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Saturday, j
Brownsville Needs j
A Cotton Mill.
• • •
Modern Tourist Hotel.
9 9 •
Large Auditorium.
• • 9
Natural (las Pipe lint
a a a
Canning Factories.
a a •
Crata and Box Factory.
a a a
Public Library. v
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Parks and Playgrounds.
a a a
Better Truck Marketing Fadlltlea.
a a a
Bigger Lirfit and Power Plant.
SCANDALS Hl’RT, Bl’T INVESTIGA
TIONS ARE NECESSARY
That the whole nation has been tie- J
pressed by the scandals growing out of
the bribery of a former secretary of
the treasury and the sacrifice of the
naval oil reserves cannot be denied.
The country naturally ha* been shock- j
ed and ashamed and disgusted by the -
revelations brought out by the invcsti- J
gation of the corruption oft men who
have heen honored with high office ,
under our government. But it is a
mistake to think that these investiga
tions have hurt business. On the con
trary. business is said to be even bet
ter now than last year. On figures fur- j
nisbed by no less authority than the
former comptroller of the currency.
John Skelton Williams, it is asserted
such is the case.
Mr. Williams has taken the reports
of Dun's mercant'le agency to prove
that business has not hcen hurt by the
investigations at Washington. The
figures show that during 11*23. when
there were no invest gations and no
government scandals, there were near
ly twice as many bank failures in the
United States as there were in all of
the five years from 11*16 to 11*20, both
years inclusive. That tin1 total liabili
ties of the banks that failed during the
year 11*23 exceeded in amount the lia
bilities of all the national and state
hanks that failed in the seven years
from 11*14 to 11*20, both inclusive. There
were 189 hank failures in the three
years from 11*18 to 1920. involving lia
bilities amounting to $72,361,049. In
the succeeding three years. 11*21 to
11*23, there were 1221 bank failures,
with liabilities totalling $447,553,327.
Everyone knows that the country hail
been experiencing a near panic for
some time before the 1 copot Dome
oil scandal developed. According to
the some authority quoted, no less
than 62.04H mercantile businesses col
lapsed in this country during the three
years of 1921-23, with losses aggregat
ing the stupendous sum of $1.781,8.10.
000 many times more failures and
many times heavier losses than ever
were experienced in this country dur
ing any similar length of time, wihtin
the memory of present day people. In
the three preceding years. 1918-2**.
there were only 25.314 commercial fail
ures. with liabilities totaling $571,
133.021. less than half as many as oc
ctfrred during the past three years.
Plainly the business depression of the
past three years could not be charged
up to the senatorial investigation of
these scandals, as there was no such
investigation until this year.
It is folly to attempt to belittle the
gravity of tTuse scandals or to dis
courage the investigations necessitated
on account of revelations made by
prominent republicans theinsetves. It
i* n serious mistake to attempt to gloss
pver these charges of corruption. All
should recognize the fact that the in
vestigations were inevitable.
Senator Moses of New Hampshire,
who is a member of the Daugherty in- ,
vestigation committee, told an audience I
in Philadelphia the other night that
the senate investigations in Washing
ton are a “grotesque spectacle,” and
that Nothing had been proved by them,
except that a former member of the
president's cabinet "told a lie.*' Yet.
as the result of these investigations,
two members of the cabinet have lost
their positions, and many leading re
publicans used their influence to bring
about their resignation. The entire
senate, by unanimous vote, including
Senator Moses, in fact, requested the
president to ask for Che resignation of
Secretary of the Navy Dcnby -as the
result of these investigations which
the senator terms a "grotesque spec
tacle." It is plain that President t’ool
iiige regards the situation rather more
seriousl.v than Senator Moses would
have his audience b< lieve that he him
self does.
True, the scandals have hurt. They
have hurt the feelings of all self-re
specting American citizens. Hut the
investigations have not hurt. They
have done good. If you find a filthy
place in your house, the stench raised
by cleaning it out is bad. but the only
way to meet the situation is to clean
up—and use disinfectants. That is
what the government needs just now — ■
a liberal application of disinfectants.
As to business conditions, in the
first place business always has been j
more or less dull and doubtful during
a presidential election year, and it is
encouraging to observe that business
is really better this year than it was
I
last year.
