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The border vidette., 1931-06-06
BORDER TOWNS ATTRACT MANY

Arizona cities on the borders
of Old Mexico attract many visi
tors. Chief among the cities
Offering q glimpse Of Mexican
life and romance to visitors are
Nogales, Douglas. Naco and San
Luis, Sonora, also may be reach.
ed by good roads from Yuma.
Nogales, Sonora, the largest
of the border cities, is the sister
community to Nogales. Arizona,
county seat of Santa Cruz county.
Founded in 1882, Nogales. So
nora, is an expanding CONNER
cial center Of about $4,000 peo
Pile. 1t is the port of entry for
the rich west coast of Mexico
and terminal of the Sud- Pacific
de Mexico railway.
The color of the old Mexican
market, with it's hot dishes, meats
and fruits, exists on an untravel
ed street in Nogales. The old
city plaza is but q step from the
border and surrounding it are
shops that carry the blue and
gold Mexican pottery. The many
cafes with their excellent cui.
sines make the night life of this
Old Mexico city bright through
the cool summer nights.
Nogales is reached by an i'm
proved scenic highway. leading
out of Tucson. The greater part
of this highway is either paved
or oiled. The return trip from
the Twin Cities" may be made
by way of Patagonia and Sonita.
This route. several miles longer,
is more scenic. Tempe Daily
News.
The border vidette., 1931-06-06
SCENIC WONDERS IN MEXICO

Mexico is settling down to at
tract the attention of the United
States to its scenic wonders and
is opening, and starting work,
on several new highway projects.
Three highway projects are in
progress in Baja California, one
from Tijuana to Eosenada. al
other from Tijuana to Mexicali
and the third project from Mexi.
cali to SAP Luis, Sonora.
A fne highway has been com
pleted from Monterrey to the
Texas border, aud another route
is being built to connect Chihua
hua City with El Paso. Texas.
Several highways are being
built in Sonora. the main route
being the Nogales- Hermosillo
road, which ia being rushed. A
highway from Santa Ana to the
Gulf Of California will also be
built. opening the great Altar
region of Sonora.
The wonders of nature are to
be found in Mexico. Off the
Sonoran coast is the Island of
Tiburou. the home of the fast
diminishing Seri Indians, one of
the earliest tribes ia America.
Somewhere along the coast,
tradition tells Us. was the an.
cient seat of government of
Queen Yoma, a Mongoloid queen
who, say old documents, ruled a
tribe of people who adhered to
the faith of Buddhism.
Mexico needs highways, gaso
line taxes, service stations and
tourists. .-Nogales Herald.
The border vidette., 1931-06-06
ANGER CAUSES MOTOR
ACCIDENTS

An inferiority complex which
makes most of US treat other
motorists with an assumed dis.
dain and fly into q temper at the
slightest conflict over right of
way and other trivial things is
responsible for many automobile
accidents. This is one of the
findings of the makers of Rusco
brake Innings, who are conduct.
ing nation wide survey of mo.
toring accident conditions.
For some strange reason"
says w. T. Palmer, an official of
the company, many of Us suffer
q complete change of character
when we get behind the wheel
of car. In our hands an auto.
mobile becomes potentially
deadly weapon and should be
handled with extreme care and
coolness. No perfect driver has
ever lived. We are all conscious
of our motoring shortcomings
and try to cover them with bluff.
This is why we are so touchy'
with other drivers" r
There is sound sense in his
words. Our easily aroused mo.
toring anger robs Us Of the cool
judgment we should exercise at
the wheel, especially at moments
of stress, and undoubtedly has
sent many q car unnecessarily
into collision or off the road.
If we would see that our cars
are in good running conditions,
with the right pressure in our
tires. plenty of good fresh oil
and grease where they are need.
ed, our electrical equipment
functioning smoothly and our
brakes properly lined and ad.
iusted, and if we would adopt an
attitude of friendliness and help.
fulness toward other drivers our
annual auto toll would be moth.
ing like its present 80, 500 killed
and 100000 seriously injured.
And it would be q pleasanter
world in which to motor. Why
not try it?
The border vidette., 1931-06-06
c. OF c. SECRETARIES TO MEET

