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WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 16. 1940
WASHINGTON FORGETS THE BORDER
'| HE northern and southern or southwestern bor-
1 ders of the United States are rather sparsely
settled areas exeept in the eastern part of the Can-
adian border in the Lower Kio Grande Valley of
Texas and at Laredo and El Paso.
Washington sometimes has occasion as in these
times to pass general laws which control the move-
ments of persons from one country to another.
When this happens the Washington officials who
draw up the necessary regulations think of the over-
seas movement of persons either by ship or by air-
plane. They think of those people who use the great
harbors of the east coast or those of the west coast.
No thought apparently is given to the local traf-
fic conditions of the Mexican and Canadian borders;
the movement to and fro of persons living on these
borders. These people these permanent residents of
the border move back and forth in their immediate
neighborhoods. They go to buy groceries or meats.
They visit relatives. They cross the border to go to
church or to attend a meeting or a funeral or for
a hundred and one other reasons.
These borders are not fortified. Passage across
them has been an ordinary uneventful uncomplicat-
ed thing. Even a slightly stringent regulation can
have the effect of entirely upsetting the economy of
towns and cities such as happened last July when
the new passport regulations went into effect. For a
couple of weeks these border residents were required
to provide themselves with the same passports they
would have needed to visit the interior of the coun-
try. Then it was discovered this strict regulation was
unnecessary for permanent residents of the border.
But traffic and business between the two sides of
the border had come to a complete halt. 1 hcui less
difficult regulations were set up and only so-called
border permit cards were required. These were soon
being issued in large numbers and now after some
three months local intercourse at border points is
almost at normal.
Persons on the American side who do business in
nearby Mexico are again puzzled by a regulation of
the draft laws. This regulation prohibits registered
persons from leaving the country without first noti-
fying the local draft board. Many of those who will
register today may have occasion to go to nearby
points in Mexico perhaps daily on their usual busi-
ness. So far the draft board is without information
on this point. It is assumed that when the board
goes to work as it will immediately after registration
clay it will ask for a ruling on cases of this kind.
The law is not intended to work an unnecessary hard-
ship on any one and presumably some means will
be developed to permit these registered persons to
go about their usual duties until such time as they
may be called for service if at all.
In the meantime Americans will be patient with
new regulations. Not every person’s peculiar prob-
lems can be foreseen in a giant task of the kind
made necessary by extraordinary world conditions.
The men in Washington who work out the details
of these government regulations affecting the daily
lives of millions of persons cannot possibly foresee
nil individual complications especially the unusual
problems of the isolated and relatively thinly settled
border areas where life often differs from that in
the interior.
SALES TAX - ENGLISH VERSION
GREAT BRITAIN’S latest tax measure proves
again a fact which no longer needs proving—
that wars cost money.
Scheduled to go into effect Oct. 21 is a “purchase
tax” similar to the sales tax now used in many parts
of the United States. The rate on such common
items as hooks newspapers shoes kitchen utensils
and clothing will be 12 per cent. On “luxury" goods
as silk stockings furs and jewelry the rate will be
24 per cent. Compare those rates with American
sales taxes which range between 1 and 3 per cent
generally.
Yet that is the way it must be. Somehow this
war must be paid for if Britain has any hope of re-
building economically after the dark days pass.
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I Views of Other Papers
BRirrr.ROOM GETS A BREAK
The newspaper* are giving a free
ride to a new type of marnage
report.ng which was introduced it
seems by a small newspaper in
Iowa called The Auguste Union.
The editor of the Union remem-
bering that bridegrooms u.-ually
lecetve little attention at the hands
of the society news reporters de-
cided that he would \arv the rule
a little when it came h:s time to
marry
Und.r the caption. Ye Editor
Takes Himself a Lride. he wrote as
follow: for his own newspaper:
"Clarenre tTudyi Rogers son of
Mr. and Mrs. C.eorg- Rogers of Os-
seo. became the husband of Miss
Margrret Gilbertson. daughter of
Mr. and Mrs Martin Gilbertson of
Augusta in a beautiful ring cere-
mony Saturday noon. June 22. be-
fore a Justice of peace at Waukon.
