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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-29

ArOW and then Old Man Progress,
with young ideas, picks on the
~ Oldest sort of fields to conquer
or wake up. At the present moment
ne Is working on Valley graveyards.
he wants 10 change everything
about them. including the names.
He would have no more cemeteries.
They all would be memorial parks"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-29
They Rubbed 1t In

for Port Today
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-29

Vote For Port To-day
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-29

Vote For Port Today
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-29

- 61 IA S4hEnLAN -
v7OTERS of Brownsville 7 swarm
ing Co ths poIn TODAY ready,
willing and anxious 70 show the
world how proud uis city and its
neighh<rs IN the navigation dis
tr1ct are of ths deep-water port
which hAa been promised them.
Even g early M this column has
10 b written. reports showed con-
clu6tve1y that ne bonds would car
~ By . huge majority.
Merchants closed up shops for
two hours 70 let their employees vote.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-29

WI VI IdLIIILH LIDII.
Note fer Pnrf
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Awaits Another Trial

Vote For Port To-day
The Washington times., 1930-05-10
"GOOD NIGHT MRS. PARKER, IT'S BEEN PERFECTLY
CHARMING"
Notice lady being carted out)

This picture borrowed from the sprighty New Yorker,
printed by that matteroffact and upodat publication
merely as matter of NEWS, photograph of certain
social stratum bootleg prohibition age
The New Yorker does not present this picture text Tor
a sermon with any particular moral
This is how things ARE and therefore this is how they
shown.
It picture of life under the blessings of prohibition
The gentleman husband lover it may be either him
self little the for wear is carrying out young lady
who has passed out, in the language of the day.
He is telling his hostess and host what wonderful time
they have had and is perhaps hoping in dazed way that
everything all right genuine prewar, and he won't
wake up blind
It is not necessary add anything to this picture or to the
words under it, except that later nation that
started out to establish prohibition and END alcoholism Will
have to realize that ESTABLISHED BOOTLEGG1NG,
with financing hundreds of millions year and with the
bootlegging established drunkenness among children
and elsewhere where it unknown and has founded an
organization such threatened the safety OF
any civilized country in the whole world
This is truthful picture of the United States in 1880 and
of its bootleg civilization
HOW DO YOU LIKE IT?
The Washington times., 1930-05-10
Mr.. Holiday as Successor to
Mr.. Simmons

In the complex governmental affairs of Washington the
undisputed boss chairman Of the District subcommittee
of the House Appropriations Committee.
We are to boss in that position next December
He will be Representative William Holiday of Illinois, and
he will succeed Representative Simmons of Nebraska con-
ceded to be unusually we'll informed all District subjects
particularly those of fiscal nature.
The presumption would be that the chairman of the same
subcommittee the Senate would be equally powerful but
he The House tenacousy holds to its Constitutional
rights originate appropriations but the mighty House
committee goes further in District matters It absolutely
dominates appropriations and fiscal policies as shown by
its forcing the Senate for years to recede the Federal
proportion of upkeep here.
In most other appropriations too the House committee is
lust as vrle and dominant.
Mr. Holiday will begin his service pronounced sup
porter of the $9000000 lump scheme of Federal con
trbuon here He broad and fair, however and cannot
possibly remain committed to that plan conditions grow
unavorabe to its continuance Those conditions al
ready here clearly indicated by the senates proposal to
make the Federal part $12O000OO instead of $9oO0OOO
The House itself is beginning to show signs of stronger
Opposition to the House plan gross injustice
As good American citizen MIR. Holiday cannot avoid be-
Eong impressed with the fact that the voteless voceless
taxpayers of Washington deserve fair treatment
The Washington times., 1930-05-10
"District Days" in the House
Almost Thing of Past

Rules of the House call for District day in that body
twice month Once this rule quarey observed and the
District of Columbia benefited in full and free discussion of
its legislative needs.
So far in this session of Congress there have been just two
District days and most Of the time went to gentlemen of
the House who wanted to talk for political consumption
subjects far removed from the District of Columbia
Only few bills about which there controversy have
been passed Many important measures pending but
Acting Chairman Mcleod of the House District of Columbia
Committee is given opportunity to bring bills favorably
reported by his committee.
This session of Congress nearing its close Washington
city should get fair deal in the House. should be allotted
sufficient time for its legislation to receive careful condera
tion and the time should not be fttered away in political
speeches.
E the House wastes, in the aggre
gate hours and days that could be given the District and given
to honestly The arbitrary ruling of House bosses that
nothing but subjects shall be taken
District days may conduce to smoohness but it far from
right Mighty few bills without debatabe features and it
to the best interests of this city that debate be permitted
The Washington times., 1930-05-10
LOverS-And Others