Phoenix. Chambers of com.
merce secretaries from ell parts
Of the state will gather at the
Grand Canyon June Is to discuss
variety Of community, state
and organizational problems at
the regular summer meeting Of
the Arizona Association of Com.
mercial Secretaries. announced
today as one of the most impor-
tant held since the statrwide
secretaries organization was
formed.
Fl. B. Watkins, president Of
the association. reported that
advance reservations already in.
dicated an excellent attendance
at the meeting. and urged that
every secretary in the state be
present. His official call for the
meeting has been supplemented
by special invitation from
Northern Arizona secretaries.
All the secretaries attending
the meeting have been invited to
meet in Prescott the day before
to witness the celebrated Smoki
ceremonials and snake dance to
be held in the Mile High" city
Sunday, June IA, then proceed.
ing in q body to the Grand Can.
yon, where business sessions
will be held at El Tovar Monday
morning and afternoon, June IS.
The secretaries also have been
invited to attend the meeting of
directors of the Arizona Indus.
trial congress to be held ia Pres.
colt June 13.
A comprehensive program for
the secretaries meeting is being
prepared by a program commit
tee consisting of l.. A. Herring
of Glendale, Grace M. Sparkes
of PRESCOTT. Charles B Flynn
of Mesa and L. G. Mccullough
of Phoenix, and reports. will be
presented by a number of special
committees appointed at the last
meeting of the association, held
10 Mesa last winter.
The border vidette., 1931-06-06
MINERAL PRODUCTION IN 1896

The estimated total value of
mineral products 10 the United
States in 1880 was approximately
81, 795 900, 900, as announced by
Scott Turner, Director of the
United States Bureau of Mines,
Department of Commerce. This
is a drop of about 18 per cent
from the total value of mineral
products in 1929.
Declines in values, accounted
for both by lower unit prices and
by the falling off in output of
nearly all mineral products, are
principally explained by the de
preston prevailing during the
year in most lines of industrial
activity. The total value of
metallic products in 1880 decreas
ed about 33 per cent. as compar-
ed with 1929 Notable decreases
in total values, ranging from
approximately 25 to so per cent,
we're recorded for copper, iron,
silver. lead, and zinc, but the
value of gold production increas
ed slightly. The total value of
nonmetsllic mineral products in
1880 decreased about Is per cent
from the preceding year. OF
the mineral fuels, the total value
of natural gas increased. while
the total values of bituminous
coal, natural gasoline, and pre-.
toleum recorded sharp declines.
The border vidette., 1931-06-06

Tucson-Plans progressing for
construction of S35 900 apart.
ment house building to be !ocat.
ed at Highland avenue aud
Speedway.
The border vidette., 1931-06-06

boots, an old shirt and big hat.
The ranch has a limited capacity
and at all times there is a con
genial home-like atmosphere.
The border vidette., 1931-06-06

Observation-Disclosures Union
started construction of two.story
club hall and store building at
1887 West Jefferson street, to
cost 5000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-23
The Other Washington

In all the oratory and publicity given the father
of our country on his anniversary day and in con-
nection with the coming bicentennial celebration
many sides Of the many-sided man are stressed
We hear lot about Washington the executive
Washington the engineer Washington the country
gentleman and real estate man. Washington the mill
tary genius-indeed, we hear most about Washington
the soldier
Little or nothing is said about washington the
peace leader.
In the interest Of TRUTH we suggest that the George
Washington bcentennial commission add. to its hun
dreds Of programs, papers, booklets plays and pub
Lefty stories at least one on this Washington
Florence Brewer BoeckeI in her admirable new
book, "Tlae Turn Toward Peace" points OUT
Washington reintroduced arbitration into the
practice Of modern nations, and thus began the long
series of efforts to bring about world peace"
In his great farewell address, Washington said:
"Overgrown military establishments are, under any
form Of government inauspicous to liberty and are
to be regarded particularly hostile to republican
liberty"
Washington was the statesman who declared:
my first wish is to see war banished from the
earth"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-23

