The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 18, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 21, 1929 Page: 3 of 32
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Romans Not Allowed
To Hold Unimproved
Land By Papal Laws
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In the Seventeenth Century in
Home people were not allowed to
hold vacant land if they would not
improve it within a reasonable time
and someone else would says ihe
National Association of Real Estate
beards in its weekly story for prop-
erty owmers.
This law\ which emanated from
the Pope was apparently designed to
improve and beautify Rome and the
other towns where it was in force
us if a prospective buyer would
! to build on a site the owner
to sell it if he himself had no
tion of building.
Now however owners of real
estate can hold it as long as they
like and wait for increased values
comments the association that
quotes on this interesting phase jf
the Papal law Dr. John Henry Wig-
more professor of lawr at Northwest-
ern University Chicago. Dr. Wig-
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more has just published a three
volume book entitled “A Panorama
of the World's Legal System” the
first publication of its kind. A de-
scription of this old statute on prop-
erty improvement is contained in
the chapter on the Papal or Cannon
Legal System.
Vacant Land Statute
This system under which Cath-
olics in all parts of the world were
governed from the Vatican frowned
on the holding of vacant land. A
statute that existed in the year 1600
provided that a land owner who did
not intend to build on his ground
had to sell it to anyone desiring it
who wTould improve it.
At that time the once supreme
civil tribunal of the papal church
the Sacra Romana Rota called the
most weighty and eminent court of
the world drew up laws and ren
dered opinions on controversies for
Catholics in all parts of Europe.
And in the hundreds of tomes
that form the opinions of six cen-
turies of Rota judges is one de-
cision of John Baptist Coccinus that
reveals the manner in which the
property statute was upheld.
John Cuccinus was dean of the
rota for 28 years and was a very
learned judge. His opinions were
unusually short and numbered
about 50 a year. *
Opinion Rendered
On June 51600 Dean Coccinus
rendered an opinion in the case of
John James Ferrari who petitioned
the court for the compulsory sale
to him of a piece of land owned
by the German college. Senor Fer-
rari lost his case because the Ger-
man college replied that they also
intended to build "for the beauti-
fication of the ity to the full area
of its ground.”
But in his opinion the eminent
dean acknowledged that an owner
whose land is sought could always
set up that he “intended to build”
and that in order for the statute
to be effective a “time-limit must
be set up for such building after
the lapse of which this house may
be proceeded against according to
the form of said statute.”
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Growth On Imported Shoots
Development of an industry that
may mean millions to farmers of
the lower Rio Grande valley is be-
lieved to hinge on the ability of
plants subjected to intense artifi-
cial heat to put forth unharmed
offshoots.
Nearly 1000 shoots from date
palms in Mesopotamia gathered
by Roy W. Nixon of the bureau of
plant industry after a. six months’
study of the varieties grown there
have been planted in an experi-
mental project conducted by the
Agricultural and Mechanical college
of Texas and the United States de-
partment of agriculture. .
They were subjected to drastic
“cooking” treatment as a precau-
tion against disease and harmful
insect pests. While the high temp-
erature doubtless will kill the termi-
nal buds side buds are expected
to put forth at the base and pro-
duce offshoots as in similar experi-
ments on date palms in California.
If the project is successful the
shoots are expected to become trees
that will bear from 100 to 200
pounds of fruit annually in from
eight to 15 years. The shoots were
taken from 27 different varieties
in the hope that some if not all
will thrive under climatic condi-
tions in the lower Rio Grande Val-
ley. They were selected from re-
gions in which date palms mature
fruit in a climate somewhat similar
to that of Texas.
The Texas date area comprises
several counties extending south
and southwest from San Antonio
which are believed sufficiently free
from frost to mature fruit. All
require rain-resistant varieties and
for that reason the principal date
varieties growing in California
probably will not thrive in the bor-
der valley.
The California dates are chiefly
of the Deglect-Noor variety from
the arid regions around Tunis and
Algeria. Most of the palms are no
more than 12 years old and at pres-
ent are producing only about two
per cent of the 80000000 pounds of
dates consumed annually in the
United States.
Experiments have disclosed no in-
surmountable practical difficulty in
propagating dates along the Rio
Grande. The chief problem is to
find varieties that will ripen best in
the relatively humid autumn cli-
mate.
