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The Port Recommendation
The recommendation of the port committee of the
Brownsville Chamber of Commerce that the Browns-
ville- s ret ion proejed without delay to organize a navi-
gation district to meet the requirements of the federal
government on the Brazos Santiago project and con-
struct a ship channel from Brazos Santiago to a point
about six ir.l"* from the city has struck a responsive
chord among the business men and civic leaders of
Brownsville.
It appears to be the consensus of Brownsville resi-
dents that if this section is to finance the harbor pro-
ject the pert should be located at Brownsville and
there can be no question of the justice of that opinion.
The cost ns estimated by the port committee would
include epproximntcly $720000 for dredging of the
channel from Brazos Santiago to the cast line of El
Jardin. Approximately f»0 per cent of the area to be
traversed is at or below sea level. The cost would be
infinitesimal in comparison with the benefits which
would accrue to the entire Valley. This project would
in no wise interfere with any other project contem-
plating connection with the Brownsville channel at
Brazos Santiago.
For nearly half a century Brownsville has labored
upon the harbor plan as a Valley project. That every
•ection of the Valley will participate in the benefits
accruing from a deep water port is obvious. Browns-
ville has been absolutely unselfish in this proposing
that the entire Valley aid in financing the harbor to
be located at Point Isabel the burden of cost to be
distributed in proportion to the benefits received
lor various and sundry reasons this plan has failed to
materialize; and it is now evident that if the Valley
is to gain relief from high freight rates by securing a
deep water port it is incumbent upon Brownsville to
meet the conditions of the government and finance the
port a duty Brownsville will accept.
The time in which to organize the district and make
all necessary preparations to meet the government's
requirements is brief. The harbor bill will pass con-
gress during the short session beginning in December
■nd >t is incumbent upon local interest to be prepared
to fulfill the conditions as soon as the measure is'
passed. Any delay may menn the loss of five to ten
years in completion of the project and this would re-
sult in a direct ]< -s of from one to two millions of dol-
lars annually to Valley interests.
The Valley ha« too much at stake to permit the
Jeopardizing of the harbor project. It is the general
opinion of those in close touch with the situation that
if ample time were at the disposal of the harbor pro-
ponents thr entire Valley could be lined up for the
original project. But the Valley interests cannot af-
ford to run the risk of any refusal nor would it be to
the interests of the project to force into a district any
large number of unwilling taxpayers.
By locating the port in the environs of Brownsville
the entire \ alley will be served as efficiently if not
more so than under the original plan. It will brint
the port closer to every section of the Valley and will ■
assure public control of every port facility.
The recommendation of the Chamber of Commerce
port committee should be immediately followed by a
call for an election to organize the district embracing
the entire Brownsville section the proposed bond issue
to be submitted in connection with the organization
vote. According to the committee estimates approxi-
mately $2b000<>0 will be required to meet the condi-
tions of the government construct the channel nnd pro-
vide the necessary port facilities these bonds to he is-
sued as required. Brownsville has ample bonding ca-
pacity to finance the project and in view of the bene-
fits which will accrue to the entire Valley and the ad-
vantages Brownsville will derive from the channel and
port the voters ore expected to be* practically unani-
mous in backing the finance program.
Republican Farm Relief
It would doubtless be more edifying to the farmers
of the Northwest who arc he ng deluged with republi-
can promises of farm relief if the republican cam-
paign managers could point to a single instance in
which they have made good the pledges given agrieul-j
ture in the past eight years.
Republican speakers jeer at the pledge given by !
Governor Smith asserting that he “knows nothing of
the farmer*' problems" and'indicating that all wisdom
is incorporated in the republican party. They assert
that his promise is what the fiery Senator Rorali
termed "a snare and a delusion."
No one can doubt that the republican leaders are
familiar with the problems of agriculture. Those
problem* have been dinned in their ears for eight years.
Delegation after delegation of fnrmers have gone to
Washington to make their appeals to various com-
mittees. to President Coolidge republican congress- 1
men senators and even the lobbyists whom the special j
interests maintain at the national capitol. If the re- I
publicans are not familiar with the farm problem it is j
because they are so disinterested that they gave no i
heed to the appeals of the farmer*.
