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Established July 4. 1192 As a Daily Newspaper
by Jesse O. Wheeler
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Friday April 12. 1935
Dust Storms
Wafted on a strong north wind the problem of
the Middle Western and some of the Southwestern
states was brought home to the Rio Grande Valley
Thursday afternoon in the shape of the first real
dust storm this section has ever experienced.
We have all of us read about these dust storms
many of us have seen newspaper photographs or
movie reels showing the havoc of desolation they
have brought but somehow it makes us all think
twice of their real significance when we realize that
the dust of Thursday and Friday came to the
southernmost border of the United States from
Kansas North and South Dakota the Texas Pan-
handle and Oklahoma hundreds and almost thou-
sands of miles away.
Top soil has been taken from the farm regions of
those states in countless tons and borne by the winds
to all sections of the country. A newspaper photo-
graph the other day showed a Kansas field in which
the soil had been lifted away until roots of sprouted
wheat were standing inches above the top of the
ground. Another picture showed a tuft of buffalo
grass rearing into the air some four or five feet
above ground level and the buffalo grass was rest-
ing on what had been the iormer ground level. Five
feet of top soil blown away!
The reason is easy to see. The remedy is hard to
figure out. v
Years ago when the "bonanza' fields of wheat
were planted the plains of the Middl. " est were
put in cultivation the native grass p.Jwed under
until now It has almost disappeared. Came the
worst crought In history. No moisture to sprout
wheat and corn no plant life to hold the soil to-
gether. The ground dned out and the winds came.
The obvious remedy Is of course to re-sod a great
portion of the lands affected with native grass. How
that grass can get a start without rain is s prob-
lem. What the farmer whose farm is turned back
to nature will do for a living is still another prob-
lem
These families who are so affected by conditions
which have brought about these dust storms are
offshoot* of the pioneering stock of America. Their
forefathers homesteaded these lands back in the
days when railroads were non-existent In that ter-
ritory They broke the way for the civilization of
the Middle West of today. The danger of Indian
forays the ravages of winter the heat of summer—
they withstood them all.
Their contribution to the progress of the nation
has been great the nation must return the debt It
owes but how?
Real Estate Sales
Valley monev has been Invested In two apartment
buildings in Brownsville recently and local real
estate men remark that signs are potent for a re-
vival In Brownsville real estate activity.
Such a revival Is long past due.
There is every prospect for an advance in real
estate values as a result of the building of the
Brownsville port. There is talk of inflation in the
air If Inflation no matter how modified does come
those who invest row in res’ estate holdings will
benefit when the Brownsville port is completed.
In two or three years we will be hearing the same
sort of talk we heard a few years ago. "I remember
when I could have bought that residence for *5.000
and it sold the other day for *10.000 ’
The wise investor will be looking for Brownsville
real estate.
Why Not a Right Turn?
Why not amend Brownsville traffic regulations to
allow a right turn with proper restrictions on a red
light?
Such a procedure is allowed in practically every
city in the country with traffic lights.
Many times a right turn on a red light is much
safer much more convenient to all on the street
than a right turn on a green light when the auto*
1st is going directly into foot traffic.
We repeat why not a right turn on a red light?
Child Specialist Most
Interested in Quins
By OIL MORRIS FISHBE1N
Editor. Journal of tint American Medical Association
and of Hygeia. the Health Magazine
Primary Interest in the Dionne quintuplets is held
by doctors and welfare workers. Certainly specialists
in feeding and rearing of infants are going to learn
a great deal from these babies.
Already they have learned much concerning the
factors necessary to rear premature children to suc-
cessful life. It is well known that the mortality
among premature babies is excessive in spite of the
best possible care.
Mortality among twins and triplets in premature
births is enormous. Survival of these babies is char-
acterized as phenomenal.
A premature baby is not developed sufficiently in
its nervous system to provide for the automatic reg-
ulation of its breathing or of its body temperature.
Its feeding and digestive powers are very feeble.
Furthermore the premature baby is likely to suc-
cumb to any number of infections to which it is eas-
ily exposed
• • •
Successful rearing of the quintuplets depended on
the provision of .the right kind of air. the mainten-
ance of proper body temperature the feeding of
a sufficient quantity of properly collected and pre-
served human milk and extraordinary vigilance In
preventing development of infections.
