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&ijf Bnramsuflle HcralD
__ Established July 4 1892
Entered as second-class matter in the postoffice
Brownsville Texas.
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The Irrigation Problem
Within another decade the Lower Rio Grande Val-
ley will have the most highly developed and efficient
irrigation system in the United States is the predic-
tion of engineers who are maintaining close contact
with the irrigation developments.
Within the past week the Pharr-San Juan-Alam »
system has called a bond election for $3000000 to
finance a concrete ar.d pipe irrigation system and to
include drainage for the entire district. The l.a Feria
system is contemplating improvements very similar to
those proposed by the Hidalgo district. In the Mission
lection the Goodwin tract a 22.000-acre project will be
concreted throughout and the two districts which
will supply the Mission. Sharyland Jackson and Re-
tama tracts propose complete concrete systems to be
worked out as soon as organization of the districts is
completed. In the Brownsville section District No.
7 West Brownsville is plucing its entire system under
concrete and El Jardin district now completing the
most extensive drainage system in South Texas con-
templates concreting all canals where seepage is heavy.
Millions of dollars will be expended on these va-
rious projects but it will be money well invested
Millions of dollars have already been lost in operating
costs and land damage due to seepage and a condition
has been created that the districts ran not longer af-
ford to ignore. In the not far distant future land val-
ues in the Valley will reach the point where seepage
damage cannot be tolerated and it is the duty* of the
districts to take the necessary steps to prevent further
damage and at the same time reduce operation costs
and water wastage.
Development of irrigation in the Lower Rio Grande
Valley has been one of the outstanding achievements
of the past quarter of a century. The fertile soil of
the Valley has respondd to the magici touch of the
waters of the Rio Grande in a manner that has carried
the fame of the Valley to all parts of the country.
But irrigation in the Valley is still far from maximum
efficiency. Operation and water losses have been
enormous and this combined with the fact that thou-
sands of Valley farmers ha±l little experience with ir-
rigation prior to coming to the Valley has served to
create a condition that many of the ^districts are now
seeking to remedy.
Greater efficiency must be attained and water wa't-
age and land damage eliminated. It will cost the \ al-
ley irrigation interests millions of dollars to arhieve
this but the investment will pay big dividends in re-
duced operation costs enhanced production and the
promotion of more intensive cultivation of the acreage
under irrigation.
How a Big Majority Will Help
That Congressman John N". Garner who has served
the Fifteenth district for thirteen consecutive terms
will carry the district by a large majority is generally
coneeded by political observers and leaders who nre
in close contact with the situation.
However a victory for Garner is r.et sufficient.
What is needed is an overwhelming majority a ma-
jority that will in itself be ample proof that the xet-
erans congressman from Texas has the confidence of
the South Texas voter- that they are fully appre-
ciative of his value to the district .-tatc and nation
and that they nre practically unanimous in commend-
ing his work of over a quarter of a century.
Congressman Garner is today an outstanding figure
in American public life. Reg.irdlc s of whether the
national election goes republican or democratic lit
will be in position to wield tremendous influence in
the next congress and that influence will be en-
hanced if he can place before his colleagues the almost
unanimous endorsement of the democratic electorate
of the Fifteenth district.
If is very unfortunate that at this crucial period
in Valley development a fight should be carried on in
the democratic ranks to defeat the congressman who
has been so prominently identified with South Texes
progress. The Lower Right Grande Valley is right now
at the stage where power influence and prestige at
Waashington are of the greatest importance. To even
fail to give an overwhelming majority for Mr. Garner
would be unthinkable.
Voters of the Fifteenth district should bear in mind
when they go to the polls next Saturday that a vote
cast for Congressman Garner is a vote that will aid *n
developing here on the lower border one of the great-
est agricultural and industrial empires in the United
States. A vote against him will merely be used by his
adversaries in congress in their effort to detract from
the power and influence he wields. As speaker of the
house or senior minority member of the ways and
means committee one of which positions he is certain
to occupy in the next congress he will hP in position
to do more for the Valley and all of South Texas than
his opponent could do in a dozen lifetimes. As speaker
of the house a position to which he will be elected in
the event the democrats are in control he will rank
next to tfce president in power and influence *nd the
L^wer Rio Grande Valley is right now in the position
where such power and influence will prove of incalcu-
lable value.
