El Heraldo De Brownsville (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 6, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 10, 1935 Page: 4 of 8
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(the Bnramsuule IkmlD
Established Inly L 1X92 4 Daily
by I mm G Wheels
J M. STUN . Publisher
RALPH L BUELL . Editor
Published every afternoon (except Saturday) and
Sunday morning Entered as second-class matter In
the Postoffice. Brownsville. Texas.
THE BROWNSVILLE HERALD
PUBLISHING COMPANY
1263 Adams 8t_ Brownsville. Texas
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tbs Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the
use of for publication of all news dispatches credited
to ft or not otherwise credited in this paper and
also the local news published herein.
TEXAS DAILY PRESS LEAGUE
National Advertising Representative
Oailaa. Texas 512 Mercantile Bank eidg..
Kansas City. Mo MU Interstate Bldg.
Chicago ill. 180 N Michigan Are..
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New York. N Y . 60 East 42nd Street
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San Francisco Calif. 155 San some 8t.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
By carrier—In Brownsville and all Rio Grand* Valley dues
ISe a week. 75c a month
a MaU—In The Rio Orande Valley in advance: on* year
: eta months. 83.75; 3 months. 82
By Mall—Outside of the Rio Grand* Valley: 75* per
gORth; MOO per year. 6 months. 84 50
Wednesday July 10 1935
Potato Growers Cooperate
Eastern Shore of Virginia potatoes are on the mar-
ket and the growers of Virginia are making a valiant
effort to maintain a minimum price of $2.00 per 100
for their crop. Just as the farmers of the Rio Grande
Valley have done on occasion growers of Virginia
last week stopped all digging and picketed roads and
shipping sheds In an effort to force an absolute
■hipping holiday. Their efforts were successful and
€ny potatoes that moved moved at a price of $2.00
lb the grower.
The fly in the Eastern Shore ointment as the case
with so many farm districts when price Is involved
flew to their parts from away up in Maine The old
crop of Maine potatoes was still coming on the mar-
ket and coming on at a price of only 10c a barrel
at the farm or at the rate of $25 a car. What hap-
pened to the potato market when these 10c a barrel
potatoes hit is easy for any Valley grower to under-
stand. The bottom dropped out. and It was Impos-
sible for the $2.00 a 100 pound price to be maintained.
Virginia growers figured that this sort of condition
was not right and also figured that they had the
remedy in their own hands. Very promptly they
met and dispatched a telegram to Aroostook County.
Maine growers. In which the situation was succinct-
ly set forth.
Further the Virginal growers pointed out that their
section was a good customer for Maine seed potatoes
and that — if Maine did not stop shipping potatoes
at this ruinous price — a bovcott on Mnine seed po-
tatoes would be just about the easiest thing In the
world to work up.
The horse sense of Maine farmers being up to the
New England average. In Just a very short time a
telegram was sent from Aroostook county to the Vlr-
*glnia potato growers in which the Maine growers
agreed most graciously that shipments of potatoes
from their state should and would stop.
Thus far cooperation between the potato growers
of Virginia and Maine brought about maybe a forc-
ed cooperation but a real cooperation nevertheless.
Virginia potato growers expect to continue to receive
a fair price for their crop of new potatoes: Maine
growers have hopes of getting a better price for their
old potatoes after the Virginia crop Is out of the
way and have further anticipations of a continued
good business In seed potatoes with Virginia.
If there be those who rise to remark that Vir-
ginia had to threaten chastisement on Maine be-
for Maine would be good let it be remembered that
the operation bids fair to react to the benefit of
Maine as well as Virginia.
Cooperation among growers is possible even pos-
sible between growers as far apart In miles as are
those of Virginia and Maine
Great Chance For Youth
Establishment of the National Youth Administra-
tion aeems to mark the inauguration of another of
* those Jobs which If handled properly could be of
Immense service to the nation—and which if the
proper leadership is lacking. can swiftly decline
Into Just another well-meant but fruitless bit of of-
ficial boon-doggling.
