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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-21
nEAR ANNIE LAURIE:

! have been going with n
young man, who Is two years my
senior. for over q year. I am in
the last year OF my teens, and am
very much In love with him. He
very much TO have steady COM
pany with him. Whenever I have
a date with him he seems to care
for me and enjoy being with me.
But never asks me for dates ahead.
Is there anything or any way I
can win him. or should I ask him
when he ~ coming back 7 don't
want him 70 know I care for him
and don't want him to think I am
running after him. And ] an
sure there Is no other can take
his place I'm my life. DO you think
that two blonds should 20 to-
gether? We are both blends?
BROKEN-HEARTED.
D-RoKEN-HEARTED: Perhaps
you In taking n too pessim.stic
view Of the situation. II may be
that the young man IN the casual
type. and does not find Il necessary
10 make dates for he feels IL 10 m
thing. But In you have
been keeping company with him FOR
q year II would be well 10 have
some definite understanding with
him Certainly two blends should
get along well together. IL is dis.
position and not coloring that makes
for q successful marriage.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-21

M AId on the next evening when he comes to see her, he hasn't
ue slightest trace Of a cold or a hurt foot. And when she asks him
aoous the friend who arrived so Unexpectedly, he flies into a rage
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-21
Care of the
Children 8
Teeth
First Teeth Are Commonly
Neglected and II Is n Bad
Mistake, Warns Authority.

BY *. .. COPELAND, M. IL.
u. s. Senator from New York.
Former Commissioner Of Health,
Nel0 York City.
MKUCH interest Is being shown
W. in the care Of children's
49, teeth, both by the dental
profession and the medical profess
sion. By public education they
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-21
The Uncertain
Swain
"A foung Lass IN Lore Learns That Her Sweetheart
~ Has a "Thursday'' CiE-and Wonders What
Can Be Done About IL. s.
Winifred Blacks Topic TODAY

III EEkE Is a poor, little pathetic letter, fun Of excuses and
explanations and wonder and anxiety.
It's from q gir-shes not quite twenty, and she IS In
'0e Wit a boy. and she thinks the boy is. in love with her.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-21
"Love's Beauty Secrets"

DEAUTY fees the careless
l. house, warns the Beauty
SorcereSs, SO emulate the
women of history who appre-
ciated and immortaIized their
Ioveli1ess.
HERE vas once a king OF the
Persian Empire. who was
called by name Ahasuerus
Tor xerxesl. And this king had for
his queen the beautiful Vashti.
Hail NouhtFT va wnvnan ~ thA
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-21

c~ossisas. 1889. Ssurpupsr Tsatu-. ssrvis.. Ina
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-21
GOODNIGHT
STORIES 4.
BY MnnE TedH3

Where ara yoM gofngf'
I'm going 20 see
How many leaves
Can grow on a tree
Shadow Song.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-21

XIII ERE's the entrance! Let's
40 in" Knarf said Nil
Flor. Hanid and Yam--the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-14
Photo Device Records Piano Playing.
Showing Abilities of Student Performers

A new electro-optical method for
scientifically studying piano playing
that makes q continuous Photographic
record of the performance, registering
all Of the shadingS of tone and the In
tricacies Of rhythm, was recently de-
scribed in a report to the official pub
lication OF the American Association
for the Advancement of Science by
Joseph THIN and C. A. Seashore Of
the Iowa State University
The device makes records for each
Of the keys Of the pianoforte and shows
the exact moment when each key
strikes the hammer and the moment of
release of each key. 1t also shows the
velocity with which the hammer strikes
the strings. A separate line on the
Aln record shows the movements of the
damper pedal Time Is measured by
rs parallel lines across the entire width
Of the film. The fllm is a four Inch
Eastman sensitized paper passing at
speed of about IL centimeterS a second.
Light Registers Tempo.
Attached to each key Is a light paper
strip glued to the tail of each hammer.
A narrow slit in the paper allows the
light from a bank of electric lamps to
pass through it when the key is struck
to camera suspended four feet above
the piano. In this way an impression
Is made on the record film whenever
the keys are struck. This impression
lasts until the key is released. The
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velocity Of the stroke, indicated by the
time taken by the hammer in passing
IL millimeterS, Is taken as a qualitative
and relative measure of stress or in
tensity Of tone and is read in MILL
meters.
The timing is done with a neon lamp
containing small quantity of mercury,
which makes it glow with blush color,
to which the sensitive Aim is subjected
A spark coil and tuning fork also
work in conjunction with the neon
lamp to make the IS time dividing
lines on the film. With this new de-
vice timing differences of .02 second
can be accurately recorded.
Records Players Ability.
The apparatus may be used to secure
an objective measure of motor rhythm
under an actual situation where this
ability is to be used as well as to
analyze artistic piano performance. In
piano record making 1t provides a
graphic story of the temporal aspects
of tone production on the piano and
furnishes a serviceable indie alton OF
the relative stresses with which the
keys are depressed, so that all the ele-
ments Of rhythm, in any complex must
cal movement, may be analysed for
Interpretation. The authors state that
they believe the principle of the device
may be used In other types of scientific
Investigations where rhythm and tempo
Is well as relative intensities may be
desired TO be recorded.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-14
BY WILLIAM H. sToNEMAN.
Special dispatch to The Star and the
Chicago Daily News,
81.


