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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-07-14
7M NAN STEM
Intimate Glimpses of the Valleys Alley
BY J. r.

rainy season, and cars don't get
stuck. No, we don't exactly need
one. but to be in style we're going
20 get one.
Contractor: Well. I'm glad you
feel that way about II. How many
miles do you intend TO pave7
Buyer: / don't know, to tell the
truth.
Contractor: How wide do you
want the highway?
Buyer: Plenty wide for two cars
TO pass each other. About go or 90
feet, ! think.
Contractor: That's pretty wide,
sir. p
Buyer: Well, use your own judge
ment. But I'll tell you what ! think
would be unusual. You know the
black line down the middle Of the
highway. Well, all I've eve seen
have been plain black. ! think. to
be distinctive, ours should be black
tsimmed in gold. Black and gold
tould be beautiful, don't you think?
Contractor: Black and gold line?
Yes. very unusual.
Buyer: And we might do some
thing else. I've given this deep
thought. and ! think 1t viii work.
We want to make everyone glad to
drive over our highway. and 10 make
them glad, we must make it inter
esting to them. Am / right
Contractor: Yes, you're right.
But what are you going TO do7
Buyer: Well, have you ever seen
a moving picture film? You know
that it is composed Of hundreds OF
small pictures. each one just a little
different from the preceding scene,
and this is what makes 1t move.
Well, our highway will be like a
moving picture film. and each
square or picture will be is feet
in size. We will hire the best paint
ers to do the work. And then. as
a q drives over the highway at a
rate Of IS miles per hour, the high
way will be a moving picture. The
passengers. by merely driving along
and looking down, will be able to
enjoy a moving picture. Later on,
when we have more money, we can
convert II into e taIkie.
Contractor: ! believe I'll be run
ring along, sir. About that con
tract Of mine-cancel It, win you2
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MH4 MOTHERS GET GRAN

derful actress. For the moment she
quite deceived her friend. Judy was
thunderstruck. She lost the power
Of speech. She left her flowers IN
Chummy's hands and went away.
But Judy was not really con-
WINGED.
There's something in thisl" she
said to herself an hour or so later.
What can IL be? II Chummy didn't
worship the ground he trod on,
then ! ought to be in bedlaml"
But for the time being, she could
do nothing but wonder.
A few days later she received a
note from Chummy. saying that she
had found a convenient studio and
another room near Bastien's. She
had moved her things. and she was
off to the seacoast the next day.
From Steyne. Judy heard nothing
at all.
A week later she received a letter
that excited her very much. al
though she little guessed what bear
ing 1t was destined to have on the
next few months OF her life.
The letter was from a stranger to
judy. 1t was typewriter on plain,
thick note paper. with the address
1T Linden Lane" stamped on 1t,
She could not make out the sign
allure. She could read Richard So,
but OF the last name she could only
decipher the first letter. a w. The
letter read thus:
Dear Madam: Having known the
late Vladimir G~uarvenius. and being
aware Of his interest in your career
/ venture 20 ask whether you would
be good enough TO call on me here
any afternoon between four and six
o'clock, as I have q proposition to
place before you.
Yours respectfully.
Then came the signature that
judy could not read.
She determined to 20 to Linden
Lane on the very same day. The
name OF her dead master was an
immediate passport to her implicit
confidence. 1t entirely overcame the
instructive suspicion that town-bred
people harbor Of all strangers.
She dressed herself in deep black,
the outward sign OF her loyalty 70
the man who had failed her only In
death. and who had taught her
everything she knew.
She made the journey In a taxi,
and found Linden Lane a broad
and busy thoroughfare which en-
tirely belied It's name. The number
she sought proved 70 be in a hand
some arcade.
In the hall she met q iiveried at
tendant. and showed him the let
ter. He informed her that the writ
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er's name was Wyon. He took her
UP to the third floor, and she saw
all around her evidences o. wealth
and prosperity, such as deep pile
carpets. much polished woodwork
ana plate glass and gllded bronze
fittings.
On a mahogany door she saw a
small brass plate bearing the name
Richard $. Wyon.' Going in, she
found a large office teranted by
four clerks-two men and two very
smart young women.
Her inquiry produced an older
man from an inner room. who dis
appeared for a moment. and then
ushered her through two smaller
offices into a large, handsomely fur
nished apartment that might have
been a library but for maps OF South
Africa and the United States that
hung on n OF the walls and some
letter-filing cabinets and a stock
Exchange ticker.
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Finest Panama Hat in the World

