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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-07

now the bully "Pol'-had been
one 81 her classmates in the fifth
grade at school. Then Polney had
given up education for what to him
we're pleasanter pursuits. Now even
some OF tha towns police officers
were known TO avoid him.
Tommy had been IN trouble with
the LarEin boys. That could easily
be fatal. but this once IL hadn't
been. The doctor'd have told her.
She wished she'd questioned him
more. but II wasn't easy to talk
about Tommy.
Why had the doctor seen Tommy?
She should have asked him that.
II could only mean that Tommy
had been injured.
IN a store In the village she tried
TO telephone TO Mr.. Hoffman but
was told he had gone to the city.
She nadn'S expected to learn any
thing from him anyway. IL was
plain that Tommy wasn't confding
In his uncle The thing 10 do was
10 90 10 the Larkin house as she'd
intended and find out what she
could from Pol II be were al home.
She hadn'. dared to take her
noisy old car. so now she got a taxi
and asked the driver II be knew
where the Larkins lived. He looked
AZ her In establishment and avowed
he'd tell the world he did
At the house she asked IL he'd
inquire for Polney Larkin. in the
hope OF having Pol come outside to
talk with her. The driver was
pleasant about II. but whoever 1t
was that came TO the door and
called back inside to inform the
powerful Pol that q dame wanted
to see him. send word to Beryl that
she could come inside.
Shall / wait?" the driver asked.
holding the a door open for her.
Please" she breathed. for the
house had a dark and forbidding
aspect that equaled the reputation
Of its owners. Perhaps its power to
t~errorize the timid was one reason
why they did not paint f. Beryl
was not timid. and so she entered
and spoke calmly to the big. brut-
ish Pol when he approached her.
Can you tell me where l may
find Tommy Wilson," she asked
Pol grinned at her. Pol liked 10
grin. He had exceptionally 1ne
teeth Corn had done 1t. he claimed
He liked TO ask questions. too.
What right you got to ask?" he
returned bluntly.
Beryl eyed him haughtily. -Ac-
cording to your standards ! proba'
bly, have none." she answered
coolly.
The grin left Polls face. Lay OF
that track" he warned Beryl sui
lenly.
Il haven't come here to be diplo
matte" Beryl informed him. Il
want to know where Tommy VII.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-07
Macintosh Has the Last Word

DR.. Douglas c. Macintosh. professor Of theology in
the Yale University Divinity school and denied citi-
zenship BY the supreme court Of the United States,
had the last word. He declared that his first ale
glance is TO the will Of Cod and that he would bear
arms only If he felt the cause was morally justified.
DR.. Macintosh is entitled to his own viewpoint. He is
Canadian born. II Is for him to remain a citizen Of
Canada. Now. how would It be possible to get in touch
with God If a foreign foe invaded the shores Of
America and machine cunning was necessary to
shoot eternal life into the invaders?
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-07
BEGIN HERE ODA

