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Garner the Leader
Selection of Representative John N. Gamer of
Texes as the democratic house leader indicates that
it will be a militant democracy that will assemble
at Washington on April 15, when the special session
conovenes.
The republicans will have an overwhelming ma
jority with a total of 267 as compared with 165 on
the democratic side. While this is the greatest
majority any party has enjoyed in recent years ex
perienced leaders realize that with Garner as leader
the democrats will figure prominent in the framing
of legislation.
While the republican leaders have agreed to lay
~ aside factional differences and propose to push the
Hoover program through at the special session, they
know that any deviation from that program which
would prove objectionable to the democrats likewise
would prove objectionable to the republican represen
tatives from the west. In other words, in the event
the republican leaders make any attempt to deviate
from the fundamentals of the program outlined by
Hoover in the presidential campaign, they will find
the democrats, led by Garner, holding the balance of
power.
The first clash is expected to come in framing the
proposed farm relie legislation. On this question
there is a wide gulf between the eastern and western
republicans, and there can be no question that the
astern wing will endeavor to pass a measure that
will prove more or less non-effective. On the tariff
a wide range of opinion also exists. The industrial
east will oppose protection on the products of the ag
ricultural West and South, and the western republi
cans will not be content to remain quiescent and
w’atch the eastern wing erect a higher wall of pro
tection for their industries and leave agriculture to
get along as best it may.
The democrats are practically unanimous in their
demand for effective fram relief and equalization of
tariff benefits. Between them and the western re
publicans there is a closer bond of mutual interest
than between the Eastern and Western wrings of the
republican party, and this bond is the cause of con
siderable worry among the eastern leaders of the re
publican party.
With his 26 years’ experience as a member of the
national house of representatives, his popularity
among both republicans and democrats, and his
marked ability as an aggressive champion of the
principles of democracy, John N. Garner will prove a
leader who will, despite the heavy majority of the
republicans, place his stamp upon the legislation that
will be enacted during the coming two years.
Small Bill Held invalid
Attorney General Claude Pollard held a bill en
acted by both houses and known to newspaper read
ers as “the Small bill.” unconstitutional. Now the
Small bill validated titles to stream bed lands and
abandoned beds.
In his opinion the attorney general reached the
conclusion that the Small bill violated the section of
the constitution which provides that the public free
school lands shall be sold and which would prohibit
their being given away.
It also is violation of the constitution that the
legislature shall not have the powder to grant any re
lief to the purchasers of public free school land.
In his investigation of the records the attorney
general found that this act will result in the state
relinquishing it sright, title and interest to portions
of 14 separae navigable streams in 40 counties in the
state and in approximately 400 original surveys, and
that if the bill becomes law the result will be that the
state relinquishes all its right, title and interest in
10 miles of the main channel of the mouth of the
Trinity river; in 20 miles of the main channel of the
Brazos river in Brazoria county; in 100 miles of the
Canadian river, which is the widest river in Texas;
in all of the main channel of the Trinity river from
Dallas to beyond Fort Worth.
Senator Clinton L. Small is said to be a lawyer—
p very able lawyer. He is the author of the bill.
Many lawyer-lawmakers in house and senate voted
for this bill. If it is all that the attorney general
claims it to be. why should it have been enacted?
The Changing Order
There are residents of Brownsville who retain a
rivid recollection of those days when a trip to San
Antonio and return would require ten to twelve days;
when Dallas was considered more distant than is
London today, and when mail from New York re
quired from 20 to 30 days to reach the Lower Rio
Grande.
The passenger schedules announced by the air
lines assure that the round trip to San Antonio can
be made in 20 hours, and the passenger can enjoy a
eight’s sleep in the Alamo city. Mexico Citj, once
deemed so far distant that a trip to that capital was
the event of a lifetime, can now be reached in four
and one-half hours. Mail from New York will reach
the Valley in 30 hours instead of 30 days, the time
required a little over a quarter of a century ago for
the Morgan line boats to beat their way down the
coast and transfer mail at New Orleans or Galves
ton to the coastal vessels serving the lower Gulf ports.
