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HEBBRONVILLE NEWS
Oranges, Crapes
Prnlt, Grapes, Figs
Volume IV. Number 18.
HEBBRONVILLE. (JIM HOOO COUNTY, TEXA8. Wednesday, April 6, 1927.
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SUBSCRIBE NOW.
‘Red Love’—Not Wanted!OURPOLICYinMEXICO
Interesting Letters
(By flit* Madam Editor.)
The Houston Chronicle of Sun-
day, March 20. last carried in
’il'.s PliotJogruvkire Section many
lovely pictures and photos. Am-
ong, them however, was a pho-
t< *rrapli of the Russian Embas-
smtress to Mexico, who was so
recently barred from the Uni-
ted States and forbidden also by
the Cuban authorities to land on
Cuban soil. The photo shows the
Russian Embas^adress, Madam
Kollanty, seated with President
Calles, surrounded by a smiling
staff of officials, discussing her
book “lied Love,” which she has
recently written, and which, the
inscription underneath the photo
informs us, she is publishing
soon in the United States; also
that the hook deals with free
love and trial marriages as lived
by the Soviet nnd the Communists
of her own country. We cannot
help but admire the determina-
tion and perseverance of the Rus-
sian EmbasadresH. It is worthy
a nobler cause. We also cannot
THEY REPRESENTED OVER
$200,000,000
Bruni, our little neighbor west
was visited by the biggest ag-
gregation of capitalists over
seen in South Texas. There were
eight directors of the Houston
Oil Company who represented
many millions of dollars and
their names were as follows: E.
II. Buckner Houston, president of
the company; Lu S. Zimmerman,
p esident of the Maryland Trust
Company of Baltimore, treasurer;
George Macknbin, of Mackubin,
Goodrich & Co. hankers, Balti-
more; John F. Shepley, Chair-
man of Board, St. Louis Union
Trust Co., St. Louis; Samuel
Davis, capitalist, Houston; T.
Hannah, capitalist, Houston; T.
S Maffitt, capitalist, St. Louis;
Judge' H. O. Head, general at-
torney of the Houston Oil Com-
pany, Sherman, Texas. All of
these gentlemen are directors of
the Houston Oil Company, and
accompanying them there were
W. W. Blocker, Judge T. M.
Kentierly, A. S'. Henley and C.
B. McKinney, directors of the
Houston Pipe Line Company’, The
party left Houston in autos
travelled along the Houston pipe
line, inspecting the compress r
station at Edna, Jackson C» •r
already completed, and the o .e
at Lucas, Goliad County’, now
under construction. Another com-
pressor will he completed in the
Cole field and duplicate 12Va in
line laid from the field. The
Houston Pipe Line Company now
lias contracts with industrial
plants and municipalities ag-
gregating 115 million cubic feet
of gas per day. After looking
over the great gas field of the
Cole Petroleum Company’, the
distinguished visitors then ins-
pected the “Directors’ Retreat”
with its magnificent artesian well
and swimming pool, the thought
•of Mr. Mncckubin but who was
persuaded by his brother direc-
tors to let them in on the deal
nnd share the expense. The
“Retreat**, built on the order of
n fashinable club house, will
cost, when completed, all of $30-
000.00, while the grounds, com-
prising ten acres, will he beauti-
fied at a eost of some $25,000.00.
Mr Cole and Mr. Tyng, of the
Cole Petroleum met the visitors
nt "Bruni and escorted them to
Laredo, and that evening, under
the chaperonage of Mr Cole, they’
enjoyed a dinner at one of the
clubs in Nuevo Laredo. Seated
around that table in the Nuevo
Laredo club were the representa-
tives of more than $200,000,000,
vet they acted just like ordinary
neople and one would never hove
gre°ed at their great wealth by
lookin'* at them and watching
tbcm devour food etc. They were
delighted with that “Retreat”
Mr McKubin was throughtful
enough to have built near Bruni
nnd several of them were very
enthusiastic over the rest they
expected to find at various times
in the “Retreat.” The visitors
were all pleased with their visit
nnd told Mr. Cole thal at least
some, if not all of then, would
be back again in the near fatAH*
but wonder how many thought-
less thrill hunting men and wo-
men of our own country are anx-
iously waiting to be among the
first to read and pass on the
new thrill. Now that the book
stores have been disinfected and,
to a certain extent, cleansed by
the splendid campaign, a short
time ago, against the vicious
use of the mails to disseminate
filthy and lascivious literature
we wonder if the women clubs
will not again come to the fore
and, for the sake of those who
have not the strength of mind
to resist “Red Love” keep from
our land this putrid hook which
tells of the “free love” as prac-
tice and lived by the Russian
Redsf We truly hope so; and
what a feather it would be in
their caps.
