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Millions for Rural Aid Lawmakers have voted millions for rural aid. They have enacted a law by which the counties returning high valuations will be given minimum benefits and the counties which return low valuatoins will be given maximum benefits. A state board of equalization would be the rem edy. Then there would be uniform valuation in the 254 Texas counties and the constitution would not be flouted as it is today by thousands who clamor for the enforcement of certain amendments to the con stitution and violate those which de^ls with taxation and the production of revenue for tie commonwealth and its departments. There are low valuation counties which take from the school rural aid fund, greater sums than they pay in. There are counties which pay into the school fund larger sums than they take out of rural aid for the support of their schools. Now. the Texas lawmakers know this to be a fact, a brazen and unblushing fact. Why do they remain silent “and let it go at that?” Senator Russek Honored Sen. Gus Russek of Schulenberg, Fayette county, was elected president pro tern of the senate in the closing day of the second called session of the 41st legislature “to serve until the next session.” Well, the next session pushed its face into the picture on the following morning. It was a jolt for many of the lawmakers—not the election of Sen. Russek, but the message of the governor. Sen. Russek is a banker, he is 48, he has been a member of the senate of the 39th, 40th and 41st legis latures and will be a candidate for re-election. He represents the 15th district, composed of Fayette, La vaca, Colorado, Austin and Waller counties. For many years this district was represented by the late Dr. I. C. Clarke, who was widely known the state over. He was a lover of the sport of kings. He bred and trained kings and queens of the turf. He was a phy sician and surgeon of standing and believed in high class racing and all high class sports. Gustavus put the worthy doctor away in a primary contest—by a large majority and this was the finish of the movement in the upper house to bring back the sport of kings in a commonwealth ideal for horse breeding and horse training purposes. Deepest Producing Well in World Texas boasts of the deepest producing well in the world. It is located in Reagan county, away out in West Texas. It produces from a depth of 8525 feet. In the closing days of June this deepest well made new high records in output for three consecutive days. On June 27 it showed a new peak of 2665 bar rels and a gas volume of 24.011,000 cubic feet the pre vious day it had established a new high of 2660 bar rels and the day prior to that 2642 barrels. This deepest well In the world is the property of the Continental Oil company. Lest we forget, land and royalty owners of Texas are organizing the state over and will affiliate with the Texas Mid-Continent Royalty Owners association. They are calling for public gaugers to protect the roy alty owners of the commonwealth and appeal for united effort on the part of land and royalty owners to meet the new proposition “for term royalty and also to meet the objections to the proposal of Walter Teagle for unit or community operation of blocks of leases In proven territory.” Constitution Given Recognition An immortal document is the constitution of the United States. A second immortal document is the constitution of Texas. Governor Moody signed a bill making effective in 1930 the law requiring the con stitution to be taught in the schools of the common wealth. Tis well. It should have happened years and years ago. Every boy and every girl should be compelled to make a study of the constitution, including the bill Of rights. This is a constitutional government. There are millions of men and women voters in America who appear to be in ignorance of the important fact. They flout the constitution, they kick it aside when It suits their purpose, they ignore many important provisions and there are teachers in the schools of the country who need the instruction given to the pupils. How It Happened "Glass attacked president for submerging prohibi tion? Did Mr. Hoover, In naming his commission, turn down an empty glass?” queries the San Antonio Express. Why not read the record? The president did not turn down an empty glass. He named George W. Wickersham of New York chairman of his com mission and Wickersham is a wet at all times, while Glass Is a dry at all time and a pro of pros. Indeed the Virginia senator is said to be for precinct pro hibition, state prohibition, nation prohibition and world wide prohibition. fte is a sure enough dry j Glass and proud of it. Charity consisted in saying nothing at the office of the Father’s Day necktie.—Indianapolis Star. Two young thugs were sent to Jan the other day for taking $7 out of a newspaper man's pockets. That's the sort of thing that put Houdini on the stage. \ -San Diego Union. * /V An ape man has been discovered near Mexico City, J and the Prince of Wales has been engaged and dis j engaged again. In short, the summer news famine is here.—The New Yorker. , i NEW YORK, July 12.