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Liberalizing the Dean Law
, The measure passed by the lower house of the
Texas legislature last week and now before the sen
ate, which would make the Dean law conform more
closely to the federal law with respect to punishing
first offenders, is a step toward better enforcement of
the liquor laws in Texas.
The measure has met the opposition of various
organizatoins and individuals who do not take the
human equation into consideration in connection with
law’ enforcement. They hold that the Dean law is
not too drastic, but the court records of Texas would
indicate that it is very difficult to assemble a jury
that will agree with them. There have been many
convictions mider the Dean act. but the habit of
juries to suspend sentences of first offenders who
come w’ithin the age limit, has resulted in practically
nullifying the law’ in many counties.
Another factor is that the law has operated to en
tice hundreds of youth into the business of liquor
smuggling or vending. They have been practically
immune from punishment, as it has been found al
most impossible to secure juries that wmuld spnd
them to the penitentiary for a year on the first of
fense. After receiving their suspended sentences thev
no longer are useful to the “higherups" who secure
other youths to take their places.
Juries will not* be averse to giving such offenders
stiff jail sentences or fines, and instead of escaping
with a suspended sentence after their first offense,
they will receive a certain measure of punishment,
with the assurance that a repetition of the offense
will mean a penitentiary sentence.
The heads of the Texas liquor rings have in
veigled hundreds of boys into the liquor game, at
tracting them by big profits and the assurance that
they doubtless w’111 receive suspended sentences if ap
prehended. In fact, there are several counties in
Texas in w’hich it is very rare for a conviction to be
secured under the Dean law unless it Is accompanied
by a suspended sentence.
There is general sentiment to the effect, that in
vocation of the suspended sentence law’ has been
ovrworked in Texas, especially in its application to
defendants in liquor cases. But experience has proved
that it is difficult, to cet, juries to take that view’.
Parelv do they object to giving a second offense de
fendant a term in the penitentiary, but too often
they are inclined to give the first offender the ad
vantage of the suspended sentence law.
The real test of a law’ is in its application, and in
this the Dean act has failed to come up to the ex
pectations of its proponents. Each year hundreds of
youthful bootleggers are convicted and fumed loose
on suspended sentences: their places in the bootleg
ger ranks are filled with youthful recruits, who. in
due course, will be eliminated to make room for
others. These youths, after brazenly flaunting th°
law and receivine what may be classed as little more
than a reprimand, ran not be exnected to have that
wholesome respect for law w’hich should repose in
the mind of every American citizen.
A law may be made so drastic that it. will defeat
its purpose, and that is just what the Dean law has
done. The bill now before the legislature deprives
the original law of none of its teeth, but will so
amend it that, invocation of the suspended sentence
law’ in conjunction therewith wull not so frequently
result in securing for the defendant escape from all
punishment.
School Bonds
Brownsville voters, on April 6. will pass on tjne
proposition of authorizing the school board to issue
bonds in the amount of $75.onn to remodel the old
grammar school, condemned last year, and erect an
other ward school.
That Brownsville will comply with the request of
the school board to finance these improvements is
practically assured. At no time have the voters of
the district failed to give school bond issues an almost
unanimous vote, and it is safe to predict they will
do so on this occasion.
Failure to vote the bonds would place the district
In an embarrassing position. Condemnation last year
of the old grammar school has resulted in crowding
of the other buildings. The law’ passed at the pres
ent session of the legislature advancing the school
age to fi instead of 7 ve&rs will add approximately 10
per cent to the enrollment. To meet this situation
additional room is necessary.
Tn calling the bond election, the school board ex
tended the assurance there wmuld be no increase in
either the valuations or tax rate. New; valuations
added to the tax rolls the past, vear will he ample to
cover the interest and sinking fund for the additional
bonds.
The Brownsville school system always has been a
matter of considerable pride to residents of the city.
Recent years have witnessed rapid development, and
Brownsville has been compelled to expend hundreds
of thousands of dollars in order to provide the edu
cational facilities demanded by a rapidly growing
city. That the money voted by the people of Browns
ville has been wisely expended is evident from the
high standing of the city's schools, the excellent
buildings and the unsurpassed facilities provided
students.
