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By Mall—Outside of the Rio Grand* Valleyi IS* par
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Friday April 5 1935
Valley Business Trends Upward
▼alley business Is definitely on the up and up.
Here and there of course may be found those who
feel that the slide to the bottom still continues. Here
and there are others who feel that they are having
a hard time holding their own. And others may still
be found who are etiU bound and determined that the
whole world is bound to the demnition bow-wows
and especially that particular section in which they
Uve.
To all of these classes we would say this:.
The nation over postal receipts and bank deposits
are taken as certain sure signs of business condi-
tions. No need to go into the whys and wherefores
the fact remains that these two indices are thus
accepted.
And postal receipts and bank deposits in the Val-
ley are up and going higher.
Add to these indications the fact that sales of such
index commodities as automobiles and electric re-
frigerators are also showing gams. Then add the fact
that tax payments are definitely greater than in
any of the Immediate previous years and we have the
answer of better business.
The man who says that business is not better on
the face of such sure indications as these Is Indict-
ing himself when he makes the statement. Business
is better and better for some than for others chief-
ly because some are going after R with optimism and
courage and due thought and they are reaping the
reward.
We of the Valley have ample capse for encourage-
ment Oil fields have come in and others are com-
ing in. Deep water and all that it means is assured.
Railroads have lowered rates In some instances are
going to lower them in others.
Things are due for a real honest business revival
in the Valley and one of the main things holding
such a revival back is the failure of Valley business
men to hit the sawdust trail of optimism and en-
thusiasm.
The Valley and the Centennial
The Texas Centennial committee of the Lower Rio
Grande Valley is on the job.
While the Centennial proper will be held in Dal-
las. the entire state is displaying more than a casual
Interest In the affair and side celebrations will be
held at point not far distant from this section per-
haps in the Valley itself. At any rate Houston and
Ban Antonio are scheduled to be Important links in
the state-wide celebratton. and certainly both of
these cities may be expected to lend all possible aid
to the Valley in its efforts to capitalize on the in-
flux of out of state visitors the Centennial is sure
to bring
Meeting in Mercedes Wednesday the Valley Cen-
tennial oommittee completed Its organization with
Judge J. F Carl of Edinburg as its permanent head
•nd with O C. Richardson of Brownsville named as
Cameron countv head.
The Valley must be represented at Dallas and
must be represented in a fitting and proper manner.
The Centennial is too big an affair looms too Im-
portant. for ar.y makeshift or half way representa-
tion to be considered. We must have a fitting dis-
play calling attention to the many resources and at-
tractions of this section or none at all.
Such we believe is ths idea of the Valley oom
I mlttM.' an attitude that deserves the support of aH.
We make the suggestion that the Valley com-
mittee formulate It* proposal as quickly as possible
that ample time may be left for the disagreeable but
most necessary work that of raising the money to
put over a Valley exhibit.
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A Politician It Hurt
-We now know that it has become sinful for party
organizations to accept contributions. We know
that It is especially sinful to accept contributions
when the parties who give them do or hope to do
business with the administration.**
With such lofty sarcasm does Francis Poulson.
state democratic chairman for Ohio reply to Federal-
Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins’ revelation that
the Ohio democratic machine has been collecting
•‘campaign fund contributions’* from firms which sell
supplies to the state relief administration.
You could not get a better sample of the blind
insolence of the politician. Such elegant sarcasm
about it being “especially sinful” to shake down peo-
ple who hope to do business with you!
Why. of course it is especially sinful—and anyone
but a politician can see it at a glance. How can we
hope to make our democracy work smoothly when
party leaders have such an arrogant obtuseness to the
ethics of decent government?
i 1 i
How Dust Affects Your
Health
By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of tha American Medical Association
and of Hygeia. the Health Magazine
The dust storms that have swept across the coun-
try from drouth-stricken farms in west and middle-
west have had more effect than merely reducing vast
I fields to aridity and causing housewives to shut off
their homes frantically from the grime.
Interest in these storms has also arisen from a
health standpoint since some deaths and a few cas-
ualties have been reported as a result of them.
Your body has the ability to cope satisfactorily
with small amounts of most poisons or foreign sub-
stances. It is in a sense a self-regulating mechanism.
Membranes lining nose and lungs have the power
of eliminating from the body small amounts of ex-
traneous materials that may get into them. Thus
a small amount of dust in the atmosphere for a
short period of time does not constitute an exceed-
ingly serious hazard.
• • •
In fact dust is a normal constituent of the air and
may serve some purpose as a focus for precipitation
of water vapor. It also disperses the suns ray a
For this reason the rays of the sun do not pene-
trate in many of our large cities in sufficient amount
to be useful in prevention of rickets.
