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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-15
City Briefs


We have a number OF nice cot
tages with and without shower
baths and inside toilets ready for
occupancy at Del Mar on the Gulf
shore twenty-five miles east Of
BROWNSVILLE Adv.
r. Becerra Soto left BY plane
Monday morning for Mexico City.
Soto has Just returned from q
vacation trip in Europe. He Is
traffic manager for Pan-American
airways. j. f. Hudson left for
Tampico by plane also.
j. p. McGrath OF San Antonio
Is in Brownsville for a short time.
r. L. Shaw arrived in the city
Sunday.
w II. Slattery of Oklahoma City
Is a local visitor.
A caller from San Antonio is =.
v. Kiley.
From Port Arthur is c. A. Lantz
II. c. Ward OF Corpus Christi is
spending several days in Browns
vile.
E. Fl. Morrice is a local visitor
He is from New Orleans.
Clarence Biggs. son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. V. w. Biggs and an employee
Of the Aguilo Oil Company. south
OF Tampico. arrived Saturday by
plane from Monterrey to spend his
vacation with his parents. This i:
his first visit home in two years.
For rent. The Tower Sandwich
Shop de luxe on Harlingen-San
Benito highway. Suitable for doc
tors office or business requiring
publicity. Phillips Hardware, San
Benito. Adv.
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means this II cents should have
been levied because the bonds are
optional and draw S l-2 per cent.
and it Is good business to levy the
tax rate on bonds drawing the
higher rate of interest, but these
are not ordinary times. and OF the
90 1-2 cents for road bonds. SO IL
cents are for the six million. and
We are well within the most tech
nical construction OF the law.
I'VE estimate our valuations 10
be s5l 800 .O00.83 1-2 cents would
yield s430. $4,000.
we have $685. 800 to raise for
the six million this year. Our bonds
r serial. and the federal loan
banks estimate that one per cent
Of principal amortizes a loan in
"a years. Our bonds average about
% years. and 1t would thus take
a little better than one cent added
to the five cents TO strike the aver
age. But even II they were old
sinking fund bonds. we are still
within the most technical con-
struction OF the law. Old sinking
fund bonds could not possibly re-
quire more than two cents for
sinking fund, which added to the
five cents Of interest would make
$500. 1000 a year. but the rate We
have levied. based on s5f SOC. 900
would be s430. $50. or sl0.86o 10 the
good. To that will be added approx
imately one years interest on s450.-
600 OF Series g" bonds.
IF we could collect an amount
equal to our levy for this year. I
doubt II a raise Of taxes would be
necessary next year: otherwise, II
surely will.
Il want TO correct the impression
that the commissioners court Is
estimaang 100 per cent collection
Of the current roll. Our tax rate
would really mean an amount
equal to about 80 per cent Of the
present roll. Even in the very best
Of years a 100 per cent collection
Of a current roll Is never known.
but you can usually estimate that
the collection OF delinquent taxes
for the preceding years, plus in
terest and penalties. will list about
equal the delinquencies on the
current roll.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-15
GOV. MURRAY
CRILLS FARM
il BOARD loan