—Every day, excepting Sun days, an average of $15,000,000 is carried through New York streets for the city’s banks. Fifteen million dollars in coin and currency! What loot a mere hundredth of that sum would be for a gang to grab! But the gangsters who walk the streets through which this fortune passes daily, gangsters who would shoot a man for a thousandth part of it, don’t dare to try a hold-up. They know that inside each armored truck three guards ride, ready to pour tear gas and machine gun bullets through turret slits at the slightest sign of attack. • • * * HAULING CITY’S TREASURE * Every morning the armored cars draw up to the Federal Reserve bank on Maiden Lane, just off Wall street. Out of each jumps a guard, hand on automatic pistol. He takes his place at the bank door. - Another guard stands outside the truck door. The third, the conductor, steps briskly into the bank and returns with a bag containing perhaps a million dol lars in currency—the day’s needs of an uptown insti tution. The lookout follows him back to the truck, the door is slammed shut and the bullet-proof car rolls away to its destination. There the observer again leaps out, looks around and signals to the guard inside. The latter takes his post at the opened truck door and the conductor de livers his treasure between the two who stand watch. If it’s a big job, such as the moving of an entire bank, a machine gun is posted across the street where it can sweep the field of action. Under such protection millions are transferred in a few minutes. • * * * THIEF-PROOF In addition to withdrawals and deposits of cash at the Federal Reserve bank, made daily to save in-* terest, the armored cars and their hard-boiled crews handle many millions in payrolls. W. R. Huntington, vice president of the trucking corporation, does not know exactly how much money his men transport, nor do they. The same precau tions are taken when the shipment is a $250 payroll or a million dollar deposit. Each car is insured for $8,000,000 and the crew is bonded for the same amount. There are 76 cars in the fleet, 30 of which are used for the daily trips between banks. These manned by some 300 picked sharpshooters, who keep trigger fingers in condition at their own private pistol range. Each car is tested under gunfire. Each man’s past is thoroughly investigated before he is hired. The fleet’s biggest job since its first car was launched in 1922 was the moving of $4,000,000,000 in cash and bullion from the old Federal Reserve vaults to the bank’s new building. The next largest was the moving cf the Chase National bank into its new quarters. Five hundred banks are served regularly by the motorized vaults, and 3.000 industrial or business houses. The latter do not even have to make up their own payrolls. The trucking corporation does that, too, in an armored room at headquarters down town. WASHINGTON, July 12—There’s a studio on the upper floor of the Chilean embassy in Washington. It overlooks a wall of green t’-ees banked against an elevation at the back of the house. An African musical instrument made from the entire shell of a tortoise rests on a table. Quaint shaped pieces of Chilean pottery, decorated with in tricate designs, are scattered about. Pottery from Europe and textiles from India are to be seen. Beau tiful paintings hang from the walls. It is the retreat of Mme. Herminia A. De Davila, wife of the Chilean ambassador to the United States. And when time permits she goes there and paints. A woman with a most vital and original person ality is Madame Davila. There is a portrait of her hanging from one of the walls in the embassy. It was painted by the Rumanian artist, Negulesco. The re semblance is striking. The decided characteristics that one notes in the woman were not overlooked by the artist. * * * • JUST SIX YEARS Madame Davila has been painting only six years. Yet in that short time her work has been exhibited on two continents. In her native city of Santiago she has had “one-man shows.” The last erhibition of the season at the Yorke Gallery in Washington included some of her work. And in both places her canvases aroused much favorable comment. She is prticularly interested in still life subjects. The peculiar looking musieal instrument, made from a tortoise shell which she brought from Africa, is the subject of one of her paintings. She delights to put the houses of her native land, and their interiors, on canvas. ' Madame Davila does most of her work during the winter and spring months. At the present she is get ting ready to spend the summer in Europe. But she will return to Washington next fall. Then, perhaps, I will attempt some real .serious work,” she says. Her enthusiasm is limitless when she talks about painting. Since she was a chilli, art has been a con stant source of delight to her. She never studied art in schools, but has done serious work with artists of her own country. Her master was Pablo Buchard of great reputation in Chile. • • • * THE MASCOT The President and Mrs. Hoover were entertaining the disabled soldiers of the world war with the an nual garden fete on the lawn at the White House. No one was getting a bigger kick out of the occa sion than the pet raccoon perched atop a stump in the wire cage in the midst of the crowd. Nothing escaped his eyes. Mr. Hoover, surrounded by his group