The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 160, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 23, 1927 Page: 4 of 8
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Established July 4. 1892
Entered as second-class matters in tba Poetoffice
Brownsville Texas
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TEXAS DAILY PRESS LEAGUE
foreign Advertising Representatives
Dallas Texas £12 Mercantile Bank Building
Chicago 111. Association Building.
Kansas City Mo. Interstate Building.
New York 350 Madison Avenue
Expect Tax Reduction
The democrats will not be alone in demanding tax
reduction at the next session of congress is the opin-
ion of observers who call attention to the fact that
the prospective surplus for the fiscal year will be
between $500.000Q0») and $600000000. Many repub-
lican congressmen who at the recent session were op-
posed to tax reduction are expected to be influenced
by this large surplus to join forces with the democrats
in securing substantial reductions. Some observers
go the length of asserting that President Coolidge will
probably fall into the tax reduction ranks and both
parties will fight for such political prestige as may
accrue from reduction.
Last winter the democrats prophesied the surplus
would be as large as now appears certain and under
the leadership of Congressman Garner launched a
campaign to bring about a reduction to apply on this
year's taxes. Garner's efforts met with united repub-
lican opposition on the ground that there would not be
a surplus of mor* than $I0OO00(MK) according to fig-
ures prepared by the bureau of the budget. Democrats
insisted the surplus would be as high as $500000000
end they were practically unanimous in backing the
Garner measure which would have given the taxpayers
a total reduction of $335000000.
While Garner's proposal was for a reduction In-
volving only a portion of the surplus then claimed
to be in sight now that the fiscal year is drawing to a
close. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon has conceded
that the surplus will be in excess of $500000000 while
Scnatoi Smoot of Utah chairman of the Finance Com-
mittee believes it will be considerably more than that
figure.
An intimation was given at the White House last |
week that taxes should be reduced but th*re is no
authoritative statement from any Republican quarter
except that of Senator Smoot that the next revision
should repeal the so-called nuisance taxes reduce the
tax on corporations and the cut extend to medium
brackets on individual incomes that have not receiv-
ed proportionate reduction* in the past. The feeling
appears to be general in both parties that the normal
taxpayer frequently referred to a* the ‘'small man”
has been dealt with generously. In the main. Smoot’s'
suggestion was the Democratic proposal of the laci
Congress. Mellon does not favor a tax reduction but
thinks the surplus should be held and added to that
of the following year to be applied on another r-duc-
.. tion of the national debt.
The Fall of Shanghai
Possibly no event since the close of the World
War has contained greater potentialities for disturb-
ance of world peace than the fall of Shanghai to the
Cantonese. On th«* surface it is merely a victory' f°r
the southern faction in the < hinese civil war. but un-
derneath the surfi-ce. camouflaged by the insistent
rationalistic appeal of the Chinese p.ople. is The ob-
t (retire of Red Russia —the internationalization of the
doctrines of Lenine and Trotsky-
For three years the bolshevist propagandists have
been endeavoring to undermine British influence in
the Far Fast. They realize that if British influence
ir. China is eliminated a way will le open'd to reach
the teeming millions of India ever ready to accept
radical ideas. Opening of the doors of China to Rus-
sian bolshevif m means the eventual -urrender of all
Asia to the doctrines which have already disrupted
Europe and raised a bar to western civilization.
British statesmen have been cognizant of the fact
for months that they would eventually face a crisis in
the Far Fast and the fall of .''hangha; brings that
crisis near. The nationalist leaders prompted by
their bolshevist advisors who no longer attempt to
conceal the fact that they are utilizing the civil war
in China as a means of spreading their unholy doc-
trines. will not be long in forcing (treat Britain to
. either accept defeat without a -truggle or fight for
the supremacy that nation ha* held for over a cen-
tury. In the event the British accept the bolshevik-
prompted mandate which will eventually be forth-
coming from the nationalist group the loss sustained
by British manufacturing and industrial interests will
be a serious blow a blow which will effectually weak-
en England's commercial. financial and industrial
strength already weakened by the bolshevik-financed
strikes among Briti'h workmen.
