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r. jjTie Valley Highway Problem
1 Qiilure of the legislature to submit the proposed
\ t*vay bond resolution indicates that at least two
H, will elapse before additional highway conncc
tioiis between the Valley and Central Texas can be
7 . financed unless some action is taken by the various
/ | f counties interested.
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Paving of the gap across Kenedy county, comple
tion of the Brooks county highway now topped with
m caliche, and paving of the military road west through
W\ Laredo have for years been the cherished ambition of
Valley good roads proponents. In the proposed state
^ bond issue the Valley saw the means of financing
those projects that traverse counties which lack suf
< ficlent valuations to construct highways.
, The future development of the Lower Rio Grande
' Valley depends to a great extent upon highway con
j nections with Central Texas and the upper coast re
gions. One highway does not suffice. If the Valley
is to secure that volume of tourist and homeseeker
traffic to which it is entitled additional highways
must be provided, and every year their construction
S is delayed means the loss of millions in revenue and
retardation of Valley development.
| The state highway commission, which has been
very generous with the Valley, is cognizant of this
condition. The members realize that the Lower Rio
Grande Valley is one of the state’s greatest assets,
and thy are anxious to provide the necessary high
ly Tvay connections. However, to do this they must have
funds, and it is apparent they will not have suffi
cient funds unless new sources of revenue are pro
vided.
Had the legislature taken favorable action on the
proposed road bond amendment the Lower Rio
Grande Valley would have been provided with at
least two additional outlets within two years, and the
I Valley counties would have received large amounts
it* of additional funds with which to complete feeder
road systems. As the matter now stands there can
be no hope for immediate relief unless in some man
ner the Valley counties could be combined in financ
ing this construction. While this, unquestionably,
would be an investment that would yield the entire
Valley large returns in the shape of revenue from
tourist traffic and thp more rapid development of
Valley resources, it would be next to impossible to
accomplish it.
Texas Record of the Years
Those v;ho are said to be qualified to speak ere
t certain that the life blood of the Wirtz bill will be
let out by the veto knife of the governor. There is
a record of all the years behind the governor. There
't are many precedents.
|, Richard Coke was ushered into office in 1873. For
years and years after his inauguration 95 per cent
of the white men of Texas voted the regular demo
cratic ticket. Then came the state-w’ide prohibition
election of 1887. The antis won: the pros were over
whelmed. There were antis who said that a prohi
• bitionist could not be a good democrat just as there
are pros today that insist that an anti-prohibitionist
cannot, be a good democrat.
Well, the anti leaders or the more ultra of the
leaders insisted that the defeated pros should be
barred from the council of the party in coming elec
tions. Harmony, instead of discord, came.
Pros were not barred. They were invited to re
main in the big democratic wagwam. All the fac
tions smoked the pipe of peace.
Then came the Hogg era and in 1892 the greatest
bolt of democrats in Texas history occurred. They
backed George Warwick Clarke. Then the bolters
were to be barred from the party conventions and
the party pie counter.
An olive branch was extended. All the bolters re
1, turned to the household of Jefferson, with James
Stephen Hogg the acknowledged leader of the united
organization.
Charles A. Culberson picked up the flag when
Hogg laid it down. Thousands of democrats, known
as populists, bolted the Culberson nomination. Cul
berson fought and conquered. Then thousands of
the deserters returned to the democratic camp.
Sayers and Lanham had their day. There was no
discord. Thomas M. Campbell came in. He invited
the diehards of the populist party to return to the
faith of their fathers. Cyclone Davis led the die
hards to the door of the wigwam and Governor
Campbell gave them a hearty welcome.
This is the record behind the governor.
Another page of the record is the bolt to Butte
and the last page written is the bolt of 200.000 demo
crats. men and women to the Hoover and Curtis
camp in the memorable campaign of 1928.
Hogg accepted the olive branch and invited men
who fought him to return to the fold. Culberson
walked in Hogg's footsteps. Campbell invited Cy
clone and his cohorts to the pie counters. Colquitt
was for new recruits all the time and this was the
record that he made as governor in bygone years.
Hobby was for peace. Neff always waved the
• olive branch. Ferguson was ousted and organized a
new party. He failed and his followers returned to
the party of the Jeffersonian and Jacksonian faith.
Now Moody, leader of the regulars, in many po
litical skirmishes or battles that required dash and
brilliancy and courage will add another chapter to
the history of political precedent and practice which
have prevailed in this commonwealth since the fated
day when Richard Coke drove the followers of E. J.
