©if Staramsuflle Herald Established July 4, 1892 < '———— ■ ■ ■■ ] Entered aa ae<*ond-claaa matter in the Poatoffice Brownsville, Texas. THE BROWNSVILLE HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Daily and Snrday (7 Issues) Ona Year . **....$9.00 j Six Months .. $1.50 Three Months ..$2.25 pne Month.76 -_ j MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the os; j for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or aot otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local : aews published herein. TEXAS DAILY PRESS LEAGUE Foreign Advertising Representatives Dallas, Texas, 512 Mercantile Bank Building. Chicago, 111, Association Building. Kansas City. Mo, Interstate Building. New York, 350 Madison Avenue. r Limiting County Warrants failure of the legislature to place a limit upon the amount of county warrants that may be issued, as proposed in the measure introduced by Represen tative Quinn of Beaumont and defeated In the hous? Saturday, will not arouse much enthusiasm among Texas taxpayers. The major opposition to the bill revolved around the proposal that counties be limited to 825.000 in issuance of warrants, which legislators argued was entirely too low7, and would be Insufficient to meet contingencies. This could have been corrected by arrangement of a sliding scale, which would have permitted issuance of warrants upon a basis of pop ulation—$1,000 to the 1,000 population, or some sim ilar amount. There should be no necessity for Issuance of war rants In large amounts, except In cases of disaster or similar emergencies when large amounts of money might be necessary Immediately. The present cus tom of financing county paving or similar programs by warrant issues, is, to say the least, decided1}7 un aatisfactory to taxpayers in those counties where It la practiced. It is very rare that a county paving or other Im provement program is of such pressing necessity that It would be Impossible to cal! a bond election. If the Voters are In favor of the proposition, they will 11 Jiance It; If they are not in fa7or. It should rot lv» financed. The will of the majority should prevail In county financial affairs as well as In the election of officers. Several years ago Cameron county was faced with a contingency to meet the requirements of the state tick eradication law. and warrants were issued in the amount of 850.000. over half of which have ho«m retired. The commissioners’ court should have the power to authorize such Issues, but only in a case of emergency. Paving and flood control programs in Cameron county have been financed entirely by bond issues. On January 31. the outstanding indebtedness o? the county was $6.257 758 03. and of this amount $2 000 is In 6 per cent warrants, $24,000 in 5 r*r cent warrants, and the remainder in bonds bea-ing interest at the rate of 4 1-2 to 5 1-2 per cent, the majority bearing 6 per cent. There are few counties in Texas In which the tax Jjayers are not willing to finance improvement pro grams. and there U no occasion for commissioners’ courts Issuing warrants bearing hlch Interest rates except In cases of emergency. Had the legislature of Texas seen fit. to place a reasonable limitation- upon warrant Issues it would have eliminated much of the abuse of the power vested In the commissioners’ courts and would save for taxpayers of the state the hundreds of thousands of dollars which represent the difference between the warrant and bond inter est rates. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg has been sub jected to much criticism, but the recent decision of a number of distinguished Americans to recommend the secretary for the Nobel peace prixe on the eve of his retirement directs attention to his record which, aside from his negotiation of the treaty for renunciation o fwor. represents diplomatic achieve ments equaled by few American secretaries of state. The retiring secretary will bequeath to his suc cessor better relations with Mexico than have existed at any time sinee the overthrow of Profino Dtai; an impending settlement of the long-standing con troversy between Chile and Peru: a tranquilired Nic aragua. and conciliation treaties with all Lattn Amer ican countries with the exceutoin of Argentine. These are merely the outstanding achievements of Secretory Kellogg Throughout his tenure of office he has shown remarkable Judgment in the selection of aides. In the handltng of delicate diplomatic ques tions. and especially in connection with the Mexican controversy, which a few years ago threatened to dis rupt harmonious relations between the two republics The question of protection of American Interests In Mexico and of oil rights in the southern republic came to Kellogg in the form of indefinite and un finished correspondence when he took office. The problem which had