The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 146, Ed. 1 Monday, November 26, 1923 Page: 4 of 6
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Established July 4. 180-1
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Monday Nov. 26 1023. j
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Brownsville Needs
A Cotton Mill
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Big Modern Hotel.
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Natural Has Pipe I.ine.
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Canniug Factories.
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Crate and Box Factory.
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Public Library.
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Parks and Playgrounds.
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Better Truck Market ag Faoilitiea.
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Bigger Lirfit and Power Plant.
IMPORTANT VALLEY
DEVELOPMENT
News of the prospective early
construction of a railroad to connect
Sant Fordyce and Rio Grande City
with an extension to. Mirando City
nod Laredo soon to follow promises
the development of an important
section of the Lower Rio Grande
Valley. Starr County has been prac-
tically isolated by reason of the St.
Lpuis Brownsville and Mexico rail-
road having been terminated at
S*m Fordyce. Thu* Rio Grande
City the county seat of Starr and
one of the oldest towns of the Val-
ley; was denied the great advant-
ages which rail connection has
brought to the rest of the lower
Valley. With the construction of
the road from Sam Fordyce now ap-
parently assured and the further
connection with San Antonio through
Laredo Starr County will soon
come into its own and Rio Grande
City will become one of the import-
ant Valley towns. There is some of
the finest agricultural land of the
iValley in Starr Couhty and its oil
prospects may make it one of the
richest and most important sections
of the entire Valley.
The proposed line will be a link
In the long-dreamed of “Picket
Line” railroad which was planned
many years ago to skirt the Rio
Grande border along its entire
lepgth.
This will also be an important
feeder for the Rio Grande railway
and our new port of Point Isabel.
The extension of rail connection to
bring Laredo in direct communica*
-tian with our new port was bound
to come eventually. The prospect
of the eaTly construction of this
line enhances greatly the importance
of our new port project.
AN EDUCATION SUGGESTION
“To get anywhere the colleges
should kick out the young man who
won’t try to study.”
Former President Meiklejohn of
Amherst College has been saying
some rather caustic things about
American educational methods since
ho severed his connection with Am-
herst and perhaps he may be
speaking from the standpoint of the
disgruntled but he assuredly has
had -as good an opportunity as any-
one to estimate the value of present
day education in our higher institu-
tions of learning. His words there
fore are entitled to attention
Though possibly he is inclined to b«
pessimistic yet his views may b<
wfll founded.
It may be quite true as he says
for instance that the average grad
uirte of the American college doe
not know how to read proper
ly. He probably would not hav<
gone far wide of the mark had h<
declared that a great many of then
llo »ot care for reading at all am
that the fiction magazine is the fa-
vorite reading mater of a large
percentage of those who do devote
part of their time to reading it is
very probable that only a small per-
centage of the average college
graduates devote much time to
systematic reading of books that
are instructive or improving.
“The greatest trouble with the
! American college students” Profes-
1 sor Meiklejohn states “is that they |
| are kept in touch with inferior
‘ minds when they might just as well
| have superior ones." The modern"
j student he chdr^es “gets his theory
! of the world handed him by third-
rate minds” and “about ninety
per cent of the American college
1 graduates do not amount to any-
thing in after life."
It is hard to agree with the latter
pessimistic opinion which sounds
very much like the expression of a
grouch that may have developed as
a result of his unpleasant experience
with the board of Amherst.
There can be no question how-
ever as to the correctness of the
learned doctor’s view when he de-
clares “The American college should
teach the student how to think about
something other than football” and
also of the conclusion quoted at the
j beginning of this article. The stu-
I dent who will not try to study has
no business in the college.
If education week just observed
more or less widely throughout thej
country has the effect of bringing
the average students to agree with
the opinion that studies should
rank before sports in importance !
the week will not have been wanted. I
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WELCOME TO THE PALM LEAK
The newest addition to the journ-
alistic field is “The Palm Leaf”
published by the students of the
Brownsville High School. The first
issue published Nov. 16 was “pub-
lic school edition.” It was print-
ed on book paper and contained
some first class illustrative work
carrying pictures of the various
Brownsville public schools also of
Superintendent Yoe Principal N. O.
