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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-21
CLUB TO
ELECT

The usual meeting OF the Del
phian chapter was held in the
Methodist church social rooms Fri
day afternoon. with Mrs. j. V. Hill
as leader. The study was on the
character OF Spanish drama. with
Mrs. Esther Ferguson speaking on
'Lope de Vega" Mrs. NJ. Smith
"Calderol," Mrs. Wolverton on Life
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-21
1886 Cars Licensed
Especial to The HeraId)

RAYMONDvILLR Feb. 2l-1n a
check up with the Sheriffs oIfIsA
Of Willacy County II Is found thai
up 70 the present date, 1879 auto
licenses and ISL truck licenses have
been issued. and a total OF 1882
Pol taxes were paid. Divided as
follows, Precinct No. I, 32I. NO. 2,
$50. No. 3. 372. No. 4. 133. No. o,
~ and No. 8, 100. with 10 exemp-
tions.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-21

Weslaco. Mrs. Kaufman. Mr.. ana
Mrs. Dade Hester, local people and
Mr.. Holt from WeSlaCo.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-21
II
HOSTESS

Mrs. M. Il. Irons was hostess to
the Ladies Auxiliary Of the Chris
tan church.
The program for the afternoon
dealt with "Interccssary Prayers.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-21
CIRCLES MEET
IN HOMES

Circle No. I. az the Ladies Aux
Hilary OF the Methodist church met
at the home OF Mrs. q. r.. Wood.
Mrs. W. II. Keen had charge on the
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-21
INTERESTING v
LEAGUE

One Of the finest meetings ever
enjoyed by the members and Wis
itors Of Civig League was held at
the home Of Mrs. II. z. Smith Mon
day afternoon. There was a large
number Of women present.
Mrs. T. ]. Caldwell. the presi-
dent, called the meeting TO order.
Amendments proposed TO the con-
stitution were adopted after being
re-read, article by article. Mrs,
McCaskill Of Edinburg, is in charge
of a program to be given for the
benefit of the Civic League in the
near future. This affair Is TO be
staged out Of doors. II was voted
that the first vice president take
over the work Of supervising the
public planting and Identification
Of the city and nearby territory.
with the second vice president as
suming charge Of private gardens
and clubs. 1t was also decided the
president appoint a committee OF
three TO act as a committee Of
ways and means and memberships
adding a sanitation committee tc
the membership. The educational
loan fund was ordered paid a:
once.
At the conclusion Of the business
Mrs. A. NJ. A. Picker Of South
Dakota gave a very interesting and
complete history Of pioneering in
Dakota territory during the TO- and
sos Of the past century.
Mrs. Z. owen Scott. pioneer OF
the Rio Grande Valley. who came
here a bride in the very early days
OF Mission. followed with a most
detailed account of the early Val
ley history. going back 70 the years
in the 40'S in the eighteenth cen
fury. when Texas was still a part
Of Mexico.
Mrs. John Brinkman and Mrs
Maynard OF Kansas City, Mo. Mrs
Stanley Fleischacker Of Louisville
Nv, Mrs. Hanna Sr. and Mrs
Hanna Jr. of Missouri. Mrs. Baylor
OF Mineral Wells, Mrs. r. c. Steck
OF Orlando, Fla. Mrs. Nolle OF
Oklahoma were among the out OF
city guests.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-21
Valley Society
Telephone z

Is a Dream" while Mrs. s. NJ.
Duffie gave the resume OF the first
act OF Three Judgments at a
Blow" followed by a general dis
cussion Of the lesson by the men,
bers present.
This club will elect officers al
the next meeting.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-09
OLD AGE PENSION
Plan Must Be Nation Wide
Conference Told

New York - No nation having
adopted an old age pension plan has
discarded it, Harold A Hatch, a stu
dent of the problem of old age de-
pendency, told delegates to the third
annual conference of the National
Conference on Old Age Security.
Sociologists, public officials and in
vestigators who were present agreed
that the time is ripe for a nation
wide state-supported system of old
age pensions.
Administrators reported that wher-
ever the old age security system has
been tried, in Toronto, California
Wisconsin and Utah, it has been sue
cessful in providing for the helpless
aged poor. Pensions were declared to
be a necessary means of stabilizing
society, and it was predicted that
eventually poor houses would be dis
carded.
The conference reelected Bishop
Francis j. Mcconnell of the Method
Episcopal diocese, New York,
president
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-09
CRAFTY
Anti-UniOnists Know La
boris Purpose

