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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-06
New York
Letter
NEW YoRK-Life is ike thatl.

NEW YORK-Life is Ike thatl---
but it's also like this:
It was d-afternoon on the
Times Square subway platform.
Through the crowd hobbled m of
those feeble old women, from the
tenements Of the East Side, who
drift over to the Broadway sector
TO make a few pennies. Her head
was wrapped in a venerable shawl.
after the fashion OF the peasant
women Of the ghetto. Her SHOES
were wcrn almost 10 tatters.
She carried under her arm a
bundle. At first 1t seemed 10 con-
tain pink editions Of an afternoon
newspaper. But as she came closer,
mumbling in some foreign tongue.
she flaehed a placard, Just as the
London vendors do. And in letters
five inches high. 1 read-"Red Hot
Songs. 100 OF the Hottest lures.
The old crone ambled on mutter-
ing TO herself and flashing her
placard now and then. and. very
infrequently. suffering IN a
cracked. high-pitched voice. Won
hundret Ret Hod Sungs'.
I drifted over TO a restaurant that
has become the rendezvous for
Broadwayites. Here gather movie
fox. stage folk. managers, song
writer, playwrights, hangers-on,
trade magazine gents and ian
magazine girlies.
On the walls are cartoons Of gents
and ladies everyone has heard OF;
with twice as many pictures 81
folk that no one has ever heard Of
on the other side Of Fiftieth Street
mo ever will.
This is the sort Of place where
the illusion OF Importance Is born
out Of three lines in a columnist ;
gag. Here gathers a world OF Syco-
plants and idols: OF real fox end
phoneyS: where bubble r~eputations
are made for a few dozen big-town
provincials: where the unimPortr n
become important and where
Broadway values are set.
The food is excellent: the crowC
is generally amusing and chummy
and it's all part Of the midtown
racket.
At any rate. I dropped in there
and fell TO talking with tie hat
check girl who has become one Of
the streets varied characters /
fell to talking with a fellow COL
u~mn-spinner and some assorted
newspapermen.
When. looking up. 1 noticed one
Of the biggest league newspaper
men in all the United States din
ing. with his wife. IN a corner.
Nobody had noticed him. Nobody
seemed 10 know who he was. That's
the way il is in the midtown belt:
they seldow know the really i'm
portant and big people. And this
particular gent happened TO be one
Of the four or five outstanding
figures in national journalism.
I walked over, chatted with him
for a moment. Returned to my
chair. He rose bowed and left. on
my way out. I addressed myself TO
the hat check girl who knows AL
the celebrities:
do you realize that you've had
an honest-to-goodness big shot in
here tonight. I mean the fellow
who JUS left. 1t amuses me. Here
you have your walls covered with
mugs OF cub-columnistS. tenth-rate
paragraphers; fifth-rate scenario
writerS-and all the rest-and that
fellow could hire and fire the whole
bunch of them
I warmed I'D to my argument
and the hooey Of the Broadway
ties Only 70 be interrupted by a
yeah. well who is hep"
/ mentioned his name.
"Hump...w well, he only left me a
two-bit tipl'
Which is the way they size EN-
I'D On Broadway.
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| lowed him. She paused az the door
Of the flower shop Just Off the lobby.
I'll do one Of my erTands here and
now" she informed him gayly. Yes.
she would have tulips and n~arcissus
and some yellow roses for her cen
ter piece.
Van watched her with a little
quirk OF amusement around his
lips. AS she finished giving the
order he told the man to bring
g%ardenias. Carefully he chose
three perfect, waxy blooms. Tin.
foiled and knotted with olive rib
bon they made a decoration for her
shoulder.
These are my favorites. How
did you know?"
Il didn't but they suit you"
TOGETHER they went into the
= big room. almost deserted now
A string orchestra, hidden some
where. played dance tunes. Lame
stripped off her gloves.
They tell me Gives deep in az
fairs down at the Office OF the
estate"
She smiled. her eyes kindled.
"Oh. you had heard about IL? Yes,
he's being t~errihcally interested in
business. His mother IS SO pleased"
She poured his tea Lemon?
All. he liked his plain.
The hot. sweet liquid seemed 70
clear her head. made her feel less
giddy. This was the hour she had
dreamed Of. long ago. a table be-
tween them. his smile. the remem-
bered glance. Only N she wore
a narrow ring upon her finger. a
ring that had not been there before.
They fingered on. Outside the
dusk deepened in the narrow can
yon Of the street. Lights sprang on.
Traffic became noisier. None OF
this Lame heard. Van talked as
she had never heard him talk be
fore. Wittily, amUsingly. imper-
sonally. No ~handclasps under the
folds OF the damask. No dreamy
glances.
Yet she felt his spell with the
old time potency. She struggled 10
free herself from II az ~sIeepers try
to free themselves from dreams.
Il really must go now"
She had 10 dress. 70 change. A
new gown, one OF ros tissue. lay
In its pristine folds, waiting to be
worn. Give would be waiting.
Must you really? Oh. I'm sorry
They had SO much 20 say 10 each
other. But she had to tear herself
away.
He said. as he put her into a cab,
This has been great fun. We must
do IL again"
As Lame rode away she thought
There's no harm in this. | may
have my friends. mayn't L? Give
would not mind"
But she did not mention the meet
ing 10 him. When she arrayec
herself IN the new frock she pinned
the g~ardenias on her shoulder.
Gives Had a good day." held
a quality OF reserve in Il. For bis
mothers benefit he kissed Lame
The girl thought he looked at hel
rather oddly across the table. She
was so spirited. 80 merry. Every
thing made her laugh
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serves TO spare the protein. Pr
gosterol, which is the source Of vi Ia
min ID, is in fat. The primary use
Of fats in the body Is 20 carry on
the work OF the body. to furn lsh
heat to spare proteins, and to
supply the vitamins.
When fat is taken into the body
IL is not digeSted in any way in
the stomach. The greater part OF
the digestion OF fat takes place in
the small intestines, where it Is
acted on by certain secreted juic rs.
Because 1t is difficult for the
juices OF the body to penetrate in
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Rarbs

