Brownsville herald. [volume], August 12, 1929, Page THREE, Image 3

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Know Your
VALLEY
INVEST, BUILD AND GROW
WITH THE VALLEY
— BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL MEN YOU CAN DEPEND ON FOR COOPERATION - -=
ORNAMENTAL IRON WORK
General Machine Work
"Quick Service”
International Iron Work*
Phone 1317 Brownsville Clyde A. Thorpe. Mgr.
Southern Mutual Life Association
(A Local Mutual Aid)
Ground Floor Farmars State Bank Building
San Benito. Texas
5001 Way* to Use Tile
Ask
Wm. Cameron & Company, Inc.
Phone 490 Harlingen
Jones Transfer & Storage Co., Inc.
Distributing. Staring. Moving, Crating and Shipping
Daily Motor Freight Service Between All Valley Points
Harlingen Brownsville Edinburg
% - “—
" PVlAMA Clean Pure Ice
mOuc Brownsville Ice Company
COO St. Charles and Belt Line R. R. .
"Ov Plants at McAllen and Harlingen
Coffee Roasted Fresh Daily
DELTA COFFEE CO.
WHOLESALE ONLY
Phone 234 . • Harlingen
Brownsville Sheet Metal Works
Metal Work and Roofing All Kinds
Iron and Tin Work. Tanks, Cistern*. Roofing
ALL WORK FILLY GUARANTEED
?hone 289 Brownsville
Guarantee Electric Co., Inc.
Phone 1050 — Brownsville
Electrical Layouts, Fixtures and Wiring
_ _——ia
M. Garcia Gomez & Champion
Wholesale Groceries
Tel. g3 Brownsville 11th and Madison
For instant cleaning and
\3 h AHD 11 \ pressing service. Have
Ja II vlIlC your clothes “Gloverized”
BROWNSVILLE TAILORING CO.
Phone 93 _1220 Elizabeth
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PHOTOGRAPHS
Live Forever
THE SHELDON STUDIO
Portrait. Commercial and Kodak Finishing
Phone 805 Brownsville
PRIVATE DINING ROOM
101 Seats In the Place
VALLEY WAFFLE SHOPPE
"BEST PLACE TO EAT”
Peter Govatos. Prop. — San Benito
Garcia-Gomez & Co.
Southern Faclfic Tracks — Brownoville
Telephone 616
Wholesale Grocers
cover the entire Lower Rio Grande Valley
like a blanket
FREE DELIVERY
To Any Part of the Valley
DESEL-BOETTCHER CO.
Wholesale Fruits, Produce
Grocers Sundries and Fountain Supplies
Phone 797 Long Distance No. 1
Brownsville. Texas
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Valley Box and Crate Factory
Crates — Baskets — Hampers
San Benito Donna
®bf Unramsuitlf Bern Id
(Largest Net Laid Circulation
in the Valley
i
COOPERATIVES
MAKING GAINS
Strength Is Shown as U. S.
Offers Aid in Devel
opment
WASHINGTON. Aug. 12.—</P)—
While passage of the agricultural
i marketing act guaranteed the eco
nomic safety of agriculture coop
eration. the movement has not wa
vered from the line drawn in 1923—
the pea', year of development.
A. W. McKay, acting chief of
the division of cooperative market
! ing. says farm cooperatives are
; either increasing their membership
and business or holding their own
as the federal farm board begins
strengthening t. e fabric of collec
tive bargaining. The success that
came more or 1 _s In waves until
1923 has been stable for .he last six
| years.
| There are known to be 11,400
cooperatives in the United States
doing an annual business of $2,200,
000,000 for approximately 3'00.0"9,
000 members. The grain trade leads
the field. It has 3,455 cooperatives.
9,000,000 members, and an annual
business of 680.000.000.
The number of cooperatives
membership a:u annual business of
other Industries follow:
Cotton and cotton products, 120,
140.000; $97,000,000.
Dairy products, 2,749; 600.000;
$620 000.000.
Forage crops. 15; 200,000; $1,400.