President Hoover Is thoroughly equipped for a
fishing trip. He Is the possessor Of the finest pana-
ma hat in the entire world, gift Of the president Of
Colombia who Is an intense admirer Of the presi-
dent Of the North American republic.
Senators David Walsh and Thomas Connally Of
Texas handed the president the gift on the same day
that the panama hat was handed IN by an official
messenger. It was a hike in the pensions Of World
War veterans.
Uncle Andy Mellon has a surplus Of sl7oo0oo0 in
his strong box. Why not place this huge sum in
circulation in the channels OF trade Of all the 45
American states?
There are 4,0oo,0o0 World War veterans. Now, when
Is q hero a hero? Is 1t when the war Is on or when
peace time comes and his pocketbook is lean and he
Is out Of a job7
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The Once Over
THE OLD swIsIsfIN. HOLE

THE OLD vi HOL
Copyright, 1890, by The Associated Newspapers)
Greenfield, Indiana.-James whitcomb Riley's Old
swimmin' Hole has passed into oblivion, with the
Of a modern bathing pool on the site.s-
News item)
Obi the old swirnrin' hole! WHARF the crick 20 stnl
and deep
Looked like a baby river that was layin' half
asleep
And the gurgle OF the worter round the drift Jest
below
Sounded like the laugh OF something we 'oncet used
to know
Before we could remember anything but the eyes
Of the angels Iookin' out as we left Paradise.
Now I gaze at the spot and IL makes me very glum
For the holes been replaced by a natatoriumi
Oh! the old swimmin' holel In the happy days Of
yore
When I ust TO lean above It on the old sycamore,
Oh, it showed me a face In It's warm sunny tide
That gazed back at me SO gay and ~glorified;
It made me love myself as I leaped to caress
Ny shadder smilin' up at me with such tenderness
But now marble baths shine with bright nickel
showers
And they've rules, regulations too, an set swimnin'
hoursl
OH the old swimmin' holel IN the long lazy days
When the humdrum Of school made so many run
aways,
How pleasant was the journey down the old dusty
lane
Where the tracks of our bare feet was printed so
plain
You could tell BY the dent Of the heel and the sole
They was lots O. fun on hand at the old swimmin'
hole,
But today modern plumbin' mocks the scenes of
old
An it's p~lastered with faucets readin' Hot" and
"Cold"l
Now no bulrushes grow and the ~cattails so tall
Are gone with shadders that fell over all
And the worter SO mottIed with amber and gold
Now gushes from pipes that some steamfitter sold;
AT one end o. the place is a sign-nan aiivei-
That says in big letters to bathers, Don't Dive!"
And no glad lilies rock in the ripples that roll
In the new bathin' pool by the old swimmin' hole.
OH the old swimmin' holel When I looked at the
place
7 shuddered to think Just what time could efface:
A great marble structure now stands on the spot
WHARF the old divin' log lays sunk and forgot;
AS I stray down the banks WHARF the trees ut
There's nuthin' I see that's familiar TO me.
And there's this thet Jest clutches my heart by the
roots
When the kids now swim there they must wear
bathin' suits!
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Along Elizabeth

AAUAA%
Leon Perl. ..of the Fashion. ...
talking 10 Brother Sam....in the
front door Of their establishment. T.
Tito" Viduarri. with Mr.. and
Mrs. j. S. Duncan. -. riding IN a
big Nash Sedan....D Lawrence
Olmstead. lin his Elizabeth street
office. -. listening to q radio. wv,
w. Scott. ."Scotty".... insurance
salesman de luxe. attending To
business Monday. "A. Wayne Wood
/. attorney. climbing stairs 49,.
smoking. r.. z. Green. another
lawyer. -. climbing the same stairs
Ion his way to r.. B. Creagers
suite Of offices. .Conrado Cloetta
hardware store owner and man
ager....all dressed I'D.
Taps
Jimmy Lomax, everybody's friend,
Is gone.
His funeral Sunday afternoon
proved the number OF his acquaint-
ances was extraordinarily large.
Hundreds Of friends from all over
the Valley were there, and floral
offerings were extravagant.
Jimmy was q generous, big heart
ed man. He was always ready to
help O friend-and he was always
ready for q little fun.
He enjoyed life, and lived a full
one.
Originally from Pennsylvania
Jimmy moved to the Valley and be-
came an ardent supported Of this
strip Of Texas. He made this his
home, and once here, never return
ed TO the scene OF his birth.
His untimely death at Legion
leaves q void that will be difficult
to fill.
III Men Shopped As Women DO
No. 3
A cement highway is purchased:
Buyer: What we want is a ce-
ment highway. Every other county
In the state has one. and we must
have one Immediately. We are out
Of style.
Contractor: 7 wouldn't say out
OF STYLE exactly. A highway Is a
necessity.
Buyer: Not In this section. The
soil Is sandy and absorbs water in
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FAST ONE