Plans of the school board included remodeling the
old. two-tsory grammar school into a 10-room, one
story structure, with an additional ward school in the
eastern part of the city. These structures will pro
vide ample room for the additional enrollment which
will result from the increase in population as well as
from the new law establishing the school age at 6
years.
The Prince of Wales sells his horses, but it won't
be the first time he has parted from them.—Nash
ville banner.
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SHOTS THAT RING
I rather hope there won’t be a vogue for shooting
among the publicity men. A good shooting is one
way to attract attention, of course, but it's a difficult
situation to fake so as to make It observation-proof.
I had a most interesting and amusing experience
with a fake shooting story when a newspaper re
porter in Omaha.
There were three afternoon newspapers with re
porters assigned to police headquarters. The other
two reporters stood in with the police. I was required
by my employer to tell the truth about the police, no
matter what they did, so I became very unpopular at
headquarters.
* • • •
I was most unpopular with the chief of detectives,
a fat, red-faced, jolly, flat-foot, who had been a rail
way switchman and probably was rather good at
throwing switches in the old-fashioned manner. In
seeking out crime, he knew just one trick: torture.
Third degree, if used indiscriminately, will get a lot
of confessions. The only trouble is that hardly any
of the confessions are true, because it just happens
that the police get the wrong ellows into the torture
chamber.
Well. I had wTitten some news stories that didn’t
help the chief with his public, and he and the other
two reporters sat in council on the situation.
One noon the other twTo papers came out with ex
tras reporting a sensational attempt on the part of
a gang of bad criminals to assassinate the chief
while he sat in his swivel chair in his office at head
quarters.
I was scooped. My paper followed along with the
s^ory later in the day. I felt pretty bad about it. The
shooting, it seemed, had occurred wiiile I wTas on my
way to the office just before noon.
* * * *
The story was ouite circumstantial, and there were
the bullets, imbedded in the brick wall, near the de
tective’s windowr.
T talked to the chief about it. I asked him innu
merable questions, to which he gave expert answers.
But I caught him on the manner one of the criminals
had been reloading his pistol as he ran across the
street. The shooting had all been done by this fellow,
who then proceeded to put another clip into his pistol.
But the bullets were from an old-fashioned re
volver, and not from a pistol! I had trapped the
chief dick, much as detectives are supposed to trap
common folk. The exposure, and the chief’s confes
sion. were my reward.
SPEEDY CONSIDERATION OF FARM RELIEF
PREDICTED
By JOHN Q. TILSON
Majority Leader, House of Representatives.
(John Quillin Tilson was born at Clear Branch,
Tenn., April 5. 1866. He is a graduate of Yale
university, and entered the practice of law at
New Haven, Conn., in 1898. He wras a member of
the Connecticut house of representatives from
1905 to 1909. and speaker during the second term.
He was elected to congress in 1909. serving until
1913. and has be*>n a representative from Con
necticut continually since 1915. his term expir
ing in 1929. For the past three years he has been
majority leader of the republican party. He
served in the Spanish-American war and on the
Mexican border in 1316. His home is in New
Haven. Conn.)
An extra session of congress will be convened
about April 10.
The farm relief bill will be ready about April 10
and the tariff revision bill will be in shape to submit
to the house on or before April 20. Indications are
that the farm relief legislation, requiring probably
not over a week of consideration, will be considered
first.
The tariff probably will require from three weeks
to a month of consideration at the extra session, per
haps longer. I am not prepared to speculate on a
probable adjourr» ent date for the extra session .
The judgment of a considerable majority of the
membership of the house is to confine th^ legislation
plans to the two major subjects of farm relief and
tariff. For that purpose it will be necessary to or
ganize with th° two legislative committees involved,
the house committees on ways and means and on
agriculture.
In addition, the house committee on accounts is
authorized by permanent, law to sit after adjourn
ments and the house committee on rules will have to
he organized .to provide for handling the business of
the house at the extra session. I hope it will be un
necessary for the house committee on appropriations
to be organized, although that can be provided if
necessary.
