The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 362-B, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 30, 1921 Page: 2 of 4
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Thursday June 30 1021
MANY THANKS FOR DEM
KIND (?) MOIDS SIR!
An individual campaign of slander
directed against the city of Browns-
ville seems to have been undertaken
by a gentleman who makes h‘a home
in the Lower Rio (irande Valley—at
McAllen to be precise.
If individuals were amerutle to the
libel laws as are the newspapers for
instance and if a city were jealous
enough of its reputation to under-
take court action this gentleman
would undoubtedly be subject not
only to damage* but to criminal ac-
tion for the circulation of falsehoods
calculated to injure the city of
Brownsville in the minds of visitors
and strangers.
A north Texas banker a few days
ago accompanied by members of his
family were enroute by automobile
to Brownsville from a point up the
Valley. They chanced to meet the
McAllen gentleman and in the course
. of conversation said they were going
jjgto frovtnsvil]*. This brought from
the McAllen gentleman a series of
abusive sentences the like of which
—it is difficult to believe that any one
could utter against a neighboring
city.
The conversation was repeated to
Manager J. H. Hott of the Chamber
of Commerce of Brownsville and
given him as follows:
“Brownsville is not a fit place to
visit."
“Brownsville is seven-tenths Mex-
ican two-tenths American and one-
tenth robbers and cut-throats and it
is not safe for ladies to be on the
street alone."
“Brownsville has no police force."
“The only reason any one goes to
Brownsville is to go to Matamoros
to get drunk."
“Brownsville is absolutely dead.
You won’t like it."
Perhaps the McAllen gentleman haa
never had an opportunity to visit
Brownsville. Doubtless be doesn’t
know the city. Or perhaps he was
denied a loan by one of its banks or
credit by some of its wholesale houses.
Or maybe it is that his liver is had
in which event we would suggest that
he read up on patent medicine ad-
vertising. It might effect a cure.
Stranger things have happened.
Brownsville and its environs are
populated by more than 20000
people. It's population because of
the large foreign element is cosmo-
politan. It’s police court records
show it to be one of thle most peaceful
cities of its size in the state.
Ladie« walk the streets of Browns-
ville. when occasion arises at any
hour of the day or night and in per-
fect safety. There is nothing on
record to the contrary.
And in spite of the proximity of
liquor on intoxicated man on the
streets of Brownsville is as rare a
sight as in any town in the Valley
and in rome instances more rare.
The gentleman from McAllen is
wrone. quite wrong.
"What Fools These ‘Knockers’ Be.”
InfHER PAPERS
ASSISTANCE
(Ciulveston News)
The paper is a day late this week
but we know our readers will par-
don the delay when we tell them me
were in two different towns in old
Mexico last week.
And to help you out with your
readers to put you an adroit bach-
elor in better standing among those
with whom every good man likes to
stand welh State PresR will say that
ypur conduct in the two Mexican
cities was such r.s would have made
Milwaukee proud to claim you as her
own I*n’t it astonishing hew much
*ee;u-r> a mgn can jlis.* while look-
hIr»g :or a drink? Th» allusion is n>t
* made for the purpose of hinting at
any bibulous indulgence on your
part Editor West while the guest
of our neighboring republic. It is
only to assure your rfeaders that
while others were looking for beer
in Mexico you were looking for na-
tural beauty. Didn’t S. P. hear you
ask our genial tactful Mexican host:
“Where do you keep your sic*
scenery senor?” Didn’t S. P. hear
you tell the ancient dame who kept
the curio store that she was “the
farisht among ten thousanish and al-
together lolish?” These reminiscences
are not here set down for the pur-
pose of inviting your soul back to
Matamoros but rather to help you
straighten yourself out with your
subscribers. A friend in deed is the
friend you need.
FRUIT FORETHOUGHT
(San Antonio Express!