With the alms of the project no one can quar-
rel. It la planned to utilize the enormous poten-
tialities of American young men and women—to see
that they get the training they need to provide re-
creational facilities for them to make Jobs so that
they can at least partially support themselves and
to hunt for proper openings for them in private in-
dustry.
A national advisory board is to co-operate with the
state and city boards throughout the country to
achieve these ends. Much will depend on the way
these boards do their work. They have an oppor-
tunity to be of Immense service. Let us hope that
they work with the efficiency and intelligence need-
ed to put over a program of this kind.
Improving On Nature?
Those great stone faces which sculptors are carv-
ing on the rocky peaks of various mountains about
the country provoked some heated argument at the
recent national conference cm state parks held to
Skyland. Va.
Gutzon Borglum sculptor who is carving the giant
memorial on the face of Mount Rush more to the
Dakota Black Hills said that such monuments were
an integral part of natural scenic beauty. And then
up rose Tom Wallace editor of the Louisville Times
to declare that such projects are In the very nature
of things horrible.
"All such things are an outrage” he declared.
"They don't belong anyway.*
This gentleman seems to have voiced a thought that
has occurred to more than one citizen in recent
years. There is something permanent and Ines-
capable about these gigantic memorials to living
rock. You cant escape seeing them and if you
don't happen to like them there is nothing much
you can do about it.
And that fact is perhaps an indication that we
should go slowly in ordering any more of these
mountain sculptures.
Give F^pt Same Care
You Devote to Hands
By OR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor. Journal of the Amertcti Medical Aaodattn.
and of Bneia. 11m Health MtftriM
The same care you take of your hands should be
extended to our feet. Unfortunately however the
vanity that is in most people allows only for the ap-
pearance of their shoes and stops short of the com-
fort and health of their feet.
Yet there is plenty of evidence that suitable ex-
ercises and proper care of the feet not to mention
properly fitting shoes will add greatly to the comfort
and satisfaction of ordinary living.
Shoes that do not fit well tend to leave an impres-
sion on the feet in the shape of a corn a bunion a
broken arch or lust painful tired feet.
To prevent such failure of the feet therefore you
should first see that you select shoes of the right
size then that they do not hold the feet In »n awk-
ward position and finally that the toes are suffi-
ciently broad the heel* sufficiently low and the
arches properly reinforced to render the feet suitable
for their chief purpose in life. That is to bear the
weight of the body and to permit satisfactory walking
• • •
Unfortunately too many shoe manufacturers offer
for sale what they call “health shoes" which prob-
ably are built along the right lines but which pre-
sent such a clumsy appearance that few people who
require them can be induced to wear them.
On the other hand many manufacturers now make
sh »es on good lasts which are correct in shape and
form and which also have a nice appearance.
But to combat the vanity that causes people all
sorts of foot trouble. It is reported that a popular
"hpalcr'’ of the day "cures” the feet of such per-
sons by prescribing shoes that are a half size longer
and wider than those his clients have been wearing
I do not know of any pain that Is so fatiguing: and
distressing as the pain of uncomfortable feet. The
best relief for that pain is to get shoes that are right.
Further to relieve the pain from the misfit shoes
try elevating the feet long enough to permit the force
of gravity to lessen the amount of blood and swell-
ing In them.
Another good remedy Is the use of alternate hot
and cold baths of a few minutes each. These baths
tend to stimulate the circulation and to add tone to
the tissues.
American diplomacy always carries with It an en-
gaging smile frankness directness and efficiency
which is very refreshing. —Nicolas Titulescu Rouman-
ian foreign minister.
Man has from the beginning thought very well
of himself —Dr. William A. White Washington hos-
pital superintendent
It Is high time that every human being should
inquire where the world Is going.—Secretary of State
Cordell Hull.
SCOTT’S SCRAPBOOK.By R.