What France and Germany seem
to fear most in burying the Ratchet
is that one Of them will catch It
in the neck.
A dyed-in-the-wool politician,
says the office sage, never shrinks
from publicity.
The telephone Is said TO have
opened a new era in diplomacy.
But you can't tell that to the
young man using it in an attempt
to make up to his girl friend.
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In little sips her drinks she'd OIL
ways take:
Like a preening eli she'd nibble
at her cake;
Her daily swim must make the lady
quake
She always seems TO swallow half
the lake.
Tomas Del Cecchio.
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BEGIN HERE ID

BEGIN HERE TODAY
LANE BARRETT. Is md h rau-
tiful, tries in vain 10 forget VAN
ROBARD. wealthy polo pli ycr.
when his engagement Is an
nounced I a NURIEL LADD. y fpu-
lar debutante. Lanes mo her.
CASS BARRETT. ~ nm nc ircss
md "a g. during CasS' enEngeI pent
I'm stock nj a fashionable long
Island summer colony that the
BnrrettS meet MRS. CLF Us
PAUGH, wealthy widow. " hen
Cnss goes on tour I'm the fall l. Gine
becomes Mrs. CIeespnuEh's social
secretary. Give CLEESPAUi TN.
the widows only son. asks r. hfne
TO marry him. Give n not in
herit his fathers fortune b@sss
he marrfes before he IN -. iane
accepts, agreeing tho marrinI 81 II
TO be n matter of form only.
Robnrd. whose moods are
chanGeable, asks her 10 break. h
engagement and Lame refr mes.
TRESSA LORD and her nj Tfer.
MRS. AMBERTON. come 20 visit
the CleeSpnuEhs and Tressn. syho
wants to marry Give, beElrS 20
make trouble for Lame. 4 sessa
~connIves with n gang OF b. tlck-
tenant. SHANE McDERMID. tn
terferex- Later Lame a. kidn sped
10 he held for ransom. hut u res
cued by McDermId and Give
The wedding takes place. ON
Christmas day md the coupIr 20
comes that MurleI Ladd has
eioped with CHUCK DESMOND.
newspaper reporter. Give In al
ways kind, but knowledge SAat
Robard IL the man Lame owes
drives the two into mixur der
standings. After several " eeks
they return north. Give deN fotes
himself 10 business and Rane
tries not 10 be bored by social
duties. They take dinner with
Chuck and MurIel and nnd this
couple ideally happy.
NOW co ON WITH THE ST HRY
CHAPTER XXXVIII
r ZANE was walking down Fifth
- Avenue on one OF those I'ebru
airy days which hold a false pr pmise
OF spring. She was feeling ingu
larly light hearted. There
few pleasant errands to do. She
was TO order flowers for a DINNER
they were giving that night II
their rooms. II was to be q fare
well party for Gives mother who
sailed on the morrow for Nap les.
She swung along enjoying tn
crowds and her own sense OF vel
being. At the crossing wherH sh,
was held by a red light she felt
light touch on her arm. She lpokeS
I'D into Van Robard's darkly smil
ing eyes.
Lame stammered. Il thought yoV
had gone away!"
Next week. What luck ru rninl
into you like this"
He fell into step beside her
"You're looking very it," he ffsid.
She colored. hating herself
"Thanks. You too"
They talked banalities. Civ,
was well. yes. His mother wa
sailing. Hadn't Van heard? III an
kept her voice steady with an ca ort
Her heart was pounding in the old
remembered way.
They stopped at a corner IS tn
last traffic flowed by. He 81 knce'
up at the big hotel towering abovl
them and spoke as IL on a I'm
pulse.
Come in and have tea with me
won't your"
Lame demurred. Il have a dozei
things TO do"
"Ah, you'll have time for then
later. Come"
AS one under a spell sh @ 10
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The
Once Ooer
BY II. ]. PHILLIPS
The Fuss Over CORVALLIS

