chopped
up in relish before they reach the
table and some Of those 23.2 pints
may get sour, melt or even be spilled
on the floor, but that is neither here
nor there. Such facts have no eff
feet on the general purport Of this
story any more than the general eff
feet Of this story has any effect on
the facts.
AZ you may have heard over the
radio, it takes a lot TO make that
23.2 pints for each man. woman and
child. It takes 5000, 600, 900 pounds
of milk. and 5000. 900 900 pounds Of
milk in a year takes about 1888 1913
l-3 dairy cows. 1t also takes 209,-
900 pounds of sugar. $4,000. GOO
900 pounds Of sugar, 174,00O000
pounds Of milk slids other than
butterfat, and 5000. 900 pounds of
food gelatin. The per capita con-
sumption OF ice cream ir now about
three times what it was in 1905. In
formation to determine whether
there were enough pickles in 1905
to put in each pint is not i'm
mediately available. Anyway,
there's plenty Of information in this
story al 1t stands.
Where They Eat the Most
Pennsylvania. California and New
Jersey people eat 80 to 40 per cent
more ice cream than the average
for the country. In Pennsylvania
the per capita consumption is pref
ty close to 40 pints a year.
There aren't any figures on which
states eat the most pickles. but
about a third Of the pickles come
from Michigan. with Wisconsin in
second place. And there are en-
ough government figures to prove
that in the last few years, at least,
the increased popularity Of ice cream
has not been matched by an in
creased popularity Of pickles.
In fact. there Is a very serious
threat that in a few more years
anyone who tries to put a pickle in
every pint Of ice cream won't have
enough pickles TO 90 around.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-25
BY RODNEY butcher
NEA Service Writer

NEA Service writer
WASHINGTON, May 2f-If all
the pickles and ice cream produced
in the United States each year were
mixed together there would still be
q strong flavor Of pickles.
Experts Of the Department Of Ag-
riculture and the Department Of
| Commerce agree that the markets
for both these products would be
virtually ruined. The success OF the
pickle industry and the success Of
the ice cream industry, they con-
tend. is very largely dependent upon
keeping all the ice cream out of the
pickles and all the pickles out Of the
ice cream.
A Pickle to a Pint
Roughly speaking. but including
smooth pickles with the mes with
nodules, there is about one pickle
for every pint Of ice cream. That is,
one average-sized pickle. If a real
large pickle is used there will not
be quite n pint. but if small pickles
are used there might be several to
a pint Of ice cream If they are small
enough. But IL is best to confine
ourselves TO average-sized pickles in
order to avoid confusion, and II
anyone wishes more exactitude re-
garding average-sized pickles it will
be sufficient TO say that there are
enough pickles so that one average
sized pickle and about q quarter Of
an inch of another average-sized
pickle could be inserted in every
pint OF ice cream without having
any ice cream left over without pick
les IN II or any pickles left over
without any ice cream TO put in
them.
In other words the American peo-
pie each year consume 5000. 000, 900
pickles and 348. 100000 gallons Of ice
cream. BY pickles, of course. one
means cucumber pickles. 1t would
take very little effort on the readers
part to figure out the per capita
consumption Of both pickles and ice
cream, but that is the sort Of thing
that your correspondent is here for
SO as long as no M demands too
much accuracy the annual con
sumption Of these two minerals is:
Pickles. Is pickles
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-25

