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A Pro Message to American
People
Herbert Hoover has the reins of government in his
hands. He is the chief executive of the republic. He
is the first engineer to hold the place. He is the first
American born west of the Mississippi river to hold
the place. His inaug>-al message, his first state pa
per. Is a notable contribution to the official litera
ture of his country. His opening words are very sig
nificant, “It is a dedication and concentration under
Gcd to the highest office in service to our people”
and "I assume the trust in the humility of knowledge
that only through the guidance of Almighty provi
dence can I hope to discharge its ever increasing
burdens.”
In his foreward he pays a high tribute to his pred
ecessor in these words, “For wise guidance in this
great period of recovery the nation is deeply indebt
ed to Calvin Coolidge.” In his campaign for the high
office the president pledge his best efforts and all his
ability to enforcement of the eighteenth amendment
and the Volstead act.
After reviewing existing conditions of the un
doubted abuses which have grown up under the
eighteenth amendment, he declares part are due to
the causes mentioned in his foreword, “but part are
due to the failure of some states to accept their slwe
of responsibility for concurrent enforcement and to
the failure of many state and local officials under
their oath of office zealously to enforce the laws."
Regardless of all this he lets it be known that in
his opinion “there would be little traffic in the illegal
liquor if only criminals patronized it and we must
awake to the fact that this patronage from large
number of law abiding citizens is supplying the re
wards and stimulating time.” There is no evasion or
side-stepping of the issue of law enforcement to be
found in this inaugural message.
This is the way out of it: “If citizens do not like a
law, their duty as honest men and women is to dis
courage its violation: their right is openly to work for
its repeal.” There is to be a national investigation.
He is to appoint a national commission for a search
ing investigation of the whole structure of our federal
Rystem of jurisprudence, to include the method of en
forcement of the eighteenth amendment and the
causes of abuse under it.
“Its puprose,” reads the inaugural speech, “will be
to make such recommendations for reorganisation of
federal laws and court procedure as may be found de
sirable. In the meantime it is essential that a large
part of the enforcement activity be transferred from
the treasury department to the department of justice
as a beginning of more effective organization.”
In other words the attorney general of the United
States, William D. Mitchell, a former democrat, will
be the chief of the enforcement department and An
drew W. Mellon, secretary of the treasury, will be
relieved of all law enforcement responsibility relating
to the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead act.
Heretofore violation of the Volstead act w:as a misde
meanor. Now !t Is a capital crime. In the closing
days of the d^ad congress the Jones bill was put over.
It provides drastic punishment for the violator of pro
laws. It carries with conviction five years imprison
ment in a federal penitentiary and a fine of $10,000.
Never in the history of pro lav: enforcement in any
country under the sun have the penalties been so
drastic.
Quick Justice Demanded
“Justice must not fail because the agencies of en
forcement are either delinquent or inefficiently or
ganized.” remarked the newly inaugurated president
to his countrymen. “To consider these evils, to find
their remedy, is the most sore necessity of our times.
Speaking of the federal judiciary system he made
this sweeping declaration, “We are fortunate in the
ability and integrity of our federal judges and attor
neys; but the system which these offices are called
upon to administer in many respects ill adapted to
present day conditions. Its intricate and involved
rules of procedure have become the refuge of both
big and little criminals. There is a belief abroad that
by invoking technicality, subterfuge and delay, the
ends of Justice may be thwarted by those who can
pay the cast.”
Three-fifths of the American senate are lawyers.
More than one-half of the members of the house or
representatives are lawyers. In the last analysis the
lawyers make the laws. This isn't a hint for action^
it is a statement of facts.
A J. P. Can Waive Fee
A justice of the peace who waives his fees in the
trial of a criminal case is not disqualified. This is
the decision of the court of criminal appeals in the
case of a moving picture epeato, who had been fined
$25 for exhibiting a picture on Sunday in Foard
county.
It was contended by the attorneys for the moving
picture man that the justice was without authority
in a case in which he had pecuniary interest in a
conviction. Judge A. B. Martin is responsible for the
opinion.
He found no merit in the contention and held that
a judgment of conviction entered by a justice of the
peace who neither claims, collects nor attempts to
collect the fees heretofore allowed a justice of the
peace under the statute is not void.
Judge Martin in the opinion took occasion to write
that a Texas Justice of the peace court is a creature
of the state constitution end its life and jurisdiction
came from this source. Therefore its existence is be
yond the power of legislative enactment to destroy.
