The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 43, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 16, 1921 Page: 4 of 6
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Tuesday Aug. 16 1921.
THERE ARE THINGS TO BE
DONE
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Things are being done around
Brownsville.
Simply because we do not happen
to see fur flying; simply because we
don’t-happen to be frantically tearing
our collective shirt is no reason to
«*P*me that the Valley has settled
down to apathy that it is content to
“wait until something happens.”
There’s the Rio Grande Railway
for instance. Many thousands of
dollars invested by the people of the
Valley in an-effort to bring about
cheaper transportation conditions ar«
being put to work. D. A. O’Brien
and his 'contractors are on the job.
Dirt is flying not fur. When dirt
flies things are being done. When
fur flies things are being undone
usually.
Perhaps there are people who can
do it better than Mr. O’Brien. Their
number may be legion. Byt they
are a little late in getting in on the
game. Mr. O’Brien’s efforts were
not started yesterday or today or
last month. They began a decade or
so ago at a time when we venture to
say there wasn’t a man in the United
States willing to undertake the job
that he undertook to make the per-
sonal sacrifices that he undeniably
has made. We do not doubt a whit (
that Mr. O’Brien if he could do so
•aaily would be glad today to shift
the burden to another’s shoulders “to
ease out from under.” x But he isn’t
built that way. His job is far from
done and whatever might be his pure-
ly personal desires the will to finish
ft is uppermost.
We have said it before and we re-
peat only those who have been most
Intimate with Mr. O’Brien know the
sacrifices that he has made for what
he earnestly believes to be the good ;
of the Valley He has set a course
for himself. He has steadfastly ad-
hered to it. He will win. It may
not be dollars for himself but the
knowledge that it has been a job well
done.
MEETINGS
There are few sectiops blessed with
men more public spirited than those
in the Lower Rio Grande Valley or
men who are quicker to respond to
a call for a meeting the purpose of
which is action of some sort to bettei
our condition.
But there is such a thing as run* i
nlng these meetings into the ground;;
that is calling them without pur- |
pose or without definite plap. These
men are busy men. They have their
own affairs to attend to but they are
quite willing even anxious to sacri-
fice a part af their time to help do
some public good.
Every call for a general meeting
In any part of the Valley should have .
a definite view a certain purpose a
plan and program laid out so that
there would be no loss of time. Its
sponsors should see to it that every
arrangement that it is possible to
make in advance should be made in
advance.
There is such a thing as overdoing
a good thing.
i Let's be careful when wo call meet-
ings. Let’s see to it that there will
be no reason for our public spirited i
men to stay away. Any called meet-
ing that arouses derision is bound to t
react in such wav as to prevent these
men attending fqtjure meetings un-
less they are absolutely certain that
there is already outlined a definite
object to be accomplished.
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We re happy this morning. We’ve .
just learned that persons with incom-
es of $100000 of more a year do t
not have to pay income tax under the
t§£ revision measure and it is pro*
gosed to be retroactive to January 1.
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OTHER PAPERS
ORATORICAL QUESTIONS BY
THE STATES LADY
(Galveston News)
Miss Alice the states lady from
Oklahoma recently propounded an
oratorical question to Senator Shep-
pard. and like most oratorical ques-
tions it was one of great moment.
In short for it was short it was
this: “Chickens or babies?” We have
not the oratorical answer of the sen-
ator as yet but his record indicates
that he is amply capable of a satis-
factory one. The states lady is op-
posed to Senator Sheppard's so cal-
led maternity bill. Other people are
opposed to the bill on the ground
that it is the outgrowth of an ex-
aggerated apprehensiveness as to the
ability of the American youngster
to survive the wellmeaning ignorance
of his parents. But to Miss Alice
goes the distinction of devising this
line of attack on the senator’s mea-
sure:
The census says Texas raised
23552113 chickens last year.
But we can not find out how
many babies Texas produced because
she does not record them. Nor can
we more than surmise the mortality
of mothers and babies in Texas.
I believe that Texas needs to know
about this to act quickly and decis-
ively and protect its helpless new
borna Whether happily or unhappily
born they have rights. 1 make this
one query:
Chickens or babies. Mr. Senator?