Bolshevik leaders blatantly assert that they are
not bound by international conventions that diplomacy-
means nothing to them; that the end they seek—in-
ternationalization under the bolshev ist banner - justi-
fies the means they employ. They have no compunc-
tions in regard to inaugurating civil strife or feeding
the flames of international hatreds when they beltcve
they are prompting thtir own cause by doing so. Hon-
or and justice have no place in their standard or per-
sonal or international morals if they possess such.
They have hut ore objective — the enslavement of the
world under the bonds of bolshvism. and their suc-
cess in the Far iFast would indicate they have at least
made a start toward their goal.
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I ©ftk®ir Fapoirs
QCANTITY CP. VAl.CATION DOWN
(New York Sunt
The Depaitment of Commerce announce* that the
year of 1S»26 topped all others in quantities of good*
exported and imported b\ the Cnited States. In this
computation dollar valuations are di-regarded Every
year the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
calculates quantity and price indexes for exports and
import*. For 1936 the index of the quantitv of ex-
port*. based on the average of th ■ three years 1i*2-l
to 192S t-'.ken «> UH> reach II.> The h.i'ud pievious
figure was when the index stood at 112 for 1 i* 11* The
quantitative increase in export* for last year as com-
4 pared with 11*25 was 6 5 per rent. However the price*
••eraged lower than in any period »m.-e l**ir» or ltM*
•landing at P2 on a scale of 10*) derived from the aver-
**♦ 1H2.H-25 Thi* w»« three point* under the low of
95 in 1922. In 1920 it reached 167. Low cotton pulled
the average down last year but this was not the only
commodity that went off in price.
Imports quantitatively considered on the same
base used in measuring experts stood at 110 for the
year a figure to be compared with 103 for 1925 and
75 for 1921. the lowest since the war.
Summarizing the figures in Commerce Reports. E.
D. Durand says that the price indexes for exports and
imports show decidedly less advance over prewar lev-
els than the general domestic wholesale price index.
‘‘The export prices were 33 per cent higher In 1926
than in 1913 and import pi ices 39 per cent higher. The
domestic price index stood 51 per cent above 1913.”
Computed by quarters the figures show that the low-
er level of export prices for 1926 as a whole resulted
chiefly front a marked drop which occurred during
the last quarter of 1925 and the first quarter of 1926.
after which the index remained fairly steady. In im-1
ports the pipce level during the first. quarter of 1926 !
was higher than at any time in 1925 on account of the
exceptionally high import prices of -ubber.
Thus two commodities bear a heavy share of ths
lesponsihility for the fact that though we extended
» *
our trade we did not get as much money for our goods
as w> did in the pa^t.
Cweies £ £>£/scoit
A NEW NOBILITY
This man Mussolini is a most annoying person
He is constantly upsetting our c-omfottably established
notions.
Now for one thing. »> Americans just love to
hate a dictator. If there is any one ideal which may
b» called truly American it is the ideal of self-govern-
ment. We hi\e become so accustomed to giving our
reverence without question to this ideal that we can
hardly view with patience th" spectacle presented by
any people that submits to dictatorship. We have be-
come very much saddened about Italy and her appar-
ently enthusiastic acceptance of Mussolini.
But we Americans hart another ideal which we
cannot afford to lose sight of for an instant. That i?
the ideal of tolerance. If democrat > i> good for us.
and if we are satisfied to live under u republican form
of government is it not quite possible that a dictator |
n ay suit another people and may not a dictator even
be good for another people quite diver? from our-
selves?
I do not know about Mussolini and his dictator-
ship. I have the American loathing for dictators. Yet.
too. I want to be tolerant of the ideals and aspirations
of oth?r peoples whom I do not undcr-tand. If the
Italians want Mussolini to govern Italy I am more
than willing tnat they should try him out.
• • * •
Every once in a while Mussolini issues another
decree. Some of these decrees sound like mere bom-
bast. designed to remind the people that Mussolini is
still boss. Sonic of the decrees have to do with trifles.
We are told that one order forbids passengers to put
their feet up on the seats opposite them in railway
loaches. Now that isn't a bad rule. It's a good one.
And it is enforced we are told. It's trifling surely j
tut life is made up of trifles.
And now comes a decree creating a new nobility
I is the “nobility of good conduct” Any family that
behaves itself so that every member is above reproach
in public and private life for at least thirty years is
entitled to a coat of arms and enrollment in a nev.
icgister of nobility.