What we call dust in the air is usually a mix-
ture of particles from the earth the carbon from
smoke mineral materials and also such living ma-
terial as portions of the skin seeds bacteria the
pollens of plants parts of the wings and legs and
dead bodies of insects starch fragments of hair and
pieces of material such as cotton and silk.
• • •
Much of this exposure is not very serious for the
average human being. There are of course some
persons who are especially sensitive to dusts con-
taining large amounts of pollens.
For example in August they may have extraordi-
narily severe attacks of hay fever or asthma de-
pending on the manner in which they respond to
the exposure.
The germs in the air ordinarily are not harmful
because they are not the type of germs that kill
quickly. Furthermore exposure of the ordinary germ
to sunlight and air and particularly to drying is suf-
ficient to kill It.
The germs that are dangerous are those which
pass directly from one person to another with
coughing or sneezing particularly when people are
crowded together.
I am not interested in military training from the
point of view of preparedness for war. but I am very
much interested in it as a training in discipline the
most valuable thing a young man can get. — Dr. E
M Mopkins Dartmouth president.
I think it is the effort of a person who feels su-
perior so make someone else feel Inferior. First
though you have to find someone who can be made
to feel inferior. — Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt de-
fining a “snub.’*
I find there Is great spiritual activity in the United
States. That I believe is the most hopeful sign
for the future. — The Rev. Fr. Martin C. D'Arcy
noted English philosopher.
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The World
At a Glance
BY LESLIE EICHEL
(Central Pres# Staff Writer)
NEW YORK. March 5. — No won-
der a president goes fishing!
If for a moment he ceases to play
the old political game he takes a risk
j of not being re-elected.
(That ought not to count you say.
But it does. Even a president will
give in to expediency to hold his job.
But smashing through politics and
i thinking only of the people will cause
i them to cheer and to re-elect one
you assert? Very likely—if ever it
were tried.)
What is the cause of the present
perturbation?
Ohio—fourth most populous state
in the United States.
You will recall that Federal Relief
Director Harry Hopkins seized the
state relief administration at the di-
rection of President Roosevelt. At
the same time Director Hopkins
charged with accompanying affi-
davits. that Governor Martin L
Davey's campaign committee had
“shaken down” firms and persons
selling to the relief organization.
The people of Ohio seemed to
send up three cheers when that oc-
curred. This#wrriter knows for he
was in Ohio.
There even was talk of Impeaching
the governor.
But the governor controls the
Democratic state machine—and the
legislature. He is an anti-New Deal
governor a politician who defeated
the New Deal candidate for nomi-
; nation.
Getting Into office he fired from
jobs civil service or no. all Demo-
crats who were not of his machine
One or two of his appointments were
so bad that he had to rescind them
under public protest. He then tried
to lay political hands on the relief
organization. And then is when cit-
izens of Ohio called on President
Roosevelt for aid.
But the governor has the upper
hand. The legislature at his behest
instead of Investigating the mem-
bers of his election campaign com-
| mittee who raised $96000. have be-
gun an investigation into the “ef-
ficiency of relief ”
And. using that as a springboard
the governor and his crew are deter-
mined to sink the Roosevelt ship so
‘ far as Ohio is concerned.
The most embarrassing question
the governor's crew asks is this:
I “How do democrats raise campaign
funds in other states? Does anybody
ever give to a campaign fund except
to gain by It?”
And there gentlemen lies the
; root evil of the American political
j system Perhaps in the future!
I moderate campaign funds will be
I furnished each candidate by the
1 state — and it will be a penal offense
for any person or corporation to
contribute.
Deriding Thinkers
In times of stress people are like-
ly to turn on real thinkers to turn
on people who can point a way out
and to denounce them as enemies of
: the people.
It is difficult to follow a thinker.
He points to no easy road.
Senator Norris speaks of this :
"The cry of socialism anarchy.
Communism heaped unon the heads
of those who are moved by love of
their fellow men to raise the danger
signal will not stay the disaster
which must follow unless heed is
taken."
It was not so many years ago
when those who advocated less than
a 12-hour day for workers were de-
nounced as revolutionists trying to
overthrow the government
The same epithets were hurled at
those who. 40 years ago. advocated
r i income tax for he rich.
• • •
Negro Dl itro*
Several of the larger northern
cities have grown uneasv since the
ricts in New York's negro district.
Tens of thousands of negroes were
lured north to provide a larger labor
"surplus" In big industrial cities.
