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Valley Outlook Brighter
There are many reasons to believe the Lower Rio
Grande Valley is entering the section’s greatest area
of growth and development.
These indications include huge tracts of land be
ing opened for agricultural expansion, elaborate plans
to provide entertainment for tourists, municipal and
Industrial expansion and a rapidly growing popula
tion shown in increased school enrollment.
More than 270,000 acres will be opened for develop
ment in 14 separate projects during the present win
ter. Opening of these tracts will result in an in
creased rural population, an increased production of
exportable products and sn increased purchasing
power for the section.
There are many plans now being brought to real
ization for entertaining visitors with a view to at
tracting and holding tourists in the Valley winter
and summer. These projects include plans for mu
nicipal golf courses, for tourist recreation centers, for
sight-seeing tours, for paved roads to the beaches and
hunting grounds, for tennis courts, for horseshoe
pitching grounds.
Brownsville will establish a tourist center this year,
place a hostess in charge and provide means for en
tertainment of visitors who come here to spend the
winter and escape the rigors of colder climates. Mc
Allen has plans for a similar enterprise. Harlingen
la seeking to speed work on a municipal golf course
and tennis court*.
Cameron county commissioners expect soon to
have a plan for paving a highway to the beach at
Boca Chica. At the same time paving will be extended
toward the coast at Point Isabel.
Construction of these highways will mean In
creased opportunity to use the recreational facilities
already provided. These include the Point Isabel
Yacht Club with boating and fishing, the Casino i>nd
bath house on Padre Island and the two bath houses
an Brazos Island at the end of the Boca Chica Beach
road.
Valley cities from one end of the main highway to
the other are doing additional paving, enlarging wa
ter and sewer systems and preparing for an Increased
population New schools and new churches are being
erected on every hand.
New industrial and d. iributlng enterprises are lo
cating in the Valley dally.
Land developers find that people throughout !he
United States are more Interested in hte Valley than
ever before, and a record movement of homeseekers
to this section this year Is expected.
Men of means are hearing of the Valley and be
coming interested in the opportunities for recreation
and Investment, these land men report after summer
tours through the territory.
Yes. it appears that the Valley Is In for a period of
great development.
Discarding Sunday
The soviet government may call Its Bundavless
week "continuous production week" or It may call it
anything It will, but the departure eliminates *he Tab
bath from Russia’s Industrial life and It does to ta
tentlonally. Rest on the seventh day is still provided,
but all workmen will not rest on the same day. One
seventh of the workmen will be permitted to rest on a
given day. every day will be a rest day for a stated
number of laborers, and Sunday with all Its sugges
tions of religion will temporarily at least depart from
the Russians.
The Russian experiment Is akin to that ef the
French revolutionists, but unlike It in some tespects.
The French substituted the tenth day for the seventh
and severely overtaxed the people In so doing. The
Innovation of the revolutionists was entirely tin-re
ligious,. for it included worship of the goddess of rea
son and wrote above the gates of the cemeteries the
definite assertion: “Death is an eternal Heap.**
The effort of the French to Injure Christianity ty
abolishing the Sabbath was undisguised and openly
asserted. The Russian crusade Is disguised in part.
There is much talk of the "continuous production
week" and the proper arrangement of rest days to
take the place of the one sacred day of the religionist.
But call It what you will, the order from Moscow elim
inates from the Russian calendar the day counted
sacred by the churches of the world.
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The father of twins is always proud. Puts »n
heirs, you might say.—Palm Beach Post.
Household hint says table scraps can be converted
into many things, Including divorces.—Arkansas Da
rette.
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Other endurance records don't Impress the man
whose neighbor has a pup that geta lonesome at night.
—Boston Po6t.
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A democracy is a land in which everybody has
equal right to feel superior to the common people —
Richmond News-Leader.
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A scientist. C. H. Curran, has discovered that
mosquitoes are cannibalistic. Well, here b more
strength to their appetites.—Wichita P>agle.
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If war and hell are synonymous, why do the
naughty abolish one and the good abolish the other?
_San Francisco Chronicle.
Well, if grapes have gone from $20 to $175 a ton
under prohibition, obviously we could relieve the wheat
fanner by prohibiting bread.—Detroit News.
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There b a magnificent chance for some genius to
invent an elastic telegraph-pole that will merely toss
the too-speedy motorist back upon the right of way.—
Manchester Union.
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Tk® Onac® 0?®?
