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Want a City Planner
Directors of the San Benito c hamher of Commerce
have inaugurated a movement which will doubtless prove
of great value to that city. At their meeting Monday
night after hearing the reports of four representatives
who attended the National City Platyiing Conference at
Dallas early in the month the board went on record
as favoring the employment of an experienced city plan-
ner and put the proposition up to the city commission.
Action by the commission is expected at the next meet-
ing.
The action proposed by San Penito is one that every
* city in the Lower Rio Grande Valley could well afford
to emulate. The cost of formulating comprehensive
plans for the future development of the Valley cities
would be infinitesimal in comparison with the benefits
which would accrue and the losse. which may be avert-
ed in the future. Incidentally if concerted action along
this line is taken by the Valley cities it will serve to
enhance the value of city planning in the respective
cities by reason of the fact that each city w:hich adopts
and carries out a comprehensive rlan of improvement
and beautification will aid in making the entire Valley
more attractive to tourists and prospective home-
builders.
The Dallas conference impressed upon the Valley
representatives the value of city planning the result
which may ba attained therefrom and the losses which
may be averted. Major Brown of Ran Benito in report-
ing on the conference said: "If zoning is done w-isely
and logically there is probably no one thing the city can
do which will have as much effect in assuring a desira-
ble future. Through zoning not only the community as
a whole but each individual acquires a real protection
against the harmful development of property.”
Plans discussed at the Chamber of Commerce meet-
ing in connection with the city planning project includ-
ed the establishment of parks construction of a golf
course removal of unsightly buildings a municipal hos-
pital and street widening all of which are necessary- ad-
juncts to a modern city and which must be included in
any comprehensive plan for city expansion.
The Harbor Appropriation
Some apprehension was expressed by a few Valley
residents when the report was rtceived from Washing-
ton on May 5 that the board of U. S. army engineers
had decided to reduce the appropriation for construction
of the Point Isabel harbor from $2000.00. recommended
by the district engineer to $1000000. but at the same
time increased the recommendation for maintenance
from $100000 annually to $150000 indefinitely.
The detailed report and recommendations of the
board of army engineers received 1 ue^day. indicate that
the board is confident the appropriation recommended
with $600000 to be contributed by V alley interests will
be ample to construct the project.
The district engineer recommended that the jetties
be extended to the 20-foot depth which would entail the
construction of 4.100 feet of jetty in addition to the
3100 feet already constructed. Tl.e district engineer
also recommended that the entrance channel be dredged
to a width of 400 feet. The board of engineer* held the
▼iew that a 300.foot outer channel would he ample and
that the construction of 2.500 to 3.000 feet of jettj\
probably to the 15- or lfi-foot depth would he sufficient
to protect the channel against filling by the shifting
aands. In order to assure that the 18-foot depth of
channel will he maintained they added $150000 annual-
ly for maintenance this additional appropriation being
the form of insurance that in the event their theory in
regard to the jetty proves unsound there will be ample
funds to maintain the channel. As the government en-
gineers estimate appropriations for such projects upon
a 5 per cent basis the board is merely wh*t might be
termed placing in escrow the additional $1000000 to
defray the cost of maintenance instead of using that
amount in the construction of jetties. In the event the
additional jetties prove sufficient to prevent the shift-
ing of sand into the channel and thereby eliminate the
dredging for which the board has made provision the
government can save that amount in the construction
cost.
m Jetties have always been more or less a puzzle to
marine and harbor engineers. It is virtually impossible
to forecast their effect upon currents under various
wind and weather conditions. In the construction of
* numerous harbors the fact has been ascertained that
.etties extending to a depth of 10 or 15 feet are ample
to protect a channel of far greater depth and practically
eliminate maintenance dredging. In other harbors it
has hem found necessary to construct the jetties to
channel depth or to expend the equivalent in mainte-
nance. The most experienced engineer cannot predict
with any degree of accuracy the effect of wind and cur-
rent and this can only be ascertained over a period of
5 One of the most significant features or the report is
the fact that the board takes cognizance of the rapid de-
velopment of the Valley and the potential tonnage of
northern Mexico which eventually will pass through the
Valley's port. The hoard signifies it is confident the
time will come when a greater depth n;f channel will be
necessary to handle the commerce of this section.