Today nearly all of those negroes
are on relief lists. Their condition is
pitiful. The negro is the first to feel
an industrial depression. And he is
among the last to obtain re-employ-
ment.
Blaming the Communist is an
easy manner to dispose of the situa-
tion. but the negroes in the indus-
trial cities have not been susceptible
to Communism to any appreciable
numbers even with all their distress
and the discrimination against them.
• • •
Dissenter
Writes Clarence McConnell of
New Wilmington. Pa.:
"I have Just read vour article about
those radio debaters’. I cannot agree
with you when you say. Even the
best orator mav stale in time par-
ticularly if he has no opportunity in
♦h» rresrtim* to achieve actual ac-
complishment.
"Many people may fall away from
% leader because he fails to accom-
plish everything in a short time.
Being a farm laborer. I fully realise
the wisdom of patience born in my
experience of sowing seed and pa-
tiently caring for the little shoots ...
I am not a Catholic yet just a few
da vs ago I sent to the Rev Coughlin
my application for membership in
the National Union for Society Jus-
tice.
"The Rev Coughlin. Senators
Borah. Norris and La Follette and
some others are men of vision . . .
and as a consequence are hated bf
fhe at tte swampland.**
News
Behind the
News
Capital and world gossip events
and personalities in and out ot
the news written by a group of
fearless snd Informed newspaper-
men of Washington and New York.
This column Is published by The
Herald as a news feature. Opinions
expressed are those of the writers as
individuals and should not be in-
terpreted as reflecting the editorial
policy of this newspaper.
WASHINGTON
By George Durno
Wounds—Enough dirt lias been
aioot with the later stages ol the
scrap over President Roosevelts
$4800000000 bill to take a steam
shovel oil the rebel roils.
New Dealers are muttering that
the power interests came within an
mch ol wrecking the new work-
itbel program. Further they rankle
under what they charge was an
adroit eliort to set Comptroller
General John R. McCarl up as the
real czar ol pubbc works rather
than Mr. Roosevelt.
On the other hand conservatives
will tell you that once the White
House gets its hands on the huge
.-.urn millions ol dollars will be spent
to buy up electric plants and gas
plants—thus putting the govern-
ment lurcher into competition with
private enterprise but riot furnish-
ing work lor the unemployed. They
say FDR by remote control from
the Astor yacht and Secretary ol
Interior Ickes here in Washington
usurped the legislative functions ol
congress in preventing passage ol
the original conference agreement
on the measure.
Lasting wounds that will man-
ifest themselves in next year's
presidential campaign have been
inflicted.
* * •
Labor—Senator Joseph T Robin-
son of Arkansas as majority leader
oi the senate and Senator Carter
Glass of Virginia as leader of the
senate conferees on the wo k-relief
bill touched all around the real
Lvues in their floor debate yet both
cautiously avoided getting down to
underlying fundamentals.
But it is apparent the "Joker”
season has arrived on Capitol Hill.
“Jokers” are innocent phrases writ-
ten into bills which later explode
under the unsuspecting side of tne
fight.
Admmlstratlonltes regard that
provision requiring that one-third
of all money spent on non-federai
projects rural electrification and
slum clearance go for "direct labor”
as a "Joker” of the foulest order.
Here's why:
• • •
Crux— Senator Glass speaking
for the administration opposition
said "direct labor” did not alone
mean men actually working on the
site of a project but could include
indirect employment which accrued
from manufacture of materials
equipment and transportation.
The catch was — and Glass had
an advance ruling on the subject
from Comptroller General McCarl
—that materials and equipment
would not be counted unless they
were specifically ordered and manu-
factured for a given project. Mach-
inery. tools cement etc. from stock
would NOT be given credit for hav-
ing created any indirect employment.
Thus. McCarl would have been in
a position to hold up any works pro-
ject until he satisfied himself that
enough picks and shovels had been
specifically and freshlv manufac-
tured for a particular project to pro-
vide the necessary balance of one-
third "direct labor.” It would have
been within the Comptroller Oen-
ernl's province to withhold money
for millions of dollars worth of
worthy projects say the New Deal-
ers.
• • •
Backstage — In the privacy of
their offices administration officials
charge the utilities interests had a
large part in trying to put this one
over.
Whether true or not Glass vehe-
mently asserted that unless the “di-
rect labor” safeguard was written
into the bill it would not be long
before the White House was divert-
ing large sums of the $4880000000
to buy up and operate power plants
under the guise of rural electrifica-
tion. He said this wouldn't take men
off the relief rolls as the bill was
designed to do.