If every mercantile firm would fol
low the example of the big mail order
house of the Middle West that has stop
ped selling pistols, the number of vio
lent deaths in this country would be
materially reduced. If no pistols
could be bought in this country, in oth
er words, the over-ready, hip-pocket
murder machine would soon become
rare, and banditry would lose its lure
for n good many youths, who would
not be bandits unless they could wear
a pistol.
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Argentina has passed a law for the |
payment of a pension to every citizen ^
(>f that country who lias worked twen
ty-five years. That ought to be a
good way to encourage industry and
discourage labor strikes. But how will
they be able to keep tab on the workers
and see that all work the entire twen
ty-five years without loafing on their
job? !
Speaking of spring reminds us that
Brownsville has not hud her spring
clean-up yet. The weed- are growing
pretty hffeh on vacant lots around
town, and mosquitoes already are begin
ning to tunc up. Better take this mat- 1
ter in hand at once, dear < ity Bails.
This was Boy Scout week during
which every scout was expected to dft
a good deed daily. Me have found the
scouts ready to do a good deed most
of the time, not only daily but hourl.s,
or whenever the occasion arises.
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Other Papers *
GETTING THE HOY’S VIEWPOINT
(Christian Science Monitor.)
Calm consideration by those coni- j
petent to view the matter intelligently
anil dispassionately has lesulted in an
expression of the wisdom and fairness
of conceding something to tile view- •
point of the incorrigible boy. In a re- ,
c nt address. Miss Olive Jones, pres
ident of the National Education as-oci- i
I'tion. presented a convincing plea in I
this behalf. She ventured what many!
will regard as the reasonable assertion i
that the point of view ot tl>e teacher
[>r preceptor frequently i' «o exulten. |
.< much in advance, ethically, from that
of what -he denominated the "' ad boy.
that a meeting concerning a given sub
ject is impossible.
Probably it would not be insi-tcd that
the standards of the teachers should
|.e lowered. Th.t would be a dangerous ,
conce sion, and one, no doubt, which j
the object of the teacher’s solicitude j
would be the fir t to take advantage of.
What then, a e to be the processes by
which a common ground is reach'd.'
Kducation is at once the leveler and the
solvent. Bi t there r- nnot he proper
training or encouraging progrissive
growth until the opportunity is created i
f« r- that meeting o! thought by v.-hich
the leavening is accompli bed. Syrn
5 ithetic understanding must first un
dermine the standing niuitt first under
mine the wall whieh eparates an
ex.ilted sense of justice from the dc- .
proved or vicious sense. That, in its j
turn, can only he gained through lovinR
patience and earnest endeavor.
It is j.n inescapable conclusion, as one ,
views the progress being made along*
the line suivre te.l that the work which ,
should rightly begin in the home, to i e
supplemented by that ot the schoolroom,
is h.ing most satisfactorily accom
plished, generally sptaking, in those,
organizations devoted to advancing the j
welfare of boys. In the Boy Scout
movement in the I’nited States and in
ether countries moy he found what
seems to be the most convincing proo*
of thi' olservation. The leaders and
masters in th it organisation seem to
have discovered the » pen road to the in
nermost recessc of the thoughts of
bovs. They have mode the light de
siral le r: th-'r than rcpurnant. They
have made the doing of kind sets a
pleasuie inther than -ometliing to be
shunned. They have stripped from
wrongdoing all the filmsy tinsel and
trappings with which youth so often
. eeks to clothe it. and in its place have
sc* up inoffensive :.nd attractive ideals
of justice and decency.
By this means the viewpoint of thp
hoy hns been found. When once di -
covered, it is not difficult to disatfm
it or even to alter it. Something that
THE MOTHER BIRD
the boy can understand and respect
must le ] ut in the place of his wtong
concept. The wt>>k can be done in the
hortte or in the eland. It would be well
if more of it wire done there. Hut it
is gratifying to know thr.t at least in
i. measure, the thing gt>at!y to be de
sired is being accomplished.
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TIIE REIT It V OF THE “TOITER."
(New York World.)
An observer on the roof of a stage
going down Fifth avenue ye terday well
past the church hour, was able to count
forty-three silk hats w> rn ty many
promenadors. This may have been a
sign of -tring. More strikingly was the
sign of the persistence, or rather the
ricrudescence, of a type. By the evid
ence of the stake rider’s own eye-, it
must appear that the “topper” is com
ing back.