What has been accomplished for these babies may
well be a lesson to parents throughout the world as
to the type of care necessary to be given every Infant
so that he may have the best possible opportunity
for health and successful growth
• • •
While the quuituplets ai>pear to be identical it
will of course require extended scientific study to
determine whether any two of them are Identical or
whether all five are idenitcal.
If it should turn out that some are identical and
the others fraternal that if. that several came from
one egg cell and the others from individual egg celts
the studies will furnish most extraordinary infor-
mation.
No doubt as these Infants grow they will be sub-
jected to serious study not only of their physical
characteristics such as their sizes and measurements
and thumb prints or other physical formations of
their bodies but also of their mental development.
Will one learn faster than the others? Will one
develop musical talents and the others ability to
paint or to dance?
They are going to have a life that is to be lived
| in a glass house with all the world studying through
special lenses.
American audiences are good but not as warm aa
the English But they are much better than in France
where they shout at you. and In Italy where they
throw chairs at you. —Nick Rom off. pantomime artist
visiting in U. 8.
In history whenever the banking system of a na-
tion has been made subservient to the politics of a na-
tion. that banking system has inevitably been de-
stroyed. — Jouett Shouse. head of American Liberty
League
To organize a strike against war is to show a
strange lack of sense of humor for the strike Itself is
a form of war—Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler com-
menting on national student anti-war movement.
We cannot in fact believe that those who must
have the prosperity and well being of their peoples at
| heart can wish to plunge them into slaughter ruin
I and extermination.—Pope Pius XI.
One automobile or airplane crash usually does more
damage than all the cocktails a person could drink —
Surgeon General H S Cummlng of U. S. Public Health
Service.
Food intoxication and alcoholic Intoxication are
similar in many respects. Each has its origin in
perverted appetites—Dr. R. P Baker of Pennsyl-
vania addressing osteopaths’ convention.
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TheWorld
BY LESLIE EICI1EL
(Central Pres* Stall Writer)
NEW YORK April 11. — The
weakness of NRA lies in its creation
and protection of monopolies. Its
strength lies in certain elements of
it that shorten the hours of labor
and bar child labor.
Critics of NRA. however assert
that the monopolistic features are
too dangerous to be assuaged by the
benefits of the other features.
Critics of monopolies and other
problems of the day. are referring to
Henr? George noted American eco-
nomic wTlier of more than half a
century ago.
And the writer of this column has
been making a re-analysis of the
Henry George works They seem to
touch the problems of today as clear-
sightedly as the problems of the
post-Civil war period.
• • •
George On >!onopol>
Henry George wrote this on mo-
nopoly in “Social Problems’’ 52
years ago:
“I am not denouncing the rich
nor seeking by speaking of these
things to excite envy and hatred
But if we would get a clear under-
standing of social problems we must
recognize the fact that it is due to
monopolies which we permit and
create to advantages which we give
one man over another to methods
of extortion sanctioned by law and
public opinion that some men are
enabled to get so enormously rich
while others remain so miserably
poor
"If we look around us and note
the elements of monopoly extor-
tion and spoliation which go to the
building up of all. or nearly all. for-
tunes we see on the one hand how
I disingenuous are those who preach
to u* that there is nothing wrong
in social relations and that the In-
equalities In the distribution of
wealth spring from the Inequalities
of human nature.
“On the other hand we see how
wild are those who talk as though
capital were a public enemy and
propose plans for arbitrarily re-
acting the acquisition of wealth.
Capital Is good; the capitalist Is a
helper if he is not also a monopo-
list We can safely let any one get
as rich as he can if he will not de-
; spoil others in doing so."
Man-Made Wrongs
Henry George added:
"There are deep wrongs In the
present constitution of society but
[they are not wrongs inherent in the
constitution of man nor in those
social laws which are as truly the
la vs of the Creator as are the laws
of the physical universe.
"There are wrongs resulting from
bad adjustments which it is
our power to amend
The ideal social state is not that
in which each man gets an equal
amount of wealth but In which each
1 man gets in proportion to his con-
tribution to the general stock
"And in such a social state there
would not be less incentive to exer-
tion than now; there would be far
more incentive.