LOverS-And Others
In love. cards, roulette or the
stock market. the only sure
way to beat the game is by
staying out of it.
AS long as a woman has the
last word. she doesn't care
HOW hard a man slams the
door.
A man is always shocked and
disappointed to discover, after
marriage, that the girl who
seemed such an ideal COM
panion at smart dances and
perfectly appointed dinners, is
Just a wash-out on a hiking
party or camping in the rain.
Women always wonder sadly
why an attractive bachelor
missed marriage; men always
wonder enviously how he es-
capped it.
If the modern man eats out
of tin cans, he has only mis-
father to blame. It didn't take
women long to learn that it is
easier to keep canned corned
beef cold than to keep fried
The Washington times., 1930-05-10

training and environment may
seem to have set you poles
apart, yet your makings are
the same.
If you could be made to
realize that-if by actually
swapping skins with some other
human you could prove this
amazing truth to yourself
then your whole life would be
changed. You would never
again be as lonely-and you
would never again be as snooty!
Always you would feel that
your experience was every
body's experience and that you
were a part of everybody else.
Just as you now feel that your
mother and father and sisters
and brothers are part of
you, so would you feel that all
human beings were part Of
you, and that you were part
of them.
Of course that wouldn't
solve all your problems, but it
would take the sting out of
them. For it's easier to bear
things if you know that others
are bearing them, too. It's
easier to face temptation and
endure grief and suffer shame
if you know that others are
going through the same
shadows and, somehow, making
the grade.
If you could only swap skins!
That's why great trouble some
times works miracles. It strips
us of comfort and confidence
reduces us to our original
nakedneSs- makes us little chill,
dren again, one with all the
world, at home in any skin.
The Washington times., 1930-05-10
A Great Scientist
Bv Archibald Henderson

But this is evidently impossible,
for as the center of the sphere
has no magnitude, it follows
that it has no ratio to the sur
face. 1t is therefore to be sup
posed that Aristarchus meant
that as we consider the earth as
the center of the world, then the
earth has the same ratio to that
which we call the world, as the
sphere in which is the circle,
described by the earth according
to him, has to the sphere of the
fixed stars"
We are indebted to Plutarch
for another reference to Aris-
tarchus, which confirms the fact
that AriStarchus taught the the
ory associated with his name.
Plutarch refers to an opinion
that Aristarchus ought to be &C
Cused of impiety for moving the
earth Of the world, as the man
in order to save the phenomena
supposed that the heavens stand
still and the earth moves in an
oblique circle at the same time
as it turns round its axis"
Aristarchus adopted an inge-
NOUS method for endeavoring
to ascertain relatively the dis
tances of the sun and moon.
He tried to estimate the angu-
lar distance between the two
bodies when the moon is just
half Illuminated. In that posi-
ton, the lines joining sun,
earth and moon form a right
angle at the moon. AriStarchus
found the result to be twenty
nine-thirtiethS Of a right angle,
which differs from the true
result by only seventeen five
hundred and fortieths. This
was a fairly good result, con-
sidering that Aristarchus had
no trigonometry at his disposal.
But in the computations of
the distances he erred griev-
ously, making the sun about
18 or 20 times as far from
us as the moon.
In the Book Of Popular
Science" it is stated regarding
Aristarchus and his correct The
ory of the revolution of the
earth about the sun: There is
little doubt that in his own
time, and by the Immediately
succeeding generations Of
astronomers, the bold concep-
ton by which Aristarchus an
ticipated CopernicuS was re-
ceived with general incredulity,
if not with horror"
The Washington times., 1930-05-10
SECRETS OF HEALTH = By DR.. Louis E. Bisch

The convulsions are mild as
compared to those of true cpl
lepsy.
Although in the latter pa
tients often injure themselves
during the convulsive stage, or
when they suddenly fall to the
ground unconscious, in hySter
ical cases no such injuries take
place. When they fall they
fall soft"
In essential epilepsy there
is often frothing at the mouth
and biting of the tongue
Frothing may be present in the
hysterical variety, but not bit
ing or clenching of the tongue
between the teth.
A most important point is
the fact that in hystero-epi-
lepsy the pupils are not di,
lated, while in the true form
it is almost an unfailing sign.
If the neurosiS has developed
so far as to produce convul,
sionS one often finds such per
sons as sympathy-seeking and
decidedly dependent, unable to
earn a living, and given to
many fanCiful ideas of being
i'll in other ways.
Hystero-epilepsy can also ex-
ist without convulSionS. That
is, conditions of terrible temper
tantrums, kleptomania, states
where people wander off and
do not know where they are
and without there being an
organic cause-all such condi-
tions have been looked upon as
So-called equivalents" or sub
stitutes for hystero-epilepsy.
The Washington times., 1930-05-10