BEGIN HERE TODAY
BERYL BORDEN. secretly On
love with TOMMY WILSON.
knows that he would never he
happy with her half-slster.
IRENE EVERETT. and tries 20
prevent their marriage.
Irene IN Jealous when xhe fails
md Beryi n radio con-
tract. BrryTa voice wins her new
friends but she cannot forget her
hopeless love though she goes 60
parties with young PRENTISS
GAYLORD. Irene learns that
PrentiEs is rich and tries TO win
him from BeryI.
Tommy's aunt dies and he loses
both money and job through her
husband. Tommy tells Irene his
bad luck and she breaks The en-
gEgement. when PrentfSs asks
her 20 marry him she accepts. I'm
despair Tommy drinks heavily
and Beryl finds him. She tries 20
cheer him mp and tells irene that
h must 60 hack 60 Tommy or
inform Prentiss how heartIessIy
y has acted. Irene promises.
then slips away and mnrrirs
Prentiss. She telephones the news
home md Beryl realizes she has
been outwItteI.
Neat morning Beryrs throat In
In n serious condition. The family
doctor calls for N specialist. Heryl
IL greatly worried by the report
that Tommy In In bad company.
NOW co ON wITH THE sToRY
CHAPTER XXXIv
CT WISH you'd talk sense" Mrs.
Everett protested.
"All right" Beryl complied
then I'm having a throat specialist
out from New York to tell me II III
have 10 step singing or not"
"A throat specialist"
Eyes. and he's a famous person.
so give him a proper reception"
Beryl heard the telephone ring
shortly efterward and a minute
later her mother came up TO tell
her that DR.. Auguston would ct.
rive in two hours.
At the end OF those two hours
Beryl said to herself: Sherman
had a word for II. all right" To
the eminent specialist. who told her
he'd come 10 her instead OF max
Ing her come 10 him because he
loved her voice. she appeared calm
and self-possessed.
The physician too was non-com-
initial Finally he smiled. We'll
have to watch you" be said. you
have been In danger but II you are
careful. !"
When be was gone Beryl had an
other battle with herself but this
a was OF short duration. II was
q thing to wait n few hours but
something very different TO face
days OF suspense-days in which
Tommy might sink to levels from
which he could never rise.
She left the house Quietly-for
her mother had heard DR.. Auguston
order her o remain in bed-and
went In search Of Tommy.
She knew where the Larkin
house was located-an old siding
building with rusty brown paint
that had peeled OF in large patches
with ragged edges. Polney Larkin
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-07
Uncle Andy's' New Tax
Proposals

"Uncle Andy" Mellon may propose the adoption OF
the sales tax and q federal tax on gasoline before he
retires as the head OF the treasury department and
rests on his laurels as the second Alexander Hamil-
ton OF American history. Uncle Andy Is ever max
ing life miserable for the so-called republican pro-
gressive bloc Of senators and representatives and their
democratic allies. This is a four billion dollar gov
eminent and in the last analysis those who have
must pay" A sales tax would catch all from the
tramp to the billion dollar uncrowned prince OF OIL
dom.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-07
Increase In Postal
Receipts For May

SAN BENITO, June 6.-Postal re-
ceipts here are holding UP well as
compared with last year. accord
ing to G. l.. Miner, assistant post
master, and the month OF May
showed n slight increase over the
same month in 1880.
The comparative receipts were
s2.6S9.66 for MAY. 1881 and 81
4ls.65 in May 1890. a s3r o.
S270.OI.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-07

commerce, may also attend al
though he has not decided def
initely.
The conventions usually have an
attendance or about $50 delegates
from all over the state In the
Valley the cities Of Donna, Wes-
laco, Harlingen, McAllen, Mercedes.
Mission, Port Isabel, Raymondvilla
and San Benito are represented BY
memberships In the league.
The Valley also has a league OF
municipalities headed by ID. Z.
Kirgan, former mayor OF WeSlaco
who did not seek reelection.
II Is not known whether any Of
the other Valley towns will be rep
scented.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-07
Club Products Will
Be Sold In Store
(Bv Staff Correspondent.)

SAN BENITO. June 6.-Re-open-
ing OF Mrs. Lucille Peek's highway
Home Demonstration club prod
ucts store between here and Rio
Hondo took place Saturday.
She will sell candied citrus peel
and other products put UP and
made by home demonstration
clubs OF the county.
Mrs. Minnie Fisher Cunningham.
associate editor Of the A. and M.
College extension service. and Miss
Bonnie Campbell. district home de-
monstration agent, were present at
the opening.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-07
Weslaco Seeking
1892 Convention

, wESLACO. June 6.-The Lea-
que Of Texas Municipalities will be
invited to hold It's 1882 convention
in Weslaco. according TO Harry @.
Ratliff. city clerk who will at
tend the 1891 meeting TO be held
in Lubbock June Is and l6.
1t is possible that S. M. Patter-
son, secretary OF the chamber OF
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-07
Pres. Hoover AS An Economist

Pres. Hoover he's taken on TIE role az Pm economist
He hopes to reduce government expenditures an
nually by SIPS 100000 to sl50.OooOOO. Mussel Shoals
cost the American neo1le esnN Ooonoo. Now the cost
" plants have been CONSIGNED . The junk pile. Is
this economy or Is II wanton waste?
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-07

i. A population in 1881 Of over $4,000.
2. A mean average temperature Of r.
=. Bank deposits. $S,O00.0oO.
a -Four railroads. seven paved highways.
S. international airport, five air lines.
. "A S6,O00.O00 deep water port financed
2. The best climate, soil in the world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-18
The National Conventions.

