The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 131, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 11, 1928 Page: 3 of 34
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BY ARMISTICE:
Bennett Reviews the
Results of World
War's Termination
In Recent Talk
The status of rations has under-
gone a notable change since tho
•‘*ning of the armistice in 1918.
5_aPt* I. L. R«?nnett. chaplain of the
Twelfth United States Cavalry de-
clared in an address recently deliv-
ered before the Lions* club.
In the course of his address Cnpt.
Bennett outlined the far-renehing
results of the armistice which
wrought to a close the greatest
druggie between nations in the his-
tory of the world.
His address in full follows:
“November 11. 1U28. marks the
lenth anniversary of the signing of
the armistice. Armistice Day was
* great day in the history of '.id
world and the men of this genera-
tion will hardly witness a parallel
of it. This anniversary should be
observed as the celebration of a
great event in hi«tory.as an occasion
of thanksgiving for the blessings »f
peace and as a day of due regard
and reverential homuge to those who
hazarded and lost their lives in the
florid war.
“Mr. Draper in his History of the
Intellectual Development of Europe |
brings to our attention the %ict that i
war causes a people to pass rapidly
through its phases. The focusing of
interest in any current of human de-
relopment tends to accelerate it. The j
World war focused human interest
in many currents and so accelerated
i th**ir growth and development. It is .
well for us to think of the war as an
ircelerator of currents not entirely
Dew rather than as the creator ot |
Something new.
Important l’olitical C urrents
“There were important political j
torrents accelerated by the war: In
three great empires the political n-
heritance of centuries was uprooted
and three great dynasties passed!
from the scene of the political arena
—the Romanov the Hapsburg and
the Hohenzollern. In Russia the
Romanov has given place to an ex- j
travagance in free governmental ex- j
perimentation unparalleled in his-
tory and bolshevism succeeded m
practically alienating Russian com-
merce and sympathies from the life
of Europe and the West. In Austria-
Hungary a rational libert giving j
promise of possessing the qualities
of endurance replaced the Haps-1
burgs. A social-democrat sits in the .
chancellery of Bismarck.
"The British empire has furnished
to Bertrand Russell and Dean Inge
'i seme real occasion for pessimism.
But the British empire has more
1 than one time demonstrated that she
can maintain her strength and pres- !
i tige amiri cross-currents which wo-rd j
submerge a people of less sturdy |
stock. The assistance rendered by
the dominions in the war were evi-
dences of the solidarity of the era-1
pire and of jjoodi will toward
government. The same assistance
has been urged and recognized as
further reason for full autonomy in
local government. In 1913 no reputa-
ble thinker conceived of a day when
this generation would see a. Cana-
dian minister or a minister of the
Irish Free State residing in Wash-
ington. How little did wc dream
that in annual meetings at Genova
the envoys of other nations and on
equal footing with the envoy from
the Court of St. James. The British
empire has been caused to move
more rapidly in the direction she
was slowly traveling before the war.
namely from tho status cf an uH
world empire toward a common-
wealth of free nations. Y*t ties
stronger than bound together the
» scattered parts of the obi empire be-
speak her solidarity. But the
changes vitally concern America acd
they emphasire the _ necessity for
Americans and Englisnmen too. to
exert themselves to cement the
friendship and good will of our great
peoples. _
i Nations Were Changed
“The status of Japan among the
nations has undergone notab.e
change. She remains in control of
f Korea and Port Arthur with 'uiter-
1 ests* in Manchuria. Japan prac’.i-
rhlly controls the transpo»:atio l sys-
tem of Manchuria. Ruse.a as a com-
. petitor on land nnd sea has been
largely eliminated. The German
5 forces were withdrawn from Shan-
tung and Japanese interests’ there
1 have been greatly «n the increase.
Japan entered the »V»r.d war as fifth
among the sea powers of the world.