000.
Fruits and vegcl 'jles, 1,269 ; 215,
000: $300,000,000.
Livestock. 2,012; 450.000: $320,
000.000. Nuts, «; 15.000; $14,600.
Poultry and poultry products, 90;
50.000; $40,000,000.
Tobacco, 16; 15.500; $22,000,000
Wool and mohair, 99; 25,000; $7.
0000.000.
Miscellaneous buying organiza
tions. 1.205 ; 398.000.000.
McKay estimates that about 90
per cent of the t operatives in the
entire country report to the depart
ment of agriculture and that wh'le
his figures show 11.400, 'here possi
bly are 12.500 o. more.
The cooperative movement, v.’aich
has come to its present stage
through years of struggle a.id mis
apprehension. started about 1840
A number of ooperatlvcs func
tioned before and during the civil
war. the sole survivor of which h
the Ca.vadutta Cheese factory t
Fonda. N. Y.. founded in 1863
From New York fa~: lers and dairy
men the cooperative idea spread
to Wisconsin, gradually reaching
every state of agricultural impor
tance.
Of late 3-cars the trend has been
toward large-scale associati is. bu‘
since the federal farm board has
thrown a piotecting mantle over
the cooperative movement, there
has been evidence of a desire tr
increase the number of small co
; operatives, some of the activities are
ill-advised, authorities say. and lean j
toward the prrvioter or specula
tion type. They frankly discourage
such attempts.
| Court’s Decision
Hits Grain Deals
CHICAGO. Aug. 12.—<K*y—Board
of trade deals are “gambling debts.”
i an TUtrcis circuit court has rilled
in a rase now before the appellate
court—a decision which may be of
great importance in the financial
world.
It concerns the legality of con
tracts between customers and mem
bers of the Chicago board of tradj
for purchase and sale of grain and
provision futures, bids and offers,
subsequently resulting in specula
tion.
William McCabe, a farmer, was
sued by James K. Riordon, a mem
ber of the board, to foreclose r.
mortgage and recover on two notes
for B total of $55,000. given in set
tlement of losses for alleged spec
ulation on the board.
McCabe held that the notes were
given to satisfy gambling debts and
asked for their cancellation.
Decision of the lower court,
should it be affirmed, places on
board of trade firms the duty of in
vestigating the need of each custo
mer for the grain and provisions he
orders, his financial ability to ac
cept and pay for all contracts, and
his intention to make delivery or to
receive shipment and not to close
out before expiration of the option
or maturing of the future contract.
Counsel for McCabe contends
I that it is just as easy to gamble on
the board of trade contracts as to
do a legitimate business. He held
■ that the volume of transactions uy
I McCabe in the three years before
I he withdrew from the market, in
volving more than 27.000.000 bushels
j of gram, should have convinced the
! beard that he was not engaged in
| legitimate business. Gambling debts
are unrecognized by law.
WORLD’S GREATEST FORGER
LONDON—James Brady, declared
by the police “the world's greatest
forger,” was sentenced to 10 year.
i in prison.
Ventilators and Skylights a Specialty
General Sheet Metal Contractors
Turner Sheet Metal Work*
Phone [phone]th St.
Brownsville
Fast Star Route Mail Service
Is Furnished Valley by Woman
SH3F <1
Mrs. Everett B. Griffin and the special built truck with which she
speeds up mail service to Valley business men.
The Valley has a star mail route
which is not only driven by a wom
an but is unique in a number of
other ways.
Every day Mrs. Everett B. Griffin
of this city starts for Brownsville by
way of Mission on a fast schedule,
the round-trip representing a jour- 1
ney of about 135 miles with about
26 stops.
Mrs. Griffin is believed to be one
of the few if not the only woman i
driving a star mail route regularly.
Women may carry' rural free de
livery routes as substitutes but are
not permitted to do so regularly.
Mrs. Griffin started out as relief
driver for her husband, who has
the contract for the star mail route.