By H. L PHILLIPS
"HOLD 'EM, WHOOZIZ!"
Here Is the football season right under our noses
again and it has come upon us so suddenly we have
scarcely had time to dismantle the outboard motor,
pack away the bathing suit and cease tuning In on
the baseball scores.
Football teams, it seems, are always practicing, the
newspapers are showing the annual pictures of beefy
juniors struggling with sacks of sawdust, Knute
Rockne is making his seasonal forecast and on every'
side one hears revived the question of "Whafs wrong
with Yale and Harvard?*
Raccoon coats are being dragged forth, over
hauled, renovated, re-wired and inspected for the re
moval of broken glass in the lining, radio announcers
are working themselves into shape for the October
outburst of hysteria, and from coast to coast the pop
ulace eagerly awaits the stirring spectacle of eleven
Grade X students kicking eleven other future bond
salesmen In the face.
Preparedness is complete except for an under
standing of the rules under which the game will be
played this year. The following list of changes will
help the spectator out of the fog:
1—THE DEFLATED BALL: This year no player
will be allowed to deflate the ball before or after pass
ing. Last year the practice of letting the air out of
the pigskin and stuffing it (the ball, not the air) un
der the shirt was carried to extremes. The public
: tired of seeing touchdowns made with what appeared
! to be hot-water bottles: hence the change.
3—GOAL POSTS: Two years ago the goal peats
: were moved back 10 yards, and last year they were
| moved forward, or vice versa. There is no sense go
i on this forever, so this year the goal posts
| will not be on the field at all. They will be kept tm
, der the stands and brought forth only when a player
is in doubt whether he has scored a touchdown or
not. All touchdowns will be made over an invisible
line. Neither team will know where this line is. This
information will be held only by a committee of six
old grads representing each university. When a play
| er thinks he has sensed the location of the invisible
line and crossed it he will yell “Goal posts! Goal
posts!” and the committee vrill bring them on and
put them where they belong. If the player has guess
ed right,, the touchdown goes. If he has made a mis
take. his team is penalized 40 yards for bum guessing.
This is all calculated to provide good fun.
3— FUMBLES: This season will be the best year
fumbling has ever had. In the past there has been
a disposition to discourage it as bad football, but this
fall it will be practically encouraged: Up to now
when a player fumbled a football it could be scooped
up by a rival player who would rush 80 yards down
the field for a touchdown while the crowds went gaga.
This was always one of the great moments of his
tory. but too many old grads got so excited they
dropped their half-pints with a loud crash on the
concrete floors, causing humiliation, anger and what
have you. It was consequently thought best to spare
the thrills and save the flasks. This season no player
may recover a fumble and run with it. He must re
turn it to the loser at once, no questions asked. The
team fumbling the ball loses the ball, but doesn't
have to chase it.. At the end of each game the stu
dent wiaklng the most fumbles is given a prize of
some kind.
4— FORWARD PASS: No forward passes may be
made this year without the passer shouting the name
and number of the player to whom he is passing it.
Last year a good many forward passes went wrong
because either the passer didn't know to whom he was
to pass the ball or the receiver didn't know he was
to receive it. or both. The new rule will make mis
takes impossible.
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Wasknms'ftom L®ftft®ir
By HERBERT C. PLUMMER
WASHINGTON. Sept. 21.—As far back as 1804
they stood In line for tickets to the theater at the cor
ner of PensylvanJa avenue at Eleventh street In
Washington.
"How to Die for Love” packed the house in those
days. The 8RO sign wae out on the night “The Wife’s
First Lesson" was presented, and they turned them
away at the performance of "How to Rule a Hus
band.”
And wi down through the years—even up untli
the first few months of 1929—people paid admission
to see shows at this oldest theater stand In the na
tional capital. This corner Is the site of the first
playhouse in Washington, and has attracted in Its day
everyone from the president of the United States to
the rowdiest burlesque fan.
Now its long history as a theater site has been
closed. The property has been acquired by the United
States government for a warehouse to store depart
ment of commerce records. Eventually It will become
a part of the triangle development of greater Wash
ington.
fl FOR BOXES
In those days the price of admission was $1 for
boxes and 75 cents for the pit (on the first floor,
where orchestra seats are now). The doors were open
at 8 o’clock and the performance started at 7 o’clock
There were three shows a week.