It followed that the fee system may be destroyed,
the justice of the peace placed on a salaried basis
and that’s all. A legislative enactment cannot set
aside or suspend a constitutional provision. The peo
ple make a constitution at the ballot box. It is for
the people to change the constitution. It is not
( the province of lawmakers.
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THE “MONKEY” BILL DEFEATED
(Beaumont Enterprise).
The Texas house of representatives defeated the
anti-evolution bill of the Rev. James W. Harper of
Mount Pleasant, and thereby spared Texas the ridi
cule that would have been visited upon the state in
other parts of the country if the bill had become a
law.
The measure introduced by Mr. Harper resembled
in its essential parts anti-evolution laws adopted in a
few other states, including Tennessee where the
Scopes trial attracted international attention. The
1 basic provision of the anti-evolution laws is that in
| sructors in schools supported by public funds shall
' not be permitted to teach that man is descended from
| a lower order of animals.
There is in this country a widespread belief that
the state has the right to specify what subjects shall
be taught in schools supported wholly or in part by
the state. Fortunately for the nation's educational
system and the diffusion of learning, this power 1s
wisely exercised and in most of the American com
monwealths all branches of human knowledge are
open to students without discrimination.
The Texas legislature has disposed of the evolu
tion question for the time being, but other anti-evo
lution bills will be introduced, ad infinitum. No man
knows how long the unoffending monkey will be a
theme for Jest and the subject of acrimonious debate
in the nation's legislative halls.
The most surprising feature of the house vote on
the Harper anti-evolution bill is not that the bill was
defeated, but that it failed of passage by the compar
atively close vote cf 59 to 50.
LIVING LONGER
(Corpus ChrLsti Caller).
If you live in the south, where mild climate is the
rule, your chances for bettering the traditional three
score and ten years are good; better, at least, than in
the north.
For proof, one may refer to Dr. John H. Kellogg of
Battle Creek, head of a famous sanitarium. The doc
tor made his remarks in behalf of Florida but, as the
Manufacturers Record points out, his statement is
equally applicable to other sections of the south.
“A man who lives in a cold northern climate con
sumes a "large part of his bodily energy in keeping
warm,” Doctor Kellogg said. ‘‘He has to eat and di
gest more food than a person in a warm climate In
order to maintain his body temperature. A mild, ge
nial climate is unquestionably conducive to longevity,
because the vital energy is conserved. Persons living
in a mild climate have a lower metabolism rate, that
is, the bodily machinery is slowed down somewhat,
not enough to lessen its efficiency, but enough to
lessen wear and tear, and so conducing to a notable
increase in longevity.”
Commenting upon the above, the Manufacturers
Record says that ‘‘When the Almighty decided to cre
ate man He placed him in a warm country, and no
greater men have been known than many of those
who were horn in warm countries. The fear there
fore. on the part of some people of the north and
west that the warmer climate of the south is a dis
advantage should forever be dispelled, and the cli
matic advantages of the south should be forever her
alded as one of the greatest, if r.ot the greatest, as
set which this section possesses.”
Whether or not the warmer climates are con
ducive to longevity is a question for the medical men
and the statisticians to answer. The delights we de
rive from the span allotted us, whether in the north
or in the south, Is a question more pertinent to most
of us.
THE GAMES WE PLAY
(San Angelo Standard*.
The things that men will do for diversion in this
life are sometimes rather strange.
In Sheboygan. Wis.. there lives a son of Yugo
slavia named Charlie Planinshek. In the very near
future this man plans to journey to Chesterfield In
let, an unbelievably remote and frosty outpost on the
northwest shore of Hudson Bay! Using that as a
starting point, he will get in a canoe and, by a devious
course of lake and rivers, with a few portages in the
middle, will paddle all the way to Havana. Cuba—a
distance of <5.000 miles.
It is the sort of trip that most men would look on
as a tedious chore. Charlie Planinshek will undergo
all of the hardships and dangers that the early ex
plorers faced—except, perhaps, that he will not have
to cope with hostile redskins. But he is doing it, not
because he has to. but because he wants to. It will
be bis recreation; a sort of vacation trip.
That’s the way it is with recreation. Some people
turn to golf, some take to collecting rare books; some
like to wade through icy streams to catch fish, some
cnjov spading and weeding their flower gardens;
some go in for sailing boats, some fall back on ama
teur photography. Each man’s play would be a dead
ly bore to someone else. There isn’t any unanimity
about any of it.
We don't have a great deal of time to play—not
even the luckiest. Out of all eternity we have a scant
handful of years; and in this brief space we are up
against the necessity of pa caking as much full and
complete living as we possibly can, so that our lives
may be as rich and significant as time and circum
stances will allow. Why. then, do we choose our
recreations so queerly? Why should a man like
Charlie Planinshek. for instance, decide that pad
dling a canoe thr length of a continent is the best
wav he can use his time?