Doubtless this would be a poser
for a person less skillful than the
senator from Texas but it might oc-
cur to almost any Texan to wonder
where the states lady got the idea
that there is no legal provision for
registering births in Texas. One ac-
count of her remakable broadside
against the "better baby” bill re-
presents her as hinting that the sen-
ator is in some way inconsistent in
not having by some means secured to
the babies of his own stqte the
"right” of registration. Inasmuch as
article 849 of the revised civil stat-
utes of Texas and article 4553 A
(sanitary code) rules 34 36 37 38
45 46 and 48-50 provide foi the re-
gistration of births with county and
municipal authorities in this state
the indignation of Miss Alice is al-
most mysterious. It may even turn
out that the senator will retort with
crushing effect: "Both ma’am.”
To be sure the states lady is right
in assuming that Texas has in fact
plenty of both and that they are get-
ting along famously even if the fe-
deral government doesn’t keep very
close tab on them. Of course a fe-
deral "better babies bill’ is not go-
ng to make the babies any better
iny more than a federal better
weather bill would make the weather
any more tolerable. But those club
womtfn who haven’t any babies and
the mother’* club whose babies have
all grown up are right in after con-
gress to do something and the sen-
ator from Texas was probably just
t)eing polite- If that is the case he
certainly doesn’t deserve such a ter-
rible thwack as Miss Alice has aimed
at his gallant head. If the appro-
priation for his bill to please the la-
lies who want it doesn’t take too
much money perhaps it won’t do
any real harm. Miss Alice oughtn't
to let the fact that jf. can’t do much
good prejudice her against it. That
sort of objection if rightly enforced
against legislative enactments would
pretty nearly ruin congress. States
ladies ought to be more careful.
OUR ATTITUDE TOWARD LAW
(Houston Chronicle)
One trouble with our attitude to-
ward law is that to some extent wc
are all losing the sense of propor-
tion.
It is but natural that some laws
should be far more important than
others and (hat really important laws
should be few in number.
There are not many laws with res-
pect to life but what there are
count for a great deal or at least
they should
There are very few with respect
to stealimr. They also count for a
threat deal.
There are a great mnny which re-
late to particularized conduct. They
do not count for much.
It is truth safety and justice that
we should seek through the law.
The nearer we approach these the
nearer we shall approach everything
else that is desirable.
A society which strives to make it-
Felf right with regard to fundament-
als doesn’t need to worry much about
details.
A society that worries itself over
details is likely to get mixed in fun-
damentals.
We are surprisingly interested in
detailed laws. Pei haps that is whv
rur murder ami thief crop increase;:.
Perhaps if we were more zealous
in repressing major offenses wc
would not be troubled with so many
minor offenses-
At ail events it is a fact that with
the multiplication of incidental laws
we have found an‘increased viola-
tion of primary laws.
As we grow more efficient in pur-
ruing the petty gambler we seem to
row leas efficient in preventing
homicide and burglary. _ .
The prbbabilfty is that *S*re V-J
it ring our shot too much trying to
do too many thing at the same time
Perhaps f*e are< trying to carry
the law too far as a regulator of com-
monplace conduct- Perhaps if we h-t
little things alone and paid more at-
tention to big:’things we would not
experience so many setbacks.
There never was a time when we
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legislated in ^uch quantities We
grind out a giist of 300 or 400 laws
i year in each state not to mention'
congress and innumerable city coun-
cils. Yet and despite this enormous
production crime especially in a
major sense increases.
We are rot keeping up with the
murderer the blackjacker the thug
the highwayman the embezzler and
the.forger as well as we used to. This
is not guesswork. Our court records
prove it.
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j NEW YORK _J
NEW YORK Aug. 16—New York
City is sometimes accused of not giv-
ing enough thought and appreciation
to outside problems—national and
international. Maybe it’s true; but
wc wish her critics would consider
her situation. In one week there was
hera \vithin her own boundaries;
first page development in the supra- j
: ensalional divorce cases of the
year; the re-stepping into the lime-
light of the Eiwell case through an
i alleged confession; theTliants* open-
ing of the j»olo ground^; the discov-
; cry that Long Island Sound was al-
ready warm enough to go swimming
i in; the regular grist of mysterious
“disappearances;” and finally the
j startling act of local prohibition laws
ana local enforcement. The most up-
retting factor of this was the clause
I making the man who takes the drink
; as liable as the one who sells it New
York is fairiy reeling from the blow
of that. And it’s small tinle indeed
that is left for attention to less per-
sonal matters in the world ai large.