Davis from capitol hill.
Hardy Must Face Trial
And now the state senate of California, sitting as
the high court of impeachment, has voted that Judge
Carlos Hardy must face trial on ;he charges pre
ferred against him by the lower house of the Califor
nia legislature.
It was a sad day for the judge when he accepted
the $2500 from Aimee as a little love offering. It was
a sad day for him when he remarked to grand jurors
who were investigating Aimee, “Better go slow.”
Of course, the judge may be acquitted by the high
court of impeachment. If this happens he will carry
the scars to his grave and his office-holding days will
be brought to a close when his term of office shall
have expired. It never pays for a judge to toy with
love offerings of a financial nature.
It never pays for a public servant to toy with fi
nancial offerings of any nature or kind.
These offerings are trouble-makers. If you do not
believe it read the records in Texas and elsewher.
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A TEXAN ON THE SHIPPING BOARD
(Beaumont Enterprise)
Indorsed for appointment to the United States
shipping board by the state senate, the Texas dele
gation in congress and a number of civic organiza
tions, W. E. Lea of Orange has support is seeking a
place on the shipping board that cannot fail to make
a good impression on President Hoover. Mr. Lea was
received at the white house, where he was strongly
recommended by Senators Connally and Sheppard.
There are three excellent reasons why Mr. Lea
should win this appointment. The first, and the one
that will have more weight with Mr. Hoover than any
other, is Mr. Lea’s fitness for the position. He has
a thorough knowledge of port conditions in Texas
and the south. He has long given of his time and
effort to port development and waterway expansion.
He would make a patriotic and useful member of the
shipping board, devoted to the welfare of the south
ern, or gulf ports, and watchful of their interests, but
free from hurtful sectionalism in performing his
duties.
Mr. Lea will be able, as every member of the ship
ping board should be, to view shipping problems both
in a national and a sectional way. No member of
the shipping board should try to give undue advan
tage to the ports in his own district, or to advance
their interests at the expense of other American
ports.
The second reason why Mr. Lea should be appoint
ed is that Texas is entitled to representation on the
shipping board. Texas is the second largest export
center In the United States, with a port business that
is rapidly increasing. Texas now has nine seaports
and wall soon have ten. The tonnage handled by the
Texas ports last year is an indication of the business
they may be expected to do in the future.
All signs point to a great increase in the tonnage
of all the gulf ports of the United States, by virtue
of their proximity to the Latin Americas, the growth
of Panama canal business and the improvement of
inland waterways connecting the Gulf of Mexico with
the Great Lakes, the twin cities and all parte of the
Mississippi basin.
A third reason why Mr. Hoover should appoint Mr.
Lea to the shipping board is that by selecting an out
standing democrat from southeast Texas for an im
portant place In his administration Mr. Hoover will
place merit above political consideration.
Tk© Guac© G^@rr i
By H. I. PHILLIPS
EYE EXERCISE
Failing eyesight can be restored by proper exercise
of the eye muscles, the New York State Optometric
Society says. If the eyes don’t get enough exercise
on our streets these days they never will.
The amount of setting-up exercise that a frail
eye can get in the subway is positively bewildering.
Moving pictures that think are now being per
fected. and after that something may be done about
making producers, directors and film stars do as
much.
THE MARKET
Customer (excitedly on phone)— Is it true that
Secretary Mellon issued a statement saying that now
is the time to buy bonds?
Broker—Yes. sir.
Customer—There’s no doubt about it?
Broker—None at. all.
Customer—Well, put me aboard a dozen stocks
right away!
Fred Wesson reports that when he left Miami he
could get all the rooms he wanted in any hotel by
stopping in front and letting his auto backfire.
WASHINGTON. March 23.—For liability at first
sight. Postmaster General Walter F. Brown of Toledo.
Ohio, has few equals and no superiors among cabinet
members.
Another thing—
The new postmaster general alrpady discusses his
department like a veteran, at, a time when all the
other recent appointees to cabinet posts are begging
to be excused from saying anything until they have
been a good deal longer in office.
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My guess is that Walter Brown could take pretty
much any job under the government and make good
at it from the minute he walked into his office and
took his coat off.
He has the air of a man it would be hard to
fluster.
As secretary of commerce .we all recall that, Her
bert Hoover picked Mr. Brown to be his first assist
ant late in 1927. Mr. Hoover was supposed to be gun
ning then for the G. O. P. presidential nomination.
It was also supposed that he wanted the Ohioan In
his vicinity, to manage his pre-convention campaign
for him.