Epilepsy is a real disease
and a most serious one.
Hystero-epilepsy, on the other
hand, may simulate epilepsy
very closely yet not be true cpl
lepsy at all but merely a case
of hysteria.
When I say merely it must
not be thought that hystero-
epilepsy or any other form of
hysteria is not also serious.
But surely it is not as serious
as true or "esSential' epilepsy,
as the doctors call it. because,
in the first place. the hysterical
variety is durable, and, sec
ondly, it never leads to a de-
terioration of the mind.
Hystero-epilepsy also is known
as psychic epilepsy" "epilep-
tic automatism" and as psychic
seizures"
1t is not a fake, however,
although actual counterfeits of
eplIepClc u nave Deen
known to be performed so skill
fully for purposes of collecting
money from sympathetic by
ISLANDERS that only a physician
would not be likely to be 0e-
ceived.
In hystero-epilepSy the patient
is not definitely unconscious,
as in true epilepsy.
Furthermore, while in the es,
sential form repeated attacks
are more or less alike, in hys-
terical forms the attacks differ
markedly in frequency, dura-
ton and severity.
Such patients usually can
carry on some sort of con-
versation during the attack
The Washington times., 1930-05-10
The Marry-GO-ROund
By Helen Rowland

chicken hot, while a mar
dawdleS home from the office.
When you look at a man
who has just emerged from
barber shop. after complete
renovation, it is almost impos-
sible to believe that he CAN
have anything but beautiful,
clean thoughts, pure intentions
and a spotless soul. A woman
can spend hours on her scenic
effects, and never look half so
guileless!
Never fear that Home,
sweet home" will lose its place
in American life. Even Amer
leans have to have SOME place
to stay while the car is being
repaired.
The old-faShioned bride needed
a scientific knowledge Of hak-
ing and brewing; but the only
thing a modern spring bride
needs is a strong right can
opener-arm and a working
knowledge of brands"
Latest spring slogan: own
your own husband! Why sub
lease another woman'S?"
The Washington times., 1930-05-10

You Can't Learn Too Much.
You have an opportunity to
learn a certain thing, but you
cannot see where you will
ever have any use for it:
You hesitate and finally de-
eide against it.
You have the time and
ability and the opportunity
but lack the desire at the
tine it is presented.
Some day you will regret
a lost opportunity.
Life is strange that way;
You can't see ahead, and
perhaps experience also is
lacking.
You have not come to know
that all knowledge is CORE
lative.
Everything you learn today
The Washington times., 1930-05-10

The name of Aristarchus will
always be held in honor. For
it was he who discovered that
the earth revolves around the
sun. In his day this was no
mean achievement. Imagine
all astronomical knowledge blot
ted out, and picture yourself
waking up tomorrow morning
with the resolve to discover the
center of the universe. The
earth beneath your feet would
be firm and apparently mo-
tionless; the globe on which
YOU lived would appear to be
the center of all things; the
sun, the moon and the lesser
luminaries would all appear TO
rise. to set and circle about a
fixed center, the earth.
Aristarchus (310-230 B. c.
boldly questioned such a oellet.
His predecessor, Heraclides, had
discovered that the earth re-
wolves about his own exis' and
had even described the oroltal
movements Of Mercury, and
Venus about the sun. But IL
was left for Aristarchus to ar
rive at the conclusion that the
earth revolves in an orbit
around the sun. 1t is not
known how AristarchuS arrived
at this conclusion. 1t may have
been a conviction based upon
solid grounds or only a lucky
speculation. Unf O rtunately'
only one work of his is extant,
entitled "On the Sizes and
Distances of the Sun ana
Moon," and there is no men
ton in his work of the antlcl-
patton, by Aristarchus, of the
cosmogony proposed by Copper
nicus 1000 years later.
In a book, "The Sand RecK-
oner," written by Archimedes,
who was 25 years younger than
Aristarchus, much light Is
thrown upon the theories OF the
latter in the following meaning
full passage:
He supposed that the fixed
stars and the sun are lmmoV-
able, but that the earth is car
ried round the sun in circle
which is in the middle of the
course; but the sphere of the
fixed stars, lying with the sun
round the same center, is of such
a size that the circle, in which he
supposeS the earth to move, has
the same ratio to the distance
of the fixed stars as the center
Of the sphere has to the surface.
The Washington times., 1930-05-10
ONCE-OVERS