It is of course the prerogative of every individual
to aspire to public office; but it is extremely unfor-
tunate that at this crucial period in South Texas de-
velopment an aspirant for office should endeavor in
order to gratify his own political ambitions to remove
from public life the man who has been the guiding
force at Washington in all things in which the federal
government has been or may be connected in the eco-
nomic development of the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
Loyalty to the Valley to Valley institutions anj
future progress demands that the voters of the lower
border tender Congressman John N. Garner an over-
whelming majority one that will serve to strengthen
him in hia battle for South Texas development. This
is an issue vital to the Valley an issue upon which
the future of the Valley depends and every democratic
voter should bear this in mind when he marks his
fcgllot Saturday. .
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NEW CONQUESTS OF TIME AND SPACE
(New York World).
One step swiftly follows another in the develop-
ment of television. Three years ago it was a dream
a year and a half ago when Dr. Alexanderson described
his apparatus to the American Institute of Electrical
Engineers and the work of Baird in England was re-
vealed it was a dimly comprehended marvel; a little
over a year ago when Mr. Hoover in Washington was
seen and heard in New York its practical possibility's
began to be realized. Now it has stepped out of the
laboratory and the neon ray into the sunlight; a ten-
nis player practicing on the roof of the Bell Laboratory
ia seen on an inner floor—seen as clearly as the
images in the first movies a short generation ago.
Few will now doubt that the time is now coming
when pictures and scenes of all kinds will be broad-
cast over great distances as sounds of all kinds arc
broadcast today. Men may sit in their homes seeing
and hearing plays in the illusion of the theater; may
watch and hear orators as they sway parliaments and
international assemblies; may bask in the sunlight of
Cairo while gazing at a blizzard in Montreal; my even
see history made on the battlefield. When a new Bun-
ker Hill or Gettysburg is dedicated when a coronation
is held when a Panama Canal is opened a continent
may watch it as half continent listens this summer
to Mr. Smith nd Mr. Hoover. And the device will
doubtless be a3 rich in unexpected uses as the radio
and telephon chavc been. We may have great spe-
cialists directing urgent distant operations by tele-
vision; we shall have universities reaching the mass-
' eye as they now begin to address the mass-ear; we may
! see its privnte uses develop in extraordinary ways.
Our world of airplane radio movie and wireless
telephony across the Atlantic would seem strange in-
1 deed to Abraham Lincoln. Is there any reason to be-
lieve that the world cf fifty years hence would not
seem strange to men of today? What Henry Adams
called the principle of acceleration applies peculiarly
to science and industry. “Progress” and change move
with increasing momentum. From all evidences it
would be a far smaller more intimate more public
worold than ours; the planet of today will seem by
comparison loose and full of obscure corners. But the
changes will doubtless appear as priceless to posterity
ns our recent acquisitions appear to Oa.
Tk® World amd All
By Charles P. Driacoll
THE POLES ARE PREPARING
The Polish government is sending out nine special j
i railway cars to cover every part of the country witn
instructions for the use of devices to protect Individ- i
uals against gas trd deadly chemicals in the next war. j
The ears arc constructed with airtight gas chambers
for testing masks lecture rooms where the public will
be instructed free of charge and museums of chemical
warfare.
I wish I could laugh aloud at this news and tell
you that I think the Poles are crr.r.y.
Rut I can’t.
a • • •
In thc.se piping times of peace those of us who n<|- i
mit thr.t there may ever be another war arc looked
upon as suspicious characters.
Well count n;e in among the suspicious ones.
I think the Polish government is doing a very wise
thing for Poland. The Poles have always been very '
( wise in behalf of the;r country. They have learned
J through centuries of fighting for se!f-p«e*ervation that |
j it doesn't do to let the mice build nests in the gun-bar- !
rels during a period of peace.
The Pole* look somewhat cynically upon all talk of
perpetual peace. They've heard it before. And just !
when the peace talk grew loudest and the hymns of
peace were ringing high there happened a great bat- 1
tering on Polk h front and hack doors and somebody**
[ army was said to he just passing through. Please
j don’t blame the Poles for being cynical al out perpetual
peace.
• * * •
Also the Poles do not take seriously all the treaties
ihat forbid the use of ga.- and cite mi cals in future
I wars. I hope nobody takes that anti-chemical agree-
[ ment seriously. Certainly our own vvar department
doesn’t. Our chemical warfare section is one of the I
! most active in the army. And the same conditions
j exist in other nrinie; . To pledge a nation gainst the
are of chemicals in the next war is like pledging dogs
j against using their Iceth in the next dog fight.
The Polish government is doing a sensible thing
and much bigger governments might learn something
j from the little country that is going to sn\e a few’ of
its civilians when the chemicals begin to drop out • f
the sky in the next war.
INJl'RV TO PROHIBITION FEARED IN' WET
MOV EMENT
By F. SCOTT McBRIDE.
Genera! Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League
of America.
