The Hebbronville News (Hebbronville, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 9, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 2, 1927 Page: 1 of 4
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Cattle, Cotton, Oil
THE HEBBRONVILLE NEWS
Oranges, Crapes
Fruit, Grapes, Figs
Volume IV. Number 8.
HEBBRONVILLE, (JIM HOOO COUNTY, TEXA8. Wednesday, February 2, 1927.
SUBSCRIBE NOW.
Conditions In Mexico
When that hunch of anti-T the Washington Administration
Catholics, composed of preachers
newspaper writers and school
teachers, went to Mexico hi**
December under the direction
of a Cn lies propagandist, to
study Mexican conditions under
Mr. Calles, The News Stated at
the time what their report
would he when they returned to
the United fihtates. This bunch
went to Mexico at the expense
of the Calles Government but
paid in an indirect way so that
they could deny it, and since
their return to this country a
large amount of Calles money
has been and is being used to
assist them in spreading their
false propaganda and thus deceiv
ing and misleading the Amer-
ican people. They have over-
whelmed the Administration at
Washington City with false re-
ports regarding Bloshevism and
religious conditions ,in Mexico,
and, with the assistance of cer-
tain deluded and misguided
members of Congress, they have
evidently caused Mr. Coolidge to
weaken in his policy toward
Mexico—the policy he proposed
only a short time ago and whose
chief fault was that it did not go
quite far enough. This weaken-
ing has caused much irterrimcnt
jn Mexico and the leaders there
laugh up their sleeve and say it
is the way of the United States,
while the Mexican papers refer
to the proposed policy and from
which, it seems, Mr. Coolidge is
going to hack down, ns “another
piece of Washington bluster.”
will for a moment countenance
the “frame-up” cxeus ■, should it
he offered. It is understood that
thousands upon thousands of
these Russian Bolshevik schools
books, printed in the Spanish
language, have found their way
into the sehoolN of the Central
American States, aiul the chief
lesson these school children wil
learn from them will be hatred
of the United States.
That Mexico is Bolshevistic in
the fullest sense of the word,
there is not the least doubt in the
minds of those in the least ac-
quainted with the situation. Lead
jug Mexicans are also aware of
the fact that Calles is absolutely
nufler the domination of Russia,
and, through the Russian Em-
lmssndrcss to Mexico, takes or-
ders from Russia and puts them
in effect in Mexico. Russia has
even put its Bolshevik school
books, translated into the Spanish
language, into the schools of Mcx
ieo, what few schools there are,
and effort is being made to get
them into the United States for
the Mexican children in this
country. On December 31, last,
Moses ‘ Saenz, Hub-Secretary of
Education for Mexico, told the
Associated l’ress correspondent
at San Antonio that the Calles
Government would establish ‘ A
CHAIN OF MEXICAN SCHOOL
STIMULATE PATRIOTISM IN
THE HEARTS OF MEXICAN’S
LIVING IN THE UNITED
STATES AND TO- ENDEAVOR
TO REPATRIATE MEXICANS.’
Mr. Saenz further said that ‘THE
FIRST OF these schools
WOULD BE ESTABLISHED IN
OOTULLA.’ Which is fifty miles
north of Laredo, and evidently
these books arc being used in
Cotulla now, secretly, if not
openly, with Calles paying the
expense of the instructors. In
how many other towns and com-
munities these Bolshevik school
hooks arc being used, The News
does not know, hut it does know
that a consignment of the books
destined for Georgetown, Texas,
was stoped at the border and
are now in the Lnredo Customs
House.
Those preachers, newspaper
writers and school teachers, men-
tioned in the beginning of this
article, and who, at the invita-
tion of Calles, visited Mexico t<»
study the Bolshevik and reli-
gions questions, returned to th '
United States to spread their
propaganda favorable to tha
Calles Government. They went
direct to Mexico eity; saw only
vhat Calles wanted them to see,
and heard only what Calles want-
ed them to hear, and on their
leturn to the United Stales they
began spreading their false pro-
paganda in true Calles style and
with plenty of money to assist
them in their work. What they
said ami are saying about the
treatment of Catholics in Mex-
ico is as false as their state-
ment that Mexico is free from
Bolshevism. The Catholics in
Mexico are practically outlawed
by the Calles Administration,
which takes its. orders from Red
Russian through ith Embassadress
n Mexico City and for a man to
proclaim himself a Knight of
Columbus in that country is too
often all that is necessary to
invite his own doom. A short
time ago in the mining camp of
Parras, a number of young men,
or more properly speaking, hoys,
as Knights of Columbus organiz-
ed a small club. These hoys were
taken out and shot, each dying
with the cry on his lips, “Long
Live Religion!” In R driguez. n
town some forty miles from
Nuevo Laredo, the mayor and
six other prominent citizens were
arrested, tied together like
animals, and marched away, the
soldiers making the arrest, te’l-
ing them they were to be taken
to a jail in another town. This
occurred on Tuesday of last
week and up to Monday evening
their families hnd not hoard from
them and did not know whether
they had been deported or ex-
ecuted. No charge was preferred
against them and their only
crime was that they were Knights
of Columbus and did not deny
it.