The makeup Of the Democratic and
Republican National Conventions to be
held next year hangs In the balance as
party leaders seek to determine what
shall be the method Of apportionment
of the. delegates to the States. The
conventions have been made up in
accordance with the congressional
representation of the States, with two
delegates for each congressional district
and two for each Senator as the general
basis of representation. The present
difficulty arises because of the fact that
the apportionment of the congressional
representation of the States is in q
process of readjustment to meet the
1880 census of population.
John w. Davis, former Democratic
nominee for President and at one time
president of the American Bar Associa-
ton. called upon by Chairman Jouette
Cpmmittee for an opinion, has advised
the Democrats to stick to the present
Congress as the basis of representation
in the coming national convention. This
same Congress will be in existence and
does not go out OF office until March
4, 1888, long after the national con-
vention will have been held and four
months after the national election itself
This view of the matter is a common
sense view. 1t is true that in the gen.
eral election members of the House will
be chosen in accordance with the latest
apportionment of House membership to
the States, but that House Of Representa-
tives will not supplant the presen: one
until months after the election.
In view of the fact that the plans
OF a number OF the States to bring
about redistricting are meeting strong
opposition, some of them in the courts,
and that uncertainty in regard to the
district lines may exist right up to the
time of the national convention. it
would appear wise to stick to the old
congressional representation. Some of
the States, California and Michigan for
example, which have increased their
congressional representations under the
new apportionment, may not take kind
Iy to this suggestion. On the other
hand, those States, like Missouri, Iowa
and some of those of the South, which
lose in representation would be in
clined to look with favor on the Davis
recommendation.
The makeup of the. national con-
ventions, so far as the apportionment
of delegates is concerned, is left to the
Democratic and Republican National
Committees. The Republicans as well
as the Democrats have been carefully
studying the matter for weeks. The
G. o. p. Committee is to meet here De-
cember IS and will have the fiFst de-
termination of the problem to make,
for the Democrats are not to hold their
committee meeting until January. IN
doubtedly it would simplify matters II
the old apportionment were continued
and If both party committees adopted
this plan. When the national conventions
are held in 1895 the new congressional
apportionment will be in full force
and effect and logically will be the
basis for the membership of the con-
ventions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-18
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

