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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-07
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GOOD GRAVEL TRUCKS
WANTED

to haul concrete road material
to payer on state project. Apply
f. p. McElwrath. Raymondville.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-25
The Stabilizing Syndicate.

When, four months ago, the New
York stock market was in commissions
IN swiftly developing selling move
ment and stocks were being sacrificed
at tremendous losses, with general de-
n1oralization setting in, syndicate Of
bankers was formed to undertake the
sterilization of the list, If possible to
stem the selling tide. From day to day
these men, representing institutions
commanding many billions Of dollars in
''quick assets" stood by as purchasers
of stocks. When "air pockets formed
In the market, heavy offerings with no
takers, the bankers bought at the price
of tender. They sold their stocks as
soon as the pressure was removed.
sometimes on the following day. some
times several days later, in some cases
weeks afterward. They were in and out
of the market, co-ordinating their pur-
chases so as to effect the best influence
upon the list.
Yesterday 1t was announced that the
syndicate had closed It's accounts, COM
pleting the liquidation of it's operations.
No accounting was made, but it was in
Dictated that the syndicate had done a
little better than break even on the
whole transaction. If any profit was
made, 1t was small one. This was the
purpose at the outset, to effect stabiliza-
ton without any profit and, if possible,
without any loss. The effect was that
the syndicate loaned the Street" about
$240, 600 .000-which is the amount now
computed as that used altogether In
the transactions--for four months, and
the gains, such SIS they are. constitute
low interest charge.
At no time in the operation of this
syndicate was there any attempt or de-
sire to bull the market All that was
souSht was to prevent 1t from being
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-25
Control Over Visiting Drivers.

The United States Supreme Court
decision yesterday upholding the right
of District officials to bar automobile
drivers whose permits have been re-
voked in the District of Columbia,
although they may be residents OF the
States. is fortunate for the District.
Had the United States Supreme Court
taken the view Of the Court of Appeals,
which held that the Commissioners
do not possess this right under their
reciprocity agreement with Virginia,
local traffic authorities would have
been faced with another of their al
ready serious traffic problems.
Charles H. Fred, a former resident
Of the District, had his drivers permit
revoked. He moved to Virginia and
was issued registration card there
carrying with it the usual privileges.
Upon his return to the District he
was arrested. His conviction in Police
Court, however, was dismissed in the
Court of Appeals and the Commission
ers, because of the possibilities inherent
in such situation, asked the United
States Supreme Court to rule on the
matter. The Supreme Court yesterday
upheld the District authorities.
In their appeal for review the Com
missioners emphasized the serious
menace presented by ruling which
would in effect tend to nullify their
power to revoke permits. A driver
losing his permit in the District, but
registering his car under the laws of
Virginia, could drive with impunity
here, no matter how serious had been
his offense that lost him his local
permit.
The Supreme Court decision is doubly
interesting because of recent proceed
ings in the Virginia Legislature that
indicate Virginia's attitude toward
drivers permits in general. Debating
bill for certain changes in the State
automobile laws, an amendment pro-
posing that automobile drivers in Vir-
ginia be licensed was defeated on the
strength Of the argument that Virginia
presumes every person driving an auto
mobile to be qualified driver; that his
discrepancies become apparent through
failure to obey traffic laws, for which
he is punished. At the same time an
amendment was favored raising the
maximum speed limit from IS to As miles
an hour. A registration certificate, dis
played In the car or by the driver, is
Virginias only requirement. There are
no tests or examinations, as required
in many other States and the District
of Columbia.
It is fortunate for the District that
the Supreme Court has not adopted the
view that reciprocity agreements cover
any and all sins of automobile drivers.
Had that been the case, the full benefits
of reciprocity would have been left in
serious doubt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-25
Mr.. Hoover's School.

A model rural school has been pro-
vided. through the generosity Of Presi-
dent Hoover, for the illiterate children
of his Summer neighbors in the Blue
Ridge Mountains
The President, among whose out
standing qualities is his deep interest
in human welfare, naturally was dis
turbed last Summer when he learned
accidentally that the urchins of the
mountainside above his camp had been
denied all their lives what generally Is
presumed to be the common heritage
OF American childhood.
The artless conversation Of noun
tain boy proved a window through
which the President of the United
States could look into the mind of a
people-the folk of the hollows. They
we're revelation and a challenge, these
log cabin jewellers of twentieth century
America still living, with the air full Of
radio music and airplanes flying over
their heads. at the intellectual and eco
nomic level of two or three hundred
years ago.
Mr.. Hoover acted directly, in an OBJ
vious way. upon the immediate problem.
Out of his own funds he provided a
school. This opened yesterday with
about twenty children in attendance.
The establishment of the school, OF
course, does not mark the end of the
problem or of Mr.. Hoover's interest. 1t
has been estimated that there are more
than a million children in the South
ern highlands whose condition is COM
parable to that of the Presidents neigh
bors. For some it is considerably bet
ter. For others 1t is very much worse
The establishment Of schools OBJ
yiously Is not the only step required to
raise these people to level comparable
to that of the populations about them
The absence of schools, here or any,
where else, Is the almost inevitable re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-25