Those Pulitzer Prize Winners-One
Wears Indian Costumes, Another
Hides Out in a Quiet Country
Town.
NEW YORK, May 24-Just a few
lines about some Of those bright
young men. whose names sparkle for
the moment in the light Of the
Pulitzer award.
On a certain fairly freezing day
last winter i was invited to a studio
in the upper sixties. 1t was q more
than pasSingly picturesque studio,
adorned with Indian blankets and
Indian baskets and charms and anu
lets.
And there was a young mai who
could beat the Indian drums and
chant a mean Indian chant. He had
overnight become something Of a
literary celebrity due to the fact
that his one book had been taken
by the Literary Guild and al en-
joying wide sale.
This was Oliver La Fargo. whose
Laughing Boy captured the fiction
prize.
We began to talk OF his favorite
subject which was the American
Indian. Fresh from Santa Re and
Taos, La Fargo was honestly touch
ed by the threatened extinguish-
ment Of the redman. The forcing Of
Americanization upon the noble race
he held was destroying the first
Americans.
He talked Of education IN infer
ior schools. Of tourists who spoiled
them with quick coins, and partic-
ularly the Navajos. a tribe espec-
tally interesting to him. He was
particularly bitter about the ready
monied tourists who want wooden
Indians" rather than the real thing.
once proud and independent. the
Indian now lies and steals; he Is
becoming a cheap ham actor, sell
ing fake blankets and beads.
La Fargo loves the Indians adorn-
ments. When out in the west he
wears a red buckskin Navajo pair
Of moccasirs, a buckskin coat, a
tunic made by the Chuj Indians. q
Fifth Avenue Stetson and a bandana
handkerchief about his throat.
His wife also owns a l0-gallon hat,
Indian bracelets and necklaces.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-25
Big Counties and Their Voting
Lists

There are is candidates for the democratic guber-
material nomination subject to the July primary.
Speaking OF the Texas voting list for 1880. a North
Texas writer furnishes the information that Texas
has l,1l6,432 men and women who are qualified to
vote. Harris county leads in number Of receipts with
58.o33: Dallas is second with 56,771; Bexar is third
with 50,871; Tarrant IS fourth, with 35303, and JEFF
ferson is fifth with 25,O31.
Then in their order are Travis. Grayson. McLen-
nan, Galveston. Wichita Ellis and FL Paso counties.
Bexar county shows an increase of s26 over the
number Of receipts issued in 1923 but Harris lost 1851;
Dallas lost 4l28, and Tarrant lost 3744. jefferson
county, with its fast-growing cities Of Port Arthur and
Beaumont, registered a slight increase. Why the big
shrinkage in the Harris county voting list7 Ten
thousand in two years IS a remarkable slump, vet.
notwithstanding the slump, Harris leads Dallas 30
600 IN the census figure.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-25
Copyright BY Evelyn campSell.D

prevail at his daughters crushed
frock and open collar.
There In time 70 change before
luncheon" he said with the faint
est reproof, "but, my dear, you
should not he negligent because we
are alone"
"You know, father, that there
aren't any servants. l shall have
10 cook the luncheon myself"
Haverhill shuddered. He infinite
~ preferred no luncheon at all, and
told her so.
III an unfortunate circumstance
compels you to perform such-such
a duty-treat II as playmate a
Jest or II, my dear-never admit
even to yourself that there Is neces-
sity. That is the only way You can
conquer-conquer-r His cough
overlook him.
When this was over Linda sat
with her perfect chin cupped In her
hand gazing into the almost empty
street-white hot, breathless.
Il wish, father, I wish"
"What, my d~earestf"
81 wish we didn't have to pre-
tend"
by October 1t will all be over"
he said with another cough threat
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-25
Qualified Voters In Texas

A very interesting statistical review Of qualified
voters in Texas" has been made by the political an
alyst Of the Dallas News. First. the Texas voting list
is less than in 1928. Poll tax receipts show a drop
from l.1se.6O4 to 1.ll6,4s2. Moreover the record proves
es per cent Of qualified voters actually cast ballots.
Since issuance Of exemptions is not required by law
except in cities Of 10000 or more population, It was
impossible to ascertain the exact voting strength Of
Texas, but information is given that the exemptions
are usually about IS per cent Of the total number Of
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-25

