Brownsville herald. [volume], July 25, 1929, Page TWO, Image 2

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LIKES WAR ON
RECKLESSNESS
San Benito Man Says Rights
Of Pedestrians Being
Ignored By Drivers
*o The Herald:
The move to stop reckless driving
and avoidable accidents is the best
news I have heard lately.
You can’t attribute the rapid in
crease in casualties to any other
cause than criminal carelessless.
They simply don’t have any degarr
tor the other person's safety, so
long as they or some of their fam
ily are not injured.
When that happens they want the
guilty one punished for reckless
driving, while they drive in the
same way, but have been lucky
enough to escape serious trouble.
Among some of the most flagrant
violators are women who use their
sex as a means of getting by with
it. I have had several narrow es
capes from being run down by
women drivers who don’t seem to
know that a pedestrian has right
of-way within safety lanes, provid
ing he complies with traffic regu
lations.
Some high-hatted men and a
large number of jelly beans swell
the list of the dangerous ones.
These potential murderers want the
person on foot to run to get out of
the way to save them the trouble
of cutting down their speed, which
is perhaps twice as fast as the law
allows within the city limits.
If traffic officers won’t give the
people protection they will some
time turn in self defense and their
method will be most effective.
Let us hope such a move will
never be necessary.
R. O. STARBUCK.
San Benito, July 24, 1929.
Mississippi chose a blind man to
lead the blind when it named Jesse
A. Adams executive secretary of the
state commission for the blind.
Capital Admires Poise
Of Paulina Longworth
Paulina ’longworth, now four
sophisticated Washington. The pho
posed.
WASHINGTON, July 25.—Little
Pauline Longworth, daughter of the
former Alice Roosevelt and Nicho
las Longworth, speaker of the house,
is achieving recognition in her own
right as she grows up. She now is
"four and a half” and is known as
Flashes of Life j
(By the Associated Press)
NEW YORK.—The Aquarium club
is accused by the humane society of
New York of being wet. As landlord
jthe society has begun dispossess
f proceedings on the ground the club
has violated the prohibition laws.
Tanks of trout and goldfish are in
! laid in the club’s bar.
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' PEEKSKILL, N. Y.—Putnam
i county authorities are opposed to
I ba relegs for girls and threatened
! arrests. They have ordered police to
| tell stockingless summer visitors to
: dress properly.
NEW YORK.—In town on the
way to Europe are John Gilbert and
; Ina Claire. John arrived wearing a
tie of the same material as his
bride’s dress. They came part way
by air and the bride found Kansas
the most beautiful state to look
upon. "That’s strange.” she re
marked. "because by rail it is the
most tedious.”
NEW YORK—Main street is
swelling the birth rate of New York
City. In the last ten years the
number of births here to parents
from other cities has more than
doubled. Superior maternity ser
vice and a desire to have offspring
recorded as New Yorkers are sug
gested by city authorities as rea
sons.
ATLANTA. — Willie Patterson,
negro, has been having a fine time
because of the sudden growth of $35
to $3,500. A bookkeeping error was
made in transfer of In# $35 from one
bank to another. Willie hastened
to take advantage. The bank has
recovered $1,447 and brought suit
for the rest, having located Wiliie
in Detroit.
ONE SHELL. TWO CHUCKS
SYRACUSE. Kas.—A hen owned
by George D. Kerron, hatched two
chicker#s from one egg.
and a half years old, Is popular in
tographs are her latest, especially
one of the best behaved little girls
in Washington.
Whether she is posing for a new
photograph or calling with her
mother, those who come in contact
with Theodore Roosevelt’s little
granddaughter comment on her
charming manners. They say they
never hear her addressed in “baby
talk,” that in many ways she is
treated like a grownup by those in
intimate contact with her.
When out m company Paulina
sometimes holds long and animated
conversations with her mother, af
ter the first shyness has worn off.
The two are great pals. They play
games and do stunts together. Paul
ina likes to plant her feet on those
of her mother and be wafted along
the floor in that manner.
~ She wears simple hand embroid
ered linen dresses this summer. Her
nurse accompanier her nearly ev
ery place she goes. Paulina and the
nurse went to Cincinnati to open
the Longworth summer home a
week or so in advance of Mrs. Long
worth.
Paulina was born in Chicago Feb
ruary 14, 1925, just three days be
fore her parents celebrated their
eighteenth wedding anniversary.
Soon after her birth she was pre
sented a bank account of SI .000 by
Mrs. Marshall Field of Chicago with
the understanding that it is to ac
cumulate interest until Paulina’s
wedding day.
FINDS CHILD
IS STARVING
City Health Nurse Locates
Emaciated Baby In
Needy Home
A scene rivalling that often found
in tenement houses of larger cities
was described by Mrs. Laura Hous
ton, city health nurse, Wednesday
after residents on Fronton street in
West Brownsville had summoned
her to a dilapidated, one-room hut
to administer to a needy family.
"I found a baby less than a year
old starving to death In the barest
building ever designated as home.”
she related. “There wasnt’ even a
single bed, and that pood child lay !
there on a bundle of dingy rags, its
face and skin emaciated and in
agony only as a starving person can
experience. The baby had no
clothes on.
“And there were four sisters and
brothers, clothed in rags, and the
mother, who is trying to make a
living at washing clothes. Her in
come is $3.50 to $4 per week, and I
was told that she neglects her chil
dren, although she denied it,” Mrs.
Houston said.
Mrs. Houston left the children two
quarts of milk and was making ar
rangements to have the youngest
and possibly one other taken to the
charity home, to be under the care
of Mrs. A. C. Starck. The mother
said her husband had left her some
time ago, and .that she believed the
baby sick. She could not be con
vinced that it slowly was starving to
death.
Mrs. Houston said there are more
cases of this kind in the city than
people realize, and declared some
children actually have died from
starvation.
Brownsville citizens who learn of
such cases are requested at all times
to report them to the Public Health
Nurses association, which is carry
ing on this welfare work with the
help of civic clubs, service organiza
tions of the city, and private in
dividuals.
COMEDY OF MISDEEDS
BRINGS FREE-FOR-ALL 1
ST. PAUL, July 25.—UP)—The !
Wilson-Kolp-Donohue incident had (
a rival for sports page prominence j
out here in the American associa- j
tion.
This league, especially the twin ;
city part of it, was having a sen- |
sation of its own and it, too, had j
a strong Cincinnati flavor.
In a game between Minneapolis
and St. Paul, McMullen, Minneap
olis catcher, formerly with the Reds,
spiked Betts, St. Paul pitcher, as
the latter covered first base on an
infield drive by McMullen. Betts
whirled around and threw the ball
at McMullen, whereupon Sammy
Bohne, Minneapolis coach, once
with the Reds, slammed Betts be
hind the ear, downing him for the
count. Players of both clubs then
met in a rollicking free-for-all.
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