. Scott
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expnaMd at* tboee of the writer* ae
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terproted a* reflecting the editorial
policy of
WASHINGTON
By Rat Tucker
Tactic* — President Roosevelt
has shifted his style In dealing with
congress. The holding company
haymaker taught him a lesson. He
Is nudging instead of driving the
legislators.
Mr. Roosevelt In consulting the
boys on the taxation measure In-
stead of handing them the finished
product. He has put It up to con-
gress to fix the rates — with the
advice and counsel of Treasury
statisticians and counsel of course.
Secretary Morgenthau Is leaning
backward. He has a legislative con-
tact man — “Cy" Upham — but he
acts as a good will ambassador ra-
ther than a lobbyist. “Hank” and
“Cy" won t pull any rough stuff on
their bill.
The right-about-face may have
come too late. Congress knows the
sting of Its punch. It may swing
again with bonus and inflationary
feints.
• • •
Guarantors — Great Britain Is
severely taxing President Roose-
velt's friendliness and foreign pol-
icies. Some canny diplomats sus-
pect that John Bull seeks to place
Uncle Sam on the spot.
Mr. Roosevelt has frequently en-
unciated his “good neighbor” pur-
poses He has professed a desire to
cast this country's great Influence
on the side of world peace. At the
same time the underlying motif of
American foreign policy has been
that the United States should mind
its own business — non-interven-
tion on the Western Hemisphere
non-entanglement In Europe's af-
fairs.
Now Downing Street asks us to
underwrite British efforts to check
Mussolini In Ethiopia and Japan in
China. In other words to beard t! •
worlds two most militaristic na-
tions in two distant spheres of ac-
tion. Not a chance!
• • •
Gobs — Take it from Carl Vinson
good-natured Georgia chairman of
the House Naval Affairs committee
—there’s nothing wrong with the
fleet.
When official and unofficial ex-
perts reported that the Pacific man-
euvers revealed shocking seaman-
ship and sour shooting. Chairman
Vinson had a private confab with
Admiral Standley Chief %f Opera-
tions. The gold-braider assured
him the reports were all wet —
appropriately. Nevertheless the
high command has introduced re-
forms. Ship competitions in firing
are out because the crews become so
over-wrought that they couldn't
shoot straight. They were like bat-
ters trying to knock the seams off
the ball when they ought to bunt.
The gold-braider made another
discovery. The sailors used to smack
the bull's-eye regularly when they
trained to the glassy seas off Guan-
tanamo and the Panama Canal.
They weren't so good in the choppy
Arctic waters. Hereafter they’ll
train under conditions approximat-
ing actual warfare. Otherwise the
navy's shipshape.
Desnetede — The United 8tatee
Tariff Commission has been sunk
almost without a trace. This great
experiment in scientific tariff-mak-
ing has become only a factfinding
i agency for the State Department.
The NRA scrapping chipped off a
lot of its power for the Blue Eaglets
used to call upon it for aid in revis-
ing duties affected by rising code
prices and wages. Similar authority
originally contained in the AAA
amendments has been eliminated by
the Senate Agricultural Committee
Mr Roosevelt has no intention of
utilizing the flexible clause of the
Tariff Act. and that further limits
the commission’s duties.
Secretary Hull is handling all tar-
iff negotiations. The commission
has one member on a seven-man
board which advises the State De-
partment in making reciprocal
agreements But Mr. Hull has the
final say — as usual.
• • •
Serenity — Vice-President Gar-
ner has a new nickname. They
used to call him “Cactus Jack" in
the house. Now they call him ‘ Sies-
ta Jack "
The new monicker is meant to be
complimentary. It is a tribute to his
unruffled temperament. The sen-
ate knows that Mr. Garner is one of
the president's closest advisers. No
vice-president since Tom Marshall
has wielded more backstage influ-
ence than the rosy-faced Texan.