The silk but is the most uncomf< rtable
piice of headgear ever inverted, with
the po-sible except.on o! th*- brass hel
met To the majority of men it is as
oppressive. It ri.-es to majestic i rn -
prt sivenes only when worn in mas
by the member of a parading minstrel
company. Yet it is endowed with more
lives than any number of nine-lived
cat#. K.ngs have tried to kill it. al o
princes and common men. It survives
alike the royal | recedent and the pop
ular boycott.
In the years following the Spanish
war it wa estimated that the silk hat
had fallen in the popular favor at least
40 per cent. The military slouch h <1
succeeded it on tht streets. Chiefly
it was the politicals and the old-time
ports who kept the **topper*' in sight.
No champion heavyweight pugilist w.
completely equipped who had not his
towering cylinder of silk. With the
outbreak of the w< rid conflict, the
“silker" sank further yet Irom the
common wea*\ and hopes were enter
tained that it h d rec ived it finishing
blow. New of it flaunting reappear
unce on the avenue follows sadly on the
apparent breaking up of a groundht c't
winter.
Half of our lives punt talking to
people about other people.
All th.s water in flooded rive -
conies from the spring.
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Tom Sims Says
' ~ -1--1 r nnrnnrnnnn
Sing Sing report a good ball, team
this year, maybe with the idea of knock
ing tiie ball over fences and chasing
it.
The boys’ kites are making tome peo
ple look up for the first time since last
fall.
A Detroit man was poisoned by eating
some hot dogs, pcrhap because the hot
dogs went mad.
The trouble with gucs-ing at the
height of spring dresses if you never
can tell whut designers will be put up to
next.
It is not clean-up time until you can
leave the window* clean up.
To the pure, all things are pure, but
to the simple all things are complicated.
Too much money makes u- unhappy
l ecause we can't get it.
Couits are getting so strict nbo t
the only way a woman can shoot two
men and go Irte is by being a b ga
in.st.
When a young Indy with a comfort
able parlor : 11 her own can’t be a June
bride she isn’t half trying.
The tookie pitchers who peas four
bail* too otten will soon be stopping
before the three-ball pawnshop signs.
The longest jump on record is re
ported in Chicago. A Tran jumped bail
in 1910 and only recently landed in
jail. ___
BASKETlUT.I. advertising
( Bv The Associated Press)
CHICAGO. April 5.—Semi-finals :.n I
finals in the nation: I into: schola tic
basket! all tournament today and to
riphl will sec powerful Gams bnttlinp
for honors. Yankton, S. I>.. crippled la
the It'S - of John MeDinorph. stellar
jjuard, who dislocated a vertebra in his
neek in a fall yesterday meets north
eastern Detroit, at 2 p.m., and Man
ahestei, N. H., enrape Windsor Colo..
at ^ p.m. The winners will play for the
championship at 9:30 p.m.
S
UCHURCHESI
1.MMACTI.ATE CONCEPTION
1 he following ure the services Sunday
*t the Church of the Immaculate Con
ception, conducted in Spanish:
Sunday school, 10 a. m.
Rosary, benediction of the blcaaed
sacrament and sermon, at 7:30 p. m
Communion mass at 6:30 a. m., 7:#®
a. m. and 9 a. m.
(TIL'RCH OF CHRIST
Meets every Lord’s Day at the district
court room at the court liou.-e. Worship
10 a.m.; preaching 11 a.m. Eve’ybody
cordially invited. _
SACRED HEART CHCRCH
vSeptember 30th to June l*t.)
Sunday Service** »
7:00 am. Holy Communion Mas*.
9:15 n.m. Sunday School and Bible
class.
10:00 a m. High Mass and Sermon.
7;:$0 p.m. Holy Rosary answers to
question box. Meeting of Parish Soci
, t es. Vesper- and Benediction of \he
Blessed Sacrament.
Rev. J. R. Frigon. O. M. I.
Pastor.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY
4'oiiihe PuiMing. next to Post Office
Sutnlay S< liool. !t;l.i a. in.
4 lmr. li service*. 11 TO n. m.