Little Obi New York has been
having troubles enough of its own
with its epidemic of sex plays,
etc., without catching the whoop
ing cough from Red Russia.
Let us hope that every patriot
will ge t vaccinated against this
new thrillpox and thus bar an-
other undecirable epidemic from
our shores to say nothing of the
avalanche of dollars tk*t can
he used to better advantage,
perhaps byr some noteworthy wri-
ter for a nobler cause.
HE HIDES HIS INDENTITY.
We are in receipt of a clip-
ping from the Daily Texan,
published by the students of the
State University, the clipping
being an edjtoral entitled “Our
Illusions About Mexico.” The
editorial is something of a report
of a lecture recently’ delivered
before a lot of students by Dr.
S. G. Inman, professor of inter-
national relations at Columbia
University, and of course it
deals with Mexico as that seems
to be the all-absorbing them •
of certain university professors
in this country, one of whom is
to be found in our own State
University. These professors go to
Mexico City, get their informa-
tion from Calles, Morones and
their kind, and then return t'>
the United Slates and at once
being spreading propaganda fa-
vorable to Calles and abusive of
our own Government. The clip-
ping above refered to was sent
us in a plain white envelope bear-
ing the Austin postmark. The
envelope was addressed “ Heb-
bronville News, Hebbonville, Tex-
as,” and the sender disguised his
hand by printing the lettering
with pen and ink. On the
margin of the clipping, also
printed with pen and ink, was
the following:
“Now, brother, find some Cath
olic henchman to write your
paper another editorial condem-
ning the Mexican Government.’’
In the spirit of the paid Calles
propagandist, and there are
many such in the United states,
the sender of the clipping with
its notation, hides his identity
but he is not to be blamed. As
to some of the statements made
by Dr. Inman as recorded in the
Daily* Texan, they too, are in
keeping with the paid Calles
propagandist and are far from
the truth. To read what he is
accredited with saying, one
would infer that Mexico under
Calles is land of peace and
plenty and that there is no “so-
cial strife*’ in that country. T he
inference is also left htat such a
thing as Bolshevsm in Mexico
lives only in thf mind of our
State Department at Washing-
ton. which “seems obsessed with
such fears.” We do not sa.v that
Dr. Inman is paid by Calles to
spread the Calles propaganda
that he is spreading, but if be
were paid'he could not misstate
the facts any more than he is
misstating them. He and Profes-
sor Hackett of the Texas Univer-
sity ought to form a partnership
and tour the United States a*
champions of Mexico's Bolshe-
vik government and against the
Government of the United States.
They would receive the plaudits
of quite a large number of so-
called Americana, hut who wear
the Bolshevik brand brought
prey from Russia.
(NoteJCongressman James A.
Uallivan of Boston, Mass., expres-
ses himself in a most vigorous
manner on the way in which Mex
icau propaganda has been cir-
culated in the United State* for
the purpose of deceiving and
misleading the p<*plo of this
country regarding the true condi-
tona that exist in Mexico under
the Calles Government. What he
says is taken from the Congres-
sional Record of March 9, 1927.)
(Continued From Last Week.)
MR. GALLIVAN. Mr. Speaker,
Cortez landed amid an Indian
civilization. Their Standards wero
the standards of savagery, but
their life, after all ordered, and
works being done. The Spanish
brought to Mexico culture, edu-
cation, and written lunguage,
energy, and a provident fore
sight that saves from the food of
today the seed for next year. As
conquerors they ensalved the na-
tion until Las Casas, wliose por-
trait adorns the entrance of our
own State Foreign Relations Com
mittee room, freed the slaves be-
fore even we had fought our Re-
volutionary War. Before the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
was founded Mexico City had
daily’ papers and had them for a
century’.