The Yorktown Sesquicentennial
Commission wants TO celebrate the
surrender OF Lord CORVALLIS with
out the surrender Of CORVALLIS
The pageant plans called for the
British generals surrender in ac-
cordance with facts. but 1t Is now
thought the reproduction Of the
episode might offend the British.
What's the idea? Don't the COM
mission members think England
knows CORVALLIS has surrendered
yet?
II not. then the empire might as
well be notified by pageant as by
cablegram.
England has so many other
troubles this sea1on that American
confirmation OF Lord CORVALLIS
defeat went bother her much, any
how.
She's probably even forgotten
what war he was in.
But the incident reflects a new
high for American pussyfooting.
Yorktown IS chiefly noted as mark
ing the spot where CORVALLIS
surrendered to George washington,
ending the Revolutionary war. Up
TO the time Of the SeSquicenten-
NAL Commission, nobody had ever
thought Of suppressing the fact OF
the surrender. Why try TO soft
pedal it at this late day?
Lord CORVALLIS was a good nun
of-the-mil British general. a gal
lant soldier and fine gentleman. but
the barefooted heroes Of Valley
Forge took him for a ride, and we
thought even the British we're viii
ing TO admit ID without blushing.
The original idea behind the
yorktown celebration was TO stage
y Pageant showing every detail OF
the enc for which the town Is
famed in history. but the suggestion
that the actual surrender would Of
fend British tastes, now has the
commission up a tree
1t may leave out the big scene
entirely or else substitute a man
named Gus for Lord CORVALLIS.
Another suggestion is that in
-. - wN@-we~- rr-nnruFf4n hand
ing over his sword TO Washington,
the pageant be rewritten 10 show
them shaking hands, and with
CORVALLIS repeating the immortal
line Of John l.. Sullivan, well, I'm
glad the title was won by an A
merican."
Nobody wants to take a chance
on stirring up an international
crisis these hectic days. and II
| might be well to save the feeling OF
all concerned by having CORVALLIS
win the war. In order 70 appease
patriotic Americans, Washington
could be left out Of the scene ano
replaced BY the Wickersham COM
mission or, the whole pageant re-
staged as a Keep KisSable mardl
gras.
George washington wouldn't
care. He could always fall back on
official records.
And as for the spectators, a pa
geant is a pageant. provided the
girl participants are young and good
looking.
In little sips her drinks she'd OIL
ways take;
Like a preening eli she'd nibble
at her cake;
Her daily swim must make the lady
quake
She always seems to swallow half
the lake.
Tomas Del Cecchio.
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Helm Helm

Help! Help!
"WANTED-A hobby-Gentleman
finding business ~necessitates his
spending the entire summer in
town. is DESTROYS Of obtaining in
formation and suggestions on mex
! pensive hobbies OF mind absorbing
! interest. r. II. p. o. Box 822, City
Hall Station" Advertisement in
the N. ". Times.
The Alaskan., 1931-09-18
KETCHIKAN

The Ketchikan Camp of the Brotherhood is planning on send ing two delegates to the Yaku- tat Convention, in November.
 Last Saturday, the Brother hood put on a special dance in the Y.P.A.C. hall and it was d complete success. Meetings of the camp will begin this week, having been discontinued since last spring. A good Get-to-geth- CT" social is planned for next week and the membership looks forward to plenty of activities during the coming winter.
 Mrs. Edward Ridley, President of the Sisterhood Grand Camp, is again teaching in the Indian Bureau school.
 The fishermen are pretty much disgusted with their fishing sea-
 son. The traps did fine-but not many residents own or can own traps. The earnings of the fishermen were so small that it could not be decently called wag- es. It portends a long, cold and hard winter. Most of the Native families have put up plenty of their native foods but even at that, not few will be hard put to get the staple necessities such as milk, sugar, flour and the like
 News from Metlakatla now is that the big Community Hall Is nearly completed and ready for use. A big dedicatory program is being planned but the com mittee in charge is not yet ready make any announcements.
 George Nix, pugilist took the count last week in Commission CTS court and for the next sever-
 al months do his training in the federal jail and there observe T strictcr temperance diet.
The Alaskan., 1931-09-18
SITKA

