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Encourage Tourists
Erownsville should pay more attention to tourists
and should make a real effort to entertain them, Lee
B. James, prominent realtor, discovers while working
in New York and Pennsylvania.
People up there are interested in the Valley and
50 families have told him they intend to spend the
winter in Brownsville, but wonder if there is a tourist
headquarters here, James writes the chamber of com
merce.
He suggests in the letter that the headquarters
should be supplied and a paid hostess put in charge.
. This is done at Corpus Christ!—to name one nearby
point—and has been found to pay dividends.
The hostess would be expected to see that visitors
meet each other and that they become acquainted
with Brownsville residents; to arrange parties and en
tertainments including picnics, fishing trips and
sight-seeing excursions; to assist in organizing tours
to interesting parts of Mexico and to generally see
that “a good time is had by all.”
Dividends would result from longer stays in
Brownsville, from return visits and from favorable
word of mouth advertising.
Croquet courts and horseshoe pitching grounds
could easily be provided. Tennis courts also are in
expensive inducements to sustained visits. There is
room fcr all these in the chamber of commerce park
and -the Missouri Pacific park.
Sen. Williamson’s Gallonage
Tax Bill
Senator W. A. Williamson’s gallonage. tax bill is
functioning. Governor Moody permitted it to become
a law. It collects a tax of four cents a gallon from
the consumer if the consumer happens to be the
owner of a motor vehicle. Senator Williamson is the
gentleman from the Alamo. He is author of the gal
lonage tax law. With the 50 per cent reduction in
motor vehicle license fees as a provision he piloted
the measure through the senate.
Representatives Hubbard and Tillotson who were
largely responsible for the 50 per cent cut in license
fees sa'w to it that the senate measure had easy sail
ing when it was sent to the house.
There are exemptions. Airplanes are exempt. Op
erators of tractors are exempt. Indeed, there are ex
emptions for the farmers who are consumers cf gas
/ ollne as all gas operated machinery on the farm are
non tax.
Now the gentleman of the Alamo may not be re
sponsible for these exemptions. He had to get his
double-barrel bill through the senate. He decided
that three-quarters of a loaf were better than no loaf.
He granted the concessions.
Now the bill is a law and yet Chairman Ross Ster
ling of the state highway commission is said to be
of the opinion that the two-cent gas tax with the old
tax on motor vehicles produced a larger revenue for
road building purposes than the Williamson law will
provide on account of the sweeping reduction in the
vehicle license tax.
Regardless of all this, the gentleman from the Al
amo district Is very proud of the measure that carries
his name. Will the exemptions usher in a new in
dustry in Texas—that of bootleggers in the business
of bootlegging gasoline?
Hoover and the Blue Law
Advocates
President Hoover is a very busy man. Many prob
lems of economic nature difficult of solution have
been handed on to him. He has prohibition enforce
ment on his hands. Now a large delegation from the
Lord’s Day Alliance have asked the president “to ear
nestly support and vigorously enforce Sunday blue
laws throughout the United States.”
Bishop Cannon of Virginia was one of the spokes
| men. president Hoover was asked to ban baseball,
movies, and other amusements on the Sabbath. He
was asked to urge legislation which would prohibit
any form of manual labor on Sunday. He was asked
to close the city of Washington as tight as a drum on
the Sabbath day.
“The president heard them in silence and declined
to make any comment,” was the finish of the story
wired from the capital of the nation by the correspon
dent of a world wide news gathering association,
t’here is going to be another very interesting cam
paign staged for the election of a president in the
year 1932.
Mansfield on Shoes
Congressman John J. Mansfield of Texas is op
] nosed to a tariff on shoes. His argument is that the
American shoe trade has no foreign competition, that
the only importations consist of women’s and chil
dren’s shoes and “these are of minor concern.” Mans
field of Texas has an array of figures. He says Amer
ican plants manufacture 450,000,000 pairs of shoes an
nually while the importations are about one per cent,
usually a little less. His verdict is “it is plain to be
seen that the real purpose of the shoe tariff is for an
excuse to raise the price of shoes and by placing the
tariff wall so high there can be no possible foreign
competition.”
We can only hope that Boulder Dam will event
ttafcy supply an amount of electrical power equal to
the total of natural gas it has already generated.—
San Diego Union.