The achievements of the past half century have
been remarkaable, almost unbelievable; and among
them development of the airplane and air lines has
been one of the most outstanding. The Lower Rio
Grande country, which thirty years ago was isolated
from the rest of the world, will, w’ith inauguration
Saturday of tlv Mexican and American air mail and
passenger lines, have better connections with the
great commercial centers than many of those sections
which heretofore have enjoyed advantages in that
respect. In fact, the lower border country due to the
geographic location of the Brownsville port, will have
all the advantages of rapid communication which
only the greatest centers of population possess.
It is a far cry from the ox cart of old days, the
stem wheel river boat or the lumbering stage coach
to the airplane of the present period. The trans
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formations wrought in transportation and communi
cation have been potent factors in development of the
nation. In no section will they prove more potent
than in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, for which the
air lines will mark the beginning of a new erm of
rapid development in a region that has been endowed
by Nature with climate and soil unsurpassed, the de
velopment of which has been retarded by its isola
tion.
GARNER A MAN OF THE HOlTR
(Austin American).
Representative John N. Garner cf Texas, by unan
imous vote of the minority representatives, won the
democratic nomination as speaker of the house. An
honor very deserving.
Gamer of Texas is perhaps the foremost man on
the minority side. He has been an M. C. 26 years.
He never loses his head. He is wise as to the w^ays
of legislation. He knows how to control his tongue.
He is not a political chatterbox. When he has a
message he shoots it across.
There are many men who talk themselves to
death. There are very few men who think them
selves to death. A voluminous talker in time gets to
me a political or social pest.
Garner thinks rapidly and never talks unless there
is something to be said for country and party.
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Timely Views
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BEAUTY IN DESIGN OF FEDERAL BUILDINGS
URGED
By OGDEN L. MILLS
Under-secretary of the U. S. Treasury.
(Ogden Livingston Mills was born at Newport,
, R. I., Aug. 23. 1834. He was graduated from Har
vard and admitted to the bar in 1908 and since
then has practiced in New York City. He was
defeated for election to congress in 1912 and
served as a member of the state senate from 1914
to 1916. Serving with the American Expedition
ary Forces in France during the war, he was com
missioned a captain in the army. He was elected
to congress in 1921, served six years, and then re
signed to accept the office of under-secretary of
the treasury. His home is in New York City).
The federal government is under an obligation to '
take the leadership in establishing beauty of design I
as well as practicality of use in the buildings it con
structs, and those responsible for carrying out the
$300,000,000 building program are fully cognizant of
the traditional standards which must be met.
Certainly no one so well as the government itself
can set a standard of good taste in architecture and
firmly estbalish it. Our public buildings must of ne
cessity add to or detract from the beauty of any city
in which they are erected. Furthermore, it is in
evitable that they should influence to some extent
th architecture of buildings erected by the city or by
private enterprise. It is of the greatest importance,
therefore, that these buildings which the fedral gov
rnment is erecting should be simple and dignified in
design and suited to the uses to which they are to be
put.
But when it comes to the building of a national
capital an even greater obligation is imposed upon us.
We have inherited from the founders of the republic
a great tradition, below which we dare not fall. And
as the country has grown in greatness and in influ-«
•ence its capital city has become increasingly impor
tant. More and more it is being visited by those who
come from every part of this country and the world.
We owe it to them and to the generations yet to come
to see that they shall find there a great, beautiful
city—a city not made with hands only, but into which
have been builded the beauty and hopes and aspira
tions of America.
Tk® World sind All
By Charles P. Driscoll
IN NEW YORK
New York hasn't always been a city of apartment
dwellers. It is only 59 years since the first apart
ment house was built in the city.