HEBBRONVILLE
llelihronville is growing steadi
ly hut surely, and almost every
day notes the starting of new
improvements. The latest is tin*
cleaning of ground for the new
two-story telephone building and
in which, when completed will
lie installed a new and modern
telephone exchange with long-
distance collections with the out-
side world and over a new long-
distance cable that will he con-
trolled by the Southwestern Bell
Telephone Company. But this is
only one of several new impro-
vements that are being made in
llebbronville. Mr. Joseph Gruy
now has in course of construc-
tion quite a large two story build
ing. the ground floor of which
will be used by two new stores
while the upper story will be
converted into offices. Other
improvements are being made in
tin* business district while in the
residence section several new
homes have just been completed
and others are in course of con-
struction. New eity additions are
being added, the town is spread-
ing out in different directions
and the end of 1927 will see a
big change for the better from
the Hebbronvillc of today.
These books came from a Mex-
ico City dealer authorized to act
for the Government, and the In
ternntional News Service carried
the story of their being held up
in Laredo by the Curt House
nn<i WVishintgton notif rd When
the Administration rt Wnsh'ng-.
ton calls the after on of the Morones
Calles Administr", ion to this
breach of Internal in"'1 o' qnette,
if not of law. the Cailes Admi-
nistration will no doubt claim
that it was a “frame-up” of the
Knights of Columbus and done
There is in Lnredo today a
man who has been expelled from
Mexico because he did not subs-
cribe to the Calles Government
in its fight on the Catholic
Church. This man was one of the
largest, plantation owners in Mex
ieo the property having been in
his family for generations and
handed down from father to son.
His lands have been confiscated
by the Calles Government and
turned over to two Italinn Col
onies that are now in possession.
One of his haciendas, comprising
nearly 40,000 acres, was devoted
to the sugar industry and had
been brought up to a high state
of cultivation through the ex
ponditure of an inimncnse sum
of money. These are only throe
of many similiar instances that
have occurred in Mexico within
the past six months, and yet the
pnid propagandists in the United
States are telling the people that
the Catholics in Mexico are not
being persecuted by the Bolshe-
vist Government of Calles and
But llebbronville is most sadly
lacking in one essential, an es-
sential of the greatest importance
to the town and which it must
have before it can go very far,
mid that is an adequate water-
works system. The water sup-
ply of llebbronville comes from
wells and the underground sup-
ply of good water is limitless.
But the method of getting the
water to the surface and into
the business houses and homes is
primitive, the method used being
windwills. During the past year
there lias been shortage of water
on more than one occasion, due
to prevailing calms,rendering the
windmills inoperative and fre-
quently for days at a time. At
such times many llebbronville
people have been put to a great
inconvenience, hut, until we get
on adequate waterworks system,
this could he overcome by repla-
cing the windmills witli electric
pumps. We have an electric plant
that is one of the best, if not
the lnrgest, in the State, and
it can supply anv demand that
may be made for electricity.
And The News is quite confi-
dent that the same company
which owns the electric plant
the Central Power & Light Com-
pany, can be prevailed on to give
IlebbronviPe a waterworks sys-
tem as it has an electric plant,
for the company is noted for
doing its part in building up
any community in which it is
interested.
Mr. Viggo Kohler, the largest
tax payer in llebbronville, is
sometimes charged by some peo-
ple with holding hack the town
by placing certain restrictions
on the choice resident lots he
has to Nell. In this regard, Mr.
Kohler is not different from real
estate owners in other twons, who
sell lots hut with the under-
standing that only certain kinds
of buildings are to be erected on
the lots sold. Mr. Kohler has
done a good deal for Hebbron-
ville and more than anyone else.
