Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 2, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 7, 1914 Page: 2 of 4
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TUESDAY. JULY 7. Mil.
OUR TRADE WINDS.
*
“W hv it is ever so much coobv in
Brownsville than in any town in Texas
that I have visited this summer and I
have been nearly all over the slate with
in the past few weeks while in the eitbs
up north are furnaces compared .«» your
temperature here. And yet Brownsville
is located so near the tropics in fact.
I have visited the fa in on- t'.iiiio'oin
coast resorts in summer and found tl***
heat there much more oppressive than
here. Where do you gel this (in* In /.<*
which is blowing here all the »it«n?’
Thus .*|»oke a well known traveling man
who visitej The Herald uftio* the o'her
day.
For answer the visitor was (akin to
a uuip and shown how Brownsville :s lo
cateil in the direct line of the sou*hen.'I
tr.acle winds which arc constantly -.weep
ing in a northwesterly direction a* ro-.s
tlie Atlantic ocean and on into tin- tiulf
of Mexico striking this end of tin golf
at exactly In* right angle to give Brown*
ville the lull benefit of this great *••*..i
ing and reviving ru-li of ocean *i»r. He
was reminded of some thing- .vhn-h. of
course he learn*si all about long ago in
hi* geography class but w hich :iad I. on
overlooked in his memory store douse for
•o long that they hod about gotten down
into the subconscious stratum bov al-
though actually within about I7n miles
of the Tropic «»f Cancer. and the in.»<*
southern town on tin* mainland of tie*
United Stales yet *o l<*ng as .Mother
Earth continue*; turning on ln*r axis from
west to east the Br*»vvu>v ilb* Uoiiutrv
must continue to Is cooled by this bl>se |
stream of ocean air which is constantly
bathing this western gulf coast. He was
•howi) Browusv i He's exact locational ilej
most favorable spot on tin* -entire roilf
coast when* tin* tr.nl)* wind- must strike
ft exactly the right angle to give us their
full force while owing to th** turi of
the coast to the east higher up no plats*
wind as we do here. He saw lo#» at a
glance how t'alifornia. Iteing iinhanpil.v
situated on th«* w«*stern i*ilgi* *»f th< «**»n
tihent can never receive the beindit *if
the trade winds but only receive* usual
sea and land lirww* caused by in* tlif
ferenee in teiii|M*ratiire of her atmospliert*
by day and by night.
CITY SHOULD PAYE WASHINGTON
PARK SIDEWALK.
Speaking «»t tin improvement ot Wash-
mg ton Park it looks to The ||er:ihl as
it the paving ot the sidewalk around the
paik would legitimately belong to (lie city's
expense budget. The park is the city’s
property. The city has pa set ordinances
requiring all prn|M»rtv owners within cer-
tain limits to lay cement idewHlks around
their pro|M*rtv. Then-fore the city should
tie required to pay lot the paving around
its own property. It then- In* no fund'
available for the purp the city should
have the means *»t rue in;: funds for |*ark
improvement A r mu to this elTeet
by the wav should be uo-hidt'd without fail
in the proposed new charter for the city.
Far-away Alaska threaten - to send a
socialist to congress u- a delegate in the
prison <d Mi Lena Lewis who is Im*-
lwved to have a sun* thing of it brentisr
alie is rerv handsome This look inter-
esting for tin- next es-ion of our national
lawmakers.
EDITORIAL PICK-UPS s
"Tl
When it reaches the point where it sim-
ply cannot be endured for unother day the
wta tiler at way s change —Indianapolis
Fitur.
—
It s a wise husband that can rcmenitier
Lf wittf’a birtlidav amt l«*n*et her nge-——
late.
Greece is quite r« utv to keep tier prom-
ise to preserve the peucc tuit lir-1 w ant- j
to get peace.— Philadelphia Press.
Is it an oil engine that keep revolution
going round and round? Plnladelfdtia
Record.