Rasco and Coach Smith. The Palm
Leaf is full of pep and is creditably
edited by a staff comprising Jack
Rutledge as editor in chiei Wm.
Scanlan as managing editor Fred
Wagner as business manager and
Wm. Vertrees as circulation man-
ager. The Palm Leaf is issued
weekly.
Brownsville business men should
not fail to read the clever letters
from the young contestants in the
Herald Scoot-A-Way Contest which
are being run daily on the
I front page. The children have
! displayed some excellent judgment
about advertising and wbat they
have to say should be of special in-
terest to our business houses of all
olasses. None of the writers are
over ten years of age and their let-
ters as a rule have been most cred-
itable.
Henry Ford is willing to run for
president his friend says but only
as an independent and without any
platform. Since Henry has already
openly declared himself neither
democrat nor republican naturally
he would have to run on an inde-
pendent ticket. Since he wants no
platform obligation he evidently
wants to be the most independent of
independents.
! The unfavorable reception given
the new German marks abroad
seem to have given Berlin a hunch
that the same trick cannot be play-
ed twice and so the printing of the
new marks has been halted.
The Montreal squirrel that stole
sixty-eight golf balls and carried
them to its nest must be nuts on
golf.
Good evening. Have you subscrib-
ed to the stock of the Tourist Club
i House?
Good morning. Are you wearing
a 1924 Red Cross badge this morn-
ing?
Other Papers
WALTON OUSTED
(Chicago Tribune)
J. C. Walton ha* been removed from
office as governor of Oklahoma by the
vote of the state senate leurt of im-
peachment. The court b# varying divi-
sions found him guilty of coriuption
1 in office neglect of duty moral tur-
pitude and general ncompetence.
He was mound guilty of abusing the
power cf pardon and parole of padding
payrolls of soliciting gifts and con-
tributions etc. and of using the militia
to prevent a giand jury meeting and to
pi event an assemblange of the legisla-
ture and ot suspending the writ of
habaes corpus.
| The case against him was roughly di-
vided into charges that could he brought
against many polijicians in office anti
i charges which grew out of his use ol
the national guard of martial law ar.«i
eensoiship. Oklahoma has been a stat«
wabbling on the foundations of democ
racy and it began to wabble when it
. elected Wralton.
Pinks and hawkers of political medi
' eine came into the state house fron
■ Nivth Dakota adopted Walton as th<
* hope of labor and the farmer and pu
- him over as a democratic candidate
Walton appeared to be oozing rougl
honesty and bad manners exponent o
the idea that a man takes off his coa
1 and loudly shouts nonsense in hi)
t ftfciit sleeve* - he must be a true aa«
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THE KING-PIN OF ALL WHITE ELEPHANTS
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virtuous lead r and protector of the
plain people. Occasionally an electorate
will refuse to use anything above its
collar button but its ears and usually
it finds that they are long and hairy.
The turning point in the career of
this governor was when it was to be
decided whether he should be a farce or
a disaster. He tried hard to be the I;.:-
ter. Oklahoma was being shaken severe-
ly by the disorders of lawless element
and it needed a man to stop the exe-
cution of private justice and the out-
rages against order but it needed a
man fitted in mentality character and
'sound conception cf American law to
do it.
When a state trifles with the essen-
tials of its well being as Oklahoma did
in electing Wall on it sometime? pays
l the penalty as Oklahoma did in barely
escaping a military autocracy. Not all
of Walton’s enemies were on the square
or friends of the state. He is said to
have made the pinks and radicals mad
by going back on them after he go* in
office. If we had to regard his outser as
a successful effort of the kluxers to
get rid o* a law enforcing governor
we’d regret it. He was as bad in his
way as the kluxers were in theirs.
There is a governor in Illinois who
would rbe thrown out if tried on the
geneisl charges against Walton but in
Walton’s case they merely filled the
measure. He had made scrambled eggs
cf constitutional guarantees and that is
exactly what might have b'en expeeted
| of the product of the radical nut fac.u
ry.
