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Established July 4 1892
Entered as second class matter In tha Poctoffics
Brownsville. Texas.
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Kansas City Mo. interstate Building.
New York. 350 Madison Avenue.
Profits in Long Staple Cotton
The American cotton growers should seek to get
*»ay from the competition of the Oriental cotton
growers who produce short staple cotton only is the
advice of Secretary of Agriculture Jardin in hi* an-
nual report issued Saturday December 1.
The report deals exhaustively with new uses for
cotton and in summing up calls attention to the fact
that the American grower and American sp'nner are
t ot w-orking in clove co-operation.
It has been established that most American mills
require colton better than the average of the grades
and staples produced in the United States. Growers
have therefore at lea| a potential opportunity to in-
crease their income by producing cotton of a higher
spinning value. In the United States and prohably
throughout the cotton consuming world the strongest
demand ia for middling to strict middling cotton from
fifteen-sixteenths to I 1-16 inches jn length of staple
Foreign competition in the production of these lengths
is practically non existent. Clearly the American cot-
ton industry has here *n opportunity which ought not
to be neglected.
The report state* that American cotton grower*
produce a large exce«* of cotton seven-eighths of an
inch or less in length. Their output of such cotton .*
far beyond American mill requirements. In producing
excessive quantities of short-staple cotton. United States
growers are competing with growers of the shortcot-
tons of the Orient and fail to take advantage of their
ability to produce the better staples which other coun-
tries have not succeeded in growing in important com-
mercial quanitici.
The movements toward community standardization
if reducing the annual volume of short staple but this
movement has not gained sufficient headway to make a
material difference. However it has been demonstrat-
ed as the logical method to assure a greater supply of
long staple such a« the American mills require and
incidentally assure maximum profits to cotton growers.
So long a* the American growers fail to provide
sufficient long ;taple to meet the demands of American
mills and persis* in growing a short staple which goes
onto the European markets in competition with the
cottons of the Orient the growers cannot expect to de-
rive maximum profit:- from the crop.
EHucalion on C redit
Funds *o alme nearly fl.Ooo.non are loaned annually
$• 282 college and unive- itie* to student* of char
acter and ahilit; to enable them to complete their col-
lege education. In addition there are in the United
Stats more than 10“ agencies and foundations which
maintain independent loan fund* in excess of finfl.O'Ki
and hundreds of smaller community or regional organ-
isations which provide loan fund* for student*.
The American people are living in what may t«e
termed the “in tailin' r t age.” They arc accustomed to
making large purchases bv paying an initial installment
and the remainder in weekly monthly or annual pav
tnents. Hihger education is no exception lo the rule
and as an investment probably yields greater returns
than anything that can be secured on the installment
plan.
A recent survey of gtude-t loan funds by the Bureau
of Education reveals that there is no uniformity in the
manner in which loan funds arc administered to ambi-
tious students by the colleges and other student loan
agencies. Various conditions are imposed according to
the policy of the institution taking into consideration
the need of the student and the ability of his parents
to aid. locality restriction* lmpe’H hy donors and
other factors.
The study sh»w«* that »n «<*me c«se« no intere**
whatever is charged while in other- rati - run a* hign
as 8 per cent but i‘» per cent is the usual requirement
Individual loan* average $100 to flSO but many are
twice as large. Repayment usually begins at a stated
period after graduation. Funds administered by inde-
pehdent organisations sometimes are restricted to stu-
dents attending specified or affiliated college*. Some
of these funds. e*tablished years ago. have been ad-
ministered in such wav that the original amount has
been multipli « many time*.
Thousands of American students now attending the
Institutions of higher learning owe their educational
progress to the student loan funds. To counties*
thousands these funds have opened the way for success
and it is douhtful if in the entire list of what the
American public is now buying upon the installment
plan there is anything that returns greater dividends
In both money and progress than education.
It Is very evident however that the funds are in-
adequate to meet the demand. There are countle.-s
thousands of young men and women who are unable to
complete their educeiior. and hundreds of thousands
who are unable to complete high school. America with
ail her wealth can well afford to correct this condition
•—to supply ample fund* to n*«nrr every deserving
•tudent the limit of education to which he or che ma\ 1
aspire.
Oftlk®ir Pamirs
TEN YEARS V REPUBLIC
(Louisville Courier-Journal).
Without celebration but with confidence in the past
•nd hope of the. future Germany looks hack upon the
fir»t ten years of republican government. As the new
order was horn in the midst of defeat and hardships
Hs anniversary was not the occasion for jubilation
fcone the less the wisdom of the change i< established
and the argument- of the monarchist* have lost their
weight.