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When New Yorkers go "back home”
to visit and when- its viadora go
back home it is the Metropolitan
Museum and other temples of art
and its sisters that they talk about
to the neighbors and the ex-neigh-
bors. And several thousand big and
! little fish chuckle to themselves when
they hear the echoes. For regardless
of conversation the place that gets
the crowds is the Aquarium. It has
more visitors than any other museum
in New York—and they stay longer j
Two million persons gazed at its
tanks last year. The official Aqua-
rium boat. "The Sea Horse” start
In a few days now collecting more
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fish off Sandy Hook ftor the delight
of the millions.
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Mme. Olga Petrova dramatic
vaudeville and screen star is com-
ing back to straight drama. She has
just signed a contract to appear in
a brand new play by a new author
and according to him a new plot.
That detail however is passed with
cut certification. The play is to
open in New York early in Septem-
ber to the satisfaction of a largo
number of people who have always
insisted that Petrova was the Real
uitress of the Russians we have had
with us.
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The Bahain movement the reli-
gious cult founded by Abdul-Haha
has been making inroads upon New
York for five or six years and every
once in a while takes to itself a con-
vert of considerable prominence. The
latest of these is Dr. Florian Krug
one of the city's celebrated surg-1
eons who has announced that he
and Mrs. Krug will leave for Halfu.
Palestine in the fall where he
will devote himself to the reli-
gion. He intends to retire perm-
anently from the medical profession
he says.
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"The House of Poets" will be
founded here within a week or so
a national institution to serve as a
clearing house fur American poets.
Dr. Henry an Dyke Zona dale Ida
Mai bell and other wellknown writ-
er are on the committee in charge
of organization-
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Anyone who has ploded along for
fifteen or twenty years at the same
old line without making a great
splash about it ought to consider
the matter of Pat Roney before he
gets discouragt*d. For 31 years. Pat
has been doing stunts on the stage.
And now at the end of those 31
years he blosoms forth as a star!
His father was one of the popular
comedians of his day and uppn his
death young. Pat aged eleven jump-
ed into “Lord Roomey’’ as a juvenile
dancer to take his father’s place as
bread-earner. From then on he
danced and sang and acted mostly
in vaudeville until finally he has
reached stardom in "Love Birds’’ re-
cently opened here. And he still
looks like r youngster.
LUCY JEANNE PRICK
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VALLEY
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Abcut thirty farmers at Pharr
pooled 200 bales of cotton invited
buyers to come and bid on the lot
»nd the pool prove 1 a success. Stew-
art Bros. Cotton Co. of New Orleans
bought the entire lot at prices rang-
ing from 12 cents to 14tfc cents a
oound.
The Episcopal congregation at liar
lingen will erect a new church.
I. O. O. F. lodge No. 14 at Har-
lingen will install its first officer*
at a meeting to be held tonight.
The official decision of the State
Board of Water Engmeeers in th::
Mercedes Weslaco irrigation section
* has been received. The flat rate has
been set at $4.<>0 per acre and $2.00
per acre per irrigation. The physical
property of the irrigation company
was valued at $2940498.41. The
rate was derived by allowing 0 per
cent interest amortization mainten-
ance and operation expenses on the
valuation. Mass meetings are being
held this week and it is expected that
the case*will be taken to the courts.
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The law regulating eating pluces
ami compelling employees handKnv
foods in restaurants to submit to a
physical examination will be rigidly
enforced at Mercedes.
Delivery of express will soon be
inaugurated at Mercedes. The ex*
press loading platform will also be
! extended from «J0 feet to 90 feet all
I of the p'atform to be roofed.
•The Valley may get a packing
plant soon. Rufus Scott and A. L.
