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Worthless Dogs
Within the part year twenty residents of Browns
ville have gone to the Pasteur Institute at Austin for
treatment as the result of having been bitten by dogs
infeeed with rabies. One day last week live persons
were reported to have been bitten, all of whom, it is
understood will be compelled to take the treatment.
The city is infested with mangy, worthless curs,
each a potential menace to life or health of scores
citizens. In the outskirts of the city they can be seen
in great numbers, thin, diseased, eking cut a miser
able existence on such scraps or offal as they may
find. Their diseased, emaciated condition renders
them more subject to rabies than the well-fed,
healthy dog. They serve no useful purpose and their
extinction would be a humane act.
The city has an ordinance requiring all dogs to
be licensed, but has no means of enforcing this ordi
nance. Enforcement would require a dog pound and
employment of a pound keeper, the owner cf an un
licensed dog to be given the opportunity to redeem
the animal after it is captured. Shooting of dogs is
not permitted under the state law until the owner
has been given an opportunity to pay the license and
such penalties as may be fixed by city ordinance, i
This handicaps the city police force in their efforts
to reduce the number of worthless docs, as practi
cally every dog has an owner who insists that the
animals is extremely valuable.
Conditions in Brownsville have reached the point!
where it is necessary that something be done to elim
inate the menace of life and health. If the police!
and health departments are so handicapped by the
state laws, it is obvious that the city must stand the ;
expense of establishing a dog pound and emDloymg
a pound master and dog catcher. Whenever owner
less dogs can be found they can be shot without the
necessity of placing them in the pound.
The city ordinance requiring the licensing of dogs ,
is a dead letter. Less than a dozen licenses have been I
issued since the ordinance was passed several years
ago. and licenses will not be secured until the city
is in position to enforce the law The cost of estab
lishing the pound and enforcing the city ordinance
would be infinitesimal in comparison with the cost
to which residents of the city have been subjected in
securing treatment to prevent the development of
rabies, and it is very apparent that conditions have
reached the point which will permit cf no delay in
eliminating the dog menace.
Hcover As a Party Builder
President Hoover, in his role of party builder, has
th rown in the discard the old republican organization
head in the states of South Carolina. Georgia and
Mississippi. He has accepted the Creager plan of
building through the use of patronage and influence
the two party systems n the southern states which
landed !n the renublican column in 1328.
He has let it be known that he looks upon all the
new converts in southern states as republicans, and
he has been given assurances that thousands of these
converts will affiliate with the ’"’publican party m
coming campaigns.
Republican paironage brokers, biack and white, in
these old south states and Texas have been thrown
in the ditch and the Texas Colonel has assurances
that his plan of building a thorough going republican
party in every one of the old south states has re
ceived the sanction of the president.
This makes it interesting all along the political
fighting line. I* :s a hint- that there is to be an ag
gressive organization created for the republican party
in states which were thought to be hopelessly demo
cratic before the upheaval of November last.
Where Texas Does Not Shine
A very important bulletin has been issued by the
federal department of commerce giving the figures
on the manufacture of cotton goods collected at the
biennial census in 1927.
A total of 1.347 establishments manufacturing cot
ton goods in the United States was shown by the re
port. Only 25 were located in Texas. Tins placed
Texas tenth among he gates n lumber of textile
manufacturing plants. North Carolina led with 374
establishments. Massachusetts and South Carolina
had 168 each. Georgia had 129. North Carolina has
more than a fourth of all the plants manufacturing
cetton goods in the United States.
And the figures show that Massachusetts, which
ht:d 12,600 more wage earners employed in its cotton
mills in 1925 than did North Carolina in 1927 had
5,000 less than North Carolina. Incidentally Massa
chusetts also surrendered the leadership n cotton
manufactures to North Carolina.
North Carolina landed in the republican column
in 1928. There was a reason for it. North Carolin
ians are taking kindly to the -epublican doctrine of
protection ‘of American mdustnes and American
labor.**
Professor Hans Mollsch of Vienna has isolated a
type of luminous hactena with which, it is said, he
can light a table in inoculating certain foodstuffs.
And the people who ate the food, doubtless, would
be all lit up—Worchester Evening Gazette.