But upsets don't disturb him. He
keeps his head when professional
New Dealers are up in the clouds.
Although he went down the line for
the White House on the holding
company measure the setback in
the house did not bother him It
was part of the legislative day’s
work. Within IS minutes he was
snoring on the divan in his senate
office. He naps there every after-
noon. rain or shine defeat or vic-
tory. Thafs why they dub him
“Siesta Jack."
• • e
Forgotten — Polished goateed
Jim Emery of the National Associ-
ation of Manufacturers has stolen
a sheaf of leaves from the New Deal
book. Instead of whining over the
effectiveness of the administration*■
publicity machine he has copied it.
Hie NAM established its own
newspaper service several months
ago — some*\at timidly. To 4000
weeklies and dallies it sent editori-
als news dispatches and feature
stories which set forth the conserva-
tive reaction to Mr. Roosevelt’s poli-
cies. The response amased even the
optimistic Mr. finery. Mane them
50 per cent did an Oliver Twist.
The latest release was an excerpt
from William Graham Sumner’s
apostrophe of “The Forgotten Man”
whom Mr. Roosevelt exalted two
years ago. According to the NAM
propagandists the country is full
of “forgotten men" if you accept
Sumner’s definition: “If you do any-
thin* for the Forgotten Man. you
must secure him earnings
savings. Yen must legislate for tbs
TUBBY OAfla.
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■ow ob ob wrra thb mat
CHAPTER U
10 did Bot rwItM bo til afterward
* (Bat she Bad Bra bad valkad
Cor boon bloat tba cam pa* paths
that atgbt They had walked tor
the moot part ta silence. for there
were ao word* adequate to expraaa
their feel Inga Both bad looked
forward to thla leaf otfht together
aad they bad planned to aae It tor
arranging that tangle week at
PI arid Beach. Neither had talked
vary mack about the proposed
days together at the beach resort
for they were earing It aa some
thing to tahe away the hart at tear
tag each other oa this last week of
tchooL Although Bret would bare
life guard duties at Placid Beach
they had planned morning* to
gather dreaming on the white
tends; and they would barn had
the evenings dancing to the
rhythms of the beat orchestra la
the whole state
Bat suddenly that magic weak
1a midsummer waa gone If Jo
toand a lob she would be aallkely
to get time off rery soon—and seen
if the were successful la obtaining
« week’s tears she couldn't afford
Placid Beach.
80 she walked beside the silent
Bret wishing they could forget
Placid Beach; wishing. Indeed
they had never planned to be to
gather there. Once or twice the
attempted some gay. trrelerant
comment enlcnlated to stir their
moods Into something lighter—bat
it was no nsa Her mind was too
filled with oorJlcttng thoughts
with half-formed plans tor tomor
row with a haunting regret at
tearing Bret Pan) and thla plana
eat campus ao finally.
And wren after their long walk
and she bad tort Bret with the
promise the would see him before
ne left for Placid Beach the could
not sleep She tossed fitfully all
through the night and once Tubby
earns aoztoisly to the side at Jo's
bed to sah if she were ttL
alarm dock which Jo had
(or d:M never bad the
ehaaca to gat la Ita insistent signal
tor shortly after six she reached
oat and pressed the little lever
down to "silent* A moment later
she arose wearily and sought the
shower. The trtrid needles of
spray revived her somewhat and
oy the time she bad donned aer
Jaunty tweed salt Mae hat and e
pair et sensible brogues she tali
Jo’« oyos toU horn glad «A« mm Afff Ard W
more ready to do kettle ftll Mm
world.
Just low to to about attacking
the world—which happened to be
extremely lethargic at that hour of
the morning—Jo Darien had not
the slightest idea. *1 suppose." ebe
thought "that yon buy a paper and
look at the *want ads.’ *
She remembered euddenly that
thle would be the last day the
sorority house would be open. 8he
would bare to and a new abode
and after a moment’s study abe re
membered the Fendale apartments
Jo and her mother had stayed there
on previous visits trots Weston
rha kltcbenst apartments ware
small but reasonable Hastily Jo
grabbed a pencil and aerlbbled a
nota for Tubby:
"Please have my trunk and
bags tent to tba Pendale apart-
ments and IT) expect a visit
from you before yon finally
get packed and oat of town!
