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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-24
Mev York
Letter

NEW YORK-Through the barn.
like, old-fas- joined side doors Of
the Metropolitan Opera House once
more escape fragments Of music.
muted by the solid. severe looking
walls.
The picturesque old cubby holes
that serve as off-stage offices and
look like corners Of an antique
dealers store-room. have sprung
to life again.
A summers collection Of Man
haitian dust has gathered on the
roll-top desk Of william Guard,
who manages each year to look
more like o perambulating Whist
Ter etching. The last of the boule-
vardiers,v someone labeled this
spokesman of the opera And an
excellent observation.
They are casting for the opera
chorus now. And this Is no matter
Of legs, looks and lingerie. such as
may be found q few blocks north
ward on Broadway. Selecting for
the opera Is q serious, expert busi-
ness.
From every corner Of the globe
come the hopeful ones, most Of
them mature and seasoned singers.
Youth comes. too, Of course: comes
from the singing schools and the
farms: comes from the continental
capitals Of Europe and the choir
lofts: comes from the spaghetti
factory and the salon. There are,
TO be sure, old chorus members
who return year after year and
are always welcomed. There are
stout women and slender women;
women OF mixed years and uncer-
tain years. There Is one who Is
CRAVING and who has come back
year after year to take her place
somewhere in the background.
The grandma Of the Met" they
call her.
In Forfeit street, the Met au-
ditioners must take time. They
start early In September and they
keep at II for a month. For 80
days the chorus masters listen to
voices and take notes on potenti-
alities. Who knows but what some
fine voice may come out OF the
ranks and find a place among the
leads? Some unknown may be
found In the crowd Of hundreds
who needs only chorus experience
to stem out In 'front.'
So they 60 carefully and ex-
pertly. This year there is q new
face In the addition row: q new
conner imported from Italy who
has had great success with choral
work in Rome and South America
and way points.
During the addition and rehears-
al time. the Met Is q huge black
cave. The stage Is muddled with
the mixed scenery OF several operas.
Along the dark, padded aisles stand
lines Of ~expectant ones. Gay voices
come from the corridors outside as
doors open and shut. Old-timers
greet and exchange small talk of
adventures and experiences met
during the summer months.
Someone comes on stage and
sits down on q property rock used
in the Girl OF the Golden West"
Two more lean against a well from
The Sunken Bell" The backdrop
is left over from 'Lohengrin."
Ropes dangle at exits and clutter
the back stage. The vast prosce-
MUM looks strangely bald. The
golden horseshoe is barely visible
In the half-light. Upper galleries
are like black, gaping gums Of a
nightmare giant.
In such a scene come and 60 the
hopeful-hundreds ard more hun
dreds. with hope and illusion ever
resurrent.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-24
TO-DAY IT, TIE
Anniversary


on Sept. ~. 1917. the expulsion
Of SEN Robert ~ LaFolletts, OK
Wisconsin, from the United States
senate, was demanded tn d petit
ton addressed to the United
states senate by the Minnesota
Public Safety commission.
The commission made this move
upon the false basis or the report
OF A speech LaFollette made ~ 3D.
paul. He was quoted as sayf7 !:
we had no grievances INC tho
hands OF Germany" But what he
really said was that we had
grievances"
Formal charges against LaFol-
lettc were introduced by Senator
kellogg. OF Minnesota. but the
senate committee which considered
them. BY q vote OF . to 2, recon-
mended the adoption OF a resolu-
ton that the charges he dis
missed for the reason that the
speech In question doesn't Justify
any action by the senate"
This resolution was adopted By
q vote or 50 to II. with Sen. KEEL
logT. who brought the charges,
voting 70 dismiss them.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-24

call an oxygen debt The tired
ness is due to the appearance Of
a substance called tactic acid In
the muscle fibers.
As much as ON ounce of Tactic
acid appears when a man runs 100
yards as fast as he can. Fatigue
OF a muscle occurs mainly due to
the formation OF the tactic acid
The purpose Of the oxygen Is to
remove the Tactic acid.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-24
1881 BY NtAXELSERVlCE INC.