Followed years of contact and
work, development and build-
ing. Bnbi-'s were born and 'grew
and thrived, hut unfortunately
races wer*. mingled.
The mixture of the white with
the black or brown means retro-
gression in the offspring. The
half breed is a half-breed the
world over. His intelligence can
not be denied, nor can his vault-
ing ambition to live bv his wit%
wide others strive and toil. The
halfbreed, or mestizos, increased
in number and joined with the
I Spanish liberals in 1810 in revolt
ngain«t the viceroys. Through
thr millitary coup diktat, or cuar
telazo. so common in Mexico, the
viceroys were turned out, and
from Mexican independence un-
til today’ has followed a history
of 'government overthrown by
their own supposedly faithful sol-
diers for which the world has no
parallel. In every case the motive
has bcejj personal ambition. In
every cose this personal ambition
has been denied and disguised in
the most alluring, high-sound-
ing, and mendacious slogans and
battle ervs conceivable to the half
breed ingenuity. Consistency,
there is none. Loyalty, there is
node. Regard for fellow human
beines just simply has not been
and is not there.
Once arrived in power, the
victors always confiscated the
properties of the vanquished and
held them until they in turn were
driven out. The reward of tem-
porary faithfulness has been
paid in the lands or goods of
others This succession of mil-
itary try ants, overthrow by
their own captains, has been
broken in Mexican history only
by the American intervention of
1848 and the 20 years of peace
under Diaz, whose idea of the
half breed was well shown by
the fact that he never gave one
a position of trust.
Diaz grew’ old. His offic ala,
fearing his wrath, kept from
him the growing importance of
the revolution of Orozco and
many’ others. It overwhelmed
him and Mexico has returned to
normal Mexico. In the 12 years
from the abdication of Diaz. M'‘X
ieo had 12 Presidents, Some for
a few years some for a period of
months, and one for 45 minutes
Always half-breed cupidity and
the ambition to live by the thrift
of others impelled the overthrow.
The country was swept bare of
cattle and live stock. Confisca-
tion of A’s property by B. of
B’s by C. and C’s by the rest of
the alphabet had so exhausted
the Mexican hoard of wealth that
in 1917, egged on by American,
Spanish, and German rnd'cPs.
Carranza had to look elsewhere
for reward for his minions. There
before him lay the railways, the
banks, the fields and farms, the
mines, the oil fields, bought and
paid for, wrougth and dtvflopsd
by foreigners in the days of Daz
Und Mudero. What better prize,
what ric/ier prize, for him und
his pirates on horseback 1
And so, the machinery of the
Government was deliberately
aimed at the acquisition of this
Croet.. a stake. The constitution
of Mexico itself was changed. All
property, native and foreign, fell
within its confiscatory provisions
all with the object of taking
away from him who has. Mexican
native of foreign builder, and
dividing it among members of
the Mexican Government, their
friends, and their supporters.
The ambition of the mestizo,
and his only ambition, is to live
in luxury on the industry of
others. His only means to wealth
arc through commissions of sales
by others, through seizures and
confiscations of what others own.
Ho lets the other man do the
work and takes off the profit.
The sole end of man in Mexico
since the half-breeds gained as-
cendency has been to attract in-
vestment and tuke it away from
the foreign investor— to convert
to their own use and advantage
the investments already made.
The constitution of 1917, which
gave notice to the world that
confiscation would be consum-
mated regardless of nationality
of owner und iu violation of the
first axiom of international law,
was the first move toward le-
galized theft. The guiding star
of each succeeding administra
tion has been its article 27. which
lays the basis for confiscation.
Attempts were made to consum-
mate wholesale consfication of
American properties. Protest by
Wilson, unpposod by church-
less preacher, the chairle«s pro-
fessor, the well-meaning busy-
body, the women’s club, and the
kept propagandist, stayed ‘th.e
baud of Mexico for some tirno.
Due to nonrecognition over a
period of years the Governments
of Mexico were suppliants for
that boon. They could not get
recognition if they confiscated
foreign property, And so they
did hot confiscate.