OKLAHOMA CITY. Sept. l4-tR
Gov. Murray asked the Federal
Farm Board today IF 1t is not
true" that 1t loaned 1000. 900 oush-
els OF wheat to one milling COM
pany when wheat was IS cents a
bushel and now Is taking II back
at q price SO low the company is
profiting 100000 by the purported
transaction.
Queries Board
Murray last week called on the
board to show where 100000. 900
bushels OF sterilization wheat is
stored and said Oklahoma farmers
thought the wheat had been loaned
to mills and would be replaced by
cheap wheat.
Today the governor declared
Chairman Stone OF the board had
answered "they had loaned or left
with certain millers a few hun
dred thousand bushels, which
should be returned on demand"
and continued:
Nov, / submit, II you want TO
L1AhG q Al1AAAAQ4 AOAA4A0 V41 Vi
circulation you would not do 1t
by depositing II In the bank. and
by the same token the lending OF
this wheat to the millers Is not
calculated to raise the price but
only make the millers more secure
In their supply. -"
Charges Discrimination
Il now submit him this direct
question: Did he not loan as much
as 1000, 900 bushels or more to one
milling company, when wheat was
selling at IS cents a bushel and
are not these same -~illing COM
panies returning the wheat now at
IS cents a bushel, thereby giving
that one milling company a profit
OF $500. 900 ~ this transaction OF
the government"
Murray also said Il challenge
them TO disprove that the board
has deposited with large milling
companies this wheat, and ave
Disseminated against the small
milling companies in favor OF the
larger mes and that by such de-
posts they have reduced the price
OF wheat rather than raised it,"
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as legislature was swayed by wine.
women and money and that the
lobby was headed By the firm Of
Anderson and Clayton OF Houston.
II there is any body here who has
seen any wine, women or money or
approached by Anderson and Clay
ton lobbyists, let him rise"
Anderso and Clayton is a cotton
firm in Houston.
1T is an indictment of the peo-
pie and the legislature Of Texas and
his statements are not true" Nc
Gregor shot t. adding that II his
statements were not true Ii "neces-
sarily follows he Is a liar and that's
scientific and technical.
Lying Denounced
Gov. Long is credited with hav-
ing said in a public speech in New
Orleans that 1t was not only the
right but the duty Of a public SER
want 10 lie. The vice of lying Is the
worst in the world and the iudg-
ment Of God in striking Ananias
dead was the greatest judgment in
history"
McGregor struck at Longs refusal
TO serve in the u. S. senate after
being elected 10 that post.
IF Long took his commission
from the secretary Of state as a u.
S. senator he vacated the office Of
governor Of louisiana" McC-egor
stated. IF he refused to keep his
covenant with the people OF Louisi-
ana when they elected him TO the
senatorship. then he has vacated
that office"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-15
EDINBURC
BRIEFS

EDINBURG.-Ten youths paid
fines in Justice Of the Peace n.
w. Digs court In Weslaco Mon
day. following their arrests at a
bale south OF Mercedes Satur-
day night. The ten were charged
with drunkenness and disturbing
the peace. Deputy Sheriffs Mac
Galbreath. Ed Etter ard r. Z.
Rowson made the arre1s.
Miss Mary Earnest. deputy in
the county clerks office and ecre-
tary to the commissioners court.
returned Monday from a trip 10
Dallas. her former home. Miss
Earnest was joined in Austin by
her mother. Mrs. ID. c. Earnest,
wife Of County Tax Assessor Earn
est.
Mrs. A. G.. Haigh. deputy In the
tax assessors office, spent last week
IN Austin.
Jose Garcia Hernandez was de-
ported 10 Mexico by federal Of
ficers yesterday. Hernandez was
serving n s months term in Jail,
in accordance with Section I A OF
the alien law. which provides for
the term In jail for aliens found In
the United States after having
been deported, before being sent
back TO their country.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-15
Harlingen Schools
Open Doors Today
CBy staff CorresDondent.)

Wy 2tdAA OOllCc
HARLINGEN. Sept. IS The
business OF enrolling students was
under wav in the Harrington schools
today and classes were expected to
begin wednesday.
All teachers gathered at the
high school for a brief general
faculty meeting Monday morning
at which Pres. Frank Z. Davis OF
the school board made a talk.
Principals held individual faculty
meetings OF teachers under then
az their separate buildings later.
A large enrolment was expected
in the schools.
Supt. J.. p. Buck Is expected 70
return from Sour Lake with his
family wednesday after having
Strengthened out his affairs there
following his resignation TO accept
the position here.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-15
OFFICE
BUILDER DUE

Indicating that work on the new
$450. 900 federal building IN Browns
vile will begin within the next
few days. A. j. Rife OF the com.
pany bearing his name. successful
bidders on the building. writes
The Brownsville Herald that he
viii be in the city Tuesday. Sept.
Is.
The contractor plans to be in
Brownsville for the purpose OF con-
ferring with sub-contractors and
material men. and may b. located
after 2 D. m. Tuesday at the e
Jardin hotel. he states.
Any one interested in purchase
or salvage material from the old
building Is also invited to confer
with Rife while he Is In the city.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-15