| TO spend the evening with her but
the younger girl made excuses.
TT was nearly eight o'clock when
= Norma unlocked the door or her
newly rented room. The first fash
OF the electric light was startling.
Everything looked strange and diff
ferent- Shabby In the glow OF vel
low lamp light She closed the
door behind her and took on her
hat.
Across the room. tackled to the
faded wallpaper. Norma saw q cal
endar. She had not noticed II
earlier In the day. The calendar
bore the name OF n coal company
printed In large lettering and be-
meath this the head OF a fiirtatious
young oma dressed I'm red. The
calendar had evidently been added
to the room as u decoration. No
one had bothered 10 remove the
November sheet from the pad.
Swiftly Norma crossed the room
and tore or the antedated leaf.
Yesterday had been the second Of
December. She counted down four
weeks. That brought her TO the
30th. Four weeks-but IL might be
five, Painstakingly Norma drew a
circle about the numcral 80. IL &C.
Cured to her for the first time that
Mark would be away on Christmas.
For a long time she sat and
stared az the calendar. Then she
arose. drew a large cross over the
day that had just ended. There
would be q more crosses TO draw
before she could hope TO see Mark
again. Twenty-seven more crosses.
From childhood and Sunday
school Norma remembered a hymn
about crosses. No. she told herself
vehemently. II was not sacrilegious
to think Of sucl thingsl Every day
away from Mark. every "a hours
represented by a cross upon her
calendar. was n literal cross TO be
borne on her shoulders.
Oh. what good could telling her.
self 10 be brave do? What good
could anything dot
Norma was 90 years old. She was
very much In love. desperately un-
happy and lonesome. So. as might
have been expected OF any young
girl in a Similar situation. she cried
herself to sleep.
Morning when II came was gray
and dreary. A sunless December
day threatening snow which did not
fall.
At 9:45 she was summoned 10
the telephone Chris voice at the
other end or the wire said brightly,
"Everything's arranged. You're TO
come down as soon as you can and
Dorothy'n take you to Mr.. Stuart's
Office. How o a you make it?'
Half an hour. I guess. I'll start
right away"
Then step on Il. The jobs as
good as yours nowi"
Chris was a dear. For her sake
Norma tried to seem more enthusi.
astic than she felt riding downtown
on the street car. later meeting the
unknown Dorothy and being led by
her to the unknown Frederick Stu
arts Office.
Halfway down the corridor Doro-
thy stopped. wait q minute."
she said abruptly. You're not feel.
ing so high this morning. are you7
Need a little rouge Here-lct's see
what we can do"
They went into the wash room.
From her own vanity case Dorothy
produced rouge and a pinkish pad
with which 70 apply H. Five min
! utes OK artful ministrations and
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were required to continue the
speed Of the loo-yard dash for q
long time
1t has been found by measure
ment that a mans heart and lungs
can supply hi with about one
seventh OF that amount. 50 that
he cannot 90 on mt such a high
speed for more than q fraction OF
q minute. He gets tired and
acquires what the psychologists
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-24
Quotations

Economies Is still In the back
ward state and economists have
not yet earned the right to be
listened to attentively.
John Maynard Keynes, British
economist.
We r surrounded by traditions
which were once living and now
are dead. -Havelock Ellis
We won the war and II be-
hooves us. at this late date, not to
lose the peace.
William Guggenheim.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-24