of aides, was making the rounds, shaking hands wdth the men in the frheel chairs. He paused in front of the wire cage. Turning to his party, the president remarked that he had been told the raccoon was something of a mongrel in the way of his line. “But we lent him to a boys’ baseball team recently as a mascot,” he said. “The team won the series championship. Perhaps he is pretty good after all.” Blue Has the Call Over the Grey Gov. Moody approved and filed senate bill 36, which provides that traffic officers may wear blue j uniforms instead of grey. Why the discrimination on i the part of the lawmakers? - «m the chairman oe the bored - * B^fcla^BMBBiMe.vxL .. ' ' *" • I 111 / / -\ A DRAB LITTLE | MOTH FLIES TO HAPPINESS I AUTHOR OrWEUPVre. - J Vivian Matthews, shy and un happy because she was a doorstep baby, and called a “flat tire,” mar ries Kentworth Hillman Johns III, secretly loving him, to help him get his grandfather's fortune. She is to have a Paris divorce and $100,000 at the end of a year, but a cyclone and the stock market combine to wipe Kent's fortune off the earth. A mysterious lawyer calls and takes Vivian to old Judge Potter’s office where she is to learn the truth about her birth. (NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY> * * * CHAPTER XLIV “God knows,” the old judge shook his head at the foolish ways of hu man natui’e, “why he didn’t just throw you in an orphan asylum and forget about you. It seems he was the sort that would of. But, he brought you right back here, where you were only a few minutes’ dis tance from him—and how he ever lived in his big. lonesome house, knowin’ you were down there in that little cottage, pining your heart away, is beyond me.” “He took the boy from an orphan age because he wanted a son. He seemed broken hearted over the death of Kent, Jr,. But you didn’t mean a thing to him. He was afraid because you had red hair like your mother and because you was a girl you'd go and disgrace the family by hoppin' off and goin’ on the stage some day, too, I guess. But he did decide, another of his fool notions, that after Martha and him was both dead yru was to know your real name and have a half million dollars.” Vivian lifted her head and looked at him—unable to endure the mono logue any longer. “He—he lived in this town in a big house?” Her question was in a voice that seemed to her hollow and the little effort made her throat ache. “Yes, Johns built hisself the big gest tomb he could find to live out his selfish, mean days in.” Vivian let out a little cry. “Who—u7ho was he? I can’t bear it any longer.” It was Cromw7ell who took her in his arms. “Johns—old Kent Johns.” “Not him! No, no! Not Mr. Johns.” She screamed, P.nd threw herself into Cromw7ell’s arms. He wasn’t my grandfather.” “There, there,” the old man was comforting her like a baby, and Judge Potter patted her back help lessly. “Yes, it w7as old Kent Johns. Your daddy ivas Kentworth Johns, the second. Your mamma was Gloria Deane Cromwell of Norfolk, Va.” “Cromwell—” she turned to the old lawyer. “Then—you are—” “Your grandfather, my little sweetheart.” He kissed her, and wiped the tears from his own eyes. It brought the sunshine into Vi vian’s face for a second. “You—oh, I’m glad. Then that is w7hy I loved you from the first.” Judge Potter blew his nose brisk ly and turned to the window. A minute later he turned, master of his emotions, and slapped his knee. “That’s it, Vivie, get acquainted with your grandpap!” “How—why didn’t I know about you before?” she asked him then. His head bowed, and she felt him tremble. “I never knew. Old Johns never let me know that my daughter had a child. Poor, silly little Gloria ran aw7ay to go on the stage, and just a little while after, in a whirlwind courtship, she married Kent Johns. It was another one of Johns’ unbe lievable, heartless tricks that he kept me in ignorance of you all the years. If Judge Potter here hadn’t picked up a paper and read of a murder trial I was conducting—I’m a dis trict attorney, you know—he never would have known about me.” Vivian’s eyes opened wide, and she opened her mouth to SDeak. but could not get the words out. When she swayed, her grandfather caught her. She had fainted dead away. Judge Potter ran for water, and 1 they bathed her face. “Poor little thing,” Cromwell said, tenderly, “it has been a hard thing for her to go through.” When Vivian revived she burst into a fit of weeping. At last con trolling herself, she chocked the words out of her mouth: “Then Kent—Kent—he is the baby from the crphangae. He is not a Johns, but just—just what I thought I was.” “Yes,” the old judge nodded, gravely. “It will be hard on him when he finds it out!” Vivian gave a startled little cry. “Oh, he must not know! Don’t tell him—please. Oh. not now. He has had so much trouble—” The two men looked at her in as tonishment—but she swore them to secrecy. “Promise me that never, never until I tell him myself, and I hope I’ll never have to—that he shall know that he is a—a nobody. It’s too hard to endure—I—I know. It would break his heart. Kill his pride.” They nodded understandingly. “My name, then—” she said, dreamily, is really—really Vivian Johns.” “Your name, my pretty one, is Mercedes Gloria Johns.” “Mercedes.” It brought a memory. “Oh,” she gasped. “The night Aunt Martha died she tried to tell me about ‘Mercedes Johns.’ She was telling me my name. She said, too. it was ‘cruel’ and something j.bout old Johns turning over in his grave if he had known I had married Kent. And do you know anything about my jade necKlace and ring— there was a story—” “Your father.” old Judge Potter nodded, “gave them to your mother on th^ir wedding day. She had them on when she was killed. Old Johns p"ve them to Martha to give you on your wedding day. He was kind o’ sentimental in spots at that.” That explained it. But, why, she asked a moment later, was it that her name had been changed. The judge chuckled. “Old Johns said Mercedes was a fool stage name and told Martha to give you a decent one. Vivian was her favorite name. So she named you it.” Old Martha had named her. That seemed strange. Vivian had so com pletely run the gamut of emotions that she was weak—smiling one minute, crying the next. She sat in her grandfather’s lap—and once she reached down and kissed the top of his white, wavy, thick hair. “Did you come to look me over, grandfather, to see if I was the sort of granddaughter you wanted—and then go back and try to make up your mind whether to take me on or not?” He patted her affectionately, and squeezed her to him. “I wouldn’t have believed Glory had a little girl if you hadn’t looked so much like her. I feel as though I had her back in my arms again. You are identical.” “I’m—I’m glad.” she sobbed then. “Oh, you don’t know what it means to belong to somebody, grandfather.” “I do, baby. You’re all I have left, too I know,” “You’re not going away?” She looked at him with trouble in her green eyes. “You’ll stay here.” “I’m afraid not, my dear—not just now. I have to go back to Norfolk and get to work sending bad people to jail.” “Well,” she smiled, tenderly, “I'll come to see you soon, then.” “I don’t believe,” he laughed at her then, “the money you have in herited means a thing to you.” “Oh—” she was brought back to earth— “no, I'd much rather he hadn’t bothered. It will bring un pleasant complications. Kent has nothing—I’m rich. You take it, grandfather.” He held her tightly, and his eyes filled. “I’m proud of you, little sweet heart. I’d like to tell the whole world about you.” “Oh—I’m sorry—so would I,” she told him. “But we’ll have to wait. People here musn't know about Kent ** ’ (TO BE CONTINUED) Who am I? What position do I hold? In which branch of science have I special! -ed*1 What is the capital of Nevada? What is a tapir? "Seek good not evil that ye may live; and so the Lord, the God of Hosts shall be with you, as ye have spoken.” Where is this passage found in the Bible? Today’s Horoscope Persons born on this day are us ually quiet but have high tempers. They should take care lest their stinging criticisms hurt others. ■■ ■"■ 1 "" 1 ~ Star lore INFINITE EXTREMES IN NATURE By Arthur Dev. Carpenter Astronomy embraces infinite di mensions—the infinitely large and the infinitely small; the magni ficence of stars in singles, doubles, multiples, globular clusters, spiral galaxities! Infinity of space is sum med up in “astronomical units,” “light yearg,” “parsecs.” At the other extreme is the infinitely mi nute; the atoms in the hot surging stars breaking up into radiant en ergy, tell the astronomer the star’s story—its physical composition, mo tion, size, etc. The atom, revealing stellar secrets, has a diameter of less than a hundred millionth of an inch. The light wave, bearing the message to earth from the star,-50, 000 of an inch in length! (More Torrow) Answers to Foregoing Questions 1. James F. Doran, commissioner of prohibition; chemistry. 2. Carson City. 3. An animal allied to the horse and rhinoceros. 4. Amos v, 14. ORGANIZE WATERWAY LAKE CHARLES, La., July 12.— (JP)—Delegates from every parish in south Louisiana met in Lake ! Charles today and organized the South Louisiana Waterway League for the purpose of connecting up laterals and arteries to the Intra coastal CanaL I Health and Right Living BY ROYAL S. COPELAND, M. D. Former Commissioner of Health When the word poison is men tioned, we think of carbolic acid or corrosive sublimate. If not one of these, it may be prussic acid. Ev erybody is afraid of a bottle if its label carries a skull and cross-bones. But when one person is harmed by one of these, a thousand, perhaps ten thousand are more or less seri ously harmed by poisons we rarely hear mentioned. These evil effects come from substances produced by the body itself. Fortunately for us there are cer tain organs whose chief function is to get rid of these dangerous pro ducts. The kidneys, the intestines, the liver and the skin, when they are normal in their operations, car ry away these evil things. They fil ter out of the blood and separate from the intake of the system those substances which might harm us. These are what we call the “or gans of elimination.” When all of them function as they should, we continue in good health. We stay young and active. We have energy and the ability to express it. In a sense, old age is due to the effect of body poisons. Failure to eliminate these harmful substances results in certain tissue changes. The sum total of these changes is that