The Mercedes News (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 84, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 11, 1928 Page: 6 of 8
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THE MERCEDES NEWS,
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1928
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Two Irrigation
Systems Proposed
For Cameron Co.
FAMILY OF RESCUED ROCKFORD FLIER
Talkies Bring
Upheaval For
Stage People
Wkat’s New?
News changes with each passing hour. All kinds of
neivs—fascinating, strange, prophetic, real and un-
real. It conies flashing on the pages of your paper
from all parts of the world, and you want to know
what’s new.
Advertising is a form of news. It is governed hy
the same general principles and answers your every
question as to “what’s new?” You can depend upon
advertising neivs. It is truthful. If you want some-
thing for the home, you will find it advertised. If a
dress, a suit of clothes, a hat, a pair of shoes, a dia-
mond ring, a bridge lamp, an electric refrigerator,
or a house and lot—you’ll find it advertised. 4
Advertisements supply the surest means of know-
ing “what’s new” in merchandise. Learn to read
them—trust them—profit by them.
Read the advertisements as
regularly a,s you do the news
Bullets Whine in $18,000 Holdup
Alsmeyer Is Named
President of Valley
Agricultural Club
Injured In Crash
The women in the group who
henpeck their husbands are the
ones who spit fire when you remark
casually that women have less in-
telligence than men.
Anybody can afford a kerosene
lamp, and make it smoke. Then
if he hasn't a car for Sunday, he
can put a little dust in his eye and
smell his lamp.
Program of Work For
Coming Year Is
Outlined
Henry Alsmeyer, agricultural
agent of Cameron county, was elect-
ed president of the Valley Agricul-
tural club at the first meeting of
that organization of the current
year held at La Feria Wednesday
night. R. C. Burwell was named
vice-president; J. C. Holmes, pub-
licity director; and J. C. Dykes was
retained as secretary.
Paul Cowan, vocational agricul-
tural teacher in the Donna high
school, and president for the club
last year, was the principal speak-
er of the evening, his subject being
“Planning Standardization of Insect
Control Program.”
The club is composed of county
agents, vocational agricultural teach-
ers, experiment station workers, and
others interested in agriculture in
the Valley. The organization has
j done good work since its inception in
j promoting better methods of agri-
culture and other features of sim-
ilar work. A comprehensive pro-
gram of work for the coming year
is now being outlined and will be
carried out.
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Americanism: Wishing you could
make more money; making it, won-
dering what became of it, and wish-
ing you could make more.
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Mussolini says “a certain amount
of annoyance is attendant on get-
ting rid of a woman.” So he can
speak conservatively at times.
Mrs. Josef Hofman, bride of the
famous pianist, who was hurt when
a sightseeing bus rolled down an
embankment in Spain. Her injuries
were pronounced painful but not se-
rious.
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The farm problem won’t seem so
acute if the rural section casts only
20 per cent of the vote.
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It may be cheaper to wait and
get a divorce than to be sued for
breach of promise.
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Some people seem to have such
respect for the truth that they hate
to make use of it.
Raiding the offices of Service Transportation Co., 180th Street and Web-
ster Avenue, New York City, four gunmen escaped with $18,000. Gunfire
spattered this window, beside which is Miss Mildred Mueller, employe,
among those told to ‘"put ’em up.”
Commissioners’ Court
To Hear Owners Sep-
tember 22 and Decide
The Cameron county commission-
ers’ court will hold a hearing on
September 22 to determine whether
or not to grant the petitions for
two additional irrigation systems in
that county, Nos. 12 and 13, design-
ed to water about 7,500 acres of
land lying between the Los Fresnos
tract and the Arroyo Colorado.
R. Lee Kempner and others, own-
ers of the land adjoining the Los
Fresnos district on the north pre-
sented the petition for district No.
12, containing about 1,120 acres.
The Arroyo Gardens Development
company and others, presented pe-
tition No. 13, for approxmately 6,-
500 acres extending from the Kemp-
ner lands north to the Arroyo Col-
orado and better known as the Ross
tract.
Both new districts would secure
their water from the Los Fresnos
district and the two systems would
cost in excess of $600,000.
Development of the Kempner
tract is already well under way
while District No. 13 is expected to
start clearing the land and develop-
ment work in the very near future.
The two systems will build their ca-
nals simultanenously if granted per-
mits to form districts.
African Visit
No Woman’s Job
Says Explorer
London.—(INS)—After crossing the
widest and wildest part of the Afri-
can continent by automobile, Mrs.
Diana Strickland has returned to
London convinced that exploring is
a man’s job.
One thousand of the five-thousand
mile journey, which extended from
Dakar in French Senegal to the Red
Sea, was completed alone, her me-
chanic being forced to return to
England owing to illness and an-
other member of the party dying
with blackwater sickness.