| Conceit is the first and last bloom on
the fruit of human self-consciousness
The silly light of satisfaction which
| lies like a mask athwart million
countenances is never seen on q hog.
One can examine horses from now
! to doomsday without catching a single
one of them looking as If he were well
| pleased with himself.
Go to the Zoo and ms ect carefully
| each and every animal there, and you
will never find glimmer of conceit on
| the face of one creature.
There is plenty of dignity in tigers
and lions. something of the comical in
the monks, bit of the absurd in wart-
| hogs and gnuS.
But no conceit.
| Man has a monopoly on that.
X X
Self-consciousness evidently is at the
root of the matter.
| No sooner does an animal become
conscious of himself than something be-
gins to happen.
Like God Almighty, he looks around
and is we'll pleased, but the joke is on
him, because he has not made himself.
Finding himself as he is or as he is
! growing, he decided that somehow great
credit is due himself.
For long time we thought that this
silly smirk of dissatisfaction was due
to things physical
1t was We opined, the result of an
erect head, a straight back, strong mus
| Giles, plenty OF red blood corpuscleS.
1t takes more than excellent physique,
however, to flower conceit at its best.
Some OF the homeliest little shrimps
in the world are the most conceited.
The question remains: How do they
get that way?
The so-called original Fall Of Man is
the only way to account for it,
1t seems a long way to go back to
explain yon conceited young man stand
ing there on the corner, but let us see.
In the first place, the fall suffused
the human race with an inferiority COM
pick. This is all theory, of course; but
theory is mighty useful thing, and
any one who attempts to explain con-
ceit needs one badly.
To this original tinge of inferiority,
permeating the peoples of all Christian
nations and those with whom they come
in contact, was added the effect of the
social systems of the world.
Higher and lower, up and down, aris-
tocratS and plabeians, these ideals have
tended to make the children of men
accept ideas of inferiority.
Added, to all this must be actual in
| feriority, both physical and mental,
which the possessors are first to see,
although they may do their best to con-
ceal the lack from the world
X x X
Youth is the great savior of man from
this all-embracing sense of inferiority.
which one nation, through a quirk of
tate, has managed to set at the top of
the heap.
One has but to look at the faces of
the high-school students of the land to
see conceit coming into flower to save
the boys from thinking too humbly of
themselves.
The first definite personal achieve
ments as the result of social contacts
usually begin in this era of mans
life.
Here young fellow begins to find out
| that he can run faster than his mates,
or outshine them in studies, or that he
possesses superior Cooks" Or a more
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-25
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC :. HASKIN.

wrote and illustrated this story of a +
very proud rich mar and a very
nice boy named Tommy He presented
1t to little girl in the, household with
the colored pictures, Which are now
published in facsimile II this manu-
script.
O. What State is secoAd in area in /
the Union?--M. l..
A. California is second4 Texas being
first in area.
Q. What words ending a If" form
the plural by changing the "f' to ""
and adding "es"?--D. P. P.
A. With the exception of he follow
ing words, nouns ending il an #"
sound form the plural in TIE regular
way: Leaf, loaf, half, self, lie. sheak
wolf, beef, knife, wife, shelf, ell wharf. +
@. Please give Caesars rebuktto per-
sons who lavish affection upon annals. F
III. G.
A. The following quotation OF that
subject is from "Plutarch's Ives:
Caesar once, seeing some welthy
strangers at Rome carrying up and
down with them in their arms and
bosoms young puppy dogs and monkeys,
embracing and making much of thin,
took occasion, not unnaturally, to ;sk
whether the women in their counryI
were not used to bear children: by that
prince-like reprimand gravely ref1ectirx
upon persons who spend and Lavish
upon brute beasts that affection aneI
kindness which nature has implanted
i'll us to be bestowed on those of our
own kind" 4,
@. What is the difference in meaning
of climate and weather?-R. C.
A. Climate is a more general term
than weather. The former is the sum
and average of the weather. which In
cludes daily change in temperature
pressure, wind and rain. Climate shows
a general condition, while weather deals
with the special instances of changes in
the atmosphere.
@. When was Arthur Conan Doyle
knighted?--F. S.
A. He was knighted in 1902.
Q. How long and wide is Wall street?
A. Wall street, New York CITY. In
about 80 feet wide and one-half mile
long.
@. How long are the longest days at
the Equator?-M. B.
A. The Naval Observatory says the
tCh6bAA VI bilC Ady az Tile Equator WRITES
less than one minute throughout the
year, being slightly longer at the SOL
stices than at the equinoxes. The in
terval from rising to setting of the
suns upper limb at the Equator is
about IL hours minutes.
O. Where is the original Of Samuel
Pepys' daryl. A. j.
A. Six of the original volumes are
the property of Magdalene College.
Cambridge. They are displayed to Q
limited number of visitors upon request,
Q. Why is the Douai Bible so called?
p. G. r.
A. Douai is in Northern France, and
is important historically as the center
of the political and religious propaganda
of the exiled English Roman Catholics.
In 1852 Philip II of Spain founded q
university there, and in connection with
1t Williams founded an English college
in 1868. Here the Douai Bible was pre-
pared.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-25