Iowa.
‘ Blushing prettily he replied to
the questions of the Justice in low
but firm tone.' never Indicating
that he noted the omission of the
obey’ questions in the bride's an-
swers.
“He was attractively attired in a
three-piece suit of black pm stripe
e oolen material consisting of coat
vest and pants. The coat was
charmingly festooned with a white
flower in the left buttonhole.
“The vest was sleeveless closed
in the front end gracefully fash-
ioned with pockets. It was held to
the'N _
By Paul Mal lon
\Y7ASHINGTON—The master key
^ to Hitlers schrme of propa-
ganda in the United States was
discovered by Dies committee
agents when they seized the Zapp
correspondence it is: "Keep Jap-
anese-.1 meat an relations riufled to
prevent U. S. involvement in Eur-
ope.”
Manfried Zapp the Nazi agent
masquerading as a German news-
man. set it forth in his report to
his horn’ news office m Berl n
January 15 1940—a report which
appears to have be~n adopted by
Der Fuehrer himself in view of re-
cent developments in the far east.
"Summing up all the facts.” Zap/)
wrote "it can be said that the
masses in the Un.ted States are
still against active participation in
the war. but the tremendous artil-
lery barrage of officially stated
anti-German propaganda is be-
con ing increasingly effective.
•The only and at the jame time
the strongest guarantee ior Amer-
ican neutrality appears to be a
ruffled United States-Japanese re-
lationship. which for the present
and for an indefinite period to
come will not permit a European
nvolvement of the U S A.
"However there exists a visible
endeavor in the state department
lo clerir up the Far Eastern ques-
tion in order thereby to use a free
hand in Europe."
"THIS PARTICULAR report h«u>
created a sen at ion .n the state
department where it is regarded as
a confirming revelation of Hitler's
now unfolding plan of employing
the Japanese as dupes to serve Ins
purposes against the United States.
Zapp could qual fy as adviser in
this re^peit if any advice was
needed in Berlin. He operated in
Manchukuo a lew years ago in the
same capacity of news-fifth col-
umning as his correspondence < pub-
lished yesterday) dscloees him to
have been engaged in here. He
also served Hitler in Ethiopia.
London. Scandinavia and South
Africa. The department of justice
is now investigating a report that
he was requested by the British to
leave his South African post be-
fore coming to the United States
in 1938 to set up his Trans-Ocean
news service.
A POSSIBILITY that Zapp was
** even more than an offic.al
propagandist has been opened to
government eyes by one particular
letter in which he summoned "con-
lidential agents" to attend a din-
ner in his New York apartment.
At least slate department linguists
have translated the German terms
used m the letter as meaning
"confidential agents" although they
are susceptible to a secondary
ambiguous interpretation which
might enable Zapp to plead that
his guests were only to be con-
fidential "correspondents.'*
"THE ACTUAL existence oi the
1 real working fifth column in
this country is completely proved
by this Hitler newsman who wrote
too much and failed to destroy
enough. The fifth column his rec-
ords reveal is not that of the
bundlers. Its serious nature and
scope is disclosed by its name "for-
eign division of the national so-
cialist party." The initials NSDAP
standing for the German equival-
ent of this title were found on
numerous letters m his files.
When Zapp was notified of meet-
ings of this organization in form
letters he was advised to “show his
party card" at the door a fact
which legally proves their secret
nature. The organization addressed
him June 29. 1939:
“Dear party member Zapp: For
accountmg reason* you are re-
quested to pay this year's special
asses ment for the Nazi party con-
vention in Nuremberg amounting to
one full month's dues no later than
June 1939"
On April 22. 1939. he was re-
quired to pay $10 as "part of the
cost of the Hitler birthday celebra-
tion.”