Difficult Job
“Few women are capable of blaz-
ing a trail through an unexplored
land,” Mrs. Strickland told Interna-
tional News Service. “It is not so
much a question of physical hard-
ship as will-power. Above all
things you need will-power, the urge
to get to the other side of the hill
top. That is where the average
woman fails.”
During the thousand miles she
travelled alone, which included some
of the most dangerous parts of the
continent, she drove largely with the
aid of a compass, and at times had
to bridge large streams by her own
ingenuity to enable her to continue
on her way.
“At times the hardships were ter-
rible,” Mrs. Strickland added, “and
I was unable to get food and water.
When I reached isolated native vil-
lages, I had to beat up the villag-
ers to get food. These were the only
occasions on which I got frightened.
Sometimes I stayed in the car all
night to keep myself from attack.
Exploring Is For Men
“No, exploring is not a woman’s
job,” she reiterated. “The average
woman does not want to bury her-
self for a year—the time it took me
to cross the continent—without de-
cent food, clothes, and the other re-
finements of life. She can safely
leave that to man, who is more cap-
able of bearing these hardships.”
At one period of her trip Mrs.
Strickland was held up for nearly
five, months in a hut by heavy rains
There were stretches of mud all
round her a foot deep and rain con-
tinually came in the roof.
Mrs. Strickland touched at many
points where a white woman or
man had never been seen before.
Photo shows Mrs. Bert Hassell and her children upon receipt of word
that “daddy” was safe in Greenland. News that two fliers had reached
Mt. Evans, headquarters of University of Michigan expedition, sent all
Rockford, 111., into paroxysm of joy.
Turkey May Sell Sultans’ Jewels
To Get Fund for New State Bank
Soviets To Launch
Shipbuilding Plan;
Place Big Orders
London (INS).—A mammoth ship-
building program, involving 171
passenger and cargo vessels, is on
the point of being launched by the
Soviet government, according to the
London “Evening News.”
When Russia first nationalized her
shipping, the “Evening News” re-
calls, she found that only about one-
fourth of her pre-war total Was left
here, many owners having contrived
to get their property out of the coun-
try before it was seized by the
State.
In 1925 a big building program
w;as started, with the intention of
having 110 ships ready for service
by the end of 1929. Due to the huge
cost involved, and other difficulties,
however, progress has been terribly
slow.
Orders for the new ships will be
placed in French, German and Ital-
ian yards, according to the news-
paper.
The kind of marathon old Dad is
engaged in isn’t without rewards.
The girls kiss his bald spot when he
finishes another week and digs up.
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All successful men have an educa-
tion. Some got it without going to
school and some got it after going
to school.
Washington, D. C.—(INS)—One of
the world’s most beautiful and valu-
able collections of precious jewels
may be put on the market soon by
the Turkish government.
The present regime in Turkey is
considering the disposals of these
gems, worth millions, for the pur-
pose of establishing a state bank, a
plan which perhaps would cause the
old Turkish Sultans, who loved to
gaze upon their jewels, to squirm
and twist in their graves if they
knew, according to the National Geo-
graphic society.
“The Turkish crown jewels for
years hidden in the Green Vaults of
Constantinople, are among the
world’s largest collections,” said a
bulletin from the Society. “The Sul-
tans’ throne is of massive beaten
gold, studded with diamonds, rubies
and emeralds, set in mosaic. It has
been appraised at* more than $15,-
000,000.”
Recently Photographed
Few travelers ever have broken
through the seclusion of the treas-
ury room to see the jewels and only
recently have photographers been
permitted to take pictures of the
collection. There is another throne
of ebony and sandalwood, inlaid with
mother-of-pearl, rubies, emeralds,
and sapphires; a toilet set thickly
studded with turquoise and dia-
monds; an armor, pistols, saddles
sandals, simitars, turbans, daggers
swords and canes all be-jeweled, not
to mention the long strands of pearls
as large as cherries, rings, brace-
lets, anklets and all sorts of other
gorgeously designed jewelry for va-
rious uses.
“One wonders if the old Sultans
were thrilled to drink out of the
tankard gleaming with 3,000 dia-
monds, or to stick their hands into
a salad bowl Containing a half bush-
el of unset stones, or half a pack
of buttons studded with diamonds,”
the bulletin said.
“One of the world’s largest em
eralds, as large as a man’s hand, is
included in the collection.”
Since the Tsar was overthrown
the Russia crown jewels, now in
Moscow, have been in the spotlight
with rumors of their sale. Some au-
thorities claim the Russian horde to
be the world’s largest. The head of
the Tsar must have dazzled with
32,800 carats of diamonds and rows
of pearls at royal functions, where
he wore his best headdress, accord-
ing to the Geographic Society. There
are other regal crowns of magnifi-
cent filigree work, artistically set
with colored stones above a base of
expensive fur.