swept down to the point of disaster
greater than that which occurred. If
the syndicate had not been formed it
Is probable that as consequence of
the constant formation of the "air
pockets" the downward movement
would have carried the stock prices
to unprecedented depths, causing a
disaster from which the country
would have been years in recovering.
AS 1t was, the market stabilized at
point at which real values prevailed In
the main, with some securities below
the mark of intrinsic rates, as measured
by income returns, and others even
above that mark. There was plenty of
room below the line of the ultimate
sterilization for further declines, which
would probably have occurred had it
not been for the support of this buy
ing syndicate.
This incident has demonstrated the
power Of cooperative organization as
means of market support. BY the same
token it shows what might be done for
sinister purposes, for the false booming
of the market and for the depression of
the list for the purposes of profit. But
the institutions engaged in this opera
ton, the greatest banks in America, in
deed the greatest aggregation of bank
ing resources in the world, are con-
Quoted as for the public welfare, rather
than for tricky advantage. They are
not eleemosynary institutions. They
are actuated by business motives. They
are run for profit to the stockholders
and for the benefit of those who use
their resources for business develop
ment. But they have proved conclu-
sively in this affair. that they are not
engaged in stock market speculation
with other peoples money, even though
in a national emergency they were
buying and selling by the tens of mill
lions daily for a period of several
months. They proved to be the stabil-
izing force to prevent great financial
tragedy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-25
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES 3. TRAcEWELL.

upright carriage. or something upon
which he can pride himself.
And he is pathetically eager to find
something or other to brag about to
himself. as we'll as to others, because he
must convince himself of his own SUI
periority first before he can impose it
upon others.
The result of this mental process is
the arrogant look found on the faces of
the youngsters. Here we have the
antithesis of the attitude of the Ameri-
can Indians.
Look upon the picture of some great
chief, such as Sitting Bull, and you will
see there not trace of conceit, but only
dignity, exactly the sort as worn so
majestically by lions, tigers, buffe'oes.
II 4
The Indians, as the result of their
training and social customs, adopted
Stolidity of countenance as their mask
to reveal to the world, whereas the mod
ern American boy puts on, more for his
own benefit than for any one else. a
fine flush of satisfaction to con-
vince all and sundry that he is some
body.
In an individualist country, of course,
one must be somebody in order to keep
from being nobody. If one cannot do
it in any other way, it is permissible to
Let us admit that most of this process
is entirely unconscious young man.
after a more or less normal childhood.
looks in the mirror one day and finds
that a pleasing countenance looks back
at him.
He wakes up to the young man, as it
were, looking at him from the glass
Gradually the satisfaction which the
sight arouses in his mind and heart
spreads over his face. Pretty soon he
is Just another one of the million or two
conceited young fellows prancing over
the land.
Just how this unconscious mental at
titude gets translated into the self-satis-
ned look is mystery, but probably no
more mysterious than the operations of
the sympathetic nervous system.
Perhaps the secret lies there, after
all. just as husband and wife come to
look alike. through obscure changes
based upon like mental and physical
living habits. SO the thoughts of the
mind come out in faces.
This has been a favorite theme with
mankind, and no doubt too much reli-
ance has been placed upon the ability
to read character from facial character
lstlcs; but there can be little question
that mouths, chins, and, above all. an
indefinable look" do reveal a great
deal to person of ordinary experience
and interest in human nature "as isl
Conceit, since it grows the earliest. is
the easiest to detect-So easy, in fact,
that there is no concealment. The
staggering gait. the arrogant eye, the
loud-mouthed talk, are but parts of a
stupendous whole, recognized alike by
child, man, woman.
Conceit is by no means vice. It raises
the blood pressure, gladdens everyday
life, tends to impress others with ones
worth, and in general may be said to
be an important trait in the arsenal of
general humanity.
The man who lacks conceit usually
lacks shrewdness, too, and he who is
without some native canniness in such
world as this must be content with
more spiritual ingredients on his platter
OF life. 1t does seem as if few of us
can have everything, and those who are
not conceited are doomed to eat for
ever at the second table.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-25