Why is it when congress seeks information on gov
eminent business necessary to carry out its legisa
tive function integenty that the chief executive
often finds excuses for withholding that information?
A frequent excuse is the hackneyed one that sub
mission Of the desired information to congress would
be incompatible with the public interest"
The inference is that the executive is the gov
eminent, and that the legislative branch is a
troublesome appendix which exists sufferance This
is in line with the trend in recent years for the
executive to usurp the rightfu power of the legislative
branch
It's as dangerous as it is unconstitutional 1t is the
road to dictatorship.
Thus Secretary of State stinson just has with
held from congress most of the pertinent data on our
dsacefu imperialist spree in Nicaragua. First the
executive usurped power by wagng war in Nicaragua
without consent Of congress, required by the Con
stituton.
Then when the senate requested all documents
relating to the military occupation Stlnson sub
mitted only few Of the least danlning documents
While stinson was taking this high-handed at
titude toward congress- the Wickershan commission
which, seems to be as much under the domination
of the White House as any cabinet ofcer-was with
holding from the senate key documents of its prohi
bition survey.
Among the many missing documents were the re-
ports of the former prohibition commissioner and
others on sixteen states. Those states included the
largest and the wettest such New York, New Jer-
sey Illinois and Massachusetts.
This is typical of the methods OF the Wickersham
commission from the beginning, especially its recent
summary" appearing to make a dry report out OF
the 7to-4 vote OF the commission fayorng modifca-
ton or repeal.
congress is the policy making branch OF the gov
eminent under the Constitution That applies TO pro-
hbition and it applies to Nicaragua Congress can not
retain the respect OF the nation by forever bowling to
the usurpations and encroachments OF the president
the cabinet the supreme court and the commissions
which congress itself creates.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-23
Laid OFF!

Laid off Not through any fault OF his own, out
because orders are slack or styles have changed or
an invention has wrecked the business
Laid off And then what?
First the employment agencies, If he has any
money for fees: and almost certainly bitter and costly
dsilusonment.
And after thatp
After that foot races with hundred other apph-
cants whenever Job is advertised and in between,
walking the streets, hunting
Mrs Raymond tells social workers she puts paste
board soles in her husbands shoes cotton in the heels
and brace On the back Of his knee, so the walking
won't be so bad
Hopeless walking all day, and at night hunger.
Makeshifts and suffering at home. Wedding rings
pawned "Malnutrton" written on the school reports
of the children
Mrs Walther took twelve-hour night Job and
took care Of her child and did the housework In the
daytime. until her health broke and she went to a
charity hospital.
neighbor cleaned offices days and again at
night and her children asked when she slept.
poh she puts her head down on the table after sup
per and sleeps until she goes out at TO-" they said.
Congress has sat IN Washington while these things
we're happening. these and many many more Ike
them and has done almost nothing to prevent
unemployment or TO mitigate the suffering It causes
Now before adjournment the house Of rergessnts-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-23
Records or Laws?

Apparently there is a greater desire on
the part of the members of the legislature
to make records than there is to get few
very essential laws.
On the Democratic side is a very COM
mendable effort to redeem the pledges Of
their party platform and thus establish
record for good faith.
In the Republican senate, where there
is concerted action on any subject, it seems
to be directed to the purpose Of blocking any
law suggested by the Democratic house and
thus make record for loyalty to the financial
and industrial interests of the state.
The Governor acts in manner that
strongly suggests that he believes it to be
his high purpose to really represent the Is
year-old mind with which he accredits the
public in politics.
The net result is that there are no laws,
although the people are demanding relief
and have been promised relief from govern
ment ills.
The income tax bill has been Endorsed as
a means Of relieving the farmer and small
home owner from too large share of tax
burdens. It should be a real law and not a
botch
The highway commission, with it's bad
reputation and disesteen1, is still in exist
ence 1t should be either changed or the vast
funds now raised for road purposes diverted
to other channels. This is no time for waste
Of public money.
Several stupid ways have been suggested
for raising money and business fears the
special levies The one sure way of solving
high taxes by spending less is neglected. It
is not too late to work along this line and
cut out the frills during days of unemploy-
ment in cities and poverty on farms.
Nor is the prospect of reapportionnent
measure for congressional elections at all
bright.
There is a possibility that Indiana will be
put to the necessity of special session, cost
ly at this time or be without any represen-
tation in congress two years hence.
Is it not time to forget personal and party
records" and pass few real laws?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-23