"The further development of the territory the move-
ment by water of its commerce and the improvement of
the harbor must go hand in hand” General Herbert
Deakyne. assistant chief of engineers says in hi* re-
port "The board does not believe thrt deeper channels
than those provided for by the existing project can he
justified at this time. Completion of the existing pro-
ject depths and a trial of the project for a period of
years should be assured now. leaving the question of
continuing or modifying the improvement to he deter-
mined by the development of commerce.”
Another significant fact brought out by General
Deakyne is that the Valley interests must give the port
fall co-operation if additional depth is to be secured.
Commenting on this phase he says: "The provision of
channels alone will not build up the port. Local inter-
ests must direct their efforts toward securing service.
Proper terminal facilities must be provided and the ad-
juncts of a coastwise port built up.”
Tls| socialist party has its candidates in th# fi»H
and platform all built and that is about all that it
has to do.—Portland Express.
All * European nation wants is a neighbor rich
gnough to buy goods and too poor to make war.—Sin
Francisco Chronic!#*
(New York Times).
While the senate was discussing a bill to cut taxes
by $200000000 the president issued another warning
that congress may vote so much money that taxes will
have to be even increased to cover the total. To the
Washington correspondents Mr. Coolidge submitted his
list of bills making huge demands on the treasury quite
beyond the sums provided for in he federal budget. It
does not require a very great number of appropriations
running from $20000000 to $325000000 in order to ar-
rive at an amount which staggers the president as he
contemplates it. One trouble seems to be that congress
and the country have been so long accustomed to think-
ing in hundreds of millions that the significance of the
vast outlays proposed is not easily grasped. When we
I have a federal budget now running beyond $3000000000
j it Is hard to get people excited about a bill carrying a
mere $50000000. But President Coolidge knows to what
the piling up of such items inevitably will lead and
takes this way of notifying the public that he still stands
i firmly for rigid economy.
A singular instance of the perils which attend th«*
use of big figures was given in the senate the other day
Senator Smoot is a man ordinarily precise and accurate
but in a debate about the war debts owed our treasury
by foreign countries he asserted that “approximately
half of those debts were made after the close of the
war.” This statement prompted Senator Glass to send
for the treasury reports from which he established the
1 fact that prior to the armistice the credits given by our
j government amounted to $8171976666. while the credits
after the armistice added up to only $1475122743. The
Virginia senator naturally said that these figures proved
that the senator from Utah had made a “very egregious
blunder.” Thia the senator from Utah had to admit
reluctantly. Mr. Smoot’s explanation was “I forgot to
i take Into consideration the amount England was owing
to the United States. That was $4600000000. When it
is so easy for the chairman of the senate finance com-
1 mittce to. “forget” such a sum. it is easy to understand
i how the constant handling of billions by congress tends
to blur the mind to the real meaning of financial sta-
tistics.
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Th® World surad All
By Charles P. Driscoll
THE SIMPLE THINGS
A reader in Minnesota who asks that I not u*e her
I name writes me a delightful letter. Sh«' ha<n t any
wisdom to impart to me. She hasn’t any theory that
«he wishes me to exploit. She doesn t w-ant to con-
vince me of anything. She just writes because she
reads this column and likes it. and therefore wants to
tell me that she likes it.
This reader tells me that she clips the column ev-
Icry day and sends those she considers best to her
daughter who is attending a college in Minnesota. She
tells me of her other children still in high school.
She tells of youngsters of 14 and a little older w-h'»
: have organized bridge clubs and play once every six
[weeks but not for prizes. She asks me what I think
of this. Well I thirk these youngsters are striving
hard to be ready to take up life where their mothers
leave it off.
But this kind of a letter really touches my heart. 1
'have lived in Minnesota myself. I know the little town
< in which this faithful follower of my column lives. It
j is to the people in these wholesome little towns that
I feci a special responsibility in writing these daily
lines. When I have a letter from one of them. I always
think that perhaps l have not written as well or as
helpfully as these good readers deserve.
Most pcopie fee! a reluctance to write a letter. When
they write to me about the simple and beautiful things
of life I know that they believe in my writing and be-
lieve that I will be interested in their lives and their
joys and sorrows. And 1 am. 1 sat for a quarter of
an hour picturing to myself this Minnesota home witn
! the sort of family life that produces the citizens upon
(whom we must count for the greater America of to-
f morrow.
There is nothing very exciting going on. The fam-
j tly looks forward to the arrival of the daily paper a.nd
the other mail.