It may be so. However. I fancy that Mr. Brown
gave the taxpayers their full money’s worth in his
official capacity at the same time he was looking
after Mr. Hoover’s political interests—if that's what
he did do, incidentally.
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Anyway, when he made the appointment .Secre
tary Hoover expressed his opinion that Mr. Brown
had a “greater knowledge of the federal machinery
and its functions than any other man in the United
States."
I am prepared to believe it. from the ease with
which he fits, right from the jump, into the com
plicated duties of the postmaster generalship.
Back in the early 1920’s, a joint congressional com
mittee was appointed, to plan a reorganization of the
government departments, and Walter Brown was its
chairman. It probably was a very educational in
vestigation for Mr. Brown—though the departments
never were reorganized. One of President Hoover’s
ambitions is to go ahead with it. If so, Mr. Brown
is the country’s most appropriate expert to help him.
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CHAPTER LVII
Betty had been so happy all eve
ning with Andy, dancing, meeting
his parents, having him make love
to her. Not until he had proposed
marriage did she waken to the fact
that she could not marry him as
long as George Harris wanted her.
“Oh, Andy! I shouldn’t have al
lowed you to say that, dear! I
wanted to hear you say it, too!
I would never have been happy if
you hadn't said it. But can I ever
be happy now that you have?”
“Why, what do you mean, sweet
heart?" demanded Andy.
“I mean I can never marry you.”
“Why not? You love me, don't
you?'
“More than anyone else!”
“You aren't already married?”
“Oh, no, nrt that! ’ sebbed Betty.
“But i am pledged to marry George
Harris, if he wants me!”
“Why, that’s a 11 foolishness,
honey! That bird can’t have cn
option cn you to exercise whenever
he feels like it, or leave you alone
if he doesn't care to marry you!
That's the craziest arrangement I
ever heard of! I’ll take you away
and marry you tomorrow. He can
go hang!’
“Oh, it isn’t anything like that,
Andy. It’s hard to make you un
derstand. George hasn't proposed
to me. but I know he wants me. I
would be ashamed to look myself in
the face in the mirror if I married
anyone else after all he has done
for me.
“In the old high school days
George lived next door to me. We
always went to school together. He
took me to the alumni dance at
the country club, where I got the
silly idea I wanted the rest of you
beys to admire me. No one but
George had ever noticed that I was
cn earth.
“I took dancing lessons to make
myself more attractive. He disap
proved. and he was right, Andy, for
it was a mistake. When my father
died, George took charge of every
thing. When my mother died,
George did everything for me.
Knowing nothing but dancing, I
decided to dance for a living. When
I decided to dance for a living.
George dropped out of my life en
tirely. I didn't see him again un
til we had that automobile accident.
“He came to the hospital and
moved me from a public w*ard to a
private room. He moved my things
to Mrs. Hogan's and got me a room
on the first floor so I wouldn't have
to walk upstairs on my lame leg.
“Out of the hospital, he gave me
a position as cashier in his restau
rant. He let me pay him back little
at a time until I had paid him up.
He has always stepped in in every
crisis in my life and been every
thing to me.
“When I graduated from business
school he gave me a little typewriter
as u graduation present. I wrote
him a silly little note, the first ever
written on it. I don't remember
exactly what I said, but it as good
as told him that I would marry him
when he wanted me to. I didn’t
mean it that way when I wrote it
but that’s the way he took it. He
gave me his pen and asked me to
sign it, and I did.
“He has never let me get out of
teuen with him. I know, Andy, he
is just waiting until he gets his
business paid for, so he can exer
cise his option, as you call it. It
is frightful, but I just have to marry
him. i love you and no one else
on earth but you! But, oh. sweet
heart. oen’t you see how I am sit
uated?’
“No. I don’t see anything of the
kind1’ cried Andy, stubbornly. “I
den t see any reason why you
shoulo sacrifice your happiness and
mine to this cold-blooded geezer!”
“Andy, you must not think of
George like that! I don’t love him,
but I do admire him. He didn’t
inveigle me into this situation. I
did it all myself out of gratitude
for what he has done for me. If
I
lit hadi 1 been for George, what,
! would have happened to me?”
“Yes, look what has happened to
I you! You are about to marry a
man you don’t love ana leave one
you do love, flat!”
“But, Andy, can’t you see that
every time I have gone contrary
to George’s wishes I have made a
mistake? He tried to keep me from
dancing. He would have none of
me while I did it. The moment
I got into trouble as a result of
j my stubberness, he came instantly,
unselfishly, to my rescue. Please,
Andy, don't feel unkindly toward
him! It isn't his fault.” '
“Whose fault is it, then?”