money going? And whom is it help
ing?
The only one that 7 know Of that
is helping the poor is the trustee,
and who are the poor unfortunates
going to call on when the trustees
money is exhausted? And even if
the Public Welfare does help you,
what do you get-horniny, cornmeal,
one can of corn, small can of to-
matoes, beans, and such. Babies
and sick children have to eat these
rations. The people aren't asking
for charity, they rather would have
employment, and their independence
back again.
If ever I am lucky enough to get
a job, I never will contribute to
these institutions. II I knew of one
unfortunate 7 would help him per-
sonally, and then would be sure Of
him getting what he should have.
Babies and sick children would have
at least one quart Of milk a day.
A. e. r.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-23
ANA%A AOO4 Lands

IF Vanderbilt should sue General Butler it would
serve to prolong his publicity, and to get all the
gravy out of it, he should sue Butler for whale of
sum, several millions anyhow
With Mussoni in it, international complications
might arise, if he sued for q mere million.
If. as Vanderbilt claims, Mussolini said: Wander
bilt, never look back always look forward" he prob
ably thinking of the many divorce suits the Van
derbilt family has to its credit.
This Edgar Lee Masters book which bravely assails
Lincoln sixy-ve years after his death is founded
the bitter lecture which Herndons his old law partner
delivered some years after the assassination.
VKTHnE Lincoln lived Herndon's lips dripped
" thick molasses but after the assassination he
produced great quantities OF vinegar due to the fact
that he wanted high Office and Lincoln thought him
unfit for it.
Illinois people ascribed Herndcn's outburst to his
disappointment
What the boys think Of you in politics depends on
whether they get what they are after:
If they get it, you're a whale; if they don't you're
just sardine-and hardly that.
Thomas A. Edison is thoroughbred, as at "a he
labors with his old-time enthusiasm to persuade the
godenrod and the sunower that it is their patriotic
duty to make Uncle Sam independent Of the English
rubber monopoly
IN the meantime, it might be wise for us to con-
slider some rare possibilities which have been
overlooked
Take the average congressman on the prohibition
question-you could boil him down and easily get
enough rubber for set OF tires and at least one spare
And then If we would just turn upside down the
furniture in the United States and scrape of all the
tired chewing gum, we would have enough rubber
10 furnish Tapping galoshes for the ladies'
We have been expecting Mr.. Coolidge to sug-
gest this.
It was hne for the President to give ors-tsnth Of
his years salary to the Red Cross but il probably
will lead to his personal acquaintance with other
worthy causes now IN the red.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-23

lives is asked to pass bill the senate passed long
the Wagner employment exchange bill. It is small
step in the direction Of help. But it is step and if
it becomes law it viii make finding job little
easier.
1t viii mean government and state agencies all
over the country giving free help to those who are
out of work, and giving it effectively than any
lesser agency could by co-ordinating information on
the job situation from al parts of the country.
There is a government employment service in ex-
stence now, but is of so little use that few persons
know it exists.
as a substitute for the Wagner BILL the secretary
of labor is urging merely that this service be con-
tinued and expanded a little
To follow the Doak program is to do nothing at a
time when doing nothing is ineXcusabe. Sick dispir-
tied, suffering eyes are fixed today on the house o.
representatives to see if there hope for tomorrow
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-23
Cheap Land Is Not Prosperity Key