Ward capitalists of Paris Texas
have made a personal survey of the
Valley with this end in view.
Nicholas Balli aged 70 was killed
when he was rtruck by an automobile
near McAllen. A. J. Morman the
driver of the car was held blameless
for the accident.
In default of $1000 bond Nick
.Nendoff is confined in the Hidalgo
county jail on an assault and battery
charge. Nendoff is alleged to have
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WE TAKE PLEASURE IN ANNOUNCING THE I
OPENING OF OUR ■
New Grocery Store I
ON WEDNESDAY AUGUST 17th 1921 l|
—we will open the doors of our store ready to sell at the 1
lowest prices obtainable. Our store is located on Eliza- 8
beth street just across the street from the Bollack Store §|
and next to the Majestic Cafe. 9
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I OUR PRICES ARE AS FOLLOWS: I
I 16 lbs. fine (iranulated Sugar for.$L66 I
E 20 lbs. good Irish Potatoes for ..$1.00 If
I Crystal White Karo “Red Label’ 1-gallon can .... 75c _ B
3 Blue Label Karo 1-gallon can.. 65c f|
B Lard Compound the lb. for.12c |B
■ A. A. A. A. Flour 4X4b. sack.$2.00 §
I . A. A. A. A. Mour 24-lb. sack for.. $1.07 gg
jk Angel Food Flour 4X-11). sack tor.$2.42 g|
I Angel Food Hour 24-lb. sack for.$1.25 I I
B Durkee’s Salad Dressing medium size per bottle .. 35c # K
P Wesson ()il in quart cans the can for.55c ||
H Wesson < )il in pS-gallon can for.$1.05 p
fj Crisco FS-gallon can for.60c ||
(ilen Rosa Jams Fig Hum and Apricot flavors p
■ in jars of 4 pounds net the jar I<»r.$1.25 jp
E Apples in 1-gallon can the can for.88c ||
H These are just a few of our articles blit we have so many 8
| others that it will be impossible to enumerate them in this k
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I EUSTOLIO PENA I
■ On Fli?aheth Street just across the street from the P
jg? Bollack Store and next to the Majestic Cafe i£
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m Telephone No. 126 Brownsville Texas l
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qttackul Mrs. John Rose with a pitch-
fork and stick while on her way to
church at Donna.
The state department of education
has granted 3 additional ■ red its to
the McAllen high school making a to
tal of 27 units offered it.
Anadeto P. Martinez had his left
arm amputated just below the elbow
when the member came in contact
with the saws of a cotton gin at Ed-
inburgh.
A “Minnesota” picnic will be held
on the lake seven miles south of San
Benito on Thursday of this
Minnesotans from the entire V cy
are invited to attend.
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A large turing car ran amuck n!
j crashed through a plate glass win< o*
' m th ' Klosner store building at Ld-
| inburg. * C
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666 quickly relieve* Constlpati
Headaches due to Torpid Liver adv
Biliousness Loss of Appetite ani
A current of electricity sent thru
irrigation canals keeps the *sfl
| from passing.
THE WORLD I > RUN ON TIME
BE CAREFUL ABOUT YOUR WATCH
Have it Repaired by * * <
ALLEN the JEWELER
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Who Knows How to Fix a Watch «•*
SHABBY HOMESURFACES I
For keeping indoors bright and inviting you will find a J
can of Acme Quality Varnish as valuable as your broom 1
and sweeper. Chairs beds the legs or pedestals of a ta- p
ble doors door jambs and sills window sills floors and I
every other varnished surface that stands every day wear &
x gets scratched and scuffed. A few brushfuls of Acme |i
Quality Varnish will bring back their former newness and ^ Bj
freshness. $
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SERVICE QUALITY and a SQUARE DEAL' Y " J
The Uses of a Bank
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The Uses of a Bank are more than most people
imagine. With its facilities its* acquaintance*
its connections and its organization this bank
is enabled to be of use to its patrons in itianx
ways. * if!l lift
The
Merchants’ National Bank
of Brownsville
Capita] Stock
Paid in.7 $100000.00 * <r
From Earnings .... 10001)0.00 $200000.00
Surplus Fund Earned. $150000.00
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