A writer says that every childless couple should
either adopt a child or a dog. "Hie former, prefer
ably, because in the latter instance there would be
the pedigree and the licence to bother about.—Fort
Worth Record-Telegram.
.Mr Daugherty announced that the famous "green
house'* at Washington will shortly receive a coat of
white—Terre. Haute Star.
The artist who says there is no beauty in straight
lines never has seen a white sphere describing one
lust over second base.—Newcastle News.
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By H. L PHILLIPS
THE BANANA CRISIS
Panama and other Central American countries
are stirred by the proposal for a higher duty on ba
nanas. Their newspapers ask what they are to un
derstand when a country professes good will with
one hand and tries to smack the banana industry
with the other.
Feeling is running high in Latin-America. over the
matter and diplomats fear a possible severing of re
lations or, as it were, a banana split.
Shall the banana go? That seems to be the ques
tion.
Is this noble fruit to become a luxury'? Is it to
be made so difficult to obtain that it may eventually
be obtained only from speculators? Is America to
put the seal of indorsement on banana prohibition?
These are fair questions to which the answer
“Who wants to know?” will not suffice.
The banana has come to occupy a high place in
American life. It has become endeared to people in
all walks of life. What would a fruit basket be with
out one? Kow about the shoe-box lunch for the Sun
day outing? What would the church picnic, the Ford
excursion, the children's party be without bananas?
What? And again what?
What would the suitcase lunch, the sideboard
fruit dish, the pantry or the corner fruit store be if
it had no bananas? What would vaudeville humor be
without them? What would bananaless newspaper
columns be like? Where would the popular song bus
iness of 1923-24-25 have been?
Eananas have been symbols of life and laughter,
j They have meant spring and hand-organs and pic
nics and jokes about policemen. They have been Lit
tle Willie's reward for bringing in the wood and Sis
ter Saraha's compensation for sticking to her piano
lessons.
And now it is proposed to levy such a high duty
on them that it may be necessary to smuggle them
into the country and handle them through banana
bootleggers!
The time may come when a man will take you to
a closet, unlock it. point to a case in the comer and
whisper in elation. ‘Real Centra! American banan
ners. just off a boat.”
Something should be done. Write your congress
man now!
• • • •
“Trade Beard Shifts Status of Oil Curb "—Head
line. There's a nice profession these spring days,,
status shifting.
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YOU KNOW THE KIND
Flapper (in the morning'. Mother. I can't find my j
underwear.
Mom I pur it ail under your watch on the bureau, j
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ARE THERE \NT SMITHS AMONG THE SMITH
BROTHERS?
Now the Lofts have been forced out of the Loft j
Candy corporation. Coming so soon after the ousting
of all the Childs from the Childs company this looks
as if the country were having a series of Oust The
Founders Weeks.
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Vilhjalmur Stefanssen. the explorer, has lived the
past year on a meat diet. Tins is the first time it
was generally known he was that wealthy.
Mr. Stefanssen says his experiment proves that,
provided you get plenty cf exercise, a meat diet is
ckay. The exercise one gets locking for a good steak
is ample.
• « * *
Word comes from any number of prison wardens
that in case any of those congressmen are convicted
under the Jones law they will be very glad to give
:;hem ‘‘free entry.”
By HERBERT C. PLUMMER
WASHINGTON, April 5.—Representative Bolivar
i S. Kemp, who represents one of the picturesque Aca
dian districts of Louisiana, is just a little bit puzzled
as to whether some of his constituents think they
sent him to congress or to duty in the war depart
ment.
For cut of one of his "bayou parishes" there came
o him the other day the fallowing request:
“I im an old man and live in tile neighborhood
where there are a number of ill bred children. They
nearly pester the life out of me by throwing rocks on
nv roof while I am trying to sleep. Will you not
have the war department send me an army rifle and
some bullets? I promise to take good care of it- and
return it to you when I have shown these boys I :
•nean business."
Mr. Kemp's reply was that he was not in the rifle
! business.
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HAIL IS HEAVY
This request is typical of the many that arc to be
found almost daily in every representative’s mail.
