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©IP Saramsnfllf Hcrnlfl Established July 4, 1892 Entered aa second-class matter In the Postoffice Brownsville, Texas. THE BROWNSVILLE HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Kates—Daily and Sunday (7 Issues) One Tear .....$9 00 Six Months . $4.50 Three Months .$2.25 One Month .75 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TTte 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, Phone 1020. TEXAS DAILY PRESS LEAGUE National Advertising Representatives Dallas. Texas, 512 Mercantile Bank Building. Kansas City. Mo., 306 Coca Cola Building. Chicago, 111., Association Building. New York. 350 Madison Avenue. St Louis, 502 Star Building. Los Angeles, Cal., Room 1015 New Orpheum Bldg., 646 S. Broadway. San Francisco. Cal., 318 Kohl Building. Highway Crashes Need Curbing A regular epidemic of automobile accidents on Valley highways in the past two weeks, climaxed by injuries to two persons by hit and run drivers, points to the seriousness of traffic conditions. A need for more eficient service driving or policing or both, is shown very clearly. Additional policing of the highways might serve to lessen in some degree the number of accidents by causing the guilty drivers to be brought to ac count and by preventing reckless handling of auto mobiles. Any appreciable decrease in the number of persons maimed and killed, however, muit be brought about by more careful driving. More careful driving can be secured partially by enactment of proper law’s and by their enforcement, but It must be largely the result of a desire on the part of the drivers to handle their cars in such a manner as to protect themselves and other motorists. This desire can be created in most drivers by edu cation in the rules of traffic. Another safeguard would be prohibiting young children from driving. There will be some inclination to charge the number of highway accidents in the Valley in the last sev eral days to the Texas law w’hich permits driving at a speed of 45 miles per hour. It is doubtful if this law' has had much to do with it. In the first place, almost all motorists already wrere driving at 45 miles per %iour, except when a traffic officer was known to be in the vicinity. In the second place, 45 miles per hour is not a dangerous speed when an automo bile is in the hands of an experienced and careful driver. There is a vast difference between fast driving and reckless driving. The new state law recognizes this fact. A reckless driver can become a menace to ev eryone on the road when his car Is not traveling at a speed of more than 35, or even 25 hiles per hour. .On the other hand a skillfull and careful driver can skim , along at a 50-mile clip without endangering other people on the read. ; But for the hit-and-run driver there is no rem 1 edy. The only curb is a policing system which will assure the guilty person being apprehended. And after he or she is caught no mercy should be show'n. A penitentiary sentence should be meted out in every rase and the law should be so framed as to make it only necessary to prove that the person on trial failed to stop and render aid. Any drh’er who hits a person and then runs away Is a criminal at heart and deserves no mercy. Wood Head of Game Commission Former State Sen. A. E. Wood has been appointed by the governor as a member of the state game, fish and oyster commission. Appointment was confirmed by the senate. Wood was given a long term. This commission was created by act of the regular session cf the 41st legislature and becomes effective on Sept, i. Chinn. Wood is a former citizen of Williamson county. He was prominent for years as a member of the upper house. He was defeated for re-nomina tion in the primary last year. A prominent member of the Travis county bar, he Is largely responsible for the act which reorgan ized the department, proivding for a commission of six members, the chairman and other members, the chairman and other members to be appointed by the governor from different sections of the state. It is said that Will J. Tucker, state commissioner by ap pointment of Governor Moody, will be made secretary manager or directing executive of the commission when the law begins to function in the coming month of September. Wild game is to be given protection in Texas and the fisheries of Texas inland lakes as well as the Gulf fisheries are to be developed as well as protected in coming years. This is as it