Up to this year it might have been questioned
whether the republic could last Until a few months
ago the champions of the monarchy all hut held the
whip hand- They constituted the strongest party in the
Kichstag. They harped about the good old days ami
Jcoked with contempt upon the bourgeoise lenders.
Flying the colors of the old empire they strutted about
the streets and in the affairs of the nation they de-
manded and received important cabinet posts.
In the general eleetions la«t spring these monarch-
|»ts wtrs unhorsed. Their reactionary tactics and vb-
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Ft ruction to forward-looking measure* were given pop-
ular disapproval. Their seats in the Reichstag as the
result of the balloting dwindled to a poor second and
the socialists were accorded the first place. No longer
is it necessary to consider the Junkers in the forma-
tion of a cabinet and they may be regarded as harm-
less malcontents.
In domestic and foreign affairs the new regime has
vindicated itself under the most trying conditions.
Germany’s house has been restored. It is a cause for
jubilation but the war and the peace that brought it
about are too near not to remember the wounds of
both. _
BELASCO
David Belasco has become a kind of legeiviary figure
in New York and in the theatrical world. I always
had the wrong idea of him before ! met him and I
think most people who have read about him harbor a
suspicion that he is a poseur seeking the limelight for
himself and his ventures.
He was sitting in a side-aisle seat in his half-dark
theater watching the construction of th» set for
’’Mima" when I met him. He is small and not very
young in years. He has a great deal of fine white hair
i His fare which b*s become familiar to most Americans
i «bo read newspapers and magazines is deeply lined.
; Hts eves are young and intelligent.
• • • •
I had been admiring the "Mima” set. It is quite the
most elaborate piece of theatrical construction that
has ever been done in preparation for a play I am sure.
( The entire stige. from the bottom of the vrehestra pit
to the ceiling above the proscenium arch has been
! made over as have the boxes into a mystifying and
' startling mechanical bell. There is a great engine
I mounted midway between floor and roof and all around
j and below and above there are motors moving fantastic
mechanical contrivances. The surface of everything is
shining steel set thick with rivets.
The detail of the thing and th* fantastic conception
of it set me wondering. I heard some of the story be-
hind the construction work from John Wallace a per-
sonal friend of Belasco who also happens to he an old
friend of mine. Belasco had studied the script of Mol-
nnr’s play for ten years off and on." Gradually the
picture of an adequate hell for the production of the
piece grew- in Belnsro’s mind. It grew until it became
this complicated mystifying arrangement of me-
chanics.
• • • •
So Belasco took me by the arm and led m* about
asking me to touch this and that to satisfy myself that
it was real machinery and would work. He told me
thnt not a single piece of the mechanism was second-
hand or would ever be any good for anything except
this play.
“And what will this scene represent?" ! asked.
“Ob. this is hell." he answered quietly.
“When you come to pay the hills" I ventured
“you’ll put the accent on the is."
Belasco is young because be doesn’t recognise age
Gossip says he is planning a production program which
includes gr*at artistic undertakings over a period of
twenty years to come. When you hear that Belasco .*
a four ftu?her put it down to the muttering* of en-
vious competitors. I think he’* a lovable old man who
respects art and beauty and is just a trifle shy.
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AIR MAIL LOSSES DECLARED NOT EXCESSIVE
P> W. IRVING GLOVER
Second Assistant Postmaster General.
(Warren Irving Glover was born at Brooklyn \.
V-. Oct. 2 1873. He was educated in the public
schools of that city and as a youth ntered the em-
ploy of a commission merchant in New York. He
continued as distributor in the woolen tiade until
130*t v. hen he oiganizrd a real estate concern. Mov- *
in§ to New Jersey he was elected a member of the
assembly of that state serving from 130ti to 1321
being speaker in 1320. He was appointed third as-
sistant postmaster general in 1321 and has been
second assistant since 1328. His home is in Engle-
wood N. J.)
Hazard from fir* to which air mail subjected is
no greater than that attendant tipon transportation of
mail by railroad and steamship.
A number of letters have been received at the post
office department urging that steps be taken to pro-
vide fire safrguards for mail containing checks se-
curities or other valuables and exprer-ing the fear
that unless something is done promptly that insurance
rates on air mail will soar to such heights as to make
the service too costly for the carrying of valuable mail.
The fear as well as the apparent propaganda on the
subject can be ascribed to the unusual amount ff pub-
licity received when Pilot Hopson crashed in Pennsyl-
vania. on October 17 and his plane wa- destroyed by
fire. It so happened that he was carrying a large ship-
ment of diamonds and considerable publicity attended
the difficulty of recovering those gems from early vis-
itors at the scene of the wreck.