• • •
"Give Them Cake”
Henry George dramatized his ar-
gument in this manneH
“ Why do they cry for bread?’
asked the innocent French princess
as the roar of the fiet£? Hungry mob
resounded through theTourtyard of
Versailles. If they have no bread
whv don’t they eat cake?’
"Yet. not a fool above other fools
was the pretty princess who never
in her whole life had known that
cake was not to be had for the ask-
ing
" Why are not the poor thrifty
and virtue.* and wise and temper-
ate?’ one hears in luxurious homes
when such subjects are mentioned.
"What is this except the question
of the French princess’* Thrift and
virtue and wisdom and temperance
are not the fruits of poverty . . .
"The old idea that everything in
the social world is ordered by the
Divine Will—that it is the mvstert-
ous dispensations of Providence
which give wealth to the few and
order poverty as the lot of the many
make some rulers and others serfs—
is losing power. But another idea
that serves the same purpose is tak-
ing its place. We are told. In the
name of science. that the only social
improvement which is possible is by
a slow race-evolution of which the
fierce struggle fo rcxlstence is the
impelling force . . .
"Lying beneath such a theory is
the selfishness that would resist any
inquiries into the titles to the wealth
which greed has garnered and the
difficult} and indisposition on the
part of comfortable classes of resi-
zing the existence of any other
world than seen through their owm
eyes”
• • •
His Solution
Henry George had a solution
which in this day is not considered
by persons “on the left" as sufficient
of a solution. This is the nub of
the Henry George solution:
"To abolish all taxation except
that upon land values ’*
Said Henry George:
•in even- civilized country. e\en
the newest the value of the land
taken as a whole la sufficient to bear
the entire expenses of government.”
News
Behind the
News
Capital and world gossip events
and personalities in and out ot
the news written by a group ot
tearless and Informed newspaper-
men ot Washington and New York.
This column is published by The
Herald as a news teature. Opinions
expressed are those ot the writers as
individuals and should not be in-
terpreted as reflecting the editorial
policy ot this newspaper.
WASHINGTON
By George Our no
Grievance* — The White Ho as*
maintains steadfastly that when
James A. Farley does retire from
one of his jobs it will be the demo-
cratic chairmanship. And this wont
be in Hie immediate future it is
safe to say.
Other inspired New Deal sources
ere spreading the story that it Is true
all right that Farley will quit the
cabinet after congress adjourns—
but not until adjournment in 1937.
The inference is that Big Jim. will
continue making himself the* best
cabinet record possible until time to
tep out and run for Governor of
New York in 1938. All of which is
predicated on the presupposition
Mr. Roosevelt will be reelected next
year.
Moat sideline observers here have
figured Farleys organizing talents
would be ueeedd in the field for
the approacnlng campaign just as
they were prior to 1932. When Wal-
ler Brown was Postmaster General
under Herbert Hoover he shied
clear of the republican national
chairmanship saying he could func-
tion politically more efficiently from
the cabinet post. Farleys friends
are now saying Brown had the rignt
iuea
Meanwhile democratic senators
congressmen with patronage and
ou.er grievances are trying hard by
indirection to ease Big Jim out of
both jobs if possible—politics being
that sort of a game.
• • t
Yearning—In Department of Com-
merce corridors the rumor has been
gravitating among sub-officials for
reeks that Farley was on the way
out of the Poe.i Office Department
and that He<TeUry of Commerce
Daniel C. Roper would switch over
to direction of the mails.
W hether this ever develops or not
t. ere is a grave suspicion that the
wish may have paternal Influences
or. the thought. ‘Uncle Dan’’ Roper
has b«en so busy fronting for the
New Deal that his Commerce De-
partment has become involved in
some internal politics. There is fac-
tion in the commeroe setup that
Uncle Dan himself probably doesn't
know about. Those "agin him' are
spreading the word he is soon to
become postmaster general. Who
knows but what he'd like the job?
postponed—Senate administration
leaders were forced Into the open the
other day on the question of thxt
3G-hour week bill. It now appears
that the White House definitely
wants to leave the question of work-
mi: hour* to NRA—which still await*
rejuvenation.