Besides these committees, if the senate sees fit to
act on the reapportionment of the house and on the
decennial census the house undoubtedly will take up
those matters In order to expedite their enactment.
Those subjects, being matters constitutional in char
acter. wTould not violate the principle of avoidance of
general legislation at the extra session. There has
been some agitation for a new date for taking the
next census, instead of January 1.
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TEXANS IN THE BIG PICTURE
(Austin American).
Representative John N. Garner of Texas is mi
nority leader of the house democrats. He was elect
ed to the position without opposition. The gentle
man from Uvalde may be speaker some day should
the democrats ever capture control of congress. In
politics the unexpected happens. It may happen in
the congressional elections in the year 1930.
Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas was elected
democratic whip of the senate. Morris Sheppard has
a remarkable record. In the last six years the sena
tor has missed n oroll call either for quorum or on
tor has missed no roll call either for quorum or on
senator.
Texas voted for Hoover and Curtis through the
leadership of State Senator Thomas B. Love, but the
democratic voice of Texas will be heard in the house
when Garner speaks and in the senate when Shep
pard cracks his whip.
Our notion of an embarrassing question would be
to ask an alienist how it was that the lunatic who
escaped from an eastern asylum and posed as an
alienist for months before being exposed got away
with it as long as he did.—Macon Telegraph.
As yet Europe has not blamed its cold spell on the
United States, but probably will as soon as it thaws
out sufficiently.—Nashville Banner,
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ANOTHER FIRST ‘TOUGH’ OF SPRING
I THE STORY OF
A GIRL WHO MADE
MEN LIKE HER
r By ROE FULKERSON © 1920 by Central Press Association, Inc. |
READ THIS FIRST:
Betty Brown dances her way out
of the lives of her old friends and
into the lives of new ones much
less desirable. Her dancing career
is spoiled by an accident while
riding in the car of Andy Adair, a
new friend, who never comes to the
hospital to see her. George Har
ris, an old friend, sees her through
her trouble, and gives her a posi
tion as cashier in his restaurant.
She takes a business course at
night and obtains a secretarial
position. Loving Andy despite his
neglect, She makes up her mind to
marry George out of gratitude for
his kindness.
(Now Go On With the Story)
CHAPTER XLVII
The position in Mr. Smith's of
fice proved all that Betty had
hoped. The first morning she put
In learning his office routine. He
showed her his small bookkeeping,
no more than his personal cash
account and office overhead. All
the goods he sold were shipped and
billed direct, so he had none of
this detiil.
His income was from commis
sions, however, and she had to
keep a careful check on the orders
he sent out to be sure he received
this. His bank books were in bad
shape, as he was careless with his
additions. Ordinarily he was In
the office for only an hour in the
morning, and again in the after
noon, between four and live to
sign his mail and send in the or
ders taken during the day.
From time to time he telephoned
in to see if there was any bus
iness, and always began: “Watch
man, what of the night?” Betty
soon learned the names of his
customers, and how to handle their
telephone communications and
keep them in a good humor.
Her Mr. Smith was “Jimmy” to
the trade, so she soon got into the
habit of thinking of him in this
way. In a couple of months she
had the details of his business at
her finger tips. He got into the
habit of calling from his home at
nine, and asking if there was any
need for him to come down. She
summarized the mail for him, and
he told her what to write, after
which she composed the letters
herself.
One day a woman called at the
office. She was about thirty, much
painted and powdered, and with a
tired air which permeated even hrr
drawling, complaining voice. She
asked for Mr. Smith, and when
Betty informed her that he was
out, and asked what she could do
for her. the woman said she was
Mrs. Smith, and that she wanted
some money.
Betty at once introduced her
self. “I am Miss Brown. Mr.
Smith’s secretary. Mrs. Smith.”
“Can’t you give me some mon
ev?” asked the woman, querulously.
"You seem to do everything else
for him.”
“I’m sorry, Mrs. Smith,” an
swered Betty, “but of course I can’t
sign Mr. Smith’s name to a check.
He always calls me on the tele
phone at twelve o’clock. If you
wait till then I can put you in
touch with him.”