He gave the county a block of
ground on which to erect a
courthouse, lie then donated an
other block on which to erect a
high school building, and when
this building became too small to
accommodate an increasing school
attendance, he permitted the
school board to sell this block of
ground and devote the proceeds
to lot of ground much larger and
better located and which he sold
the shool board on most reasona-
ble terms. But Mr. Kohler never
claimed that he donated the
courthouse and high school blocks
to the county as a mere matter
of charity, but he felt that wh ir
be was doing the county and town
a service lie was also doing busi-
ness for himself, as it increased
the value of his other property
and nil of which was ns it should
have been. And be also donated
a tract of land near the town
for a public park and this is now
in charge of the ladies. But Mr.
Kohler has done more. Tie has
built a 3-storv, fire proof hotel
a big credit to the town at the
time it was built, and which wii"
operated at a loss for several
years. In all matters of pub ie
enterprise he does bis part and
the restrictions he places on lot;
when be sells them may prove r
good thing for the town in nfto*
years and he may then be prai*-
ed by those who now find fau’t
with him for the manner in
v-hieh lie handles bis own nf
fairs.
TTebbronville cannot nfford to
overlook the new oil fields that
are gradually bein'* opened all
around us, and by this is meant
that llebbronville should lose no
time in laying out nnd building
nnssable roads to the new fields
What is likelv to prove one of
the greatest fields in this see
♦ ion is only seven miles west of
the town nnd is known as the
O’TTem-Seaoord pool. Mr O'lTern
said when this field was first
opened that he had great trouble
in getting his well supplies from
llebbronville on account, of the
bad condition of the roads over
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Richters
Calles and Morones have
brought about the political death
as they assert, of General Obre-
gon ,and that individual is no
longer a candidate to succeed
Calles. At least his announcement
for the purpose of getting the
Calles Government in bad with .made a few weeks ago, will he
the Administration at Washing-1 withdrawn, and for the time
ton. In fact, this “frame-up” .being at least, he will ret re to
reply has already been prepared
at Mexico City, according to
private information just receiv-
ed. but in view of the statement
given out bv Mr. Saenz at San
Antonio last December and freely
circulated by the Associated
Trail, it if not primmed tbit
the privacy of his plantation
home in the State of Sonora.
Hia political extermination was
maneuvered through Congress
by Callea and Morones, and was
(Continued on Page Two.r
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RICHTER’S
“THE ALWAYS BUSY STORE”
LAREDO. - - TEXAS.
Mr. Borah’s Warning'
Senator Borah says much that
many good |\uicrieanH do uot
subscrilni to, but even these must
ntliuit that the following from
his pen is worthy the considera-
tion of all true Americans, no
matter what their political faith
may be. His statement appeared
in a recent issue of The Nation’n
Business and is as^follows:
“The ability of the American
people for self-government is
being undermined by the Govern
incut’s increasing regulation of
and interference with private
and business life, and unless a
halt is called it will be only a
matter of a comparatively short
time before there will be an of
ficcr for ever ten persons in the
Republic.
“Every conceivable activity ol1
mind and body will he under the
direction and suveillance of a
bureau. Inspectors and spies will
leer upon the citizen from every
street corner and accompany him
hourly in his daily avocation.
Taxes will he $40 per capita.
Forty per cent of the National
income will be demanded for the
public expenses.
“We will have n republic in
name but a real bureaucracy in
fact—the most wasteful, the most
extravagant, the most demoraliz-
ing aiul deadly form of govern-
ment. which God has ever per
milted to torture the human
family.
“The pople must be taught
that in encouraging the centrali
zafion of their affairs in Wash
ington they are digging a grave
for tin1 American Government
as it was conceived by the cons
titution-makers.
“They must learn that in look
ing to the National capital t<
cure their ailments, they ar<
weakening the fiber of true citi-
zenship and destroying the self-
’ reliant, spirit, of Americanism
without which this republic can
not endure. And we in Congress
must .stop heading every little
group, which, like the Tailors of
ronley Street petition us as we
I he people of the United States.
“We have before us a task
worthy of the finest intellects
Our agricultural problem, our
transportation question, the re-
gulation of our great imtural
monopolies, coal and water-
power extravagance and corrupt
tendencies of government, State
ami National, the “enforcement of
law, the protection of human life
and property, the hold attempt to
debauch the electorate through
the profligate use of money—all
these cry out for our most serious
attention.
“As we approach these pro-
blems it is most, disturbing to
encounter on every hand the er-
roneous belief that the way to
meet these new questions is to
effectuate some change in the
structure of our Government
and thus everybody is proposing
a change until the whole struc-
ture is impliedly under condem-
nation.