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CORRECTING THE LAWS INJUSTICES
(Charles Evans Hughes was born in Glens Kails
N. Y.. in 1862. He studied at various universities
in the United States and abroad and was admitted to
the har in 1884. He first practiced law- in New York
City and in 1893 became professor of law at Cor-
nell university and lecturer at the New York Law-
school. In 1906 he became assistant to the U. S.
attorney general. He was nominated for mayor of
New York City but declined. He was elected gov-
ernor of New York twice in 1907 and 1909 but re-
signed in 1910 to become associate justice of the
United SUtes supreme court. He was nominated by
the republicans for president of the United States in
1916 resigning as justice but was defeated by
President Wilson. He served as secretary of state
under Presidents Harding and Coolidge but in 1925
resigned again to enter private practice-!.
Who can deny the serious abuses that exist in the
administration of justice or the necessity of our not
being content in repelling unfounded charges but of
I making fresh efforts and finding new methods to obtain
every practicable measure of relief? I say practicable
measure for there Rre fundamental difficulties arising
I from social conditions which *io beyond the reach of
j corrective means w ithin our power.
These difficulties are so serious that some are in-
clined to be cynically indifferent to all proposals for im-
provement. w-hile others are looking for direct roads to
the moon. We need the genius the practical imagina-
1 tion and the efficiency of engineers in our efforts.
One of the most amusing delusions is that there
exists a powerful entity which could if it would put
into effect the particular plan of reform one has in
mind. Rut in truth there are strange contrasts in the
points of view held by persons of high intelligence and
conspicuous influence.
Some with great force of reasoning decry the in-
| mchronism of our jury system with its encouragement
of vain and tedious procedure it* rough and ready de-
1 termination of difficult questions its frequently gro-
tesque results. But as soon as it is proposed to do
something to mitigate the evils of such a method of pro-
cedure. which many of our controversies seems hope-
lessly inappropriate wc find a measure promoted in the
senate of the l nited States designed to restrain such
authority as may now be enjoyed hy the judges in our
I federal courts to bring expert assistance to the aid of
juries.
It is difficult to understand how such a measure as
this could have obtained support. Apparently it has
prospered through misapprehension and through a fail-
I ure to appreciate the value to the people of this country
of federal jurisdiction in these important classes of
cases. The serious effect of the passage of such an act
should be made plain and I air gla<f to be informed that
! oot only lawyers but organiiatiors of laymen through-
out the country- are alive to he injury that it would
inflict.
The situation shows quite clearly that we hare to be
equally vigilant both to obtain needed reform in the ad-
ministration of justice and to maintain without inju-
rious impairment the facilities »e already enjoy.
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| Egyptian Envoy Tells American
! Girl of His Country’s Trouble
i
Samy Pasha. Egyptian minister to the United States and Madame
Samy snapped at a garden party.
By BONITA Will
Staff Writer for Central Press and
The Brownsville Herald
WASHINGTON. D. C.. May 15.—
Washington is one place where you
don't have to go to lectures to keen
up with the aairs of the world.
If you desire to know what's occur-
ring in Japan you merely call on
your friends at the Japanese em-
bassy and you can readily get a
straight account of the doings in
Nippon. If you desire to learn some-
thing concerning Persia you visit
the Persian legation. That is you
do this if you are one of “the” of-
ficial set and socially intimate with
the diplomatic corps—or a newspa-
per writer.
Hearing muttering* of “Egyptian
trouble abroad” in Washington I de-
cided the proper place to find out
concerning it was the Egyptian lega-
tion so I went to call upon Sarny
Pasha the Egyptian minister to the
United States and Mme. Sarny.
They recently have moved into the
new emba-sy an imposing stone
structure. Egyptian curios adorn
the room and a servant in Egyptian
costume who speaks only Arabic
made a distinct impression on the
writer who had never been in such
close contact before with things and
persons Egyptian.
While Sipping Turkish Coffee
Mme. Sumy a charming young
woman the mother of three chil-
dren. and I were sitting drinking
Turkish coffee from tiny white cups
decorated in gold trading English
words for Egyptian and discussing
women in America and Egypt when
Sarny Pasha entered.
He soon discovered that I didn't
know much about Egypt or her prob-
lems 'O he proceeded to enlighten
me. U*it it was difficult for a girl
writer to keep her mind on Egyptian
government when she was making
mental notes every time the servant
appeared and also endeavoring to get
a good look at the interesting hang-
ings.