0 ghe emerged from the war second
1 only to the United States and Great
Britain. The elimination of Ger-
many and Ku-sia as great >ea powers
in the East has made the prese ir? !
of the forces of the United States
~jcr«' ‘ ingly more essential. For the
‘’waited States to abandon the Phil-
ippine Islands and withdraw from
the present situation would be to
invite disaster the consequence* of
which one cannot anticipate.
industrial Developments Marked
"No less marked have been some
of our industrial developments
which have been accelerated by the
World war. Air transportation has
spanned the sens and brought the
I nations into closer relations nnd has
proved an agent of good will as weil
as demonstrated that tho seas ate I
becoming less of a barrier to.* pre- |
tection of our shores from foreign
aggression. Radio and wirel?ts com-
munications have developed beyond
the wildest dreams of the dreamers
of fifteen years ago. The corpora-
tion has been harnessed as an entity
wherein the worker and the worked-
for investing in its securities find a
common ground of interest in the
successful operaton and functioning
of business. Big business has aban-
r doned all thought that a man can
. ie forced to do his best. Our mdus-
r trial age is distinguished by the dc-
* cree in which it finds itself depen-
dent upon the good will of the work-
; r# The industrial organization that
t offers an incentive to the men who
- do the work that they transform
„ their workers’ parties into parties
of good workers. Political sanctions
* for peace and its maintenance have :
often been advocated. 1 venture that ;
in any scheme that may in the dim
P future make the world safe from tho j
‘ ravages of war industrial institu-
lions will prove to be greater factors i
than political mstitutons. 1 loox
* for some international application of
« .jduc.arv relationship* oetween na
h t10as lor protection of rignts based
h In the scheme of mutual life msur-
ixico that will prove to be a great
.anction for peaceful relations ll
turn aside to say here that if war
t-mes. our little army and navy arc
aot responsible. You gentlemen .o
to the polls today to choose a com-
mander-in-chief for us and we have
bo part therein. If we should ever
*0 to war without a just cause we
£1 well to remember that the dj-
jjfc.on will be mad* by the civilians
*
and not by the army or navy.)
“The religious results of the wr.r
Hsn tees. KtlwMl*? Baglai «U
French control of Palestine and Sy-
ria has opened the way for the use
of the spade. For centuries the his-
tory of the civilizations of the Med-
iterranean world were shrouded »n
mists of obscurty. The beginning of
archaeology is practically cotermi-
nous with the dawn of the nine-
teenth century. The great alluvial
p'uins lying between the Tigris and
Euphrates the centers around oH
Babylon and Ur of the Chaldees be-
cause of varied hindering causes
never before were made to pay such
tribute to the wealth of sanctions
for the historicity and truth of the
Bible narratives. The Bible and the
spade are bringing Christian leader-
ship to emphasize not the harmon-
izing of theories of religion and the-
ories of science but to something of
greater practical importance namely
proclaiming the necessity for attain-
ment of skill to employ scientific
method of living and doing the
world’s work the necessity for so-
cial valor to act as trustees of that
skill for the general welfare and the
competence of the religion of Jesus
to produce that social valor.
Calls for Heroic Endeavor
‘•We do well not to measure suc-
cess by our attaining a place on
c. iv street. Social vi k r to act as
trustees of our skill and powers rails
for heroic endeavor. The bodies of
the Unknown Soldiers in Westmin-
ster beneath the Arch de Triumph
and in Arlington arc reminders that
a man may perform heroic service
and give his personal all and yet
pass unwritten and unknown. If we
keep faith with those who died I
see no way open for us but to be
willing to serve el ewhere than on
wide streets and in the public eye.
We must be willing to perform the
common duties of life in the toil-
some ways and drudgeries of peace.
Poincare’s Move
To Form a New
Cabinet Futile
PARIS Nov. 10.—(/PV—The new
French government probably will
not be ready to participate tomor-
row in the tenth anniversity of the
Armistice. Raymond Poincare con-
tinued his efforts to induce . n
agreement between parties which
would enable him to form a coali-
tion cabinet but the result appar-
ently was in as much doubt as
when he submitted his resigna-
tion.
The radical party is still the
stickler its leaders informing Poin-
care that they would not authorize
their members to enter a cabinet
with ary representatives of the
union republican the moderate
group which is second in strength
of all the groups in the chamber.
There is talk of eventual dissolu-
tion of the chamber of deputies and
the new elections with a view of
bringing out a majority on one
side or the other.
WOMAN AT AMARILLO
HEADS MUSIC CLUBS
AMARILLO Nov. 10-(^)-Mrs.
R. E. L. Morgan of Amarillo was
elected president of the seventh
district Texas Federation of Music
Clubs at the 6emi-anr.ual district
convention here today. Hereford
Texas seeks the next meeting.
Towns represented are Hereford.
Childress Canyon Lubbock Plain-
view Quarah. Cromwell Hedley
Pndurxh. Chillicothe and Amarillo.