Articles counseling farmers to im-
prove cultural methods select better
varieties and buy better seed are is*
sued frequently by agricultural ad-
visers. It is not so often that atten-
tion is called to re accomplishments
from following improved methods.
A preliminary report by the Bu
reau of the Census on the produc-
tion of apples and peaches in the
United States shows an amazing de-
velopment in Texas peach-culture. In
1909 a total of 9737827 trees pro-
duced 729631 bushels of peaches.
Ten years later in Texas 4461211
trees produced 4842129 bushels. In
other words while the number of
bearing trees in Texas was reduced
more than half in 10 years the pro
duction per tree was increased near)
ly seven times. According to the
Census figures Texas peach trees
now are averaging more than a
bushel a piece in bearing years.
Texas is the second peach-growing
State outranking both Georgia and
Arkansas while Michigan which was
among the leaders 10 years ago. has
dropped below 1000.000 bushels
yearly. California still is at the head
of peach-growing States with near-
ly 16000^100 bushels produced <r
1919. The acreage adaptable to
peaches in Texas is much larger than
that of California and 10 years ago
Texas had nearly two million more
bearing trees man • aiirorma.
Marketing difficulties are the prin-
cipal barrier that keeps Texas from
leading the \a.t:on in peach-growing
Every few years we hear of peaches
going to waste *n some part of Tex
as for lack of tr •nsnortation or mark-
et. While Terns hu3 made great
strides in increasing production per
tree it -has not developed co-op*-.v
tive marketing d the snme sea it as
California. We can raise the peach-
es but we have net yet learned how i
to sell them.
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“OIL BURNERS” TO THE PACIFIC
(Boston Transtaipf*i
“Reasons of state” as Senator
Knox might aay doubtless required
that the trrderf or th* dispatch to the
Pacific of the latest and largest ca-
pital ships of the navy should be of-
ficially attributed to economic caus-
es. It so happens that the new su>
perdreadnoughts are oil burners. By
sending these to the Pacific—the
New York Texas Wyoming and
Arkansas—and by transferring to
the Atlantic the coal-burners—th*-
Arizona Nevada Oklahoma und
Maryland the only oil burner left in
the Atlantic fleet will be the Penn
sylvania (flagship). These changes
will effect a saving in fuel of $5 a
ton in the oil-burning ships and a
very considerable saving in the coal-
burners which can be operated
much more cheaply in the Atlantic
As fast as new oil burners are com-
missioned they will be sent to the
Pacific and as fast as the coal-
burners become obsolete they will
be put out of commission on the
Atlantic. So we see in Secretary
Denby’s order a long step toward the
reuniting of modern capital ships
that constitute the backbone of the
fleet and another step toward re-
leasing the navy from its recent em-
barrassment.
Let us hope that the day is not
far distant when the facilities for
docking and repair in the Pacific will
permitf the complete consolidation
of the fleet and its maneuver at w.ll
ir. either ocean. Let us look forward
also to the elimination from the na-
vy list of capita1 ships down tc and j
including the Connecticut c.ass.
Secretary Denby m.ght well appoint a
hoard of naval c fficers to fix the
fighting value of these olde* ship*.
Upon the basis cf such an appraisal
their sale for whatever they will
bring as ships or junk would proba
lily be cheaper than to put them
out of commission and pay the cost
of their guard and upkeep. .
In returning to the doctrine of
Mahan and the united fleet. Secre-
tary Denby is enhancing the fine
reputation he has already made. No
member of the j-bainet has morj
completely vindicated the president’s
selection than his adviser on naval
affairs who is administering the na-
vy department with an eye chiefly to
the upbuilding of the fleet-in-being.'
; For it is the fleet inbeing that is the j
| strong right arm of national defense
and to keep it in fighting trim is the i
paramount responsibility o fthe sec-
retary o fthe navy.
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| MEW YORK LETTER 1
NEW YORK. June »t0. — There is
a suddenly augmented yearn for the
footlights on the part of Now York
society girls and women this spring.