Linda Was Just Then Seventeen,
With All the Promise Of the
Great Beauty Soon 70 Be Hers.
ening, not even dreaming OF the
pathetic truth he uttered. "You
will forget all this" He sent a
contemptuous glance around the
handsome room as II in his eyes
its comfort was %squalor. 1T has
merely been a little resting up for
us both. Once I get my health
again IL will be so easy. With my
connection"
Jim Haverhill had been a fnan-
cier; that is, he sold his good
name, his Impeccable appearance,
and a few other things for stock In
various enterprises that might or
might not have been selling gold
bricks or their equivalent. Nobody
but himself knew how varying his
success had been. but when the
string snapped Il caught him with
empty pockets and a vast and
poignant regret. He was sorry he
had ever had a child
II could get hold OF enough TO
see you through-until you are
married. he said. looking piteous-
" at Linda
She wanted to hide her tears.
"Look, father" she cried gaily,
leaning over TO peep into the street
beneath the naughty hrnwn and
ochre awnings, Look Tnere's the
mounted police and there's a band
the first one. and dozens coming.
What a funny drum major. Aren't
they queer-iIke lead soldiers
Linda vas young enough TO be
thrilled. 1t was really a magnif-
cent sight and costly enough 70
command respect. The city had
lent every public spectacle II pos
sessed. The cheering became pro-
Ionged.
Linda parted the %geraniums un-
I'll a little tunnel gave them unin-
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-25

Dartmouth students are wearing short pants. The
faculty is now in doubt whether to give the boys d.
plomas or hoops.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-25
mill MA SHIN
CU TERI

II May Not Matter to You, But II
Is a Fact That the Average AM
erican Eats % Pints OF Ice Cream
And 25 Pickles in An Average
Year
Nogales international., 1930-07-15
g! @,!!!! P9& 5{& !t!!!5 E1f!!!h ~! fSR /,
wv JOHN JOSEPH GAINES, MD.
BIRTH CONTROL

subject that has been engaging the reading, intelligent
American public for some time 1t unfortunate that the
ignorant shackdwcller who reads nothing, and would not
understand he did, participate in this emineny
vital question.
| believer in rational birth-control, obtaining my
convincing evidence from my environment understand
that both Church and State oppose the movement.
know of many families that could support two chill
den and make of them respectable citizens that utterly
founder six The day of quas and being show
cred the Israees has passed. is only the who
pass the cash the counter that afford to eat
We need educated enlightened ctzenry in America
than before The dozen poor children huddled
together rags with money buy clothing and school
equipment breaches for birth control stronger than
words can portray
These starvelings grow up into and the
What they vote for better be imagined than de-
scrbed They compelled to pay for what they con-
do without the bonus of crime appeals strongly
they have little dread of prison life; they may live better
prison than home Their battered, hungry natures
stimulationthey get it if they have to kill for it, If
they marry and reproduce is conformity with the mex
orabe law that like begets like.
working mothers appeal to the doctors
for relief from the calamity that another baby would bring
The law makes crime for the tenderheared family doctor
to tell such how prevent conception The doctor
knows that babies could be raised properly by the average
couple would produce nvadsm, drudgery pov-
erty, squaor, and utter incompetency.
Nogales international., 1930-07-15
Midsummer Bargains

Midsummer brings fashions to the cross roads
This is the season when she makes her final review of
summers colorful wardrobe and looks ahead to the
first hints of the fall mode.
Twice gifted is this season for feminine lovers of
fine raiment Midsummer is the time when merchants
sacrifice profits to move their remaining summer
merchandise and when the interesting advance styles
in COATS dresses, hats and accessories arrive to add
zest to shopping
Personal and household needs are now being re-
plenshed with distinct savings to the buyer Supplies
for future needs are being purchased at low mdsum-
mer prices and countless buyers now find it possible
to buy things which they have desired since summers
coming but refrained from buying because of early
prices. This is economy for those who
take advantage Of this opportunity which knocks but
once year.
Midsummer bargains are not offered to the wo-
men folks alone. OverstOcks of mems suits, hats
shirts, underwear and other wearing apparel are un-
loaded at this time of year to eager customers There
are thrifty who find it highly profitable at this
time of year to eager customers. There thrifty
men who find it highly profitable at this time of the
year to stock up with clothing essentials for the
tire year.
Newspaper advertisements herald the opening of
the midsummer restocking sales and guide the buy
to the places where shopping is not only pro-
fltable but an exciting adventure.
-O-O-O-
A man with short arms is grievously handi-
capped when trying to illustrate the length of the fish
that got away.
Many think they are highly moral when they are
merely refranng through fear from things they
dying to do.
When six boys applied for the job of plumbers
apprentice the who forgot his letters of recon-
Imendation got the place.
Think Of Solomon's plight if he had undertaken
to drive with all those wives, etc., in the back seat
An Oklahoma paper declares that "anv Young wo-
man Of high ideals and moral turpitude can win as
Nogales international., 1930-07-15