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New York Letter
NEW YORK Nov. 26.—Maybe it
i.-n’t actually as wildly extravagant
a world and age as it sometimes ap-
pears to be. The pair of “diamond
ankltts valued at hundreds of
thousands of dollars." which creat-
1 ed such a sensation on Broadway a
short time ago when worn hv a
prominent dancer have just been
bid in at a custom house auction at
$3.98.
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Any record entitled one to a
| championship of sonic kind and it
sis possible that any championship is
held as an achievement. When
j Magistrate Charles Oberwager in*
j vestigated the record of a thirty-
year old woman brought before him
for intoxication it was found
found that she had been before
him for intoxication it was found
that she had been before every
{magistrate but himself who held
1 office since 1916.
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We are to be comparatively sub- ;
clued in our hosiery this season ex-
cept for sport clothes and even
there we are not running to the
| riot of colof of a year or so ago.
But what variety in neutral tints!
i.What we lose in blues and pinks
i we certainly make up in pearls ami
I gun-metals atmosphere mouse ot-'
' ter log cabin autumn and a score
of other lovely tones all in the
i range of brown and grey. “Gun-
; metal” is the darkest of the new
*n‘**y*» and “autumn” of the
browns. Almost black these two
| will be worn with black shoes as
well as with those to match. “Plain
bright colors will be reserved for
evening wear” I was told by Mr.
| Leavitt of the Onyx Hosiery Com-
j pany. “Only the neutral shades
| will be seen in daytime.” But
there is still gaiety in the sport
field although there too the love-
i ly tans and dull mixtures predom-
■ inate. All wool silk and wool silk
t and lisle and plain lisle compete for
* popularity for sports and will be
‘ adopted equally for street wear.
Mr. Leavitt showed me some parti-
\ cularlv attractive mercerized lisle
I in heniugboue rib aud two toned
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accordion plaited hose in silk and j
lisle and all silk. Almost the most
^fetching of ail were the fine white I
i wool hut I am afraid they would
he useful only at Palm Beach or
. ; sir.s lar winter resort.
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that the circus press agents I
4 ' *> ft twisdom of the ele-1
pi.c it i> true. Alice the children’s j
favorite elephant at Bronx Zoo ha3
proved the verity of eVery claim
ever made for her kind. Dick Rich-
ards her special guardian has
reached the point where he has to
i sit beside her 24 hours a day in or-
j der to see trtat she doesn't wander
away from all confines. Iron rings
chains padlocks are nothing to her.
; Scorning to use brute strength she
I chooses to emply her nimble wits
I instead and has even demonstrated
with a flicker of her left eye that
she can pick a lock ns capable as
any Jimmy Valentine that ever rob-
! bed a bank. Intricate padlocks
j with no duplicate locks have tested
her. She opens them.
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Activities are to be resumed at'
I The Province-town Playhouse aftt r :
I a year of “daikness.” Jt is to be
an experimental theatre again and
; this is fortunate as much of value
was found and worked out in the
| theatre in those quaint quarters
t before. No less a person is to be
director than Kenneth MacGowan
well known for his illuminating
writings on the theatre and general
interest in the hi st of drama. He is
to work in active cooperation with
Eugene O’Neill and Robert Edmond
j Jones. The fij^t production under J
the new regimewvill be O’Neill’s]
] “All God’s Chiilun Got Wings.” A I
guest-player and one of the leading
designers of settings will aid the
j directors in the preparation of ejich
j bill. The following have declared
their iitteto t in the project and
promised their services: Jacob Ben-
Ami Frank Conroy Clare Kamos
Rosalind Fuller Helen MacKcltar
Margaret Wycberly and Roland
Young. Cleon Throckmorton is to
be technical director of the thea-
tre.
LUCY JEANNE PRICE
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Well it’s settled thst Christmas is
coming. And everybody seems about as
! surprised as usual.
Thanksgiving is fine but seems to
add a few pounds to all the f..t folks i
HIDALGO COUNTY
FARMERS ‘mrr
ON GRASS GAME
(McAllen Monitor)
There are a number of farmers in
McAllen ami vicinity wht are looking
for E. \V. ' Vanp-tta who sold them a
formula which he guaranteed would kill
tieimuda and Johnson grass.