arisen out of agrarian legislation, the aeirure of American-owned haciendas, and the status of American stockholders in Mexican corpora tions and of American corporations owning Mexican property were unsettled and potent with misunder standing. What Ambassador Morrow has done in Mexico since his appointment by President Coolidge through Secretary Kellogg is familiar to all. The Am-rtcan government has reached agreements with Mexico over the oil controversy sufficiently satisfactory so that 95 per cent of the oil production of Mexico todav is under the new laws and regulations. Because of the power and Influence the oil companies wield in the United States, the readjustment of that dtfficultv is an outstanding achievement of the secretary of Mate's department. But the most important feature Is that Ambassa dor Morrow has been able to overcome a great deal of the miatrus' and prejudice which has so long ex isted between this country and Mexico. Secretary Kellogg showed good Judgment, not only in the se lection of Morrow for this Important duty but also in giving the ambassador free rein. While Kellogg has maintained close contact with Morrow, the latter has shaped his own policies, and the present good re lations and elimination of national prejudice is the result. * American prestige in diplomatic circles has at tained new heights in the past four years, not only on the western hemisphere but also in Eurooe and Asia. A ©onflnned opponent of secret diplomacy. has. by insisting on taking all into his confidence, succeeded ii. degree rati ’.! preiur. ar ‘jyto this he has aided in eiirn ^|pl4 It is an achievement _ honor of receiving the jgobd^^B* Hbdtnf international figure a - |qTg of peace Oftkor Paip®irs riAF.D TO PLrO THE LIQUOR LEAKS (Beaumont Enterprise>. Commissioner Camp of the customs bureau may not be an incurable optimist, but he qualifies for that designation if he thinks that doubling his patrol of 350 men along the Canadian border will make any difference to the liquor smugglers. If the request of the prohibition and customs bureaus for additional funds is granted by congress, it 1s proposed to in crease the number of prohibition agents and customs inspectors. What could 750 federal agents do to stop the flood of liquor flowing from Canada into the United States, assuming that the present force of 350 men is doubled? If the full force of 750 men were concen trated at Detroit, they could not stop the smuggling of liquor from Canada to the United States at that point. And the Detroit sector is only part of the ter ritory that must be patrolled by a handful of federal agents. It is so easy for rumrunners to transport liquor from Canada to the United States, and so profitable, that it would take an army of prohibition agents and customs inspectors to stop the “leaks” at the wettest parts of the Canadian border. While efforts are con centrated on this phase of prohibition enforcement, thousands of miles of coast und other boundary lines will invite the liquor smuggler. He will steal into coves, of which there are hun dreds, scattered along the southern shore of the Unit ed States; he will cross the Rio Grande with contra band liquor; he will slip into California from the Pa cific. And Dr. Doran, prohibition commissioner, tells us that when liquor smuggling is cut off at one place, the output of “moonshine” liquor increases. Prohibition enforcement is a big job. Congress Is just now beginning to realize what a big job it is. but is not yet willing to appropriate enough money to make prohibition enforcement effective. Tk® World Mid All t’j Charles t*. Driscoll CHICAGO WILL DEMONSTRATE Chicago is a step or two ahead of New York in getting Its giand opera company into large, modern and suitable quarters. Next fall the Chicago Civic Opera will open its season in the most magnificent opera house in the world, and of course, the largest. The building will be forty-two stories high, and there will be plenty of room for the real music lovers with in the auditorium. New York may do even better some day. But while New York is talking about it, Chicago docs it. • • • # That reminds me of the coming World's Fair in Chicago, which will be the greatest exposition in | history. The Chicago fair of 1893 Is still the outstanding exposition cf all time. It will be so far surpassed by the new World's Fair that it will appear as a mere street carnival by comparison. The exposition of 1E93 had a profound effect upon American life. Out of it grew a new appreciation of architecture and landscape gardening. It stimulated | American interest in travel, in art, and in anthro pology. It introduced to the American people many new ideas that have since become part of American life. At the next Chicago World's Fair there will be many innovations that need to be