And every member of congress will tell you that it is
j the next lung to political suicide not to attempt some
' sort of an answer to such letters.
About the same ime Mr. Kemp was asked for a
rifle. a request came from a lumber company in his
district that he use his office to secure some buffalo
for a proposed park on their land. He was more suc
cessful in this instance, but it required quite a bit
of effort *o get the animals from the west to the far
south.
Senator Gerald 0 Nve of North Dakota delights
n telling of a request he received from an elderly
woman constituent shortly after the inauguration.
She asked that he exert an effort, in the senate to
have a law passed making it a penitentiary offense
to apply a nickname to the president of the United
States.
"It grieved me much. ’ she wrote, "to hear dear
Mr. Coolidge referred to as Cal. Now I understand
some people are referring to the splendid Mr. Hoover
as Herb. I think it is disgraceful, and I strongly urge
you to use your influence to stamp out this practice." |
Senator Nye replied that he could not undertake j
such a crusade: that he thought it was a good prac
‘ice to nickname a president and hoped it would 1
continue.
* * • *
“CRITPLIin POULTRY”
Mrs. Florence P. Kahn, who succeeded her late i
husband as representative :n congress from Califor
nia. tells of a letter she received recently from a
woman who had seen references to the lame ducks
in congress.
She wrote Mrr. Kahn in protest, pointing out that
she thought it was a disgrace to this country and to }
the sanitary conditions of the world to have malform
ed fowls thrust upon unsuspecting people, and would
she please take steps to see that the practice was dis
continued?
One of these days some fellow is going to hurl
himself into immortal fame by reaching his ninety
fifth birthday and telling reporters he knows nothing
about practically everything.—Huntington Adver
tiser.
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This is a daily feature of The Herald, and authenticity of the above, if questioned, may be had
from Mr. Ripley, in care of this paper.
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1 3 &3f\SrE>f*04"feSIIUY'fc A LOVE AND
UlililL. IvLf‘fj PS %3 mystery story
By J.Jefferson Farjeo * I Copyright, 192?, by Crntril Pres* ArswHa*!''!!. la*.
They groped their way cautiously.
READ THIS FIRST:
The piot. concerns some weird
noises that no one can fathom.
They are underground sounds, be
neath a house in Byford Moor peo
ple say is haunted. While eating in
a King’s Cross restaurant. Brown,
a romantic young clerk, overhears
a rough-looking young man say to
his companion, a little fellow: “Aft
er her! And—if she's troublesome—
don’t be particular what you do to
her.’’ The girl is beautiful, and
Brown decides to warn her of the
danger. Her trail leads to the
the haunted house. Brown meets
Rupert and Charlie, two young men
on a walking trip. Thev join forces.
Arriving at the house at night, the
throe meet Ted. a laborer, who is
also interested in the noises. Ted
is out of work, and has hung I
around the house all day. The three
decide to enter the house.
(Now Go On With the Story).
CHAPTER VIII
The ragged fellow, watching from
the shed, heard neither the thud
nor the gasp, but he witnessed the
result. Throe men had stood, just!
previously, outside the open win
dow. In a flash, the three men
vanished. The dark house had
swallowed them up.
“Well, it’s their fooneral.” he re
flected. “I’ve ’ad mine!”
But the comparative peace of the'
last few hours was gone, and he i
could not longer stretch himself
out on a length of potato sacking
and sleep. Instead, he shoved a.
broken case a little nearer the door'
of the shed—or. more correctly j
speaking, the space where the door
would have been had there been
nnv—and sat, down to watch
Things might happen in that house.
If they did happen, it was lust as
well to be ready for ’em, like. You
never knew.
So he sa* and watched, and wish
ed his strength had not given out
that afternoon just as he had de
cided to make a dead set for New
castle. He might have been half
way there by now, with a comfort
able number of miles between him
and this house of horrors. It was
funy. his legs giving way like that.
They’d never done it before. Silly
of ’em.