IF. Scott McBride was horn in Carroll county
Ohio in 1872. He was graduated from Muskingum
college in 1R9R and from the Pittsburgh Theolog-
ical seminary in 1901. McBride was ordained to
the United Presbyterian ministry in 1901 and
served as pastor at Kittcnning. Pa. and Monmouth.
111. unt't 1911. He then became interested in the
dry movement and served as district superinten-
dent of the Anti-Saloon league of Illinois from 1911
to 1912 and state superintendent of Illinois from
1912 to 1924. McBride has been general superin-
tendent of the Anti-Saloon league of America
since 1924).
Any man or group of men that rely upon appeals
to the baser passions or to the appetites or to the ex-
ploitation rf the weaknesses of their fellow men can-
not hope to win a victory against opponents whose
appeal is based upon loyalty to constitutional govern-
ment and continuance o/ our unrivalled prosperity.
Prohibition rests upon the will of the overwhelming
majority of the voters who know full well that prom-
ises of repeal or modification of the law made by any
' candidate cannot be kept.
Prohibition as a political issue is as settled as 1
hla.ery duelling the lottery or any other outgrown
issue. The American people have settled it as a polit-
ical issue by writing it into the constitution and the
men who seeks to revive the liquor issue today is as
unwise politically as he would he if he sought to resus- I
citate slavery.
Congress may he taken as typical of the nution.
sin.c the member of the two houses represent the pre-
vailing sentiment of their respective constituencies.
In the present house 71 per cent of the democrats and
72 per cent of the republicans have either dry voting
records or have made dry statements concerning prohi-
bition. while in the senate 70 per cent of the demo-
crats and 76 per cent of the republicans have dry rec-
ords or have made dry pronouncements. Thia repre-
sents the proportion of prohibition sentiment in both
parties.
Mr. G. B. Shaw has een and heard himself on the
“Movietone." and is believed to have heen favorohty
' imprest—Punch.
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‘MORE BUSINESS IN GOVERNMENT’
ft0/fJjncp ^b) ALMA SIOUX
U root/Tohts 3CARBERRY
She was wonderful
CHAPTER XXI
Corinne whirled and her eyes
flashed. Janet knew she was going to
say something to Klodinc and tried
to restrain her with a look. But
Corinne tilted her little no?e and
sniffed.
“Were you seeking encourage-
ment. Miss Deslys when you stuck
your head in the barn paint?”
A good time was had by all.
Janet was too big to let such re-
marks worry her. She had heard
plenty of them at school and they
rolled off her Esther always said
like water off a roof. There was not
a petty bone in her pretty body.
Corinne was in the first number
and had to hurry. Janet kissed her
on the cheek and told her to go out
and knock 'em dead. Corinne laugh-
ed a little bitterly.
“Yea knock ’em dead carrying a
spear. Fine chance! If I had your
looks and your ability I might have i
a break. I used to think I was a
world beater.”
Janet gave her a little slap.
”^ou used to be 1 You sound as
though you had been in the business
50 years.”
Corinne bent over and whispered.
'‘I’ve never told anybody. But I’ll
be 30 next year."
Janet stepped back and looked at
her in amazement. Corinne did not |
look a day over 20. She shrugged ;
and half smiled.
"I got about five years more to go
and then I'll be a has-been!”
Janet thought about it constantly
rs she Mood in the wings watching
the excitement and waiting to see the
first number from the wings. Corinne
thirty! And how hopeless she sound-
ed. What a life for a girl with no
special ability. Why would they
stick to it? Instead of settling down
and marrying or getting into work
they could succeed at.
The curtain rose an a crowd of
-quirmingi laughing shouting little
flappers. And Corinne was the gay-
est looking of the lot. Janet watched
fascinated.
Mrs. Carter Van Arden sat in a
box with a party of friend.-. Opening
nights always thrilled her. She was
loking over the program.
Suddenly she sat up straight and
gasped. Oh. it must be just a coin-
cidence of names. "I Want to be a
French Coquette—Janet Mary James
and ensemble.”
She was thrilled. The little girl
she met on the train! Surely not.
Not so soon! She couldn't be doing
a number in a big show like “The
Farce of 192V’ She turned to her
husband.
"Why I met a child on the train by
that name when I was coming from
the south in June. She said she was
coming to New York to go on the
stage. You don't suppose it can be
she.”
Mr. Van Arden looked bored.
Opening nights were fine when you
didn’t have to take your own wife.
His eyes were glued to the flashing
legs of the chorus on the stage when
he answered her.
“Oh it doesn't take 'em long to
pick up with someone with a little
cash to buy ’em a chance.”