If we could find self-expression in our jobs the
problem would be simplified. That is why such di
verse people as artists, professional athletes and sail
ors are to be envied. They perform for their liveli
hood the very tasks that they like best. Most of us
are not so lucky. We make our livings at jobs that
suit us only indifferently; it is in our spare time that
we have to try doing the things we really enjoy.
A first edition of one of Edgar Allan Poe’s books
published in 1848 to sell for twelve and one-half
cents was found in a rubbish heap recently and sold
for $25,000. Poe himself could scarcely have thought
out a better ending for a story.—Christian Science
Monitor.
If you bet on three kings, that's gambling; if you
bet you can make three spades, that’s entertainment;
if you bet wheat will go up, that’s big business.—Lin
coln Star.
A court has decided that a cow in the road always
has the rieht of way. This indicates the courts are
just learning what the cows have always known.—
San Diego Union.
We have it on good authority that everybody has
gone to Florida. It is now possible to cross any New
York street in comfort and safety by digging a tun
nel.—The New Yorker.
The English are deeply attached to their royal
family, we are told, but we doubt whether even that
would bring out a crowd at a rummage sale of Queen
Mary's hats.—New York Evening Poet.
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READ THIS FIRST:
Betty Brown, dancer, has an au
tomobile accident which ends her
dancing career. Andy Adair, the boy
who drove her, does not come to the
hospital, but George Harris, an old
school friend, does. He helps her
financially, and gives her a position
as cashier in his restaurant. She
does studies shorthand at night,
and is in search of a position where
she will have wider opportunity. She
does not love George, but feels she
must marry him because he has been
kind to her.
(Now go on With the Stoyr.)
* * *
CHAPTER XLV.
Betty went to the restaurant the
following day, dressed in her best
clothes. She informed George of
her chance with the Mr. Crane who
wanted to interview her in refer
ence to a position. Obtaining
George’s permission to go, she ar
rived at fifteen minutes to nine.
The office was large, occupying an
entire floor in an office building.
V/hen she asked the office boy at a
desk in the hall for Mr. Crane, he
hooked his thum bover his shoulder
toward a nearby door and remark
ed: “A lot of good it’ll do you.”
The door indicated led to a large
wailing room filled with girls; tall
girls and short ones, fat girls and
lean ones, and elderly females who
were not entitled to be called “girls”
at all. Some chewed gum and chat
ted with neighbors, while other
nervously twisted handkerchiefs and
powdered noses.
The chairs were all occunied, the
tables were covered with seated girls,
and they stood in chatting groups
around the room. Betty’s heart
sunk. She supposed she had been
selected from among many appli
cants because of the letter she had
written. Now she realized Mr. Crane
had sent for every girl who had
answered.
At nine o’clock a short, stout man
with a bald head, came into the
room and looked around. Every girl
was on the quivive instantly. He
beckoned to one, saying: “Step into
the next room, Miss!” He glanced
around did the same with a second
girl. Then he chose a third. Betty
saw he had seleced the three pret
tiest girls. If this was the basis
on which they were selected, she
felt she had little chance.
The man then pointed to a red
headed girl wearing very flashy
clothes, and then he picked Betty.
As she left the large waiting room
she heard him say: "The rest of you
need not remain. I will fill the po
sitions with the ones selected."
There was more than one posi
tion, then. Betty was glad. In spite
of the fact that beauty seemed to
be the standard of selection, she
hoped she would be fortunate
enough to get a place.
The next room was a smaller re
ception room, with a telephone
switchboard, at which sat a girl. Mr.
Crane, as if it was he, had disap
peared. Only four girls remained,
showing that he had taken one in
with him.
One at a time he called the girls
into his office, Betty being the
fourth one asked in. The man was
seated at a desk, and he waved her
to a chair on the other side. He
had a pad before him, and asked
Betty her name. After she had
given it, he asked her where she
had worked previously.
“I have never done this kind of
work before,” she hesitated. "I am
just out of business school, but
have had other business experience.”
"What?”
"I was a cashier in a restaurant
while I attended business school at
night.”
“What did you do before that?”
"I was in a hospital with a dislo
cated knee.” Betty hoped to avoid
telling him she had been a dancer.
"What did you do before you went
to the hospital?” he persisted.
“I was a dancer,” she confessed.
He had not raised his eyes from his
scratch pad before, but now he
looked at her with interest.