Ted was undoubtedly out of
sorts, and he had spoken correctly
when he had suggested that no
army doctor would have passed him
for Caiegory A. It was not merely
the state of his wobbling legs, how
ever. that bad caused him to accept
the inadequate protection of a shed
for so many hours. He did not
know it. but he was interested in
his house of horrors. He was
morbidly intrigued by it, subcon
sciously irritated by his ignorance
of its secret. That boom, like! It
surely was queer! Sort of bothered
you, not knowing what it was. Like
an itch, you couldn’t scratch. Yes.
but for that itch Ted might have
contrived to hobble a mile or so.
Fr.ie needed him. though—needed
even a raggm laborer with large
holes in his pockets and an even
larger hole in his stomach, for Fate
uses both the proud and the hum
ble—and so it had supplied the itrh.
Well—p'r’aps them otliers’d do a
bit o’ scratching! P’r’aps THF.Y’D
find out what the booming was!
Ted stretched his unwashed neck,
and stared at the window into
which the three men had disap
peared. He saw fitful lights.
Matches." he reflected. Raising his
eyes, another light in a window
above suddenly caught his atten
tion. "’Alio!” hp thought. "THAT
ain’t matches! That’s a torch!” The
upper light went out as he staled
. . . Or had he lw*en dreamin’?
Meanwhile, the little matches
continued to flicker below, and Ru
pert. Charlie and Brown groped
their way cautiously about the
shadowv interior in which they
ound themselves. The chairs may
have been faded, but there was no
humility in their shadows on the
walls. The settee may have been
shabby, but it bore a sinister im
portance. The grandfather clock
may have been dumb, yet it shout
ed at them with a hundred silent
voices. Match light is the least
composing of all the lights devised
by man.
“Where DID that sound com*
from?” muttered Rupert.
“I thought it was somewhere Just
in here,” chattered Brown.
'So did I,” whispered Charlie,
staring at a door beside the grand
father clock.
“The acoustics of this place are
damned queer,” murmured Rupert.
Charlie still stared at the door
and moved towards it.
“What are you doing?” asked
Brown, unintelligently.
“Stand bv.” replied Charlie, as
he reached the door, and stretched
for the knob. “My gold watch to
mother.”
He turned the knob suddenly and
pulled. The door did not move.
“Locked,” he muttered, limply.
“Mother doesn’t get my watch just
yet—”
“Sh!" interposed Rupert, “What’s
.hat?”
His match went out. So. at that
moment, did Charlie’s. Through
the blackness they heard faint steps
overhead.
“Strike a match—quick!" whis
pered Rupert. “I’ve none left!
Someone's upstairs!”
Charlie did not reply, but struck
another match. The light flickered
and grew. It illuminated only two
faces. Rupert, swore softly.
“Where’s Brown?” he asked.
“Darling, how do I know?” gasp
ed Charlie.
“He’s probably slipped upstairs!”
“Then we’d better slip after him.”
“Yes. Come on. Quick!”
The staircase was at the back of
the lounge hall. It ran up to a
half-landing, then curved round.
By the light of the single match
they hastened up the stairs, their
large, distorted shadows following
them.
Round the'bend, and up to the
'op. Here, in his haste. Charlie
humped into Rupert, and the match
went. out. With feverish haste he
struck another.
The light glowed on a generous
stretch of soft carpet. Straight
ahead was a door, ajar. Right and
left ran the passage. The left side
of the passage stretched into dark
ness. The right side was obscured
by a curtain. The curtain looked
as though it had recently been dis
arranged. Protruding from the
Continued on page seven. X
Health and Right Living
BY ROYAL 5. COPELAND, M. D.
Former Commissioner of Health,
Is there and scientific foundation
for the belief certain persons have
that they can “feel” the onset, of
bad weather? It is a common thing
for rheumatic persons to say they
can “feel in their bones’’ that the
weather is to change. I am asked
frequently if there Is any sen*e in
this.
It is probable that barometric
pressure has its effect upon the
body. If it really has. a rising or
falling barometer would have its ef
f pet
Before a storm the barometer
falls. This release of pressure less
ens the escape of water from the
body. It, interferes with the free
action of the skin Perspiration is
lessened. ’ . .