The recent sinking of the Vestri*. in which 1037
sacks of mail were lost ran be cited as an amount far
larger than the * ot a I of all mail destroyed by fire dur-
ing the ten years of operation of thr air mail service.
1 might point out that in one fire just out*idc of
New York less than n year ago a moil car was destroy-
ed in which was being carried a far greater amount of
mail than has been lost in a similar manner during the
entire operation of the air mail. There are a number
of like incidents.
In response to the suggestion for providing fire
proof compartments for valuable mail I have replied
that several years ago the department conducted an
exhaustive research into the subject and that the con
clu 'on was developed that no asbestos or chemically
treated substance was available which would withstand
the terrific heat of a gasoline and oil fire sufficiently
to protect the contents from destruction.
"Om* person is struck by an automobile in thi
country every forty-two seconds" says an informative
contemporary. He must be in pretty bad shape by this
time whoever he is.—New York Evening Post.
"Germania Earning Place in History by What She
Did to Mark" reads a magazine* head 'ire But w-»
doubt if *h* ran oust < leopatra from that particular
niche—Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
A - we unric-tand it. France and Great Britain are
agreeable to any limitations proposal that will leave
France with the largest army and Great Britain with
the largest navy.—Judge.
The younger generation may h* dumber than the
older gerera'ion. hut you must admit they didn’t blow-
in fl2.0*K».noo on an election that had already Iw-en set
tied by The Literary Digest.—Washington Post.
An umbrella with teeth that grin the owner'.* sleeve
has been invented. But will it snap at anybody who
tries to steal it in a restaurant?—PuFnch. |
*
_. ALSO PITY THE POOR MALE MAN! ~
Now Y®irfe L@fttar
NEW YORK. Pec. 3. Among other
rumors swiftly rounding the news-
paper sector in New York is one
concerning a nationally known
preacher. The whispering cam-
paign - would have their listeners
iiev«* that he has never been or-
dained that he got his diploma
from a diploma mill and that a cer-
tain desk drawer in one of t’e
prominent and mo«t resperted morn-
ing rag* holds the proof!
• * #
Rv Wav of Report
A recent number of Motion Pic-
ture ( lassie contains a swell piece
'> k Wells called "Wilder end
Wilder Women" which revealed this
first rate smile: "Sim# A1 Jolson
made a wbecrack about a certain
movie star he ha* felt a great deal
like the rash individual who once
tried to stage a necking party with
a porcupine "
Another article by Sedric Rc|-
frage. who scrive^s about Hollywood
quote f ;t Guinan as chirping: * I
never took a drink in my life and
nobody can say they saw me."
Te\ns Is also listed as yelling: "I
will say that nobody can say they
saw anything wrorg pulled at a
club wh"re 1 was." Tch-tch-teh-tch!
* * *
Gentleman Too Mans Yesra
My Senior
Farewells are always somewhat
sad . . .
Ard love has heen so good -
Albeit “he” and “she.” and “they”
Have never understood!
But when we stop to reason—
Oh. the tricky traps of Fate!
Is it that you were born too soon
Or I was born too late ?
This hour weaves a subtle true*.
Bat m the days to be
Another lad will break his bread
And share the road with me . . .
Fhare th" road adventuring
I'ntler sun and moon
Anil in the arms of Youth pray God.
I may forget you soon!
Juanyta Olivette j
• • •
Revised
They were discussirg a newspaper-
man. who was inserting vicious
poke® at enemies in his rag's un-
signed column of intimate chatter.
“Now this rap” observed the
reader “is aimed it a guy he doesn't
like because that guv refused to
give hts book a good notice last
year.”
“Hmmtnm.” hmmoimed a listner.
“venom from contented rattlebrains."
* • •
James Clarke former associate ed
of McClure's has written a 70.000-
word novel in five weeks . . . The
Sentimentalists might knock their
following® dead with the very sad
storv of Corse Payton one-time
matinee idol who now climbs five
flights to practically an attic room.
W &sK mg tom L®ftft®ir
By CHARLES P. STEWART
I ___1
ONE JOINT TRIBUNAL THAT
TKOJES WORTH
WASHINGTON Dec. 3.—The trou-
ble with the international tribunals
in that their members find it so hard
to agree among themselves.
Representing different countries
earh country's group of negotiators
everlastingly jockeys for some ad-
vantage in its own people's favor
They promise not to. but they do.
Yet they could avoid it if they
tried.
• • •
We know they could. because
there is ‘one international tribunal
which does.
It is known as the International
Jo>nt « ommiasion—half American
and half Canadian. It met first in
1912. and has held two regular ses-
sions annually ever sirce. besides an
average of two or three extra ones
per twelvemonth in the same lfi
years to consider emergency dis-
putes as they arose.