MINEOLA, N. Y. .-ept- 14-F-
District Attorney Blue of Suffolk
county announced today h would
take Mrs Benjamin r.. Ceilings
aboard the yacht frcn which she
said her husband was thrown over
board by two men and vigorously
cross-examine her because he does
not believe she Is telling the truth.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-15
Freight Car Death
Is Held Accidental
CAV Staff Correspondent)

HARLINGEN. Sept. IA The
death OF Thomas F. Cooke Of
Houston. whose body was found in
the switchyards here last night.
was held accidental by Justice Of
the Peace VIII Fields at an inquest
this morning.
j. r. Springfield of Houston.
companion OF Cooke. declared this
morning that he was asleep at the
time Of the accident. He said that
he and Cooke came here from
Houston seeking employment and
had planned TO return last night.
They lay down at the switchyards
awaiting the arrival OF a train, he
said.
Cookies body was found partly
under the wheels OF a freight car.
II Is not known whether he was
asleep on the tracks OF was at
tempting TO board the train at the
time Of his death.
He Is survived by his widow at
Beaumont and a daughter in Hous-
ton. Services will be held Tuesday
from Thompson mortuary.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-15
Dance Hall Closed

A well known bale in the
business district Of Santa Rosa was
closed for a year under an iniunc-
ton granted by District Civil Judge
A. M. Kent following a hearing
here Monday morning.
Proceedings against the bale
were instituted Saturday by Coun-
ty Attorney Marvin Hall, and
Judge Kent summoned the op-
orators TO appear this morning.
The hall. termed by Attorney
Hall a bawdyhouse. can be opened
on posting Of $1,000 penal bond.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-15
State Employee
Paw Cut Looms

AUSTIN. Sept. 14.-tP-James v.
Alfred. attorney general. said he
had detailed investigators today TO
confer with Congressman Wright
Patman Of Texarkana and procure
the evidence Patman had concern
ing the existence OF a cotto nseed
trust.
Il appreciate his interest in the
matter. and If anybody else knows
any facts tending 70 show the es-
tablishment Of such a monopoly. I
thank them TO notify me at once"
Alfred stated.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-15
San Benito School
Programs Arranged
tBy Staff Corresponlent)

SAN BENITO. Sept. 15.-The first
assembly program OF the year will
be had in the new senior high
school at LOO D. m. and the public
IS invited. according to Supt. T. j.
Voc.
A Joint student-faculty committee
has been named to get I'D the pro-
grams throughout the year. ii Is
composed Of Miss Mary Thomas,
senior; Marjorie Breedlove. Junior:
Bruce Gentry. sophomore: Miss
Glee Ingram. Miss Sicne Lundelius.
w. Z. Pinkerton and Mrs. Cecil Nor
riS OF the faculty.
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3 Die In Crash

VERO BEACH. Fla, Sept. IA
R)-Racing northward through
storms with news pictures OF the
damage wrought by the hurricane
that devastated Belize. British
Honduras. three men wee killed
last night when their airplane
crashed at Oslo, three miles south
Of here.
The dead: +. A. Edwards. SO,
staff photographer for the M mi
Daily Herald: George II. Gibson.
IS. chief pilot for the Curtiss-
Wright Flying Service, Inc. and
@. r. Roe) McBroom. %, CO.
pilot. All were from Miami.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-15

NEW YORK. Sept. l4.-tP-The
giant flying boat Do-x rested on
dry land TODAY for tire first time
since her arrival in this country
from Europe. The huge air liner was
hauled ashore at North Beach air.
port and her twelve motors removed
for overhauling.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-15

FORT WORTH. Sept. 14-tP-
The era OF railroad control is pass
ing. A. t. Barrett. Fort Worth
president OF the Texas Bus Own
ers' association. told truck and
bus operators and drivers here
Yesterday. but. he declared. the
fight against motor and canal
transportation is only beginning.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-15

