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©if Horamstifllf Herald Established July 4, 1892 Entered as second-class matter In the Postoffice Qrownsvllle. Texas. THE BROWNSVILLE HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rates—Daily and Sunday (7 Issues) One Year .$9 00 Six Months .$4.50 Three Months .$2 25 One Month ...75 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TTie Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper, and also the local news published herein. Harlingen Office, Reese-Wil-Mond Hotel. ?hone 1020. TEXAS DAILY PRESS LEAGUE Foreign Advertising Representatives Dallas. Texas. 512 Mercantile Bank Bulldtng. Kansas City, Mo.. 306 Coca Cola Bulldtng Chicago. 111.. Association Building. New York. 350 Madison Avenue. 8t. Louis. 502 Star Building. Lcs Angeles. Cal. Room 1015 New Orpheum Bldg 446 8 Broadway. San Francisco. Cal. 318 Kohl Building. Seattle. Wash.. 507 Leary Building. In the Interest of Tourist Trade The Valley with its myriad of attractions is not drawing as many tourists p"r year as Corpus Christi A broad statement, but one which seems to be gen erally accepted as true. Two explanations occur. The first is that Corpus Christi has avertised her self in a paid newspaper campaign. This campaign has brought results. The other is that Corpus Christi is situated direct ly on the bay. making fish and bathing facilities handy. The fact that the Valley is 200 miles further away may enter into this second reason Corpus Ch**isti for the past few years has made a systematic effort to attract tourist trade. That ef fort is bearing fruit out of all proportion to its cost in dollars and cents. Corpus Christi folk will verify this. This is no effort to detract from the attractions of Corpus Christi. for its is a splendid place to spend an enjoyable vacation, summer or w'nter. There is tourist travel enough for all and the Valley need not fear that Corpus Christi will consider we are trying to attract her rightful trade The larger the number of tourists coming to the Valley and South Texas, the larger will be the ha-vest for Corpus Christi. Florida and California are attracting thousands of tourists for every one who finds his or her way to South Texas. The climate of the Valley, summer and winter, will compare favorably with that cf either famous tourist center Climate n«ide. what is th" next most potent factor which causes people to visit Florida end California? Weter. Water—salt wat»r—for bathing and for fish ing. The Valley has as fine a beach as is available anv whcrc. not excepting Miami or Long Bpach Fishing grounds compare fnvornblv. Witness the feat of Bill ,’crt. noted ancler. who landed a tarpon here last ve'k But the fishing and bathing facilities must be Im proved and all-weather access to them must be pro vied if the Valley is to pttract the number of tourists to which she is entitled. The Boca Chica road must be paved all the way to th* beach. This road was Included es on* of the principal and first designations of the Brownsville commissioner precinct before th" $5,000,000 road bond issue was voted FxpendlMire of the entire Issue with out providing a raved highway to Boca Chica will constitute a breach of trust. Other roads are important—especially the military highway—but Boca Chica must be accessible 65 days per year, rain or shine. This will provide some of th? attractions which tourists demand An advertising campaign should follow comoetion of the road to inform the tourist that surf bathing is available at least seven months a year. Price of Supar Hiked Well, the republican tariff bill was enacted by the house and the vote on final passage was 264 to 147. It provides for sweeping changes in administrative provision of the tar ff lax and a reorganization of the tariff eomm.ssions under a system designed to speed up its work There arc cane sugar and beet sugar growers under the flag of Old Glory. They won in the making of the house tariff bill. It is said the most far-reaching change is the ad vance cf 64 cents in the effective duty on sugar, rais ing the present duty of 1.76 cents a pound on Cuban raw sugar to 2 40 cents Porto Rico sugar comes in free Sugar from the Philippines is on the free list. Pcrto Rico will be an American state some day. As 'or the Philippine Islands, the flag of the American republic will float there for years to come. Americans are sugar consumers extraordinary. In consumption per capita they lead all nations and then some. Thase who are in a position to know say that the new house tariff