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FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1930
MERCEDES NEWS-TRIBUNE
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THE OUTBURST OF A CALLOUSED MIND
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A CRUCIAL DECISION
Harris Draws Unreal Picture to Defend
Move to Limit Mexican Immigration
--Mercedes -
14 Years Ago
From the San Antonio Express
Defending his drastic immigra-
is not long enough to be dan-
gerous to motorists, and the
Published each Friday morning at
Mercedes, Texas, in the Lower Rio
change of emphasis is simply
that the danger of the bridge
is self-evident to anyone cross-
ing it in a car; needless to say
the pedestrian cannot but be
other hand the dangerous as-
pects of the bridge upon the
east of the city are not quite
the United States—Senator Harris
attempts to paint a distressing pic-
ture of native American children de-
prived of bread because a million
Mexicans have taken potential jobs
road, give the driver no anx-
iety as to his ability to pass
Why not the same number of
senators for all states? Why
punish a state because it has
a big population?
Grande Valley, by
Printing Co., Inc.
A. E. PRINCE----
When a woman , marries, she
begins driving more from the
back seat.
There are persons who seem
to have all the good fortune.
Some widows are young, hand-
some and rich.
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
If love were what the rose is,
And I were like the leaf,
Our lives would grow together
In sad or singing weather,
Blown fields of flowerful closes,
Green pleasure of gray grief;
If love were what the rose is.
And I were like the leaf.
If you were queen of pleasure,
And I were king of pain,
We’d hunt down love together,
Pluck out his flying-feather,
And teach his feet a measure
And find his mouth a rein;
If your love were queen of pleasure,
And I were king of pain.
If you were thrall to sorrow,
And I were page to joy,
We’d play for lives and seasons
With loving looks and treasons
And tears of night and morrow
And laughs of maid and boy:
If you were thrall to sorrow,
And I were page to joy.
If you were April’s lady,
And I were lord of May,
We’d throw with leaves for hours
And draw for days with flowers,
Till day like night were shade
And night were- bright like day;
If you were April’s lady,
And I were lord in May.
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ADVERTISING RATES
UPON REQUEST
Entered as second-class mail matter
at the post office at Mercedes, Hi-
dalgo County, Texas, January 23,
1914, under the Act of March 3,1879.
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try and it is a foregone con-
clusion that other nations will
follow that example when the
bill is passed. Because of all
The1 cotton crop on the Mercedes
canal is looking fine and so far as I
can be learned it is not being both-
ered by boll weevil or any other |
pest. There are some 2,000 acres I
devoted to the culture of cotton on ]
the Mercedes canal.
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In a New York club I talked with
an eminent architect, .who said that
the glorious days had vanished from
his profession. The architects of
Greece and Rome left monuments
“THE BACKBONE”
are sure that they will see what but will be greatly resented
we mean when we declare that when its effects are felt. Every
Mercedes, for those coming one is- by this time familiar
from the upper Valley and for with the long and sordid his-
those who live on that side of tory of the bill, notable for the
the city, has the very real ap- most flagrant log-rolling and
pearanee of being a sort of is- the most open iniquity, and it
land. Realizing this, it is easy is clearly seen that no one will
to understand why the resi- benefit from the outrageously
dents west of the city, who high rates which it proposes,
would ordinarily trade in Mer- Canada, without waiting for
cedes, would prefer to go to the bill to be passed, has al-
Weslaco for their purchases, ready raised the tariff on pro-
even though that city lies fur- ducts imported from this coun-
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above all the fact that the
bridges were dangerous both
to pedestrians and motorists.
Since that time we have come
to lay the greatest stress upon
the fact that the bridge west of
Mercedes represents a serious
menace to the financial prog-
ress of the city as well as to the
actual development of the city
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THE EFFECT IS PSYCHO-
LOGICAL
When the News-Tribune first
W commenced its efforts to
bring to the attention of the
If I were what the words are,
And love were like the tune,
With double sound and single
Delight our lips would mingle,
With kisses glad as birds are
That get sweet rain at noon:
If I were what the words are,
And love were like the tune.
If you were life, my darling,
And I your love were death,
We’d shine and snow together
Ere March made sweet the weather
With daffodil and starling
And hours of fruitful breath:
If you were life, my darling,
And I your love were death.