Subject: “Unrealty.’*
\V«*due«day: Testimonial meet in* ,
8:04* p. m. 1
Th«* publii is cordially invited to attend
these services.
t ENTRAI. CHRISTIAN Cllt'ltCII
4'nr. Fourth and Lt vee St#.
Herbe t II. F i.rulers. Minister
Bible School at 0:15. < lar»e> f*»r all
ages.
Morning Worship. 11:60 am. torn
mu. ion at 11:15. Subject. “ Worship j
pir.o the Creature Rather tl.an the
''rentor.*'
Afternoon 3:tm wo uer
jence and official board meetin:?.
Kv- ngelistic setvice at 7:30. Sul ject
„f discourse. "What Think Ye of Chi.-: '
Whom S< n i Hof” The r-' « 1 *"*
> vitcd to each and all <>f these services.
We desire- to thank the pa ton of the
! churches for thujr considciation in this
! matter bv the giving up of their mid j
week night services. There will be spec
ial music suitid to the ev. ngeli-tic cf
.'ort which is being made
Scrim as for the following week are
. as follows: ...
! Monday—“Will a Tup Christian
| Dance V' . .
I Tae.«da>—“ Will a True Christian i la>
| Card ?"* „
Wednesday “God Presents M n With
a Looking Glass.
Thursday—“God’s Remedy fur What
Man Sn'.x in thp Glas ®
Friday—“Giving Away a Farm.**
And the Hetean- wi re more noble
than those of Thessi hnicn in that they
pitched the Scriptures daily to find
out w hether th« sc things were o or
nut.” Be nohle!
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
!»: |.'» A. M Itil»l«* School.
A. M. Morning worship. th<
pastor preaching. The subject will be
"Salvation ami Works."
1«»: 4r. A. M -Sunbeam Band. Mrs.
furrx Wood leader.
;; :IH» |*. M.— Mr. Robert Jolly will
speak to ns on our great denomination
program. Mr. Jolly is superintendent
of our hospital m Houston. We war;
all of our people to bear him. at:d ;i'
inanx others as will.
»•:“«» I*. M Junior. Intermediate
and Senior It. ^ I*. I’.’s.
M .minx :t:«h* |\ M. W mian’s Mission
a rx S«m ie! v.
There will he no evening servn e on
n< count of the revival in progre" at the
fhristinn eliurt h.
We extend a cordial invitation to all
to worship with its. I.et the stranger in
our citx feel at home with us. We are
trying to have a •• Homey" atmosphere.
Keep up the habit of lunch aitendame.
K. W. Marshall. Fastor.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
It;4a in Sunday S< liixd, t'leve
Tandy. S :|»t.
11:«m» a. in. .Morning: worship. Sui*
ji «-i. of message. “Th* L"i'in <• of tin
Cii.jn-I." Spe< ial tinisie. Tin- Session
will meet ten minute* before tlie hour
of iMorniuK worship for I lie e.otiv'enieiH-•
of any who may wish to unite with the
< hill ell.
\,, evening *ervi e <>n .urotint of tlie
*1 < . ial meeting at the Oiristian ehnrrlt.
This vimr»li eorxlinl^r weleonie* all
i oniera to it* servnes. e*;>e ittlb strut.U
••rs in the i ity and those not identified
with other eotigregation*.
I aumet I*. I My. Pastor.
FIRST METHODIST CHURCH
(for. loth .V Washingi >n streets.*
Sunday sch mi| 0:dO in regtilat r»otits.
We are i xpx ting'i big inere;.*e in at
tetidiiin e tomorrow. I.et every tea !>' 1
personally see t *» it that ea<h pupil
YOl'ft MOXO(iIIAM FREE ON EVERY
BOX OF STATIONERY
BOIOHT
AT
BISHOP’S
STATIONERY &
BOOKSTORE
! THF. o! n HOME TOWN—
-BY STANLEY
I HAS THE MARSHAL. MISSED »US CLY.RRY — '>*. ”
' -MAR3HAL OTEY WALKER ON MIS hAtuCAR IN CLOSE PURSUIT OE TMR
| HOC,US CHECK P*ssee cao6at up wmi "mr, SW/NDLtfe at «eeo <*«y*
buT OTTX WAS GC*mS SO (AST »-C COOLbNT stop - TMC sw/ADIEK.