ANuA m2 ClACt &E3F tIU NbA1A An huA
cheeks notably Frightening her ap-
~pearance.
THE lettering on the frosted glass
before them read. Frederick y
Stuart. Authors Representative"
Dorothy opened the door and they
entered.
A slim girl. taller than Norma
with ash blond hair. arose TO meet
them. Hello" she smiled at Doro-
thy. is this Miss Travers?"
Yes. And this is Miss Fenway.
Miss Travers. She's come 10 see
about the job"
"Of course. Mr.. Stuart's IN now.
Shall I ask him IL he can see your
I know 10 win be- all right"
Norma said she would like the
interview nc once. The slim girl
disappeared. She returned and
with a nod invited Norma 10 enter
her employers ONCE.
Norma passed through the door
marked private" The man at the
desk looked up. Miss Traversf" he
asked.
Yes. sir. I understand you need
a secretary and I've come 70 apply
for the position"
Stuart Strengthened back. He
was a dark man and ne wore large,
dark-rimmed Epectacles. The hair
over his temples was rather thin.
He looked. Norma thought, exactly
like any businessman and this was
something OF n surprise. Dimly she
had envisaged a literary agent as a
sort OF poetic creature with wavy
hair, Windsor tie and affected.
slouching garments. Frederick =
Stuart looked essentially practical.
"Sit down. Miss Travers." ne said.
Miss Fenway tells me you've had
considerable experience. Take die.
tation. I suppose?"
yes. SIR. Most or my experience
has been In a law Office. I've had
practice taking letters In shorthand
and also on the dIctaphone."
Il see. Well. let's have n try M
H. Ask Miss Fenway for a note
book"
Norma went for the notebook.
For half an hour she took dicta-
tion at high speed and afterward
transcribed the notes. Her fingers
seemed clumsy as she hit the type
writer keys but her shorthand was
accurate. IL took longer 10 write
the letters than II should have but
when finished they were perfect.
Stuart studied the letters care
fully He chewed the end OF a
cigar that was not lighted. Present
ly he broke the silence.
Report for work Monday morn
Ing. please. Miss Travers. Nine
o'clock"
Norma hesitated ~Abcut the
salary" she began.
"Yes. yes. or course. Twenty,
five dollars"
II was earning $50 on my last
job"
We'll. well make II s27.50. Raise
you after the first or the year IL
your works satisfactory. Right7'
The girl nodded. ITS all right
She left Frederick J. Stuart's once.
In n building six blocks away W..
nj. Travers shifted 10 q more com
Portable position in his comfortable
desk chair. He was holding the
French telephone 20 his ear.
whats that7" Travers ex'
claimed. You've found the girlf
Yes. OF course I want to 20 through
with II. Take a cab and come over
here right away"
| Ito BE Continued)
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ing to help me. Chris" she said.
Il didn't know you'd feel this way
about IT."
See here. infant, Of course I
want to help you! I'm just trying
to think what's the best thing to
do. that's ALL"
II won't 60 back to Marks
fathers house. I tell you I won't!"
chris sighed "well." she said,
that settles thatI As I said,
I don't blame you much. III you
won't 30 back I think you'd better
go to work. Why didn't you come
to my place last night instead OF
going to that rooming placer"
"You know you've no room now,
Dorothy's with you"
always have room We can
double up"
mo. / don't want you to do that,
You see things are different now,
Chris. rye got to stand on my own
feet II helps to tell you about
things, to talk them over and feel
there's one person who understands
Oh. i don't know what I'D do with
out youl But I'm not going to be
one more to impose on your gen
erosity--"
"Sillyl Why. that's ridiculous."
Maybe. Anyway, that's how
feel about 1t. This place I've moved
to Is all right I'll want 10 see
you often, Chris. but I've paid the
rent for q week and / think I'll
stay there"
Suit yourself. I suppose you'll
come to dinner some timer"
Love to. Tell me about Dorothy
What's she like?"
"Oh. Dorothy's all right. We don't
pal around the way you and ! did
but she's o. X. as a roommate
Say" Chris dark eyes flashed
with q sudden inspiration. why
didn't ] think Of Il? Why didn't
think"
Think Of what! What are you
talking about?"
"A job for you. Don't know what
II pays but II would be a lot better
! than nothing. Dorothy was telling
me about II last night. A girl she
knows who works for a literary
agent on the same floor we're on
Is going to quit Saturday. Getting
married. I don't even remember
the girls name. though I met heI
once. Lucille something-or-other
She was going to tell her boss about
1t today. It's ten 10 n they
haven't hired anyone else yet"
Whats q literary agent7 What
kind OF a Job Is it?"
"Oh. the job wouldn't be hard
Just regular secretarial work
Stuart Is the mans name. Frederick
Stuart. People who write articles
for magazines and stories send
them to him. He finds someone Il
buy them. Dorothy says he's one
OF the best In the city"
do you think he'd hire me-"
why notf You're q good secre
tary. Here-I tell you what III
do! I'll get Dorothy to 20 In and
see this girl In the morning and II
nobody's taken the job I'll call you
to come right down. How's THAR"
Zine. Say. that'n be great
Christ I couldn't very well go Il
Brooks and welliver and ask for .
recommendation when I left them
the way I did"
We'll get Lucille 10 recommend
you personally. Shed do that FOL
Dorothy. I'm sure"
Ten minutes later they left thu
restaurant Each boarded a differ
emit street car. Chris urged Norm1
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rest the one nat had oxygen re-
covers and works again. The muscle
that had no oxygen fails to re-
cover; 1t does not contract again.
AS explained by DR.. A. v. Hill,
Nobel prize win r In medicine,
and Foulerton, professor Of the
Royal Society. a good runner Of
the sprint distances. going at full
speed. would need more than 80
quarts OF oxygen per minute II he
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-24