On encountering a black uake -ox feet
long is it be-1 to shout q <*ms s wise or)
lengthw »sc f-Youic-sfown Telegram.
And just think? Time was when pconte j
used to envy railroad presidents!—Man - 1
ehester Luiou.
We don't hear any Democratic patriot-
olumoruig tor that vacant Saltillo consul- I
andiip.—Columbia State.
Ministers' sa|an.. would Is* hel|s*d out !
a bit it Billy Sunday would divide with j
the regulars.—i'oiumbus Despatch.
Mr William Rockefeller says In* tbuik-
it “tunc that Im-iui-'s had a rest from iu-
veytigutioii." but he must admit that it
make;* trade for the doctors bn k.—lio- -
ton Transcript.
CLAFLIN FAILURE RESULT OF BAD
MANAGEMENT
(From (‘“tnnirrrt anti Finnucr|.
The Claflin failure wa« the result of
had management ami disregard of «m*mi- |
omie law ami not of had times. The tes I
timony is that the dry gfssts trade
throughout tin* country has ls*ett go*s!
I In- |U*esent year.
No concern no matter how hip. can
oppose successfully revolutionary
rcang'ti that cotite in trade. In its day
tin* house of T. R. Claflin ft Company
was the greatest in America and possib
ly in the world in the dry g«ss|s jobbing
line. Its customers were spread through* 1
nut the continent. Its business was ini- j
mense. Tin* advent of tin* departnn*nt
store market I the «level o|»ntent of a new
era. Tin* jobltcr was doomed. The Claf- j
lilts stii* k to jobbing until a large share ;
of their trade had gone and many other
jobbing hoirses bad withered and decay-]
ed Then suddenly a most radical change '
was determined u|m*i- The old house
would Is* Imth wholesaler ami retailer j
It would create business for its whole- j
sale m*ed by bitting control of great is*- ]
tail stores throughout the country. Otic j
would feed tin- other and. in addition. II. 1
If. Claflin ft Company would still supply i
such of its groat army of customers of
old as remained. Thu unnds*r was eon
jsideraldc for the prestige of the name of
Claflin was the highest.
In tin* control of 2S or so depart incut
stores scattered l*etw»*en the Atlantic'
and Pacific the Plaflins saw large cron
| omies in distribution and in various
other channels but never console r«*d him*
j factor that is of prime importance in
the dry ginsls trade and that is. human
nature.
A mail w ho owns a' business gives to
it an amount of attention and direction
limited only by his talents. In a large
degre* it refb*ets |M*rsonality. When that
man merges his business into a corpora
atioi. such as the I'nited Dry lduals he
ma% Is* *b*light***l with tin* price In* g**ts
for surrendering control flattered with
the confidence shown in his ability by
retaining hint ts tin* head of tin* store
ami honest and sincere in his pttr|SKc of
giving to the cor|M»ration tin* full meas-
ure of his time iiimI energy but he lacks
the impulse that stirred him l*ef*»tv. Con
scion sly or uiieoiisriotisyl he undergoes
a change. Me never m is and thinks as lie
for** but as a part of the machine lie
lias lost one of the great forces of life
ambition. \
In tin* Claflin chain of store* men once
’•maulers of tliftr establishment* keen
(at Inlying alert in noticing the changing
Iaslcs ami inclination of tli«»ir customer*
patient in serving the public ami ever
watchful of the financing of their busi-
ness. found that a fair share of their
stock was np|M»rliom**| to them at prices
i determined on at headtpiarter*. They sold
the stuff hut not with the interest or
spur that they did in other days. In fi
naieial matters they were relieved of
worry. Their notes were Mvunil by en-
dorsement of the em*|M>ration- They had
less to Imtlier about on that score and
nuturally they wen* not so careful.
The economic* of the machine were
Ic** than tin* waste* of the machine.
A system built up to maintain the
niiddletiiati in dry g«Mids merchandizing
(after the inexorable laws of custom had
jdecreed the passing of the middleman
was tiouml to fail.