Senator Hugo L. Black <D> of Ala .
who nas been sponsoring the 30-hour
week for nearly two years unexpect-
edly Jolted the leadership of Senator
Jot* Robinson the other day when he
moved for immediate consideration
of his measure-
Senators were quick to announce
that In opposing an instant vote they
did not want necessarily to be re-
corded as opposing the general Idea
of the Black bill. The measure went
ever and a bystander would get the
.repression It will go over Into next
year's session at least.
• • •
Supervision—The big push for
Senator Burton K. Wheelers bill
contemplating government owner-
ship of railroads will be deferred at
least until next session.
One reason is that Wheeler at the
mcment is interested in getting an
investigation of railroad financing
underway. It is in the cards that the
Senate Interstate Commerce com-
mittee will look this phase of the
problem over before another con-
gress convenes.
The interesting angle of the owner-
ship bill is that men In the Inter-
state Commerce commisison and the
railroad coordinators’ office aided
in drafting it. Their reason for
lending a helping hand was that if
such legislation was going to get
serious consideration it should be
sound legislation.
• • •
Hopeful—Only one or two voices
were raised in the house against
the exemption of “Ubor from con-
scription in wartime. This item of
the bill to take the profit out of
war was adopted by an overwhelm-
ing vote. Blanton of Texas who ha*
no big labor element In his district
objected strenuously to exempting
labor while drafting everybody else
•During the World War we had 5 000
.•trikes in this country and Presl-
! dent Wilson had continual trouble
with labor” said Blanton. Final-
ly erganized workers got 130 a day
while their brothers were getting 130
a month In the trenches."
The prevailing opinion tn the
house was that "labor" 1s free and
patroitlc. and doesn’t need to be
drafted. A strong argument against
peciflc drafting of labor was that
all men from 21 to 45 were made
subject to military duty anyhow.
• • •
Timber—Gcv Hoffman of New
Jersey will visit Washington soon
to widen his acquaintance. He ha*
stalwart friends who think they see
in him the white hope of the G. O
P for 1936 A few volunteer scouts
who are on the lookout for sound
timber are inclined to think that
Hoffman is not sufficiently trained
for the big race—that he might do
well four years hence.
Col Frink Knox it under consider-
ation He is well established In mi-
ne is. having become publisher of
the Chicago Daily News In 1931
Progressives who have been sounded
out are favorably inclined toward
Knox and regulars praise him.
That’s going some.
• • •
Tough — Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace may have stuck his neck
out a little too far when he attacked
Senator George the easy-going
well-liked Georgian for planting an
amendment in the work-relief bill
which would have made funds from
that measure available to pay AAA
expenses In lieu of processing taxes.
The two man have had a talk and
Qeorge say* he understand* Wal-
lace's position better but they still
don’t agree George's amendment
made it discretionary with Presl-
dent Roosevelt to order the diver- I
THE DUST STORMS WERE JUST A BREEZE
tm
slon and the Senator can t see why
Wallace trot so wrought up.
Those AAA amenumcnts which
would give the administration con-
trol over processors and handlers
of farm product* are coming up
again this session They failed
twice but their chances were fairly
bright this time. The question now
is how mad George feels. He doesn’t
do it often but once he gets his beck
up he i a tough customer If he is
still sore at Wallace when thost
amendments are brought forward
they may die for the third time This
wouldn't make the packers cry.
Not**—No matter how busy con-
gress may be It always finds an ex-
cuse to adjourn over for the open-
ing bill game ... It required a per-
emptory order to sh f’ the rMl er>«-
lon sendee from interior to agri-
culture ...
<X DARK BLOND
^CaPLETON KenPBAKE
• VS ISA
BEt.l* HERE TODAY
■IUtlE>T OK \vr«*. aeerctary
•a (.KOHbK UKIMMH.U. Hilda her
employer la hla afire dead Mll-
llreni kaa a aairbnak in which
Drtmsold bad b. <un la dletate a
eonfeaalua In paalr ahe rnahea
am; rrslatm at a beiel under
aa awnnrd name.