Texas goat-raisers are demanding increased pro
tection, and congress would do well to consider the
claim.* This tariff is going to need a scapegoat.—
Louisville Courier-Journal
THE RADIO ANNOUNCER EXPLAINS POPULAR
MUSIC
'“Just a Vagabond Lover.’ Now folks, in this se
lection you will hear one of the touching folk-songs
of the American people. The author, as you perhaps
know, is Rudy Valee, who was eight years old before
he ever took a lesson and who originally intended to
become a harpsichord player or dentist. One summer
while on a hitch-hike trip with a Viennese beauty,
the idea for this exquisite fantasy came to him. As
the song begins you see him groping about for some
thing that will express his longing for a better under
standing of the Hoover tariff bill, and then, as the
violinists swing into action, you seem to hear a distant
stripping of gears. Here the mood changes and there
is a suggestion of a rag carpet being shaken out of a
thirdstory window. The tempo increases smartly to
indicate the frying of an egg, sunnyside up, in a cot
tage by the sea. Then the saxophones break out quite
unnecessarily to show unrequited love and the num
ber comes to a conclusion with a far-away moan of a
lady falling out of a canoe. This is one of the mae
stroe’s earliest works and was written while still a
Methodist.
‘“Button Up Your Overcoat.” In ‘Button Up
Your Overcoat, You Belong to Me,’ folks, you have a
complete musical story of thirteenth century love be
tween the Duke Gerard de Belleiveirs and a girl
named Annie. As the selection begins, with muted
brasses, you seem to see the open countryside with
its green hills and dells. The oboes indicate the
purling of a brook and from afar there comes the
sound of many motor cars. It is Sunday afternoon in
midsummer. Here the mood changes ot denote traf
fic congestion, an altercation with a traffic cop and a
discovery of red ants in the box luncheon. There is
thundering of kettledrums to portray the fact that j
Joe’s Wayside Hot Doggery has run out of franks, j
and at this point night falls to an accompaniment of
wood instruments, and we seem to see Anastasia,
Joe’s daughter, listening to the blandishments of a
stranger whose car she has lifted out of a ditch. Now
the violins break out in a furious movement to indi
cate an outbreak by the stranger’s wife, a girl named
Yodka. There is a fight, marvelously portrayed by
two cellists, and as the music swells to a conclusion
you see Anastasia unconscious from a blow from a
tire-iron while Yodka yanks the stranger into the
coupe and yodels the song theme.
‘“Heigh Ho, Everybody! Heigh Ho!’ Now, ladies
and gentlemen, we come to one of the most moving
compositions in the Lizst-Berlin period. It took form
originally in the composer’s head as a march, whose
idea was to commemorate the invasion of Russia in
1812 by Napoleon I. An attack of scarlet fever changed
this and the composer decided to make it a fantasia
depicting the gradual evolution of the Philadelphia
Athletics. He fell sick again, which probably was
just as well, and finally determined to write a num
ber that would depict the sufferings of the American
investor under the Federal Reserve Board. Listen
carefully to the frequent changes of mood. The se
lection opens with a gnome dance at the Own Your
Own Gnome Festival just outside of Yonkers. You
hear Steel go to 180 to the joy of the natives who have
bought it at 178 on margin. Then there are ten min
utes of unintelligible music denoting a meeting of the
Reserve Board and the issuing of a statement that
knocks steel down to 164. There is a dirge while the
stock is picked up by the Right People and the num-,
ber concludes with the stock at 200.”
* • * •
In for a swim and
A surcease from toil;
Out smeared with melon
And grapefruit and oil.
* * * •
A German says he can fly from Europe to America
in six hours. Well, it will be a good trick if it takes
twice as long.
WASHINGTON, July 19.—If you are fortunate
enough to be one of the 15,000 to receive an invitation
to dine, attend a state reception or some other social
event at the White House, then take a good look at
your invitation.
You will see there a direct violation of one of the
most cherished of social rules. The year is added to j
the date of the occasion to which you have been in
vited.
Engraving firms long have insisted that this is bad
form. But the White House ignores their criticisms.
First of all, the president of the United States makes
his own precedents. The real reason, however, is that
people invited to the White House year after year
keep their invitations and regard them as one of their
most prized possessions.
Like everything else that Is done at the White
House, a regular system is followed in issuing invita
tions. And the greatest care is exercised.
• * * *
WORK IN BASEMENT
In the basement of the mansion there is a little
room where the work is done. Here may be found
W. E. Rockwell of the White House staff, who has
complete charge of the work.