The republican party cannot plead ignorance as its I
reason for refusing to grant the farmers relief; and ■
the farmers are not so ignorant that they expect relief
from the party that for eight years has had the power
to equalize the tariff and pass farm relief legislation.
The farmers realize from hitter experience that the
pledge now made to grant them the same measure of
protection and legislative consideration that have bee 1
.‘granted industry is merely a gesture—as empty as the
pledges of former years.
GovernMV Smith is not a farmer and frankly admits
its. However the farmers* problem is purely economic
—a problem similar to those with which Smith ha*
frequently been confronted though on a more exten-
sive scale. He proposes to solve the problem as ne
has solved the economic problems of the state of New
York—by mobilizing the best minds of the nation and
securing immediate action to remedy the situation.
That the republican national committee is worried
by the situation In the West and Middle West is in-
dicated by the army of speakers they are pouring Into
that section. Republican leaders who at the Kansas
City convention jeered at the army of farmers who
sought recognition of their rights are now frantically
calling upon the farmers to rally to the support of
the "grand old party” to defeat the democratic nomi-
ho h** pledged ttem relie* th* rePublican
party"*** refusod to extend. Apparently they do not
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realize the inconsistency of thair poaitlon and thair
pleat but the farmer* fully appreciate the Incongruity
of the pledges the apeakera are now offering after
having failed for eight year* to keep faith with the
agricultural interests.
“We muit maintain high protection for farm prod-
uct*" was the burden of Senator Borah’s message to
the farmers in his recent speaking tour throughout the
wheat zone but the senator failed to comment on the
fact that the unequalized protection of the present
tariff law has proved anything but advantageous to
the farmers and that under its provisions there hss
been a steady decline in farm prices which has prac-
tically wiped out the farmers’ margin of profit.
Benefits of Consolidation
A survey of educational institution! indicates that
in many states there is great waste because of duplica-
tion of school facilities and teachers. A modern pro-
gressive trend is showing the possibilities of economy
by consolidating small school districts and reducing
overhead by large scale operations.
It is estimated by Vance H. Evans secretary of the
California Taxpayers’ League in that atate that the
pooling of purchasing for thousands of elementary
school districts will result in an annual saving of a
million dollars. The pooled purchasing power of many
schools is naturally greater than a single school he
points out.
Outside of the important economies affected con-
solidation has served to improve facilities and gives
the pupils wider opportunities and a less restricted
mental horizon. The best possible teaching and equip-
ment can be furnished at a lower cost under this
system.
Education is one of the largest items that take the
tax dollars. Flans such as this that effect economies
without lowering the efficiency and quality of educa-
tion should be seriously considered by progressive
states ns well as those public officials and individuals
who are interested in educational progress.
IK® Woirfld! &m3 All
By Charles t. Driscoll
HOW TO SPOIL A CHILD
Today I rode on a bus and in the bus was a little
boy about three years old all dressed up in a fetching
yellow plush suit. Maybe it wasn’t plush but it was
handsome anyhow and the boy had a pretty smile and
he appeared to be just a winning little boy with the
makings of quite a man in him.
But two relatives and three strangers were busy at
the age-old task of ruining the child. Maybe one of
the relatives was the boy’s mother and the other might
have been an aunt. These two had the youngster
rather well spoiled already. They did not once take
their gaze off him nor the devotional smiles off their
faces. The strangers followed the lead of the rela-
tives. Three women who were in no way responsible
for the child kept ohing and ahing and smiling and
boosting the pretty boy about with their hands and
ejes and feet.
The boy was using what little sense the Lord gave
him to get away from all this show business. He was
trying to climb over all the seats in the bus. without
regard to the occupants of the seats in an effort to
put distance and obstacles between himself and his
well-meaning tormentors.
"iou see the little chap had already learned that
he didn’t have to pay any heed to the rights of others.
He seemed totally oblivious of the persons into whose
faces and stomachs he was driving his heels and fists.
He climbed into one seat many times and then slid
off to the floor on his stomach. The lady who was
occupying that seat seemed vaguely annoyed but the
adoring strangers followed Tommy about encouraging
him to commit further depredations.