J \H V la HATH a atranser. of-
fera ta Help her. lie aeud* hrr to
a brail; ikop where abe la Irani-
tanned lata a brunet then taken
her home iatrodaclns her aa hla
oeeretary. She nrrl'i Jlapp'a mi.
Mill %l A \ i hla atepaon. ROBERT
CAIIKi and MRS. HAPP.
Thai alaht a note under her door
laforma Mlllleeul. ••The woman la
blaeh ermine la here." Mlllleeul
aeea the woman la blaeh drne
awa; and followe la Robert
Calae'a coupe bat runa oat ot
She walha borne eatere ibe ehauf*
fenr'a quartern aad flnda him dead.
Meat morulas lElfilMl
MAHOSEl aueatlaaa Rllllceal.
Later Mlllleeul becomea pnnle-
atrlehrn and deeldea to ran away
She la atopped by Mra. Happ who
about*. -Arrent that woman!**
MOW GO O* WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XXV
CERGEANT MAHONEY stepped
^ fBrward and said. "Just a min-
ute. Mrs. Happ. What is it y->u
were try in p: to say?”
"This girl" ahe said pointing to
Millirent. "is the one who threw
the keys into the pond at the base
of the fountain."
"How do jrou know ?”
"1 saw her.”
“Are you willing to swear that
you saw her throw the keys?”
"Well. I saw her leaning out of
the window and there was a splash
in the fish pond."
"Did you see her leaning out of |
the window before or after the i
splash in the f*sh pond?”
"Look here." she said in her most
Imperious manner “you can't cross-
examine me in this way. I'm telling
you what f saw. and I don't want
my word questioned.”
“I'm not questioning your word”
Sergeant Mahoney told her. "I'm
only trying to get at the facts of
the case. Now where were you
wheo this happened?”
“I was in the yard.”
"Did you see her lean out of the
window before or after the splashT'
"It was afterwards.”
"You heard the splash?”
"Yea”
“And then what did you do?”
“Then I looked up and saw this
young woman leaning out of the
window.”
"How did you know she had |
thrown the keys into the pond.”
"I felt certain of it.”
"Why ?”
"Because of the expression on her
face and because I had reason to
believe she was the one driving
Bob's coupe last nyhL”
“What were your reasons for
thinking that?"
"flocanee her clothes were
muddy."
"Who told you that?"
"Vera Ducbene. my maid.”
• id
IfAHONIT shifted his rase to
^ ^ MlllirenL “What have you to
•ay to thisr* he asked.
“Nothing."
Sergeant Mahoney gravely took
MlUicest by the arm. “May I auk
where yon were going?*' he In
quired.
“I was Just going out"
Sergeant Mahoney turned her
back toward her own room. “1
think." he told her. “you and I
will have a little chat."
Millicent did not turn her bead
but walked steadily down the cor
rldor to her room. Sergeant Ma
honey followed her. stood at one
side to let her enter smiled a polite
but somewhat -osty dismissal to
Mra. Happ them doeed the door
and. when MilUcent had seated
herself io a chair perched himself
on ihe ed)?e of her bed.
"You were out last night?* he
asked.
“Yes "
“Did yon hare Bob Caise's ear?"
“Does it make any great differ-
ence?"
"It may.“
•Aery »e!) then I had It*
“Why did you have It?**
“I was trying to follow an auto-
mobile."
"What automobile?"
“It was a sedan. The license
number was IJ3410."
“Where did you see this auto-
mobile?"
“It left the garage."
“At what time?”
“I don’t know. It was some time
during tbe night."
"And you tried to follow lt?“
"Yes."
"Why?"
"Because I was interested in And
ing out to whom it belonged and
where It was going."
"Who was driving it?"
"I don’t know.”
"A man or a woman?"
"A woman."
"ind you didn’t follow this sedan
to its destinationT* he asked after
a moment.
“No."
"Why?"
"Because the car I was driving
ran out of gas."
"And then you returned home?*’
"Yea"
• • •
I IK frowred for a moment and
** said almost musingly. “Yon bad
the keys from tba car. Yon uaed
one of tbe keys to unlock tbe front
door and let yourself in. Ia that
right?"