But, after recognition, accord-
ed in the conditions laid down
iu the Warren Payne conference,
their nerve returned, and the
fall of 1925 saw the passage «f
two laws—the alien law and the
law of hydrocarbons—which put
into effect the spoliation to
which thr successive revolutiona-
ry governments bad aspired.
The final effect of these laws
was postponed until January 1,
1927. The American Government
in lucid albeit prolix, protest
called the attention of the Calles
government to the fact that the
results of those laws would be
the very confiscation which ns a
condition of recognition Mexico
had promised not t(( effect. Cul-
len saw clearly in January,
the logical end of the controversy
to be withdrawal of recognition
and lifting of the embargo on
arms, whereunder we are in fact
intervening in Mexico by making
it impossible for the people of
Mexico to rid themselves of the
incubus of entrenched piratical
officials. The danger of with-
drawal of recognition must be
overcome. And here only arose
the niuch-discu'-sed church ques-
tion. The constitution had been
passed in 1917 with provisions
burden some to the only religion
the Mexican Indians know, the
CathiWe religion. But. like all
their predecessors, the revolu-
tionary governments had let
these provisions ride, nnd God
was worshiped according to cus-
tom and religions tenet.
In the spring of 1920, with the
sole object of making difficult
or impossible the logical result
of breach of condition of recog-
nition. President Calles, not by
legislative act but by personal
flat, decreed the antiohurch re-
gulations. He did it for one sole
object—to confuse the situation
nnd make it appear that when
withdrawal of recognition should
become at l«»t neccasnry the peo-
ple of the United States would
hold the opinion that the real
(Continued On Page Thrsa.)
JLo* Angeles, Calif.,
March 28, 1427.
Jeff: MeLcmore, Esq,
licbbronville, Texas
Dear Jeff:
We have tit last arrived at the
“Golden West,” and are tempo-
rarily located at 1125, West t>0th
Place, to which address 1 ask
that you please mail The News
und the only correct news of
the Mexican situation I found
several copies of The News
awuitini? me w^ieh I am reading
with interest. With kindest re-
gards to you and Mrs. Me-
Lcraore uud The baby, and in
which Mrs. FitzSimmons joins
me* I am.
Verv trulv vours,
C. D FITZSIMMONS.
Mr. FitzSimmons. known to
many of the old settlers in this
section as Dudley FitzSimmons,
u native of Corpus Ohristi, after
a residence of more than a quar-
ter of a century in Mexico as an
attache of the Consular Service
at Monterrey, resigned from the
MORE THAN HE COULD
8TAND.
D. W. Maurer used to be pret-
ty well known is this section and
over uround San Diego as an
oil operator, being associated
with Mr. Duggan, also well
known in the South Texas oil
fields. While engaged in develop
raent work Mr Maurer spent
giost of his time iu the field
while Mrs. Maurer found it more
convenient to spend her time in
Laredo, the Maurers having
apartments at the Robert E. Lee
Hotel, und where she was joined,
by Mr. Maurer every Saturday
night. More than a year ago,
the Muurers decided they would
do a little traveling, and, leaving
Mr. Duggan in Laredo, they
struck out for Philadelphia, their
old home and from there they
viated numerous Northern and
Eustern cities returning last fall
to Dullas, which they now call
their home. A few day* ago Mr.
and Mra. Maurer decided they
would pay a short visit to old
Larfdo frends, so they took the
frst train south from Dallas and
nrrived safely in San Antonio,
where they were met by Mr. Dug-
gan, who drove them from there
to Laredo in his big cur.
Back uguin in Laredo, Mr.
Maurer felt it was necessary to
go across the Ilo Grande to
renew some old Acquaintances so
Mrs. Maurer said she would go
with him and invited two or three
friends to join in. It was a mer-
ry little party that drove over to
Nuevo Laredo, where they enjoy-
ed a dinner with beer and wine
accompaniment and indulged In
a little dancing. Everything was
lovely uutl they started on the
return uud hud reached the
American end of the Internatio-
nal bridge when the trouble
began. Of the five in the auto
(two ladies and throe gentlemen)
Mr. Muurer was spotted by the
Customs officer as the villain,
and was thoroughly questioned
as to contraband stuff. Evidently
ht-> auswera, were satisfactory,
as he was permitted to proceed
with h:s auto. He was then held
up by a Health officer und told
to get out of the auto azid enter
a small room, where ho was
made to show his vaccination
mark, and narrowly escaped
being dipped.