• • • •
That’s just one wav to spoil a child and a very
common one. There are. for instance parents who
constantly show off to their own children. Parents
who have never been taken very seriously by the adults
with whom they have associated and therefore revel
in the opportunity to make demigods of themselves
before their wondering children.
Such parents never admit mistakes or errors lo
their children. They like to make the children believe
that Papa and Mama know everything. They perform
self-consciously before the children and expect the
youngsters to render them homnge.
1 arents who pursue such a course ore always found
out. even by the dumbest children. A bright child will
see through a pretentious and fourflushing parent at
about the age of five. You can fool a backward chrtd
until he is about ten or twelve.
Show-off parents have liars and show-offs for their
pains after they have reared their children in their
own way. While the boys and girls mav grow up to
pretend and play-act just like Dad and Mom they can
see through the game all the same and they have little
respect for the parents who tried to fool them as they
now try to fool others.
INTERESTS OF UNITED STATES IN LATIN-
AMERICA LAUDED
By WILLIAM MILLER COLLIER
Retiring United States Ambassador to Chile
iWilliam Miller Collier was born at Lodi N. Y„
Nov. 11 1887. He is a graduate of Hamilton col-
~ze and Columbia Law school holding honorary
degrees from six other universities. He was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1892. In 1904 Collier was ap-
rointed special assistant attorney general of the
United States. From 1905 to 1909 he was envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to
vpain. He lectured on international law from
I'.MJ to 1918 at Wells college. George Washington
university and New York Law school and was pres-
ident of George Washington university from 1918
to 1921 and was then appointed ambassador to
Chile).
United States interest! in Latin-American countries
have been largely responsible for the great progress
and modernization there during recent years.
Relations between the United States and her sister
republics to the south always should be based on mu-
tual respect. An extensive tour of the Latin-American
nations on my way home from Chile showed me that
everywhere the most cordial feelings exist toward the
United States.
My esteem for Chile if based upon a seven years’ ac-
quaintance with the country and its people and I can
say that our relations are on an absolutely firm basis
of clear understanding and mutual respect.
I have been impressed by the development of Lima
and rural districts of Peru.
There are good roads sewers and everywhere the
modern tendency. The port of Guayaquil in Ecuador
was once the pest hole of the world but thanks to
United States engineers it is now entirely healthful
and the spirit of progress has touched that city.
Colombia is now showing greater progress than I
have ever seen anywhere ia the world at any time. The
natives are hustlers which I didn't expect in such a
tropical climate. Colombia is a rich ftrtile country.
The money thry are borrowing from the United States
is being well spent in things which are money making
directly or indirectly.
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CHAPTER XXXII
The private showing of “Knights
and Knaves” took place at the Plaza
one Sunday night about a week aft-
er Jane's meeting with Ben Hardy.
At h:s earnest solicitation she took
him along.
The showing was private only in j
the sense that tickets were not soldi
to the public but the house was
none the less crowded. Mr. David-
son ably assisted by his super-press
agent Mr. Evans saw to it that the
theater wa^ filled with a hand-pick-
ed audience of friends who couid be
depended on to “boost” the show in
every direction whatever its merits.
This was the theory at least; in
practice it usually happens that
professional audiences aro hyper-
critical apt to be cautious with
praise except to those directly in-
terested. in which case their congrat-
ulations are fulsome.
However they may have felt in-
wardly. the audience which greeted
Irene Shirlev's advent as a star was
brilliant noisv. receptive. Compos-
ed of theatrical and picture people
of every sort from stars to prop-
erty men from managers and pro-
ducers to screen writers and press
agents it represented every branch
of the profession. Novelists play-
wrights magazine editors artists
and illustrators show girls Broad-
way first nightrrs prize fighters
ticket speculators and parsons filled
in the chinks. And last but not'
!ea‘t. the critics.
All came filled with a vast andi
somewhat amused curiosity. The
story of Irene* Shirley’s success in
vamping herself to stardom was a’
legend of the street by now and ns
few among the New York crowd had I
ever seen her either in person or
on the silver sheet they were all
tager to learn how badly Lew David-
son had been “sturg." Should Irene
by chance turn out to bo a real
find a coming figure in the picture
world those who had dubbed Lew
a fool for succumbing to her blan-
dishments would be the first to hail
him as the shrewd and sagacious
man of business he had hitherto
shown himself. But—and it was on
this account that the audience meta-
phorhically speaking licked its chops
—if Irene turned out to be in the
parlance of the street a false alarm
after all the frantic and costly pub-
licity which had been lavished upon
her then no matter what the spec-
tators might say to Lew they would
go away to laugh to gibe to gloat
over the fact that another Samsoni
had found his Delilah that another
big man in the business had proven
himself as weak and gullible as the
rest of them.