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Trading in Stocks
Sets New Saturday
Price \olumeMark
By CLAUDE A. JAGGEKS
(Associated Press Financial Writer) 1
NEW YORK. Nov. 10.—UP)—The
stock market lunged forward with
unprecedented speed today piling
the greatest volume of sales in any
short session in history. More than
two dozen issues were lifted to rec-
ord prices for the year or longer a
number of gains ranging from $5
to $23.
The ticker was hopelessly clog-
ged endeavoring to follow the pace
of trading and ran for an hour and
a half after the market closed n
traders crowded brokerage offices
in anxious efforts to learn what had
happened to their order# In the de-
luge. Sales totalled 3207000 shares
in contrast to the previous Saturday
record of 2501400 shares made
March 31.
The bull party again revelled in
its newly chosen play ground the
rails and the Associated Press av-
erage price of 20 railroad issues
mounted to $4.78 to $154.53 just
$2.50 under the high mark for the
year. The average of 20 industrials
was boosted to a new high record
at $235.35 up $2.65.
‘Development* Favorable
Although the market plainly was a
law unto itself and had little time
to scan the news of the day the few
developments were highly favorable.
The United States Steel corpora-
tion unexpectedly announced a sub-
stantial increase in unfilled orders
for the end of October. A decrease
was widely expected in view of the
fact that ingot production for that
month broke all October records A
stock exchange seat sold for $480.-
000 equalling the previous record
price. Bankers were inclined to re-
vise upward their estimates of the
volum of the current gold movement
from England as sterling hung be-
low the gold point.
Atlantic Coast Line Central of
New Jersey Greet Northern prefer-
red. Kansas City Southern New
York Central and Pere Marquette
stepped up 2 to 4 points. Texas
and Pacific was a weak spot reced-
ing 4 points.
New G. M. Gets Play
The new shares of General Molars
traded in for the first time on a
when issued basis held around 89
in a heavy turnover.
Mexican Seaboard took the lead-
ership in the oils surging ahead
more than 8 points and crossing 50
for the first time this year. Barns-
dall issues Skelly Transcontinental
and Standard of California also ex-
tended their gains.
U. S. Steel sagged more <ian a
point and A. M. Byers was depress-
ed more than 3 points in profit-
taking. Atlantic Refining Clnett
Peabody. Commercial Investment
Trust General Railway Signal and
Stanley Co. encountered moderate
selling pressure.
Foreign exchanges were quiet and
steady.
ONE MAN KILLED
SANTA FK SPRINGS. Cal.. Nov. 10.
—UP)—The “outlaw” gasser which has
blazed uncontrolled here since yes-
terday claimed a life today. F. H.
Taylor of Maywood was injured so
badly while a derrick was being pull-
ed down out of the fire’s path that
he died later in the hospital. A tim-
i her fell on him as the oil rig toppled j
over.
Valley to Have
World Champion
"Peanut Pusher’
HARLINGEN. Tex.. Nov. 10.—GP)
—Sol Ruth the Medford Okla.
man who will push a peanut six
miles with a crowbar because Her-
bert Hoover carried Texas is a
mere piker in the opinion of Rio
Hondo Tex. folks.
Bill Williams agreed to roll a
peanut with his nose a mile s day
for eleven days or from the city
limits of Rio Hondo to the limits
of Harlingen a distance of about
11 miles if the state went for
Hoover. The bet was made with
Williams’ father-in-iaw F. O.
Lewis the latter agreeing to stand
on his head on Main street if he
lost.
Side beta now are on whether
Williams’ nose or the peanut wears
out first. Williams said he would
begin paying at once.
CheckrThat Cold ?
apply at ONCE
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ALLEY hosts and host-
esses feel that no party or social function
is quite complete (when refreshment* are
served) without enticing attractive bricks
of Mercedes Ice Cream. It is so wholesome
so pure so truly delicious that it meets
with the instant approval of the most dis-
criminating. ? !
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I Mercedes Ice Cream
“The Perfect Dessert for
Every Occasion”
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THREE CLAIM
MAN RATIONAL
Declare Benefactor of
University To Be
Capable
PARIS Tex. Nov. 10.——Tes-
timony that the late W. J. McDon-
ald was rational was offered by
three witnesses here today in the
scit in which McDonald’s heirs seek
to upset the financier's will which
bequeathed $1200000 to the Univer-
sity of Texas. The money was
given to build an astronomical ob-
servatory.
Morgan Johnson a ginner and a
farmer of Paris testified that he
and his mother frequently consult-
ed McDonald on business matters
and that McDonald seemed rational
at all times. Johnson said that in
his opinion McDonald was a thor-
ough business man.