There you have the two sides of
the backstage argument. One aide
claims the gc%vmment Is trying to
go into the power business by the
back door. The other alleges a fast
one nearly slipped by which would
have taken control of public works
out of President Roosevelt's hands.
• • •
Snag— There may be percussions
in New Deal c>$ridors from the su-
preme court's decision on the Rock
Island loan case.
When the high court held that
under section 77 of the Bankruptcy
law a federal court can prevent sale
of collateral held against defaulted
loans of a railroad — because it
might interefere with organization
plans — there are those who wonder
how the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation may be affected in the
future. The RFC holds plenty of
railroad collateral.
The RFC is one of the Important
factors in aiding business through
government loans. Its resources are
supposed to be liquid and constitute
a revolving fund. Being a corpora-
Sally’s Sallies
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tion in every sense of the word ac-
cording to the court s decision RFC
has no more right to sell collateral
pasted by carriers in process of re-
organization than the banks of New
York and Chicago.
• • •
Tributes — Monuments to Thom-
as Jefferson and Grover Cleveland
are to be erected In Washington.
Thus far Jefferson has been totally
neglected in the national capital
The tentative site for hia monument
is the apex of the famous Triangle
containing new public buildings.
This apex lies between executive de-
partments and the Capitol facing
the new Union Square — a con-
spicuous and natural site.
The spot for Cleveland’s monu
ment or statue has not yet been de-
signated. It will be on a more mod-
est scale than the Jefferson sculp-
ture.
Theodore Roosevelt Island. In the
Potomac near the Arlington Bridget
has been partly cleared of under-
| brush but no action has yet been
1 taken toward construction of a
I memorial. .
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CHAPTER JLIX
1TERA DUCHENE whirled re
» gardtng MUllceot with eyee that
were suddenly cold bard and d-
elously vengeful.
"What are you doing snooping
around here?” she asked.
Millicent said “I wasn’t snoop
in*. 1 came to warn you of some
thing."
"Well what waa it?"
"This isn't going »o be an ordi
nary Investigation." Millicent said
There are elements involved which
are going to cause trouble. If you
didn’t get In until a late hour thif
morning ae you started to say
you'd better tell the police so now
because otherwise tboy’M check up
on you."
"And what makes yew think i
didn't get In until this morning?*
“Because you started to say so
down there at the tnble."
"And you came al* the wa# up
here lust to teU me that?”
-Yes"
“Baloney f*
-All right Why did I come ur
here*" Mllliceht demanded angrily
"You came up here to snoop be
cause Jarvis Happ has been sus
piclou** of me ever since 1 started
to work for bis wife Go beck and
tell him that hla spying didn’t
work."
"Don’t be too certain It didn't
work." Millicent said.
And with that she turned around
end banged the door angrily behind
her.
She ran down the corridor and
■ought her own room trying to
analyse her conflicting emotions
Had sbs really gone to the room
to spy on Vera Ducbene?
Suddenly she realized that she
had She was suspicions of Vera
Duchene. had been from the mo-
ment ahe bad seen her.
Vera Duchene had been out the
night before. She had returned
early in the morning. She. then
must have been the one who bad
driven the sedan Millicent bad eo
countered when leaving Peldings
room. Had she also been the one
who led Harry Pelding on the chase
which ended in bis death?
Was Vera Ducbene the woman Id
the black ermine coat?
• a a
II f ILLICENT could not of course.
^ be certain hut she did know
that the form and figure of Vera
Duchene were similar to the form
and figure of the woman who had
worn the black ermine and the
single swift glimpse Millicent had !
had «te woman Jm ate Ian soom j
i
bad snows n«x a coin gray eya—
scheming. bar<l. waxy and waichlui
Vera Ducbenc a aya could wal.
bava taken on such an expression
Milllcent. berselt had seen those
eyes change. They oad been tlileu
with alluring Invitation when they
rested upon the officer Then later
when Milllcent nad entered oar
room and bad glimpsed wbat ap
pareotly waa a black ermine coat
Vera Ducbena waa flinging 1c the
closet tbe eyes bad become cold
hard glittering and vengeful.
Milllcent determined that she
would keep Vera Dncbeoe In mind
and would pay closer attention tc
her comlnra and goings.
There waa a discreet knock at
'be door
“Who is K?" Milllcent asked.
“Wlntoo. the butler” said s
mournful votes.
She opened the door.
Tbe butler stood to wooden
faced dignity upon the threshold.
“The master would tike to drve '
yon report to him In bis stady." a*
said. “And did you bear about tbe
murder?”
She smiled np into his profession
ally lugubrious countenance and
said. “I understand that the chanf
four was killed by bandits."