II was really the answer 10 a
buffers prayer. He didn't have 20
wach his form In front of a mirror.
read the newspaper golf lessons of
talk to the club professional 70
find why his golf score always looked
Ike a ticket In the Calcutta Sweep
stakes. when he went into the woods
a his drive, plopped his second
slos into the creek and took seven
puts on the green he could al
ways resort to one alibi--that new
ball.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-24

HE'LL HERE
Pretty NORMA KENT. 20-year-
old secretary. mnrrfes MARK
TRAvERs. son OF ". N. TRAv-
er. I'm spite Of the fathers threats
10 disinherit Mark.
The story opens In Marlboro.
middle western metropolis.
Mark sells his expensive roadster
to get money for the honeymoon
n he and Norma 70 10 fashion,
able Hue Springs, After two
weeks their money II gone. partly
due TO Marks gambling. With
$500. borrowed. the couple return
to Marlboro. Mark sets ont ON q
round Of pleasure seekinE instead
funds dwindie ngntn he and
Norma move to a cheap apnrt-
ment.
Mark gets one Job and loses II.
Then he becomes n ff~00rwulker In
Biossomdnle's department store.
In spite Of poverty the young eou-
Mssrh .s 's II A ..nas To- Tor him.
Offers 20 take him back into his
business organization n Mark will
ROY he cnn make good His first
task Involves q business trip 20
France. Norma IN "a remain at
home. she is frightened md bexs
@@ .tt - - WV 49,
protests he departs.
Norma, treated rudeiy nc her
father-tn-inw's home. slips away
leaving no trace Of her where
abouts. b takes = room In q
cheap 'cdEins house and ssie-
CHRIS SAUNDERS. when Chris
leaves the once In which she
works Norma meets her.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XXI
CHRIS SAUNDERS twisted the
- ring on her finger. II was ar
oddly engraved band set with Jade
Chris always wore the ring. She
had worn 1t ever since Norma had
known her.
When she looked up all Chris
said was. WELL"
"He-he didn't say anything
Norma went on hurriedly. "Oh. II
was terrible that first night when
knew he recognized mel I tried
to tell Mark-rd tried to tell him
before but he wouldn't let me!
Mark knows him. Chris. He and
stone are some sort OF cousins
Mark didn't guess that I'd evel
see him before thought"
The other girl Strengthened. HeI
eyes. meeting Norma's quite levelly
we're a mask.
Listen" Chris said, you've
done nothing to be ashamed OF. II
I we're you I'd save my worrying
until I had something to worry
about. Something reall Don't lose
your head. Norma. Tell me what
you expect to do during the next
four weeks?"
"T haven't thought It all out. III
have to get q Job somewhere / sup
pose. The money / have won't last
Anyhcw I'd rather be doing some
thing"
Again Chris was absorbed IN the
ring. Il understand why you rar
away last night" she said slowly
but Il might have been better Il
you'd stayed"
-oh. ! couldn't! Do you think
I'd accept anything from people
when l know they hate me? I Just
couldn't do II. Chris. Mark wouldn',
want me to stay there II he knew
made up my mind before he left
that ! wouldn't stay In that house
couldn't tell him because he was
counting on the trip 90. II he'd
known how I felt about Il h<
wouldn't have gone I wasn't will
ing to stand In Marks way!"
But don't you see. dear. running
away like this II going to make
troub1e?"
Norma's chin lifted but her lips
trembled- 4 thought you'd be viii
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-24

In the past season this spared mil
lions the ordeal Of trying TO dis
cover what was wrong with then
game. And now the u. 8. @. A. has
stepped In and snatched away the
red that comofrted them il the
storm.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-24

Homes were wrecked, golf clubs
disorganized, locker room harmony
ruined and business conference
thrown into chaos by the 1853 ball.
They had a reason for calling 1t the
1.6s-onc hole in sixty-eight strokes
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-24

But even at that the u. S. G.. A.
by abolishing the ball misinterpreted
the real needs OF the golfing world.
What the average golfer needs more
than anything else for his personal
happiness Is something on which TO
blame his bad golf. In the new ball
he had it.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-24

The good players continued to get
good scores with 1t, but the rank and
file never got beyond treating 1t as
an alibi rather than q golf ball.
Nothing except prohibition. the ex-
kaiser and the European corn borer
have been blamed for SO much dis
tress.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-24

But even at Its worst the light
ball wasn't as bad as 1t was re-
painted.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-24

This means that next season gols
players will have to 60 back 10
blaming q bad shot on the condi-
ton OF the fairway. the course archi-
tect or the green's committee.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-24