Bob deArmond who left early in May in a dory for Tacoma, ar rived at his destination without any mishap.
 George Howard and John Will lard, alleged accomplices of AL fred Willard in recent robberies. were fined $50 and a suspended sentence of three months and $50 and costs, respectively. Ja- cob and James Carpenter, a,,o said to be implicated were sent to tie reform school in Idanl
The Alaskan., 1931-09-18
Sitka on a visit.

Forty-one pupils enrolled in the Indian Bureau school. Mrs. Jane Allen, principal is assisted by teachers Mrs. Grace Bowman, ond Mrs. Mabel Rannum.
 R. J. Sommers secured con- tract to construct the new Hoon- ah Indian Bureau School.
 Deputy Marrhal George Jones of Hoonah L>ought Nels Nelson and Joe Adamson in to serve ten months jail sentence imposed by the Commissioner of Hoonah for engaging in the manufacture and sale of illicit liquors.
 Mrs. Wellman Holbrook, wife of Forest Ranger Hollbrook, left for a visit in the states end will Ee gone until some time in No vember.
 Gertrude Peters was arrested by Deputy United States Mar shal NeWcomb for an alleged as sault and battery upon Mrs. Jen- nie James.
 Mrs. Frank Dufresne and chil- dren returned after spending several months in the states.
 The tenth annual fair opcne d with a lGrge crowd in attcnd- ance. Plenty money spent here for foclishment and long c1'd winter ahead.
 Some person or persons enter ed the public school and at tempted to rob the school of it's book funds. The funds had been deposited in the bank so the in- truders secured nothing.
 Alice Graves, not a native, was arrested on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon. She is accused of having attempted to use .38 calibre revolver orl John Gewalko..
 Charles w. HaWkesWorth, Act ing Chief of the Bureau of In dian Affairs in Alaska, left for Washington to assist in prepar- ing the budget for the Bureau work in the Territory.
 Dr. and Mrs. Harry c. De- Vigne left for Chicago where the doctor will take ID post gradu- ate work in medical school. Mrs. Karl Thie.e return q this week from Wrangell where she spent the summcr.
 MT. and Mre, q me McCloskf ' left for Walla Walla where Mir McClosHey will re-enter the Vet erans' Hospital
The Alaskan., 1931-09-18
KAKE

Members of the Rocky Pass Gun Club found their hunting lodge in Hamilton Bay, rifed of mattresses, rugs, end everything not spiked down. They offer . reward of $50 for the arrest and conviction of the guilty party or parties.
 Last year this same Club lost their cabin by fire, the origin of which was never discovered.
The Alaskan., 1931-09-18

To the natives and white men scattered along thousands ot miles of the Yukon River, a me- dical boat furnishes the only means of medical and dental relief. During the summer months of each year, this boat cruises along the river as far as the Yukon delta with a phy- sician, two nurses and a dentist on board. Their work includes the care and feeding of children and the care of the sick, per- forming operations and trans porting a limited number of pa tients to the hospitals at Fair banks and Panama.
 With large areas in Alaska suitable mainly for timber pro duction, present utilization oi but a fraction of the actual and potential annual forest growth, 8 variety of species with a large range in properties, and an a. bundance of water power ant timber resources favorable tt pulpwood development, increas- ing economic forest development is presaged for the Territory, ac- cording to the Forest Service, U s. Department of Agriculture.
The Alaskan., 1931-09-18
HOONAH