Thoroughly exasperated, he
got buck in his auto and had
hardly started again when he was
stopped by Immigration officers
who asked him in the Mexican
language where his home was.
After his experience with the
other officers, to be now mis-
taken for a Mexican by the Im-
migration inspectors was a little
more thun Mr. Maurer could
stund and they say it was fully
a minute before he could com-
pose himself sufieientlv to tell
the officer, in subdued English,
that his home was in Dallns. al-
though he cqpld have answered
the offioers in Mexican, as he
speaks that language as well as
he does his own, having spent
several years in the Tampico oil
fields, where ha ewaad two op
Service a few weeks ugo and he
und Mrs. FitzSimmons are now
in Los Angeles, which city will
become their permanent homo,
provided the climate proves ben-
eficial to Mrs. FitzSimmons, her
health not having been good for
sometime past, Mr. FitzSimmons
knows conditions in Mexico as
well as unyone und his endor»e
ment of the stand The News has
taken against the Bolshevik gov
eminent of that country is no
idle compliment.
44 Victoria Street,
Toronto 2 Canada
March 24, 1927.
Hon. Jeff: McLemore,
Hebbronville, Texas.
My dear Jeff:
When opportunity presents it-
self and time permits, I always
take pleasure in reading The
Hebbronville News. It was my
good fortune to recive the issue
of March 21, where, on the front
page, I read your open letter ad-
dressed to Congressman Connallv.
I cannot resist writing and ex-
pressing my congratulations on
the way you treated the subject.
After the number of years that I
continually lived in Mexico. I
think you are probably better in-
formed on general Mexican con-
ditions than any other writer
whose articles I have had the op-
portunity of reading. With kind-
est personal regards for you, aud
yours, I am.
Sincerely your frend,
J. W. FLANAGAN.
Capt. J. W. (Jack) Flanagan
is well known to several people
in Laredo und hus relatives living
iu that city. He is a native of
East Texas and a nephew of the
late Col. Webster Flanagan
whose name was Internationally
known. Captain Flunagan is Urn
president of the Andiau National
Corporation Limited, and hix
head office is at Toronto, Cana-
da. Uis corporaton is a very
rich concern aud operates largely
in Central and South America.
It is only recently that he retur-
ned from an extended tour of
the countries south of us, and
he is thoroughly qualified to
speak of conditions in those coun
tries, especially as much of his
time is spent looking after his.
company’s large business inter-
ests in lands to the south. It
is also necessary for him to keep
in touch with conditions, done
through his big company’s nu-
merous agents while he is in
Canada or the United States.
ROY YAEGER IS APPOINTED.
1 Roy Yeager, who was recently
i appointed special deputy game
I Warden for this district, is one of
j our best known young rnneh-
aicn and no doubt will prove the
right man in the right place.
His district comprises Jim Hogg,
Duval and Brooks Counties and
he will be kept pretty busy look-
ing after his duties. Roy ap<l
his brother Louis both served in
the World War and both return-
ed home hearing sears of honor
and wearing medals for heroic
deeds performed. The News feels
justified in saying that all viola-
tors pf the game laws will lo'lt
alike to Roy. 11 is father, Mr. IL
C. Yaeger is an old South Tex-
as ranchman and is also presi-
dent of the Hebbronville bank
Twenty states have a larga
percentage of rural population
than Texas.
three big oil wells wlrfch he sold
to Standard Oil while the selling
was good.
When they got back to their
hotel that night, everybody wax
in high spirits except Mr. Maurer
who said he had been across tha
river many times in the past but
never before had he been ac-
corded such treatment by the
Federal officials at this end of
the bridge. After thinking tho
matter over that night, ho got
up the next morning fully con-
vinced that he had been made
the victim of a joke aud he say a
from now on he is going to work
to get even and will do so if it
takes him a thousand years. 4
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