should be. Pessimists Shown Up “There is no need for a deep water harbor at Cor pus Christi.” “The expense of maintaining the channel will bankrupt the city and county.” Such expressions relating to the port at Corpus Christi were rather general only a few years ago. But the pessimist has been shown up again. The board of engineers at Washington has just is gued a special report on Corpus Christi and Texas City harbors which contains some illuminating fig ures. Remarkable development” is the way the conserva tive army engineers describe what has happened at Corpus Christi. Commerce at the port has increased from 54,941 tons in 1926 the report says. And the present har bar was not opened until September 1926. Protecting the Lands of the People In the closing hours of the third special session of the 41st the senators and representatives enacted a law withdrawing from the market all unsurveyed pub lice school lands and river beds and channels. In other words the bill withdraws from sale the surface and mineral right to the unsurveyed public lands and beds and channels of Texas rivers. A step in the right direction. The fathers of Texas knew what they were doing when they set aside large tracts of the public domain for the education of all the children of all the people. It is for the men and women who are now on earth to protect this heritage handed on by the fathers of the Lone Star empire commonwealth. The farmer has uneasy moments when he thinks G O. P. means Great On Promises.—Chatham (Ont.) jifews, —- . WALL STREET GOES ATHLETIC International sports carnivals between the bankers and brokers of London and New York are proposed by Wall street. A competitive meet every two years open to all financial leaders with waistline up to 44 inches, is already in the works. Golf, track events, tennis, baseball and crew races are suggested in order that international friendliness may be cemented wdth a mashie-niblick, mutual dis trust dissipated with a racquet and a better under standing all around created through running shoes, a spit-ball and good oarsmanship. Outdoor sports, particularly golf, are already en croaching so heavily on big business that any confer ence can be broken up by rn invitation to play 18 holes for 25 cents a hole. Many a business conven tion is opened writh a graphic description of a diffi cult mashie shot on the eleventh green, and closed with a suggestion by the chairman that he putt any body in the room for a dollar. Promotions to vice presidencies of big corporations are made on a basis of 300-yard drives, and a youth who can play around in par or better is assured of a big voice in the company’s affairs. England is said to be receptive to the sports meet idea, and next season may see an Olympic game of which a high light may be a boat race, with J. P. Morgan stroking the American shell and one of the Rothschild driving the British boat. POSSIBLE PROGRAM. 1—Tossing the 100-pound extra dividend. 2_100-yard dash for heads of companies voting more than two stock split-ups in a season. 3— Pole-vault for successful pool operators. 4— Throwing the quarterly report 5— Hurdles (for bankers who have participated in four or more internaitonal debt parleys and still feel jumpy). 6— Sack race. (Open to anybody who held Gen eral Electric from the beginning). 7— Baseball game between happily married bank ers and those who have made great financial bulls and bears. 8— Hurling the 100-pound Federal Reserve state ment. 9— Golf tournament and wooden tee hunt. (This event is open to all bankers and brokers whose tech nical position is okay Par for the course will be 80, with warrants attached and other valuable converti ble privileges). All handicaps will be issued on a basis of 15 bid and 40 asked. Score-cards, when filled in by contestants, .must bear the notation, “While the above figures have been obtained from what we con sider reliable sources they are not guaranteed by us.” 10— Concluding event: Grand lamb and sheep barbecue. • * * * CAN YOU REMEMBER— Back when no woman ever had a tobacco heart? When a girl who bobbed her hair was supposed to have just come through a siege of sickness? When a girl who crossed her legs and showed her ankles was regarded as headed for no good end? * * • * WELL, THAT’S SOMETHING “Oscar Wilson of the state of Illinois, U. S. A., was bumped into and run down by a truck driven by An drew Cheral yesterday at the corner of Pell and St. Catherine street The truck was not injured.”