TYLER. Sept. Is. OF1-Miss Maur-
inc Fortner OF Pine Springs was
crowned prosperity queen of east
Texas here last night.
The coronation was held IN con-
nection with the east Texas fair
which opened yesterday
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-15
fBv staff Correspondent,

FBy SIH1f COTTtSpOndent1
SAE BENITO-The ministerial
alliance met Monday at the Stone
wall Jackson hotel and chose Rev
T. G. Bankhead OF the Church d
Christ TO represent the churches or
the open house program to be held
IN the new senior high school Fri
day night.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-15

formulate plans for expansion or
the stock feeding industry.
Representatives from 40 counties
III the area expect to encourage
the feeding Of more cattle and
sheep In Texas.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-15

wAURIKA. Okla. Sept. IL. Up
Judge Eugene Rice Of the Jeffer-
son county district court ruled to-
day against IT, removal OF Gov.
w. II. Murray's suit against the
Lone Star gas interests to federal
court.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-15
r BUTTS DIES

Word was received here SATURDAY
OF the death OF Mrs. Alice Fitch
Butts. widow OF Fred Butts, ar her
home in youngstown. Ohio.
Mrs. Butts was the eldest sister
OF Homer l.. Fitch and Mrs. Ralph
A. Warden of Brownsville. Mrs
Butts was born In youngstown and
lived there al lher Life.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-15
Dawson Rites

- .1AN tWNETTIIFIIT
SAN BENITO. SEPT. Is Last
rites for Mrs. Lena Meadows Daw-
son. wife OF w. Z. Dawson. who
died Sunday night. were held from
the Baptist church Tuesday morn
ing with Rev. c. :. Mckinney.
pastor. in charge.
Interment was in Mont Meta
Memorial Park.
Mrs. Dawson has been active In
Valley Baptist church circles ever
since she came TO this section IN
1913 from Haynesville. La.
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Report Convention
f7v Staff Cnrresnnndentl

t3y Staff correspondent
SAN BENITO-E. G.. Breedlove
and j. p. Ellis will report on the
Texas Oklahoma district conven-
ton az Wednesdays meeting o.
the Kiwanis club.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-15
Child browns

LEvELLAND, sept. ID. R-Day~
ton Wayne Henderson. 10 months
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. w. M. Hem
derson. drowned when ne fell into
n water tank near his home yeste--
day. wv.
TIE child and n four-year-0ld
companion were playing when the
accident happened. Cries rf the Old
err boy attracted the baby's mother.
Efforts no reSuscitRti0n failed
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-15

In Sweden. an inexpensive cash
register has been developed that
requires little space and enables
each employe Of a store 10 have his
own register.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-15
Ranchmen Meet

SAN ANGELO. Sept. IA. -Fl-
West Texas ranchmen and Pan
handle grain producers will meet
with bankers here tomorrow TO
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-15

Tiny electric lamps have been
mounted on the backs OF q London
theater's seats to enable patrons TO
read programs In the G-rk-
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TAX RATE OF

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-05
White House Whistlers

We have been accustomed for years to think well
Of the man who whistles, to refer to him as a coura-
geous chap whose morale is good and whose oppor-
tunity for success therefore is good.
Yet Philosophy Professor Charles Gray Shaw of
New York university asks us to put this notion
aside and to regard the man who whistles as moth
ing but a moron, a vacant-minded fellow unable to
think.
No great or successful man whistles, Shaw says,
and to clinch his point he asks if one can imagine
President Hoover w~histling.
One can not. Mr.. Hoover is not a whistling sort
of person. His attention too often is fixed upon
every scratch Of his hair shirt. He wishes the atten-
ton of others focused there, too.
Yet it is not impossible to imagine a President
%whistling, nor to imagine a great and successful
President w%histling. Nor is it hard to believe that
the ability to do so would help make such a mans
administration a success.
Morale and courage are qualities a leader needs.
particularly in distressing times. They are quail
ties which win friends for a man and inspire conf
dence in him.
sometimes may indicate a wandering attention, and
that it may be a social nuisance at the wrong time
and place. But before we check it off the list COM
pletely we should like to hear from some psychology
professor on the subject.
And to make the experiment complete we should
like, just once, to try out a President who whistles
when things go wrong.
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LahOr'S Program