Anything pertaining to marriage or love went over
big with the theater crowds of that day. "Wives as
They Were and Maids as They Are,” the farce,
"Ways and Means: or a Trip to Dover.” “School for
Scandal ” “Speed the Plough.” "Matrimony. Man and
Wife; or More Secrets Than One ” "Rule a Wife and
Have a Wife,” and "No Song, No Supper,” were great
favorites.
The theater burned In 1820, but two years later
was rebuilt and given the name Carusl’s Hall.
BURLESQUE
In more recent years burlesque flourished there.
About 10 years ago it was transformed Into a modern
concrete structure for bigger and better burlesque,
but as has so often been the case, the burlesque fans
who filled It when It was a ramshackle old firetrap
stayed away when at last It became a more tafe end
sane place for entertainment.
8o burlesque failed. Some time later two men
took the theater over, changed its name from Cap
itol to President, and put on “Abie’s Irish Rose." The
show ran for weeks and was the only real success the
new house ever had.
Further attempts were less successful. One man
ager tried burlesque for a while, then movies and fin
ally stock, but to no avail. Among other things the
President witnessed the debacle of Charles Ray aa
an independent movie producer.
Last year an attempt was made to revive tome
old operettas with no success. Then sex movies were
started, but they, too, flopped.
So the New York amusement company which awns
the property has sold it to the gaveronte&W
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CHAPTER 50
Long, Jagged, lightning streaks
of pain
Dim lights that seared Chatty's
brain, burning, burning.
White figures, all blurred, that
came and went; strange voices say
ing stranger things.
An odd little undertone of moans
that sounded, somehow, familiar.
For hours, so it seemed, she lay
—somewhere—and suffered—some
thing. Sometimes she was in a bed,
sometimes floating in a turbid, tu
multous sea; sometimes she was
being ground to pieces in a dread
ful machine.
But gradually her senses cleared.
Between the stupification of ether,
and its consequent nausea, and
sleeping, waking, sleeping again,
mind gradually won back to com
prehension.
She was in a hospital room evi
dently. There was another bed in
the room, side by side with hers.
Someone was on that bed. Some
one all wrapped up In white ban
dages that covered the face.
Chatty tried to raise her right
hand; a needle stab of pain pre
vented and forced a low cry from
her lips.
A white-clad figure swam out of
nebulous Indistinctness to bend
over her.
"Don't try to move!” came a low
caution. "Do you feel better?”
"I feel—terrible!” answered Chat
ty, and was shocked at the weak
ness of her voice. “What—hap
pened? Where am I? Who—who
Is that?”
She gestured with her eyes; the
only part of her she could remove
without pain. •
But the nurse laid a cool finger
on her lips and, smiling, bade her
be silent.
Then a man came, also in white.
He felt her pulse and her cheek,
and passed to the other bed. Chat
ty lost interest. In sleep was for
getfulness of those awful stabbing
pains. She closed her eyes.
Gradually she learned; a word
here, a hint there. And then, sud
denly it all came back to her; the
wild evening at the Lollypop, the
too numerous drinks, the dancing,
even her mad ride with Bryant.
She gasped at the memory, und
flushed with the shame of it.
She didn't understand herself.
David? Ah. yes. David! Sut
even David seemed far away and
only & dull ache—what was one
ache, more or less, when one ached
all over?
But—who was that In the next
bed?
Chatty, turned her head slowly,
carefully. The face was all ban
daged.
“Are you—much hurt?” Inquired
Chatty, weakly.
The bandaged face turned slight
ly _
“I dont know!” The words were
low. muffled. But Chatty gasped
Billie Langenau!
“Oh. Billie, Billie! Oh. my dear,
I am so. so sorry! I—”
"Don't!’ said Billie. “I know.
Chatty, dear. You didn't mean to.
It's nothing. We’ll—be all right,
after while!”
But Chatty couldn’t let It go like
that. She lay quiet, thinking ter
rible thoughts.
She tried to formulate words, to
tell Billie how sorry, how ashamed
she was. to make her see tbat
her for worlds.
But the words wouldn’t come.
They were strangled by the
thoughts that she couldn't keep
away.
For Chatty, in all her pain and
discomfort, began to see very clear
ly. Drink, yea. was responsible, but
It was her own nature which had
made the drink take the form it
had—Intense curiosity desire to
know something about George
Uayhaw, intention to tell Billie.
She saw now. clearly enough. |
that if George Mayhew had been ;
with another girl, and she found |
it out and told Billie, only unhap
piness could result.