—Mon treal newspaper item reported by W H. Wright i- —-" ■ ■ ——-—— WaakSmgftom Ltsfecr By HERBERT C. PLUMMER WASHINGTON, July 23.—America's most famous baby—little Paulina Longworth—is fast carving for herself a considerable niche in the social life of the national capital. The daughter of Alice Roosevelt and Nicholas Longworth, speaker of the house of representatives, Paulina could hardly escape the inevitable attention that comes to one of such illustrious parentage. But it is fast becoming evident that she need not be com pelled to rely wholly on her father and mother for recognition. Even at the age of 4, Miss Paulina is a very much grown up young lady. For example, at the swanky Willett-Hays wTedding in Washington recently, when her mother and father found it impossible to attend, it was Paulina who represented the family. She sent her own present, a handsome silver vegetable dish with her engraved card inclosed. And at Atlantic City, when the photographers wanted her and her father to pose together, Paulina obligingly climbed into Father Nick’s arms, smiled broadly and hugged him fiercely. * • * * HER MOTHER’S WIT She has acquired some of the wit and gift of rep artee that have long made her mother known as one of the most interesting persons in Washington. When the Longworths went to their Cincinnati heme during the recess of congress, Paulina, with her nurse, went in advance. Mrs. Longworth kept in touch with her by long distance phone almost every day. Once when she called she heard a youthful voice at the other end of the line and mistook it for a young maid. “Is that Mrs. Longworth?” asked the voice. “Yes. Who is this?” asked Mrs. Longworth. “This is Miss Longworth,” came over the wire. It was Paulina. Her mother employed a New England w’oman to act as Paulina’s governess. The two had a little dif ficulty in getting acquainted. Paulina found that at times her governess wTas hard on her nerves. Once the governess annoyed her particularly. Paulina looked at her intently and a bit severely, and then said: “You know, you are from New England, but some times I think you are so dumb that you wouldn’t rec ognize beans in a pot with the lid off.” • • • * HEDGING But despite Paulina’s precocity she is in every way a charming and delightful child. She enjoys the things that would interest any other child of her age. Her favorite walk is out Connecticut avenue past the old Czecho-SIovakian embassy. Surrounding the old embassy is a beautiful hedge. As Paulina walks along this hedge she glances around her to make sure that no one is looking. When she reaches a certain spot her little hand goes out and returns filled with a part of the hedge. She has done this so often that there is a big hole in the hedge. One of her favorite playmates is little Betty Mof fett, daughter of Adm. William A. Moffett, chairman of the national advisory committee for aeronautics, j FROM THE FRYING PAN INTO THE FIRE ws/An\v ^ r ' (-----———N A DRAB LITTLE] MOTH FLIES TO HAPPINESS | 9 ^ By Alma Sioux Scarberry, author of*makeup*etc. ~_ cwral j READ THIS FIRST: Vivian Matthews, shy and un happy, and called a “flat tire,” be lieving herself to be a doorstep baby, married Kentworth Hillman Johns III, to help him secure his grand father’s fortune, with the under standing that she is to have one hundred thousand dollars, and a di vorce in Paris, at the end of the year. But a cyclone wipes their home and business away, and Wall j street sweeps the fortune. Vivian I insists upon Kent staying with her j in the-little Matthew’s cottage, and when she learns that she is the rightful Johns heir—the grand daughter of Johns I—and Kent is an orphanage waif, she swears her mother's father, and Judge Potter, to secrecy, and establishes Kent in business with part of her inherited half million dollars. She is en gaged to marrv Mann Barkow, famous artist, ’ ho has painted her and taught her to fly, when she is free. Kent is to marry his old fi- | ancee, who jilted him. Bark re- ' turns to New York, and Patricia Sullivan receives a wire from him to the effect that he has secured a part in a show’ for her. Vivian is jealous. Only a month of the mar riage contract remains. Kent writes Dovie a lengthy letter. Vivian flies to Salina to see Celeste and buy a new dress for the dinner at the mayor’s house. At the dinner Viv ian is no longer a “flat tire,” and Kent marvels at her poise and wit. (NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY) * * * CHAPTER