The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 343, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 6, 1925 Page: 2 of 4
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| Better Mailing Week
•
UNCLE SAM complains that he has a severe attack of indiges-
tion. He seeks to correct the trouble and in carrying out
his plans for recovery he launched Better Mailing Week: This is
Better Mailing Week.
His system is clogged with undeliverable mail and he de-
clares that a letter worth writing is worthy of care in addressing
and should carry a return address.
He asserts that 20000000 letters go to the dead letter office
yearly. Dead letters are known to the postal workers as “Nixies"
and Nixies cost Uncle Sam the magnificent sum of $2000000 an-
nually. ..
Unde Sam’s postal patrons are more careless than they realize.
They often charge Uncle Sam with laxness if they fail to receive
a reply to an important letter but more often than not the blame
is theirs or the recipient's.
Some facts about this Nixie condition are pointed out in this
little list of questions:
“Do you know—
That 21000000 letters went to the Dead Letter Office last
year?
“That 803000 parcels did likewise?
“That 100000 letters go into the mails yearly in perfectly
blank envelopes ?
“That $55000 in cash is removed annually from misdirected
mail?
“That $12000 in postage stamps is found in similar fashion?
“That $3000000 in checks drafts and money orders never
reach intended owners?
“That Uncle Sam collects $92000 a year in postage for the
return of mail sent to the Dead Letter Office? \
“That is costs Uncle Sam $1740000 yearly to look up ad-
dresses on misdirected mail?
“That 200000000 letters are given this service yearly and—
“That it costs in one city alone $500 daily?’’
This is a vast sum really an additional tax placed on the
careless patrons of the postoffice. It could be saved to the postal
patrons and the Dead Letter Office completely abolished if every
mailer wrould .remember to place a return address in the upper
lefthand corner of the letter or parcel/
Migrating South |
"P ERHAPS the most striking business phenomenon in the
* United States has been the Florida land boom. Activity
there has been rivalling the the most hectic experience of South-
ern California. Wild stories told with convincing detail are pour-
ing steadily from that state of fortunes made over the week-end
in town lots and of property bought lately for a few dollars an
acre selling at incredible rates per front foot.
The boom is not localized either. There is feverish activity
in many cities on the east and west coasts and inland in the sub-
tropical northern counties and in the tropical south even in the
once vast Everglades as they are drained and turned to the
growing of crops.
No doubt the thing is being overdone. Such a wave of specula-
tion cannot last forever. There will be fortunes lost in slumps
as well as fortunes made in rises. Florida lands are not highly
productive except at very great expense.
The story of Florida's expansion has become the subject of
newspaper comment over the land. Magazines are carrying sto-
ries about it. ^The claim is that California’s period of activity
has settled—now it’s Florida's turn.
In retaliation California comes forward with stories to the
effect that when Florida has come to her senses California will
be ready and waiting.
But neither is exactly correct. Between the two lies the Low-
er Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Its climate is as good as that of
either and its soil is more fertile more productive. In addition
it is comparatively nearer the consuming markets of the country.
From a productive standpoint the Valley will be here when the
others are completely forgotten about.
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' Tom Sims Saysr . j
Reducing s the fad. Even the fish in our rivers are on a diet.
Old laws put women in stocks. New ones can’t even put thiem
all the way in stockings.
An optimist is one who is glad he isn’t a pessimist who is glad
he isn't an optimist.
Why do people write crazy poetiy when the water is warm
enough to drown themselves?
If they ever catch a rum runner in a bay we have a wise
crack about bay rum.
Man is floating from Quincy 111. to St. Louis on a mattress
proving dreams come true.
Brooklyn^man who swallowed his false teeth will recover and
green corn season is here.
Paper says Coolidge smilled at a man from New York. That’s
nothing. We laugh at them.
Trains are more safe now even if heroines can’t flag them with
red petticoats any more.
Maybe three tramps jailed in Detroit for stealing cream can
say it was vanishing cream.
We would enjoy hearing the winner of the national oratorical
prize argue with a cop.
News from Paris says men are the best dressmakers. It does
take a man to dress a woman. _• ' _ •
Radio Programs and News
... ....n (Special to the Herald.)
Urogram for Sunday June 7
Central Standard Time Used 5
Tunc in Sunday night for;
WEAK—Roxy and his Gang.
WEBH—Selected artists.
WFAA—Blue Melody boys.
WHN—Entertainers.
KWWG—Brownsville (278) Silent.
KFDM—Beaumont (315.6) 8 sacred pro-
gram.
Kb I—-Los Angeles (467) 9 Metrolopitan
theater program; 10 concert trio; 11
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EDINBURG LEGION
POST ORGANIZED
(Special to the H'rald.)
EDINBURG Texas June 6.—The Am-
erican legion held its organization
banquet at the Edinburg confectionery
Wednesday evening. A large number
were present Jack Woodward acted as
toastmaster. A number of interesting
talks were made including a fine ad-
dress by E. M. Smith on the Endow-
ment Fund.