It has settled a large volume-ful
of Canadian-American differences
of opinion—some pf them pretty bit-
ter—in that time.
• « •
Fti> -> as it has beer it i* safe to
sav that mighty few either of
Americans or Canadians ever heard
of the International Joint Commis-
sion.
If the commissioners when they
met. had pulled hair and squabbled
and orated and accused one an-
other of all kird« of dirty work and j
made conflicting reports to Wash- j
ington and Ottawa thus creating a I
lot. of ill-feeling thev would have j
br»*' well known all right on hoth i
sid»s of the border long ago.
Rut in all its history not a cross
word ever has been spoker at one
of the commission’s meetings.
In spite of all the rows which it i
has ended amicably ne»-er has the I
International Joint C ommissirn re-
turned anything but n unanimous
verdict one single time.
In a record like tbit—where i«
the news?
* # •
Rome long forgetten Canadian sug-
gested the joint commission at a
meeting in Denver to consider In-
ternational water rights hack in
1894.
Secretary of State Knox nnd
Jame* Rrycr. the Rritish ambassa-
dor in Washington framed up a
treaty. It sras ratified after con
*'dervble delay the commission was
<et up .and here it is doing bus-
iness to this day.
Slarence P. Clark of Evanston
(Wyo.) Fred T. Dubois of Black-
foot i Ida.) and P. J. McCumber of
Wahpeton (N. D.l are member*.
< harles A. Magrath and Sir William
Hearst both of Toronto and Henrv
A. Powell of St. John fN. B ) are
Canada's.
• * •
A dingy little suite in what is
known as the Old Lard Office build-
ing is the commission’s Washington
headquarters. There America's sec-
retary William H. Smith is always
on the joh.
(annda’s secretary f.awrenre J
Burpee presides in an equally dingy
suite. 1 suppose in Ottawa.
The commissioners are not in evi-
dence except when there is some-
thing for them to decide. When
there is they come a-running—and
the treaty permits them to deride
pretty much anything provided they
agree as they always do.
• • •
They have been settling an old
dispute.
In th» far v«st. on the American
side of the border certain farmers
complain of the fumes from the
smelter on the Canadian side.
Thr smelter folk say they cannot
ston their fumes. The farmers in-
sist.
It may look like a difficult case
to compromise hut the Interna-
tional Joint Commission will dc it.
It never fails. Either the smelter
people will be furnished with a
fumeless formula or the farmers
will he taught to like fumes.
MAN IN WAGON HURT AS
VEHICLE DEMOLISHED
(Special to The Herald 1
RAYMONDVILLE. Dec. 3.—Martin |
Costillos. age -10. was severely
bruised Sunday night when the
small wagon tn which he was riding
was smashed to pieces in a colli-
sion with an auto. The accident oc-
curred on the west road between
here and Lasara. Arthur Williams
of I.yford driver «f th* car picked
up Costillos and brought him into
town where he received medical at-
tention.
Williamr stated that his lights
were good but that he did rot -ee
the wagon in time to avoid hittirg
I it.
. .jr ’..
Who rm I? What was my maiden
name? What political distinction is
mine ?
»' ■ ' . -
What is the capital of Turkey?
Who is the governor of Hawaii?
■ 11
What volcano in Hawaii has "a
pit of eternal fire’
“The light of the body is the eye:
therefore when th:re eye is single
thy wh«le body >s full of light; hut
when thine eye is evil thy body also
is full of darkness.” Where is this
passage found in the Bible?
JIMMY JAMS
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Today in the Past __
In 1S23 on this day the Monroe
Doctrine was read to Congress in
the annua! presidential message.
Today‘e Horoscope
Persons whose birthday is today
are fond of fun if it does not inter-
fere with their business. They are
rather set in their religious opinions.
A Dally Thought
“ Money is a good servant but a
had master.”—French proverb.
Answers to Foregoing Questions
1. Lady Astor: Nancy Langhome;
first woman to sit in the British par-
liament.
?. Angora.
3. Wallace R Fxrnngton.
4. Kilauea.
5. St. Luke xii 34.
K NOWS ROTHSTEIN SLAYER
NEW YORK Dec. l.-f-Fi—Dis-
trict Attorney Banton announced
today that he knew the identity of
the two men desigrated in official
papers of the Rothstein case as John
Doe and Richard Roe. who he said
were with George McManus in a
hotel room when Arnold Rothstein
gambler was fatally shot.
HEROISM FREES DRINK
CHICAGO- Because he had saved
a man from drowning the week be-
fore. George Jackson was discharged
when arraigned for drunkenness.
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