"With a show?”
“No, I danced at the Orpheum
and other places."
“Where else? I get around town
quite a lot at night.”
“The Iron Door and at some en
tertainments given by clubs and
lodges.” Betty (fid not want to give
all these details, but feared not to
tell lest it come up later and she
be accused of decption.
“Umhuh. Your parents live here
in town?”
“I have no parents. I live with
a friend, a widow, who knew my
parents.”
“I see. Well, Miss Brown, I think
we will give you a trial. We have
twelve or fifteen stenographers
! here. I am in charge of them. I
can put them on routine work or I
can give them some of the nicer
secretarial positions, according to tha
way they shape up to me. You seem
to chape up pretty well.” He looked
at her impudently as he spok*.
“When shall I come to work?”
asked Betty, rising,
i “Don’t be in a hurry,” he said,
waving her back to her seat. “You
haven't got the job yet. I want to
know a little more about you. I am
responsible for the girls here. I have
j to Know a lot about them.”
“Yes, sir.” Betty seated herself
again.
“We have a lot of agents for the
company scattcerd around over the
country. They come in here from
time to time. As they are away
from home they have to be enter
tained. Could you entertain a lone
some man?” He grinned at her
again.
“I don’t know what you mean.”
“Well, these guys like to get about
around town, and hit it up a bit.
They like to have a good-looking
girl to go to dinner with them. You
seem to knew* the night clubs and
all that racket. You should work
in well.”
“I am sorry,” answered Betty. *‘I
was never in a night club except
where I danced.”
“Listen, kid! Don’t get me WTong.
No rough stuff, you know. You just
have to kid ’em along and not be
too high hat. They are all good
fellows and just want you to have a
drink with them and maybe a little
necking now and then, as is relished
by the best of men.”
“I don’t drink. I’m afraid I
wouldn’t answer your purpose.”
“There isn’t any use to ritz me!”
he cried, impatiently. “I suppose
you are one of those wise ones wrho
think I am just giving you a try
out to see if you are a bad actor.
Drop it! This is on the up and up.”
“If it is on the up and up. as you
say, then I don’t care for the posi
tion.” Betty rose.
“Wait a minute! Wait a minute!
Don’t rush the act! I’m going to
tell you the truth. You look good
to me. I wouldn’t mind taking you
to dinner mys<p now and then. I’m
in a position to slip you all the best
of it here. You better stick around
and find out how much you can
get here with papa back of you.”
"No, thank you!” Betty spoke
frigidly. "I’ll go now, if you don’t
mind.”
“Better hink it over. I don’t fall
for ’am often. You can go further
and fare a lot worse, kid. I got a
nice car and am loose as ashes with
my roll.”
“QOtxl morning” Betty started
for th* door.
"Hftr, this way out!” He pointed
to another door, which did not lead
through the waiting room where
the other girls sat.
Betty hurried out of the building,
ready to burst into tears of disap
pointment and chagrin. She had
foolishly counted on this position as
the stepping stone to something
better than the restaurant. She won
dered if all business offices were
like this one.
Had the fact that she danced for
a living had anything to do with
this man's thinly veiled proposition?
Would he have made it if he had
found she was just an ordinary girl
who lived with her folks and worked
j for money to buy her clothes?
As she walked rapidly back to the
restaurant she concluded that if it
had not been that she was once a
dancer this man would not have
offered to employ her at all. She
recalled he had invited in only pret
ty girls to question. She wondered
who had been employed and who,
like herself had refused.
As she entered the restaurant the
red-headed waitress came up to her.
“Did you get your new position?”
she asked, cordialy.
“No. I didn’t like the place,” an
swered Betty.
“You can’t afford to be too par
ticular.” said the girl, in a disap
pointed voice, as she walked away.
Betty smiled. Here was one per
son who would be glad to see her
leave. Yet Betty would have been
glad to cooperate with her in any
way in her designs on George Harris.
Then George asked her about her
experience. She did not tell him
how disagreeable it had been, fear
ing he would try to dissaude her
from applying elsewhere. She told
him only that the place did not
seem to offer proper opportunity for
advancement, and so she did not
care to take it.
"That was quite right 1 You may
stay here as long as you care to do
so. Don't take any position which
doesn’t seem good to you.”
(To be continued.)
About
NEW YORK, March 9.—Among
other little things that make big
paragraphs like these is the case
of a local newspaper attache who
rushed to a big time vaudeville
theater last week to cover the pro
gram. The regular reviewer had
phoned that he was ailing. The
substitute, who never had served
as critic on anything in his career,
turned in a “rave” review, voting
every act a riot.