That's fire. It is a start in the right direction.
If people want nobility and coats of arms let then
earn the honor by good conduct instead of by making
I ig contributions to campaign funds for winning can-
didates as is the custom in some countries.
The scheme would be perfect if it Were made ap-
I licable to individuals as well as to families. And the
coat of arms should he junked when the individual
fails to shut off his rnido when his neighbors want to
sleep.
PRISONS FOR < RIM IN ALS OPPOSED
By Clarence S. Harrow
Criminal Attorney
(Claret.■ S Harrow has been identified with
many prominent law eases chief among which in
recent years ivere the Loeb and Leopold case in
Chicago 111. and the Scopes evolution trial at Hay-
ton Tenn- He bn also acted in cases against
monopolies and as counsel in the Debs strike case
and a large number of labor injunction and con-
spiracy trials on the side of labor Harrow is the
author of various books and treatises on crime and
punishment and is an active antagonist of present
methods of the treatment of criminals. He was
born at Kinsman O. April 18 18'iT. *
While I am fervently opposed to punishment for
| crime as pure and unadulterated brutality I recog-1
ni’? mai mere are many men
sent to prison who can never ad
just themselves to the present
conditions of society and it hard-
ly seems sensible to let them out
and then put them back again.
If I hail my way a jury would
decide nothing except thf guilt or
innocence of the prisoner and
there would be no sentenc >. The
| man who has been convicted
I would be isolated in a hospital]
I under the close super.v ision of a
J board of wise tolerant humane |
men and women who would keep :
v»ktOW him isolated until he is «tiled.
Right and w-ong are determ-
ined by habits and euston s and nothin? el>e M m is
the product entirely of i < heredity and environment -
and over the first he has no control and over the
second none lor the first fifteen years or so of hi*
life So. of course it's nonsense to talk of free will
of any one being a free moral agent and punishing
a man is pure brutality.
Men who are trained to make a living don't go to
jail You don’t find carpenter# and bricklayers anu
doctors in jail in any number but the poor and the
ignorant who follow the easiest way. Crime is caus-
ed by poverty and by hate and if you would devote
MM tenth of the money and « ffort now expended on
punishment to a sincere effort to remove its causes
you would practically eradicate it.
thtomin? the morning’s letter* into the g ate fire and
gleefully watching the flames. It was hi* third of-
fen^c Seriously hi* father took him in hand. *1
don’t want to punish you Peter but unat 'hall 1 do
to make you remernber’b The young delinquent looked
thoughtful; then brightening advised: “ 1*11 tell you
what to fo. Daddy—yju«t put it down in writing"
The Girl of the Golden West
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BV CMAPLES P STEWAPT_
EXI’K.MlITI RKS OF FOI'R Bll.- | think* he know*. Pooh! All he get* |
LION WOBItY i S. MONEY j is a crack at an occasional item.
(l ARIllANS Chairman Francis E. Warren of
Ity t hurle- I*. Stewart the -ei:..t© appropriations committee
— . j thinl Ik knows lie has a hett r
Exclusive < enlraI Press Dispatch to argument that: most hut even he
_ .Brow nse.lie Herald 8 much as (Madden
A UlNti 1 o\. Match 23.- “Thi* j knows For thi- reason. All finan* j
i* a billion dollar country .“ boasted tia iegiA)atie»n has to onginnte in
th ■ late Speaktn Reed when ted. ra! ( h. .entati\ War- i
expenditure- slopped over from nine -en‘* committee up in the- upper <
into ten figures annually. i ho.-se doc n't have to talc it in hand
If Uu v l«»oke<i at ’ »' did. tjru.l afti r M:i<ld«*n’ . down in the
statesmen of today could brag more htnv om. has wrustled a certain
than four timn.d a.j* loutft\ u." he* diet. amount of .*<*11^1* into ii*
They pipe soft and low instead „ „
Seemingly the impression prevails
that the Anieriean puld.c has lost I President ( oolidge. economist par
i»s taste for (stat Tom's kind of fi- !' xcellent ur doubteitly thirl.' he
nancial jajys. know* ss much again a* Madden.
• * • ] Tut tut! He doesn't begin to.