A vast buzzing of whispers filled1
the theater as the orchestra began
to play the music which Davidson 1
had had especially prepared for the
picture—not that a film of the
character of “Knights and Knaves”
required nny special music it was
a sordid and commonplace enough
story of crime with the usual re-1
generation of a man through the I
loyalty of a devoted wife—but Irene'
wanted to have all the trimmings—1
insisted on them. Sitting in a box
beside her impresario she present-
ed a brilliantly attractive figure; it
was noticed by some that Lew’s
wife contrary to her usual habit
was not present. There her been a
smoulder of fire in the Davidson
household for weeks—a smoulder
which bid fair at any moment to
burst into flame.
Tony Hull had asked Jane to see
the picture with him; when she
spoke of a previous engagement the
look of pain which crossed his face
left her full of vagae regrets.
“It’s Mr. Hardy. Tony’ she ex-
plained. “He’s been awfully nice to
me. and when he asked me to get
him a ticket—bring him along—I
couldn’t well refuse.” It was the
fourth or fifth time in as many days
that she had used Hardy’s name aa
excuse — a reason rather for re-
fusing Tony’s invitations ar.d the
repetition had begun to grate on his
nerve*.
“You seem to spend an awful lot
j of time with him.' he said savage-
ly. ‘Tvc scarcely laid eyes on you
* for a week.’*
1 "I’m sorry Tony." There was •
gentle note in her voice r.ow. “But
it has just happened that way. He’s
alone here in town. and I suppose
it amuses him to have someone to
co about with him. He's an awfully
nice boy. I want you to meet him.”
Tony exhibited no enthusiasm at
the suggestion; he was plainly jeal-
ous and stalked away without an-
other word. When he came to the
showing he came alone and hid him-
self in an obscure corner of the bal-
cony. He knew in advance that the
picture would be a failure and had 1
no mind to expose himself to the
hypocritical congratulations of his j
brother directors.
Jane and Hardy sat about midway
of the house with Sam Spellman
the studio manager oji one side of
them escorting a milk-fed blonde
and Benny Evans the “personality
builder.” on the other. Jane sank
into her seat thrilled. She always
felt that way at a first showing
often as she had been through the
experience before. The sight of
herself like some disembodied spirit
moving through the silent drams
held a singular fascination for her:
she was realising the frantie wish >f
Bobby Burns ‘“to see ourselves as
others see us.”
Mr. Hardy must have shared her
•ensations for when the lighis were
lowered and the action of the picture
began he gave an exclamation of
delight as he caught sight of Jane
a very dainty and delightful figure
in the train of her married sister e* .
portrayed by Irene Shirley. But for
the latter he had no praise and sat
watching her work in stony silence. I
His was the cold practical judgment
of the outside public whose verdict
on the picture would ultimately
make or break it. No personal con-
siderations influenced him. He had
never met Irene never seen her; she
meant nothing to him. beyond the !
character she was playing on the
screen and his point of view was im-
possible to Jane or to any of those
associated with the production.
Even the picture people in the au-
dience were certain to be biased;
professional rivalries business af-
filiations. personal friendships all
pulled one way or another. But
Ben Hardy was as a»uch an outsider
as John Jones from Brattleboro or
Tom Smith from East St. Louis—if
the picture pleased him it would
please them and vice versa. It was
for this reason that Jane had been
anxious to have him at her side.
“How do you like it?” she present-
ly asked.
“She’s terrible” he replied in low
whisper. ‘“I don’t just know how to
express it—I’m not posing as any
critic—but she reminds me some-
how of the amateur shows we used
to put on when I was in college.