Then she took over the job as a
regular thing
One of the features of the Valley
route is that it carries nothing but
first-class mail, most of which is
air mail which makes connections
with planes at Brownsville.
Due to the peculiar location of
the Valley the rapid distribution of
mail by train always was a prob
lem. A star mail route was author
ized by the postoffice department.
A few months later air mail planes
began landing at Brownsville and
the schedule of the star mail bus
was changed to make connections.
The star mail bus new gathers
outbound air mail in the mornings
and distributes incoming air mail
in the afternoons.
The bus has a fast schedule and
all postotiKces have orders not to
delay it more than throe minute .
No pouches are carried. Instead
there is a cabinet containing a
compartment for each town served.
When the bus arrives at a post
office a postal employe unlocks the
cabinet. He then sorts the mail
into the different compartments ac
cording to their destination. The
driver of the bus does net handle
the mail m any* w'ay.
The route is No. 50798 and was
started Oct. 1. 1928. and sprves ev
ery city on the mam highway in
the Valley.
Industrial Leadership Rests
With Smaller Cities, Survey
By Power Interests Reveals
—
The industrial leadership of the
big city in America is already rhal-‘
lenged by Main Street, and the
small town is now well on the road
to economic leadership of the na
tion. according to a study of the lat
est American business methods and
policies published by the Central
Power and Light Company and a
group of its affiliated companies
The drift of ,>eopL to the big
cities continues, but this no longer
concentrates wealth as formerly and
the productive capacity of city pop
ulations is not increasing in equal
measure with that o' the inhabi
tants of smaller towns, it is de-1
dared.
The study Is published under the
title "America's New Frontier", the
small towns and countryside being
regarded by the power company as
the scene of the next stage of indus
trial progress in America
Small Town Gain
The decentralization of wealth and
industry revealed In the book Is evi-i
denced in the small communities!
served with electric by the
company, and the study also pre
sents government figures and the
economic conclusions of leading so
cial scientists, pointing to the same
conclusion.
The report on recent economic
changes by the committee which was
headed by President Hoover is cited
to show that the only present gain in
number of industrial wage earners
is taking place in the smaller towns
The historic concentration of in
dustry in the large cities grew out of
the character of power supply
throughout the greater part of
American industrial development to
gether with the inflexible nature of
transportation facilities, the study
points out. The past decade, how
ever. has witnessed the rapid growth
of distributable electric power which
has been made available In ample
quantities at virtually every point on
the map. and has also seen the tre
mendous increase in the U. S. of the
automobile and the introduction of
mere flexible freight railway service
is shown.
Limits Seen
The book issued by the power com
pany asserts tha* simultaneously
with these technical improvements
which have made it possible to de
centralize the factory system, there
has appeared in the economic life
of the great cities a law of diminish-'
ing returns.
The increasing difficulties and cost
of metropolitan life have reacted
upon industry, the book states, so
that industrial leaders have been
aroused to the advantages of dif-,
fusion. Henry Ford Charles Ketter
ing of General Motors Research cor
poration. Carl Alsberg. bakery ex
pert. E. J Kulas, steel manufacturer
and other key men of American in
dustry are quoted in the book as
advocating decen'rslizafion and;
and greater simplicity of industrial
plant.
It is declared in the power corri
pany's study that ci*y growth after a
certain point of saturation creatrs
more handicaps thar facilities for
productive industries. Per capita tax;
rates are shown to increese more
rapidly as the cities attain greater
size.
In the larger cities labor and elec
tric power are both diverted in in
creasing measure from productive
and socially profitable uses to mere!
efforts to overcome the handicaps of
congestion—such as costly rapid
transit, the ereetion of buildings of
great height, and the immense out-'
lays required for the mnintenanrr
and operation of such structures.
The problem of nrhan water supply
is briefly discussed *n the book, with
the observation thar water resources
determine the ultimate limit of city
growth. The contention ol the book
is that the present layou of cities is
not abreast of the achievements of
science and engineering.