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for example is explanatory .. Prs ■"s: squired to famish and
•I.getic cm King the Inst sea ' l**9* hew W that
s.on's allowance of funds to ru.k. i He d. t neces-ar.ly have to take
Samuel for his needs during the ;• e‘
i„.»- v .; „..i . _ As a loyal administration man it
Madder i* chairman f the h. u* - of i ' ‘ be becoming n Madden to j
representatives appropriations com- to. t hat it east * more and more.
mjtUfe | . ir by year to keep the White
Nobody in the United State* know.- J.| l ‘ ***:n£: but ( ongressraan J W.
•iuit • a- well as he knows how hard *****' 1rankn<- Heroocrat.c member
it .5 to keep tile government on an "r thf ^"’briation* In-
adequate diet of money without per-! »• >«berty to mention it. if he
mining it to gorge itself. M'kc* Indeed Byrn does mention
# * * it. lit* mentions also that it costs
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon i *»«•«» ’* J’®*'tlokwp th“ **«•*-
thinks h ki iw Shucks! He's ! Mayflower in commis*
mer- custodian. »"'n; lvh ' h h Hkewise more than it
Budget Director Herbert M Lord 11 rs** t
thinks he knows. Heck! Congress -
always tuts his estimates down after Th* OMh coifgcess ended its dirty
he - through with V in. I work irrevocable. Madden gaze.
• omptroller (General .1. R. Mcf'arl ! gloomily up< n that ft.-It.201.270.41
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THE BUI BC»\ OF THE FAMILY
V' hen OH Hippo had gone quite
a distance from the pool he stopped
juM as suddenly as he had started.
'■<*«e>s this i? far enough!” t.runt-
*d he. By the time Bad Boy reuch-
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SO T^.«OiXS*< . mtantOi
< ' hue »f he 'hould take it into j
hi# head to follw he will have cool-
ed off conr it:!- rainy
"What? How's th:.t •" l'otare*
could tenrcelv belli# ve hit ear*. Hip-!
pc had been to afraid of the Bad '
Boy of hi' fa mil \ when he started to
run away Now he seet.reo to have
left that (• - .: >:t ewhcie bci .nd hi;a
Old Hippo hi 'kle«i.
"You hr id me’ I •>.. .i siKinld Bad .
Hoy overtake us without doubt he
would be good natured. For hot-
headed folks find their temper* «
quickly a- they lose them- 1 sup-
pose it wouldn't do for a whole fam-
l\ to be too peaceful There has to
be one to stand up for its rights.
So although it's bad for him per-
haps 't.- a good thing Bad Boy runs
tviid once in a while; lets the rest
of th- world know it had better
tend to it* own affairs and let the
Hippo crowd alone • r take the con-
sequence'. Just as Twin Brothel
and 1 told you ho and 1 and most
of our unde* would run away rath-
er than fight and certainly never
do we go looking for trouble. But
not so Bad Boy. H* is different.
Not onK in an attack will he stand
I is ground but he w ill be the first
to fight at the first sign of battle.*
“Worst thing about it. though is
that Bad B<-y doesn’t know when to
lose his temper. Sometime* he ha*
reason arid sometime* he hasn’t any
more cau*-** to be mod than per an p*
u*t because^ tin- sun’* too hot or
‘the day too stifling or maybe h*-
can’t *Tiad quite the kind of river
.r*-een he wishes Then the trouble
begins. Look! Yonder hr come*
crashing through the rushes. H -nr
how he bellows! See bow he tear*
the reeds up from their roots and
tv.*-.«** *hetti about! Blows th*- water
through his r.o-tni*! That is why
we ran from bin. 1 f ar him when
he’s m hi* iage*. Man or beast he
cjt re * ti *t. no r. b11 n I with a n ge r.
due* hr notice which is stranger
which is brother- Bet what did 1
tell you: F.ven a- we wntrh his tem- j
p r i* vani-h r g. His roar* weak-
er. lie nibbles on the ru he*. There
fee gO*-.. off by bin:self down the
river. I though! he would not fol-
low U:* for Bad Bov love* no coin- 1
pan} half »o we# i* hi- own \*>r
do many desire hi* for he *ea*r:;
the boldest i reeture even kfs own
1 ' ■ o 1- B. : B ha- fear
inends even 'u the family.
Veil: 'While Hippo Slept."
ippropriation for the fiscal ytsar )
!S>27-8.