THE FAMILY
.DOCTOR
JOHN JOSEPH GAINES, MO.
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The Digest is polling different
groups and we wait breathlessly to
find out what the bootleggers think
ing killed an innocent person.
We. earnestly hope that a
sentiment of revulsion against
these outrages will grow up
and become so strong that they
will cease to be even a possi-
bility.
“luxated” as easily as would’a string
of spools, the plaything of a child
of the seamstress. And I have met
people who honestly believed that
all diseases of men and women are
caused by the spinal , vertebrae slip-
ping from their hard-and-fast moor-
ings; and that all such ailments
can be put to rout by the proper re-
placement of the “slipped” verte-
brae!
And, I know a good many people
who don’t believe anything of the
kind; I wouldn’t want my vertebrae
skidded around, even if such a thing
were possible; in fact, a great Cre-
ator fashioned man ‘so as to keep
that very thing from being done.
Nevertheless, there is good in
everything—including a sock in the
spine. A sudden impact against
the locality of a nerve-trunk is a
valuable stimulant in certain con-
ditions; I have seen good done in
that way, hence do not condemn the
intelligent use of the short-arm jolt,
or the Leyden-jar spark—in fact
anything used with capable under-
standing.
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The United
WEEDS
‘veryone in Mercedes is in-
• terested, we are sure, in do-
ing all, possible to beautify and
keep beautified their city. At
this time their attention is call-
ed to this matter more than
usual because of the fact that
very soon the prizes for the
beautification contest sponsor-
ed by the Business and Profes-
sional Women’s club will be
awarded, and hence we believe
that this is an appropriate oc-
casion to call to their attention
the unsightly weed-grown dots
which detract very materially
from the neat, and beautiful
appearance of Mercedes.
The weeds have grown to
considerable heights and hang
over many of the streets.
Moreover, on several corners
the weeds have actually be-
come a source of danger since
they obscure and cut off the
view of drivers. In the case of
vacant lots which adjoin homes,
the presence of the disordered,
unsightly weeds does much to
mar what would otherwise be
attractive yards. We strongly
suggest that Mercedes, in or-
der to retain its right to be
called one of the prettiest of
Valley towns, look into this
matter and do away with this
unnecessary ugliness.
As this is written the tariff
bill is still lingering in Con-
gress, but will probably be sent
to the President before the end
of the week, barring unfore-
seen incidents. This bill, which
will raise a tariff wall higher
than any that has ever before
existed in this country, is not
only unpopular with the people
the question is simply one of
providing some sort of path or
walk across the bridge and
along the fence which will put
the pedestrians out of danger
from the passing automobiles.
The need for this provision is
doubled by the fact that per-
haps a majority of the pedes-
trians who enter and leave the
city by that route are school
children, many of whom live
in the Queen City Annex. But
since this feature, too, is self-
The reason for this
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The office needs one more labor-
saving device. You still have to
lift your feet to the desk by main
strength.
families have scattered to the su-
burbs. The church is closed.
“What is left,” he exclaimed sad-
ly, “to show for all,my labors?”
I told him that people are left—
the sons and daughters of the men
and women to whom his sermons
were preached.
. “Your hearers .trained their child-
ren in righteousness,” I said, “and
they will train their children.”
We can’t fight change, and it is
well that we can’t. How dull life
would be if everything were per-
manent. How wonderful that each
new generation has the fun of tak-
ing the world apart and putting it
together again.
The church may be closed, the
house torn down, the ditch filled
up. But Mr. Roe and the architect
and the preacher each built a monu-
ment in the lives of the people
whom they served.
• We can do as much; and it is all
that we can do.
so obvious. The bridge there
destroyed. In five years more it
will be gone.
All his sweat and strain and back-
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REALIZE THAT AIR
TRANEL ISNT Yeg A
SAVE MODE op
\TRANSBORTATION?
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ROOFS OF MEXICO CITY
CONSTANT USE
The roofs in Mexico City
The center pole of the human
“circus-tent”, flippantly speaking.
A column of vertebrae set one upon
another, and bound together by the
toughest and most durable of fib-
rous tissue known.
Its outstanding purposes, are,
first, to provide a very secure hous-
ing for that most important, ma-
jor bundle of nerves called the spi-
nal cord; it is a housing which is
almost invulnerable against outside
influence, and only the most vio-
lent force can break its continuity.