She’s good looking she’s not awk-
ward she moves about like a human
being but there’s something lack-
ing-something you keep feeling for
and never get. Like biting into a
cream puff and finding nothing in-
side. Look there- She's supposed to
be terribly frightened isn’t she.
meeting that crook who’s trying to
blackmail her husband? Well—she’s
no more frightened than I am—same
pleasant smile she had on in the
scene she just played with you.
“You know Jane I sometimes
think the screen shows more of a
person’s character than we give it
credit for. Take this Shirley wom-
an. She isn’t sincere. Probably
isn’t off the stage and gives that
impression on. You don’t BELIEVE
her. if you get what I mean. You
feel that she’s just acting. So far
the picture leaves me cold. I don’t
suffer when she’s suffering or
laugh when she’s laughing because
she doesn’t make me feel that her
suffering her laughter are real. I
don’t give a darn whether she wins
back her husband or not. Because 1
know SHE wouldn’t.
“I’m no critic but I know whot
hits me here"—he touched his
breast—“and I’d go out after this
picture and yawn and say ‘not so
good’ and blame it on the story mo*t
likely when all the time it was the
star who was at fault. This Shirley
woman may have all kinds of tech-
nique may be beautifully directed
surrounded by a million dollars
worth of scenery and furniture but
i it all doesn't mean anything if sha
can't make me FEEL—give me iomt
kind of a thrill. Get me? Other-
wise the thing’s cold far as I’m con-
cerned. And I guess most people are
the same way. They give up their
25 or 50 cents or whatever it Dany
me to be amused interested thrill-
ed. If they go away dissatisfied
and tell their friends the picture's
rotten all the explanation in the
world won’t alter matters.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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Real Estate
Transfers
\V. E. Meaner to C. Medrano et al
lot 4 in blk. 46 Bella Vista addi-
tion. city of Brownsville $2623.78.
G. G. Henson et al to Maria Pena
W. 1-2 of lot 9. blk. 19. city of
Brownsville $487J>0.
H. F. Oarmody to Anton Wilhelm
all blk. 31 containing 6.74 acres out
of Waggoner Highlands subd. $>-
729.
B. G. Hanna et al to James-Dick-
inson Farm Mtg. Co.. 13 acres out
of west part of farm blk. 24 Chi-
cago Gardens subd. $10 etc.
Bias Olevera to J. E. Olvera 2.24
acres sur. 35 $10 etc.
G. Garcia et al to True Webster
60 acres share 22 Espiritu Santo
grant. $1 etc.
W. E. Haskins et al to H. G. Mar-
shall lots 46. 47. 48 and 49 contain-
ing 10 acres each W. F. Hull subd.
$10 etc.
B. H. Dunlap to P. B. Branch et al
S. 1-2 of blk. 10 l oucj subd. also S.
10.65 acres of N. 15.65 acres of blk-
9. < ouch subd. $250.
T. M. Houghtling et al to Nettie
Moore S. 19.64 acres out of blk. 39
of the San Benito Land & Water Co.
subd.. $10 etc.
Delta Irrig. Farms Co. to J. M.
Nowicki lot 34 containing 18.64
acres and Lot 35 containing 20 acres
Harris Gentry subd. $8107.80.
Delta Irrig. Farms. Co. to J. W.
Kolas lot 36. sec. 1 containing 28.59
acres out of Harris-Gentry subd..
$5575.05.
A. L. Harris et al to Delta Irrig.
Farms Co. all lot 36 see. 2 con-
taining 28.49 acres Harria Gentry
subd.. $10 etc.
A. L. Harris et al to Delta Irrig.
i^-™9 *ot containing
18.64 acres and all lot 85 containing
acres sec. I Harris-Gentry
subd. $10 etc.
Valley Dev. Inc to Mrs. P. Burt-
fett. S. 10 acres of E. 20 acres blk.
$99<M)UrT#Jr 25' Wi90n Trart *ubd-
Valley Dev. Inc. to J. W. Burt-
'*?*• **• I® acres of E 20 acres of
blk. 29. survey 25( Wilron Tract
subd. $9900.
Valley Dev. Co. to Mrs. P. Burt-
less S 10 acres of blk. 30 survey
-5. Wilson Tract Subd. $8500.
G. W Houghtling et al to Nettie
Moore fourth portico of S. E. 1-4
of blk. 50 containing 7.27 acres. San
Benito Land & Water company et al
$10 etc.