“Always calls you at twelve
o’clock?” asked Mrs. Smith, brid
ling.
“Yes. ma’am. It saves him a trip
to the office. I tell him what tele
phone calls come in from the cus
tomers and any other business de
tails since he left in the morning.”
“Oh. I won’t wait. It sounds al
most like I was divorced to have to
come to my husband’s secretary to
get in touch with him.”
"He is rarely in the office, you
know. Mrs. Smith. He has to be
out seeing the trade. ,
, “I guess that is iust as wall. He
never told me now pretty you
were.”
“Thank you. M. . Smith. I don’t
suppose he ever noticed it. Not
many people think so.”
Mrs. Smith went out without
saying good morning, leaving Bet
ty happy that she did not call of
ten. She had heard Mr. Smith
say little about his wife, and sus
pected he cared even less about
her. Che did not see how so
merry and pleasant a soul could
be interested in a womah of Mrs.
Smith's type. Betty felt sorry for
him.
When he came in at the end of
the day she told him several de
tails of the business and finished
up with “Mrs. Smith was in this
morning.”
“Wanted money, I suppose.” He
spoke gloomily.
"She did say she wanted some
money. She suggested that I give
it to her,” smiled Betty.
“Oh. she is like that! Doesn’t
care who gives her money.” He
laughed grimly.
Betty changed the subject to
businesvs. She did not care to be
come involved in a conversation
with her employer about domes
tic matters.
Mr. Smith had been working hard
to get an architect to require two
things he sold in the specifications
of a large apartment house aSout
to be built. He had figured for a
month on the project, and brou&fit
every influence he could bear c«
the man.
One afternoon he came into the
office and threw his hat up against
the ceiling. “I hooked him. Betty!
I hooked him!” he exclaimed, ex
citedly.
"The architect?” she asked, as
excited as he was.
“I’ll tell the world I did! The
letter you sent mm about tne aaa
ed comfort to the tenants sold him
and the owner, both! That means
you get more money, Betty!” He
had never used her first name be
fore, yet she hardly noticed it.
She came around her desk with
extended hands to congratulate him,
but he grabbed her around the
waist and whirled her into a dance
around the desks and across the
office floor. He pulled away from
her and did a can-can of his own.
Catching the contagion, she faced
him and broke into the routine of
her jazz dance.
He paused amazed at her, and
then began to pat his foot and
clap his hands, excitedly, while she
strutted like mad. Snapping his
fingers, slapping his hips and
stamping his feet on the floor, he
shouted words of encouragement to
her while her feet flew madly to
the dhythm.
In a moment she stopped, ex
hausted, and exclaimed: “Oh, Jim
my. I’m so glad!”
“I could kiss you!” he replied.
“I hardly think it advisable,”
said a cold voice, in the doorway.
They looked around to see Mrs.
Smith, her face white with anger.
She had come in the midst of the
dance, unnoticed.
“Hold everything!” cried Jimmy
Smith. In a moment you will join
the festivities! I have landed that
big apartment house job! We’ri
going to have so much money we
can buy a yacht.”
“Is this a business office?” de
manded Mrs. Smith, coldly. “Does
every sale here end in an orgy?
Does this justify you in kissing
this woman?”
“Aw, don’t be a crab! We were
celebrating! You ought to hop onto
Ik<2f^ A*3011*
HBrio^'NbW’lfork
NEW YORK, March 14.—Vincent
Lawrence’s brother Warren parents
‘Conflict,” which the Spad produc
ing firm sponsors at the Fulton.
And it is asserted by some of the
foyer talkers that it marks Mr.
Lawrence's debut as a legit attrac
tion preparer. If the report is ac
curate. then the new author is a
promising one, for ‘ Conflict,” which
is an uneven and frequently spotty
piece, is not without a compelling
episcd or two. What it appears to
lack is a wallop and an extra sup
ply of appeal. Perhaps the direction
is faulty. Surely the troupe of sea
soned players contributes gracefully
to it, which probably gives the new
entry some of its charm. It is play
ed well, then, and one wishes as
much could be said of the new
playwright’s initial effort.