At a table near him is seated A. B. Tolley of the
draughting division of the postoffice department. He
works with a peculiar looking pen filling in the names
and dates on half-blank invitation cards.
For more than 20 years Tolley’s ability to write
script as freely as an ordinary individual signs his
name has made him a valuable man to his depart
ment and the White House.
He is not the only script writer in the government
service. S. E. Sullivan filled out the White House In
vitations for years until he was named to head one
of the divisions in the postoffice department. He
has the reputation in Washington as being the dean
of script writers.
Caleb Clark and Frank Dony, also of the postoffice
department, are called in frequently to work at the
White house. J. C. Hatton of the veterans’ bureau is
another.
• • • •
INVITATIONS ARE “MUST”
All of the invitations have the words “The White
House” in gold-embossed letters on the envelope. On
the invitation itself is the president’s gold-embossed
seal. The wording is in script.
Contrary to the general belief, the invitations are
only partly engraved. The name to which it is ad
dressed and the date are written in by these expert
penmen.
Invitations to dine at the White House must be
accepted. Only illness or unavoidable necessity make
a regret permissible. What in Washington is known
as a “command” to the White House supersedes all
other social obligations—even one’s own dinners.
Invitations to the musicales, garden parties, the
four official receptions and the like are not so bind
ing. Hundreds of these are sent out, but it is left up
to the individual whether he cares to attend. *
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A DRAB LITTLE]
MOTH FLIES TO
HAPPINESS I
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c By Alma Sioux Scarberry, author ofViakeup^etc. ~_ctNTR^a^lL ,wc v
Vivian Matthews, shy and un
happy, and called a “flat tire,” be
lieving herself to be a doorstep
baby, marries Kentwortli Hillman
Johns III, to help him secure his
grandfather’s fortune, with the un
derstanding th .t she is to have
$100,000 and a divorce in Paris, at
the end of the year. But v cy
clone wipes their home and busi
ness away, and W' street sweeps
the fortune. Vivian insists upon
Kent staying with her in the lit
tle Matthews cottage, a d when
she learns that she is the rightful
Johns heir—the granddaughter of
Johns 1, and Kent is an orphanage
waif, she swears her moth ’s fath
er, and Tudge Potter, to secrecy,
and establishes Kent in business
with part of her inherited half mil
lion dollars. She is engaged to
marry Mann Barkow, lamous art
ist, who has painted her and taught
her to fly, when she is free. Kent
is to marry his old fiancee, who jilt
ed him. Bark eturns to New York,
and Patricia Sullivan receives a
wire from him 1 the effe that
he has secured a part in a show
for her. Vivian is jealo- . Only
a month of the marriage contract
remains.
(NOW GO ( WITH THE STORY)
CHAPTERL
Kent John, lyir.g awake f: into
the night, was a thoughtful young
man.
What war he to uo? Surely - o
young n - in the world had ever
been such a fool. Kow was he to.
write Dovie and tell her .-iat he
had lost every penny he had in
the world and had b_en dependent
upon Vivian ft ■ the very roof over
his head? ,
Would - ovie want to come ba..c
to Bender and i ke a home for
him9 They \ ould have to start out,
just, as he and Vivian were living
' -ie. Dovie would
have to do he * own work.
Then there was l ie $05,000 he
owed Vivian, ft would take years
—even at the rate he expected to
make mone. in his business, to
pay her all of that. How would
Dovie take .. at? She -ould ha/e
to be told, of course. It was like
having to pay one woman alimony
and have the other woman sacrifice
to pay it.
Poor little Dovie! What a raw
deal she he.': from life. What a
tragic thing! He thoughu of the
story she had told him of being
framed by c unt Von Popper into
her unf lunate marriage, with
murder in his heart.
He had a " 'ter from Dovie that
day. He turned on the reading
light and read it again. Thei were,
parts th/ he did not like. But,
he would have to te’’ her—and he
loved him and she would under
stand. T’ ire was espec'ully one
sentence:
“Are you sure, sweetheart, that
vou have plenty to live on over
here all our lives? I Just couldn’t
live in America, yc.i know. It is
such a stvnid placf I hate a small
town.”
He assumed that the Jansans had
quite - fortune, too. But, of
course, he would not touch any
of Dovie’s • ^ ~y.