Duluth, Minn.-"The big men on
the inside understand the objective
of the A. F. of L." said William E.
McEwen, editor The Labor World, of
this city, in radio talk on "The New
Freedom"
"These business men know the
meaning and import of collective bar
gaining" said the veteran trade
unionist. ''They know that its recog-
milton means the building of machin-
cry to introduce democracy in indus
try SO far as the relations between
management and employees is con-
cerned.
$50 it is with fine bit of cunning
that they use the term open shop to
win popular sympathy in their effort
to curb the growth and power of or
ganized labor. In practice their So
called open shops are closed to all
union men.
"The purpose Of the anti-union shop
is to head off collective bargaining. !"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-09
Alaska Packers Association.

Alaska Packers Association. 81
thought this story had news value,
he writes, "but no one else seems to
think So"
Scharrenberg adds that if the
packers had refused to sign an agree
ment ''it would have been advertised
all over the United States So it
would, but news of an agreement is
better news every time. And particu-
larly when that agreement continues
for five years an agreement that has
maintained peace and fairness for a
quarter of a century.
Here is an admirable record. 1t is
worth attention. Moreover, it is
worth noting that the coming of steam
has not brought lowering of wages
or standards. 1t is the other way
around in this industry.
Trade unionists will rejoice with
the Alaska fishermen in this fine
achievement. Employers also should
notice that trade unionism means
peace where trade unionism has half
a chance.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-09
POST OFFICE LEASES
EXUDE BAD ODOR

A senate committee made a favor
able report on Senator Blaine's pro-
posal that post office leases be in
vestigated.
The probe may weaken the posi-
tion of post office officials who mourn
fully point to mounting deficits and
plead that the department be placed
on business basis" 1t is shown
that the department agreed to pay
$122,000 year rental for 20 years
on a building in st. Paul that cost
100000. On the strength of this
lease, which was afterwards made
nom -cancellable, promoters floated a
bond issue of $1,150,000.
A post office station in Chicago,
it is charged, is rented at $125,000 a
year, while the market value of the
building is $350,OO0. There are 115
of these leases on post office build
ings throughout the country, it is
claimed.
The st. Paul transaction actually
smells to high heaven" said Senator
Nye, who declared this deal is "a rot
ten, unconscionable situation"
Possibly the situation at ST. Paul
rivals Teapot Dome revelations and
the oil scandals in general. Perhaps
there is as much to be saved to the
government through proper adjust
ment of the rental situation in the
department as was saved to the gov
ernment by virtue of the oil investi-
cations that were conducted by this
body for SO many years" said Mr.
Nye.
Out with it; let us know all.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-09
WORDS OF WISDOM

The habits of our whole species fall
into three great classes: Useful labor
useless labor, and idleness. Of course
the first only is meritorious, and to ii
all the products of labor rightfully
belong; but the two latter, while they
exist, are heavy pensioners upon the
first, robbing it of large portion
Of its just rights. The only remedy
is, as far as possible, to drive use
less labor and idleness out Of exist
ence.-Abraham Lincoln.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-09
is SKILL NEEDED TO
MAN SHIPS?

A rear admiral, who has just re-
turned from the London naval con-
ference, says merchant marine is an
essential part of sea power, and that
this is possible "by building ships
just as we build cruisers" These
merchant ships, he said, "can be
changed to aircraft carriers"
Suppose we build the ships. Who
will man them?
Does the government man its fight
ing ships with Asiatics?
Does it depend on the "crimp''
(private labor agencies) and bread
lines for seamen, as do private ship
owners? Or does it carefully select
men who are trained and who are
assured fair treatment?
The spirit of adventure and "sea
consciousness" in the American boy
has been destroyed by greedy pri-
vate ship owners. They are the only
ones in the world who man their
ships with social outcasts and incom-
petents, and who seek subsidies while
| assuring the nation that this element
can uphold Americas sea traditions
Every ship owner but America s
recognize the right of seamen tc
unite No ship owner, but an Amer
lean, forces seamen to work II hours
day and seven days a week.
Every nation but ours strives to
have their citizens man their mer-
chant marine, that trained and reli.
able nationals on sea are ready when
the emergency arises.
In America we are led to believe
that sea power lies in ships, regard
less of how they are manned.
All other nations believe that sea
power is in skilled men.
The history of every maritime ma
ton upholds the latter position.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-09
HOW MINERS LIVE