Sleek Club Member: I've just
been sitting for my picture III oils
The Other: What are you being
painted asa sardine?-The HUI
m0rist.
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WARNING

Bob told me 7 was the eighth
wonder OF the world"
What did you say2'
Told him not 10 let me catch
him with any or the other seven
The Humorist.
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The whole Hunter family, including the mother.
aged 62-and who has been p~racticing dance steps
is in vaudeville following that twenty -four days-in-
the-sir figt;. It would appear that the audiences
are now In for something Of an endurance test.
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Add SMILES: As emotional as a girl who coul
swoon with excitemnt after reading one Of Mr.. Coo
ndge's syndicated articles.
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Watch Your STEM.

The house in which John d. Rockefeller was born
has been bought and moved to Coney Island, where
It will be set up as a baIlyhoo lane attraction. II
the oil king decides 70 make a pilgrimage to his birth
place now he will have 70 be careful not to get into
a roller coaster by mistake.
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~"LosT-False teeth at city airport Saturday. 30,
16."-Lansing Journal.
The parachute evidently failed.
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Tammany Hall has given a flag pole to New York
City in Union Square. Possibly 50 It's indicted Of
ficials can now be taken care of as flag-pole sitters.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-07-14

Helen is going back TO King Carol. Well. here
hoping that she had him put whatever he promis
in writing.
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Copyright, 1890, by The Associated Newspapers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-03
Mckee Will Whistle.

Mickey Mckee, whistlinT soloist, again
will be heard during the Roxy broad
cast tomorrow evening Viz WIZ chain.
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u. S. WILL WATCH
RACE IN ILLINOIS
Lewis and Mrs. Mccormick
Prepare to Write Epic
in Politics.
Rx the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August august will
see Illinois launch an epic in politics
the campaign between Ruth Hanna Nc
Cormick and James Hamilton Lewis
for seat in the United States Senate.
The eyes of Nation will turn to-
ward this prairie State to watch the
struggle between the courtly former
Senator and a woman. The campaign
will be touched of at the State party
conventions in Springfeld-the Demo-
Gratis on August 30 and the Republic
ans on August %.
Mrs. Mccormick today said she
would deliver a speech before the Re-
publican convention and at that time
set forth the views which are to carry
her on a politically historic course.
Lewis is formulating the foundation
for his campaign and said today he
would advance prohibition and taxation
as dominant issues.
State prohibition referendum propos-
ais are expected to be laid before each
of the party conventions.
Lewis FavOrs State Control.
The former Democratic Senator said
he would champion legislation to grant
the States authority to determine among
themselves the alcoholic content OF
beverages sold within their borders. He
SAID he also would support Federal
act against LIQUOR traffic between States
where alcoholic content requirements
differ.
Lewis said he would advocate new
system of administering the national in
come tax laws that would authorize the
Federal Government to return to the
separate States any surplus In taxes
after the Governments requirements
had been met.
The Democratic nominee expressed
the opinion that the signing of the Lon
don naval pact had removed from the
Fall campaign international questions,
on which Mrs Mccormick largely based
her successful primary fight.
Committees Prepare to Meet.
Cornelius j. Doyle, Springfield lawyer,
who heads the Republican State Cen
trail Committee, said today he intended
to call a meeting of his committee next
week to plan for the convention.
A subcommittee of the Democratic
State Central Committee has been
named by State Chairman Thomas j.
Donovan to draft tentative platform
to be submitted to the convention.
The State conventions. beside adopt
ing their platforms of principles, are to
nominate three candidates for trustees
of the University of Illinois and a
fourth candidate to I'LL a vacancy on
the board.
On August IS the Senatorial Com
mittee investigating Mrs. Mccormick S
primary campaign fund returns to Chi
cago to resume its inquiry.
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SHOUSE. COOL AND CALM HIMSELF.
POURS LAVA UPON G. O. P. FOES
Political Enemies Like Him,
Although He Is Formidable
Opponent.
Motto Seems to Be: "When
You See a Hostile Head, Hit
1t, and With Anything"