Egyptian freedom one gathers is
the subject nearest to Sarny Pasha’s
heart and his wife's too. There’s
nothing he'd rather talk about. Ho
brought out many typewritten pages
bearing the statements of English
leaders who declared they never
would permanently occupy Egypt.
Statement of Envoy
“Many many years ago. 46. to he
exact.” he reminisecs. “England came
to Egypt to help a khedive put down
a rebellion. The khedive and the
rebels long since are dead but the
English still remain in our country.
We can only be patient—we are too
sm^Il to quarrel.
'^'e always ha\*e believed that
England would keep her promises
and withdraw from our soil.
I “Some years ago when Mme.
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bamy a lather was one of several of
our people who went to England to
request that the British withdraw
from Egypt even the peasants con-
tributed to a fund to pay their
passage. One old man sold his only
camel that he might do his share.
\V hen he was told his money would
not he accepted because he could ill
afford to give^ he replied ‘It is not
for you to decide whether or not I
shall contribute. I too am Egyp-
tian.’
Sarny’s Suggested Solution
“If the league.of nations were to
he reorganized and the small na-
tions made the policy determining
body and the larger rations the en-
forcing arm we small countries
should be prote ’d.’’
Samy Pasha and his wife enjoy
Washington but their hearts are in
t'airo Eejpt where Mme. Sarny’s
mother Mme. Charaoui Pasha is
one of the foremost advocates of
feminism. She and her daughters
were the first women of the upper
class to go without their veils.
The Samys arc intense patriots
and they like to tell their story to
Americans who as a rule devote
little time to study of the troubles
of the small and weak nations.
While Egyptian and English dip-
lomatic relations have been under a
severe strain bamy Pasha and his
wife have been giving some of the
most delightful official functions in
the capital and telling of their love
for Egypt to folks like nie.
Raymondville Has
New Fire Engine
(Special to The Herald)
RAYMONDVILLE. May 17.—City
Commissioner Charles Zolninger has
returned from Dallas with a triple
combination fire engine which was
I purchased hy the city of Raymond-
ville some weeks ago. The engine is
|a ninety horse power pumper with a
| capacky of five hundred gallons per
I niinu*. A representative of the
Southern Fire Apparatus company
from whom the engine was purchas-
ed. accompanied Mr. Zolninger on the I
trip from Dallas here and exhibitions i
j were made in several towns along
i the route.
The fire department will be com-
posed of volunteer firemen from the
Meuse-Argonne post American Legion
of RaymondvMle and a meeting has
been called to consider the immediate
taking over of thi* work by that or-
ganization.
QI'INTCPLE WEDD1NG
LONDON.—Five couple* were mar-
ried simultaneously in St. Georges
Church at Southwark.
W&skmgtaa
LOOKS LIKE BAl> YEAR FOR
THIRD PARTYITIS
By CHARLES P. STEWART
WASHINGON. — Third partyitis
isn't “taking." up to date this year
as well as iIt already had begun *i>
“take" at the same time four years
ago.
It not only was certain by May
1924 that the Progressives would
put a ticket into the field but Sen-
ator LaFollette the elder was recog-
nized as their presidential candidate.
There was lots of enthusiasm from
inside the movement too. For size
it was a movement that never reach-
ed the proportions its organizers
originally hoped it would but it had
plenty of pep as far as it went.
There's no united independence
sentiment now to compare with
what there was then. There's some
independent sentiment but us split
up.
• • •
There promises to be two notably
disgruntled elements loose in the
country after the Kansas City anc
Houston conventions have been helc
—the mid-western farm republican!
and the ultra-dry southern demo
crats.
Combined they might mean some
thing—not enough to win but per
haps enough to throw the president'
ial choice into congress.
Now on whom could they com
bine?
Several names are suggested bu
they’re neaerly all the names of pro
gressive or near-progressive republi
cans—ideal names for the mid-west
em republicans to compromise on
but not so nice for the southeri
democrats.
Senator Borah’s name is one often
est heard.
Borah undoubtedly would he th<
straight Progressives’ choice—th<
same progressives who voted for La
Follette in 1924.
However there aren't enough ©I
them. LaFollette found that oat
There weren't enough to elect hm
even with the help of the prettj
numerous labor vote he got—a voti
which shows no signs of being casi
for a third party candidate agaii
next November.