Sporadic plantings of seedlings
*has demonstrated that date palms
are adaptable and effr -t is be-
ing made to locate superior seed-
lings already growing in the Val-
ley. With introduction of Metosop-
otamian palms problems of irri-
gation fertilization propagation
pollination standardization breed-
ings and ripening are to e studied.
Annual Dinner of
Last Man’s Club
May Be Final Meet
ST. PAUL. July 20.—(/Ft—Three
Civil war veterans came to the
Minnesota club today for what may
be the last annual meting of the
famous Last Man's club of “B” com-
pany first Minnesota volunteers.
Encroaching feebleness of the
aged men made uncertain any future
meetings. The veterans are: John
F. Golff. St. Paul. 76. Peter O. Hall.
Atwater. 91. and Charles Lockwood
Chamberlain S. D. 87.
Centerpiece of their luncheon
table was a bottle of wine from
which the last survivor of the club
will drink a toast to his departed
comrades. This bottle has graced
every banquet table of the club for
the past 43 years and then has been
laid away again to await the time
when the last man of the Last Man’s
club shall give his final toast.
Meeting in conjunction with the
Last Man's club were eight other
survivors of the 1.023 men who
marched to war with the first Min-
nesota. But theirs was a table
apart from where the three aged
men recounted their experiences of
the War Between the States and
more particularly the battle of Bull
Run the anniversary of which has
been marked for years by their re-
union.
Roy W. Nixon (inset) federal date specialist whose search for
rain-resistant varieties in Mesopotamia may have given the Rio
Grande Valley an important new industry. A young garden of north
African date palms (above) at Mecca Ci*l.
SNYDOR MOTOR FIRM
TO OCCUPY NEW HOME
(Special to The Herald)
MISSION July 20.—E. B. Snydor
of the Snydor Motor company here
an mi mae nu bki
I announced today he is r on to move
into his new building at the corner
! of the highway and Oblate streets.
The building is 75 by 120 feet
' with an excellent display room spa-
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TEXAS TOPICS
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Taxi Downs Flyer—Sleep in
Cemetery—Famous XIT Brand
—Hunting Horses tr- In Full
Blast.
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War is tcugh: Fort Bliss builds
great house for transient officers.
. “Sunshine” of Las Cruces is
champion racing horned toad of
Texas . . . Hondo hunters get boun-
ty on 215 wolves . . . Gregg county's
bid for fame is record cucumber
crop . . . Precious Gilmore. Bastrop
negro woman got lit up when she
poured kerosene on her clothes and
struck a match.
Baron Van Wasthansen. who flew
half way round the world was
bested by an El Paso taxicab which
injured him.
When Tampa hotels were over-
crowded because of the oil boom
two men drove out the cemetery
ana slept on the ground between
tombs glistening ghost-like in the
moonlight.
Climbing a power line pole to look
for stray horses caused Bentura
Va:c-’s death when he touched a
power line.
Texas has 466395 farms the U
S. census bureau says.
Holland. Texas headlines; “Meth-
odist revival in full blast.”
Famous branding iron of Texas
pioneer ranches have been placed in
a collection at Canyon. Those in-
clude th° renowned Y-6. “sitting
rabbit.” ZXT. T-Anchor and XIT
brand of the Crpitol Syndicate.
TEACHER STEALS ALMS
NEWCASTLE. Eng.—C. W. Bor-
radale school teacher was sent to
prison for stealing an alms box.
! VALLEY SCOOT
HEADS GATHER
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Meeting Will Be Held Sun*
day For Forming New
Organization
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(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN July 20.—Scout-
masters of the Lower Rio Grande
Valley will gather on the banks of
the Arroyo Sunday afternoon at 3
o'clock to carry out plans scheduled
to come up at a previous meeting
which was postponed.
Announcement of the meeting was
made by Tom Murray Valley scout
executive.
The scoutmasters will form an or-
ganization of Valley Scouters and
will also discuss the scout camp
which is to open August 7 for ten
days.
Murray said that registrations for
the camp are already being re-
ceived and that more than 500 Val-
ley scouts are expected at the camp.
He announced that E. E. Voss
deputy regional executive will be
here next week from Dallas and will !
spend some time looking over the
work in the Valley.
; GULF GETS STATE
HIGHWAY CONTRACT
AUSTIN July 20.—</P)—The Gulf
Refining company will be awarded
the contract to furnish gasoline oil
and grease to the state highway
department during Lie next bien-
nium. Gibb Gilchrist state high-
way engineer recommended their
bid to the board of control. The
order calls for the expenditure of
about $30000.
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