G’ r. Moore et al. to San Benito
Bank & Trust Co. N. 20 acres of N.
E. 1-4 °f blk. 50. San Benito Land
* Water Co.. «t al subd. $10 etc.
A. Thompson et al to C. S.
Jones all lots 1. 2 and 3 in blk. 49
townsite of Harlingen *40500.
8. A. Thompson et al to C. S.
Jones E. 40 feet of Lot 11 in blk.
34 of townsite of Harlingen $10
<Jtc.
1 .0sc„° .Morris et al to A. Dunlap
lot 1» blk. 148 townsite of Harlin-
gen $10 etc.
Port Isabel Co. to J. G. B. Totten
et al lots 10 11 and 12 blk. 37 city
Port Isabel <3515.
MEDAL FOR CANNIBALS’ FOE
LONDON — A medal has been
awarded to Fakani a native of the
* olomon Islands for hunting down
cannibals of his tribe.
DISINHERITS "SNOB"
LONDON—Declaring his son a
"snob” Geoffrey Gildans left hi*
entire <150000 estate to nephews and
nieces.
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Who am I? With what sport am
I identified? What is my title?
Why was Sir Roger Casement exe-
cuted in 1916 by the British gov-
ernment?
Was England a creditor or a debtor
in 1913: in 1926?
Can hypnotism be used successfully
as an anaesthetic for a surgical
operation?
“Thou shalt not see thy brother's
ox or his sheep go astray and hide
thyself from them; thou shalt in any
case bring them again unto thy
brother.” Where does this passage
appear in the Bible?
Today In the Past
On this day. in 1888. Washington’s
monument was opened to the pub-
lic at Washington D. C.
Today’s Horoscope
Persons born on this day are posi
tive and combative but possess
many warm friends. They have
much originality and know how to
keep their own counsel. They sel-
dom give any reason for what they
think or do.
A Dally Thought
“To look up and not down
To look forward and not back.
To look out and not in—and
To lend a hand.”—Edward Evreett
Hale.
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JIMMY JAMS
Answer* to i oregoni.’ (fur.stion*
1. Sir Thomas Liptcn; int«rna-
tional yacht racing: Knight Com-
mander of the Royal Victorian Order
(Great Britain).
2. He was found guilty of treason.
3. England was a creditor nation
in both year*.
4. It was used for thia purpose by
Esdaille in India *ome year* ago.
though It has not yet been accepted
as practical in the medical profes-
sion.
5. Deuteronomy xxii 1.
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WasKniagftoiia L®ftft©ir
By CHARLES P. 8TEWART
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WASHINGTON Oct. 9.—An emi-
nent dry suggests—
Suppose we should elect as presi-
dent. a man whose system craves an
occasional shot of liquor.
How would he continue to get the
required stimulant?—in the White
House. Would a bootlegger have to
call there regularly?—to solicit or-
ders sr.d deliver the wet goods.
Think what a spectacle!—a law-
breaker among the accredited pur.
veyors of supplies at the executive
mansion!
Yea. truly—no worse in principle
perhaps than an outlaw ministering
to the wants of any other household
but undoubtedly worse as a national
example.
However it will not happen.
Seemingly the eminent dry never
aas heard of "diplomatic booze."
A foreign diplomat in the United
States is entitled to bring into the
country all the liquid refreshments
he deems necessary for his own us«.
for his friends’ entertainment for the
use of all members of his official
family and for their friends’ enter-
tainment.
The diplomst is his own sole judge
of the amount he needs for all these
purposes.
Believe me. he makes no under-
estimates.
There are fifty-four embassies and
legations in Washington. This means
considerable liquor—resl stuff too—
the onlv supply in America that it
is possible to swear by absolutely.
• • •
On his own premises a diplomat
<-an serve drinks to his guests by
the barrelful. if he likes—not only
legally but with just as much pro-
priety as if he were in his home land
overseas.
Moreover if he chooses to send a
bottleful to a friend off his own
premises nobody can interfere with
his messenger provided the Utter is
of the diplomatic retinue. "Immu-
nity” clothes them all like a gar-
ment wherever they may travel.
Indeed our diplomat can send out
a truck load and nobody can inter-
fere with that either—so long as St
is under the diplomatic aegis.