popularised. For instance, moving sidewalks. • * • • Moving sidewalks are altogether practicable now. There’s no mystery’ about them. Your city engineer can have one installed for you in 90 days, at your | order. Du* the people haven’t been sold on moving side walks. Moving stairways, operating on the same principle, are in use in all large cities. The rer.t Chicago exposition will demonstrate how the moving sidewalk can speed up pedestrian traffic. In all large cities there is much walking to be done by shoppers and business folk. In New York taxicabs have become so bady jammed—S3 000 of them alrendy in the streets—that persons who want to get to their destinations quickly often get out and walk. Moving sidewalks will do much to make life easier i;i the big cities. Watch Chicago demonstrate. CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES DECLARED MORE CONSERVATIVE By STEPHEN LEACOCK Political Economist and Humorist. * • Stephen Butler Leacock was bom at Swan moer, Hants. Canada, Dec. 30. 1869. He was ed ucated at Upper Canada college, the University of Toronto, and the University of Chicago. From 1891 to 1899 he was a member of the staff of Up per Canada college and was later on the faculty of the graduate school of the University of Chi cago for four years. He Is now head of the po litical economy department of .McGill university at Montreal. He has written many humor stories). America nuniversiiies and Canadian universities jin the main are very much alike. We give the same degrees, the same courses. But when we examine I them in detail we find quite a striking difference. Our universities cover less latitude, have less di trection of study than you have here in America. In i my own school. McGill university, all of the lectures arc compulsory. Even the fourth year students are i nailed to the seats. But on the whole students like it. It has always been customary in the past to wear caps and gowns, but this tradition has recently died out. Although an attempt was made a few years ago to revive it. the students now wear ordinary [clothes to classes. In my day. a cap and gown cost about 3125, but now that they coat about $12. the ! students might as well buy a coat and a pair of pants Another difference between the two systems of schools, is that we don't carry things as far as you do down here. McGill university is net completelv j co-educational. The law school and medical school are still kept for men only. But we have, like you. the perpetual temptation to put in practical studies in our universities. We call a ccuiae “Salesmanship" instead of “Political Eecon omy” We were recently asked to Include a course on hotel management and another on the selling of life insurance, but we haven't come to that yet, They are hard to keep out. though, few the students seem to [like the* catchy names. Many students come to college Just to get atmoa jphere. says a dean at Columbia. Maybe that’s why so many get the air —Schenectady Union-Star The Kellogg treaty can’t work, however, If the munition factories do—Publishers Syndicate. We are anxious t6 have world peace, but see no reason for fighting over it.—Dayton Journal CONCERNING A CERTAIN ‘WARM DATE’— -4 m m m ^ «* **'^ “ “ “‘■*r n.n_r ~ — -uri.— - —Lr-L-t—n~ .i—i_fi_—. - -i_i ,—i_i—i_i—1.1—i~u—n—ii— i—u~ir~ M~i—11— . e "/rw ^ -j* j . ji ■ . , .. _._ - USTEM OLOTtMSER. 7 HOVJ MUCH (.OMfER I BEFORE HERTRAiM Gr OEs>

• • • CHAPTER XXXIV Betty had ample time for re flee- | tton in the ten days which follow-1 ed her automobile accident. The i injury to her right knee was trif- | ling. It was thrown out of Joint. j i only slightly, and by the time the j cast was removed from her left leg ! the right was almost well. For ten davs she lay with a heavy plaster ! cast on the left. It was impossible I for her to turn in bed unless the nurse lifted the cast; despite the j ad iustlbility of the hospital bed, it was most tiresome lying in one position. At the end of the ten days, i which seemed ten weeks, the doc- j ' tor removed the cast. The leg was j still stiff at the knee, however, and ! ! when she tried to sit up, it stuck j straight out. The doctor told her | this was to be expected, as it had j been in one position so long. He said flexibility would return to it ; j gradually. The only ray of sunshine in those j ' long davs in the hospital was a I box of flowers from Harry Ford. I i She was bitterly disappointed that ( | there was no message on the card. She had allowed Harry to kiss her. I and while she did not love him. she : had supposed this happy-go-lucky j boy to be one of her best friends. Now it seemed that his friendship I was but casual. 