The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 148, Ed. 1 Friday, December 1, 1922 Page: 4 of 6
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Friday PcccmlxT 1. 1 ()?2
THE FARMERS MARKET
At the community meeting to he
held in El Jardin tonight the pro-
position of establishing a farmers*
market in the eity of Brownsville
will be discussed. El Jardin farmers •
have presented the claim- that mid- I
tUemen have derived the major pro-
fit from the farmers’ products and
It must be confessed their claims are
pot without foundation. City res- .
idents have often realized that they |
were paying a big profit to someone
and an investigation will prove to the
satisfaction of the consumers that it •
is not the fanner who is getting the
bi|f profit.
The Herald believes the establish- (
ment of a farmers' market in the
city would be a big factor in pro-
moting development in the agricul-
tural sections contiguous to the city j
Under present conditions much of
the produce sold in the city is ship-
ped from distant points und through
organization • and cooperation this
waste can he eliminated and the
receive
tne profits now being paid to mid-
dlemen and growers in other parts of
the country. t
5s There is no logical reason why
f*lhe consumers of farm products in
y**his city should not give a move-
n®nent of this character their earnest
* *iipport. Brownsville’s future is de-
P°f>etxient to a great extent upon the
development of its agriculture. The
* interests of the farmers and the res-
idents of the eity are mutual and all
that is lacking is mutual understand-
ing and the opportunity for the city
resident to purchase direct from the
"N farmers. In this connection it must
be stated that the consumers will
expect service. They know ns well
as the farmers what the Valley can
produce and they will expect the
farmers to organize their market up-j
on the basis of good service—to sup- •
pi.v consumers with all seasonable
products. I
A larmers market is not a ncv
innovation. Scores of cities in the
United Sattes have within the past
five years taken steps to eliminate
the middlemen so far as possible
and bring the consumers and farm-
ers into closer contact. Occasion-
ally these ventures have failed but
wherever the right spirit of coopera-
tion has been manifested and th.* far-
mers have conducted their markets
upon a service basis they have been
succeesful and the elimination of
the middlemen has brought profit
to both the farmer and consumer.
The plnn is worthy of a trial. It
may not prove highly successful at
the start but its success is assured
if the farmers and consumers will
cooperate for their mutual advantage.
THE SOUTH TEXAS NORMAL i
Citizens of Kingsville have ap-
pointed a committee to present to
the next session of the legislature
the need for the immediate erection
of the South Texas Normal as pro-
vided bv the legislative session of
* 1917. The rapid growth of this part
of the state and the ever-increasing
demand for a normal school in South
Texas should be impressed upon the
legislature.
The legislature of 1917 admitted
that South Texas needed the normal
bat failed to make the necessary ap-
propriation. The need is far great-
er now than it was five years ago
and Is increasing each year as the
southern part of the state develops.
Kingsville is sometimes designated
“the gateway to the Valley." The
establishment of the normal in that
<*ity would prove very cbnvenient to
Valley students who are now com-
pelled to go hundreds of miles from
home to secure the advantages of a
normal school.
Kingsville and the Valley need the
noitnal school now and will need it
i far more in years to come. In no
port of the state has educational de
vclopment made more rapi£ pro-
1 great in the past five yeary*h*n in
the Valley and the norm/" need-
ed to supplement the yany high
( schools the Valley has /t-rected and
which are pronounced/nc most effi-
cient in the South. '/ere is no logic-
al reason why the /rection of the
normal should bar delayed and if
Kingsville and /«* Valley will join
in presenting tie proposition to the
legislature in /*e light of the existing
demand tarA normal school tin* le-
gislators have no grounds for re-
fusing. /
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• Thc/fioy Scouts of Bryan Texas
will |hve a Scout House erected with
furvfs raised by their own organizu-
tirti and with the assistance of the
mrpenters union of the city which
donated the work. The Scouts’
membership is increasing rapidly as
a result and interest in Scout work
has received great impetus in that
city. It is an example the Boy
Scouts of other Texas cities might
emulate.
Valley citrus commands a pre-
. mium on the market but Valley eit-
; rus growers would still be selling
their fruit at a lower price than the
Florida or California growers if the
. Citrus Exchange had not establish-
ed a standard and created the mar-
let.
Thanksgiving is over and now is
the time to start your Christmas
1 purchases. “Shop early.” should be
the slogan of everyone this year.
Other Papers ~
A SPOOL OF THREAD
( r.camiioiif enterprise)
Kvory woman who ufa*s a spaaail of
col toll thread will he interest a>d to know
that she is a patron of the Kng'.i'h
thread tru-t. She Imvs the most of her
thread of the American Thread company
which is declared by the American fair
tariff league to Jie the l'nited States'
usociate of the trust wliili is owned
by the Fnglish Sewing Cotton company
and operating several large factories in
the l'nited States.