Dozens of names on these and
other letters are in the hands of
government authorities who have
guarded against the possibility that
their birds may fly. by putting
them either under subpoena or
surveillance.
~piE GOVERNMENT now has
1 proof of an interwoven connec-
tion between German diplomats.
Zapp's Trans-Ocean news service
the NSDAP. the German Library of
Information the Fellowship Forum
- a skein of propaganda and in-
formation wider than that which
caused President Wilson to ask
withdrawal of German diplomats in
this country’ before the last World
war. In addition to the $140000
which Zapp spent in 10 months
the books of the German Library
of Information show an outlay of
about $190000 in the few months
between April 1 and August 20 of
this year.
Steps bv this government are im-
minent.
DRAIN NORTHWARD
Three states of the Union drain
partly into Fudson Bay The
states of Minnesota North Dakota
and South Dakota dra n partly
into Lake Winnipeg and thence
rurth through the Nelson River
into Hudson Bay.
rether at the back with a strap
and to'cklo.
“H's pants were neatly pres.^ed
tor the occasion and he wore them
with an air as if he little suspected
it would be the last time he ‘wore
the pants' in tha* family as the
familiar expression goes.
“Hate and necktie added just
the right dash of color to comple-
ment the effect. Shoes were of gen-
uine leather laced with strings of
the same color giving a chic ef-
fect ’’—Montgomery Ad\ertis«*r.
HON. JAPANESE SANDBAG MAN
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Answers to Your Questions
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN
A reader can get the answer to
any quesnon of ‘act by writ-
.ng The biownsviUa Herald In-
formation Bureau. Frederic J.
Haskm Director. Washington.
D. C Please encloaa three (3)
tenta for replv
Q. Please give an example of some
rf the oldest sumptuary laws. K. J.
H.
A All the inhabitants of Laconia
were forbidden to attend enter-
tainments at which drinks were
served and no citizen could possess
a house or furniture which was the
work of more elaborate implements
than the axe or saw. Some of the
most stringent law* of the Roman
commonwealth were: The Opptan
LBV 215 B C. providing that no
woman should possess more than
one-half ounce of gold or wear a
dress of different colors or ride in
a carnage in the city except on
rccanons of public rel gious cere-
monies. The Orchian Law. 187 B C. j
limited the number of guests at
entertainments and the Fannian
Law. 161 BC.. provided among oth-
er things that no fowl should be
served lor gue*t* but a single hen
and that not lattencd The code of
the Twelve Tables has provisions
1 truing tiie expenditure on fune-
rals.
Q. What Hoes thf name Squalus
mran? W.H.S.
A. The word squaiui is Latin for
a large sea fish.
q Do many young p—iple get
jobs through the National Touth
Administration? t It.I).
A. In May the National Youth
Administration plated 9482 young
per ons in positions in private in-
dustry.
Q What Is the longest talking
br.sk that has been made for the
blind? T.J.L.
A. Tiie longest work to have b®en
j recorded so far is Scott's “Ivanhoe"
which required thirty-five records.
Q What was the population of
Memphis Tennessee in 1870? H.
L. P.
A. The population of Memphis at
hat time was 40.226.
—
Q. Who was the first artor to
be knightrd? K.M.N.
A. In 1895 Sir Henry Irving re-
! reived the honor of knighthood
the first ever accorded an actor.
Q Where Is the million dollar
Tiffany gla*-s rurtain? L.J.
A I' is in the Palace of F M
Arts at Mexico City and is the only
! one of its kind in the world Com-
posed of thousands of pieces of
varicolored g’asr. the novel light-
ing arrangement reveals the snow-
rrewned volcanoes of Popocatepel
and Ixtacrihuatl at sunrise midday
and sunset.
Q. How mam- people ire there
in the United States? C H S.