“It is mine entirely! No! It isn’t
my fault, either, Andy. It is just
Fate! I am just caught in the mesh
of circumstances. There is no way
out.”
“Well, now that you have thought
carefully about yourself and your
paragon boy friend, what about me?
Haven’t I any rights? This love
jou say you have for me—has it
no rights?” v*
“Andy, I have never loved any
other man in the world but you.
George Harris never even kissed
me. I will always love you, dear.”
"A lot of good that will do me!
Don't be silly. That's story book
stuff, marrying a man you don't
j love, out of gratitude. That's a
lot of hooey! You got a complex.
You paid him all you owed him.
didn't you? Tomorrow I’m going
to put you in this car and drive
you to a preacher and marry you.
That's all there is to it.”
“Oh, Andy, I can’t. Don't you
see I can't?” Betty burst into tears.
“There! There! Don’t cry about
it!” said Andy, kindly. He put his
arms around her and held her close.
He patted her on the back and,
placing his hand under her chin,
raised her face and kissed her gent
“Oh. Andy, I can’t give you up!”
ly on the mouth.
“That's the talk! You bet you
can't give me up! You're not going
to give me up!”
“Oh, but I must! I can't face
George Harris if I did him such
a dirty trick after all he has done
for me.”
“It's all right to do me a dirty
trick!” cried Andy, pulling away,
angrily. “It was all right to come
to my office after I thought you
were out of my life forever, and let
me fall in love with you all over
again! It was all right for you
to let me kiss you and make love
to you and then tell me this.”
“Andy, please don't be angry. I
know it's all wrong. But I have
had so little happiness I just
couldn't help it. I love you so
much!” -wt&ws
“Then why can't you marry' me
and make the pretty speech to the
other fellow?”
Instead of answering, Betty again
burst into tears. Andy sat in the
remote corner of the car seat, silent
for 10 minutes, which seemed to
Betty like* 10 years.”
"Bay after tomorrow is the first
of the month,” he announced, final
ly. “I arranged to go away for a
month's vacation. I had intended
to go up on the lake to the summer
cottage of a friend who had given
me an invitation for you also. I
wanted you to take your vacation
at the same time, so I could intro
duce you to all my friends as my
fiancee. I'm going anyway. I might
as well be there as anywhere else.
Don't do anything about this un
til I get back. Think it all over.
Maybe you will change your mind.
Will you wait until then?”
“Oh, Andy, there's no use! I
couldn't do otherwise than I am
doing. I would hate myself all my
life if I did. If you want someone
at the office to attend to your
mail and all that until you get
back I'll do that. I suppose I will
have to leave the office. You wont
j want me around after this.”
“That can wait until I come
I back,” replied Andy, sadly. “Noth
•
ing much matters atter this. I have
been living in a fool s paradise for
six months. I have hardly got my
bearings yet. We will see about
it all when I get back.’’
Ke moved as though to start the
car.
“Oh, Andy, won't you please kiss
me?”
Silently he reached over and put
his arms around her and kissed her
fiercely again and again. “He shan't
have you. damn him! You are
mine. You can't get away from
me!”
Betty put her arms arund his
neck and kissed his lips, his face
and his throat. She pushed his
head back and caressed his face
with her hands. Holding it be
tween her palms she kissed' him
again on the lips.
"We better go now, Andy.”
He stepped on the starter and
drove home silently. In front of her
house he stepped out and opened
the door for her, without offering
to kiss her again. As she stepped
dowrn on the sidewalk he said:
“Good night, Betty.”
“Goodbye, Andy,” she replied,
feeling that she was not likely to
see him again. In the house she
sat for hours by her window, star
ing out into a night which seemed
to her no blacker than her future
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
MERCEDES PRINCIPALS
ARE ALL RE-ELECTED
(Special to The Herald.)
MERCEDES, March 23.—All prin
cipals of the local schools were re
elected for the year 1929-30 at a
regular meeting of the Mercedes In
dependent school board Thursday
night.
They are Nelson W. Gay, senior
high school; W. E. Perry, junior
high school; Leon Graham, South
Side grammar school, and Joe R.
Day, North Side grammar school.
PEASANT WORKS AT 104
BERLIN—Gottlieb Huschke, a
peasant of Schoeneich. worked un
til the day of his death at the age
of 104. *
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By RICHARD G. MASSOCK
NEW YORK. March 23.—Every
season a few talented and fortunate
players are applauded into stage
prominence. This season Broad
way's finds are three and include
one youngster of 16 years.