Across his thoughts of Dovie,
Vivian would stray very often, and
he would remember her in her lit
tle house dresses, working about the
little cottage. Bending over the
stove, making pancake?* for him.
Baking pies.
He had never known such a wora
derful girl, he thought often. He
loved Dovie. But what was It he
felt for Vivian? Sometimes he al
most thought he could go on living !
like they were living in the 1 Te
house forever. It seemed hardly
r ssitue that they could separate
and go th ir ways in a few davs.
When he would suddenly realize
that they would have the gossip
and criticism of Bender co face with
the coming of their divorce it was
such a disturbing thought that he
put it out of his mind? Would it
hurt his business?
There was one thing he was glad
of. If he married Dovie he would
get the blame. Vivian would not
be criticized. There must be noth
ing said against her. He > o .ldn’t
have that.
Of course, Vivian would marry
Barkov/. Kent thought of Earkow
with entirely unfriendly feelings.
Somehow, even though he had tried
to be decent, he never did like the
man. It was darn funny that a
man of his portance had come
to Bender and spent all those
months. Tc be sure, “The Ace nf
Hearts” had won first prize. But,
even that hardly jutsified such a
long stay.
Kent did not believe that .r
kow had any intention of marry
ing Vivian. He firmly believed his
intentions were not entirely honor
able. And when he thought of it
he became furious with him. If
he was so crazy about Vivian why
did he have Pat Sullivan down in
New York?
Kent could not sleep. So he de
cided that it was as good a time
as any to get up and write a let
ter to Dovie. He might as well get
it over with. He believed she
would understand. Surely, she loved
him enough to stand by him in his
trouble. As far as Mrs. Jansen
was concerned, he hoped, devoutly
that she would either fall in the
ocean on the way back or decide
that she couldn't possibly give up
her life in Paris.
Vivi%n saw a light Kent's room
at 1 o’clock in the morning, v/hen
she awakened and when it kept on
burning she became worried. He
had been very pale. Perhaps he
was ill. She threw on a dressing
gown and tapped on his door.
“Anything the matter, Kent? Are
you ill?”
“No. Just couldn’t sleep and
writing letters,” he crossed and
opened the door. “ worrying about
me again, mamma?”
“You need your rest when you
work so hard,” she scolded, ignor
ing the name. “You act like a man
with something on his conscience,
writing letters at this hour.”
There was no doubt in her mind
who he v/as writing to. And she
wanted to tell him so. But, instead,
she wTent back to her room and lay
awake until dawn, when he turned
his light out and went to bed.
Vivian would have given any
thing in the world to know what
he was writing Dovie Jansen. But,
of course, she wouk. never find out.
So he thought of her urftil all hours
of the night, and got up to ease
his mind, writing what wras in his
heart. She found it hard to re
concile that with Kent’s new atti
tude toward her. His considera
ton—the sweet things he said. But,
she believed there was nothing
more natural than that he should
be grateful to her for all she had
done for him. If he only knew the
truth!
When Vivian remembered that
she had put the very weapon in
his hand—his business—scr that he
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could sometime marry Dovie Jan
sen, she felt she was a bigger fool
than he. But what did it matter
after all, she would think in an
other breath? As long as she
couldn’t have him it made no dif
ference. He would pay dearly for
being such a fool if he did marry
her. Why should she pity him?
The next morning Vivian was
cleaning Kent’s room when she saw
the letter on Kent's dressing table.
It was sealed—and was so bulky
it looked as thought it might be
a manuscript. For a moment she
was tempted to tear it open and
learn the truth.
But her sense of honor would not
allow’ that. She put it aside, and
picked up a sheet of clean writing
paper and turned it over. Some
other side—and scratched. Vivian
held it up closely, and looked
through the ink.
“My dearest little sweetheart.”
There was no doubt in her mind,
then, what kind of a letter he had
written. For a moment she stood
holding the sheet in her trembling
hand, and felt ill. Then in a frenzy
she tore it into a dozen pieces and
threw it into the waste paper bas
ket.
“I’m a foo1! Eut what am I go
ing to do?” She sunk into a chair,
and buried her face in her hands.
When she remembered the times
Kent had kissed her—had tried to
come to h< room at night, she
felt cold with anger. Howr aw’ful it
was to have him think of her as
just a woman. Not Vivian. Not
his wife. Just a woman.