A On July 1. 1938 the population
cl the United States was estimated
at 130.215.000.
Q. For whom Is Applegate Peak
in C rater Lake National Park nam-
ed? C.J.D.
A. The peak is named In honor
ol Captain Oliver C Applegate.
Western pioneer and Indian fight-
er who spent his early years in
exploring and developing southern
Oregon and northern California.
Q. P1ea*e give the names of a
tew American women who design
clothes. K.J M.
A Some of ihe best known de-
signers are- Hattie Carnegie. Sallv
Milgrim. Elizabeth Hawes. Muriel
King. Fira Beneson Nettie Rosen-
stein. Mabel Mclllvaln Dooms Re-
tiee Montague. Helen Cookman.
Lou’se Mt lligan. Vera Maxwell.
Dorothy Cox and Louise Barnes
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* Answering Your
Questions About
CONSCRIPTION
By MILTON BRUNNER
Manager NE.% Service-Brownsville
Herald Selective Service Infor-
mation Bureau
WASHINGTON—There are some
queer special provisions in the ar-
rangements for registration of pos-
sible selective service draftees on
Oct. 16.
In every state the governor is
in a way the general director of
the draft. In the great national
parks the director of the National
Park Service has been given a sta-
tins corresponding to that of the
governor of a state. The superin-
tendent oT each park is to perform
the same duties as tire county
clerks in the states.
MlUon Bronner will an-
swer questions of The Herald
readers regarding conscrip-
tion rulings and interpreta-
tions. Address questions to
Milton Brenner manager
NEA-Brownsville Herald Se-
lective Service Information
Bureau. 1013 Thirteenth St.
N. H'.. Washington. D. C. BE
SI RE TO ENCLOSE pelage
prepaid postcard or stamped
envelope self-addressed.
This rule applies to these na-
tinal parks: Acadia. Bryce Can.von
Carlsbad Caverns Crater Lake
Glacier. Grand Teton. Lassen Vol-
canic. Mesa Verde Mount Rainier
Olympic Platt Rocky Mountain.
Sequoia. Shenandoah Wind Cave.
Yellowstone Yosemne Great Smoky
Mountains. Mammoth Cave. Grand
Canyon and Boulder Dam Recrea-
tional Area
Register In Parks
On Oct. 16. all residents In the
parks and all visitors present will
tegister there.
Registration cards of residents
in the parks mill be sent to the
local draft boards. Cards of visi-
tors will be sent to the governors
of their home states and. from
there mill be sent to the local draft
boards in the home towns of the
visitors.
There are in the United States
about 335.000 Indians. They are
the descendants of the original first
citzens of tills continent.
Tlie Commissioner of Indian Af-
tairs will 1 unction as to the Indian
reoervations in the same capacity
as the gosernorx of the states. The
superintendent of each reservation
will he the boss of the registration
there.
Indians who will register at reg-
ular registration places m their
area or wherever they happen to
be Oct. 16. are those in the states
of Kansas Louisiana. Michigan
Mississippi Nebraska New York.
Oklahoma and Trxas. and those
under the Hoopa Valley Mission
and Sacramento agencies in Cali-
lornta. the Northern Idaho agency
in Idaho the Consolidated Chip-
pewa Agency and Pipestone School
in Minnesota the Turtle Mountain
and Standing Rock agencies in
North Dakota the Stsseton agency
in South Dakota and the Tulip and
Yakima agencies in Washington.
May Register Indians Karly
Where conditions warrant the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
may direct that registration begin
before Oct. 16. so the task will be
completed on that date.
It is expected that quite a num-
ber of young Indians may be in-
ducted into draft service this time
especially the men who have been
educated In the public and govern-
ment schools and who therefore
speak English perfectly.
In the last Wrorid W’ar there
were quite a number of Indians
in the army and many served over-
seas.
Seneca Indians of New York State
are currently on the war path
against registering for conscription.