V ESCAPED IN OT6Y* W^T- ... _.._■/
Target-Scale Destrcj
. Best for Spraying I
EAGLE PUSS LUMBER C0Hl|
i** reminded not Inter than tonight an.!
let II* work il ItMt pel- erilt a11 rlidniU *•
tomorrow.
II o'i look Morning worship. S< r-i
mon hy the pastor, subject "Living for
tMlieis.“ Mrs. Lay will smg. The hoh
>'a. rameiit will administered ami a iniui
her of per*on* re eiveil into the < hitreii
at the 11. of the servcii <*. More than
fifty have already hoeli received • iuer
III, revival '•••gaii and we are expecting
the final niiniher to reach clo-c to
event jr.
Senior Kpworth League meets
for the first time in the League Room
A new pian > lias been installed and
light- will he pla ed today. All young
people not worshipping elsewhere .11
cordially inv'ted to meet with the
Leaguers at this hour.
Kveryhouy cordially invited and urged
to attend any and all our erviee- if volt
are mo affiliated elsewhere. \V,.shall
more and more endeavor to make you
feel -at home" with its and prove our
motto. “ \ Stranger Here Init • *11
The pastor will he glad to respond to
any call for spiritual adviee. or \ >’
the -i'k. distressed or bereaved when
desired, regardless of whether the p
-ole- ar ehur h memhers ,r not. \V« at,
here in the spirit of the Ma-ter who .1 !
■•I am among you a- on** that -ervcth."
EV. l.rtllEIMN Cllt'ltCH
H. 1*. F. Altrop , I*: stor
German service1* in the coi.rt house at
7:30 p.m. Every*’ >dy invited*
C H ~ „ H OF THE ADVENT
li :> t ’niiitiiunion. 7:‘M» n. ill.
t'liur li S< li io|, i. III.
Il’ily • oiuiiiiinioii iiikI sermon. II a. in.
Kvi tiinx prayer lvi*sp«-r«l. i:’V* p. i .
\V*-*lnesiisiy. an.I a«Mr< — 7:.“a*
I*, m.
Friday. nervines iv !:.",»* p. hi. ai i
7::m« p. in.
K. « * Maekilltosli. Iteetoi
RAILWAY STRIKE
IN CUBA AVERTED
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I
HAVANA. April An agree!: t ut wa
reach' d !i»t»- last night at a confer* nee
«>f President* Za.vas with Genera! Man
ager Jack of th> United Hallways of
Havana and representative* of the
railway brotherhood whereby a new
wage plan be worked out by Mr. Jack
and submitted to the president on Mon
day.
The workers agreed tof wait until
Tuesday before taking final action look
ing toward a strike, and the prospects
of this e\entuality are regarded as di
minishing.
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GOLFERS TO MEET
11 tv The A - so iafed Pr*‘s«.l
ATLANTA. April 5.—Bobby Jone- *f
Atlanta. youhtful Am* | lean open
champion, and Arhtur Havers. British
eoen champion. will * * t at Kastlak^
l o intry rlub today ■■'*■ h ijn/WV ^ ■
tion match for the* unjnicia! world's
golf championship. f
••“f
The men on tb. se iBraret advertise
mrnts look .is plotted a- if they had
uddoniy decided to swear off smok
ing.
1MMIGRATI0
TAKEN UP
CHANGES P
WASHINGTON, Apr
son immigration l»« 11
the house today ami
vigorous efforts to <h;
provisions. Although
on the measure is 1 rr>
under rult s sro*. < ■ -are
the discussion *.f pr
amendment ar< *>!>••<
vote until 11.• la”, r f,
The hill prop. . .
quota of two p* r <«n
IHtlU censu . prov.de*.
abroad of alien' dei
their ho in *■ in th ro
practically bar J.aat
Th* iHl’O quota l.a-.«
» -I |>y some of .t-" [
.■mail- of r*-«l;:i’ini' th
murrain- f£**m -oatht
I . i - a . .*iu . • ■ ' 1 !
ft • •. • • norther* ar.i
• • • eor-tt: • • • • • i
ie <>| (.'■ ‘
Th. present law fi
.! jr <e*:t or; ii.<- bi
census.
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flowers.
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!n the Gankin
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