But, slow’ly a thought took its
place in her jumbled mind, and in
a moment she was sitting up, star
ing into space. Once she had made
up her mind to lure him. To make
him want her. One night she had
made him kiss her right before
Dovie. Another night he had ome
to her and entirely broke down.
Why should she not take advan
tage of that? True, it might be
cheapening. But she had a per
fectly legal right to be his wife.
It would at least be cheating Dovie
Jansen * ’t of all his affectirn.
Her mnd w’as entirely made up
That was the thing to do. Kent
might hate her for it—later—and
again he might not.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
Governors Refuse
To Take Stand On
Suggested Reform
NEW LONDON, Conn., July 19.—
(IP)—The 21st annual governors’
conference today refused to go on
record as officially approving or
disapproving recommendations for
reforms in prohibition enforcement
made in a letter from George W.
Wickersham, head of President
Hoover’s law enforcement commis
sion, to Gov. Franklin D. Roose
velt of New York. The letter was
presented to the conference Tues
day by Mr. Roosevelt.
Governor Ritchie, answering the
letter, said the Volstead act has
not imposed an obligation on states
to enforce it.
The '.Vickersham letter, pointing
out that ie weakness of prohibi
tion enforcement has been due to
the tact fhat the federal govern
ment has borne the brunt of the ,
policing wTork under the amend- j
ment, suggested that enforcement
be divided between the states and
the national authorities.
VALLEY GRAPEFRUIT
IS POPULAR IN EAST
Valley grapefruit is in big de
mand in the east and north, H.
Hamilton, who has returned for an
automobile tour that covered 19
states and 6,000 miles, states.
Hamilton said the Valley prod
uct is becoming well known and
that tourists he came in contact
with generally recognized its qual
ity and are demanding it.
Hamilton and his family went
from here to Atlanta, Washington,
t Baltimore, Chicago and other
1 point* *
Health and Right Living
BY ROYAL S. COPELAND, M. D.
Former Commissioner of Health
In this world of ours are many
living inhabitants. Some of them
are tiny organisms known to every
body as “germs.” Some of these
are essential to our well-being, but
these ar dangerous and even dead
ly.
The harmful germs are watchful,
crafty, sneaking, treacherous beasts.
Like assassins in the night they
pounce upon their victims. They
seek to take life.
One of the most vicious of the
common germs is known to the
scientific world as the “streptoco
ccus.” This agent i j responsible
for much suffering and, I am sorry
to say, for n.any deaths.
I wish we could get everybody
to understand that any wound
where the skin is broken is an
open door through which such dan
gerous Terms may enter. Once they
are inside the body nobody knows
what havoc will be wrought. Let
me give you a word of warning
against neglect of any injury or
bruise, even the slightest.
It is characteristic c boys and
girls and even sor* men and wom
en to want to appear brave and
foolhardy. When we are young we
scoff at a small cut or abrasion, a
blister or bi or the tear caused
by a rusty nail. Fear of being
considered a “baby” or a “poor
sport,” or the desire to appear very
brave, makes many persons appear
to look lightly on such seemingly
simple wounds.
F one should neglect an injury
Frank H. Dickinson, of San An
tonio, arrived Thursday morning at
El Jardin.
Fred Willlngs is here from Hous
ton.
R. E. Beck, of San Antonio, ar
rived Thursday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Croft and
their daughter are visiting the city
from Dallas.
J. F. Baughn, of Harlingen, was
here Wednesday.
Jack Mott, of Lufkin, is in town.
Gene Meador and C. V. Turyman,
of San Antonio, arrived Wednesday.
Miss Zoe Wells is in town after
spending several days in San An
tonio.
Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Franz, of La
Grange, are registered at El Jardin.
Jack C. McDermott came in Wed
nesdav afternoon from San Antonio.
H. Carroll is here from San An
tonio.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred R. Peters are
here from Cabinal.
T. C. McCord and Jno. R. Sargent,
of the Missouri Pacifi lines are in
the city.
Mrs. H. S. Bhickholm and Mrs.
L. K. MacMurray. of San Antonio,
are guests at El Jardin.
T. J. Blakeney is here from Dal
las. •
J. B. Phillips of the Missouri Pa
cific lines soent Thursday here.
Mary F. Nelson is here from Cof
feyville, Kans., and is a guest at the
Travelers.
Fred, Reagan, of Kingsville is at
the Travelers.