Lin There was a letter with a New’ York postmark waiting for Kent when he and Viv n drove home after the Lindbergh dinner. Vivian went up to her room, and Kent sat down in the living room to read it. He opened it carelessly. But it | was a moment he was to remember to the longest day he lived. It was not a letter. It was a page of a newspaper. When he unfolded it, and his eyes took in the pictures that stared up at him and the great Sunday paper headline that stretch ed entirely across the page, the world reeled about him. Cold sweat broke out on his brow as he grasned its full significance. “MAD LITTLE ‘DOVIE’ AND HER BOGUS COUNT” The page blurred. A moment later, when he could : ee, he looked more closely at the pictures. Dovie, in a slip of a bathing suit. Dovie, in a drape. Dovie as a nude statue of an artist model. And there wras a subhead thrt read: “When the Gayest Little Ameri can of the Paris rt Colony and Her Designing Manhna Got Paid Back in Their Own Coin.” There was a picture of Mamma Jansen, too. He brushed his l ands across his eyes, and read on, dazed and shaken. It was the true story of Dovie Jansen and her marriage to “Count Von Popper.” A deriding, typical Sunday thriller "f the yel lowest journalism type. There w’ere pictures of three wealthy men w’ho had been “taken in” by Aurelia Jansen. Three “poor fish” who had been arced to pay huge sums of money to Mamma Jansen to keep out of court when she threatened to expose their re lations with her daughter. A pic ture of a little boy Dovie had struck when driving while intoxi cated. Blackmail! It was there in black and white. A horrid, dark, ugly tale of two women whose one ob ject in life, for four years, seemed to have been to get money in any way possible. Dovie—a crook! And she had come back to Bender and made him believe her. He. too, had been taken into her net of lies. Only the loss of his money had saved him from being victimized by her. And the “Count.” Dovie’s mar riage had been a “priceless joke of the art colony.” They had hired another crook to pose as royalty and marry her. Mamma Jansen had been so eager that, within twenty four hours after the party where Davie met the “count,’ she had con sented—or urged their marriage. It wasn’t until a week later that the truth was revealed to the two stunned and furious women. Kent Johns felt that he was through. That life held no more for him. When he had read every line of the truth about the girl he had thought he loved so long, he felt he must die. What had he done to deserve the stunning blows of the past few months? There wasn’t a thing under the sun that could happen now. His faith in everything was wiped out. He would be the laughing stock of the whole world. Everyone in Ben der knew that he had made up with Dovie. He had even been reckless enough to be seen in public with her. Everyone would know what a fool he had been! First, he had thrown all his mon ey away like so much dirt. Then he had let a woman make a fool out of him—not only once, but two times. He had believed her. Loved her—and placed her cn a pedestal above the whole wrorld, when she had been worse than the dirt under his feet. The page had fallen by the chair and Kent lay with his head back, ashen and too weak with shock to move. He did not hear Vivian come down the stairs. She came dowm singing, and stood in the door. She looked at him a moment, and moved slowly toward him. “Kent! Kent!” she cried, “are you ill? What has happened?” He opened his eyes slowly. He would rather die than have her know what a fool he had been. But —she would find it out some time. Why not now? He reached dowm mechanically. And, without a word, handed the damning page to her. Vivian sat down weakly and be gan to read. When she had finished —most of it was not news to her anyw7ay, since Bark had told her a great deal of Dovie’s life in Paris— she sat for a moment, looking pa thetically at Kent, sitting so broken and spent in the big chair. She wanted to weep for him then. For his broken dreams and his hu miliation and his heartbreak. Again she felt a thousand years older than the boy who had built his house of dreams on the shallow sands of dis illusionment. What could she do? What could she say that would ease his hurt— or help him just a little? Nothing. She had never felt so helpless in her life. But, she was drawn to his chair with the ache in her own heart, and sat dowm on the arm and put her arm around him. It wTas w?hat