A chorus of dwellers in old apartments may greet
this information with sneers, saying, “Why, the
apartment I live in must be at least twice that old,
and maybe it Isn't absolutely the first one.”
But the first apartment house built in New York
is still an apartment house, and is still fully occupied.
It is at 142 East Eighteenth street, and is five
stories high, built of red brick, and contains apart
ments of four, seven and nine rooms. The rooms are
large and .high, in the old style.
Rutherford Stuyvesant, who built the first apart
ment house in New York, borrowed the idea from
Paris builders. The first demonstration made the
idea go. and now every New Yorker is generally be
lieved by outsiders to live in an apartment. As a
matter of fact, there are still a great many separate
houses with lawns avid back yards in Brooklyn, Rich
mond. Queens and Bronx boroughs.
• * * •
One of the most spectacular residence “develop
ments'' in New York is Tudor City, fronting on the
East river, on and near Forty-second street.
Now'. Forty-second street, as nearly eperybody
knows, runs through the heart of the busiest part of
Manhattan island. It runs straight from the East
river to the Hudson river, and it is one of the chief
traffic arteries east and west. Grand Central Ter
minal fronts on it . The new Chrysler building, tall
est in the world, abuts it. The new Lincoln building,
largest in floor space, fronts on it. The Times build
ing also, and many other famous and great structures.
Nevertheless, down on the East river front prop
erty could be had for a song only three or four years
ago. Fred F. French saw his chance. He bought up
blocks and blocks of this cheap real estate, and began
erecting towering apartment houses.
* * * *
Tudor City consists of a group of buildings, a
dozen or more. You can’t keep track of the number,
for a new one starts before the last one is half com
pleted. The buildings vary in height from six stories
to 42 stories, and still higher units are under way.
The builder of this residence city in the heart of
the business area of New York looks out for light and
air for his tenants. He keeps some of his ground va
cant of buildings, and plants it to shrubs and trees
and flowers, despite the mounting taxes and the
temptation to use every square foot for rentable
property.
This experiment doubtless will lead to other large
undertakings, for the Tudor City project has been an
immense financial success.
On her last trip westward the Mauretania carried
792 passengers and $3,700,000 in gold. To those who
have traveled in Europe it will not be necessary to
explain that the passengers had no connection with
the gold.—Marion Star.
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LINDY DUE HERE SATURDAY
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READ THIS FIRST:
Betty Brown, dancer, finds the
men attracted to her by her pro
fession are not desirable. One of
them, Andy Adair, takes her for an
automobile ride and wrecks the car,
dislocating her knee and ending her
dancing career. He does not come
to the hospital to see her, but
George Harris, an old school friend,
pays her expenses through this, and
later gives her a position as cashier
in his restaurant, which enables her
to pay for a subsequent operation
which cures her knee. She attends
business school at night, and he
presents her with a typewriter on
her graduation. She writes him a
note on it, which commits her to
him: he asks her to sign it, which
she dees.
(Now' go on with the story.)
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CHAPTER XLIV
It was a serious Betty who went
to the restaurant the morning after
she had written and signed the in
discreet note committing herself to
George Harris.
She was fully determined to keep
her promise and marry George if he
asked her. But she was anxious to
try her wings as a business woman,
and sought George at the first op
portunity.
“George,” she began, “have you
that note I wrote you last night in
your pocket?”
“Yes, Betty. I thought it was a
very sweet note. I want to keep it
always. Do you mind?”
“No, I don’t mind. I want you to
take it out and read it again. As
you read it I want you to know
that I meant every word of it and
that I am ready to make good at
any time.”
He removed the note from his
pocket, re-read it, and looked at her
inquiringly.
“The reason I said that, is be
cause I want to do something w'hich
may seem disloyal. I want you to
have my note in mind before I tell
you. I am goipg to ask you some
thing: I will do whatever you want.”
“You are not going to ask my per
mission to dance in public, I hope!
I am unalterably opposed to your
doing that!”