Harrison
In
Hollywood
By PAIL HARRISON
NEA Sen-Ice SUff Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD — While chewing
the ragout of veal with aome pub-
licity gents at one of the studio
restaurants. I asked a little accus-
ingly whether their craft Is begin-
ning to take on dignity or scruples
or maybe some newborn caution
During the past two or three years
there have been deplorably few bold
or ingenious bally hood stunts and
It seems to me that all forms of
ihow business need a little circus-
type press-agentry to ;cp them up.
No matter that publicity and
journalism are natural enemies or
that good reporters always will try
to expose or ignore fabricated
events and faked stories. Some of
the stunts turn Into legitimate
news and some are merely amus-
ing. But they all add to the color
and engaging fantasy of this cellu-
loid dream world. If you want to
see what happens to entertainment
when It gets stiff-necked look at
the Metropolitan Opera and the
size of its deficit.
Well tr.e press agents stoutly
denied they have lost their fine
flair for Invention but they gener-
ally admitted then- business is less
fun these days. They said that al-
though Hollywood still likes to
think of itself as a sort of gay
asylum Its individuals all want to
be regarded as sensible ct’izens
and serious artistes. As lor the
cinema itself executives are strong
for suppressing technical news in
order to preserve “the public s il-
lusions.” This meant that they
Want you to believe that the hero
;eally booted the villain into the
'crater of a real volcano.
Worst of all. the boys told me.
Is that players themselves no longer
will co-operate in making news.
When Bebe Daniels was a top star
.^he approved a suggestion that she
j;et herself arrested and jailed for
l-cedlng—an adventure which would
;ie m nicely with the title of a
picture she had just finished Miss
Daniels drove down to Santa Ana
where there was a notoriously tough
judge played tag with a speed cop
and spent 10 davs in the pokey.
And then there was Reguiald
Denny who didn't mind getting lost
at sea coincidentally with the re-
lease of one of his nautical epics.
He hid out in his yacht down mar
Emcnada for three days at which
time the U. S. Coast Guard began
a search. Warned of this. Denny
hastily put out into the ocean en-
countered a furious storm and came
doggoned near being really lost.
There Are Blonds and Blonds
One of the things that set me to
thinking about the decline of in-
itiative in publicity was the true
story the other day about Joan
Blondeil and some other tow-head
legally forming an organization
called Blonds. Inc. The i urpc*e of
this non-profit corporation seems
to be to combat the notion that
blonds are dumb although the stunt
itself looks prima facie evidence of
goof mess. *
Miss Blundell's press agent would
have had mere fun with tom? such
device as Metros eastern exploiters
dreamed up several years ago—for
Blond Bombshell” I believe. Set-
ting out to prove blonds are more
amorous and emotionally respon-
sive than brunets they made a ma-
chine covered with wires and dials
which looked like something out of
Major Hooples attic. Then they
hired a man to serve as ••scientist"
and called in a flock of light and
dark-haired chorus girls.
Members of the press kissed the
cu'ies while the professor read the
dials and compiled data which of
course showed much stronger re-
actions from the blonds.
No one knew or cared then that
all but two of the blonds were
bleached brunets and that three
of the brunets were dyed blonds.
Everybody had a fine time.
THIS
CURIOUS WORLD
By Willlarr Ferguson
IN BOTH WINTER.
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TEMPERATURES
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HOW TO DODGE
MIDDLEMAN-1.
FORM A CO-OP
Consumers Join Hands
To Sell Anything
From Auto Tires
To Soap
CHICAGO—Oft. 15 —' -T—Som*
2.000.000 Americzn people are try-
ing to dodge the "middle man” and
his profit.
Instead of buying thrr groceries.
!or Instance at the private neigh-
borhood or chain store they pool
a few dollars apiece set up their
own grocery store and lure a man
to run It for them
Sometimes the store'! prices are
the same as other stores. Some-
times they are loecr. But in any
case at the end of the year the
profits if any. go not to the man-
ager but back to the customers r
The same principle can b» ap-
plied. and is being applied m the
supply of everything from soap to
auto tires and Under twine to gas-
oline.