1 George Harris came every day. Betty's keen appreciation of what ! he had done for her made her for- j get his slow, methodical ways. She : w ondered if all the careless, happy people were bad. and all the sad ; and solemn ones good. Did one ; have to be serious minded to be j good? Was it impassible to laughl I love and live without violating the social conventions? Her own ex perience seemed to Justify her ; doubts. She had never been what is | called a “bad ’ girl. All she asked of the world was to be allowed to dance and make her living in the onlv wav which seemed open to her. Yet peopel took it for granted she ! was immcral. One of the interns had stopped in her room from time to time to exchange greetings: he appeared ! interested beyond the routine of his work. Visiting hour* were over at nine; he stopped in her room the first night after the cast was re moved. Just after visiting hours. “How is the beautiful lady's beau tiful Lg?" he inquired, cheerfully. “It is all right. I suppose." an swered Betty. "I have progressed a little, anyway. The cast is off." -Let s take a look a see what we can see." He pushed aside the covers casually. He looked at the knee and felt it carefully, and then said: “Put out the other, and let's see how much this one is swollen." Betty uncovered both legs that he might make the comparison. He ran his hand first owr one knee and then the other. Then he re marked: “There were never two prettier legs in this hospital!" Betty covered her legs quickly and said: “I think that waa rather unnecersarr" “Not necessary but rather invol i untaryl" he laughed. • •* Betty had ample time for reflection after the accident. ‘Good night!” replied Betty. | coldly. "There is no hurry. We both have to stay here all night.” “I think you better go. Your other patients need you. I don't.” "There is nothing particularly pressing. How is your pulse?” He took her hand as he spoke. “It is getting a bit fast ” Betty pulled away her hand. "That is because I am getting angry!” “About what?” He grinned, im perturbably. "It isn't necessary to explain. Will you please go?” "Not untU I have found what I have done to make your ladyship angry.” “I don't care to have you stayj now, or to come again unless I ask for you.” “Ah. I am being high hatted. I see. As you won't accuse me. I will answer your unspoken charge of ( undue familiarity. How do you get that way? You were a profes sional dancer before you came here, i You made a business of displaying your body in public for money.j didn't you?” “I did not! I danced for mv living, which is very different!” "Is that so?" he drawled. 'Would your dancing have attract ed a large audience of women only? Could you have made it pay If you had worn long skirts and full bloomers?" "I don't care to discuss it with, you " "I don't blame you. You think! people came to watch you dance I because of your art. Yet only shapely girls ever make a hit danc ing! Why are popular dancer; al ways young and pretty girls? I don't know whether you are trying | to deceive me or yourself. Sex 1 appeal is the real appeal of danc ing * "Will you please go?” cried Bet ty. Impatiently. “Sure I will!* he laughed. “No ! use to get on your high horse with me, kid. You aren't the first dancer I ever met You all have an exhibition complex. As I know what that leads to. you aren't put ting anything over on me!” Betty reached up and pressed the button which called the night nurse He waited, smiling, until the girl came Then, in his moat professional tone he asked: “Nurse, get Miss Brown a glass of orange juice, please.” Betty opened her mouth to pro test, but as he left the room with the nurse she thought better of it and said nothing. She thanked the nurse for the orange Juice, and then lay miserably awake for hours. So this was the admiration she sought and received for her danc ing! Just sex!” As she reviewed her experiences she had to confess that all the men she had met through her dancing thought as did this young doctor. At dancir.g school she had been taught that dancing was art of the highest type. This intern reduced It to its lowest meaning. She fear ed he was right, although she re sented his familiarity bitterly. Had she been a school teacher, a stenographer or a millinery, this man would have had a different attitude toward her! He would have taken her virtue and refine ment for granted. With a dancer he thought the worst These humiliating reflections end ed with the thought that her danc ing days were over, as were her acquaintances with the men she had met during those days. The girls she knew who darced for a! living were not what this man thought. But they were interested in no one who did not dance; she would lose track of them now. and felt no need to defend them or herself She must make up her mind what to do for a living. Oeorge Harris had told her not to worry; he had her future all planned. But she was worried; she feared that fu ture involved being married to George! She had no doubt that Andy Adair had deserted her. But in spite of everything, she cared more for him than for any other man. Even careless Harry Ford meant more to her than George. Thoughts of the hum-drum, well-ordered, methodical and unsentimental life she would lead as George's wife made her feel that she would have been better off if she had been killed in the automobile accident She felt caught tn a current of events which were dragging her In evitably toward marrying Oeorge Harris She felt bound to marry George If be wantedjwc, the hard at -^*7 faced. If NEW YORK, Feb. 25.