Second, it must permit motion nec-
essary for almost every phase of
human activity, in which respect it
is certainly a marvel of divine con-
struction. It is built to stand, a
hundred years of active service—a
thing which no human contrivance
can do.
I believe the human lumbar spine
is the most powerful animal struc-
ture of which we have knowledge.
And yet there are individuals who'
suppose that the segments called
vertebrae slip about and become
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evident and easily realized by along in the current of human
all we prefer to lay the great-
• g. , 2, the burden which will fall upon
ghe shameful episode at Sher- them through the inordinately
A man during the early part high rates of the tariff.
of last month seems to have set As to whether the President
off and to have encouraged a will veto the bill or not, there
new series of those lawless and are several indications which
savage outbreaks which have point to a negative answer. The
always been a blemish upon most important of these is the
the good name of the South, fact that the only time Mr.
Of late it had seemed that Hoover has expressed himself
lynchings throughout the sou- on the tariff was to let it be
them states had greatly de-known that he was opposed to
- .chased and were on the way the debenture clause and in
approach to it, flanked by the to join those other savage cus- favor of the flexible clause. On
toms of mankind, such as all other occasions he preserv-
witch burnings. Then came ed silence, never expressing
the incident at Sherman, ex- any disapproval of what his
ceeding in lawlessness and vio- supporters were doing with
lence anything of the sort in the tariff. For this reason it
from their parents! The Georgia
Senator points to the average an-
nual influx of 58,000 from Mexico
during the past five years, and as-
serts that every Mexican who comes
into this country takes earnings
from an American laborer and his
family.” • ' - z
That statement is as baseless and
unfair as the figures used to sus-
tain it. In the first place it is
doubtful .whether the census will
show “ a million” persons. of Mex-
ican birth or extraction in the Uni-
ted States. Even if it should, that
would be less than one per cent of
the population. Furthermore, the
five-year figures do ,not accurate-
ly represent the present situation:
The State Department has shown
that Mexicans now are coming in at
the rate of only 13,000 a year. Rigid
application of the literacy and health
tests and other present restrictions
brought about this reduction. The
immigrants did not quit coming—
as the Senator says—because no
more work for them was available/
Before giving out his statement
did Senator Harris ascertain from
the Department of Labor how many
native Americans actually had ap-
plied to the United States Employ-
ment Service for jobs on truck
farms, cotton plantations, beet fields,
trench digging projects, railroad
sections and other places commonly
filled by Mexicans? He must-know
that the mass of American unem-
ployed are industrial workers in the
cities, who would scorn to follow
the plow, swing a pickaxe or wield
a spade under a burning sun.
Before dragging in the Federal
Farm Board and its “surplus prob-
lem,” did Senator Harris consult
Chairman Legge, or any other mem-
ber of that body? Does he not re-
call that last February Mr. Legge
admonished the House Committee
on Immigration, at its public hear-
ings, that to shut off the labor-sup-
ply from Mexico would be to. crip-
ple the farming industry of the
Southwest? Then the Chairman
urged the lawmakers to go slowly
other cars in safety. There
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that are eternal.' The modern ar-
chitect has no such hope. He him-
self designed three houses in New
York so magnificent that he ex-
pected them to carry his name to
future generations. [AH three have
been torn down to make way for
apartment buildings.
I talked with a clergyman who
recently visited a city parish where
he had labored successfully thirty
people of Mercedes the danger
and the economic undesirability , .. ... -
represented by the two bridges they will be' doing much to aid
• leading into this city from both J1 is Tsinin
east and west, but especially _
from the west, we emphasized test will be hotly contested, for
rhe Mission Chamber of Commerce
Ihas awarded the job of printing
3,000 illustrated booklets lof the
city of Mission and its surround-
ing territory to the Mission Enter-
prise.
Art work for the booklet was pre-
pared by Gerald Decker, while the
reading matter was prepared by the
Enterprise editor.
A committee from the Chamber
of Commerce, composed of T. B.
Sammons, H. E. Smith and John
Waite, made the award. — Mission
Times.
through a deep ditch from a lake
about a quarter of a mile away.
Half of every summer of his life
he spent digging out the dirt and
stones which had fallen into that
ditch.
» We kids used to go over and
watch him dig. There was a big
stone by the side_of the ditch which
was shaped roughly like an arm
arm chair. There he would eat his
lunch at noon, and smoke his pipe.