bill will take another $100 000.000 a year out of the pockets of sugar -nsumers of the United States. Smoot of Utah handled the beet sugar side. Rams dell of Louisiana handled the cane sugar side. Thus the combination of the high priest of the Mormon church and a high priest of the southern wing of the democratic party saw to it that American sugar grow ers were not sent to the poor house by the lawmakers. Another Million Dollar Trust Company Dallas has organized the American Exchange com pany, capitalized at $1 000.000 to handle high class securities. It is a new subsidiary of the American Exchange National bank and the officers of the bank will be the officers of the American Exchange com pany Financially speaking. Texas is marching on. New trust companies are in evidence everywhere. New building and loan companies are in evidence every whre. Gene is the ox-cart period of civilization. Woclworth's stores in Ireland have been burned down It is alleged that several excited Scots had nar row escapes from falling masonry while selecting wed ding presents—Glasgow Eastern Standard. Export wheat freight rates dropt six cents a bushel last week, and at the same time wh*at prices drop six cents. The difference between the two figures repre sents the farmer's profit —Marshall County Banner “Scarface Al” gets a year in a Philadelphia jail for carrying a pistol. If this sort of thing keeps on. it may yet be possible to punish gunmen for shooting people.—Boston Transcript | ! I MR. TWICHELL ON IMPROVING PUBLIC PARKS. j Mr. Elmer Twichell today came warmly in favor of what he called the ' biddle-ing" of New York City's j Central Park. “All this criticism of the city officials for allowing the Casino to be operated as a deluxe ‘ lounging place for the best people is the bunk.” re clared Mr. Twitchell. "The whole trouble with our | parks today is that they are not exclusive enough. Anybody can get in.” • • • • “Walk through any park today and what do you ; see?” demanded Mr. Twitchell. “A lot of ordinary j people, that's what; people of the sort you could meet j in the subway, on a trolley car or any other old place. Central Park in particular is fairly teeming with per sons who have no social position. Probably nine out of every ten people you meet on park benches can not trace their ancestery back to the Mayflower. I spent an entire afternoon this week rowing in the park lake without bumping a single boat occupied by a Daughter of the American Revolution! • • * • “It is high time Mayor Wa!ker and Park Commis sioner Herrick took firm steps to make Central Park the sort of place a discriminating citizen would care j to frequent. The new Biddle casino is a step in the right direction, but it is merely a step. The park will never be what it should be until it is made more exclusive from end to end. The way to do this is to post attendants at all the entrances and keep out undesirables. • * * * "A charge should be made for s-»ats on park benches. At present they are always crowded and you never sit with the assurance you will be sitting with somebody j of influence and position. I favor leasing benches in the best locations to bench-holders just as boxes at the opera are leased to box-holders. The others could be let out at $15 or $20 a day. You would be surprised to see what a difference this would mike in the class of people sleeping on our park benches. • * • • “The situation with regard to rowing on Central Park lake is disgraceful. All you have to do to get a rowboat is to ask for it. The attendant doesn't take your name or make the slightest inquiry into your ancestry. This means that anybody can go rowing, i It is heart-breaking. • • • • “I am writing to Mayor Walker urging that the boat house be renovated by Urban and that all the boats be upholstered in green velour. I would let only the really worth-while people have a rowboat. • * • • “Conditions on the briddle-path ere verv had People are allowed to ride without any references. There have been complaints from the horses in som** cases. And look at the people you see feeding pigeon* and squirrels! In most cases they are mere nobodies." • • • • He-e Mr. Twichell broke down and sobbed softly. "Is that fair to the pigeons?" he cried. "Is that fair to the squirrels?" • • • • OF COURSE YOU KNOW FT I Th» Century Theater, or Morris Gest Stadium, op posite Central Park, will be torn down bv th** Chanirs and a skyscraper put up on thp sit*. You know the building: it was formerly the o’.d-Fifty-ninth street carbarn, later Mrdison Square Carden and just now used as Grant's tomb • • • • Grover Whalen has forbidden smoking at New York police headquarters. Possibly on t*v» asumpt on h\s men have been looking for the Rothrtein slayers blindfolded. • • * • Senatcr Dumm remarks that the widow r-as a’nost as long catching Mr. Tunney as Dempsey was. Waskira f ft ©ini' L«ftft®r By HERBERT C. PLUMMER —- -- ■ - - " WASHINGTON. June 6.