From sheer force of habit we will
probably say uIt's a result of the
war"; but just what the war should
j have to do with the dancing or
screening abilities of matrons >and»
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ROADS OFFER RIDES
TO WEARY TRAVELERS
< Ilv Tl»*» Associated Press*
LOS ANGELES June :ui—'While
automobile drivers in the cities have
acquired indifferent “eityfied”
hearts and seldom deign to “give a
man a lift” drivers along the coun-
try roads uphold the ancient tradi-
tions of the highway and gladly
help a foot-weary traveler on his
way says Dominick McDevitt who
recently arrived in Lo< Angeles from
Boston on a pedestrian journey.
McDevitt left Boston on May 7
on a wager to walk across the con-
tinent and back to Chicago by Au
gust 1. He was required under the
terms o fthe bi*t to remain on the
highway and while “riding the rails”
was barred he was allowed 4o accept
rides from autoists and to tin gene-
rosity of the motorists on the long
open road he says is largely due
the rapidity of his westward pro-
gress.
Aftergoing to Portland. Ore. he
says he will start the return trip
by way of the Evergreen trail.
debutantes is hard to decipher. Any-
way we arc* beginning to have too
many months between us and that
cataclysm to make it our universal
alibi. Anyhow the yearn i?- here.
And it’s being rapidly translated into
action. Following Mrs. Lydig Hoyt
and some others 1 have mentioned wo
now hear that Miss Mary Hone the
daughtiT of Mr. and Mrs. Augustus
C. Hone is about to embark upon a
motion picture career as son. as she
finishes school at Rosemary Hall. Her
parents are said to offer no «11 vour-
ugement. And the news has just been
made public that “Alice Wynne”
who has been doing classic dances in
“Aphrodite” this past season is lilt 1 .*
Alice Delano Weekes youngest
daughter of John A. Weekm of New
York and Oyster Bay. Alice was des-
tined to enter society Hii> year but
announces that she never intends to
do anything of the sort- She is going
right on dancing on the stage or for
the films. Sho is a god-daughter of
the late Theodore Roosevelt and only
a year or two ago was a rather shy.
elfin-like child with whom one never
would connect the thought of such a
dynamic career. ✓
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“What sort of books do the blirnj
L
Varnish the floors of every room in
the house—from living room to
kitchen hath room and closets it
pays. It does not take half the work
to keep th:j house clean if floors
are varnished.
EAGLE PASS LUMBER CO.
Service Quality and a Square Deal
read most" a visitor asked the lihrar- j
I
ian in that section of the New York !
Library the other day. She answered t
him politely and then turned to mi I
| with a sigh. “What kind of'hook !
does anyone suppose they like?" (hr I
asked..almost petulantly. *'l suppose I
that man was shocked because I tofd !
him that ‘Hell fer Snrtain’ was tlic
one most taken out by them last
month. They like ‘thrillers’ just ns
other people do. Love stories and ad
ventures and those tilings l’.'ople
seem to think that because a person
is blind he is concerned only with j
I spiritual values or new thought or
something Sometimes the o quest-
ions irritate me." There were .’1000
blind persons in New York at the time
of the last census but fhis figure
was increased of course b ythe war
The library tries to keep on hard
nooks enough for all of them—-
"thrillers" too.
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Anyone who thinks that the moh-
lems of woman are solved just be-1
^ a use she is a voter would have done
well to listen for n few attentive mo-j
j merits at a conference held the other
•lay in the hpndntMfrters of the N’a
j tional Beard of the Y. W. A. The
conference was called for the con- i
sidcration of legislation affecting thr
hours and wages of women in Indus- I
|
j try in New York. Connecticut and j
MasHchusetts and it lasted through .