We called the stone Mr. Roe’s chair.
In fullness of time he died. His
son sold the meadow, and it was
abandoned. My father bought the
ditch, most of which ran through
our woods, and every summer we
fill a little piece of it up with junk
and garbage and.cover it over with
dirt.
Last summer I walked through the
and take no such drastic action un-
less and until a substitute source
of farm help could be found.. .
Another member of the Board,
Charles C. Teague, uttered a simi-
lar appeal on the fruit-growers be-
half. Neither Mr. Legge nor Mr.
Teague suggested that farmers
might bring in workers from tem-
porarily over-manned industrial cen-
ters.
If it will not heed the Farm
Board’s counsel, Congress should
give thought to the State Depart-
ment’s remonstrance: Far-reaching
mutual interests of the two coun-
tries depend on the continuance of
friendly relations, built up through
patient, skillful-diplomacy. To sac-
rifice those interests by enacting
such needless, unwarranted legisla-
tion as the Harris or the Box Bill,
would be worse than fplly,
aware of that fact. On the
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woods and stopped at Mr. Roe’s
chair. Already the ditch is । half
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sanseheeseMezsmma
used constantly. Stairs leading
to them are on the outside of the
houses and every one living around
the two or three patios which make
up the usual apartment house climbs
up and down from the roof many
tim.es a day. Clothes are spread on
the stones of the roof to dry and,
when dry, more water is sprinkled
on them so that they will continue
to bleach in the sun.
In Spring, when there is no wind,
housewives dump out their lamb’s
wool mattresses on the roofs, and
beat them until they are free from
dust and once more light and
fluffy. The ticking is washed and
a man comes to restuff and sew up
the mattress.—New York Times.
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Perhaps violet rays can change
the sex. We’ve seen the bright
lights apparently change, species.
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What’s all this fuss about unem-
ployment in cities? The farmer has
only four months’ work in a year.
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Americans have one thing in
common. Each of them, however
queer, thinks himself a typical Amer-
ican.
When I was a small boy in the
country we had a good old neighbor
named Daniel Roe, who owned a
cranberry meadow. He brought
water for flooding his meadow
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ache for nothing. No trace of his
life work left!
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BANKS
A. P. Giannini told a Congressional
committee the other day that
branch banking would eventually
supersede the present system of in-
dependent local banks in the United
States, as it has done in Canada and
largely in England. Small villages
he said, cannot support a bank with
sufficient resources to meet the
growing industrial needs of small
towns.
Mr. Giannini is probably right.
There are good-sized cities in the
United States whose progress has
been held back by lack of adequate
local banking capital and by the
narrow outlook of local bankers.
The prejudice against “chain” own-
ership of any kind of business ex-
tends to banks as well as to stores,
but as in the case of chain stores,
the remedy is in the hands of the
community, e Independent ■ banks,
like retailers, can compete with
“chain” institutions if they will
adopt modern methods of the chains
and provide themselves with suffi-
cient resources to make competi-
tion effective.
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years, and now we have an- is our opinion that when Mr.
other case in the killing last Hoover is presented with the
Friday at Chickasha, Oklaho- Smoot-Hawley-Grundy tariff
ma. . ' - he will sign it, and in so doing
Decent and sane men and will lower himself immeasur-
women cannot but denounce a ably in the eyes of this nation,
revival of so horrible an insti- :___________________
tution as mob killings. They Another way to shorten life
are a terrible and bloody return is to drive thirty miles to a
to the most savage instincts of good fishing place and then
human beings, and the parti- see a “No fishing” sign on the
cipators in these outrages, fill- pronertv
ed with blood-lust and swept ‘______
hatred, are no better in spirit I., hilosophy is that quality
than the victims they desire to that makes one thankful for
punish. They too are break- abrokenleg because it takes
ing the laws of decency and hu-° e s mind off an aching tooth,
manity as well as criminal ' ! .
statutes, and, their better in- Of course distant cities know
stincts blinded by their pas- more than people on the scene,
sions, are liable to be confront- Note how often the bleachers
ed with the awful fact of hav- catch the ump in error.
Express shipments of vegetables i *
continue heavy from Mercedes. On ]
Tuesday large quantities of okra, I
tomatoes, eggplant, squash, pepper, i
roasting ears, and cantaloupes were 1
noticed, and the pack was of such |
fine quality as to attract the at- |
tention of all who saw them.