He can remember a time uht-n a
fifth that lug an appropriation
’ le the taxpayer- yell bloody mur-
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What's more. Byrns predicts the
country won't get off with $4211- )
2U27i' II. He says the gov rnnu nt I
ha- a ti ls k of asking for less than
it wants and then as quietly as pos-
sible. getting congress to slip it big
additional allowances later.
Madden himself agrees that itV
“futile” to expect the government
to keep up with the "expanding in- I
cerest.-s of the people” without male- *
ing it cpst them more. Yet he's |
aware that that's just what is expect-
ed.
It it any wonder he's gray-headed 7
r R1M OF THE
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i»l KCiLAR PROOF
N.‘ W YORK To dc«.gnera of the'
hard: vault of the Mechanics ;.r<!
V.: :»1 Bank building .vhi -h s being!
ra-cil to make way for another struc-
ture. to it ’tmrtrd a vault that i.» »• • > '
proof against wreckers. The- bulki-
ng that !. u 1 it has I a n cued |
to the street l ot. but the \.iu!t still .
remains. Everything hut dynamite
has been U»ed to wreck the strut lure
an»l even that might haw be n used
had it not been lor the designers
who informed the wrecking crew tli.it i
the vault is proof against explosive*.!
FORSAKES S(H IETY FOR
OYSTERS
O M AHA. Neb. Miss I refit- Cole
soci ty woman and accomplished
musician of Omaha is relinquishing
her so«ial duties tn manage the oys-
ter business left by her father the i
late David Cole a millionaire. Mi*s
Col* declare* that she will continue
the success of her father’s business i
FOND OF ( Illi.I
JONESBORO Ark.—A liking for;
chili has led Maude a Jonesboro
mule m disgrace. While sauntering!
.thing Mum street. 'Maude sniffed the
delieioiis • dor of hot chili coming
from Homer Hendrick’s confection-
ery. t-he simply followed her rose
nto the shop and went straight to
the chili bowl The proprietor only
•victed her after she had her fill.
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Watch
Elimination! j
Qood H«6 Ith Depends Upon Qood j
Elimination.
ETENTIONof bodily
_ waste in the blood iscalled
a “toxic condition.” This often
gives rise to a dull languid feel-
ing and sometimes toxic back -
aches and headaches. That the
kidneys are not functioning
properly u often shown by bum -
ing or scanty passage of secre-
tions. Thousands have learned
to assist their kidneys by drink-
ing plenty of pure water and
the occasional useof a stimulant
diuretic. 50000 users give
floan s signed enuorsement.
Ask your neighbor!
DOAN’S "AP
Stimulant Diuretic to tkm Kidnaym
Foator M2hunt Co. ill* Chan.. BUUJo. N Y.
OIL INDUSTRY
ENGINEERING CO.
2!ul Second Xat'l Hank Htdjf.
Houston Toxs-
Phone I*'re«t«*n 1241
T. S. PARK. AJanaser
Industrie! Tiactors
and Trailers
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MOVED
To our new location in the Spivey-
Kowalski building where we are pre-
pared with new equipment to give
better quality and service.
Bishop’s Print Shop
If delivery to YOL’R |!
I O home daily j|
k £ .1 COURTEOUS SERVICE
**** central power &
-- LIGHT CO.
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1911 Phone 902 1927
SKELTON ABSTRACT CO. Inic.
Capital $25000
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COLD PRESSED CAKE
For Cows Horses and Mules
PEOPLES ICE & MEG. CO.
Telephone 900
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BEAN HAMPERS
Just Unloaded a Car
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I)ESEL BOETTCHER COMPANY
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PERRY L. KING & CO.
AUDITING—GENERAL ACC OUNTING
INCOME TAX SERVICE System*. Ontan'zstiam and
Statistical Reports Buh'ikm * ontrol
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of decorative tile. Rockwood tile mantles Bacheidor tMo mantles
Alahambra tile mantles Columbia wood mantles. Bs'Hi room ac-
cessories.
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WM. CAMERON & CO. Inc.
Office and display room over 1st Nat’l fiank
Phone 490—Harlingen Texas
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Audits Financial Statements
Systems Income Tax Service
5!It State Nat’l Phone
Bank Bldir. fclQ
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