"Yes."
"And you did throw tbe keys
into tbe flsb pond?"
"Yes."
"Why didn’t you tell me this be-
fore r
"Because I was afraid to."
“Did you hear any shot in tbe
direction of the ebauffeur’a quar-
ters?”
“No."
“Did you see anyone near tbe
chauffeur’s place?"
"No."
"Did you talk with tbe chauf-
feur?"
"No."
“Did yon shoot him?"
“No.*
He stared at her moodily. “1
think.” be said “you were running
away Just now."
“What It I was?"
'"It would bare been a eery bad
thing to do. The police would have
eaurit you. and your flight would
bare been almost a certain sign
of guilt"
Sergeant Mahoney watched her
speculatively for a few moments
then took from bis pocket a snail
automatic.
“Did you ever see this before?”
be asked.
“Good heavens no!" she said
He extended it to her—the butt
toward her.
‘Take it." be said.
She started to reach for ft. then
instinctively recoiled from the
weapon. “I don't want to touch tt“
He reached across and placed It
on the table by her right band
‘That gun.” be said "is tally
loaded.”
“Will it go onr
“Not unless you shoot It"
"Why should 1 shoot It?"
"1 an giving It to joiv* bn said.
"so that if you want to make yoor
escape you can take this gun and
get out"
t^KUCKLES Bounded Imperatlvo-
^ ly on the door. Sergeant Ma-
honey glanced at Mlllicent and
called. "Whoa there?”
"Detective Buchanan.”
“Come In Buchanan.”
The door opened and Buchanan
poshed hH wav Into the room.
“I've got something!” he ex-
claimed.
"Got what?" Sergeant Mahoney
asked him.
“Some woman was In Harry Fold-
ing's room last night. She wae
probably the one who fired the
•hot"
"I found a whisky flask In the
bathroom. There were flngerprlnta
on It I've brought out those latent
fingerprints with powder and I'm
woman's fingers " J7
“Where wa-i this whisky flask?-
"In the bathroom."
"Did the woman drink the
whisky out of the flask or out of a A
tumbler?” Sergeant Mahoney -sked. **
“Out of a tumbler." 5"
“Any fingerprints on the tum-
bler r
“They were rather badly smudged.
I couldn't develop a clear latent
from them. The tumbler evidently
slipped out of her fin gen as she
set It down and It made a bad
smudge of the flngerprlnta.”
“Where Is this flask?"
"1 developed the Intents and took
It Into Mr. Happ's study. I ex-
plained the circumstances to Mr.
Happ and got him to leave hta
study. He gave me his key. The
door Is locked. I've telephoned for
the department's fingerprint expert
to come out and make photographs
of the flngerprlnta.”
Sergeant Mahoney seemed to be
paying not the slightest attention to
Mlllicent.
"What kind of whisky was It?-
he asked. “Do you remember tbo
brand?”
“Yes" Buchanan said "It wae
rather an expensive brand of
whisky. It’s a brand you wouldn't
expect a chauffeur to drink. It’s
a nine-year whisky bottled In
bond.”
v. ithout taking his eyes from hsr
Serreant Mahoney said to
Buchanan. "Write down the name
of the brand of whisky on a piece
of paper and paaa It across to me
if you will please. Buchanan."
Detective Bnrhanan pulled a
notebook from hie pocket. He took
a pencil and laboriously wrote a
single word. Then be lore the paga
from the notebook and passed ft
across to Sergeant Mahoney. See
reant Mahoney glanced at the word
on the paper nodded folded tha
paper and placed it on the table
beside the automatic which be had
previously placed there. He reached
his right hand Into his pocket took
out a pad of paper which he placed
on the table. He held something la
his left band. Suddenly he got to
his feet smiled and extended hi*
hand to Mlllicent.
“Well - he said. Ill be going.*
Mechanically she gave him bev
hand.
Sergeant Mahoney's fingers
closed over her right hand In 4
vise-like grip. 8be felt something
slapped against her fingers. Then.
I before she could withdraw her band.
Sergeant Mehoney bad snatched
up the ped of paper and praased
I her fingertips against It.
' ' ^ ilk Cwulmfii A^~
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