“It isn’t that. I have graduated
from business school, and I w'ant to
find a position at some secretarial
work. You heard what that man
said about the best brains of the
country flowing through the pencil
of some stenographer. I may be
foolish, but I believe I could make
myself valuable to some man as his
seeertary. The girl who has been
helping me here at the cigar coun
ter could do my work just as well
as I can.”
“Is there anything WTong here?
Has anything happened to offend
you?”
“Not a thing. George. You, every
one, has been most kind. But I feel
I have reached by limit. I would
like to try this new work.”
“I certainly would not stand in
the way of another’s legitimate am
bition.” George spoke thoughtfully.
“Let me try it!” urged Betty. “I
made a failure of dancing through
no fault of my owrn. I am here, not
because I could have obtained or
retained the job, but because you
are my friend.”
“You have earned every cent I
have paid you.” George shook his
head.
“It is nice of you to say it.
George,” answered Betty, “but can’t
you see I want a chance to win on
my own? I paid my ’ tuition in
school out of my earnings here.
That knowledge is mine, earned by
me! If I can get a secretarial po
sition and make my own way I
w'ould be proud of myself.”
“I think I see. Your thought is
most praiseworthy.” said George, in
his stilted way.
“I don’t want to get away from
you.” Betty instantly realized that
she had not spoken the truth, and
hastily corrected herself. “I mean.
George, that I don’t feel as you
thought I might feel about the res
taurant w'hen I came here. I don’t
feel I am loo good to work for you.”
“I believe that.”
“You are right to believe it. I just
want to try mv own wings. If I
succeed, it will be all my success. Of
course I won’t work always, but I
would like a chance to try my best
before I stop.”
“What do you mean by stop
ping work?” asked George, wrin
kling his brows.
“Every girl expects to get married
some day,” "answered Betty. “It is
the common lot of us all, isn't it?”
“I am glad to hear you say that,”
returned George. “No woman should
think of staying in business all her
life. I am glad you expect to be
married. Knowing you have no
thought of getting back into the old
group of associates acquired during
the days you danced, and that you
will try something proper and legiti
mate. I give my consent.”
"Thank you, George. Remember,
you have the note I wrote you last
night. You can call on me at any
time.”
“I will call on you any time I feel
that I should,” he said, seriously.
“But if you are to find a position for
yourself without help, better hold
your position here until you are lo
cated. You must be careful where
you work.”
“Oh, I’m not going to take a posi
tion anywhere there is not a good
chance for advancement!” exclaim
ed Betty. “I wouldn’t take a mere
route job as a stenographer. I am
fitted for secretarial work. Unless I
can find a good place I will stay
here, if you will let me.”
“You may stay here as long as you
like, Betty. If you like, you can
come here after hours and take cash
during the rush hour and I will pay
you for it. Iam glad to co-operate
with you.”
It was a light-hearted Betty who
went home that night. That foolish
note to George committed her to
him absolutely; more than likely he
would ask her to make good on the
promise. But his co-operation in her
desire to find another position until
such time as he wanted to get mar
ried made her happy.
She knew she was foolish, but she
felt that if she did not see George
for twelve or fourteen hours a day
she would be able to endure him
easier. She realized she should not
marry a man hard to endure, but if
George wanted her she would marry
him in spite of her sentiments.
When she felt rebellious she al
! ways went over possibilities, had he
treated her as did Andy Adair when
she had her accident. The public
ward of the hospital, no separate
nurse, the crying children and com
plaining grown folks, the possibility
of improper medical attention, all
made her shudder. George had
saved her from all this, then hsd
given her this position in his res
taurant so she could immediately
be dependent!
Yes, she would marry him, but she
rejoiced in the respite the chance of
getting a new job gave her.
When she reached her room that
night she looked over the newspaper
advertisements to see who wanted a
secretary. Finding one promising ad
for a stenographer, she sat down to
her little portable typewriter and
made application. She gave her
qualifications and mailed the answer
to the letter box of the newspaper.