Just how this is accomplished
mav be crudely likened to the effect
of pressure on a sponge If you
squeeze it. the water runs out If
you release the pressure the water
stays in the sronge
In a sense, this is what happens
to the body by lessening the atmos
pheric pressure open its surfaces
With the decreased barometric pres
sure the fluid does not escape in
the usual quantities
In consequence. whaf wp may call
the normal “water balance’ dis
turbed This causes certain effects
upon the sensory nerve endings in
the skin. As a result there is a
disturbance of the nerve centers
Restlessness is the observed re
sponse.
A few weeks ago a Chicago phsv
ollogist. Dr C. S. Smith, contributed
an article to the American Journal
of Physiology. In this he points
out that:
“The restlessness of various ani
mals that is often noted before a
storm might be accounted for by the
low barometric pressure and the
consequent water retention. Yith
an animal that is particularly sen
sitive to this condition there is thus
given a foreknowledge of approach
ing bad weather, so that, migratory i
birds are away before there is any !
sign in the sky of a weather change.
Hogs usually bed themselves down
and cattle on the range become rest
less and seek shelter, hours before
there is any evidence of impnding i
chance in reaction that will impress
the senses of man."
This scientist expalins on the
same grounds the claims of persons
who suffer with rheumatism or any 1
one of seevral other disorders that
make the nerves particularly sensi
tive that they can tell the approach
of bad weather. Thev suffer in
creased pain or have other symp
toms that cause them to “feel it
in their bones." Perhaps weather
and the water supply of the body
are related in such a way that the j
atnfospherie changes are actually
felt.
It may well be that the baromet
ric conditions are more important
than we suspect. One of my doc
or friends has preached this doc- J
trine a long time.
It is a fact that a physician's
rounds on a bright, sunshiny day, j
may find every patient restless and ,
uncomfortable. There may be no
obvious physical reasons for these!
unpleasant symptoms.
It may well bQ that the state ba
rometer is responsible That is what
my doctor friend has believed for
years. This most recent theory
confirms his conclusions
Answers to Health Oueries
“YOURS TRULY" Q.—What:
causes a pain in the left breast,
would you advise me to see a phy
sician?
A—Consult your doctor for a
careful examination.
B L. W Q.—Why is it every time
I eat radishes I get a sore throat?
A.—You probably have an idios
yncrasy for them Avoid eating
them
W. A P Q.—What do you advise
for indigestion and constipation?
A—First of all correct your diet }
Eat simple well-cooked food Avoid
foods unduly rich in fats and
starches. Send self-addressed
stamped envelope for further oar
tieulars and repeat your question.
—
H .A S Q.—I drink six quarts
of water daily during the hot
weather. Is that too much?
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II? YOU would walk all dav or dance
all night and never think about your
feet, shake into your shoes each morn
ing some Allen’s Foot»Ease, the anti
septic, healing powder for the feet.
Takes the friction from the shoes and
instantly relieves tired, aching, smart
ing feet. Sold at all drug and toilet
goods counters.
^Allen’s
Foot? Ease
• >>EVERY DAY » *
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A.—I see no reason why you
should drink more than 10 glasses
daily.
MISS D K Q—What do you ad
vise for ingrown toe nails?
A—May require surgical proce
dure. See your doctor.
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Who am I? What famous band
did I d’*-Qct before I toured with my
own organization? What band did I
direct during the World war?
Who is president of France?
In what war did Stephen Decatur
distinguish himself?
'“Marvel not. my brethren, if the
world hate you ” Where is this pas
sage found in the Bible’
Today’s Horoscope
Persons born on this day are very
imaginative. They are true and
faithful friends.
Star Lore].
A Marvel of Physics ^
By Arthur IVV. Carpenter
One winds a watch and it con
tinues to run until it has exhausted e
that energy imparted at the wind- 1
ing: then it stops—is run down, e
as we say. A hoy spins his top. It !
runs charm'ngly for a while, then 1
begins to wabble, and finally it \
topples over. A gyroscope will run
for an amazingly long period of ,
time, but will ultimately slow down <
and come to a standstill when left .
to itself. An atom is conceived to
be a tiny solar system having al- ,
most infinitely small planetary ^
electrons rotating round a minute^
nucleus or sun. But the atom never s
runs down ' It is an immortsj ^
microcosm. $ .
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