Prussia once had a monarch mag
nificently called 1.-The Great Elector";
but what of it? The Great Elector"
for us today in American national life
Is Jouett Shouse, chairman OF the Ex-
ecutive Committee of the National
Committee of the Democratic party.
He is electing Democrats to the House
Of Representatives and to the Senate
with an air that seems to turn the
hearts of Republican beholders into
quaking jellies,
Mr.. Shouse is a man of great de-
liberation of manner and of frightful
celebrity Of punch. Thouh he never
went to naval training school, he has
the Nelson touch" 1t is his strategy
to bear down upon the Republicans,
with all his sails set to every gust OF
passing publicity and to keep their
captains defending and apologizing
This last week he got them almost
apologizing for having asked the Gov
ernment'S bureaus to provide them with
data of achievements" to be used to
prove to the public what good managers
OF the Government they hc"2 been.
Clever Work by Shousc.
Every administration has gathered
and employed such data" 1t is i'm
memorial practice. 1t was ancient and
current when Mr.. Shouse was himself
an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
under an administration gone by. Yet
such is Mr.. Shouse's genius that he is
able to start talk of 1t now as If IL
were novel charge" by him against
the present administration, and he is
able to get the Republican leaders al
most into the stage of feeling them
selves called upon to clear themselves
of scandal"
There have been two outstandingly
competent catch-aS-catch-can political
wrestlers and throwers at the heads of
national political organizations In
Washington during this writer's resi-
dence here. One was John T. Adams
of Iowa, for the Republicans The other
is now Mr.. Shouse of Kentucky and of
Kansas, for the Democrats. The SUI
preme political motto of each of them
could with little permissible exaggera-
ton be said to be:
Hit, and Hard.
When you see a hostile head, hit it,
and hit it with anything.
The intimidating and demoralizing
effect of this policy upon the enemy is
demonstrable. Mr.. Adams in 1923 and
1924, pounding not merely every Dem
ocratic criticism but every Democratic
critic, filled the Democrats with vacil-
lation and the Republicans with conf
dence.
Mr.. Shouse. today, shooting at the
Republican tariff for intending to keep
prices up and shooting also for sue
ceeding in keeping them down, has the
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ILLINOIS MAY VOTE
ON 3 DRY PROPOSALS
Petitions for Referendum With
$4,000 Signatures Will
Be Filed Shortly.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August 2.-Petitions ask
ing for a referendum in Illinois in No
vember on three phases Of prohibition
have each been inscribed with more
than $50, 900 signatures and will be sent
to Springfield next week for filing, it
was announced today by Bernard w.
Snow, chairman of the Republican
County Central Committee.
The law requires that such petitions
be signed by at least 10 per cent of the
registered voters This Is equivalent to
$40 600 signatures. Mr.. Snow SAID ne
expected to have 400 600 signatures be-
fore the petitions were filed.
The questions on which referendum
is sought ask % whether the eight
eenth amendment should be repealed,
(2) whether the Volstead act should be
modified to permit manufacture, trans
portation and sale of beverages which
are not intoxicating in fact as deter
mined by the laws of the various States,
and 81 whether the Illinois prohibition
act should be repealed.
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Republicans uncertain which way to
run and has the Democrats running,
they think, straight toward the White
House.
Mr.. Shouse wears an aspect of set
tied calm. 1t seems incredible that out
of SO placid and suave hillside there
could emerge such torrents of contro-
versial volcanic lava. 1t is as If We
suvius were operated in a corner of a
formal garden of trimmed box trees
and neat tulip blooms Mr.. Shouse's
publicity is volatile and ferocious. He
himself is solemn and sweet.
Never Seems Agitated.
He seems never agitated, never cross,
never fretful, never hurried, always con-
siderate, always the friend of all. He has
been intimately friendly with Al Smiths
lnveterate enemy. William G. McAdoo
He has been intimately friendly with
William G. McAdoo's inveterate enemy,
Al Smith. He has been intimately
friendly with Al Smiths and William
G. McAdoo's inveterate enemy, Herbert
Hoover.
The solid character Of Mr.. Shouse
that attracts inward friendships to him,