The management of the theater
was thrilled over the notice. The
editor was called. “We are very
happy,” said the manager, “over
the excellent notice in the paper
today. Won’t you kindly give us
the writer's name so we can fea
ture it in his review in a frame in
lobby?” Permission was granted
and all week the lad’s name was
featured in huge type over his first
criticism.
The esteemed critic for a matinee
was a 14-year-old office boy.
• * •
FORM OF CRITICISM
Arthur Melanothon Hopkins, the
producer of “Holiday,” “Burlesque,”
“What Price Glory,” and other good
plays, probably never will forget
Rennold Wolf, who was the critic,
columnist and clown for the N. Y.
Morning Telegraph several years
ago. Mr. Wolf dismissed Mr. Hop
kins’ very first production, “Steve,”
with the shortest review ever writ
ten up to that time.
He wrote: “A voice from Cain’s
Storehouse; ‘I Gotcha Steve!’ ”
HANDS OUT, STUDENTS!
LONDON.—The students of Dul
wich College have been instructed
by the faculty not to walk with theii
hands in their pockets.
Eat a Real Gama Dinner at
The Matamoros
Cafe
Mrs. Emma Leonard
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The Means of Grace
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“Brass Tacks” on the Sunday School Lesson
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By DR. ALVIN E. BELL
In many of our Lord’s miracles
he bestowed his blessings through
very strange means, such as spit
tle arid clay upon the eyes of the
blind man whom he told to go and
wash in the pool of Siloam; again
he spit and touched the tongue of
one who was deaf and dump and
thus healed him. These were
crude sacraments through which
he gave his blessings to those who
would not despise them.
If we inquire the reason back
of God’s giving us the sacraments
we may find it largely in our need
of something of the sort. It is not
that God needs them so much as It
is that we need them.
In Noah’s day God gave his word
that he would not again destroy the
earth with a flood, then to con
firm the promise and seal the cove
nant he added the rainbov; as a
visible sign and seal. He wrote it.
not in black and white as we say
when we want to certify one’s
word, but he wrrote it in all the
colors of the rainbow.
When men have been estranged
and become reconciled the spoken
word of forgiveness does not quite
complete the reconciliation. But
the hand-shake does complete it.
So the mother's word of forgive
ness is not quite enough for the
little child, but a hug and kiss
confirm the spoken word. The
lovers' words of betrothal are made
more certain when sealed with the
engagement or wedding ring. Thus
does God make his covenants of
forgivece^ and grace more sure by
adding to his word the sacraments
of baptism and the Lord's Supper.
The sacraments are not only
signs and seals to confirm the
covenants of grace, but they are the
divinely appointed channels to
convey divine grace to the Indi
vidual sinner. The promises of thei
scripture are general; they are in
the terms of “Whosoever will”; in
the sacraments they are individual
ized to the believer.
Thus in baptism the believer is
identified with Christ so that his
death and burial are the same as
though they were our own: “If we
have become united with him in
the likeness of his death, we shall
be also in the likeness of his res
urrection.”
Similarly in the Lord's Supper
there is given the believer not only
a memorial of the Lord Jesus but,
as Paul tells us, a true communion
with him: “The cup of blessing
which we bless, is it not a com
munion of the blood of Christ?
The bread which we break, is it not
a communion of the body of
Christ?”
Both baptism and the Lord’s
Supper are very definitely connect
ed with the forgiveness of sin: “Re
pent ye, and be baptized every one
of you in the name of Jesus
Christ unto the remission of your
sins and ve shall receive the gift
of the Holy Spirit.” “This is my
blood of the covenant which is
poured out for many unto remis
sion of sin." The sacraments,
therefore, should be regarded as the
“holy of holies” of the Christian
religion to be approached not only
in reverence and sincerity, but also
with thanksgiving and praise, for
they are God’s means of grace to us.
(The International Uniform Les
son for March 10 is Matt., 3:13-17;
28:19,30; Acts, 2:33.41; Rom. 6:1-14;
I Cor., 11:23-29, the subject bemj
“Baptism and the Lord’s Sr^lr,”
and the Golden Text; I Cor./TfM,
“This do in remembrance of r*£”)
(The suggested daily Bible read
ings for next week’s family worship
are: Monday, Exod., 20:8-11; Tues
day, Jer., 17:21-27; Wednesday, lea.,
58:8-14; Thursday, Neh„ 13:15-22;
.Friday, Isa., 56:1-8; Saturday, Matt.
12:1-8; Sun., Psalm, 92:1-8.)
—
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