Conditions under which miners work
and live was pictured by John l..
Lewis, president United Mine Work
ers, in a letter to senators protesting
the appointment of Judge Parker.
Judge Parker denied workers the
right to act collectively to redress
these conditions said Mr.. Lewis.
Then why, from all the long list of
eminent legal minds, was it necessary
for the president to appoint, and why
is it necessary for the senate to con-
firm, the elevation to the supreme
court of Parker, the judge who, in
the Red Jacket injunction suit, deliv-
cred $4,000 Americans into indentur-
ed servitude?
Admittedly, the mine worker is
unfortunately placed in the domestic
economy of the nation; intermittently
employed in an overdeveloped and in
tensely competitive industry, his an
nual earnings are meager and his
bodily wants are unsatisfed; con-
stantly beset by the horror of under
ground work, his numbers are daily
decimated by falling earth, breaking
equipment, rush of water, noxious
and explosive gases, occupational dis
eases and economic neglect; living
most often in isolated camps, devoid
of modern sanitary and living con-
veniences, and lacking social, educa-
tional and spiritual advantages, his
children are denied the inspirational
outlook upon life which is given the
sons and daughters of other men;
recognizing the value of mutual as
sociation with his fellow mine work
ers and having the desire of normal
man to improve his lot, he is yet pre-
vented by judicial decree, in large
areas, from collectively bargaining
for his labor and denied the right as
an employe to join the trade union
of his choice"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-09
WOULD THE 13-MONTH YEAR
BE MODERN .

At this day of speed-up systems and
shorter workdays and weeks, comes
the promoter of 13-month year cal
endra. Admitting that modern ideas
call for changes, but is this new one
modern?
True, there has been no change in
the present calendar since 1852, when
the British parliament cut out eleven
days. The wise gentlemen in ques-
| ton now wish to add one more month,
making 13 months, instead of twelve
Not only do they intend to add one
extra month to the calendar, which
would be the first cost. They will also
add more work on the people. The
renter will make 13 trips to pay his
rent. Or the landlord will make the
same number (and more) to collect
his rent. The same number Of trips
will be required to settle your gas,
electric, water, grocer, or what have
you?
This new idea Of a 13-month cal
endar does not hook up with our new
and modern efficiency experts, who
speed up methods in every class of
industry. Shorter hours and less
work for all, is their motto.
Consider the fact, that there would
also be Sc pay days, instead Of 81
Sounds alright, does it not?) But
how many more headaches for the
boss or proprietor, to figure out just
how to meet the payroll?
Remember the "old maids" who
are patiently waiting for the next
'leap year" to roll around. Would
it not be unjust to rob them of this
one chance?
The 28-day month might be fine
for the banker or business man, but
not for the workingman. Who is at
present unable to keep up with his
bill on 31-day month.
If the gentlement would offer a IL
month year, we would be interested, |
and sound more modern. Carrying
with it bigger paydays, and fewer
workdays. Next they'll be advocat-
ing a 13-hour clock, just to get an
opportunity to look at new face.
Don't reduce the paydays! Mr.. New
Idea, but make them bigger!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-09
FETE#FWFFEFF
BY A FADING
FIRE
BY DOUGLAS MALLOCH

DY THE fiickering light of fading
- fire
We sit and dream of an old desire.
Though we know not why, there Is
something then
That fetches the old things back again,
And, gazing deep in the dying flames,
We think of faces, remember names.
No land Is far In the firelight's glow,
And 1t isn't so long to the long ago.
slipped away
Like a starlit sky at the dawn of day,
There are days we knew that have
westward passed,
For not even the day itself could last.
We think our days and our nights are
done
With the morning star and the eve
ming sun,
But when we sit in the freight here.
The past returns, and the loved come
near.
There are things we knew that we
thought forgot,
For the mind forgets-but the heart
has not.
We shall often sit by the fire like
this,
And shall hear voice. and shall feel
a kiss,
We leave old lands, and we lose old
friends,
And we have Joy and 1t seems 1t
ends,
But they all come back, when the new
things tire,
By the flickering light of fading
fire.
(0 1929 Douglas Malloch)
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-09
FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1880
PRISONS FOR PROHIBITION