And the fact that he’s a dry ii
the only thing the Idaho senator ha1
to recommend him to the so ith. Witt
him Dixie’d had to swallow a lot
of republican principles it emphati
cally dislikes.
Moreover his farm record isn’l
right for the mid-west.
* • *
It's possible to imagine a mid'
western bolt from the republicans
under such a leader say. as Sen
ator Norris.
And a separate southern bolt led
for instance by Tom Heflin.
That is to say. it’s theoretirallj
possible. Practically it isn't verj
easy to imagine a couple of hndte
of voters as willing to attempt any
thing so hopeless. *
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Senator LaFollette. in 1924. wa:
able to make a pretty fair non-parti
san appeal.
Roth old-line nominations were de
cidedly more conservative than eith
er appears likely to be in June. Hi
was the only political liberal in thi
race. Such unattached ballots a
there were all were fish for his net
The current campaign's dissatis
faction will be spotty—not enougl
of it in any one section to do a can
didate much good and difficult ti
patch together crazyquiltwise.
A bolt if any bolt there is i:
likelier to be a democratic than <
republican bolt.
But the likeliest bolter is Senate
Borah.
Coupling up a republican holte
with a democratic bolt seems like si
hard a job as almost to warrant th<
prediction that it absolutely can’
be done.
HERO’S WIDOW CENTENNARIAN
Mrs. George Silker widow of *
hero of the American Civil War. anc
the Franco-Prussian war recenilj
passed her 101st birthday. With hei
husband she hawked their wares
hauled by donkey cart throukh parts
of Scotland for 40 years until Ft Ike i
died in Ayr during the World war at
the age of 97. The pair were men
tinned in Andrew McCormick's book
“The Tinkler Gypsies." althougt
neither was a tinkler or a gvps^ bu1
Silker could speak gypsy and five oth
er tongue*.
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IMlygr&nms
By PR2D C KCLLY
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POLITENESS STILL HAS A
BIG F1ELU
I went into • drug store for tne
purpose of buying e postage stamp—-
just a modest little one-cent stamp.
The clerk took my nickeU gwt f*«
cents in chauge. and said Thank
you” with as much politeness as if
the sale had netted llt-0 profit. Be-
lors leaving the store I got into «»•
venation with the proprietor and na
explained to me that showing aucjj
courtesy over the sale of a stamp did
not merely happen. It was part of
their system.
“The only reason we sell stamps
at all" said he “is to accommodate
those who come in eire—to make
them want to come again. So long
as we are going to accommodate
them why not please them just as
much ns w« can and make frienda
of them?”
It would he silly wouldnt it to
set out to accommodate somebody
and do it so discourteously as to in-
sult him?
In my native town wis a grocer
whose hobby was to oe accommodat-
ing. One afternoon a woman tele-
phoned a hurry order for aome ar-
ticles that she wanted delivered im-
mediately. as she was giving a party.
She ch. nced to mention what trouble
she was having to gat some rich
Jersey cream which she greatly de-
sired. The grocer did not sell cream
hut he dispatched his own automo
bile to • farm three or four miles
| away and got a quart of the best
cream in the county. In less th*n
an hour ha had delivered it to the
gratified woman. The nrofit on it
did not pay for the gasoline used in
bringing it in. but ha mad* not only
a lifelong customer out also an en-
thusiastic lifelong rooter.
Various public service corporations
such as gas and electric light com.
panics used to ignore complaints or
else regarded them .n a “what aro
you going to do about it." attitude.
Today every such concern has at
least one man on ita staff who draws
his salary because of bis ability to
control his temper and maintain «
calm unruffed poise in the face of
insults. He goes to persons who
make complaints or art mad at his
company and attempts to eaucate
them to the company's viewpoint.
A public service company I know
of has a habit of askii.g when any.
one comes into the office with a com-
plaint. “Would you like to see the
general manager V
It is surprising what a lot of pen.
pie will then minimise their com-
plaint. The moment the company
regards it seriously — seriously
enough to have it taken up not by a
subordinate hut by the general man-
ager himself—the disgruntled cu'.
tomer his a tendency to fee! that the
complaint isn't so important after
all.
Mow York Loftitor
NEW YORK. May 17.—Variegated
notes of a reporter covering the big-
gest beat in the world:
Frank Wilson star of the Theater
Guild production of “Porgy” is on
leave of absence from his job of
mail-carrier while appearing in tha
play. His route includes “Striver’s
Row." the Park avenue of Harlem.