Seven new members were added to
'the membership raster and applica-
tion was made to headquarters at Dallas
for transfer cards so that other mem-
bers might be transferred from other
posts to this one. A membership drive
is being launched and at the erd of
the two weeks’ drive a “Smoker” will
be held.
State Engineers to Aid
Baird Flood Control
BAIRD Texas June 5.—C. S. Clark
of the Texas State Board of Water
Engineers accompanied by J. W. Pritch-
ard office engineer of the board arrived
today to make preliminary Survey of
the streams in Callahan county with a
view of impounded water for irrigation
purposes. It is believed utilization of
impounded water for irrigation pur-
poses. It is believed that with a com-
prehensive system of check dams from
10000 to 15000 acres of land can be
converted from non-produetive pasture
land into fertile and profitable truck
and fruit farms.
WEATHER BULLETIN
Observations taken today at 8 a. m.
<5th meridian time. First figures
highest temperature yesterday; second
lowest last night; third rain and melted
snow in last 24 hours:
Abilene .-. 88 688 .00
Amarillo . 84 Ti .00
Atlanta . 88 68 .00
BROWNSVILLE . -88 75 .00
Charleston . 82 74 .00
Chicago . 96 80 .00
Corpus Christi . 84 78 .00
Dallas . 92 74 .00
Denver.'.. 72 52 .00
Dodge City . 86 66 .00
El Paso . .. — 62 .00
Galveston . 82 78 .00
Helena . 48 36 .22
Huron . 90 60 .00
Jacksonville . 80 72 • .00
Kansas City . 80 JT0 .00
Louisville . 92 74 .00
Memphis . 94 72 .00
Miami . 82 74 .00
Montgomery . 90 66 .00
New Orleans . 88 74 .00
New York . 96 82 .00
North Platte ..... 90 56 .00
Oklahoma City . 90 70 .00
Pittsburgh . 96 72 .00
St. Louis . 94 78 .00
St. Paul . 92 70 .00
Salt Lake City . 58 40 .00
San Anionio . 92 74 .00
San Francisco . 66 52 .00
Santa Fe .. 76 58 .00
Sheridan . 50 44 .12
Shreveitort . 92 70 .00
Waabington 100 74 .00 j
Louisiana five; 12 dance Starr
Russell blue streak of radio.
KFWB—Hollywood (252) 11 movie
night music.
KHJ—Los Angeles (405.2) 0 organ re-
cital Arthur Blakely; 10 program.
KNX—Hollywood Express (336.0) y pro-
gram; 10 program.
KN'X—Hollywood Express (336.0) 0
program; 10 concert; 11 Culmon
Luboviski concert v'op.iiat program.
KOA DENVER—(322.4) 8:15- services
organist.
KPO—San Francisco (428.3) 10 pro-
gram; 10:30 orchestra.
KYWChicago f 536.4) 5 Chicago Sup-
day Evening Club.
V\ BZ—Springfieli (333.) 6 program 7
concert.
WCCO—iMnneapc s(-St. Paul (416.4)
9:15 classical w.icert.
WEAF—New Yor . (491.5) 5:20 Roxy
and his Gang; 7:15 organ lecital.
WEBH—Chicago Post (370.2) G-.s se-
lected artists’ program.
WEEI—Boston (475.9) 5:20 Roxy and
His Gang; 7:20 organ recital.
WFAA—Dallas News-Journal (475.9)
6:30 Bible class; 8 services; 9:30
Buddy’s Blue Melody boys.
WGES—Chicago- (250) 9:30 popular
program.
WGN — Chicago Tribune (370.2) 8
Drake concert ensemble.
W HAR—Atlantic City (275) 7 concert
trio; 9 Strand theater organ recital.
WHN—New York (361.2) 8 Gem Razor
entertainers; 8:45 Hofbrau orchestra.
WHO—Des Moines (526) 7:30 Reese-
Hughes orchestra.
WJAR—Rhode Island (305.9) 5:20 Roxy
and his Gang; 7:15 organ recital.
WKAQ—Porto Rico (340.7) 6 band con-
cert.
WKRC—Cincinnati (422.3) 9 vocal and
instrumental program.
LISTEN IN
With a Brunswick Radiola
Free Demonstration Daily
Sommers Furniture Store
1208 Adams Street
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WLS—Chicago (344.6) 6:30 Ralph Em-
erson organist; 7 Littl* Brown church
choir.
VVLW—Cincinnati (422.3) 7:30 Western
and Southern orchestra; Katherine
Haun soprano.
WNYC—New York (526) 7-0 Strand
theater program.
WOAW'—Omaha (526) 9 musical serv-
ices.
WOC—Davenport (483.6) 8 services
Choir; 9:So Palmer Little symphony.
WQJ—Chicago ( 447.5) 7-9 Rainbo con-
cert vocal violinist.
THE BANK
BEHIND THE 1
FARMER x I
For year’s we have been
the farmer’s friend. We i
have seen many of them
sow their seeds of prosper-
ity in a small way and
eventually reap a rich har-
vest.