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Travel really is broadening. Note ' e,
the increasing width of the cros-m -2
country passenger bus. eSoe
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What a great country! Helpless- J
ly wringing its hands because pro-:
fessional stock gamblers make har | u
times. I
uring this past week the these facts, when President
IF work of reorganizing the Hoover has the bill laid before
democratic party in this coun- him forhis approval or veto
ty has gone ahead. Since the he will find, that he is facing
last issue of the News-Tribune a crucial point in his term as
a mass-meeting has been held, chiefexecutive of this nation,
at which tentative plans were When the President called
made and resolutions adopted, Congress fora special session
and last Monday precinct con- to consider the tariff nearly a
ventions met at which new pre- year and a half ago, he let it
cinct chairmen were elected as be known that the only increase
well as election judges and in rates which he intended it
clerks for the primary election to make were any which might
in July. Tuesday the new pre- equalize the protection given
cinct chairmen met at Edin-agriculture and that given to
burg, where Lloyd Bloodworth otherindustriesi. that is,he
was retained as temporary wished Congress to raise the
chairman. rates on agricultural products
From the press reports of in order to give that industry
the precinct conventions held somewhat the same amount of
on Monday it would seem that Protection as was held by other
the democrats are going about ndustries. Theleadersowever’
their reorganization in a thor- Hoover s own pa Ty, n w ,
ough fashion, for certainly the did exactly the. opposite, and
chairmen and election judges Proceeded to raise the rates on
and clerks Chosen then seem thoseindustrial products which
to be men of irreproachable already had very ample and
standing. At any rate we feel indeed unnecessary protection,
qualified to state that such is At this point Mr. Hoover shou d
the case in Mercedes, and if the have expressed his disapprov-
other precincts chose the same al of a step which was so con-
sort of men as were chosen trary. to everything he had
here the democrats have taken promised, duringhis campaign,
a very important first step in buthe did notdoso. g ndS‛
Lei -caorsaniai it has gone. As the full ini-
thsperking for this precinct, quity of the tariff has appeared
the men elected by the conven- more andLsmoreniplainMn from the Chamber of Commerce of
tion are above ,reproach in H00Ver na8 KePt h1S silence on
eyery wav Everv one of them the matter, and has made no
is a well-known and respected effort to stop what wil be.a
man in the community; as monstrpus eamrle.ofafaroriti
chairman, Charles H. Hupp,Sm. • °W th at th.tan.ti Dm
and the election iudves and is ready to be presented to him
Xrks include R L Thomas he is faced with a final oppor-
James Howze, John Herndon, * to redeemAhimself in
Herman Sugg, and FredJohns- the setfinge the tariff the
ton. Moreover, none of these -.1 1 .5 1] 1
, f 1:40.1 President will have expressed
menhavesany-sort ° political to the people his disapproval
°b1gthenemotrats continue to of the bill.. Moreover, he will
i 4- I1 WI+10, +, have asserted himself as the
select such men as these to 1 1 « 1: , 1 :11
o-uidP their course during the leader of his .party and will
. ou 8_.-ne have shown himself to possess
coming campaign and elections those qualities of leadership
1 •which have been so profusely
theirdI guarantee thatcase con- claimed for him. By vetoing
a good guarantee that vhscon.the tariff he will have shown
although the Good Government that he is not dominated by the
" k —41 11. selfish interests which elected
stace it/con vention is held in him, inaction would^seem^o
Augustethatveryaufactwilladahaveihdicatd. "ourthesthrte
terest of watching the polity "naca
scene as it becomes more and fi rst will be by far the most
more ammated. valuable to him, for by it he
will show that he is unwilling
that the people be laden with
Correct this sentence: “The
girls were required to make
their own graduation frocks,”
said the mother, “and I didn’t
help my daughter a bit.”
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CRIPPLES
One of the things which we are
beginning to learn is that the worst
thing we can do for a person who
has been disabled by disease or ac-
cident is to coddle him or her, and
the best thing that can be done is
to train the remaining faculties to
useful work.
The Veterans Bureau has finished
its rehabilitation work with men
who were injured in the World War
and reports that every man who is
capable of any sort of productive
effort is now at work somewhere.