Mrs. Van Arden concealed her con-
tempt. How she loathed his filthy
mind. She thought of pretty litlv
Janet Jarnc.-. and tried to imagine
her paying for a chance on Hr iad-
way Not that girl! There was
something different in that preco-
cious little elf who hated subways
and had never seen one before. She
remembered Janet’s remark about
being a parson's daughter and thriv-
ing on sin. and smiled to herself.
Well if Janet played a season in this
show she ought to find plenty to
thrive on. Goldstein’s shows wcer
noted for their being made up of
breach of promise and alimony ladies
of the night clubs. Fine setting for
the parson’s daughter!
Janet's number wo* next. Ballard 1
Riley smiled to himself. He was ex- j
cited. Bless the kid! He knew how j
happy she was. And he hoped she !
would look down and see that he was
there pulling for her it was sort of a !
mean trick. He should have told her
he fully intended being there and 1
where he was going to sit. But he j
had enjoyed -tringing her along about 1
it.
Ballard wa- lot in thoughts of her
throughout the number. He scarcely j
knew what was happening on the i
stage lie wondered if she would be
as beautiful with make-up as without
it. How glad lie was she did not use
it on the street. That she gave her
own rich coloring a chance.
At that moment Janet came sail-
ing out. Mrs. Van Arden leaned
over in her box and smiled. It was
the little girl of the train! Bless
her!
Janet came out in a tight slip of
a flame-colored *ntin t.nr.g that fit
like her *km. Every curve of her
beautiful body was revealed and her
legs were bare. She wore no orna-
ment except large rhinevtone buck-
les on her French pumps.
Her eyes sparkled like jewels
Ballard Riley leaned forward in his
seat—and gave a satisfied smile. She
«*> wonderful! He had never seen
anyone look quite so French—so
daring and fascinating.
"1 want to be xe French loquctte.”
Janet seemed to be all over the
stage at once. He had never seen
so much pep. She got a hand the
moment she came out. There was
something about her personality
arid her breath-taking beauty that
got the audience at once. Broadway
lirst nighters can be kind to the
tranger in their midst if they like
them. And Janet won them with
her first smile.
Her dialect was perfect. There
were many who thought she must
be one of the girls Goldstein
brought over from Tans. She was
real Parisian!
Flodine Deslys stood in the wings
biting her lips- How she hated that
little amateur from the sticks
i That was the number she had been
promised. Darn her pretty face!
Her eyes glittered. Someday—
somehow she would find a way to
fix her. Goldstein m ght change
his mind and nut her in her place
if he liked—but she couldn’t get
away with it long.
The chorus danced out in cos-
tumes that were the replica^ of
Janet's in black. T .Hard Riley
noticed how she rut everv 6ne of
them in the background. There
wasn't a figure that could touch
hers.
Mrs. Van Arden vat with a pleased
smile on her lips. It was a good
surprise. Coming to see the open-
ing show and finding h*r little train
acquaintin' e. She must go back
stage after the show and say “hel-
lo."
Janet had to come hack and gi\'l
two encores. They were wild in
their enthusiasm. She felt as
though she had betr. on the stige
all her life. It was in her hlood—
the love of the crowds nnd their
wild applause. She went through it
nil as though she were in a dream.
A hanpv. gay dream—one it seemed
she had *!wav«i looked 4orward to.
Goldstein was back stage when she
came off. He grasped her hands and
there was enthusiasm in his voice.
“Believe me. kid. I’ve never heard
the birds out front give anyone what
they’ve giverv you. Stick with me
and watch. I’ll have 'em all at your
feet in a year.”
Janet thanked him from the bot-
tom of her heart. She wiped tears
of happiness from her eyes that
str?nked the ma’ e-up. She forgot
nH nbout the beads on her eyes
until they began »•> and she
hurried to her dressing room.
forinne was waitinT for her. with
her eves shining. There was ai
• atch in her voice as she grabbed
Janet and told her how wonderful
she had been. Janet sank into her
chair—exhausted. Flodine saunter*
ed into the dressing room writh a
cigarette in her fingers and her lips
curled. She looked at Janet with
such utter contempt that she shiv-
vered. Janet hsd a desire to ask
her what she had ever done to make
her feel that ^ay. But she thoujrbt
it better to keep quiet. Maybe Flo-
dine would get over it.
The stage doormen knocked and
pushed a box of flowers into the
room. Flodine rushed over and held
out her hand simpering. The <91
stage doorman grinned and shook
his head.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
Tk® Grab Bag
-qp-
*ho am I? What It my profes-
sion? Where waa 1 born?