REYKJAVIK, Iceland.-Nine out OF
ten Icelandic shippers who guide their
fishing trawlers through the Arctic seas
still regard the sextant as something
newfangled They take their courses
from the stars II they happen to be
showing. Otherwise they throw the
lead q few times, Whit the wind and
decide Just where on the broad gray
waste they happen to be.
Every school child in Iceland knows
something about the Heimskringla
and the Edda and can recite the latter
with the same gusto which American
children display in connection with
"The Village Blacksmith"
Yet TO tell an Icelander that you
like Iceland because you admire Snorri
Eturluson or that the country Is pleas
ing because captains steer by the stars
and people go horseback riding Is
equivalent 10 telling Chicagoan that
the United States Is a fine country be-
cause George washington was capable
soldier. The Icelander glories In his
acountry's past, but he Is much more
interested in the Iceland which has
come into existence during the last 80
years II you ask him about Ari Thor
Rllsson--about whom he is sure to know
more than little-he will offer TO take
you out to Thors Jensen's model farm
lccianders are particularly proud Of
their present prosperity and moder-
nifty because they connect II IN theiI
minds with something even more
precious, their country's Independence
iceland began its present golden age"
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| ment of America which we have just
described goes back a thousand years
or more before the day that Columbus
sighted that Maya trading canoe.
When an Indian runner recently
brought out of the brush of Yucatan
the news that the expedition under Mr..
Frans Blom of Tulane University had
discovered near the ruins of Uxmal 10
sculptured monuments. pushing back
the history of that ancient Maya city
at least 500 years, a good deal more
was being told us about the fascinating
history of ancient America than the
man on the street perhaps appreciated.
First Empire of Mayas Cited.
Blom's latest discovery. combined with
recent findings Of other explorers,
strongly suggests that the so-called
FIRST empire" of the MayaS in Chiapas,
Guatemala and Honduras and the So
called late empire" in Yucatan were
fouriShing at the same as the southern
and northern parts, respectively, of one
great commonwealth nurtured by a
great commerce, of one great, loosely
held together federation of trading
cities which may well be likened to the
famous Hanseatic League of medieval
European trading cities.
According to what was until recently
orthodox theory, there were no impor-
tant cities in the northern or second
empire" territory of the Mayas until
the end of the sixth century AID. And
it was held that Uxmal was not founded
until about 1000 AID. However, in
l926-27 scientists from the Carnegie
Institution of washington and the Brit
ish Museum found near the ruins of
Coba, in Northeastern Yucatan, stone
inscriptions including dates within the
fourth century AID. by our count. And
now Blom puts the founding of Uxmal
back to at least 500 AID.
All of which means that some of the
great cities of the North were flourish
ing contemporaneously with such great
cities of the south as Copan in Hon
duraS and Tikal, Quirigua and Piedras
NegraS in Guatemala. And If they were
f1ourishing contemporaneously there can
be little doubt that there was thade be-
tween them.
Finds One Great Seaport City.
During the Mason -Blodgett expedi-
ton in 1928, came upon the remains
of a once great seaport city which -four
ished near the mouth of the Sarstoon
River, on the boundary between Guate-
nala and British Honduras, and which
played a prominent part in the COM
merce of ancient America. Investiga-
tons which have made since returning
from the trip persuade me that this
seaport, whose ruins are called "Olitas"
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There is high dry land Just west OF
the junction Of the creek and the river
and here probably were located most OF
the inns and the grogshopS for sailors,
though the shippers, as well as the pas
sengers of social Importance, went up
the creek two miles to where the stone
foundations of the ceremonial center
of the city occupy some % acres. (Only
the public buildings of the Mayas, and
possibly monaSteries and dwellings for
some of the aristocracy or the priest
hood of this most religious nation that
has ever lived, were made of stone. The
great bulk of the dwellings, shops
hotels, ETC., were built of walls of up
right logs and roofs of matched shaan
leaves, as are the habitations Of the
degenerate Mayas of today)
"AcrOpOlis'' in Superb Position.
The "acropolis," which today appears
to have been the center of Ollitas, oc-
cupies magnificent position on high
ground, with the sea to the east and
the 1,200-foot high Sarstoon Bluff to
the southwest-near enough so that its
afternoon shadow falls over the tumbled
white stones of temples which once
doomed with the priests evening
prayers.
These men of God were also men OF
science and worked out the knowledge
of heavenly bodies which made it pos
sible for Maya canoes to navigate north
ward to Bakhalai, Muyil, Tanca (the
port of Tulum), Cozumel, Tavana, Cam
peche and Vera Cruz, or southwark to
good harbors certainly as far distant as
the eastern shore of Colombia and quite
likely even to the region of modern Rio
de Janeiro. There was no silly conflict
between religion and science then. The
priests collaborated with the engineers
who built such canals as the one we
found forming part of the 12-mile
waterway approach to Muyil, in modern
Quintana Roo. These priests supervised
the worship of maritime dietieS placed
on the affairs of the coastal lighthouse
temples buildings at high
points along the east coast of Yucatan,
which served both as beacons and
shrines for fishermen and sea traders.
Ancient America had a cultural
unity. All the high spots in early
American civilization we're within one
rather large but continuously spread
and definitely limited region. This con-
tinued from the northern border OF
Mexico-as it was before the war Of
1916 with the United StateS-dowr
through Central America into the north
ern part of Chile, and including all the
northwest portion of South American.
There was an extremely wide ex-
change Of ideas and goods among the
Continued on Fourth Page)
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Icelanders Build for Future Great Less,
Bending Energies Toward Modernity