comrades there to protect the interests of big bs
ness Numerous protests against this film were made
to the authorities at Washington who replied that
they poweress to stop it's presentation. Doubt
less it will be shown everywhere including Latin Am
erca where the people just now have especially tend
er and look upon almost anything the United
States does as an effort to tread on them
No intelligent American believes that we have
any imperalistic desires toward South America, but
our neghbors down there do believe that we have, and
anything however trivial which tends to foster that
belief is stupid blunder if nothing worse
If peoples everywhere were governed by reason
and thought logically they would understand that the
screen presents fiction not fact But the vast major
ty of screen audiences, including our own, do not
reason. They are governed by their emotions and be-
efs and they believe that what they see at the
es if not literally true is at least true representa-
tion of the life and classes of people which it portrays
And that is after ALL the most serious charge against
the motion picture. It's capacity for impairing the
morals of the young is trivial compared with its ca
pacity for implanting beliefs about life and people
which are seldom than half true and frequently
totally false.
Nogales international., 1930-07-15
-O-O--O-
In Chicago

When the Chicago Tribunes star police reporter
Alfred (Jake) Lngle, was shot down and instantly
killed by gunnan in crowded thoroughfare re-
GENTLY that newspaper joined by other papers of
the city in offering reward of $4,000 for apprehen
sion of the slayer.
1t was considered that Lingles murder
challenge to the press because Of it's warfare against
gangdom. The righteous indignation felt by the Tri
bune and other newspapers is readily understood.
But later investigation has revealed different
situation It has been concusively shown that Lnge
had used his position reported for reputable
newspaper to cloak his participation in the spos of
gangland Although his salary only $65 week, he
had made large deposits in cash regularly at certain
bank had borrowed unusual sums from politicians and
shady characters, and had induged in extensive gam
bling operations connected with the underworld.
The Tribune has set forth these findings with
candor, saying edtorially that the investigation
would indicate Lingle was killed because he
ing the Tribune position to profit from criminal op-
erations. Lngle takes different character,
in which he was unknown to the management of the
Tribune when he was alive
Chicago is a great city, with perhaps as many
estmable people in proportion to it's population
any other great city, But it's criminal minority has
brought unusual degree of shame upon the whole
body of it's citizens For the sake of the predominant
decent element of Chicagoans it is hoped that
strong leader may arise who redeem the city
from the terrorism of gangdom.
Nogales international., 1930-07-15
International Misunderstandings

American motion pictures go into every corner
Of the world. 1t is increasingly difficult for picture
somewhere National pride is hurt when the people Of
any race or country are depicted in characters which
are offensive. The British public protested against
Broken Blossoms" in which English people were
held by Mussolin's government to be offensive to
Italians The French think they were insuted in
"Beau Geste" Russians say that "Volga Boatman"
nistepresents the Russian people. There were riots
in China over the "Thief of Bagdad' and "Wecome
Danger" in which the villains were Chinese.
1t seems to be true that the only people who can
be portrayed the screen in vicious or criminal
characters are Americans if the movies are to es-
cape censure somewhere other. But in that case,
what Of the impression Of America and the Americans
which they convey to the people of other countries?
Recently film was shown in France in which a
Marine in Nicaragua is made to say that he and his