The “Peace Ship” win organized
by a well known American during
the . World war who intended to “get
the boys out of the trenches by
Christmas.” What was the man's
name?
For what is the town Carrara la
Italy well known?
Name the artist who painted “The
Age of Innocence?”
“O death where is they sting? O
grave where is thy victory?” Where
does this passage appear in the
Bible?
Today in the Past
On this date in 1814 the battle
of Lundy’s Lane at Niagara Falls.
Ont. was fought.
Today's Horoscope
Persons born under this sign are
sympathetic kind and sensitive and
fire off temper on the slightest pre-
text. But their rage expends itself
in one explosion and then they are
their loving selves again. They
possess much mechanical ability
along finer lines. They are just and
fair but close in money.
A Daily Thought
"Reading is to the mind what ex-
ercise is to the body. As by the one
health is preserved strengthened
and invigorated; by the other vir-
tue (which is the health of the mind)
is kept alive cherished and con-
firmed."—Addison.
JIMMY JAMS
Shocks/ next time it«Il j
Bov choc'ut i_oi.lvpops
^>o TMAT if 1 DRoP'EM IN
THE MOD IT WON'T i
Answers to Foregoing Questions
1. Marion Talley opera singer
Kansan City. Mo.
2. Henry Ford.
8. For its marble.
4. Sir Joshua Reynolds.
5. Corinthians xv 65.
! W&slhiiiinigtani L@ftteir
By CHAKLb'S F. STKWART
WASHINGTON July 25.—The
pn.ty managers republican and demo-
cratic alike are taking the women'*
vote more seriously this campaign
than evir before.
They have wanted all they could
net oi it to be sure from the adop-
tion of the nineteenth amendment
but not with the same ardor that
they do now.
hor one thing this looks like a
close fight.
Then again women seem to be m-
cre.ingly interested in public issues.
It behooves the rival groups of bosses
each to turn this developing interest :
to its own party's account.
But more than anything else the ;
leaders made the discovery during the
recent conventions that a woman
politician can he just as good a
politician as anybody else.
Previously old-line masculinity bad i
patronizingly recognized here and
there one of the sisterhood as J
pretty fair at the game—“for a
woman.”
Today the slickest of the ”G. O. P."
rowd will take his oath that Mrs.
Mabel Welker Willebrandt is fully a*
capable at it as he is himself. His
corresponding professional in the Jef-
fersonian bunch is prepared to make
affidavit that Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross
has nothing to learn from him.
• • •
Neither Mrs. Willebrandt nor Mrs.
Ross exactly emerged from obscurity.
Both were already very well known.
Still. Mrs. Willebrandt's reputation
was not built so much on the fact
that she was an assistant U. S. at-
torney general rs on the circum-
stance that she was the first woman
to hold thst particular job.
As for Mrs. Ross—It was rather
because she was a woman ex-govern-
or than merely because she wras ex-
governor of Wyoming that she was
famed. *
• • •
It was at Kansas City that Mrs.
Willebrandt convinced the brethren
of her ability to run a steam roller
ns efficiently as any man of them all.
The credential committee's report
was the roller entrusted to her guid-
ance. Steering it ia a mighty tricky
piece of work. Provided it ia done
properly everything else goes as
smoothly as silk but no lump must
be missed which might serve as an
obstruction to proceedings later on.
Every undesired element must be
skwushed flat.
We al know whether there was or
not after Mrs. Willebrandt with that
roller had been the rounds. A spirit
level would not have indicated sn in-
equality from that time on.
It was almost too perfect. It was
monotonous. That was the only
complaint. There will not even be
any complaint of thnt if the
‘(I. O. P.” wina on November A Tarty
experts pronounced it the most re-
markable technical performance they
ever had seen.
• • •
Mrs. Ross made her record as a
nrc-convention campaigner for Alfred
E. Smith.
Not that she is not keeping it up
yet. but the started with the pri-
maries and nothing could atop her—
as the anti-Smith folks in California
who tried to and could not will tes-
tify.
Ard at Houston the delegates rec-
ognized it. by giving her a creditabl*
vice presidential vote.
It was only complimentary to be
sure. The managers hardly felt that
the time had come for a woman vire
presidential candidate yet—but in
1932?—«onv* of them are saying—
who knows?
Lots of politicians think Mrs.
Willebrandt is slated for a high place
in the administration—maybe a
cabinet post—if Hoover is our next
president.
Or—if it’s Smith—perhaps Mrs.
Ross.
Anyway the party bosses have got
a new idea of what women can do
in politics. They’ve learned a thing
or two from ex-Gov. Ross and As-
sistant Attorney General Willebrandt.
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