I’m off after that Job Wish
me luck!—Jo.*
After a last look In the mirror
she harried oat of the bouse and
down toward the University Inn
Thera over a meager breakfast of
orange Juice toast and coffee she
scanned the newspaper column*
needed "Help Wanted: Female."
Borrowing a pencil from the sleepy
♦yed yonng man behind tht counter
she marked the advertisements
which seemed within the realm of
poaelbtllty and la another five
minatea the was on n street ear
beadod down town.
• • •
gOT at noon ih« n( at another
counter. to a section of the cltr
wholly aofaaiillar to bar: and aba
bad to aoafaoa that moat of bar
jaunt Inesa waa goua. Her troubled
sleepless eight waa beginning to
tall oa bar a little; hot wbat bad
really taken the wind from bar
salle waa the variety of reaaona
aba bad beard aa to wby Jo Darien
shouldn't be hired.
"Ton have no eaperlaaee la this
type of work.”
"We don't like college glrla; they
think they know too much.”
The boaa llkaa all the glrla to
ha brunet a not blonde.”
"Wa ve Inst hired all wa need."
4nd those ware only a few of the
reaaona aha'd beard at one place
the trouble had bean that Jo waa
too pretty "a good-looking girl
doeant attend to business." the
manager of the place bad told her
looking at Jo appreciatively.
”1 assure yea I'm no flirt" aald
Ja
"That may be Mine Darien Bat
a lot of males are—and that's
where the trouble comas In."
and that afternoon aba aneoun
terad once again all the objections
of the morning with • few new
oaea thrown la for good measure
at 4 e'eloeh ner list and her pa
1 lance utterly esiaakted. she
climbed Into a taxi and gave the
driver the address of tbs Vnodaie
a taxi was a iniory aha sbonM
hove avoided now and Jo realised
thin without earing. She waa too
tired to ear* la too aborts*! poe-
■tblo dm# obo selected a day reaa
opart me at and paid a week's road
to advance.
*1007 baggage oamo thlo mor»
lag Min Darien." tbo manage*
told her. “Do yoa want It ooat op
now?“
“Not aow thank yoa. n» la*o»
phono down.*
One# taatdo tbo dart aad aaaP
traction IttUo room that »a» bow
bor homo Jo poliod down tbo told*
tat ood from be&iod It* biding
piaca and slept dh* slept aa a
woman doad oatli almost t o clock
and «b# would bav* «iept ooyead
that If tbs ringing of tbs room Mb
epbons hadn't awakened her
It was ftibby. on tbs dsak tslo
pbons downstaira
“How about a mov1aT“ ahs asked.
"Oh. rnbby ... t m too tired.
Besides I haven't yet salon.*
-Just stay there then." said
rubby "and 111 scars np a lanek
and bring It up. 1 Imagine you’re
all in."
“There not half strong enough
for tt Tubby. Just bring mo a
sandwich.”
SOS
OUT a sandwich bad never been
1 D Tubby • Idea of a lunch Whan
sba arrived at Jo's door she bad
two large paper bag* containing
not fust a sandwich but several
sandwiches lo many varieties Not
to monttoo a iar of mayonnaise. a
bottle of milk end sum# assorted
French pastries wbleb bad suffered
a little In Tabby’s stronr arms
"Tabby yoa'rs a darling! Bat
why did you bring ao much**
Her roommate glgyied “That’*
not all 1 brought either" Bho
moved toward tbs door again.
“Nor all!* exclaimed Jo; and
then aa Tabby reopened the door
“Bret! Oh. Bret what a sight 1
am!”