physical state we regard as the evidence of age. There is an old saying, frequently used by many persons. It is that common greeting “How is your liver?” Perhaps we might as well ask: “How old are you?” or “How old do you feel?” Of course, old age is not a state of mind. But you might as well be old as to feel old all the time. The de sirable thing is to feel young and to act young because you really feel that way. If you wake up with a headache, with a stiff back and a couple of stiff joints it is probably because you have been poisoned. Of course, but just enough affected to feel mean. You are sure to have this experi ence often if your organs of elim ination fail to do their duty. You are certain to be miserable if the poisons are produced in quantities too large to be handled by the elim inative organs. Your life should be so ordered that kidneys, liver, intestines and skin are in perfect order. If they are so kept and are capable of eliminating i all the poisons generated in your I body you can live on and on and look forward to many decades of vigorous life. Life, you see, depends almost wholly on how your body reacts to its own poisons. ANSWERS TO HEALTH QUERIES Record. Q.—What can be done for a hammer toe? A.—An operation is the only cure for such a malformation of the tee. * * * M. L. G. Q.—How can I gain weight? A.—Eat plenty of good nourishing food, including milk, eggs, fresh fruits and vegetables. Make sure that the bowels eliminate properly. Exercise daily in the open air and practice deep breathing. Take cod liver oil after meals as a general tonic and builder. * * * H. O. P. Q.—What should be done for a mucus deposit in the kidney elimination, staining the clothing? The condition is accompanied by backache. Y/ould this be caused by a sinus and antrum disturbance which has lasted over a good many years? 2.—Is it advisable for a young woman of ll.bty to dye her hair—it is beginning to turn gray? A.—Have a careful urinalysis and then definite treatment can be out lined. The diet probably has an important bearing o.i this condition. The infection from the nasal dis turbance would tend to aggravate the ge.tcial condition 2.—No. if the hair is kept Immacu lately clean and well groomed the fact that it is turning gray should not be a detriment. A good hair tonic might be helpful. * * * R. C. Q.—What do you advise for ingrown hairs? 2.—What do you advise for pim ples? A.—Avoid shaving against the grain. 2.—Correct the diet by cutting down on sugar, starches, coffee and tea. Avoid constipation. R. D. Q.—How can I reduce? A.—Weight reduction is merely a matter ox self-control as regards the diet. Exercise is, of course, essen tial. Senators Attack Jadwin Plan For Control of Flood * MEMPHIS. Tenn., July 12.—(/Pi Three United States senators at tacked the Jadwin flood control plan in addresses before the an nual meetig of the Mississippi River Flood Control association. Senator T. H. Caraway of Ar kansas led the broadsides against the bill with a demand for amend ments eliminating the provisions for “fuse plug levees,” guaranteeing “adequate recompense” for owners of land which would be used in building control projects and allow ing residents in tributary valleys to “a just measure of protection.” Senator Ransdell of Louisiana said the best means for obtaining immediate changes in the bill was direct appeal to President Hoover. Senator McKellar advocated “a South-wide drive to get these changes.” Physical Education In Mexican Schools Is Department Plan (Special to The Herald) GALVESTON, July 12.—Second ing the enthusiasm of President Emilio Portes Gil for athletics, the Mexican department of education will make a special effort during 1929 to introduce physical exercises and sports into the schools of • Mexico, Commercial Attache Geo. Wythe, Mexico City, reports to the department of commerce. According to plans announced by the director of physical education, it is proposed to establish athletic fields in at least a thousand small •towns during the course of the present year. These fields will be established in cooperation with the local authorities, and the typically American sports, football, baseball, basketball and volley-ball will be given special encouragement. 8415,000 “ACT OF GRACE” LONDON—As an “act of grace,” England has paid Holland $415,000 for damage to the Dutch fishing in dustry during the war. If tout property tux increased to valoaand rout insurance not bean Iprrraaedpaopotoouaadv.you **mM fuflr pcotrvted again* loa by if*. Coosdir yam metii and cboiA ad» •M* atodt baa metnact— teda?. W. B. Clint Complete Insurance Service Phone 6 1911 • 1929 Skelton Abstract Co. Abstracts of Title Title Insurance Merchants Bank Building Brownsville GENERAL WELDING Radiator Repair u"n M°wers Sharpen . ed — Repaired and ^ Specialists for Sale Wr Duplicate Keys We make duplicates of any kind of keys Rear MUIer J J RQMMER Jones Transfer & Storage Co. Inc. Distributing, Storing, Moving, Crating and Shipping . Daily motor Freight and Express Service between all Valley points Bonded Warehouses at / Harlingen — Edinburg — Brownsville Phone 3 Phone 3 Phone 787 Pipe Lines (or DRAINAGE AND IRRIGATION Let Agar & Gentry San Benito, Texas Design, Finance and Install Large Tracts Preferred