Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-10-16
IN OUR
VALLEY
By c. NJ. HALL

yTYHlLE 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 q 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
atoms and the Allies paying the
United States. the money Is being
turned over to American bankers,
cutting out the middle man so to
speak.
Germany's first enormous debt
has been cut 10 some nine billions
and she is being allowed TO pay by
participation in the great interna-
tional bank az Basle. II is almost a
gift In 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 has the
greatest civil unrest.
kTOW that we have a great bank
as a clearing house for money.
1t 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
ious 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 ID nearer home, in q
smaller way. Monterrey Of Mexico
when II comes 70 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-
nunclation the same? Wouldn't It
simplify matters? What If the same
applied to Individuals Then II Mr..
Moon Of the United States goes TO
Mexico should he be greeted as MI.
Luna?
AND the same might be put into
~ practice for weights and meas
ures. this having oft been advo-
Gated. but Il seems 70 be getting no.
where fast.
ANIMATED Annie saws that after
"A her hardness In standing az the
T1pica concert because she did
not recognize at once the Mexican
natioral air. she has received a let
ter tsrtly advising her that when she
IS IN Rome she should DO as the
. Romans do.
She SAYS she viii until she goes TO
the South Sea Islands. then darn If
she will eat human beings.
frost IN the Panhandle tonight.
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
III 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.
vt the Texas people do not under
aand that there is a certain SYM
patty which exists between Arkan-
aans like that between left handed
Hrsons, or men whose first born
are girls.
We, from Arkansas. car always
tell each other. but the other folks
cannot tell us until we are exposed.
We can remember when az the Uni
versity w could tell the o~ut-of-state
girls from the Arkansas girls, be-
cause the breaths Of the latter used
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