foot ball team, despite the glamour in
which the backfleld generally basks.
The statuesque New York legislator
came away from the Notre Dame-Navy
game at Baltimore last Saturday brin-
ming with enthusiasm over the Irish"
He says their line Is probably the
greatest wall of forwards the gridiron
has known in 20 years, and their feat
in keeping Navy from scoring q single
first down LIS the stuff that makes foot
ball history. Representative Fish heard
a midshipman who was looking over
the names of the Notre Dame team
(Melinkovitch, Sheeketski, Jaskowich,
Koken, ct ALL refer to 1t as "the Polish
corridor" Fish is in town to debate
with Norman Thomas on Is Capitalism
Worth While?"
Jesse Isidor Straus, young New York
Democratic leader and merchant prince,
has just completed his fifth Democratic
presidential poll. 1t was made only
among business men with a capital of
from $4,000 to $4,000 in all the States
except New York, and was confined to
cities and towns of less than 10000
population. The result was: Roosevelt,
sos; Smith, Murray, 80; Young, So;
Baker, 48; Richie, 80; Robinson, 90;
Reed, 10; McAdoo 8; Traylor, Lewis,
Harrison, Ely, Seabury, Will Rogers and
a certain M. r. Patterson, l each. Re-
turns were received from AZ States.
Gov. Roosevelt was the only Democrat
who received votes in all of them. All
four previous Straus polls revealed a
heavy prepohderance Of sentiment for
Roosevelt, including the first one, which
was among Democratic National Com
mittee members.
X &
These are trying times for Bill"
Borah. The Senate chairman on for
elgn relations doesn't like climbing into
boiled shirts. That's another way of
saying that he'd much rather stay home
nights and read book than doll up
for formal dinner party. Mr.. and
Mrs. Borah could be dining out at this
season IA nights a week, If the week
were that long. Mrs. Borah acknoWl-
edges that she has difficulty in persuad-
ing the Idahoan to accept anything
but must" invitations like summonses
to the White House or bids to be at
table with European prime ministers
or foreign secretaries.
Announcement OF the Hoover scheme
for $4,000, 600, 900 home building plan
is sure to rivet the spotlight on next
months national conference at Wash
ington which is to deal with all the
other problems of the American home
maker. The Presidents Conference on
Home Building and Home Ownership
meets here from December to S. 1t
has modified the experience and au-
thority OF bankers, architects, builders,
realtors, labor spokesman, material
dealers, tax experts, city planners and
nome economists-to mention only a
few-to enable the home owner to have
q house of good design. build it at
much less than it now costs him, plan
and equip it so that it will give the best
service for the least money and gener-
ally give 1t stability of value by secur-
ing for 1t stability of use.
Copyright, 1917
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-18
Restaurant Workers
Plead for Relief
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
Some employers are using the de-
preston to discharge employees that
have faithfully performed their duties,
Immediately hiring new workers at q
greatly reduced wage to perform the
same work, thus swelling the profits at
the expense of more depression. The
laws for women in restaurants and
lunch rooms mean nothing at the pres
ent time. Women and girls are asked
yes forced-to work the hours the em-
ployer designates, and only three in
spectors in the District to see that
those laws are enforced. Thirty three
would not be too many, and they
couldn't even cover the many eating
places.
Workers are afraid to report these
violations afraid that they might also
be forced to Join the army Of the un-
employed They should have no fear
Of reporting violations, as all reports
are confidential
The restaurants and lunch rooms
most Of them operating 365 days year,
"A hours per day-no keys even to
these places-work their employees IL
hours per day seven days a week,
women excepted in some cases. If we
really want to reduce unemployment,
why cannot we reach the real seat of
Tic CTOuUIc. ODLdulInB lew IlOuTS
work today and few hours the next
day leaves the worker just as hungry
on the third day, when the few hours
are not obtainable.
We have placed q plan before the
Presidents Committee on Unemploy-
ment that II taken up nationally would
greatly reSuce. II not entirely, the un-
employment In our industry. The same
plan has been presented locally to the
District Committee on Unemployment.
It bears the unanimous Endorsement of
the Washington Central Labor Union.
We in our industry know the cause
of unemployment. We know that we
can reduce unemployment in our in
dustry to a minimum. =. II you think
our industry is small one, obtain the
report of the Labor Department on the
statistics of employees in restaurants and
lunch rooms and it may surprise you.
OF course, If all the employees In our
industry were members of the organi-
cation, things would be different, but
unfortunately they are not If they
were, they would obtain one days rest
In seven. That Ii the cardinal prin-
ciple our organization Is founded upon.
CHARLES Il. SANDS,
Secretary, Hotel and Restaurant
Employees Alliance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-18
China's Military Budget.

An optimistic reaction regarding the
possibilities of war in Manchuria be-
tween China and Japan may result
from an announcement that has just
come from China that the new Ma
tional Finance Commission Of the
Marking gov eminent has adopted a
resolution to the effect that China must
be placed on a definite budget system
and must keep her expenditures within
limits. Military expenditures are to be
cut from five million dollars to $4,000 900
monthly. Party political expenditures
are to be limited to $4,000 900 monthly
Even with these reductions the total
deficit is expected to be $3,500,000 q
month. A proclamation Is to be issued
announcing the establishment Of gov
eminent finances on q budget system.
No explanation is made as to why
party political expenditures" are in
cluded in the national governments ac-
counts, but it is to be remembered that
the government at Marking is directed
by the Central Executive Committee Of
the Kuomingtang, or National Peoples
party, which is the only political Or
ganiZation in China.
Reduction of military expenditures by
ten per cent may be construed by some
as merely a gesture for international
effect. At the same time 1t is to be
borne in mind that Chinese political
reforms are not taken very seriously in
that country and fiscal reform is con-
sider2d as hypothetical rather than
actual.
A military budget of $4,500,0 900 a
month does not promise an oyerWhelm-
ing army, according to Western stand
ards Of maintenance. Indeed the opera
tons now in progress In Northern Man
churia under Gen. Ma Chan-sha would
on those standards absorb several times
that amount. But Chinese armies do
not cost as much as do others. The
pay of the individual soldier Is small
and his supplies are not elaborate. 1t
may be possible for the Marking gov
eminent to maintain a great national
army on the amount proclaimed as the
maximum of expenditures, but there is
hardly any menace of war on a large
scale in this allotment of funds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-18