when it secured financial and political
independence in 1918 Icelanders look
eagerly forward to l943, when they plan
TO sever their ties with Denmark COM
pletely and perhaps even to dispense
with the services of King Christian
Self-rule has not been the only de-
termining factor in Icelands prosperity,
but its present period Of affluence was
delayed for a long time by the Danish
trade monopoly and by the Danes lack
OF interest In developing the countryS
possibilities-an oversight which the
Danes themselves now admit and as
heartily regret. The Icelanders have
shown the quality of their ancient blood
by more than making up for lost time.
Since the granting of Iceland's con-
stitution in 1874 the population has
increased from $4,000 to 100000. The
annual government budget has In
creased from approximately $4,000 to
$3,500,000 and the amount spent on
churches and schools Is 81 times what
it was In 1876. The bureaucracy ate
up one-third of the annual income
In the days Of Danish rule; now 1t takes
one-tenth.
The fishing industry, which now sup
ports one-fifth of the population, has
been completely revolutionized during
recent years and has developed colossal
proportions. Steam trawlers have en-
| abled Icelandic fishermen to quadruple
their catches In the last IS years and
| TO double them in the last 10.
| In 1906 cable was laid to the out
side world via the Faroes, and since
then nearly 800 telegraph stations have
been established In centers. OF popu'
| lation. -
Considering the facts that most o.
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("Little Jars') by the modern Indians,
was the Atlantic terminus of great
trade route connecting the Caribbean
Sea with the Gulf of Mexico and making
unnecessary the dangerous 600smile trip
around the tip of the peninsula of Yucca
tan. Goods from South America for Mex
leo, believe, were transferred at OllitaS
from the big ocean-going canoes to
small river craft, taken to the head of
land by human bearers the few miles to
the Rio Passion in Guatemala. This
A., flows into the big Usamacinta River,
which reaches the Gulf of Mexico in
the State of Tabasco. o
Now II UXmal was f1ourishing in 500
AID, as Blom's researches seem to indi-
cate, 1t was a beneficiary of, as well as
contributor to, that transpeninsula
trade Of which Ollitas, with its inns for
sailors, its Shipyards and all the familiar
atmosphere of seaportS the world over,
was the eastern junction point.
The Sarstoon River inside the bar af-
forded plenty Of good anchorage for
even the longest of ancient trading
canoeS-which such an authority as
Thomas Joyce of the British Museum
says were large enough to take a crew
of 20 or 80 paddlerS or more"
Today there is brooding air of the
SlLllSJCI dpOub JIllS lower part OF the
river. One thinks of a great stream
flowing out of darkest Africa. Lovely
white herons supply a touch of beauty,
but this only accentuates the weird and
dismal tone lent by the crocodileS and
by the thick, ugly snakes coiled about
the lower branches of the trees behind
draperies of vines which trail into the
water from the upper limbs. But in the
days when Pope Gregory the Great was
ruling Rome, and st. Augustine was in
PRODUCING Christianity into Britain, this
part of the Sarstoon was TO Ollitas what
the lower bay around Quarantine today
is to New York.
Thatch Roofs Protect Canoes.
Thatch-roofed ship sheds were built
of the low banks into the river to pro-
tect idle canoes from the wind and the
rain. Most of the transhipping of the
cargo to the small river boats was done
near where Dulce Greek emptieS into
the Sarstoon, half mile behind the
protective bar. The harbor is unusually
calm in the morning, but at noon when
the gentle land breeze dies down and
the turbulent sea breeze is borne in
from the Gulf of Honduras, 1t becomes
turmoil Of white and green water. Ar
irving cargoes had to be timed to reach
the bar before noon or they would have
to lie out shore overnight, as many a
modern liner has to lie at Quarantine
within sight of Manhattans towers.
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Continued From First Page.l
Hoover's personal position before the
country. A President with Congress
belonging to tho other party; or to
state the same thing in terms of State,
a Governor with a Legislature in con-
troll of the other party is sometimes
the making of the Governor.
To cite one familiar example. Alfred
E. Smith during many of the terms OF
his ooIernorship of New York State had
a LEGISLATURE that Republican. It
was the controversies between Demo-
cratic Gov. Smith and the Republican
LEGISLATURE that in part made Smiths
fame. It may be whimsical to say, and
vet experienced politicians are likely to
co e much validity to it, that If Gov.
Smith during all the years when he was
Governor of New York had had Demo-
cratic LEGISLATURE dominated, as 1t
would have been, by Tammanyl, the
country would have fee- little of him.
And so of President Hoover If the
Democrats should gain control of the
House in November. Much depends, of
course, on the sort of man who is PreSi-
dent under these circumstances, and
much depends on the character of the
Democratic House. It is possible under
these circumstances for a President, If
he is q good President and good man,
to present to the country q picture
which will enhance his esteem. ( 1t is
possible for the country to get feeling
that they rely on the man in the White
House to save the country from posi-
bly, dubious legislation, or dangerous
legislation, or highly controverted legis-
lation, attempted by the opposing party
In control of the House. !,
A Congress belonging to party diff
ferent from the President--in the pres
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-14
A MODERN
BY GREGORY MASON,