Yannutta spent the first week of
August in this city. He advertised that
he was able to kill the destructive
grasses that infest many of the .'arms
in the Yalley and a large number of
farmers flocked to the Gregory and
« ardwall store where he maintained his
headquarters while in McAllen. For the
price t$1(1 each he gave the farmers
a slip of j»a|>er upon which was printed
a forumla the use of which he declared
would eradicate Johnson and Bermuda
grass.
A nurnlur of farmers are said to have
given Vannatta the price he asked for
the formula and pu:ehusing the ingred-
ients which the vsay were principally
time and nitrate t<f soda hastened home
to apply the lemcdy. Applications of
the dope as directed failed to change
the appearance of the grass aftei the
application had been in position to
work several weeks some of them
then selected very small plats and ap-
plied the concoction in alopathic discs.
Still the.e was no result it is said by
the farmers and they think they have
been fooled.
Letteis directed to Vannatta at this
Houston address have no; been return-
ed. ror hav? they been answered by
Mr. Vannatta. Persons who are alleg-
ed tc have signed theii name* to tes-
timonials printed on a circular dis-
tiibuted by Vannatta while in McAl-
len cannot he rea-hed say lho farmers
who are interested one of them having
been dead for more than twenty years.
Vo response has been received to let-
ters addressed to the signers of a sec-
end testimonial en the eiicular.
Dcr.t’t vait to hay f tr Chriitmas
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I Tom Sims Says
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! The cider you ate the quicker
| C.irhimas comes. The younger you are
■ slower Christmas comes.
Christmas is better than Thanks-
giving- We celebrate more. And we
have more time to recover.
Chiistmas is better than New Year.
We den’t have to make good resolu-
tions and see the good die young.
W omen are fine people. They look
swell. And ail you nerd to know a*bcut
them is what you don't know.
Women fee! better in their complex-
ions. Men fee! better shaved. There
i isn't so very much difference.
All the little girls grow up and those
who can’t get hubbies always have a
few hobbies instead.
Women always brag abou„ their poor
GRANDMA’S
ABSDRBO
For Colds
Croup-F'.a
Sore Throat
Bronchitis
Its use may saveyou.
/torn a severe itmess
trial will convince «yoi\J
Sc/tf -4y cdl Drug Stoves
PARK LABORATORY CO.
SAN ANTONIO . T EXAS.
appetites but men me different. >Men
brag about what th*. y eat *'
Some cops ate too reckless in . Los
Angeles one was so brave he married a
widow with five children.
News from London. Zoo giraffe has
a sore thoat. May be funny to you but
not to the giraffe.
Neighbors arc people who live near
i you. You wish some would move and
some wish you would move. j
Try A Classified Want Ad
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Tilo Drainage and Estimate*
RALPH T. AGAR
CIVIL ENGINEER
San Ciaito Tosas
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A Bank Account
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the Key to Success
Success usually means an op-
portunity grasped! Ready mon- •
ey is the world’s best intro-
duction to opportunity.
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A bank account here means
ready money. It is the key to
success—and that is the goal
for which most of us strive.
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First National
Bank
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MOST POPULAR LADY CONTEST
THE SIX LEADING CONTESTANTS FOR TODAY
Miss Sarah Shapiro leads the content with 7410
Miss Dorothy Cole .4930
Miss Margaret Bowers ..3670
Miss Margaret Brown .3660
Mrs. Whitlock .3260
Miss Nancy Roy . 1580
Let it be a bo* of King’s Chocolate for that Thanks*
giving present. Any one will appreciate a box.
Harry’s Cigar Stores
Smokers’ Headquarters
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CHRISTMAS STATIONERY
Como and see the beautiful line of high grade stationery
we are showing for the holiday trade.
We have them from 75c to $4.00 yt
DOMESTIC AND IMPORTED TOILET SETS "
Conveniently priced for all purses <
75c to $14.00
Christmas cards and tags in splendid assortment f
WILLMAN’S PHARMACY •
PHONE 40 .
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Merchants National Bank
OF BROWNSVILLE TEXAS
Capital and Surplus Over $370000.00
Respectfully Solicits Your Patronage
The State National Bank
Brownsville Texas
Capital $100000.00 Surplus $27500.00
We Solicit Your Account
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