Der IS is nevertheless a piece Of political
handwriting that Berlin dare not ignore.
The pollings gave the Fascist Hitler
ties twenty-seven out Of the Hessian
Diets seventy seats. leaving a monde
script group of six bourgeois parties
with one seat each out of consideration.
Unless the Centrists. the largest Hessian
party, conclude truce with the Fas-
ciSts, the Diet will be unable to elect q
new ministry. The Fascists hold bal
ance Of power for the first time in any
German state.
Herr Hitler'a party vaulted into this
position in consequence of a tremendous
increase In their vote, compared to the
September, 1929, landslide, which made
them the second strongest party in the
Reichstag at Berlin. OF the 100000
votes just cast in Hesse, 100000 went
to the FascistS, Communists and Gen.
trists combined. This is regarded as
indication that future voting in Ger
many will reflect about the same party
dominance.
Recent events at home and abroad
plainly foreshadowed an increase IN
Hitherto sentiment, but no such ag-
grandiSement as Hesse developed was
expected. 1t can only be interpreted as
fresh resentment of Germany's con-
demnation to continue reparation OBJ
legations and Of the prospect that
treaty revision and equality of arma-
ments-ideals which the National So
cialiSts are the most vociferous in
voioing-are beyond realization in the
measurable future.
internationally. waxing of Hitherto
power Is ominous. 1t is bound to
strengthen the determination of Ger
many's neighbours especially France and
her allies, to tighten up in their resist
ance to the Reich's political claims.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-18

The Police Reorganization.

In their reorganization of the Police
Department through retirement and
transfer of the higher officials the
Commissioners are obviously seeking to
fill all of the so-called key positions
in the department with new men.
Examination of the changes now be-
ing made emphasizes the thorough
ness with which they are going about
it. Beginning at the top, with the APP
pointment of new chief of police,
the important positions, such as as
sistant superintendent, chief of the
Detective Bureau, assistant chief of the
Detective Bureau, chief of the vice
squad, are being filled by promotion
of younger officers. Most of the
changes will become effective Deem
Der /, and it is understood that be-
fore that date other transfers will be
announced, involving changes in the
command of precincts by shifting OF
captains.
This sort of reorganization can be
regarded as distinctly advantageous to
the new chief of police. Gen. Glass
ford is able to undertake his new duties
with men who have just been rewarded
by promotion and who bring to the
positions they fill fresh zeal for their
work. At the outset he will encounter
q minimum of the resistance to new
methods and new customs always to
be expected when men who have grown
up in their jobs must change the pace
to keep in step with a new leader.
The officers who serve under him will
be as anxious as he is to make the
grade.
The changes now being made will
probably complete the required prelim-
inaries to the sort of regime that the
people of this city expect under Gen.
Glassford. Nobody anticipates or ex-
poets any drastic everhauling of meth
DDS and personnel. The police force
today can be regarded as one of the
best in the country. Gen. GlaSsford's
job Is to make it the best by the in
auguration Of a system of strict disci-
PAAA1ws Vac 4Ouhudt4OA oOOtlG upDn WHICH
to build the morale and efficiency OF
o good organization. If the job Ia
douhly difhcult in Washington, where
nearly every officer can boast of some
influential friend at court to see him
through occasional difficulties and
where the temptations for discrimina-
tory enforcement of the law are nu-
merouS, the need for rigid discipline is
the greater. The city can congratulate
itself upon the fact that Gen. Glass
1ord's status as retired Army officer
furnishes him with certain indie
pendence Of spirit and freedom of
movement not usually enjoyed by his
predecessors. He takes over the helm
with nothing to lose and everything to
gain by strictly unprecedented devotion
to the duties Of his new Office