In ltlM the l'nited States tariff com-]
mission found that a pool of 1M*I yards
of cotton sewing thread wholesaled for
:t.02 cents ami retailed for o cents. In
there are only loti yards to the
spool ami the wholesale price is 1.13)
cents-—a apmrler la*ss thread and a third
of a cent higher price per spool.
The A merman Thread company's
profit from Will to lirjl ranged from
*lM357.tKH) per year to $."».l3).">.tNI0. The
exports arc four times greater than the
imports. The old tariff was I." per cent
on a spool of thread with practically
no foreign competition. The tariff fixed
by the I'ordney-McCumber law runs
from 13) per rent to .'15 per cent.
While these new duties were levied
under the pretense of protecting Ameri-
can labor the .yuericaii fair tariff
league which advocates adequate but
mu excessive protection asserts that in
some cases the new tariff exceeds not
only the entire cost of labor on a spaed
of threinl trust makes profit of more
than SI'l.OtMNMl annually ami Knghiml
is saial to be tliairoiighly arauised over its
exaa*ssive priae ami profits. ■ The new
tariff taxes levieal by the Foralney-Ma-
Ctimher law ara* well calcnliileal to start
a similar agitatiaan among the users aaf
eoltatn thread in America. |
We are aa-rtainly going the limit when
we extend the prim-iple of prolea-tion
tai an Fnglish trust. Senators attempt
fa* justify tlm inera*aseal tax a*u thrautd on
the graaaitial that the trust must be a-aiiu-
peusateat fa»r a duty levieal fan- the first
time on laiug staple cotton. tai protan-t the
Arixaiua graawers «»t this praslimt. Thus
it waiubl seem that the haiusewivea a»f
Ameria*a ara* to be th:mb|c-rigga*al on tlmir
thrauid to protea-t a few 'gVaiwers a»f b*ng
staple a-aatlaan in Aiixaina.
BROWNSVILLE GETS MORE
PAVING.
tljirnki Hit Ledger. I
Brownsville lias let another paving
contract and its completion will make
Brownsville one of the best-paved cities
in the State. The contract was let to
the Southwest Bitulitliie t'oiupuny of
Sail Antonio and in adorning bitulitliie1
Brownsville has shown its good sense.
for bitulitliie pavements can’t lie beat
anywhere. But Brownsville acted with
its eyes open for that city already had
some bitulitliie pavements and the people
there have become impressed with tin*
grej.t value of that material for street
paving purposes. The first bitulithic
paving ever done in Texas wa son the
'lunger Addition at Kallas. This was
in the latter part of BUM. and in HKKi
ih** bitulitliie company was awarded the
first municipal contract it ever revived
in the Stute. Thi« contract was for
ami was awarded by Hie citv
of I'l Paso to the Texas Bitulitliie Com-
pany which at that time had just been
organized by the late far let on II. Wells.
To show what Kl Paso thinks of bitn-
liiliie. it is ouly necessary to state that
since that first contract Kl Paso has
spent more than JjtU.tMMl.tttMt for bit it -
litbic paving. And. it may be autboiita-
lively stated. Kl Puso is today one of
the best-paved cities in the I’nited
States. Our neighbor city. Corpus
Christi.w lien it p»l ready to pave some
years ago. wi-el\ adopted bitulitliie
ami when the great storm occurred that
«*r«*ko| a large part of the Seaside
City its pavements came through tin
harmed ami stand today a splendid monu-
ment to the great value of bimlithie.
The Southwest Bimlithie Company
while working under its own charter
is a brain h of the Texas Bitulitliie
Company which under the guidance of
Texas men. has become one of the cotin-
try’s greatest roadhtiilding ami street-
paving concern*. We do not know what
kind of paving I .aredo is to have but
should it adopt bitulitliie on this first
contract We do not believe the City
Administration will ever stand for any-
thing else when future contracts are let.
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BELTON. — A lemon weighing
three-fourths of a pound and grown
in Taylor’s valley was recently ex-
hibited here. The tree that the le-
mon wa£ grown on is twenty years
old and has been bearing fruit for
the last ten years.
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WOULD MAKE ARMISTICE
DAY NATIONAL HOLIDAY
. MIX I SOX. Tens. I>e<. 1.— The Knil
W. Wilson Post No. G2 American Le-
gion goes on record in two resolutions
as favoring the establishment of Ar-
mistice Pay Nov. 11 as a national
holiday and urges Texas senators and
congressmen to work for the enactment
of such legislation as is necessary to
bring about such a decree; and goes
on record as favoring an investigation
by congress of the war graft cases.
“The Importance of Armistice Pay as
a holiday is growing” declared R. L.
Cox. adjutant of the Post “anil its
commemoration as u holiday is the
most important way to keep ever he- j
fore the nation the deeds and sacri-
fices of its sons during the World
Wur."
Copies of this Armistice Pay resolu- I
tion have been forwarded to the two
Texas senators; Congressman Sam Ray- I
burn; the state department the nation
al headquarters of the Legion and the 1
legislative representatives ol the I.e- 1
gion at Washington.