dovetails with what you learn
tomorrow, and so on through
life.
1t all depends upon your be-
ing able to see the relation
and use it.
Some persons are so dumb
or so obtuse that they go
on learning what they call
separate subjects" and their
knowledge does not make them
educated.
To put to work every bit of
knowledge you have shows
education.
To stop studying when you
can't see where it is going
to help you is the best sign
in the world that you will not
progress.
You can't learn too much.
The Washington times., 1930-05-10
WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

The world is a looking glass,
and gives back to every man
the reflection of his own face.
Frown at it and it will turn
and look sourly upon you;
laugh at it and with it, and
it is a jolly kind companion.
-Thackeray.
Happy thou that learneSt
from another's griefs, not to
subject thySelf to the same.
-TibulluS.
1t must be that evil COM
munications corrupt good dis
positions, 1 -Menander.
The Washington times., 1930-05-10
Listen World
By Elsie Robinson

Lonely? Unhappy? Feel
you are misunderstood? Sure
that you have heavier burdens
and harder temptations than
anyone else?
The best thing that could
happen to you, partner, would
be to swap skins with the
other fellow for a day.
Nine-tenths of your misery
and cussedness arises from the
fact that you think you and
other humans are different.
And because you think you're
different you go around in
daZe of loneliness and resent
ment, feeling that Fate is pick
ing on you, and that no one
can understand your suffer
ings.
If you could swap skins with
the other fellow, with any
other fellow, you'd discover
your mistake in so seconds.
For you would find that you
and other humans are all OF
piece, under your skins.
It doesn't matter what you
are-or what he is-you're all
of a piece. You may be plu-
tocrat, poet or philosopher
he may be hobo, junkman,
ditch-digger, racketeer-never-
theless your makings are all
the same.
You have no dream, no re-
bellion, no wonder, no fear. no
tenderness, no ambition of in
ertia that he does not also feel
to some degree. Some faculties
may be more highly developed
in you than in him-7some
qualities may grip him harder
than they do you-and your
The Washington times., 1930-05-10

Between 400 and 500 pedi-
greed dogs are exported yearly
from Vancouver and Victoria tc
dealers in Japan. AlSantlanS'
Dobermann pinschers famous
type of police dog), and SnauEer
pinschers are some of the oreedS
that are becoming famous IN
this island of the Orient. THESE
dogs range in price from $1OO
to $500.
The Swiss consume more al
cohol per capita than any
other people in Europe. A ma
tion of 100000 inhabitants
averages considerably better
than 5000, 900 gallons annually.
The Washington times., 1930-05-10
Papers Advocate

l. "Peace and dnaity aVith all nations; entanghng
alliances eOith none," as advocated by George
Washington
e. Proportional representation IN the United States
Senate, no State to haze less than t1OO Senators.
Legislation to enforce prompt constitutional reap
portionmaent in the House of Representatives.
3. A separate Department of the Army, of the Navy
and OF the Air Forces, all united under Secretary
of National Defense.
a. Federal action to the limit of Federal poaUers to
abolish uHteracy in the United States under
Secretary OF Education.
S. Election of Congress in November. Installation
on the first of January folIOwing Inauguration
of the President first of January neat after
November election.
The Washington times., 1930-05-10
KNOWLEDGE TEST

Fill blank
l. How dear to this are the scenes OF my Childhood"
2 Euclid wrote the subject of -
S. Canal passes around Niagara Falls
T. Lick Observatory Mt.
s. AmbroSia
Do know:
g. What is the abbreviation hundred?
T. Who wrote
Isles OF Greece, the Isles Of Greece,
Where burning Sappho loved art sung?
g. What dog days?
g. What dSCoVerer of radium is now aNVe?
TO- Who wrote Scarlet Sister Mary
the president of the University OF Chicago?
With what country is Joseph Stain connected?
What region has Byrd been exploring?
H. Who wrote street Scene?
Who received the Pulitzer prize 1or Ine poem John
Browns Body?
(Answers on Magazine Page)
The Washington times., 1930-05-10
10 YOU KNOW THAT