VS@
Just fifty years ago a little group met in Terre
Haute and organized what now is the American Fed
Grafton of Labor. Today this army Of workers, now
100000 strong, opens its f~1fty-hrst convention in
Vancouver, B. c., in one of its darkest hours.
With 100000 or more jobless men and women
facing the third winter of want; with wage cuts men
acing living standards gained from years of struggle;
with basic industries like coal, oil, lumber, railroads
knocking at the governments door for relief; with
world problems calling for world remedies, American
labor needs all the courage and craftsmanship it
can muster.
Will it assume leadership?
What is labor's program?
Subject to amendment by the delegates, the eXecu-
tive council report, out today, gives labors answers.
Its winter emergency program is: The shorter
work week and day; employers responsibility for
keeping a minimum force at work; speeding up and
extending public works; Strengthening of employ
ment agencies; extending the compulsory school age;
preference for workers with dependents; unemploy-
ment aid through private and public funds, federal
if necessary. That is a splendid emergency plan.
The A. F. of L. longtime program leads with a
plea for a federal labor board" to give labor the
assistance and service comparable to that given
farmers and industry"
This is not antagonistic to the suggestions Of
Gerald Swope or Senator Robert M. La Toilette for
an industrial planning board for the whole of
industry.
Indeed, the A. F. of L. council bewails the fact
that President Hoover has failed to call a national
conference to outline such a measure.
'"There must be comprehensive planning by all
groups that affect each other" the report says. mo
one Industry can prevent business depression, nor
even all industries, unless they work together"
The council is bearish on unemployment insur-
ance. Labor wants jobs, not the dole, we hear. But
"f compulsory unemployment insurance is fastened
upon our industrial, political and economic life, it
WIN be because industrial ownership and manage
nent have failed to preserve work opportunities for
working men and women"
It's tax plan is clear. No sales taxi Instead We
should tax the great estates through inheritance
ana gift taxes and, if necessary, increase the income
taxes on the high brackets.
On international questions, the councils program
LACKS the world vision of British Labor party's Scar
borough program and, indeed. of President William
Green's recent interviews. We hear nothing of dis
armament, war debt reductions, tariff reduction. It
maintains laboris traditional attitude on Philippine
independence. and immigration restriction up to 90
per cent of the present quota and n~on-quota groups.
on the railway situation it takes no sides either
for or against the IS per cent rate increase or the
eastern merger plan other than to insist, in case Of
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IT SEEMS TO ME BY HFFEE9M 3S

color and the 1exibility of a more
slowly fashioned medium Of COM
munication.
But, after all, it is not a matter of
patriotism as to whether English,
German, French or Italian-just to
mention a few-is the easiest tongue
to acquire. A purely rational and
scientific study could determine just
which language should be employed
as the stipulated secondary subject
in every school throughout the
world.
Increasingly we will need a knowl-
edge of the words Of other people.
International b~roadcasts are mod
erately common now. And in a few
years it is entirely probable that
one may sit here in New York and
tune in for China, Moscow or vi
emma, as he chooses. Such easy
access to the speeches of great men
in other lands should move us to an
eagerness for understanding.
SmatteringS Won't Do
ATOW, it isn't feasible for us all
IN to become linguists and acquire
an entire set of dialects. But any
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-05

average person ought to be able to
master a fair knowledge of two
tongues. AS things are now. we dis
sipate the energy of fhe child into
too many quarters.
For instance, in school I was
taught a little French, a little Ger
man, a little Greek and a little
Latin. I don't know enough of any
one of the four to do even the most
casual reading now. If this time
could have been concentrated into
a study of one universal language,
I would be a wiser and a better per-
son and more able to grasp the
point of view Of all my fellow-men.
If Mr.. Wells did not say anything
along these lines in his radio broad
cast on international dictatorship, I
suggest he do SO next time. One of
the easiest ways to avoid screaming
at one another here within the mar
row confines of this small planet
is to know just what the other fell
low is saying. 1t would avoid g. lot
of fights.
Copyright. 1881. By The Tmes)