while his publicity talents make him so
outwardly formidable, was never better
shown than in an incident preceding
lNAGlOkldL NOlNcDJlOIl Vi
1928. Mr.. Shouse was in Washington
on an errand on behalf of Kansas City.
He encountered Mr.. Hoover, who had
known him as Treasury Department
official. Mr.. Shouse's membership in
the Democratic party did not at all
deter Mr.. Hoover from conflding in him.
A considerable conversation took place
at that moment between Mr.. Hoover
and Mr.. ShouSe on Mr. Hoover's proper
methods of trying to secure the Repub-
lican nomination for President at the
Kansas City gathering.
Plays the Man as Well.
Mr.. Shouse plays politics, but all the
time also plays the man. He has pretty
well known every possible variety of his
fellowman. He has been reporter, edi-
tor, publisher; farmer, breeder, Federal
legislator, Federal bureaucrat, lawyer,
banker, Southerner, Westerner, ma
tional political organizer. He grows race
horses and races them. As BELTS pa
iron of the track, he dresses with care
and with flare. He is sartorial orna-
ment to the Capital City and pillar
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-03
Mad Dogs Playful
Treatment of Fish
Stirs Rabies Scare
Three Persons Who Ate
Florida Catch Taking
Pasteur Treatments.
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, August 2.-It
may sound queer, but three Jacksonville
residents were taking Pasteur treat
ments today because they ate fish that
had been bitten by a mad dog.
1t happened like this: A man and his
wife, who owned the dog, went fishing
AS fast as they pulled in fish the dog
grabbed it, They thought he was just
being playful.
After they had cooked and eaten the
fish they noticed the dog doing strange
things. They came to the conclusion
that he had hydrophobia.
Then they remembered the fish. The
dog was observed, later killed and found
to be afflicted with rabies.
The man and woman and another
person who had eaten the fish asked the
Health Department what to do. The
Pasteur treatment was prescribed.
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Nv the Assnciated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Ell PASO, Tex, August Moore than
a score of Ell Paso women were strangely
silent today.
They took up the challenge of the
editor of the FL Paso Herald, Henry
Ansley, who in an unguarded moment
wrote in his column an offer TO bet
no woman in the city could go 10 hours
without saying a word.
Fourteen hushed tables of bridge were
in progress in answer to the editors
wager that no four women could play
bridge two hours without talking.
Other women were quite vocal-ll3
ordered the paper stopped as the result
of Ansley's remarks.
The editor said today that in writing
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of its amenities while also q shooting
gallery of its hostilities. His personal
Combination of steadiness and charm Il
as valuable to his party in consolidating
the Democrats as his public combination
of pugnacity and ruthlessness is valu"
able to it in discouraging the Republi-
cans. II ne happens to go on in the
Fall from dfscouraging to discomf1tins
them, they will horribly hate him, exc
cept that they really like him.
(Copyright, 1902
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-03
Girl Outwits Thieves.

Clapham claims to have the sr1artest
girl in England. She is 13-year-old
Barbara Goodfellow. She saw four men
trying to rob a jewelry store from the
window of her home recently, and in
stead of frightening them she calmly
took the number of their car and tele-
phoned the police. The flying squad
from Scotland Yard promptly stopped
their raid.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

$4,000 HEALTH AND ACCIDENT INsUR-
snce pays $500 week sickness and acct
dents; hospital and doctors bill paid entire
cost. $40 90 year. Write agent. 1917 K NV. :"
A NEED E,rTIIEN LOADS
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toned and Others is approaching $780,
900 a year. The current appropriation
is SAL 900. This is paid out of the Dis
trict revenues, but the supply system is
entirely under control of the War De-
partment, which operates it through its
District engineer, assigned from. the
Corps of Engineers. The present super
intendent Of the plant. who has been
in the service IS years. is j. Eugene
Curtis. He helped design the present
plant
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-03
PEACHES RIPE
at QUAINT ACRES
Wanted--Load

Crop light; do not delay. Drive through
silver Spring. turn right at Sligo, only
miles from District. Open every day, m