—This special session of congress has upset plans that Ron. George H Tink ham of Massachusetts has had for something like two years. Ha was prepared to go tiger hunting agam this summer. It has been almost two years now sine® h* came back from the orient empty handed, so far as tigers are concerned. Ever since he has been mikin plans to try and bag at least one. Th* king of Abys sinia had invited him to come over this summer as his guest. But the pres.dent called the law makers to Wash ington. and Mr. Tinkham had to cancel all of his plans. He thinks he will be lucky if he can find tim* to slip away to Europe the latter part of the summer. And his tiger hunt must wait at least until next year. • • 9 ft TRAVELED GENTLEMAN Representative Tinkham probably Is the most widely traveled member of congress. Only one other —Ernest R. Ackerman of New Jersey—can approach the Massachusetts man s mileage record. Already he has been more than 250.000 miles outside the confines of the United States. He started his globe circling while a student at Harvard and has been at it ever Since. He is a bachelor and wealthy. Also, he is a big game hunter of the first water .and his quest of thrills along this line has carried him to the four corners of the globe. There Is ample proof of his skill as a hunter. The walls of his office on capitol hill are decorated with the heads of animals he has shot. His apartment at one of the smaller hotels in Washington literally is jammed with trophies of these hunting expeditions. The Smithsonian institution has been the recipient of valuable African specimens brought do—n hr Mr. Tinkham s gun. • • t • TRAVELS IN STYLE When he travels he surrounds himself with all the conveniences. Once the king of S:am ordered out one of his own planes to bear Mr Tinkham from Bangkok. Siam, to Ahgkor. in Cambodia. French Indo China, i Everywhere he goes he is entertained by the highest personages of the country he is visiting. He is an accomplished horseman and every day around noon he may be seen riding through the Mall along the Potomac. Not so long ago a horse dropped dead under him in Potomac park. Mr Tinkham is serving his eighth consecutive term in the house of representatives. Last year when Massachusetts went democratic he was re-elected without difficulty. He polled 33 votes more than A1 Smith in his district. You probably saw t*e face of the most famous baby in the United States in the newspapers recently. It was the first time in three years that Paulina Longworth. baby daughter of Alice Roosevelt and Nick Longworth. had been photographed publicly. Paulina's parents refuse to let her appear too much in the public prints and guard her closely from photo graphers. Believe It or Not m .—— — m —— i ij.« ■ B m i 3ose Maria ‘ HEREpmy Heredia CuWs J&m«d Pott Translated Horace WHEN 8 YEARS old - -- A Tarahumare Indian cpn RUN DOWN A Wild horse / i By Ripley Paul Muller. ' — SAILED ACROSS TrtE ATLANTIC /Uotf£ in A 22* Foot Boat Hamburg 'to HaV&n^..„ 1929 /--\ 1 EvAlmaS:oux Scarberry, author or'make u?#etc. "* .«c "* —— - - —...- . .—.—.—..... . ~ i READ THIS FIRST: Vivian Matthews, shy and un I happy because she was a doorstep baby, is considered a "flat tire" by the younger ret cf Bender. Kan Kentwcrth Hillman Johns III of I fers her one hundred thousand dollars and a divorce in Paris at j the end of the year if she will marry him so he can get the for tune wired by his grandfather. In Few York. transformed with clothes which her French maid se lects. sh" attracts the a’tention of Mann Barkow, th* famous illus trator. and gees to dinner with him He flics to Bender to paint her -m-trait. end Patricia Sullivan •■Cudd'cs" NPrrr.r* on Broadvp”. con«cnfs to say tha» he has flown to see her. fNow Co On With the Story) • • • C!! dPTCR XFFF Bender would nor b-vc be-n very rurorlsed if an earthemak*1 had mened th? lews of th” earth wide and consumed it with on" bio guin No* after Vivian canto ha"k with six trunks of new c'o‘h"s. tran' formire the town moth into a po’d on but,‘erfiv—and brinp.ne a, F’Tn"h ma'd to 'T,,rn'ch th" nicturc These things. with th° add?d n?"