The obligations of the Claflin eon-
••ern* are scattered so widely the loan*
lieing ilistrHnihsI among from l!.tlUO to
.‘•.fMNt hanks that they form no element
of danger. The only filing to fear is that
I the tremendous stocks held by the com
panics may In* sacrificed. This fear is
reunite for (Ntwerflil interests an* ‘-er-
tain to protect them.
Then* i* a lesson for the department
[store in this 4'Infliti collapse. The de
part meat store has its limitnuts. The
specialty ston* is makiitg headway grad-
ually hut steadily. Merchandizing is re |
turning more to the old level of |M*rsou.
al rather than machine service. The drift
of trade is toward the smaller rather
than the larger establishment*..
TWO at o.m: thick.
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(Front Hu hans>t* titii Journal.)
‘‘le-t nn- plow this Held."
•Thunks”
•Tut canvassing this district for Con
gresn” said the willing worker after tin
isliiug tin* field. "Ihi von own ihi* fine
farm?”
* Oh. m» ‘ n*plied the other man. Tnt
the candidate on the other ticket Tin*
farmer has gone to town hat I assured
Ii mi/tin* tidd would In* plowed by the
time lie got hack.”
TWO SEEK CONTROLLER JOB
Out of Ten Candidates Originally in the
Race There Are Now Only Two Left.
(Jig A*Mnriu/> d Prrnt).
An*tin Texas Julv t».—Out of ten can-
didates who originally announced for;
comptroller there arc now hut two left li
Tliesc are State Senator fl. R. Terrell of
Mi'lcttnnn county an anti and K. Liu:
Franklin auditor of Collin county who i* j
n pro. The la-t withdrawal was Charles
II. White former chief clerk in the romp- i
t roller’s olB«*e here.
TIIKN AXI) NOW
i Front the Philadt l/thui Record.)
When lu't tin* Ouehes* of MarlfMirntigh ;
arrived in tbi** country one of her bro
Iher* very amiably smashed the camera 1
that was aimed at her. This time she <
iiceonuNlatiugiy went up on deck and 1
|*osed lor u picture man. {
| J. L LANI)RCM. Prudent ^ R A McOAKV. Via President |
J. B. SCOTT. Vice President
SAUNDERS GREGG Cashier ELMORE 8. GRIDER. Amt. Cashier |
| BROWNSVILLE HANK (V TRUST CO. 1 |
BROWNSVILLE. TEXAS
(guaranty FUND hank)
I Statement Of Condition At The Close Of Business March 4th 1914.
RESOURCES
I .mum anil DiMcuuntH .. .J351.M&76
Banking Houne ami Fix... 11.41*9.37
(•uaranty Fund . 2.M0.09
II'AMI AND XXCHANOI_lft.Va07.3l>
Total .I419.-JI.12
LIABILITIES
»il Stork .*100.000.00
Surplus and Profits .... llJ.744..‘tT>
Dividends Unpaid. 2(10.00
deposits_MllltJV
Total .tUU 224.12
EACH STATEMENT SHOWS A GAIN
/ (
MUCH OF INTEREST IN THE
FARMERS’SHOT COURSE !'
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A. N. Tandy of Xopnlita farmer-' co-
operative demonstration agent far Camer-
on county has received the following from
W. r. Proctor state agent far Texas.
I desire to call your attention again to j
the Fanners* Short Cour-e which will be
held at the A. Ac M. college at College Sta- ;
(ion. duly 2d t«» 25 and each of you will
Is* authorized to attend. I want to impre-s
on each of you the advantage- to Im* ob-
tnined by attending and hringing with you
other- to thi- great school of instruction-.
It occurred to me that thousand* of far-
mer- and their families would like to at-
tend thi- meeting and would 1 am sun*
if tjney could realize how much benefit it
would In* to them and the -mail cost as
compared with the advantages to Ik* gain- i
ed.
The railroads have offerof n low rate !
round trip price of le jnt mile each wnv.