Russian Collection
In the Russian collection is found
the famous Shah diamond which for-
merly hung in front of the Peacock
Throne, when it was in possession
of the Emperor of India. The Or-
loff diamond reposes in the handle
of the scepter of Catherine the
Great.
“The brightest spot within the
grim gray walls of the Tower of
London, if not in London itself, is
the jewel room where the crown
jewels of Great Britain are on exhi-
bition,” the bulletin continued. “To
reach the large glass case which
incloses the gems, one has to run
the gauntlet of guards from the
lowly but dignified ‘beefeaters’—
Yoemen of the guard—to some of
the picked guards of the Empire.
“And should a visitor attempt to
take one of the gems he likes most,
he would find that an unseen steel
safe would immediately encase the
treasures, the door behind him would
become fast and the outer gates of
the Tower Walls would clang shut
to avert his escape. Appraisers ad-
mit that $30,000,000 is a low esti-
mate of the value of the royal jew-
elry.”
One of the most striking pieces in
the British collection is Queen
Mary's crown, scintilating with many
jewels, including the famous Kohi-
noor Diamond—the “Mountain of
Light.” The Kohinoor is believed
by the Indians to bring an evil spell
upon a masculine owner, hence it
always has been considered Queen
Mary’s stone.
Crowns Are Heavy
The golden “Crown of England”
is worn but a few minutes during
the coronation ceremony. It is a
magnificent creation weighing five
pounds, nearly hidden by diamonds,
rubies and sapphires. The king’s
crown, lighter in weight, contains
the Black Prince Ruby and 700 dia-
Soimd Taps For Him
New York.—(INS)—The “land of
make believe,” where the brilliancy
of a new star outshines the birth
of a new nation, is undergoing an-
other innovation—the talking pic-
ture.
Producers of plays and producers
of films, stage actors and film ac-
tors, playwrights and scenario writ-
ers, and practically all concerned,
even remotely, with the stage and
its allied arts are at odds, either for
or against, over the “talkie.”
Road Shows Hit
In it members of Actors’ Equity
Association see the possibility of
the death of road companies, with
the resultant decline in demand for
players. Many a star in the silent
movie sees dismal failure ahead if
the talking film glory spreads.
While, to the contrary, managers
and producers in general are al-
ready counting the millions to be
reaped from the new “novelty.”
Apparently there is no doubt but
that hardship will be worked upon
many, but, on the other hand, many
others will benefit. The fittest in
all branches of theatricals will al-
ways survive just as easily as the
weakest pass from the billboards.
Yet, undue alarm has been broad-
cast, many thinking persons of the
stage and screen contend. The prob-
able usurping of road companies by
the talking film is far distant—if
ever probable, according to certain
members of the Authors’ League of
America.
Opinions Differ
The consensus of opinion of the
more intellectual of the debaters of
the situation dwindles down to the
logical belief that mechanical pro-
cedure can never compete with art
in flesh and blood. Even as a glo-
rious painting of a glorious woman
may be admired, just so much more
admiration will the original reflect.
The moving picture did “kill” the
old time melodrama of the stage
by substituting a more spectacular
melodrama on the screen. The talk-
ing picture undeniably will mean
the death knell of the type of poor
movies now in abundance, but to
say it will in any way affect the
art of a Eugene O’Neill, whose plays
demand more than a silent or “noi-
sy” film could give then, is to say
that a representation of a blazing
sunset is more wonderful than the
sunset.
Now that the price of stocks has
tumbled, it is estimated that 38:
947 fewer good Democrats will speak
loftily of the “lower classes.”
. Marie Emile Fayolle, marshal of
France, and one of the greatest lead-
ers the World War produced, died
of illness complicated by old wounds
received in the Soudan. During
critical period of 1918 he command-
ed army group—including two Am-
erican divisions—that struck power-
ful blow against Germans between
Soissons and Chateau Thierry. The
veteran marshal toured the United
States in 1921.
The Movietone is both seen and
heard, and the hero kissing so pas-
sionately no longer can mutter:
“Why in heck do you eat onions?”
monds cut from the Cullman stone,
the largest ever found. In the
rough it weighed 3035 5-8 carats.
Queen Victoria’s crown, on exhibi-
tion, sparkles with 3,000 diamonds,
341 pearls and many sapphires.
The princes of India have been
collecting jewels for thousands of
years and among them are some of
the most elaborate displays of gems.
The Carpet of Pearls, in the Nuzer-
bagh Palace at Baroda is among the
world’s famous jewel creations, six
by eight feet, and made up princi-
pally of pearls, but containing a pro-
fusion of diamonds, rubies and em-
eralds.
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