“A mighty pretty light If yon
aak me!" Bret told her “Tabby
told me yoa were going to have a
housewarming and 1 last bad lo
be here."
Jo‘a eyes told him how glad she
was that ba bad eome.
“Did yoa find a Job. Jot" bo
asked hopefully.
"1 found neaps of them — bat
none were for me."
“Dont worry." Bret assured her.
“Too never find anything ibe Brat
day.” He reached Into bis pocket
and palled oat a recent edition o<
a newspaper open at the 'Help
Wanted" section. "1 happened to
see this on the way down to the
street car. Jo. It Bays: 'Wanted-*
Personable young woman to work
mornings only as bookkeeper In
marine supply house.* *
Bret held the paper toward Jo.
"It gives the address and If I were
you I’d go down there tomorrow
and try for IL Of coarse It’s only
half time — hat tt would help yoa
keep year chin ap. end yoa d bev«
the afternoons free to look tor
someth tog better."
Jo read tbs advertisement than
glanced ap at Tubby and Jo Just
their presence there gave her new
courage and renewed faith In hem
aall
*Tbat*s my fob!” sba said laugla
log “What do yoa betT"
"Well . . .“ Bret took ap one
of the sandwlchea peered critical!*
between the Jllcee of oread i
think yoa’d probably win the bet
Bnt some times yon have to look
around a week or so before yoa
can gat anything at all Believe
ma. 1 know wbat I'm talking
about"
“Just the same." said Jo. opsnlng
the rerectory mbit vigorously “1
bsv# a feeling that tomorrow I’m
going to be a bookkeeper la a mm
rtne supply store I"
(To tie Continued)
*
security of capital and lta employ-
ment.”
• • •
Insurance — Political leadership
has many penalties and «^nt com-
pensation. The path of party loy-
alty sometimes leads to the politi-
cal grave.
So House Speaker Joe Byrns must
feel these days. Like so many dem-
ocrats on Capitol Hill he Is inher-
ently a conservative. He halls from
a safe-and-sane district in Tennes-
see. But he has stood by the presi-
dent In all the battles over liberal
legislation. He has suppressed his
own feelings when they conflicted
with presidential demands.
Now comes grapevine information
that some of his old political and
financial backers mean to gang him
next year. Even his political prom-
inence will not save him if they have
their way. Joe knows all this but he
can't do anything about It except
back up “the boss.” They’ll find
him a convenient Judgeship If he
loses out.
Statistics reveal that the average
man. In one year speaks 11900.000
words. Or the equivalent of one
Long filibuster.
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ownership of all
A reader can get the answer to
any question of fact by writing The
Brownsville Herald Information Bu-
reau. Prederic J. Has kin. Dirwfor.
Washington. D. C. Please enclose
three (3) cents for reply.
Q. How many newspapers have
representatives in the Press Gal-
lery? F. A.
A. About 310.
• • •
Q- Is there any observable natur-
al swing bark compensating for the
effects or the drought? M. D.
A. In addition to the unusually
heavy rains which have visited the
drought areas hog liters are report-
ed as larger than normal and an I
unusual number of twin sheep are
being born tending to compensate
for the drought deaths fnd the AAA j
slaughterings in 1934.
Q. Why la corned beef so called?
R. M.
A. Many yean afo the word corn
meant a small hard particle of any
substance such as sand salt or gun
powder. Beef was treated with
corns of salt and so derived its
name.
• • ■
Q. How are automobiles loaded In
freight can? G. L. B.
A. Autos are sometimes loaded
Into freight cars by being rolled In
on their own wheels. The vehicles
are loaded endwise and when on
their own wheels three or four make
a carload. When they are loaded
by what is called the Evans loading
device the wheels are taken off of
the front of the car. When stack-
ed at angles with the front wheels
removed six &mall vehicles can be
accommodated
• • •
Q. Which of Thackeray’s works Is
called a novel without a hero? E. H.