Old Measure Obsolete
The study rules out population as
a measurement of communities
either lrom the standpoint of pro
ductive capacity, purrhasing power
or living standards. Th'1 population
measurement was rendered obsolete
with the substitution of mechanical
power for man power, it is declared
The smallest community now has ac
cess to as great a supply of power as
the large community and since it
requires relatively little for uses de
voted to "keeping tropic out of each
other's way.” its productive capacity
per unit of power is vastly greater
than that of the large city. With the
motor truck and highway furnishing
equal access to markets industry's
interest in the small town is in
creasing.
In a historical summary of the
growrth of American business, the
book shows hew the population and
industries which followed the first
frontier westward tended to cluster
ingrowing cities. “This.” It declares,
"left between the cities great gaps of
scantily developed country dotted by
thousands of small communities.
These towns were supported bv
trade rather than industry because
the nature of the power supply and
transportation tended to confine fac
tories to the more congested cities
A wirier distribution of power over
the countryside anJ the more flex
ible transportation offered by the
motor truck and highway have re
leased industry from confinement
and equipped the small town to ac
ABILENE TOPS
ALL BUILDERS
Issues $621,325 in Permit J
During Past Week to
Lead Slate
DALLAS. Tex.. Aug. 12.—<*•>—Al
though Houston issued more than
half a million dollars worth of
building permits last week Abilene
led the state, the permit for the
$600,000 \ ooten hotel and theater
building running the total of that
city for the week to $621,325, the
largest week of the year. Houston
now has passed the $20,000,000
mark and San Antonio is well
above the $11,000,090 for the year.
City— Week Year
Abilene .$621,325 $ 1.663.503
Houston . 525.725 20,504.501
San Antonio . 163,777 11.423.703
Fort Worth .. 153.000 7,236,54'
Dallas . 106.120 6.274.238
Shreveport ... 88.416 2.953,854 i
Lubbock . 54.200 2,733,21!
Austin . 44,559 2.221,373
San Angelo .. 44,409 1,468.605
Galveston ... 42.450 1,697,920
Beaumont ... 41,950 1,791,093
Port Arthur.. 31,893 1,692,247
Pampa. 28,450 922,645
Corpus Christi 27,375 1,493,373
Plain view .... 18,800 872,020
Midland . 11.800 828,203
Waco . 7.300 1,571.303
Amarillo . 4.300 1,204.500
Corsicana .... 2.315 257.310
Wichita Falls 1,070 672,238
$7,200,000 Is Gift to
I. T. & T. Workers
NEW YORK. Aug. 12.—<&>—'Tli*
International Telephone Tele
graph corporation gave its employes
$7,200,000 worth of stock under the
terms of the fourth offer of securi
ties to persons on its payroll.
The plan provides that a block of
120,000 shares of the company's new
common stock of no par value be
set aside for distribution to em
ployes at the price of $50 per share.
The present market value of ther-e
shares is approximately $110.
Eighty-five thousand employes
are privileged to purchase stock un
der the plan, at the rate of or.c
share for every $300 of their re
spective yearly salaries. No employe
can subscribe to more than 100
shares.
The size of the offering and the {
large number of employes eligible
to make subscriptions place the I.
T. & T. definitely in the category
of such companies as the U. S
Steel, Western Union and a host of
others who have adopted a comprc
Kensive stock ownership program
for employes.
The employes will pay for the
stock by deductions from their
wages at the rate of $2 monthly
per share. The stock will be paid
for fully by October 1. 1931.
The first employe stock plan of
this company was in 1925, when 1.
514 employes subscribed to 7,978
shares. In 1927 and again in 1928.
further offerings were made and a
total of 12,050 employes bought 24,
803 shares.
DALLAS MAYOR WOULD
TAKE OVER CAR LINE
DALLAS. Aug. 12—Disap
pointed at the failure of the Dallas
Railway and Terminal company t
agree with his proposal that street
car operators be given wage increas
es, Mayor J.Waddy Tate said todav
that “it might ' e wise for the cit’
to take over the street car system."