* "Tr*der of Menu Barlow's flight to Eend?r «•'>« Ur»]« Petriria Sulli van! It hrd of a surety begun to look as though the o’d horn" town was niekin" un f^r p lively fall and winter snaron. Ctmid appeared to be running ramnent. Barkow found a chsrroire fur nished cct^a"0 on tb« outskirts of the city, end aff°r he had added a few touches of his own—oaint ines and dranes and easel, it war most desirable. It was the dav aft er Vivian and Cuddles helped him settle. ad'Mnp feminine touches here and there that he asked Viv ian if she vould like to fly with him that afternoon She was in golden brown, blend ing beautifully with her auburn hair, her green eves burring with eagerness, when she reached Bar kow s cottage. Adiac°nt to his home was a meadow that had made a natural landing field, level as a floor. When Vivian took off her hat to put on th" flying helmet Mann handed her. the sun struck her hair and it shone like a jewel. He caueht her hands. "You are autumn today, my dear Golden autumn. Brown and gold and green—” She checked him with a nervous lauvh. "You are Irish today, m.v dear. Elarnpy and blarney and some more blarney." Before any of her old friends, ex cept Cuddles. Vivian was helplessly tongue tied. She felt just as in ferior and just as shv as Mrs. Johns as she had felt as Vivian Matthews. She gazed back at Barkow. as she pulled her hand away, and wonder ed why it was that she felt so much freer with him. Perhaps it was be cause h« knew nothing about her. She hoped he would n*ver learn that she wps a doorsten baby. Did r.et know her own parents. She wondered if it would make any difference to him She telt a slightly sinking sensa tion as he helped her in the plane. It was a cabin ship with room for four. She sat beside him. her heart beating a tattoo. What would Kent say? She hadn't told him she was going up Nor Cuddles either. They should have taken her. But if was nice—having her first rid? alone with Barkow. She closed her eyes as he gave the ship “the gun." Instinctively she reached for something to hold to as they took off from the field. One hand clutched her seat. Sbr raoned her oth°r arm around what ’oeked to h®r like a pipe running through the plane and held on. It was darn nice, having some thing to hold to a fairly brisk Kansas breeze was blowing and. al- I It was glorious! crte could live forever in the air! though Mann had opened the win dow just a little. It blew in on her like a gale. Fascinated, wanting to look- below, and yet dreading to open her eyes, she held on more tightly as she felt the plane climb higher and higher. “There isn't much good in hang ing on." she heard Mann laugh in her ear. Vivian was embarrassed with hrr lack of nerve, and crossed her hands In her lap. She tried look ing at him without looking down. He looked over the side of the plane. She felt herself slipping nearer Mann and realized that he was making a steep banked turn. “There.” he pointed nonchalant ly. “Is your ‘Home Sweet Home.* Wish you were down there?” She had to look! She couldn't let him see she was a coward. And so. feeling a little faint, she looked out the window, which was as though they were looking through a gla's floor now—and saw th*v were flving over the Johns estate. It stretched for acres and acres, beautiful in the late September art moon sunlight. It was su'-h a startlingly lovefv sight with the town beneath them and the farm lands like patchwork, visible for miles on all sides, tha* as suddenlv as Vivian had become scared and faint her fear left her. She drew a sharp breath. She was enjoying the ride. “It's—it's like a great old crazv quilt—the way the farms are laid out and everything.” she mur mured. Excitement, and the love of fly ing. burned in her eyes. Barkow looked at her with anproval Good’ She wasn't afraid He zoomed th* ship un and they flew l!ke the wind over farm country and small towns “Salma’ Why. we are orr Sel ina already!” She pointed down and could hardly believe her eyes. “In jurt about fifteen minutes!” When thev landed an hour later bark at Barkow’s cottage. Vivtan was so thrilled that her breath came in gasps .It was glorious! She could live forever in the air! She remembered the many other people she had heard say they wouldn't go up in an airplane for all the money in the world with something akin to pity. "Oh. my dear, they don’t know what they are missing!” she told Mann, anging to his arm in her excitement, as they took off their flying togs. His heart warmed at her enthus iasm Flying was the great pas sion of his life, outside of paint ing. "I'm having