—In This i Town of Ours; Mr. Malevinsky, the lawyer, is representing Norma Tal madge in the so to voce manner . . . Richard Dix and Regina Cannon, the phemme moom pitcher recorder, are Garbo-Oilberting . . . Mrs. Henry Jacobson is having it Reno vated so she can be welded to Oscar Hammersteln. 2d 'who is also) . . . The Daily Mirror has pur chased the International Newsreel Louis Brooks, who became a movie celeb when she wedded Ed die Sutherland, the director, is Job hunting since she had the seal broken . . . Dorothy Parker is that way about a lad who owns a rac coon farm . . . The Sunday Ameri can recorded that Mrs. Eugene O'Neill is arranging a Mex divorce via the Arturo del Toro route . . . That same news was first chron icled here, a dozen weeks ago . . . Philip Schuyler and Editor and Publisher have parted . . . For an arm rest, pull out the center cush ion in the rear of the new Checker cabs. » H. B. Swope, former executive editor of the World, is in back of a combine to sell exclusive news to broadcasting firms . . . Ziegfeld will only hire bruettes for “East Is West- ... A Cambridge 'Mass.) NO. HUM! Nurse: "Whom were you operat ing on today?” Orderly: “A fellow that had a golf ball knocked down his throat at the links.” Nurse: "And who is the man so nervously in the hall? A rela tive?" Orderly “No. that's the golfer, a Scotch gentleman. He's waiting for his ball.” SYMPATHY A small boy was told that he must write to his grandmother a letter of symoathv on the death of her hus band. This was the letter, adorned with many blots, that eventually ar rived: “Dear Grandma: What a pity about poor Grandpa! Please send me some stamps. There Is a new bov here who squeaks If I hit him. With love, from ROGER " MONTERREY GAS LINE ROUTE BEING CLEARED ROMA. Feb. 25.—Engineers in the service of the gas company who are under contract to furnish the city of Monterrey, N. L.. Mexico, with gas arrived here today from Al da mas and state that over 300 men are now engaged in clearing the right-of-way for the pipe line be tween Cerralvo and Roma and that the work will be completed by March 15. They are also authority for the statement that the laying of the pipe line will begin on April 1. INSPECTOR TRANSFERRED ROMA, Feb. 25—Immigrant In spector W. B. Hopkins. Jr., son of Judge W. B. Hopkins of Corpus Christ!, has been transferred from Roma to Del Rio and Inspector Simmons of Del Rio has been as signed to duty at Roma. The trans fers are effective on March 1. this was the fiddler she had to pay for her dancing she would pay; but not willingly. There seemed nothing else to do but marry George No matter how much she railed at fate, she could see no other way out. It was a comfort that George had confidence in her! He said he had known all the time that she would come through. He. at least, did not think she was a bad girl. Before she married George was it her duty to tell him that she had seriously considered allowing Andy Adair to furnish an apart ment for her? She had not done so. but if the accident had not hap pened. she might have. In the wee small hours of the morning she made up her mind to do her duty as she saw it She would show George that she appre ciated his sticking by her by mar rying him. if he asked her. Having i made up her mind, she turned on her side and cried herself to sleep. (TO BE CONTINUED) bootlegger is authority for the ■ statement that lie averages sales of fl 16 cases a week to the young ladies fl at Wellesley Collitch . . . Vivadou J§ is marketing a compact for men I with mentholated powder. Goodie, ■ goodie! fl Joan Lowell, author of I of the Deep" (Simon & I is the squaw of Thompson Bu- M chanan, the playwright . . . She is I a stock lead in Nawleans . . . John fl Anderson, the big Whalen-Traffic- fl Plan-Idea Man, has peddled a fl piece to McCall’s which recently ■ changed 300.000 subscribers . . . fl The spat manufacturing racket was p never better . . . The provincial ■ dudes, it sppears, just discovered fl them . . . The J. P. Cluett of the ■ Judge staff is the son of the collar fl and shirt man . . . Those clocks fl that don't give the time, in front fl of jewelry shops, are pointed at fl 8-somethine because that's the fl hour when Lincoln died. fl