BY GhEGOhx MASON,
Leader of the Mason-Spinden and Mason
Blodget Expeditions to Central America
TN 1902 on his fourth and last voyage
to America, Columbus met of
Bonacca Island, in the Caribbean
i Sea, a great Maya trading canoe
Thirty paddlers wsre at the sweeps.
In the waist Columbus saw merchant
richly clad, and surrounded by bales OF
bright cotton goods and stocks of bril-
liantly painted pottery, which he was
taking southwark to exchange for the
cocoa and featherwork of Honduras.
That maritime merchant induces q
more accurate picture of the pre-Colum-
bian America than we can get from any
historical text book in our schools
America, far from being land Of blood
thirsty barbarians, was the domain OF
nations whose high achievement in the
arts and sciences was founded on and
supported by q solid basis of trade and
manufacturing. Vast parts of America
which are now wilderness
Guatemala, Yucatan and much else OF
Southeastern Mexico, and the forested
uplands of Colombia and Ecuador-were
then wide gardens of cora, beans, po-
tatoes, manioc (tapioca), or were ac-
tually as thickly studded with indus
trial cities as Massachusetts, is today.
Coral coasts Where now venture only
an occasional trading sloop of the white
man or a tiny Indian dugout were then
the background for the flashing paddles
of flotillas of great 30-man canoes and
for the sails Of the falcas, those huge
double sailing canoes loaded with cot
ton. hemp, salt, pottery, cocoa, gold
copper pearls, turquoise and other prod
uctS for the busy factories, mines and
FORCES of those times.
Grain and Cotton Fields Crisscrossed.
The extensive grain and cotton fields
of the interior were crisScrossed by fine
roads linking industrial city to indus
trial city. And fine roads" did not
mean narrow, muddy trails, but broad
raised highways of stone which sur
passed the famous thoroughfares of the
RomanS-great cauSeways such as those
well preserved remains which may still
be found running through the brush of
Yucatan, Colombia and Venezuela, roads
which ran over well made suspension
bridges. such as those of Peru, whose
central artery of commerce traversed
the whole empire, q distance of 1900
miles.
Such was America when Columbus
first sighted our shores-a land of in
dustry peopled by between $4,000 900
and rs 900 900 red business men.
Now discoveries are just being made
which tend to show that this develop
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-14
Fall Ballot May Swing Presidency
By Deciding Control of Congress

emit case Democratic Congress-just
because it differs from the President. is
apt to be dominated by belligerence,
and being thus dominated is apt to do
things alarming to the country. When
that happens the country, or the por-
lions of the country that provide it
with leadership. is apt to feel grateful
to the man in the White House.
In short Mr. Hoover with the Demo-
Gratis in control of Congress might be
in better fortune than he now is. II
the Democrats should win control Of
the House in November. that fact, so
sensational. would put the country on
notice The country would know that
President Hoover did not and could not
control Congress. The country would
absolve him of responsibility for Con-
gresS and its works.
That condition might be tier for
Mr.. Ioover than the present, when he
is supposed, because Is titular party
leadership to control Congress. but
when actually the Senate is controlled
by the Democrats through alliance with
the inslrgent Republicans.
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