his mother might have done. She drew his head to her. as she had once before when he had been so hurt, and stroked his hair silently. In a moment he looked up at her and she saw there were tears in his eyes. Kent crying! She threw herself in his arms and wound her owm arms around his neck, pulling him close ly to her. “I know, I know, dear—it hurts.” In a moment he was shaking with sobs. Vivian was relieved. It would help him. Perhaps he had never cried before. But, no wonder. Surely no one had ever had their world tumble about their heads any more completely than poor Kent had in the year since she had talk ed with him that night at the gate. A man of iron would want to cry. It was not weakness. He was en titled to it. For several minutes he was just a little boy in his mother’s arms. He had never known a mother. She remembered that he didn’t even know his name—and breathed a prayer of thanks that she had sworn her grandfather and Judge Potter to secrecy on the day she had learned that she was the rightful Johns heir. At least, she had saved him that straw of heart break. She lifted his head up when she felt his sobs subsiding and smiled tenderly into his face. Then she took the little white apron she was wearing and wiped the tears from his eyes. “There, feel better darhn’. Don’t cry any more—I want to talk to you.” His arms closed around her un til the breath almost left her body. She closed her eyes—while he held her as though he could never let her go. , . . “My God, what I am going to do without you, Viv. There’ll be noth ing left 'in the world for me when you go.” . , She swallowed to keep back her own tears and held him to her heart. “You’ll never lose rny—my friend ship, dear boy. Surely you don’t think I blame you in any way for anything that has happened.” He looked r.t her and smiled a twisted ghost of a grin. “You can even say that now knowing what a fool I really have been?” ( TO BE CONTINUED) Houston Plane Half Way to Setting New Endurance Mark HOUSTON, Texas, July 23.—(jT*)— More than half way to their goal, G. L. Loomis and Joe Glass were still aloft today in their plane, the “Billion Dollar City,” in spite of a situation which almost forced them to abandon the attempt to establish, a world's refueling record. With gasoline running low yes terday the flyers called for ar. emergency supply before the regu lar time for refuelling, but the gas oline could not be transferred be cause of a kink in the hose. The refuelling plane returned to the ground, straightened the hose and made another ascent, getting the gasoline to the flyers Just in time. The fuel ran low shortly after the pilots had succeeded in chang ing spark plugs while in the air. The plane was taken to a high alti tude and the motor stopped whiie one of the flyers crawled out, re moved the old plugs and inserted fresh ones. STOP THAT ITCHING Use Blue Star Soap, then apply Blue Star Remedy for Eczema, itch, tetter, ringworm, poison oak, dan druff, children’s sores, cracked hands, sore feet and most lorms of itching skin diseases. It kills germs stops itching, usually restoring the skin to health. Soap 25c; Blue Star Remedy, $1.00. Ask your druggist. -Adv. I A. TAMM Blue Printing and Supplies j Harlingen, Texas Health and Right Living BY ROYAL S. COPELAND, M. D. Former Commissioner of Health Did you ever have a black eye? Tf so, you know what a lot of “kid ding” your friends gave you. The tissues of the eyelids and cheek are soft and very sensitive. They overlie a ridge of hard bone. This is the edge of the orbit, the cavity within which is contained the eyeball. The parts in this region are richly supplied with blood ves sels. All the conditions are favorable for trouble. A blow with the fist, running against a door or other hard object, stooping over arc striking the corner of a chair—any one of these accidents will pin.'h the skin and damage the delicate blood vessels. The tissues are caught Between the external object and the sharp ridge of bone. The blood vessel is crushed as it would be with pinch ers. There is no wonder the thin wall is broken. When this happens the blood oozes into the soft tis sues surrounding it. An accident of this sort produces the same results we find in the skin anywhere else following a bruise. There is a “black and blue” spot. When this happens in the neighborhoood of the eye we have what is commonly called a “black eye.” Doctors give this condition a big name—“acchmosis of the lids.” All this