We’re offering the same
service today. Won’t you
come in and take advantage ■
of it? I
FIRST NATIONAL |
BANK _ I
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Attention
Cotton Farmers
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IF YOU NEED MONEY.
For irrigation or for other expense in finishing
your crop.
I am buying cotton for July and August deliveries
and advancing 8 per cent money. Seller to have
privilege of fixing price any time up to the 20th
of September 1925.
M. H. LOWRIE
^ PHARR TEXAS "
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LETTE
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By CHARLES P. STEWART
WASHINGTON.-^Washlngton as na-
tional lawmaking headquarters senses
a popular reaction setting in against the
last few years’ hysteria of regulating
everybody’s personal habits conduct
morals .even thought by statute.
You hearpoliticians whose business
is to keep in touch with public senti-
ment throughout the country constantly
referring to a growing resentment
among the poeple against so much legis-
lation.
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Thq consensus gf political ooinion is
that Puritanism has overreached itself
Up to a certain point the average Am-
erican something of a puritan himself
might have stood' it indefinitely. But
the ultra-puritans kept at it until they'd
pass that point—far and away.
The average American—a great many
of him anyway—is sick of it and now
he’s making up his mind to get lid of a
lot of restraints that otherwise perhaps
he’d have submitted to. That’s the
politicians’ diagnosis at all events.
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Lately the tendency away from re-
strictive laws has been hastened by a
few developments which made them ridi-
culous. The prolonged failure of pro-
hibition to prohibit was weghing heavily
already.
Then came the coast guard’s violent
burst of activity against rum smug-
gling. exciting at the isame time con-
siderable indignation over the prodi-
gious expense involved and a vast
amount of mirth at the entire absence
of any result that liquor consumers are
able to discern. *
The stampede from Detroit to Wind-
sor. Ontaiio on the resumption of beer-
selling there caused' a laugh. Recent
gestures by the anti-tobacconists caused
another.
The attempt in the Florida legislature
to outlaw the word “flapper” caused
a third. Tennessee’s anti-evolution case
is helping liberalise notably.
• • •
Friends of the rejected child labor
amendment to the constitution lay their
defeat to anti-regulation feeling. That
undue restriction of parents in the up-
bringing of their children was the
amendment’s purpose is denied but that
it was so interpreted is obvious it’s ad-
mitted.
The proposition’s supporters also
made what they concede now was the
mistake of maintaining that society’s
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rights over the child are superior to the -
parents.’ 4 ~
“An attempt to carry state dictation
right into the home!” was the gtfilttlar
verdict. Forthwith the amendment was
turned down overwhelmingly.
• * * *
Leading drys read the signs of the
times clearly. Fully aawre of th®
threat that “anti-ism” is going to b®^
turned into a joke by those jwho seek
to overdo it General Counsel Wayne
B. Wheeler of the Anti-Saloon Leagu®
emphatically repudiates any antipathies
but the league’s own.
It is he says anti-nothing except th®
saloon. Secretary Deets Pickett of th®
Methodist Fpiscopal Board^of Temper-
ance Prohibition and Public Morals is
on recoid as knowing of “nobody out-
side a lunatic asylum Who favors to-
bacco prohibition.”
* * *
If the politicians guess right there’s
likely to be a decided loosening of re-
gulative strings when congress and th®
various state legislatures meet next.
Few of the politicians themselves at®
enthusiastic regulators. ' They passed
the laws they thought the voters wanted
and will repeal them as readily if th*y
think the voters want' that.
Prohibition to be sure won’t be so
easy to handle. The eighteenth amend-
ment probably can’t be wiped from the
constitution for a long time.
But the Volstead law can be changed
and the amendment considerably modi-
fied by legal definition. The dry* think
the supreme court would call this un-
constitutional hut the wets doubt it.
Anyway they point out the law's re-
peal would leave the amendment inef-
fective and there's ho question concern-
ing congress right to repeal it.
Hairs Catarrh
! as n |i| will do what we
MCUIGIXIC claim for it —
rid your system of Catarrh or Deafnets
caused by Catarrh. '
Sold by dntsgirtt for ovrr 40 ytmrt
F. J. CHENEY El CO.. Toledo Ohio
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JUNE WEDDINGS
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OUR THIRD CAR of TEX-MEX FLOUR
Just unloaded. Ask your grocer/
TEX-MEX TRADING CO.
Dependable Prompt
BROWNSVILLE TITLE COMPANY
Brownsville
Complete abstracts of title to lands in Cameron
_County Texas
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For Cows Horses and Mules
PEOPLES ICE & MFC. CO.
Telephone 800
BE INDEPENDENT
OWN YOUR OWN HOME
Build it on a lot in Brownsville purchased from
FITCH LOMAX & HENSON
Maltby Bldg.
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From Earnings $10000O.00 $200000.00
SURPLUS FUND (earned) .. .$215000.00
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