A. Vanity Fair (1847-184*) which
Is also called his masterpiece.
• 88
Q. What is the Torroy Botanical
Ctab? E. a
A. This la a scientific society In
New York City Incorporated In 1871
and now one of the six associated
societies forming the Scientific Al-
liums. It has a valuable has hart—n i
of several thousand specimens. Il-
lustrating the flora within 100 miles
of New York which is exhibited at
the New York Botanical Garden.
home of the club.
• • •
Q. Who first used th* word sym-
posium? H. L.
A. Both Plato and Xenophon used
the word as the title of a work de-
scribing the conversation of Socra-
tes and others. Since then it has
com# to mean a discussion.
• • •
Q. Who was Echetlns? W. M. R
An unknown stranger clad as a
peasant who at the Battle of Mar-
athon appeared armed with a plow-
share and killed many Persians. The
name was conferred by the oracle
• • •
Q What Is the purpose of the
National 'Shrine of the Immarolate
Conception now wnder construction
In Washington? C. W.
A. It is designed as a symbol of
American Catholic devotion to the
Blessed Virgin. The building will
take its place with such notable
memorials as Santa Marla Maggt-
ore of Rome: Santa Maria del Piore
Florence; the modem shrines of
Lourdes and Fourvtere in Prance;
and the shrines at Einsiedeln and
Ouadalupe. It is felt to be fitting
that a great architectural work em-
bodying the highest historical ideas
of Christian art. should be related
to this center of Cathode learning
in America.
Q. What was tha earliest llght-
house? W. M.
A. Modem lighthouse* may be
said to date from the construction
of the Mdystone Lighthouse in the
Bngttsh Channel In 1756.
• • •
Q. Please five some Information
about the Waiter Art Gallery In
Baltimore. R. 8. M.
A. The Walters Art Gallery and
Its contents was left to the City of
Baltimore by the late Henry Wal-
ter*. who died November JO. 1931.
and who also Included in his be-
quest the Walters residence and the
Income from one-fourth of the res-
idue of his estate In trust for Its
maintenance. The art objects are
■aid by experts to form the greatest
private collection ever gathered to-
gether. The great collection was
begun In 1880 when William T.
Walter* father of Henry Walters
acquired his first paintings. In
paintings alone there are over 1500
cansasea* The Ortontsi collecttou |
Includes ceremacs bronzes taps*-
tries and rugs.
• • •
Q. How are the seats for mem-
bers of the British Parliament ar-
ranged? 8. C.
A. The members sit on benches
facing each other across an aisle.
• • •
Q. What was the first American
cirrus? R.
A. The first of which there Is re-
oord was Ricketts Circus and
Greenwich Theatre near the Bat-
tery New York City opened In
1795.
• • •
Q. How tall was Schubert? N. B.'
A. It is thought that be was prob-
ably 5 feet 4 inch.
• • •
Q Whtn did Eugene Sandow die?
F. E. B.
A. He died October 14. 1925. His
death was due to Injuries he re-
ceived when he attempted to lift
his car out of the mud.
IDEAL NIOHTI
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July la the best month of the year
for amateur agronomical observation
In the United State*. Atmosphertc con-
dltlons are generally favorable and tha
constellations are in alluring array.
Quiet vacation nights on cool mountain
tope offer a splendid opportunity for
Instructive Mar-garinp.
If you want to advance In this Inter-
esting and profitable hobby send to our <
Washington Information Bureau fcr /
jour copy of The Brownsville Heraldr
handy service booklet. ASTRONOMY.
It surveys the entire field Answers
500 every-day questions about the earth
sun moon atari at 1 planets Illustrat-
ed with fine observatory photorrapfea.
Available onlv through our Washington
Information Bureau
Enclose ten cents to cover east han-
dling and postage.
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The Brownsville Herald.
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Frederic J Haskins. Director.
Washington. D O.
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