means is that there is a col lection of blood in the connective tissues—the soft portions of the eyelids. The length of time the discolora tion will last depends on the amount of blood which has escaped from the damaged vessel. Ordinarily it requires from one to twTo weeks for absorption to take place. The black and blue stain may continue longer, perhaps a month. If you get a blow in the region of the eye it is well to apply cold wrater almost continuously for an hour or so. This retards the bleed ing and reduces the quantity coz ing into the tissues. Diluted witch hazel may be used instead of plain water and laudanum is a favorite household remedy for black eye. When all danger of further bleed ing has passed massage is nelpful. You can see that this should not be applied at once, because it would break the clot and bring on re newed bleeding. But after a couple of days it may be begun. Apply a little cocoa butter or cold cream and gently anipulate the discolored part. For cosmetic reasons, or to spare yourself ridicule, you may paint the surface with some form of cos metic. A stick of the grease paint used by actors may be employed to smear the surface and hide the dis coloration. It is unwise to cut the skin or to apply a leach. If the surface is broken in this way it may become infected and cause a lot of trouble. Answers to Health Queries MRS. E. G. Q.—What can you advise for constipation? I have ju^t recovered from gastric ulcers.. A.—Correct your diet by eating only simple foods not unduly rich in fats and starches. Add stew’ed fruits to your diet, graham and the whole wrheat bread. Take a table spoonful of a refined mineral oil daily. Fresh green vegetables are essential. • • • R. A. M. Q.—What should a girl weigh who is eighteen years old a.id five feet one inch tall? 2—What causes gas on the stom ach? A. —For her age and height she should weigh about 114 pounds. 2—Indigestion and constipation will cause “gasses.” When you cor rect your diet this trouble will dis appear. For full information send a self-addressed, stamped envelope and repeat your question. E. N. Q. — What causes me to have pains in both my knees? A—You may be troubled with rheumatis, due to some sort of in fection present in your system. Try to locate the cause, such as tee^h, gums, tonsils, nasal sinuses, consti pation or a kidney condition.. J. C. Q.—What do you advise for acme? A.—Eat simple food and avoid ■ " in ■ i I constipation.. Send self-addressed, stamped envelope for further par ticulars and repeat your question. [" Grab Bag ~ ] Who am I? From what post an I now on leave? In what capacitj was I once associated with Charlei G. Daw'es? What is the national religion of India? What is the science which deal* with the measuring of time called? "A little leaven leaveneth thi whole lump.” Where is this pas sage found in the Bible? Today’s Horoscope Persons born on this day are lov ers of the sensational. They love ease and comfort, yet they are rest less. Star1 Lore Shooting Stars and the Atmospheric Cushion By Arthur DeV. Carpenter The atmosphere serves as a great barricade to protect all life and things fragile, from continuous bom bardment of shooting stars which otherwise wrouId act as little bullets to wound and destroy. Shooting stars are very numerous. During every 24 hours several millions of them dash into the atmosphere from inter-planetary space. They fly at very high speed—30 to 40 miles per second. They are seen as fiery trails at altitudes of 70 miles, and usually disappear at altitudes of 50 miles. When they strike the at mosphere. their swift velocity gen erates friction sufifcient to con sume them, and they are quickly converted into harmless ashes and gas. (More Tomorrow) Answers to Foregoing Questions ^ 1. Brig. Gen. George Moseley: command of the U. S. troops on the Mexican border; as assistant in the U. S. bureau of the budget. 2. Hinduism. 3. Horology. 4. Galatians, v, 9. Man Charged With Arson Faces Trial In Justice Court Tomas Torres, charged with ar son, was to be up before Judge B. L. Cain Tuesday morning for ex amining trial. The complaint was filed by E. M. de Villareal, who alleges Torres set fire to a small building in the northern section of the city. Officers have been investigating the case for some time. 1911 1929 Skelton Abstract Co. Abstracts of Title Title Insurance Merchants Bank Building Brownsville ' Jones Transfer & Storage Co. Inc. 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