The next ball to be tried by the
golfing solons will be the same size
as the present ball. but heavier. One
of the most common complaints
against the light ball was that It
wouldn't carry through the four
some ahead with sufficient force 20
hurt anybody seriously.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-24
The
Once Ouer


THE NEW GOLF BALL PASSES
The new golf ball Il through. Us
ing q short grip but . long back
swing. the u. 8. Golf association has
smacked 1t into the Greek OF obi
Won. This is the first time the new
ball ever got any real distance.
This decision that the new ball Is
no good proves that even buffers
can be right at times. and ends one
OF the greatest major disturbances
since the world war. 1t viii do much
to put America back on Q peace
basis.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-24

SEA STIFFNESS
There once vas q frolicsome po--
poise
Whose weight In the hundreds
was four plus:
Once he drove down so low
That his friends had TO go
And release him by habeas cor
pus.
There once lived a bibulous clam
Whose personal life was q sham:
I'm not wet" proclaimed he,
Guy I'm anxious to be
It's Just that I don't give a damni"
There once was a frivolous oyster.
Who woke up one day in a cloister;
His reception was such
That he liked 1t not much
So he fled with a cry, Ship q
hoysterl"
"Bebe Daniels became q mother
today. The child. a girl. weighed
eight pounds" N. Y. Mirror.
Anyhow. it's a girl, and they
weighed her.
The Washington times., 1931-01-14
WR|TERRENEWS
RASKOBF|GHT

That's his story and he sticks
to it-that John j. Raskob, chair
man of the Democratic national
committee, brought the party
out of bankruptcy, put it through
the receivership, stood it on its
financial feet, and then clapped
a first mortgage on it,"
So said Frank r. Kent, Wash
ington correspondent and politi
cal writer of the Baltimore Sun
in an open letter yesterday to
Raskob in reply to Raskob's state,
ment.
Yesterday Kent wrote, in part
"YOu letter seems to me evaS-
i've, deceitful and diSingeniouS,
deliberately designed to obscure
the facts-not to clarity them.
"In view Of your excited de-
nunciatiOn of me as one having
little regard for the truth, and
the vehemence Of your general
deniaIs, 1 herewith repeat the
main statements 1 made in the
Baltimore Sun on January g."
The Washington times., 1931-01-14
WOMEN BARRED
AS DRY AGENTS

Women "stool pigeons" the
most recently employed here be-
ing Mrs. Alloys F.. Larimer, who
is writing the story Of how she
drank and wheedled and gained
the confidence of bootleggers IN
order to betray them to the dry
snoopers at SIS a head to make
an honest living for my little
daughter and myself" to
be used here no more.
This, at least, is what heads OF
the enforcement agencies say,
though they have made no move
to change the regulations which
allow employment of women for
such purposes. The Metropolitan
police are still empowered to put
women on their special en-
ployes" staff and the Federal
government would pay them $5
a day.
However, Inspector ThaddeuS
R. Bean, in charge Of the vice
squad of the Metropolitan police
department, says of the women
informers:
1--WE have no use for them,
and unless something unfOre-
seen, 1 don't think we are go
ing to have any use for them.
The Washington times., 1931-01-14
COLONIAL v A R
. GROUP MEETS
Times Staff Photos
MARJORIE

The Society of Colonial Wars
convenes in its forty-fourth gen.
eral council in the Willard Hotel
Saturday at $50 a. m.
Senator Simeon D. Fess, Of
Ohio, and Representative Sol
Bloom, of New York, will speak
at the afternoon session on plans
for the Washington bicentennial
celebration.
Members of the society will be
received by President Hoover at
the White House.
The delegates will visit the va
rious George Washington shrines
in and near the Capital, snd Ar
lington National Cemetery, Sun
day.
The District chapter, OF the
society, of which Caleb Clarke
Magruder is governor, will be
host to the DELEGATES.
The Washington times., 1931-01-14
NeW School Urged
For KenSinutOn

KENSINGTON. Md, Jan IA.
At a meeting yesterday in the
Kensington Town Hall, the Ken
sington Community League, with
Mrs. Lewis Merriam, president,
presiding, voted to petition the
Board of Education for a high
school to serve Kensington and
the several communities in the
section.
1t was shown that the school
population Of the Kensington
area is sufficient to warrant
the construction of such school,
and Mrs. Merriam was requested
to appoint a committee to pre-
sent the petition to the Board
of Education.