“Hs might have been killed by
bandits.** the butler said "and then
again be might not You see. b*
must have borrowed Master
Robert's ear. run out of gasoline
and walked borne bat the police
can’t And the keys to the ear.
“Master Robert Is careless about
bis keys at times. He left all of
his keys In tbe car—not only the
keys to the car. but the keys be
carries to the boase and the ga-
rage."
“Well?" asked Mllliceot.
"If Harry Pelding bad left the
car and locked It. where the police
found It. he'd naturally have left
the keys In his pocket"
“Perhaps he pul them some place
when be got to bis room." Millicent
said.
“I beg your pardon but that's
impossible." the butler said with
mourhfui cadence. “Hs was killed
mst as he entered tbe room. Some
one either bad been lying In wait
for him or bad been robbing the
place and was surprised."
"Well" Mllliceot said "you'll
bavs to excuse me. It's nothing I
can speculate about If Mr Happ
wants me. I must go at once."
• • •
n EI.UCTANTLY the butler turned
** away. After he bad gone a few
steps he paused and said. "Did the
police question you?"
"They wanted to know where I
was last night" she said.
Moved by some sudden insplra
tlon. Milllcent went on rapidly.
"Were there visitors in tbe house
last night Wlnton?"
He hesitated a moment then
stepped nearer lowered bis voice
and almost whisper* . "Mrs Happ
had a woman visitor last night"
"Did you see how she was
dressed?"
“I'm sura I couldn't ted yon
that 8ha wore a bluck fax ooat
That waa all 1 saw."
“An ermine coat?"
"I don’t know lost wbat you'd
call it I happened to ha passing
Mrs. Happ’s suit# and I beard
voices. I thought she’d called to
me so I knocked on the door and
opei>ed it a crack. A woman a as
standing there wearing a Mack
about dot ears i dldn t a— maw
more Mra Happ called to me to a
■sharp voice to done the door and
get away from there.”
"Does Mra Happ have a black fur
coatT"
“No. ma'am. Her fur coat la a
brown mink 1 believe And thea
she naa a while for coat—it's Rus-
sian ermine 1 think."
Mill leant made a mental note
that the outler knew more about
this woman tn the olack ermlaa
coat than oe bad told bar.
She walked rapidly down tbs
hall to Mr Happ's study knocked
at the door ana. In response to hit
“Gome tn." opened the door tod
entered the room.
Jarvis Happ. looking very grave
was seared at bis desk. He nodded
and eald “Sit down. Mlllioent I
want to ask yon eotne qoesttooA*
• • •
CHE dropped Into the chair sad*
denly feeling that peculiar
psychic oommotion which Jarvis -
Happ's magnotlc personality end W
keen pterin* eyes always caused.
"Dick Gentry was In your room
last night.” be said.
She flushed and started to mates
an Indignant denial.
"No. no." be said "don't mtsum-
derstand ms. 1 mean be accotm
rmiled you to your door with lbs
vu It rose."
“Oh. yes."
"What did he say ad that timer*
"How do you meant"
"Ton know what 1 mean." be told
her. with gentle but Arm insistence
"He told you something he didn't
want me to hear "
"What makes yon think that?"
"Peewits of the loo** on his taee
when he left this room. Because
of the look on hit face when he
emerged from tout room. *
"Perhaps.” she said “ft was ea»
fldential."
"Too shouldn’t keep aecrsts from
votrr employer "
"Perhaps It was one of those prop
ostrtons a man sometimes makes to
a woman a proposition be doesn’t
mean exactly hut which Us bolds
out as a glittering promise Hoc tbs
purpose of securing some term
porary advantage.*
"Such as*" Happ asked.
"Need yon ask*"
"Tes." he said “because 1 think
this was an advantage that had
something to do with ms person-
al! v *
"1 gathered* ah* said slowly.
"that there was something In tbs
books he was afraid of. After afl
Mr Happ Pm working for yon and 4
! should be loyal to yon. I didn't
want to make the accusation *t.
rectly. »mt wince yon've asked mu
Pve told you *
He got to his feet nodded and
said. “Tome on. we’re going down
and take a look at those books
rlrht now They’re In your room!**
Fortunately she did not haee to
answer the question. Happ acted ns
the assumption that they were. He
led the way down the corridor.
She opened the door of her roook
"Tn the closet*" he asked her.
She nodded dumbly
Happ opened the door of the
closet stood there looking about
him In frowning concentration.
"I don’t sea any suitcase hern*
be said.
She peered oyer hta shoulder.
The dummy suitcase had
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