a whole dav of very solid hours in-
deed. Shall women sacrifice equal ;
opportunity with man for the sake
of protective laws? How will she
pet around those two horns of the
dilemma? How long ought she to
•
work in a day anyway? Those were
some of the problems Up for discus-
ion and they are by no means simple
of solution. Mrs. Florence Kelley
«poke on "Fallacies of ‘Equal Op-
portunity’". and Owen R l.oveioy
. rtd otlu-r authorities in the world of
industrial legislation took up variou*
sections of the matters of hours and
wages for women and children. The
Y. W. C. A. Women’s City Club. New
York Trade Union I.-.•ague the N®w
York League of Women Voters the
State Consumers’ League the Stat®
League of (Jiris’ Clubs and th? New
Yotk State W. ( . T. U. were the
orgariaations holding the conference
which wa open to the public.
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A re*.headed sailor from on® of the
battleships resting in the Hudson
river didn’t mean to hold un Fifth
Avenue traffic the nth r day but he
fairly succeeded 'n doing it. The
bell of a crowded bus began ringing
and'the conductor signalled to stop.
No one.got off nor even looked inter -
ested in getting off. As the hu*
'••rfed again the •••m-ing starte 1—
«hort. intermittent little rings. Th®
eoiriuctor climbed to t^® top decV
®nd to®k a survey. "Who’s ringing
hat hell?" h® cried. “Why I was."
a id the sailor. Then he gathered
from the sputtering outburst that th?
"opHurtor didn’t ear® for it and that
u® had stonned the conveyance. “Oh.
I’m sorry." he ‘-aid. "I didn’t m®an |
to do that. My hnddie was sit tip®;
down stairs ’cause there wasn’t « s->}it
up here* and I was to ring a Morse ■
code message as soon as one was
empty. See. th®r-» h® chm®s now-." !
JA$OY JEJA|NE price
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Your Rating'
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I»o you rate yourself as an economist:
Economy means living within a reasonable financial
limit putting the surplus aside for the proverbial "rainy
• day.”
Thrift and economy are the forerunners of independ-
ence. Your future will appear brighter if you have a
Savings Account with the Merchants National Bank.
The
Merchants’ National
Bank
Of Brownsville
CAPITAL STOCK
PAID IN. .. $100000.00
FROM EARNINGS.$100000.00 $200000.00
SURPLUS FUND. EARNED. $150000 00
Our Safety and Service are at YOUR command.
SERVICE I
Whether your account be large or small. |
Whether you are old or young we tvel- I
come the opportunity to serve you I
STATE BANK & TRUST CO.
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PROTECT YOUR HANDS
Keep your hands soft smooth and white even though you do have
to do housework that i* trying^and hard on the skin. Get a pair ol
RUBBER GLOVES
Easy to slip on—easy to take off. Absolutely hnpervious to water
and are made of fine high quality rubber so as to enable you to
handle any article easily. s
50c. 75c and $1.00 Pair .
WILLMAN’S PHARMACY
PHONES 40 AND St
INSURED
IF NOT
DO SO NOW!
Better be safe than be sorry.
Liability and Property Damage
Insurance costs little by the
year-
W.B. CLINT
General Insurance
Merchants’ Nat’l Bank Bldg.
Martinez Drug Store
The out-of-the-way drug store hut with the
“Right-of-way” free delivery.
Rhone 136 for quick Service.
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I'm glad
lsaid
PASSER
(MMtJtXt ip«li
fountain Pen
• i
The fact that the
bee produces honey
is small consolation
for tlie man w ho hMs ;
* just been stun £.
"Y’our money back it
not" satisfied” is a
poor substitute for
c|ua1itv. Better to see
us and «jct a Parker
Pen and be satisfied
from the start.
Bishop Stationery 1
and Book Store
1117 Elizabeth •
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There is hardly anything a CLAS-
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not do. Try one.
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BORDERLAND
HARDWARE CO.
The Saippljr House of
Brownsville
HARDWARE
PI PE\ va l ves
and
FITTINGS
Pho.ie £25
1222 Elizabeth St.
Try a Classified Want Ad
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