“Our difficulties and our evils
flow not from our form of Go-
ernment, hut from our failure to
appreciate and utilize, according
to its great principles, the Gov-
ernment we already have.
“Its is easy to attek our Gov-
ernment, hut it is far more dif-
ficult, and it calls for greater
industry and abaility, to make
wise use of the instruments which
have been placed at our disposal.
“This clamor for change
merely for change’s shake, thu
haphazard floun-dering in le
gislativc affairs is no where and
in no way more pronunced than
in the gradual, hut certain de
struetion of the States and the
curtailing of all governments'
power in Washington.
“In this irresponsible vandal-
ism, the disciple of Hamilton and
the apostles of Jefferson join
hand. No political party in Wash
ington seems willing to stand
ngninst this un-American, un-De-
moeratic program.”
the gathering was to demand of
Congress the creation of certain
bureaus. Curtis, who is an Old-
Line Jeffersonian Democrat, warn
ed his fellow- laborers against
the creation of more bureaus and
said we were fast heading to a
bureaucracy that would even-
tually destroy our republican
from govrenment. His utter
ancea did not please Mr. Dum-
pers, but Mr. Curtis is a man
who has hia own convictions,
and he said that if the time ever
came when he could not express
his honest sentiments that he
“would retire and apend the re-
mainder of his days down on
his furm iti Texaa.” What Mr.
Curtis Haid in 1917, Mr. Borah
says in 1927. Curtis saw the
danger then, just as the country
was entering upon the World
War, and ten years later Mr.
Borah, a member of the United
States Senate, sees the increasing
danger nnd issues a timely warn-
ing to the people of the United
States.—Editor News.)
OLD THUS TEXAS STEERS.
;®I®I®I®I®I(2
(Ed Curtis is a Texan, a high
official in the Order of Rail-
way Conductors, nnd is promi-
nent Nationally in labor circle*
In 1917 there was a big gathering
in Washington City of labor
leaders, headed by Samuel Gora
pen, and one of the ob,
The old-time Texas longhorn
and his descendants still have a
friend in Lonnie Gates, promi-
nent Webb County cattleman nnd
well known in llebbronville,
where he has many good friends.
Recently Mr. Gates sold two
longhorn steers to the Hausman
Rockery at Iairedo that were
raised on his Webb County ranch
ind which brought him more
•noney than some people get for
good horses. These steers were
direct descendants of the old-
time Texas long-horns; were
without the slightest strain of
my high-grade blood, ami had
.lever in the entire eight years
of their lives tasted food other
than that which they found on
the open prairies. Yet the two
weighed 2,900 pounds, and that,
too, after they had been penned
up two days without food or wat-
er. Had they been weighed when
first taken from the prairies, Mr.
Gates feels assured they would
easily have weighed 3,000 pounds
“They may talk about their
blooded cattle, their thorough-
breds and highgrades” said Mr.
Gates, “but the old-fashioned,
nntive Texas steer, whose only
home is the open prairies, is
hard to beat and I, for one, re-
gret that they are fast disap-
pearing to bo replaced by fine-
blooded cattle which are harder
to raise, far more expensive, and
seldom weigh as much. Of course,
it takes time for the natives to
fully develop, os were those I
sold to tho Hausman Packery,
but what is time to a Texas
steer when he has the broad
prairies for a home and nothing
to do but roam and catf”
To nil of which John Dinn, who
was standing near, assented and
said he, too, could be put down
as a friend to the old-time Texas
steer, and that he regretted to
see them getting fewer and
fewer as the years pass by.
ONE BOOTLEOOER KILLED
Jack Webb and his squad of
bootleg chasers, had quite a lit-
tle set-to with a gang of Mexican
bootleggers in the southern part
of the county a few days and a
number of shots were exchang-
ed, resulting in one bootlegger
being killed and one captured
together with quite a quantity of
‘looze. The other bootleggers os-
aped in the brush and evidently
rot back across the Rio Grande.
The captured man disclaimed
being a bootlegger and said be
had been presaed into service
that morning to help move the
liquor. If these Customs officers
keep up this kind of work the
bootleggers from the other side
of the Rio Grande will soon
come to the conclusion that boot-
legging in South Texas is not
without its risks. The man killed
was said to have been an old
offender and on a previous oc-
casion or two had been in shoot-
ing scrapes with Customs of-
ficial*.
The estimated length of all
wires used in tip telephone btrri-
nees in Texas is nearly two mil-
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