Prod Stone has shelved his fl crutches . . . Betty Compton will fl transfer from "Hold Everything" I to Para flickers for a ten-week job fl . . . One of the cigarette magnates Ifl who backed a show and then ■ stranded it last yr. is in a sanl- fl tarium. with six months to live . . . I Karl Decker has deserted Suba for ■ Paree. where 50 million Yankeea fl go wrong . . . Ted Claire walked fl off the Paramount estate Batdee be- fl cause his ditties weren't tooted cor- fl rectly, he said ... A dressing- fl room fist fight followed . . . Mar- fl jorie Josetine poses for the “Be- fl cause She Loves Nice Things" ad. ■ Groucho Marx wires that it is a 1 bellboy over at the Astor . . . That I fascinating ta-rah-ta-ta on those fl French auto horns are the first fl four notes of Rimsky-Korsakoff's .1 “Scheherazade" ■ Gmlfe Bag J -//A-“ || Who am I? What is my profes- JB sion? From whom was I recent? flB divorced? ' What is the feminine of peacock? ■ Who was the first vice president fl of the United States? fl Who is the president pro-tem of % the United States senate? fl “And he Bald, The things which I® are impossible with men are pos- fl sible with God.” Where Is this I passage found in the Bible? fl Today in the Past £j On this day, in 1913, the 16th H amendment to the United States pj constitution (Income tax) was pro- fl claimed ratified. fl Today’s Horoscope 1 Persons bom on this day are cau- 1 tious in their movements and very jl restless. They are slow to anger 3 and their wrath lasts but for a yi moment. fl A Daily Thoorht 1 “It Is costly wisdom that is I bought by experienceRoger fl Ascham. ■ Answers to Foregoing Questions 1 1. Michael Strange; authored* 9 John Barrymore. j 2. Peahen. fl 3. John Adams. fl 4 George Adams. |fl 5. St. Luke, xvttl, 27. ^ Ashing ton Daybook CABINET PERSONNEL AN AMAZING MYSTERY By CHARLES P. STEWART WASHINGTON. Feb. 23.—If President-elect Hoover can keep his cabinet personnel as much of a mystery as he has kept it up to date, until after he actually has been inaugurated, he really is a wonder. President Coolidges secrecy con cerning the position he would take, in the event of an attempt to draft him for a renomination, was con sidered remarkable. After all. how ever, it was not so extraordinary Mr. Coolidge had to consult nobody else as to is own intentions. Be sides. it is possible that he him self did not know Just what he would do if hi* party named him again by an overwhelming major ity. Mr. Hoover, on the other hand, in the matter of his cabinet selections, has had to consult hundreds of folk; and by this time he must have his mind made up pretty definitely —upon most of his portfolios, at any rat*. • • • To have refrained from telling anyone in plain terms, “I am go ing to appoint So-and-So,” need not necessarily have been any very surprising performance on the president-elect's part. He may easilv enough have avoided even one binding promise. Nevertheless, shrewd politicians are marvelously good gueasers. And so many of them have seen him!— and so many of them must have discussed the cabinet question with him!—concentrating, each one hia every faculty, upon ills vis-a-vis' slightest quiver or shade of expres sion!—and such ample opportunity has been allowed them, to get to gether and exchange impressions! —that It is perfectly amaatng they have not yet framed up a tolerably reliable slate, among them. • # • This assuredly has not happened. Otherwise, the tentative list would have "leaked" long ago—probably vaguely at first, and subject, for awhile, to corrections here and there—but at the present late date, pretty accurate. To think of such a piece of In formation as reaching any politi cian's ear. without being shouted from the housetops shortly there after, would be enough to over strain the strongest imagination. • • • The fact is. three men are con sidered practical Hoover cabinet certainties— Andrew W. Mellon. Henry L. 8tlmson and Dr. Ray Lyman Wil BM|. Secretary Mellon undoubtedly Is sure enough to remain at the head of the treasury department, for • year or two. to be worth betting : on—to give odds on. Indeed. Stlmson and Wilbur are favor ites. above several score of other supposed possibilities, only because of Stlmson‘s resignation from the governor generalship of the Phillp - tries, and the leave of absence ob tained by Wilbur from the presi dency of Stanford university. However, even assuming that they are to become cabinet mem bers. the theory that Stlmson is to get the state and Wilbur the inter ior portfolio la pure surmise. Maybe Col. W. J. Donovan be a Judicious long shot for ney general. All the rest?—the merest l< And going to stay so, they until Mr. Hoover lays hii full batch of appointments before the senate. In a bunch, after ho al ready is president. j It will bepalpitating moment _