lands within the United States to-
day does not relieve our present
situation. Western states contain
millions of acres today purchaseable
for less than could be bought for
years ago.
South American countries, with
free land" of enormous extent,
can not balance their budgets.
With the exception of Germany,
recently punished after an unsuc-
cessful war, the one important
country in the world today with
no rich colonies, and with no free
or cheap land at all within her
borders is France and France is
comparatively well off.
1T would seem that failing the
4 unusual, such as rapid popula-
tons or a great disruption of word
markets by war on a large sca.s
free land and undeveloped natural
resources are of small account in
cur present scheme of world econo-
mics.
With birth rate and death rate
figures behaving as they are
throughout the world, this condi-
ton probably will continue for some
time,
The above proposition is left for
our "best minds" to ponder. The
implication here is that American
industrialists, figuring on unem-
ployment problems in this genera
ton, better would leave the free
land idea out Of their calculations,
and that the suggestion of Senator
Ashurst as to the purchase Of Baja,
Cal.-not bad suggestion from the
purely military point of view, hav-
ing regard for protection Of the
Panama canal-has no bearing on
the immediate chief problem with
which statesmen and citizens should
= !
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-23
H7d6' Az igfTt4e
lANNlQGR$ARYI
BUENA VISTA BATTLE

teDFuary "a
I'M Feb. %, 1347, the Americans
" defeated the Mexicans at
Buena Vista in one of the most de-
cisive battles Of the Mexican war.
Congress had declared war against
Mexico nine months previously
over a dispute arising from Texas
boundaries.
On Sept. "a, 1916, General Taylor
attacked the Mexicans at Monterey
and took the town after q desperate
battle OF four days.
Early the next year, Santa Anna,
the Mexican president and COM
mander chief, led a force of
10000 men against Taylor, who
had only about a fourth Of that
number.
The battle was fought in the
mountains of Buena Vista. After
an all-day fight, the Mexicans re-
treated. Among the southern Of
flcers. Colonel Jefferson Davis OF
Mississippi, particularly distin-
guished himself.
This victory gave the United
States possession Of northeastern
Mexico, and won for General Tay-
Tor, who here fought his last battle,
the presidency Of the United States
two years later.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-23
EYcnes EnnrpN


ONE theory Of the nature of vita
~ minis is that they are delicately
balanced chemical compounds
which carry a great excess Of en-
ergy. This theory is supported by
their unstable nature
1t is thought that during digestion
they give up this excess energy,
thereby supplying the energy for
certain of the involved chemical
processes.
It has been pointed out that the
chemical changes which take place
during digestion are Of nature
which can not be duplicated in the
laboratory except by the use Of high
temperature or other sources Of
considerable energy.
On this assumption, the diseases
which follow yitanin deficiency
would be the result Of the fact that
certain digestive processes could not
take place without the energy Of the
vitarnins.
The hornones present problems
which in some way are allied to
those Of vitan1ins.
The hormones also have marked
influence on the digestive process.
However, they also influence many
other processes in the body.
The hormones are complex chem
zeal substances which are poured
into the blood streams by certain
glands. These glands are. known as
ductless, because they have no ducts
or openings. The substances which
they manufacture are absorbed By
the blood as it flows through them
An example Of a ductless gland is
the thyroid gland. This manufac
lures hornlone which has tremen-
dous effect upon the organism. Too
much or too little Of it results fl
serious disease.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-23
Chemical Machine

THE problem of vitarnins is bound
L up with that Of nutrition,
which in itself is fundamentally a
chemical problem.
The cells of the human body are
made UP of substances which, like
all other substances in the world
are subject to chemical analysis.
The cells are composed Of carbo-
hydrates. fats, proteins, mineral
salts and water. The carbohydrates
are the sugars and starches.
The food which We eat is com
posed of these same substances.
Our digestive apparatus really is
a chemical machine. The things
which we eat are broken down by
the process of digestion into simpler
chemical compounds.
These simpler compounds are then
absorbed by the blood stream. AS
the blood circulatea through the
body, the various cells of the body
absorb from it the particular com
pounds which they require.
Experience has proved, however.
that q diet which contains the
proper amounts of carbohydrates.
fats, and proteins is still insufficient
if it does not also contain vitanlins.
But while we have identified vari-
GUS vitamins and labeled them with
the letters Of the alphabet, most Of
our knowledge about them is Of a
negative sort.
We know that diseases result
when they are absent. But we do
not know yet exactly what they are.
They seem to be extremely COM
plicated and unstable compounds
and many experiments to analyze
them succeed only in disintegrating
or destroying them.