But the Federal Government is co-
operating with the states to provide
the same sort of rehabilitation train-
ing for victims of industrial acci-
dents and of crippling diseases like
infantile paralysis. Only a few
states are giving cooperation, but
in those surprising results have'
been achieved.
Leaving out th® benefit to so-
ciety by not having to support the
cripple in idleness, there is a defi-
nite value to the injured person in
the discovery that he is still able
to earn a living.
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STUPIDITY
Customs officials in Seattle re-
cently seized 120 copies of a Ger-
man medical book, imported by a
Seattle dealer for sale to the medi-
cal men of the Northwest. The
ground for the seizure was that the
contents of the book were “indeli-
cate”. The book is a learned trea-
tise on biology, which word is mere-
ly a technical term meaning “life.”
Life, apparently, is indelicate, in
the eyes of the United States Cus-
toms. But human life only. Nobody
tries to suppress books which deal
with the breeding of livestock, dogs,
or poultry. Only when a book sug-
gests that the life processes of hu-
man beings are similar to those of
other animals do well-meaning, but
stupid officials interfere.
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LOWDOWN •
Victor V. Green runs what he calls
“The Most Low-Down Paper on
Earth.” Its title is the Caochella
est emphasis upon the psycho-
logical effect of the long nar-
row bridge west of Mercedes
which makes it seem to those
coming into the city from that
direction that it is isolated and
cut off from the upper part of
the Valley.
This psychological effect is
not nearly so easily realized as
is the dangerous aspect of the
bridge. In fact, as we have
said above, this feature of the
bridge did not present itself to
us when we first started this
agitation. Now that it has pre-
sented itself to us, however,
the conviction that this aspect
of the bridge is very serious
grows upon us continually, and
we greatly desire to convince
9 our readers of the fact. If they
will but picture to themselves
the long stretch of highway,
fenced on both sides, and bor-
dered by deep ditches, which
leads up to the long and ex-
ceedingly narrow bridge, we
Valley Submarine and it is published
at Caochella, Riverside, County,
California, 76 feet below sea level.
Editor Green has a sense of hu-
mor, as is evidenced by the sub-
title of his paper. He also has a
sense of responsibility to his thriv-
ing agricultural community, as the
local news in the “Submarine” clear-
ly shows.
There are other valleys in Cali-
fornia the bottoms of which are even
farther below the level of the Pa-
cific Ocean than this one. They are
beds of ancient laws which were
once bays of the ocean before some
pre-historic earthquake raised the
land between them and the sea.
Old ocean beds make good farms
everywhere. Holland’s farms are
almost entirely on reclaimed sea-
bottom, and another 300,000 acres
of ocean has just been diked off and
is being pumped out to add to the
agricultural area. Much of Flori-
da’s best land has only lately been
reclaimed and now a project is on
foot to irrigate the Sahara desert
and make it the world’s garden spot.
Other Papers
THE TARIFF ON ITS ROUNDS
rythe Senate sighed deeply Tuesday
I last when Vice President Curtis
ruled that the flexible clause com-
promise, suggested by the joint com-
mittee, was contrary to the rules of
the Senate, on the ground that new
language was contained in the re-
port, which had not ' been included
in the reports submitted by either
House or Senate. The result is that
the committee returns substantially
to the I flexible provision of the
House, which places discretionary
power in the hands of the executive.
The final stage of the bill pre-
sumably will come next week when
discussion will once more take place
in the Senate, wearied and worried
as it is over the problem of the tar-
iff. The expectation now is that dis-
cussion may be dragged out for an-
other week and that final action will
take place during, the week follow-
ing. Senator Smoot, who is in
charge of the bill, is troubled over
the intense opposition that has de-
veloped, and made a lengthy speech1
Tuesday seeking to show .how the
new tariff would benefit the farm-
er. Possibly he had in mind the in-
terests of the sugar beet growers of
his own region, not the interests of
farmers in general, who are quite
unanimous in their belief that the
new tariff will increase living costs
to them.
The President will undoubtedly
sign the bill when presented to him.
The debenture clause has been elim-
inated and the flexible clause has
been made over to his liking. He
and his party leaders must realize
that the bill is most unpopular, but
it is a party measure and it must
be defended, with all its weaknesses,
by its Republican advocates during
the coming campaign.—Dallas News.
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