The cost of living and rooin «t College
is only *1.25 |M*r day. College incidental
fee only $2.50. So you can see the co.-t
-hould not exceed $10110 or $12.00. Think
of it—a -hort College course for -<» small
a -urn. To each farmer who attend* and
applies the information gained it -hould
Ik* worth thousand- of dollar* to him in-
dividually and a like amount to the com-
munity and State. The following sub-
ject- will In* given thorough attention:
Soil-—Soil building—Conservation of
soil-; terracing a Mill-id.* farm to prevent
washing: nnder-tanding the nee is of the
! -oil and applying the elements of plant
tood in which the <soil i- lacking.
A course to teacher- in agricultural ed-
ucation; the great problem- of the tea eh -
j “r- of our rural school-. Hundred- of
teacher- should come and get thi* import-
ant course. They will have to have it. so
they had ju-l as well come and get ft now.
A very thorough course in dairy hus-
bandry will In* important feature in these
eonr-e-. The cure of milk and butter on
the farm lave -lock feeding. Live Stock
breeding. The value ot ensilage in the
prtMluetion ot dairy pr*»dtiet-. etc. This
most important course will he handled in
n practical manner giving demon-tration-
al filling -ilo- and feeding the en-ilnge
milking the dairy cow- with milking ma-
chine-; a very successful o|M*ration.
Crop Rotation—Feed and forage crop-;
the silo; ensilage; it* value; the cost ami
profit and why the Texas farmer cannot
afford to be without a sil« m the tutnre.
Poultry and egg pnaluetion—Feeding
for the lies! result-. This important grow -
ing industry will lie given speck*i atten- I
tion bv Prof. .1. F.. lliee the greute-t poul- i
try authority in the liuted State-. and it
should Ik* worth to every one nttcitdir.
the cost of the entire course.
The instruction* in horticulture will he
more thorough ami as this important in-
dustry has lieen sadly neglected in Texas 1
it will Im* worth many times the cost and j
time of coming in order to understand
this subject thoroughly. More fruit and
less bacon for the Texas |M*ople. It pro-
motes health and happiness—both needed
in the average home.
A thorough course in Domestic Science
—Good cooking; canning; bread making; j
and many other subject- arc included in j
this most ini|M>rlaut course. This should I
be interesting and profitable to every man
and woman who attends. Every mother
and daughter should get this course. It
will help to promote good living anti «*oa-
tentment on the farm. Another iiii|M>rtnnt
subject will Im* given in a jMipulnr lecture
at night on Marketing of Farm Crops.
Demonstrations will Im* given daily on
improved farm machinery; cunning; do-
mestic science; treating hogs lor cholera;
and many other subjects of vital import-
ance.
This meeting i* ope of education pure
and simple—i- not coniiued to lecture
alone hut to actual demonstration* and
I hope you will take greater interest in
placing this information before tin- people
of your county and get as many farmers
und their families. t0 come with you a*
possible.
This character of education i* of more
importance to the work we are engaged
in than any meeting that will Im* held in
Texas this season and I trust you will
use your best effort to impress all of your
progressive demonstrators other farmers
their wives daughters and son- to come
and get the lieneMt* which are provided
lor them it will mean a greater interest
in fam life more plea-are more profit
and a greater rural citixcnship jf hun-
dreds ot ur good farmers will enlist in
this forward movement.
MORE FROM THE UNSCIENTIFIC SCIENTIST I
SCOTTY IS STILL LEARNING. I
San Diego Imposition. July 7 l!»l ft.
Dear llerb:—
Did you get that *’|ogn* of I'l linos" i
stuff that I put over iu my last? IU**d
- what? I was going to have it printed !
in tin*ek tint I didn't have tin- nerve—
and the printer didn’t have the typo -
so I refrained. I look's! it up afterwards
lest t had made a mistake lnit I was |
right. Mthnology is a sort of ginny (if
that's the way you spell it) expression.