She waited two days for a reply,
but when none came she realized it
was her duty to answer all the ad
vertisements of this nature and not
wait for an answer from each before
answering the others.
One evening she received an an
swer to one of her applicafions. The
letter was brevity itself, and told her
to come in person to the office of a
book publishing concern at nine the
next morning and ask for Mr.
Crane.
Betty danced that night as she
had not danced since she hurt her
knee. She and Mrs. Hogan amused
themselves all evening speculating
on what kind of a man Mr. Crane.
Betty’s new boss, would be. Betty
argued that as his name was Crane
he would be tall, with thin legs and
humped shoulders, bot Mrs. Hogan
said men never fitted their names.
Lionels and Claudes were always
bad boy, while Bills and Jims were
sissies!
They debated also how much sal
ary Betty should demand. Mrs.
Hogan was all for a big salary at
the start. She must make them
understand she was not a cheap
girl. Betty held out for a small sal
ary and a chance to prove her ster
ling worth before demanding a
raise.
They chattered over it as though
it were a settled matter. Mr. Crane,
already selected as Betty's boss, was
very forunate to get her. He should
be grateful, indeed!
Betty retired at last, telling Mrs.
Hogan that she wanted to feel her
best the next day so she could make
a good impression on Mr. Crane.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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Who am I? I am the composer of
what recently successful opera?
Who composed the words for it?
Of what great pottery maker was
Charles Darwin a grandson?
How many men did Admiral
Dewey lose when he destroyed the
entire Spanish fleet in Manila bay
in 1898?
What is the nationality of the
Papal Guards at the Vatican?
“Whether therefore ye eat. or
drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to
the glory of God.” Where is this
passage found in the Bible?
Today in the Past
On this day, in 1916, the Mexicans
under Villa raided Columbus, N. M.
Today’s Horoscope
Persons born on this day are ac
tive in mind and have a genius for
keeping out of trouble. They are
both honest and genuine,
A Daily Thought
“Love is a credulous thing.”—Ovid.
Answers to Foregoing Questions
1. Deems Taylor; “The King’s
Henchman”; Edna St. Vincent Mil
lay.
2. Joseph Wedgwood.
3. None.
4. Swiss.
5. I Corinthians, x, 31.
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NEW YORK, March 8.—A group
of song builders were talking shop
again last night, and one of them
remarked that most songs clicked
because they contained a fascinating
or contagiouse line in the chorus.
He mentioned “Blue Heaven,” and
that ditty's “Just Molly and me—
and the baby makes three,” and
added that the most beautiful line
in the more recent numbers was in
“Together,” the line being: “And
we’d both pretend—it would never
end . .
| Billy Rose’s “In the Middle of the
Night” hit was helped by the line,
“In the middle of a moment you and
I forgot w^hat no meant,” which was
not permitted in the sheet music,
the copies containing this line:
“Every moment had its charms,
dear, when I held you in my arms,
dear.”
The vaudeville warblers, however,
offered the original version, which
sent the listeners out hastening to
the nearest music store.
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KIBITZER DEFINITIONS
Harry Reichenbach forwards a list
of Kitbitzers Their Origin and What
They Do. The first kibitzer, says
Reichenbach was the fifth man of a
four-handed game of anything. ®
A kibitzer is the type who, when®
the police are uncertain as to whcfl|
broke the window in the old fac*»
tory building, indicated the guilt ®
one, and did it so often his finger ®
became pointed. 9
A kibitzer Is a human parenthe-®
sis. which means something you®
can get along with, or without. 9
A Harlem kibitzer is one who®
takes in washing for his wife to do. 9|
A super-kibitzer is one who tells
wife of her husband's shortcomings.®
A king-kibitzer is one who car- ■1
ries plenty of blank checks for the®
other fellow's use. 9
And the last word in kibitzers is®
the one who sets the clock so his®
father won't be late for work. 9
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OTHER FORMS OF KIBBIES 9
Arthur Kober’s list of v ^ us ®
kibitzer types include the gv*r Ho 9
gesundheits a hay fever vici' a f 9
Who doesn't smoke, but MXves 9
coupons. ■
Who asks you foe an extra penny 9
to add to his two cents so he can 9
buy a newspaper; who is very inti- |||
mately acquainted with a fellow who 9
just cleaned up on Wall Street, and 9
who turns the pages for a pianist. 9
By CHARLES P. STEWART
WASHINGTON. March 8.—Capi
tol Hill, where our national legisla
ture hangs out, will simply sizzle
with congressional static for the
next six weeks, or thei'eabouts.