suit of the absence of something else.
1t is part Of an extremely complicated
pattern of psychic and material en-
vironmental factors and their biological
consequences. Lack of education Is not
an isolated fragment of the picture of
the sparsely populated Appalachian
''hoilows."
Much objective scientific research
will be required to resolve the pattern
into its fundamental elements. What
started the cultural devolution? What
has contributed to the formation of the
vicious circle which has coiled through
the human generations in these isolated
communities? What are the underlying
economic factors? Answers to these
questions are not to be found on the
surface.
Considerable research has been car
ried out in the past on the human
problems of the region. But, like the
educational efforts, it has been patchy.
There are many model schools in the
hollows, from Virginia to Alabama,
established by philanthropists, research
foundations and churches. They have
done excellent work-in their own i'm
mediate neighborhoods. There have
been numerous research projects in
economics, sociology, psychology and
biology, and the findings have been of
inestimable value
But, up to the present, little has been
done toward the expensive and titanic
study of the region as a whole from
all the possible avenues of approach,
whereby not only a true picture of the
entire situation could be obtained but
the interrelation of the historical
economic, biological, psychological and
sociological factors determined. 1t is
encouraging to note that, spurred on
by the interest of Mr.. Hoover, several
foundations are contemplating just such
a project.
The condition of these hollow folk
so near to twentieth century civilization
and yet so far away-constitutes a gross
defect in the American scheme of
things. It is not we'll, in senseless vain
glory, to paint the defective patch With
thin coat of gilt or refuse to look
at it altogether. Such procedure is
like tying up with string vital part of
an automobiles mechanism. The motor
of American civilization has a long
trip ahead and has need of all its parts
in good condition.
Mr.. Hoover's school will accomplish
a great deal of good locally, but its real
function will be that of symbol of the
problem. 1t serves to focus public
attention on direful situation. With
the great name of the President
attached to it, that little building under
the sunrise-colored crags of the noun
tains stands as a warning sentinel. 1t
will not allow the American people
easily to forget.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-25

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@. How long have the Christie
brothers been producing motion pic
lures Pr. NJ.
A. They have been in Hollywood pro-
ducing pictures for 10 years.
@. How many medals for heroism
were given last year by the Carnegie
commissioner. A. j.
A. Twenty-one acts of heroism were
recognized by the Carnegie Hero Fund
Commission last year. In each case a
| bronze medal was given and pensions
were arranged for seven dependents of
those who lost their lives while trying
to rescue others.
@. I understand that the passport
fee of $40 which the United States now
charges is really nuisance tax and a
| hangover from the war. Is there a tend
ency on the part of the authorities to
eliminate this expense to Americans
who travel abroad?-W. F. M.
A. There are two new bills now be-
fore Congress. one of which would re-
duce the price of passports from $40 to
50, and the other extending the life of
each passport from two to six years
While 1t is doubtful what action will be
taken on these proposals, some relief
has been afforded by the State Depart
ment's arranging with all governments,
with the one exception of Great Britain,
for the elimination of the charge for
viSeS.
@. How long has the Jewish Agricul-
tural Society been in existence?--L H.
A. 1t was founded in 1900 At that
time there were about 1000 Jews on
farms At the end of 80 years the num-
Der has grown to more than 10000, and
the area under Jewish operation ap-
proximates 100000 acres.
n. How many manufacturing plants
in the United States use the fve-day
week?-E. L. ".
A. At least 270 manufacturing estab-
lishments in the United States, employ
ing $4,000 persons, are operating on
the basis of five-day week.
@. What is the cost of the Cleveland
terminal?-G. S.
A. The entire terminal development,
comprising all the buildings, AZ miles of
trackings, 10 acres of platforms, and
all that goes into the enterprise, repre-
sents an investment variously estimated
at from $50, 000, 900 to 5000, 900, 900.
@. What is the largest university in
Europe?-D. G. S.
A. The University of Paris, with an
enrolment of 2610O students, Is Eu-
ropes largest university.
@. How did H. G. Wells happen to
write child's book like THE Adven-
lures of Tommy"?-E. B.
A. 1t is said that this book was
written while Mr.. Wells was convalescing
in a friends home. He had been given
box of paints, and to amuse himself