The mayor announced that he
would ask the rity commission tc
consider purchase of the company
whose street railway properties arc
valued at slightly more than $10
000.000 Submitting the propos-*! to
the voters through a bond issue
election next April was suggested
by the executive.
commodate the industries which
seek release from high costs of citv
life.
• As a result." the study continues
“the smaller communities of America
have in recent years made vast
strides in all the thing-, that indicate
richer lives. In better schools, in
new highways, in the nearly uni
versal family owne-ship of the au
tomobile. the most remarkable gains
have occurred outside the great
metropolitan centers. In many cases
states with a preponderant rural
population are at the head of the
procession.
New Trends
“This is a new thing in our his
tory. Americans have long been
used to such progress in metropoli
tan centers and in newly opened
lands. But the renaissance of the
•open spaces* is now as characteris
tic of the older settled Atlantic Mtr
board as of the youngest common
wealths of the Union."
The decentralizing forces at work
in America, today the book con
cludes, are “reversing the currents
which have charar.erized business
enterprise since the industrial revo
lution of the 18th century England.
Canners “S. S.” Brand
Vegetables and Grapefruit
SCHMIDT CANNING CO.
San Benito
COUNTRY HOME WORK A SPECIALTY
QUINN AND DERRICK
PLUMBERS
Heating. Septic Tanks, Sewering. Estimates, Jobbing
817 Elisabeth Street Phone 813
Brownsville. Texas
RADIATORS
Repaired
Genera) Welding
O. P. HACKER
Phone 239
Cor. 13th & Washington
Brownsville
Furniture Remodeling
And
Refinishing
J. R. FROST
Brownsville
900 Adams Street
Holm's Studio
Portrait and Commer
cial Photography
Phone 337 — Brownsville
Special Notice to the Public
New Nerv-O-Meter and
El Vibra System Used
M. K. COOK. D. C.
Chiropractor
COOK and WILLIAMS
171a Grant St. — Tel. 1228-J
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AVERY FARM IMPLEMENTS
Specially adapted to Southern Farming
Wholesale and Retail
Investigate Our Liberal Credit Terms
PHILLIPS HARDWARE
San Benito
RIO GRANDE NATIONAL
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
Old Lino STOCK COMPANY Legal Reserve
Harlingen. Texas t
L. A. RAGAN
TRANSFER AND STORAGE
Bonded Warehouse
Crating — Shipping — House Moving
All Kinds of Heavy Hauling
Off cc Phone 178 Weslaco Res. Phone 160 Black
Gasoline and Motor Oils
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
Velvorene.Motor Oil Co.
Phone 568 Brownsville 2nd & Fronton Streets
CLARK ELECTRIC SHOP
SPEEDOMETER SERVICE
STARTERS BATTERIES
GENERATORS RADIOS
MAGNETOS
Phone 432 Brownsville. Texas 836 Elizabeth
Dependable Prompt
BROWNSVILLE TITLE COMPANY
Phone 353 — Brownsville
Complete abstracts of title to lands in Cameron
County, Texas
Manufacturers of All Kinds
Chicken, Stock and Dairy Feeds
SAN BENITO FEED CO.
El Jardin Garage — Brownsville
FIREPROOF STORAGE
Washing — Greasing — Auto Sendee by Skilled
Attendants
Satisfaction guaranteed with all transactions
.
Floyd £. Bullard
Sheet Metal Works
"No Job To Small—
None Too Large”
Phone 325 — Edinburg
Monuments
Our *vork ,>ermanenUy ex
pre*5f • your devotion.
Brownsville Marble & Granite
Work*
941 Levee Street
Mercedes Concrete
Pipe Co.
PLANTS AT MERCEDES AND McALLEN
General Offices — Mercedes
Makers of Quality Concrete Pipe for
Irrigation and Drainage
We Specialize in Staple Wholesale Groceries
E. DE LA GARZA
Phone 984 Brownsville 634 Fronton St.
American Maid Bread
ALWAYS FRESH
Ask Your Grocer I
Made by p
GATEWAY BAKERY
Brownsville I