Mrs. Margaret McGarvey is an of-
ficially appointed active member of
| the fire department in Bronxville
; New York suburb. “She goes to every
| fire no matter what time of night or
day rides the trucks like any of us
and asks no favors” saya her chief.
Thornton Wilder the teacher in •
! boy’s school whose novel “The
Bridge of San Luis Rey." won the
Pulitzer prize for 1928. is a friend
and admirer of Gene Tunney the
bookman and prize-fighter.
In his house Horace Liveright the
publisher and play-producer has a
bathroom done entirely in black in-
cluding the tub. In his office has a
«hower the walls of which are painted
to represent a scene at Palm Beach.
I Charles A. Lindbergh is ona of the
only 11 airmen insured by Lloyds.
A poolroom at 11 Center Market
Place only 30 feet from police head-
quarters. has been held up 11 times
in the last year.
Charlotte Mills daughter of one
of the victims in the Hall-Mills mur-
der is selling tickets in a Broadway
side-show.
Incidentally city editors of New
York papers regularly receive visits
from a man who wants to sell them
an exclusive story about his discov-
ery that Ruth Synder and Judd Gray
are alive and residing together in
New York.
I have authoritative information
that J. P. Morgan's favorite reading
matter is detective stories preferably
about robberie*. Pwight Morrow
ambassador to Mexico and former
. .
Morgan partner. ia another detective
atory fan.
Why does the Statue of Liberty
have the high cheekbones of an
American red-Indian? I am told that
in assembling the monument from
blueprints workmen got the plates
mixed and that her cheekbones are
really her original jawbones inverted.
Milk cornea into New York in gas
lined tank cars.
Return passage to Belgium for
Alfgred Loewenstein the electrical
and rayon magnate now in New
York and hia party will cost him
$20000. He has reserved a fourth of
one deck of a liner.
• • •
At a literary tea. the other day
there was. naturally talk about criti-
cism. and one of the talkers was re-
minded of a time when Henry James
(he late novelist reviewed a novel by
Gertrude Atherton. After reading
the review Mrs. Atherton wrote to
him:
“Dear Mr. James: T have read
with much pleasure your review of
my novel. Will you kindly let me
know whether you like it or not?
Sincerely.
"Gertrude Atherton”.
A lot of what passes for criticism
in the high-brow publications is like
that.
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Visitors from distant cities whose
arrival is chronicled in the local
press are subject to calls from per-
sons who profess to he from their
home towns and seek a loan to en-
able them to get hack there. Ameri-
cans traveling abroad are also vic-
timised in this manner. Tn Paris ia
London in Cairo and Berlin the
wealthy visitor is the recipient of
notes from Americans who profess to
be stranded and in need of funds.
There are enough soft-hearted un-
thinking visitors to keep such spong-
ers in ease.
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Who am I? What office ia New
York City did I hold? Whet is the
capital of my state?
Who ia Italy’s crown prince?
A certain gem is merely another
form of the same material as coal.
Can you name it?
What is the difference between an-
archism and socialism?
JIMMY JAMS
Today in the Past
On this date in 1916. the Italian
cabinet decided to broak the treaty
existing at that time between Oer
many Austria and Italy and antar
into the World war.
Today's Horoscope
Persons born under this sign usu-
ally lead in serial life. People ara
inclined to ask their advice and fol-
low their lead. In general they ex-
ercise great influence ever those who
associate with them.
A Daily Thought
“Pure friendship is something
which men of an infrrior intellect
can never taste.”—LeBruyer!.
Answers to Foregoing Questions
1. John F. Hylan; mayor of New
York City; Albany.
2. Crown Prince Umberto.
S. Diamond.
4. Anarchism denounces all fov«
ernment as evil. Socialism advocates
governmental control of all economic
activities.
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Do you carry a spare tire?
If you were starting on a long auto tour would
you carry a spare tire or trust to luck to get you
through? Life is the longest journey you will ever
take.
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A savings account is the spare tire that will
help you meet the emergencies along the road.
» You are not fully equipped without one.
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1 Start with one dollar if you wish—but START.
4% Interest Compounded Semi*
Annually Paid on Savings
First National Bank
Brownsville [Texas
“THE FRIENDLY BANK"
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