Barney Bray whose farm prop-
erty adjoined McDonald’s home told
the court that he had known Mc-
Donald since be (Bray) was a small
boy and that he had never heard
the capitalist talk irrationally.
Bray's testimony attacked tl.at of a
witness for the contestants who tes-
tified that sometime during the win-
ter of 1924 McDonald had become
frightened and fled from the house
and that he had gone into the Mc-
Donald house and telephoned at the
request of a negro servant. Bray
testified that there was no tele-
phone in McDonald's house in 1924
or 1925.
T. M. Scott who heads a Paris
abstract and loan company said that
he had had numerous dealings with
McDonald and that the latter was
normal mentally and perfectly ra-
tional in all the dealings the two
had had with each other. Scott
said that he went to Rochester at
McDonald’s request to return from
a sanitorium with the financier and
that McDonald bought the tickets
mad# the reservations and trans-
acted all the necessary business
without any trouble.
Under cross-examination he ad-
mitted that McDonald had many pe-
cularitiea. but asserted that ell nor-
mal people have idiosyncrasies.
MRS. VANN SOW
eve
HAS ‘6-GUN’ — IT’S
eve
IN VANITY CASE
Mrs. Pinkie Vann Cameron
county sheriff has joined the
“six-gun" sheriffs of Texas.
But the Cameron county offi-
cer makes no ostentatious display
of the fact. She wears no holster
with the butt of a “six-gun" pro-
truding therefrom to intimidate
the criminal and apprise the pub- i
lie she is an officer of the law.
The lady sheriff decided that i
pistol holsters disarray the gen- ]
oral harmony of ladies’ apparel !
and carries her “six-gun” in a
vanity case.
The abbreviated piece of artil-
lery was recently presented Mrs.
Vann by one of her deputies. The
“deadly" weapon is 22-calibre !
and is alleged to have a maximum
range of approximately 15.5 feet
without elevating the sights. The
muzzle velocity has not been def-
initely ascertained but firing
tests have proved that the bullet
can not be seen with the naked
eye as it leaves the gun.
Mes. Vann was not the least
offended when a friend suggested
that a hardened criminal would
probably have more fear of a dose
of quinine than the miniature
pieec of artillery. She admitted
it had some disadvantages but (
stated she was not carrying it
for ornamental purpose and prov-
ed the fact by asserting she car-
ried it in her handbag at ali
times.
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ONE of the beauties of gift-shopping in this store is that
we like you to come in and make your choice early . . .
leaving them here until you want them delivered. We are
always delighted to reserve any article from the newest
of ELGIN Watches to the latest of bar-pins for one of
our patrons.
And of course it simplifies your purchasing ... a tiny
deposit now... the balance at your convenience between
now and the holidays ... no hurry in choice ... no hurry
in payment What pleasanter way of shopping?
R. L Lackner
Jeweler and Optometrist
j 1106 Elizabeth Phone 644
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Announcing the Opening
of the
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Sanitary Fish and
Meat Market
In the Seabury George & Taylor
. Building
Ninth and Elizabeth Streets
We will always have Packing House
Meats Fresh Fish and Sea Food of all
kinds at the very lowest prices.
Free Delivery to Any Home in
Brownsville j
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M. • • • The Torch • • • be yours to
hold it high. If ye break faith with
us who die we shall not sleep
though poppies grow in Flanders
Fields."
—Col John M. McRae
Armistice Day! |
Break faith we shall not!
Holding high the sacred
torch—the torch of heaven-
sent liberty—we shall “carry
on.’* We shall value it as
we value an Eternal Prin-
ciple.
So today we commemmorate the
cessation of hostilities . . . and the
vindication of the principle of
human liberty.
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In order to give our employes an
opportunity to better observe the
day we will be closed all day Mon-
I day.
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The Gift-
_A PIANO
.... OR A PHONOGRAPH
Join
Our
Christmas
Club
Our Plan Makes it
Easy to Own a
Piano or Phonograph
There is no more permanent and sub-
stantial gift that will be more appre-
ciated than a piano or phonograph.
OUR PLAN I
Come in and let us ex-
plain our set-aside-until-
Christmas plan.
This Christmas club of
fer should be investi
gated by every one con-
templating the purchase
of a piano or phono-
graph. The terms are
easy.
McCleary Music Co.
1102 Elizabeth St. Brownsville Texas
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Electrical Supplies Photographs Sport-
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These Cards are good for One Year and J
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