Other tivstrm* T
It even is be r.g allied to in-
surance medical cire and money-
’cnding. in which field instead of
paying legal interest rates that may
amount to 50 per cent a year the
customer - proprietors pay only 9
per cent.
The.se 2 0C0 00O people are the
members of consumers' cooperatives
which ex st in nearly every state
in the union. Last year they did a
total iMisineis of $600.000 000.
The system has been de*. eloping
unce 1921 when farmers in Ohio.
Michigan and Tndiana formed a
cooperative to “break'* high retail
fertilizer prices which presently
dropped 35 per cent.
The system is no utopian panacea
lor the nations economic troubles.
A consumers’ cooperative has the
>r.n.e problems of management of
an enterprise as a private operator.
When cooperative stores g ve spe-
cial services like deliveries an 1
charge accounts the custornen ^
have to pay extra for them like the
customers of any store. Seme co-
operatives have over-er.panded. giv-
en too much credit niri gone broke.
«ome «ay lack of profit motive of-
ten fails to attract *ufflciently as-
tute managers.
t'o«p* Save Pennies
But in general cooperative mem- h
hers bv doing the work of organiza-
tion and administration themselves
boast of garnering the marginal
pennies that ordinarily would go to
a private operator.
Cooperative business still consti-
tutes only a vtry s.nall part of the
nation's commerce but the move-
ment is growing.
Wh-n the coo^rative movement's
central organization the cooperat-
ive league of the USA. op**na its
12th biennial convention here Oct.
16. it will represent about 2 per
cent more nrrnber.s than at its last
conclave in 193fi.
The big achievement that will be
marked at the coming convention
; is the pushing of the consumer co-
operative principle beyond the field
of distribution int« the realm of
production
Gasoline Distribution j.
An early cooperative enterpr J*
was ga oline distribution. The rnn-
: timers bought wholesale from re-
finers and set up their own filling
stations. When the'- found that in
this vay they saved ns much as 9
cents a gallon so. thev reasoned
why not carr- the idea further and
run their own refinery to save *’.# v
producer's prof:* j
That worked too. and thev have^
not onlv established refineries in
Phillipsburg Kas Mt Vrmon Ind
and Regina. Saskatchewan but also
now have an oil well of their own
in Rooks County. Kas. and are
Grilling three more.
• STORIES
IN STAMPS
French Colonies Breok ^
With Petain Government
I TRANCE'S widespread colonial
1 empire has not capitulated to
Hitler. Rumblings of revolt
agaimt Peta.ns regime are evi-
dent in Syria Morocco Madagas- \
car and Indo-China. French Equn* W
torial Africa has Joined Gen. r
Charles de Gaulle in continuing
the war against Germany. In the
Pacific New Caledonia and Ta-
hiti support de Gaulle.
The fighting forces of the
French colonies were honored
with the stamp above one of the
first issues of 1940. Surtax of this
stamp and a second of the set was
designated for families of soldiers.
France's colonial possessions
before the war were second only
to Britain's. Established during
the period of France’s greatness
the empire included some 71.000-
000 persons in territories totaling
4.687.000 square miles.
French possessions in America
are St. Pierre and Miquelon
Guadalupe. Martinique French
Guiana and Inini. with a total of
65.419 square miles and 592600
population.
WEATHLRLYS HOME <
SAN BENITO — Mr. and Mrs. L
M. Weatherly have returned from
a vlait at Odem. with their non
Audley Weatherly and his a tie and
infant daughter. Carolvn Dia4
Audlev Weatherly is a former It
* Bentto resident.
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El Heraldo De Brownsville (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 104, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 16, 1940, newspaper, October 16, 1940; Brownsville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1405961/m1/4/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .