Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-10-16
in Duh
VALLEY
81 c. NJ. HALL

TKTHILE demonstrations are being
wv made daily in the German
Reichstag, leading financial cir
cles in the United States sit back
and await the final result with no
little interest.
Under the Young plan. which was
adopted as a successor to the Dawes
plan Of reparations. the United
States IS being paid her foreign in
d~ebtedness mostly by Germany. who
instead Of paying the Allies repair
4 atoms and the Allies paying the
= United States. the money is being
turned yer 20 American bankers,
cutting out the middle man SO TO
speak.
Germany's first enormous debt
has been cut 70 some nine billions
and she is being allowed Jay By
participation in the great is1terna-
.ional bank at Basic. 1t Is almost a
gift III that she only does not par
ticipate in the bank as other nations
do for 81 years.
Germany is probably getting off
the easiest any defeated nation ever
got off, and she probably mas the
greatest civil unrest.
NOV that We have q great bank
as a clearing house for money.
IL appears TO the engineer OF this
column that the next step should
be a clearing house for proper
names OF cities and river in the var
jous nations.
For instance the name of the town
OF Basic where the bank Is located
Is known by SO many names in so
many nations that many different
styles Of letterheads must be used.
To bring IL nearer home. in Z
smaller way. Monterrey Of Mexico
when II comes 10 English is Mon
terey. Many French names cannot
even be recognized. Why not have
a world wide name for all towns and
streams and let all the biographies
carry them as such with the pro-
nrnciation the same7 Wouldn't II
simplify matters7 What II the same
applied 10 individuals? Then If Mr..
Moon Of the United States goes to
Mexico should he be greeted as Mr..
Luna?
AND the same might be put into
~ practice for weights and meas
ures, this having oft been advo-
Gated, but ID seems 10 be getting no
where fast.
ANIMATED Annie says that after
"A her hardness in standing at the
Tipica concert because she did
, not recognize at once the Mexican
national air, she has received a let
ter tartly advising her that when she
is in Rome she should do as the
Romans do.
She says she will until she goes to
the South Sea Islands. then darn If
she will eat human beings.
FROST In the Panhandle tonisht.
n Oranges ripening in the Valley.
on the ~trees--eXcept where they
have been picked too green. Looks
like you cannot stop either one.
nEv. Hugh Robinson OF San Ben
IN ito came down and spoke before
the Rotary club yesterday.
He said he was from Arkansas.
and he added he understood The
Brownsville Herald had a scatter
Drained editor
Now, doctor these Texas folks.
ought not TO see or hear Us Arkan-
sans recognizing each other that
away. We know every Arkansan
has something that gives him away.
but the Texas people DO not under
stand that there Is q certain SYM
pathy which exists between Arkan-
sans like that between left handed
persons. or men whose first born
are girls.
We. from Arkansas, a always
tell each other. but the other folks
cannot tell US until we are exposed.
We can remember when at the Uni
versity VIC could tell the out-of-state
girls from the Arkansas girls. be-
cause the breaths Of the latter used
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