The other resolution reads:
Whereas almost absolute evidence of
corrupt profiteering and criminal gruft
ing in the purchasing and selling ol
materials by government agencies dur-
ing the World War and the months ol
demobilization have been uncovered by
congressional investigators and shown
in a series of articles by Marquis
James in the American Legion Week
ly entitled “Who (iot the Money." and
Whereas no action has been taken
bv governmental agencies to secure the
indictments and pu - h th evigoroua
prosecution of the culprits and
Wherea*. an awakened public senti-
ment knowing and realizing the enor- j
inity of the corruption is the only I
method of securing immediate uud ac
SAN BENITO FRIENDS
HONOR MR. AND MRS.
TONY MILTENBERGER
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(San Benito Light.)
Mr. an^I Mrs. A. 4. Miltenberger were j
delightfully entertained with a fare-
well party given at the home of Mr. j
und Mrs. K. W. Buesing Wednesday
night with Mrs. Buesing and Mrs. Felix
Gas as hostesses. The rooms were tas-
tefully decorated with pot plant.- and
ferns. A series of interesting games of
600 were greatly enjoyed with the tal-
ly cards featuring the Thanksgiving
holidays. Mrs. A- (Joebbles having high
score won the prize a bottle of toile;
water which she presented to Mr
Miltenberger after which each of the
guests presented her w;th a dainty
handkerchief as a remembrance from
her many friends in San Benito. Re-
freshments consisting of sandwiches
and coffee were served by the hostesses
to the following guests: Mr. and Mrs.
K. K. Ogden Mr. and Mis. W. A. Bur-
ger. Mr. and Mrs. W. 4. Knight Mr.
and Mrs I1. O. Tedder Mrs. Sid Murray
Mrs. (Joebbles and Mrs. Hugh Met'own.
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LOWER FREIGHT
AUSTIN. Texas Dec. 1.— Special
authority for instituting freight rates
ranging from 11 to JI..V each for empty
field botes used in handling citrus
fruit groves to packing plant with a
minimuiii charge of .‘Ah- per shipment
was grunted yesterday by the slate rail-
road commission on application of the
St. Louis Brownsville and Mexico rail-
way.
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They threaten to broadcast grand
opera in fSermaii but this threat won’t
make tjs cancel the debt.
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tive prosecution of war graft cases
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therefore
“Be it resolved that copies of this
resolution l»c sent to the two Texas
senators and the representatives of this
district urging them to work for the
investigation and prosecution of wni
grafters
“Be it resolved by the Fred AN. '.Nil-
son Post No. 112 of the American Le
gion of Denison Texas that it go on
record urging congress r.t its earliest
session to investigate thoroughly the
war graft cases end the Department of
Justice to injure immediate prosecu* (
tion.”
Copies of the resolution were sent
I to the Denison chamber of commerce
the ReAil Merchants' Protective As-
sociation and the Ct-ntral Trades Coun-
cil together with a request that they
pass similar resolutions. Copies also
were sent to the state department of
j the Legion to national headquarters
ami to the legislative department at
Washington.
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WE'LL
REMIR/em
FOR 30 DAYS ONLY
AT THE
Guarantee Shoe Repair Shop
COMMENCING DECEMBER 1
%
Half Soles and Rubber Heels.$1.00
Half Soles only. 75c
Rubber Heels only. 40c
BRING IN YOUR OLD SHOES-1T PAYS
THE OLD HOME TOWN— BY STANLEY j
I AUNT SARAH PEABODY TRAILED A ClOuD OF SMOK* %nmjey
V AND CAPTURED TWO YOUTHFUL CULPRITS ■**
1 WHO NO DOUBT KNOW SOA'T' THlNO AJSouT TKS CAN OF 1C6 CREAM
V Recently stolen from tmb uouttf fcLt-RgR- V
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CHRISTMAS CARDS AND TAGS
Have received a line of Denison and Whit-
ney Christmas cards tags and seals. Also
Christmas cord and ribbons at 10c per spool.
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Come and select your Christmas Card early while
Assortment is Complete
WILLMAN’S PHARMACY
Phone 40 and 58
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The State National Bank
Brownsville Texas
Capital $100000.00 Surplus $20000.00
We Solicit Your Account
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Merchants National Bank
OF BROWNSVILLE TEXAS
Respectfully Solicits Your Patronage
Capital and Surplus Over $350000.00
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SECURITY
When you realize the amount of money that slip* through your
fingers and how little you actualy save it is quite evident that
you are not preparing for the future. Stop the leak today—for
the dollars saved now will go twice as far later.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
HOUSES and LOTS
SOLD ON TERMS
LARGEST SELECTION OF
CHOICE LOTS IN THE
CITY OF BROWNSVILLE
H. L. FITCH
Remember—Fitch Built is Well Built
SERVICE — QUALITY — ACCURACY
Alwavs ready to take care of your
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wants—Day or Night.
We use nothing hut the best to till your
Prescriptions
PROMPT DELIVERY — PHONE 303
Cisneros Drug Store
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