According to members of the
American Chemists Society.
the annual cotton crop of the
United States contains enough
synthetic meat proteins to sup
ply 50,00O,O00 people. The
meat, usable in hash, Gro
uuettes, meat loaf, sausages,
sandwich Filings and the like,
can be produced for retail sale
at 5 cents a pound.
With more than 100000 peo-
pie searching Berlin, Germany,
for homes, a three-year pro-
gram to provide $4,000 new
homes annually has been drawn
UP by the municipality. I
The Washington times., 1930-05-10

The sum of duty let two words
contain,
% may they craven in the
heart remainl
Be humble and be just.
Prior.
Real happiness is cheap
enough, yet how dearly we pay
for it's counterfeit.
-Ballou.
In general those who have
nothing to say
Contrive TO spend the longest
time doing it.
Lowell.
The Washington times., 1930-05-10

and they know what is going
on about them. Again, they
remember what transpired af
terward, which is an important
differential point.
Hystero-epilepsy comes on,
The Washington times., 1930-05-10

as a rule, without warning of
any kind.
The attacks practically never
occur when the patient is alone
and seldom during the night.
between the teeth.
The Washington times., 1930-11-03
MO THEIR FOUND
DEAD IN CANAL

The body of Mrs. Hattie Pea
cock, 38 years old of the $500
block Canal Rd. N. W., was taken
from the waters of the c. & o.
canal yesterday. The woman
had last been seen as she was
about to get in a rowboat to
cross the canal to her home, 0
o'clock Saturday night.
Early in the afternoon she had
left the home of her father, Lach
Eaton, stating that she was going
to call on her son at the Wise
Brothers Dairy.
The boat in which she crossed
the canal early Saturday was
found yesterday more than a
mile down the canal. The Wem-
ans purse was found on a seat
of the boat, and in the water
near the landing opposite her
home bag of groceries was re-
covered.
It Is believed that she stepped
from the landing and missed the
boat, falling into the deep water
of the canal. The body was re-
covered by William F. Reynolds
and w. A. Finley, Of the 3400
block K st. N. w.
That the drowning of Mrs. Pea
cock was accidental there can be
no doubt, according to friends
and relatives, who said that she
was in excellent spirits Saturday
afternoon, at that time planning
a trip to Norfolk.
Mrs. Peacock, who is the
mother Of two sons. one 20 and
one IS, came here about a month
ago from Cumberland, Md, after
separating from her husband.
The Washington times., 1930-11-03
Democrats Expect Clean
Sweep in Va. and Md.


In nearby Maryland and Vir-
ginia there ended today feverish
Congressional campaigns that
have rather been overshadowed
by the nationwide political bat
tie of 1880.
The Democrats, pressing for a
clean sweep in both States and
aware that the results may be
vital in the organization of the
next House, have been loudest
in their warwhoops.
For the first time in more
than a generation there are now
three Republicans m the Vir-
ginia delegation in Congress. The
Democrats had become rather ac-
customed to losing the Ninth
district, known as the Bascom
Slemp territory, but in the
Hoover landslide of 1928, the
Democrats lost the Second and
the Seventh to the G. o. P,
Democrats Hopeful
This riled the Democrats of
the Old Dominion and they are
out to send a full delegation. be-
ing hopeful even of the Ninth.
Former Rep. c. Bascom Slemp.
one-time secretary to President
Coolidge, declined the Republi-
can nomination, which he was
rendered, and the spirited race
today is between Rep. Joseph
Cricket Shaffer, Republican, and
John w. Flanagan, Democrat.
Sitting Republicans in the Sec
ond and Seventh are. respective
ly, Reps. Menalcus Lankford and
Jacob A. CARRIER.
Chief contests center in these
three districts, although there
are rather spiritless contests
against several Democratic can
didates who appear unworried
about their success.
Means Zihlman'S Out
The Maryland delegation in the
House now stands four Democrats,
two Republicans. Confident to-
day that the Governor Ritcfie
ticket will sail through by large
majority the Democrats claim
they'll send a solid Democratic
delegation to Washington, al
though Maryland is a debatable
state, particularly in presidential
years.
Should Democratic claims come
true it would mean the retirement
of Representative Frederick N.
zihlman, chairman of the House
District Committee, in the Sixth,
Maryland, and Representative
Linwood l.. Clark, in the Second,
which includes a part of Balti-
more.
In the first congressional dis.