Now and then it reaches out over
the bulbs, holds you. and then it
lets go. It never appears certain
of itself. Only the fine playing of
the pretenders grips you. and more’s
the pity, for most of them belong
in a succesful production. Let it be
one of these desks and kick the
ink-stands around.”
“Your lady friend is better
adapted to that than I.”
‘ Oh, I am so sorry, Mrs. Smith!”
cried Betty, contritely. “I know I
shouldn't have done it, but Mr.1
Smith has worked so hard for this
contract.”
“Mr. Smith? He was ‘Jimmy’ be
fore you knew I was here!”
“Did I say that? I am still more
sorry. I never called him that be
fore. but he was acting like a lit
tle boy. I never danced here be
fore, either. Oh. please, please do
not misunderstand!”
“No danger of my misunder
standing. I understand quite
enough.”
“Oh, for the love of Mike, be rea
sonable, or get out!” cried Jimmy
Smith, angrily.
“I am being very reasonable.. I
am not getting out. I do not care
to discuss this before your lady
friend. Instead of getting out, I
am going to insist that she get out.
Not only get out, but stay out.”
Mrs. Smith was again white with
anger.
“Oh, please, please, don’t take it
like that!” said Betty, wringing her
hands, helplessly. “It was my
fault. I shouldn’t have done it.”
“It was not your fault at all!”
cried Jimmy Smith. "It was no
body’s fault. I started it. I caught
Miss Brown around the waist and
danced her all over the office.
There is noting to be sorry for! You
can stay here if you want to, but
I’ll be darned if I am going to
chase Miss Brown out. I will talk
to you about it when I come home.”
“Miss Brown, who was ‘Betty’ a
moment ago, will go or I will.
Choose between this creature and
me right now. She goes out of
your office or I go out of your
life!”
Betty w-ent to the closet and re
turned with her hat, to find Mr.
Smith standing between her and
the door. “Oh, but I must go! I
am so sorry. But I must go. I'll
come back in the morning. I'm
sure Mrs. Smith will see that there
was no harm in it all.."
“If this loose, immoral woman
does not leave—”
“Shut up! Miss Brown is none
of the things you insinuate,” in
terrupted her husband.
“You choose between that woman
and me right now!” Mrs. Smith
pointed at Betty tragically.
“He need not.” The tears came
to Betty’s eyes in spite of herself.
“I am going now. and will not
come back. I am so sorry.” As
she pushed past Jimmy Smith, and
went through the door, she heard
him say: “Oh. damn!”
She went home sadly, and sit
ting down to her little typewriter,
wrote him it w-ould be impossible
for her to come back under the
circumstances, and how- much she
regretted the incident. The fol
lowing afternoon she had a reply
which told how- much he. too, re
gretted the whole affair, and en
closing a most flattering recom
mendation. in which he said he
w-ould be glad to be called by any
one interested.
Betty sobbed herself to sleep that
night. Again, she thought grimly,
she had danced and Vud.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
jotted down, then, that Warren P.
Lawrence wil probably provide some
thing that will register some day.
It revolves about a young clerk
who is caught in the draft of 1917,
and serves in the flying corps. His
skill in the air brings a captaincy,
and he returns home with the dis
tinction of bringing down, among
other enemies, one of Germany’s
most famous aces. The ladies lion
ize him ,and he rates most of the
other rewards that come to heroes.
But his head fattens. He shelves
The One Who Really Cared: he
snubs his war buddies, and other
wise makes himself unpopular with
the crowd from which he sprang.
He was only a clerk, after all. Mr.
Lawrence proves.
• • •
W. W. SCOTTISMS
The sound movies are not as bad
as they theme.
The India Rubber Man’s indorse
ment: “I'd reach a mile for
Lucky.’* ‘A
_JSm t
Who am I? Who is my wife?
Who is my youngest brother-m
law?
What is Archimedes said to have
cried out when he discovered the
principle of gravity?
How deep is a fathom?
“No man hath seen God at any
time. If we love one another,
God dwelleth in us, and his love is
perfected in us.” Where is this
passage found in the Bible?