The first flash up was Zita Jo
hann, as the Ruth Snyderish he
roine of “Machinal.” The play, al
though enthusiastically received by
the critics, failed to last, but the
star is still shining, just now in a
movie studio where a talkie version
of her first big success is being
filmed.
In musical comedy, the accolade
goes to Lillian Taiz, primma donna
of “Spring Is Here,” and George
Gershwin, who discovered her out
side the theater world, is respon
sible.
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STAGE YOUTH
The local fame of Junior Durkin,
Janet Beecher’s 16-year-old co-star
in “Courage,'’ however, is a rarer
instance of recognized talent. Fur
thermore, considerable credit for
the play’s run is given the boy who
on the stage is a lad of about 12.
And his story is all the more inter
esting becaues it represents a moth
er's ambitions gratified.
Junior's mother is a widow who
worked as telephone operator in a
producer’s office. It was only na
I tural, therefore, that she should
take home to her four children some
of the glamor that attaches to the
rialto and its people, and that she
should send them to a school of
acting to complete their education.
Thus was Junior prepared when
opportunity came to him at the
minimum legal age for child ac
tors in New7 York.
It is not unusual, of course, for
children to follow their folks across
what used to be called “the boards.”
Just the other night I saw Owen
Davis, Jr., son of the prolific play
wright, at a premiere—in the au
dience. He has had a season—or
maybe it's two, so fleet is time—in
several productions, and yet could
easily be mistaken for a college boy
of the class of '30 home for a holi
day.
It is obviously more difficult to
make an impression on the stage
than in the motion pictures because
of the comparatively limited field.
It hardly can be said, for instance,
that Times Square had any appre
ciable part in little Davey Lee's
rise to eminence, which was all the
more noteworthy because it was
made against the brilliance of the
super-star A1 Jolson.
There is one exception, however,
in the case of an obscure player in
the first all-negro feature to reach
Broadway. He was unmentioned in
the first billings and Stepin Fetchit,
an obvious pseudonym, still hides
his real name, whatever it is. But
his performance stood out. even
above the picture's novelty, and the
metropolitan critics said so. Now
not only is his nom ae cinema fea
tured in advertisements, but he has
acquired a tag as "the laziest man
in the world.”
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HISTORY
The telephone number of the
Knights of Columbus hotel is Col
umbus 4192 and an office building
on Broadway bears, because of its
street number, the sign “Spirit of
Ort OUSTER BOUT
AMARILLO, March 23—<£>)—'The
oil industry looked on today as
two factions prepared to grip over
control of the $8,000,000 Johnson
ranch royalty company properties.
Dr. Mary E. Bates and E. K. White
head of Denver seek to oust Ed
R. Hayer of Amarillo, president ana
organizer of the company. Dr.
Bates and Whitehead fill two
places on the directorate, Mayer
the third.
1776.” They make use of perhaps
the two most easily remembered
dates in American history, a con
tributing factor no doubt in the
exploitation of one and the appro
priate selection of the other.
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Who am I? How many sisters
have I? Who were my father’s
companions on his trans-Atlantic
flight?
Whom did Cicero call the father
of history?
What state has used a likeness
of a potato on its automobile license
plates?
“For as the lightening cometh out
of the east, and shineth even unto
the west; so shall also the coming
of the Son of man be.” Where is
this passage found in the Bible?
Today’s Horoscope
Persons born on this day are
likely to be wary of marriage. Any
interference with the details of
their plans discourages them and
they seek to abandon the whole
project.
Horoscope for Sunday
Persons born on this day are
domineering though not offensively
so. They are warm-hearted.
Star Lore
By Arthur DeV. Carpenter
Which Way Is Up?
In the days when man believed
the earth was flat, the directions up
and down were considered fixed.
The heavens were seen to rotate
around the world, but the world on
its eternal foundations remained
right side up. By sticking an apple
full of erect pins all the way
around, under and over, one may
produce a vivid illustration of how
erect human beings stand vertical
to their particular square folk of
ground on the rotund earth, Wiile
no two heads point to the same
zenith in the sky. Up in China is
down in America.
(More Tomorrow)
Answers to Foregoing Questions
1. Richard E. Byrd, Jr.; two;
Bernt Balchen, Floyd Bennett, Bert
Acosta.
2. Herodotus.
3. Idaho.
4. St. Matthew xxiv. 27.
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