a little two-seater, open cockpit job flown on from New York next week," he said when they were in the studio. "If you're a good little girl mavbe I'll teach you to fly.” Oh—you—you wouldn't?” Her eyes were almost round. She was like a child that had been given a houseful of candv. Barkow laughed and sat down close beside her on the divan. "IF—you are a very, very good litt'«* girl. And how about a cock tail after all the excitement?” She was surprised into an ad mission she would net- have made if she hadn't been so excited.” "Why—why." she studied a min ute. "I've never tried one. But— yes.” His Jaw dropped. His surprise was amusing "Vivian! Vivian Johns, do you mean to tell me there is a girl in the world who has never had a cocktail?” She laughed, a little embarrass ed that she had revealed so much of b«r ignorance. "Well, r hovrvr* He pulled her to h*r feet. “In that case—since you haven't even seen one I’ll eo mix them myf'-’t and let ycu watch me. My Health and Right Living BY ROYAL S. COPELA.V), M. D. Former Commissioner of Health You cannot imagine that a stream flowing a long distance through fitld and forest could do otherwise than pick up leaves and twigs, bits of plants, and all sorts of rubbish. More than this, it dissolves from the soil tmv paticles of this m.neral and that. It picks up traces of every soluble substance. The blood stream does the same thing. As it flows through the body it dissolves this and that material It takes up many elements, really waste substances, no longer of val ue to the tissues Some of these are chemical agents and they mav combine in the blood to form new substances. It is not well to have the blood charted with agents which are not useful and which, indeed, may be come harmful. To get rid of all such material. Nature planned the kidneys. These organs, two in number, have an important, a vital function to i perform. It is their duty to filter out of the blood this waste mate rial. In reality the kidney is a wonder ful filter, or rather a bundle of mi croscopic filters. They are tiny tubes, each about an inch long to take the ashes and clinker away from the furnaces. It is amazing how many of these little tubes there are—about four million, equally divided between the kidneys It is said that if they were straightened out and placed end to end. they would make a pipe line fully 75 miles long! Perhaps it is impossible even to approximate the quantity cf solid j material taken out of the body bv ' these filters. It is estimated that an ounce a day. or nearly a ton in a long time-time. Not all the material we take with our food is actually used by the ( body Some of it is unsuitable and , is rejected as fecal matter. More ■ of it is made use of and. becoming worthless, is thrown into the blood stream. You can see that the blood serves a double purpose—it carries nour ishment to the body and also dis poses ’of the wastes A river mav carry coal barges to supply a great factory with fuel. Likew.se, it car- 1 ries scows. The arrangement is not quite so simple as this, but there is no occasion to go into a lot of de tail The blood must be kept pur®. It must be cleansed of the waste in or der that it may be free to convey to the eager cells the food required for their nourishment and the enerev producing substances to carry on their work The mast imoortant of the waste substances is known as urea This is carried away with the urine un less something interferes w rh the ' kidney funct'on. In that event the j urea accumulates in the blood, pro-1 dear" he added, looking at her with new interest, .“where have you been hidirg your sweet innocent little self?" "Here—right here in this for saken little burg. with all these funny, mossv-back old people." "I don't f nd th®m that wav." h® -urprised h®r by answering. "Th®v live like human beings, it seems to me. and ere honest, upright, real Americans " He mixed the drinks, his hand some face wreathed in a boyish grin, and handed one to her. “Ah. ha' The vtlPan leads th® li’l prairie flower astray " She smiled back at him. but sud denly felt strange and r.ervcus What if it intoxicated h®r? Well, she'd have to drink it now that sh® had cone this far She swal lowed it hurriedly. 