The dry land which the Anti.
Saloon Leaguers foresaw and told US
about when they capitalized our war
time emotions and put through the
eighteenth amendment, was to be &
pleasant place, without need for jails
or prisons.
Attorney General Mitchell, testify
ing before the senate judiciary com.
mittee few days ago, after ten years
of prohibition, gave, in effect, this
warning. Federal prisoners have now
reached such large numbers, chiefly
on account prohibition, and are 81
overcrowding the available prisons
that it would be inexpedient while {
shortage of prisons continues to enact
more laws to stimulate law enforce
ment.
If that is the situation after en-.
forcement of such nature as to cause
Senator Borah, staunch friend though
he is of the dry law, to assert that
prohibition agencies need an over
hauling from top to bottom, what
would conditions be if prosecution OF
violators of the Volstead act had been
as vigorous, as constant and general
throughout the country as Borah de-
mands
Of course the problem of prisons
for prohibition is not beyond solu-
ton. The Arctic regions of Alaska
are extensive. If best comes to best,
our dry czars will know what to do
But, in the meantime, what a con-
trast between dry promises at the be-
ginning of the twenties and the dry
actualities at the beginning of the
thirties-prison shortage so extreme
that the attorney general of the
United States gives warning that,
in the present and overcrowded condi-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-09
SHIP BOARD PROBE
VOTED BY SENATE

Washington.-Th senate ordered
an investigation of the United States
shipping board, which is accused of
selling ships to private corporations
for one-tenth their original cont.
Controller General McCarl stated
that the board sold ships costing
$4O8, ,O62 900 for SAB $685. and col
lected, to date, only $15,413,000 of the
purchase price.
The controller also charged that
in one case the board sold ships for
1926, 900 on down payment of $685.
000 and that Immediately afterward
the purchasers received mail con
tract bringing them in from $350,000
to $350,000 year.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-09
How 1t Started
BY JEAN NEWTON
VULGAR"

TN THE history Of this word we find
L story Of class distinction as 1t
has come down to US through the ages.
vulgar" to US, means not only
coarse and ordinary, but 1t carries
with 1t a sense of odiom, being used
today only to describe something real
ly common and offensive.
Originally, however. the word de-
scribed merely being lone of the peo-
ple." For vulgar" Is derived from
the Latin "vulgus," meaning the com
mon people, and In its native use by
the ancients merely distinguished the
common people from the aristocrats,
the plebeian from the patrlcian. That
the significance of the word should
have degenerated to its present plane
is q commentary on the old attitude
that the common people were coarse
and boorish and only patricians knew
refinement and good taste and the de-
cencies and amenities of life.
(Copyright.)
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-09

and the fracture of another is likely
in the end to decrease the victims
earning power, says the state supreme
court.
The "scheme of compensation is
not necessarily limited to cases where
there is an immediate impairment of
earning ability" said the court, in
uphloding the state industrial COM
missions decision that the employe
be awarded SIG week for 10 weeks,
eve nthough he is not disabled for
work.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-09
Dear editor:

TRAYELING through the South is
L an interesting experience. They
slaughter the vegetables but make up
for it with hot cornbread and biscuits.
Today we lunched at hotel: Gen
eral Grant ate here in 1851" Wonder
IL he used the same roller towel?
Furniture stores have displays of
stoves that look like monographs. The
only invention not yet invented is a
dish towel that looks like dish towel
and that stays dry until the very last
dish.
Today we passed sunfiower gar
den: canary feed bye and bye. Rather
dusty. / got thirsty enough to drink
the water out Of vase.-Fred Barton.
(Copyright)
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-09
DOES THIS ALSO MEAN
FAIRNESS TO LABOR?