“Static” is right.
Congress will not be in session,
so there can be nothing coherent
about it. Yet nearly all the sen
ators and representatives will re
main here, awaiting President
Hoover's extra summons, with
naught to do but rend the atmo
sphere in almost a 531-lawmaker
newer discord.
• • •
The new administi’ation's event
will add mightily to the clamor.
Ordinarily congress packs its suit
case and goes home right speedily
after inauguration day. Its mem
bers may continue to bi’oadcast sen
timents as vehemently as in the
present instance, but the stations
are so small and widely scattered
that the racket dissipates itself, in
stead of shattering the ether like a
TNT explosion.
Gathered all together in the sen
ate and house office buildings—and
those only a couple of blocks apart—
the legislators achieve the effect of
one grand chorus, but with darn
little tunefulness about it.
* • *
It goes without saying that no
president ever announced a cabinet;
that satisfied everybody.
In fact, it would be impossible for
him to satisfy anybody. If a senator
or representative is pleased with one
appointment, he is almost certain to
be perfectly horrified at some other
one. Assuming him to be the presi
dent’s party, he usually warmiy in
dorses the whole layout, in his offi
cial capacity—on the floor, over at
the Capitol building. However, in
the event that several of the White
House’s selections really do give him
sharp, shooting p3ins. there is no
reason why he shouldn’t screech
■with anguish in the privacy of his
own quarters—in whichever of the
two office buildings they may hap
pen to be situated.
The interval betw-een sessions—
the end of the last regular and the
beginning of the extra one—furn
ishes an opportunity for the ag
grieved element to get a lot of this
anguish out of their systems.
The only thing the majority lead
ers are anxious about is getting all
the static tuned out before the Sev
enty-first congress meets, in re
sponse to Mr. Hoover's call, toward
the end of April.
The squawking and squealing and
yowling which make hardly any dif
ference during intermission wouid
be most unpleasant as part of the
regular program. Even as it is, they
hurt the managers’ ears somewhat.
That is why they would have pre
ferred an earlier special session, to
have avoided so prolonged an eth
eric disturbance; or a latter one, to
scatter it over the country and make
it less audible.
But Mr. Hoover would have his
way. which makes some of the older
hands wonder if he has yet learned
all that they know about the best
methods of manipulating the po
litical radio—or even if he has a
natural flair for it.
The suggestion is heard on Capitol
Hill that Mr. Hoover seems to think
he can get sweet music out of the
presidential "set” by main strength
and awkwardness.
Many a doubt is expressed by po
litical electricians if he can make
ajiy such system work no matter
how hard he tries.
In their opinion, he will find he
has to conform to mechanical lim-.
itations. or the '.‘/hits House loud' j
speaker will emit static from the
congressional end of Washington
until it drives him frantic.
SALARY WEDDING GIFT
KANDAL. Eng.—Efforts . I be
ing made to oust the town c^ncil
because it voted a salary increase
to a girl employe who got married. !
SIX lx DANCE PARTY’ DROWN
ROSMUCK, Ireland.—Three girls
and three men returning from a
dance at Camus were drowned
when their boat capsized.
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It goes with so many things . . . butter, jam,
cheese, soup and salad, «
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