1* didn't taste bedly! Mann poured another. Sh® shrugged drank it and looked at her watch. "Mv goodness. It's d’.r.ner time. I must cet home to my wifely du ties." Barkow was disappointed that h® hadn't had a chence to sit clor® be side h®r in th® studio and watch the effects cf h®r first cocktails. But in his thirty years he had learned enough about wemen not to show this. CVegling. she climbed in her wait ing limousine and started for horn® Fine' Sh® felt lik® a qu®®n sud denly. Independent and aloof She smiled a* th® thought that she had ever felt otherwise, pnd wavered slightly as she got out of the car at home Kent was coming tip th® drive wav. his soft summer shirt op®n. haring his strong, tanned neck and | his eves took in the grande dame manner in which sh® alighted from th® car. He noted the chance, but did not suspect its meaning. "Well. Ouceo Marie, where have you been?" He bowed low. She grinned maliciously. "If you are Interested, mv de vet®d spouse. I'v® boen flvine to Salina and back with Mann Rar kow You should worry. Tf I crash, that’s a good way out of all your worries." He stared at her—uncomnr®h®nd inelv. But what he might have said was InterrunVd by a sharp ex clrmtion from Vivian. Tumine. he was struck speech less. Not Tore than a stone’s throw awav in th® Jansen card®n stood Dovte. Vivian’s eves search ed his face He was white and shaking. She whirled and an imn ! the house—a queer pain stabbing at her heart (TO BE CONTINUED* 20 SHIPS BLOCKADED GALVESTON. Tex.. June fi—^ ' —More than 20 ships were block aded and the Houston channel was | tied up for th® second time in a week due to ships being aground I t during the condition known as 'u: ! mia They may be convulsions and other serious symptoms, the effects of -general poisoning caused by the re*a.nod urea. You can see how important It really is to have the kidneys work normally. So long as they do. there is no trouble about having the poi ! rons due to tissue changes properly expelled from the body • • • Answers to Health Queries M D T Q.—How can I gain in weight? I am 28 years of age. 5 feet 6 inches tail. A.—Improve your health in gen eral and you will gain in weight as well as benefit generally. You should weigh about 135 pounds. • • • B T. Q—I have a good appetite but the stomach Is always empty; what causes this? A—This may be due to hyperacid ity. Correct your diet and avo.d constipation. Pend seif-addressed stamped envelope for further par ticulars and repeat your question. "Who am I? What record did I recently break? What was my shin’s name? What pce» wrote his masterplecs at the age of 18? Who the Fram through the Northeast Passage on a polar voy age? “Let us therefore follow after th? things which ma'te for peace, ana things wherewith one may edltv another" Where is this passage found In the Bible? Today’s Horoscope Persons born on this day es* forceful in their thought but qu ei and retiring They sometimes ai r difficult to please. _SifuiLQi^L VEGA OF THE LYRE By Arthur DeV. Carpenter Just west of Cygnus in the Milky Way. is the beautiful summer star Vega It is brighter than the firs* magnitude, really 0.1: Its tempera ture is 11 200 degrees C. as com pared with the sun fi.ooo degrees. Vega's diameter is 2 4 times that of the stm. radiates 51 times as much Ught. its color is white end its dis tance Is 20 light years. The con stellation Lyra 'Harp* to w'hich Vega brlonrs. is in th« form of a small narllclogr.am In mythotogv Lyra was the harp of Orpheus, who at his death was said to have changed to a swan. Cygnus. and riaccd in the heavens just below the Lyre. 'More Tomorrow! Answers to Forerun* Questions 1 Reg Robbins; refueling endur ance flight; Fort Worth. 2 William Cullen Brvant wrote ‘•Thanatonsis’' at that age. 3. Fridtjof Nansen. 4 Roma ins xiv. 19 HEAVY ON THE TLEAN-tP” COLLEGE PARK. Md . Jun- 4 — J*1—Four members of the Univer sity cf Maryland baseball team were “clean-up'* hitters on their hi?’i school teams. Sour Stomachs Made Sweet For a Few Cent* You Banish All Discomfort That Fol lows Eating If you cannot eat what you like, jf you have to avoid certain foods be-ause they scur on your stomach, you should know that you can end the troiihdo for a few cents GORDON’S — a stomach and bowel antiseptic, acts promptly One close will relieve sour stomach, in digestion. dyspepsia, gas, bloating heartburn, and other discomforts that fellow eatinr. It soothes and heals the irritated and inflernM stomach lining, made raw b\ e4E and poisons. W' GORDONS costs less than thwe c«nts a dose. Get a bottle todav at anv drug store. If not satisfied, your money refunded —Adv Jones Transfer & Storage Co. Inc. Distributing, Storing, Moving, Crating and Shipping Daily motor Freight and Express Service between all Valley points Bonded Warehouses a* Harlingen ~ Edinburg — Brownsville Phone 3 Phone 3 Phone 7S7 i '■ - - - .