Washington William C.
Butterworth, president, opening the
annual session of the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States here,
said this:
"The oneman show, the self-willed
Napoleon of industry whose whims
and prejudices influenced affairs, is
today an anomaly. He belongs to a
past as remote as the day when great
issues could be decided by duel to
the death.
Domination is giving way to in
which makes for orderly well-planned
advance"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-09
7heCherry
" Where with our
roo Little Hatchet
we tell the truth
about many things. sometimes pro-
foundly, sometimes fippantly,
sometimes recklessly.

Consider the cop-he's worth con-
sidering, for many reasons, one be-
ing that he has a lot of power and
often uses more than he possesses.
Some cops think that any exercise
of power is o. K.-if you can get away
with it.
But the cop also has something on
his mind, if he has a mind and if he
thinks.
A cop in Washington, d. C.-Police
Inspector Shelby-has just been talk
ing plainly, telling what is on cops
mind. It's worth reading.
"Twenty years ago." said this vet
eran inspector, "the police had a def
mite and respectable service to per-
form in the enforcement of law. The
policeman nowadays is almost always
an unwelcome visitor when he ap-
proaches a citizen"
This Inspector says that a young
man who is thinking of becoming a
cop today ought to have his head ex-
amined!
Let's go on listening to this cop:
"The police were then arrayeo
against the enemies of society-the
panderers, the fiim-f Hammers, the
thieves, pickpockets and murderers-
but under the conditions of today
they seem to be arrayed against So
ciety itself.
Instead of concentrating his eff
forts in the enforcement of laws that
are backed by the popular sentiment
of the people, the policeman nowadays
is almost always an unwelcome Wis
itor when he approaches a citizen.
"He has to inform the citizen that
his auto has been overparked Is min
utes, that it is parked under a daz-
zling street light without the parking
light on, that the citizens puppy-dog
is without a muzzle or leash, or that
the garbage can is three inches too
far out in the alley.
After 2S years of bitter and soul
destroying service, | can speak my
mind freely since the time of my re-
tirement is rapidly nearing.
"Why do we always hear this hui
labaloo of police ineficiency? The
police force is only one arm of mu-
nicipal law enforcement agencies
Inefficient as the police may be, you
must admit that the jails and peni-
tentiaries of the country are crowded
to suffocation and that the court doc
kets are so congested that there is no
chance whatever for speedy trial"
Now that sounds like a piece of a
mans mind, spoken hot off the bat
Consequently it rings true. 1t isn't
hedged around with diplomatic sting
pullers.
And it's true Bureaucratic regu-
lations have spread like a mushroom
growth until no citizen-and no cop
can remember all the things for
which man may be visited by a cop
bent upon interference. 1t has been
said that no citizen of big city can
spend day in that city without vio-
lating some law, ordinance or regu-
lation.
And added to and surmountng all
these petty fish nets of laws and reg
ulations, there is the prohibition
mess.
The jails are full, the prisons are
full, the court dockets are loaded far
beyond the Plimsoll line. It's mess.
Read again what the cop said. He
said something.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-09
FAT-REDUCING
REMEDIES MERE
"MONEY GETTERS"

Washington There is no drug
known to the medical profession that
will reduce fat, according to the de-
partment of agriculture.
Promoters of these so-called rene
dies deal in worthless and dangerous
preparations. Careful dieting and
proper exercise are the only safe
remedies for weight reduction known
to the department, it is stated
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-09
FEDERAL WORKERS UNITE

Fort Washakie, Wyo.-A local unit
of the National Federation of Federal
Employees has been organized. This
makes the third local of this fedora
ton that has been organized in Wy
oming since the first of the year
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-09
]. T. FENNELL DEAD

Boston,. T. Fennell, vice presi-
dent for New England of the Inter-
national Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers, died at his home in this
city. He was So.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-09
WHAT NEXT?

That it is possible for the human
ear, without the aid of the usual me-
chanical transformer, to "hear" sound
transmitted over an electric wire-in
other words, for the ear itself to per-
form the function of telephone re-
ceiver-was demonstrated to the vi
emma Medical Society.
Prof. F. G. Benedict tells National
Academy of Sciences the most pro-
found scholar could get enough cal
ories from one-half of a salted peanut
to operate his brain one hour.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-09
A MAGNIFICENT RECORD
OF AGREEMENT

Paul Scharrenberg has written for
International Labor News Service
and this newspaper a news story
about a new agreement with the