Today’s Horoscope '
Persons born on this day are
somewhat impractical. Th?y usu
ally get little in return for what
they give.
Star Lore
(By Arthur DeV. Carpenter)
Some stars appear brighter than !
oihers. The faintest star the un
aided eye can see is a sixth mag
nitude star; the next brighter s^gr
classified is a fifth magnitude |i
is two and one-half times br w
than the sixth magnitude. An
they increase in magnitude on tne
scale of two and one-half, up to the
first magnitude. The next magni
tude above the first is 0 (zero).
Above 0. the magnitude is desig
nated by the minus sign; Venus is
-4: the full moon is -12.5; the sun j
-26.7. There are about 20 stars of
the first magnitude. Powerful tele
scopes reveal stars down to the
twenty-first magnitude.
Answers to Foregoing Questions
1. Viscount Lascelles; »r\ncess
Mary of England: Prince George. 1
2. “Eureka! Eureka!” i
3 Six feet.
4. I John iv, 12.
RANGES DETERIORATE
AUSTIN. March 12.—'A5.—The
condition of Texas ranges on March
1 was 70 per cent, three points
lower than one month ago, accord
ing to H. H. Schultz of the United
States department of agriculture,
division of crop and live stock es
timates.
^Washington
Daybook
INET DOESN’T ELATE
POLITICIANS
WASHINGTON, March 12. —
President Hoover’s cabinet is not
very popular with politicians, and
they generally express doubt if
it will be particularly popular with
the public.
War Secretary Good is the sole
appointee whom the old guard
recognizes as one of themselves.
Postmaster General Brown is a
professional politician, too, but
contrary to common talk he is not
a member of the Ohio crowd. In
stead, he has kept out of the or
ganization. and Capitol Hill con
siders him virtually an outlaw,
politically speaking.
Of course Secretary Mellon is
highly thought of by big business,
but nobody considers him an asset
with masses of people.
Members of congress speak of it
as a good average cabinet in the
matter of ability, but as lacking in
headliners from the standpoint of
popular appeal.
Perhaps Navy Secretary Adams
is an exception. He is described as
a good deal of a “character.”
Washington will have to make hi3
acquaintance before deciding. As
yet he is wholly unknown here.
This is equally true of Secre
taries Wilbur. Lament and Hyde.
The capital already is familiar with
Secretaries Mellon. Davis, Mitchell
and Brown. Old-timers recall
Stimson from President Taft’s
day, and Good is remembered as
a veteran congressman. None of
these is deemed likelv to suonlv
the Hoover regime with anything
but substantial hard work. That
is no thrill.
• * •
It is also mainly a rich man’s
cabinet and congressional progres
sives are afraid it will prove very
conservative.
To be sure Secretary H^de once
left the G. O. P. reservation to join
the Roosevelt brand of progres- ,
sives, but his recent attitude on
."’.rm legislation is interpreted as
meaning that his regularity is fully
re-established now.
Secretary Wilbur may turn out
to be a mild liberal. He is vie vied
as President Hoover’s lone possible
concession to that element, but cer
tainly as less advanced than the
ultra group at the capitol.
Progressives who supported Mr.
Hoover under the impression that
he was much like themselves un
der the skin are decidedly uneasy.
The retention of Secretary Mellon
especially worries them.
• • •
Mr. Hoover likewise was **
if he imagined that the »
crats would accept Attorney <7en
eral Mitchell's appointment as a
recognition of their services merely j
because he calls himself a demo
crat. Mitchell has voted for too
many republican presidential can- !
didates for the Jeffersonians to re
gard him as of their faith. Be
sides, they wanted a southerner. ;
The president assuredly succeed
ed in surprising congress with a
fair share of his selections.
Mitchell, Lam out and Hyde were
not even suggested until the last
few days. Sti'.nson and Wilbur
were not among the early guesses.
Good was mentioned all alo:*5 but
was not considered a strong proba
bility. 1'fellon and Brown really
were the only two concerning whom
nearly everyone was tolerably cer
tain from the first. All told more
than 200 names were discussed at j
vurious times.
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