• • •
Supposing one of our high govern-
ment officials in Washington wants
to restock his cellar—he is not
necessarily dependent on the charity
of some friendly diplomat.
What is to prevent him from slip-
ping a check to that diplomat?—for
one good reason or another. .
And if such diplomat happens in
his next shipment from home to re-
ceive a cellarful more of bottled com-
modities than he needs—and the
overplus finds its way into the high
government official's wine bin—
whose business is it?
• • •
The whole transaction is as strict-
ly according to Hoyle es interna-
tional law can make it up to the
point where the hooch passes out of
the foreign diplomat’s hands.
Once turned over to the high gov-
ernment official and deposited in his
cellar if he should be raided an awk-
ward situation might develop—over
the question of “possession. The
American government official could
hardly plead “diplomatic Immunity.”
But who ever heard of a high
government official's cellar being
raided!
• • •
Oh yes. Washington has bootleg-
gers. but folk high in official life
have no occasion to patronise them.
Not while “diplomatic immunity*
survives.
The eminent drv need feel no anx-
iety. Prohibition's decencies will be
observed in the national capital so
long as that lasts.
NEW YORK. Oct. 9.—I have had
se\eral notes here about the pigs
j in Central Park zoo and a r«ader
wants to know why there are pigs
there. “To feed the lions and tig-
ers?” he asks imaginatively.
Nope. So many city-born children j
have been found to be ignorant of
the source of their milk and so
many funny replies have been re- j
reived in grammar schools to ques-
tion as to what a cow or a pig
looks like that the city authorities
included cows and pigs and sheep
among their zoological specimens.
To a small town man there is
probably no sight in New York so
pathetic as that of slum children
looking at the cows in the d mestic
zoo in Central Park and being told
that these are the animals that milk
comes from.
I have had a piece here about the
man who “farms” in Central Park
in sight and sound of Fifth avenue
tending the sheep milking the cows
feeding the pigs.
• • •
“First Nights" aren’t as smart as
th**y used to be. St. John Ervine
fthe first name is pronounced Sin- j
junl is responsible. The famed
Irish-British playwright and critic
was hired by a Now York morning
paper to review plays and he de-
cided he'd rather see them the sec-
ond night than the first. And an-
other reason is the fact that gun
men. bootleggers and others to
whom money means nothing pay
premiums for tickets to the open-
ings of important plays and leave no
seats for millionaires and other or-
dinary persons.
• • •
A man who was getting a salary
of $75000 a year from a New York
firm suddenly lost his job. Though
his reputation was considerable in
his profession he couldn’t get an-
other for few concerns need men
of his capacity In his line of work.
After two Jobless months in whicn
he continued to live In the style to
which he had been accustomed ha
was $55000 in debt. Rather than
humiliate himself in the eyes of hia
friends by accepting a smaller job
at comparatively little pay and con-
tinuing to live in New York on a
reduced scale he want back ta the
small town he came from and went
into his father’s business.
"I’m through with New York. I
know what life is now. Have a real
home real friends and having a
hetter time on $10000 a year here
than I had on $76000 a year there ’
he later wrote to a frierd.
“I wouldn't come back to New
York for $100000 a year."
That was a year ago.
The other day this man came back
to New York to live. He came to
accept an offer from a rival of his
old f!rm at $1*000 a year.
Which reminds me of the rasa of
B. A. Rolfe whose Jazz orchestra is
nightly heard over the radio bv
thousands. He Is a fit and jovial
man who plays the comet. A few
years ago he was a millionaire. He
made his money out of motion pic-
tures when the industry was in that
bromidical state its "infancy.” He
was one of the founders of the great
Metro corporation. He was squeezed
"at; foI"*d another company;
u failed. The million be made in
™oy*a he lost in the movies.
Gold dust thou art. to gold dust
returneth.” Ha went broke.
He had always been a comet play-
er. It was his hobby. In middle-
age with nothing else to turn to.
he took a Job in an orchestra. He
introduced "hot” cornet playing. He
was a hit in vaudaville. Hi formed
his own orchestra nnd his fame
spread via radio and phonograph. He
gets fan mail from all over. And
he is he says hapwier than he was
when ho was a millionaire.
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