M. Kahn and Jack Crowster, both
of San Antonio, are in town.
Emil Sianina and Robert Thiele
came in from Yoakum Wednesday.
H. B. Mitchel, of Mission, was here
Wednesday.
Phil Cohen, of St. Louis, is here
on business.
E. T. Garrett and P. I. Fallis are
he^e from San Antonio.
W. M. Howard. Mrs. M. Muckel
roy, and baby, and Mrs. A. H.
Petsch, all of Laredo, are guests at
the Travelers.
I. Rutennay is here from Cincin
nati.
L. V. Riley, of San Antonio is here.
Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Edwards are
here from Palestine.
E. L. Kyle, of San Benito, was
here Wednesday.
H. M. Wallis, of the Missouri Pa
cific lines, was here Wednesday.
Union Pacific Dock
Fire Injures Six;
Damage $1,000,000
SEATTLE, July 19. — UP)— Fire
which destroyed the Union Pacific
dock here late yesterday caused a
loss of almost $1,000,000 and sent
five firemen and a dock worker to
the hospital burned or overcome by
smoke.
Thirty-one companies of firemen
and three fireboats fought the blaze
for an hour before getting it under
control. A cigarette, thrown care
lessly aside by an employe, was
blamed by officials for the blaze.
The steamship Mauna Ala, load
ing rfor Hawaii, caught fire but was
backed out into the bay and the
blaze extinguished before much
damage was done.
or a bruise, whether it is the prick
of a pin, or a more serious acci
dent. 31isters, b.rns, tec and
abrasions, lacerV'ns, punctures
made by sticks or toys, scratches
from nails, splir^crs, and torn me
tal cause wounds which require
careful attention. The attention is
required to guard against blood poi
soning with the possibility of a la
tal effect.
Every wound, 1 o matter how
slight, shoulu have immediate at
tention. It should be washed with
clean water and soap to remove all
dirt and foreign material. Then a
iodine, t: o per cent, or another T
germicide shoulu be moppe'1 on the J
part. If the skin is brol* n, a small
dressing or clean gauze, held in
place by adhc.ive plaster, should be
applied after this emergency treat
ment is used.
Blisters, cuts and bruises of the
feet are very t to become infect
ed. The irritation from the shoes
increases the inflammation and the
dye and the germ-laden dust from
stockings may be carried into the
wound.
For this re n the grea 1 .re
must be exercised to keep these
abraded surfaces covered and free
from the po; ’lity of nfection.
Once an infection starts it n.ry
t vel thro-rh the entire sys vn.
If the redne>.o around the wound
begins t-> sr ead, or if tenderness
or other sign of inflammation is
present, consult your family doc
i*r at once.
Answers to .lealth KQueries
George W. S. Q.—What do you
advise for h*r'.?
A. While wearing a truss will
greatly relieve the condit" ar. op
eration is the only real cure.
Who am I? What is my present
position? What post have I tem
porarily given up to assume my new
duties?
Of what college Is Helen Keller a
graduate? ■
What secret political party gained
ascendency in the United States In
1852?
“The Lord trieth the righteous:
but the wicked and him that loveth
violence his soul hateth.” Where is
this passage found in the Bible?
Today’s Horoscope
Persons born on this day are anx
ious to conquer their vanity and
coneit and they usually succeed.
They idealize their friends.
1 Star Lore
Centrifugal Force vs. Gravity
By Arthur DeV. Carpenter
It has been found by refined ex
periments with pendulums that there
is 1-289th more terrestrial gravity at
the poles than at the equator. At
the equator there is rotary velocity
generating centrifugal force; at the
poles it is nil. One pound in every
289 is counteracted by centrifugal
influence at the equator. According
to the law of mechanics, centrifugal
energy increases as the square of the
velocity, consequently if the earth’s
rotation were increased 17 times, a
body weighing 289 pounds at the
poles would Tyeigh zero at the
equator, for 17 squared (17x17)
equals 289.
(More Tomorrow)
Answers to Foregoing Questions
1. Alexander Legge; chairman of
the newly created farm board; presi
dency of the International Har
vester Co.
2. Radcliffe. ,
3. Know Nothing.
4. Psalms xi, 5.
1911 1929
Skelton Abstract Co.
Abstracts of Title Title Insurance
Merchants Bank Building Brownsville ^
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
I La Joya Gravel Co. j
INCORPORATED - I
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