Dan White and Annie Jones were united in matrimony over at Tenakee.
 The Dodge family of Seattle, who have been visiting the Kane family here, returned to Seattle.
 A raid by deputy marshals G. Jones and J. Holberg, in the cab in of Nels Larson, Flynn Cove. netted modern still, several barrels of mash and about 75 gallcns of white mule" Joe Adamson also contributed bit of equipment and liquors to the 1aiding officers. Adamson, four months and Nelson, ten months in the Juneau jail.
 Agnes Moy, daughter of Hen " and Mrs. Move, died Saturday, Her untimely death brings sor- row to the many friends who ex- tend their sincere sympathies to the Moys family.
 MT. Raymond will be in charge Of construction work of the new Indian Bureau school, contract for which was let to Bob Som- mers of Juneau.
 Sunday school sessions in the Presbyterian Church were re- sumed after the summer vaca- tion.
 Mrs. Ganzer, former propriet- CT of the Blue Bird Cafe in Ju- neau, is clerking in Hillman' store.
The Alaskan., 1931-09-18
JUNEAU

Joe Collier, at an age when most pugiiists doff their fighting togs, took on Freddie Mack and was made to kiss the floor in the third round of what was to be T six round fight in a mixer put on by the American Legion of Juneau.
 Ranger Charles Burdick, was m Sitka in connection with For est Service work.
 Father Kashervarof, curator Of the Territorial Museum is in
The Alaskan., 1931-09-18

ern country it could base it's air :, planes on Alaska and from that point fly up and down the Paci- fic Coast. Plans must provide for an extensive base in Alaska, which is now totally defenseless, it was said. This base would consist principally of fighting planes as the Territory is so vast that anti-air- artillery would not be of any value. The Army also plans the massing oi more anti aircraft artillery weapons at the larger cities.
 The newspapers are now tell ing of the exceptional adventure that involves 5000 reindeer and a handful of hardy Laplanders and EskimoS. It is expected that these reindeer will be deliv- cred next year in good condition to the Canadian Government, at the delta of the Makenzie River, after travelling through the En- dicott mountains and along the legion of the Colville River val ley or beyond, on the southern Coast of the Arctic Ocean, and has but a few hundred miles to go ere it's destinations is reached. The stake is nearly $200,0O0, which Canada has contracted to pay upon delivery of the herd.
 Slow as the journey is-it started from Western Alaska in November, 1929-it is in purpose a race to save the Canadian Es- kimos from starvation. Canada will use the herd to propagate a food supply which will replace the schools of whales depleted by years of hunting. The route covers 1000 miles of almost un. imaginably wild country thru mountains that only flyers have traversed before. And as the herd moves only in winter over the frozen Arctic, speed is out Of the question. Thus far, the drive has weathered several terrible hlizzards without being deci- mated. In fact, because the herd does not move in fawning time, births have far exceeded deaths.
 It is expected that shortly af- ter the middle of September, Charles w. Hawkesworth, Acting Chief, Alaska Division, of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, will come to Washington from his Juneau headquarters and aid in the preparation of the budget for his department. Dr. w. A. |, Borland, health officer at Ka- nakkanak, who is now in Seattle receiving medical treatment, is also expected in Washington about the same time in connec- tion with matters concerning his official work.
 An important announcement just been made by the Secretary of the Interior that will have be- neficiaI results to the natives of Alaska. Dr. Frank SamuelSon Fellows, Past Assistant Surgeon of the U S. Public Health Ser vice, has been detailed to the office of Indian Affairs to act as District Medical Director for Alaska. His headquarters will be at Juneau and he will sail from Seattle shortly after October 1st for his new location. This then will be the first time in it's his tory that Alaska will have a su pervisor appointed by the Fed eral Government to direct the program of health work among the natives for the entire Terri. tory. Altho the new appointee is but 32 years of age, he already has had wide experience in the Public Health Service, having served at Chicago, Norfolk, Ne Y York, Seattle and Portland.
 Much of the time of Dr. Eel lows will be spent in travelling over the vast northern country
The daily worker., 1931-07-06
HIGH AMERICAN OFFICIALS REVEAL
mPLANS FOR WAR ON SOVIET UNION

then stimulation of counter-revolu-
tionary attempts in the Soviet Union
then armed Intervention by the i'm
perialist powers.
1t is becoming clearer every day
to the workers that the so-called
Hoover war debt plan has for one
of its immediate objects the forging
of an anti-Soviet war front. The i'm
perialists want to plunge the starv-
ing working masses into war
against their brothers in the Soviet
Union. The imperialists want to
smash the upbuilding of socialism.
They find millions for this war pre-
parations, but not one cent for the
starving jobless.
Demand the war funds go to the
unemployed for relief! Defend the
Soviet Union which is threatened by
attack from the bosses who slash
wages in the United States and force
100000 to starve Turn out in
masses on August l, international
Anti-war Day, and demonstrate to
the bosses that you will not stand for
an imperialist robber war or inter-
vention in the workers Soviet Re-
public. --~ -~~ -~-,-' -