It eoines from a eouple of tlr-ek words i
it eiin't help that of eoursc and they
mean the study of you and me lieginiiing
from the time
‘•When you were a tad|sde and Iwas
a fish
In the 1'aleozioe days."
as the |Miet hath it. At least that's a fair
ly lilieral translation of what thev mean.
* I
However 1 don't intend to sjiend any
more language on that—no sense in lin I
irering upon a subject after one has ex-
ti a listed it Hal I must tell you all about
Arebaeulogy whieh is in the same das*
with the other oiogy. I said they were
rotmins. They're more than that. Klh and
Ai**h an* brother and sister—tho I'm not
Min* whieh is whieh a* to gender. Hut
Arrh is the study of the relics of the
rarly races of mankind—you might not
tiink it but it’s a faef- I nosed ansi ml <
on the ipiiet for a while trying to fiud <
out. Then 1 asked the Chief* stenogra- ;.
|di**r what the —I mean I askisl her :
what it signified. She ttdd me that right
>ff the bat. but to make sure of it sonuv
mmIi dug up a dietionnry. One of those
iinky. near lenther eovensl ones that you
ret for some !'• rents in real money and ■
ibout lit rents in real money ami about |
KMMW eoujioiis that you cut seriatiun i
«r
out of a daily paper. I got one that way
oiui*. Out a book of songs too.the oldest
songs in th4 world file {taper said they
were wings that never grew old. vintage
of the past century you know. Vintage
suggests wine and-well anyway if I
had la*en writing the title on the cover of
the Ming I took I’d have said "Songs that
Improve with Age-** Hut-as 1 was going
to say when I ran into that open switch j
T was agreeably surprised to find that
tin* uii|irtentlous dictionary was a per i
ft* tly goo«l book. It said just the «;une
thing that the girl said minus the smile.
One of the things one never ran get
lmek is wasted energy. ! figure that I'm
out alient four dollars worth. Iiccuiise
while I was ftissiug around with those
tombs tomes. I mean—ami dictionaries
et cetera (1 spell that since I broke into
the highbrow class) I could just as well
have learned all about the subject nn
«ler discussion by striding into the Ar* I
chan .logical Kxhildt at this Sau Diego 1
Kx|Miwitioii and just rubbering Itcally
tliat s finally how I did get arise!
Ion kuow Baby Kleuuor. reading the
funnies in the Sunday Supplements has
just as much fun- as if she eould read the
printed matter. Me too! I don't need the
10111 s when I can see the exhibit. < omc
mi in and soak up some knowledge.
Some of these subjects mtm a little
heavy at first but really its easy to
grasp them in this atmosphere. I'm there
»ith 1**11* <«n now. obi top. and you egn
juote me with impuuily or verbally— \
•ith» r way—and if ym don't understand
\n haeology thoroughly yet. just ask me
for anything that I have overlooked.
Yonr for the archives of mankind.
Scot tv
w •
P. S. Xote the delicate adroit wav in
which I insert an adv. for the Suit Die
PH Kx prod t ion in the midst of pure read
ng matter! I get paid for that.
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Brownsville’s Popular Hostelry
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Mason Grain Company
RICE BRAN MOLASSES and FEED of ALL KINDS
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San Antonio Texas.
Absolutely FireproofModern European. I
RATES $1.00 to $3.00 per day. I
^ ' A HOTEL BUILT FOR THE CLIMATE I
A RENDEZVOUS FOR BROWNSVILLE PEOPLE. I
San Antonio Hotel Co. Percy Tyrell Manager. I
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Merchants National Bank I
Brownsville Texas I
CAPITAL STOCK ™**»"»•«• $200000.06 1
SURPLUS TOKO f®—) 75000.00 1
Four Per Cent Interest Paid On Time And Savings Deposits. I f
SEE • “
WEST Rl WNSVILLE
YOU’LL LIKE IT.
Street car line soon in operation to Country Club.
_ INVESTIGATE. |
J. B. SCOTT General Mgr. I
BROWNSVILLE TEXAS. [
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