Scandal, tale bearing, anonymous
letters, stealing the diary and send
ing it to Mrs. Van Nuys, spying on
David, telling Mr. Van Nuys. ut- |
tering an untruth about him and :
Winnie when Winnie was guiltless,
adding details of her own inven
tion to the gossip she heard, all
produced misery, pain, sorrow’.
Now her naked soul saw’ Itself
ar. it was—and Chatty lay in a bed |
of pain and suffered torments of
self-accusation and shame.
David was right. She had a !
“snake's tongue.”
And to it all w-as added the bit
ter regret of having injured Billie
Langenau—Billie, who never hurt
anyone, and who had stuck to her
from the first.
She could not even comfort her
self with saying she was trying to
serve Billie when the accident hap
pened^
She knew she was trying to In
dulge her own love of talk, gossip,
scandal, being the first to tell news.
“Was—was Bryant hurt? Was
Oeorge?” at last.
“Only bruises.” answered Billie.
"We got the worst of it.”
“What—how are you hurt?” ask
ed Chatty, fearing she knew not
what.
“Oh. just a few cuts—and brok
en bones.” Billie’s voice sounded
as if it was meant to be com
forting.
Chatty relapsed Into silence.
Then George Mayhew came. He I
limped, and one hand was band
aged. but otherwise he was no*
hurt.
“Don’t cry. dear!” she heard him
say. “It doesn’t make the least dif
ference to me if it does scar!”
Chatty froze. Scar. Billie’s face !
—her sweet, pretty face, the love- i
ly, creamy skin—scarred.
. ®wake* George!” Chatty ,
heard Billie sav.
He turned to her Instantly, and
laid a cool hand on her forehead
“Poor old Chat!” he said. “I can’t
shake hands with you. child: thev
«• ■J1 capped up! How do you
“Put it—put it to my lips!” mur
mured Chatty. “I—i want to kiss
your hand! You are so—so darned
white. George Mayhew! You ought
never to speak to me again! I did
it—I did it! And—’’
“Why, Chatty How vou talk*”
Billie interrupted. “Anyone can
have an accident. You didn’t do
this on purpose!”
“Of course not! And I won’t have
your kisses wasted!” assured
George. Walt till you get up and
save the kiss and give it to me
right! Billie won’t mind, will you
old dear?” ' ’
“Of course not!”
They were so good! Chatty felt
as if she didn’t deserve a tenth of
it! And as the days passed and she
learned how seriously Billie was in
jured. how the pretty face had
been terribly cut with flying glass,
how she mieht not only be scarred]
but walk with a limp all her life]
she forgot her own broken arm and
bruised hand and cut head in ad
miration of the tender loveliness of
Billie's attitude toward her.
Not a word of reproach: not a
moral lecture: not a sign of re
sentment !
But where was Bryant? He was
not hurt! Yet he did not come to
the hospital.
Her mother, a dally visitor, did
not know. Pud didn’t know. George
Mayhew didn't know. No one know.
It wasn't the only puzzle. The
other waa a dally little bunch of
Lower*; today violets, tomorrow
%
pinks, the next day a half dozen
rosebuds. But no card attached.
No one knew who sent them, ei
ther.
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At last came the day when Chat
ty was permitted to sit up. Pud
laid a newspaper on her knees that
afternoon. The doctor says you
can see this, now.” he said.
Chatty read it after he had gone
It was the account of the accident.
It was on the first page. And it
didn’t mince words; it did not say,
in so many phrases, that she was
intoxicated. But *'joy riding,” ”v ild
party," "modern flapper.” “reckless
young woman,” "scandalous condi
tion” were all in the story.
And then, indeed. Chatty went
into the depths of black desoair.
Her chatter and scandal monger
ing had sunk her to the lowest
depths; material for a sorrowful
story in a newspaper, held up for
all the world to see as a dissolute,
shameless girl, bringing disgrace
and painful injury on innocent peo
ple, all for a “good time!”
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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In the letters coming to my desk,
are many relating to the various 1
diseases of the mind and nervous
system. Many people ask me about
epilepsy and what can be done for
its relief.
When I was a boy in the lower
grades I had a schoolmate named
Willie. He used to have “fits.” The
poor little chap would let out a
yell, fall on the floor in a con
vulsion, froth at the mouth and
bite his t 'ngue.
Even In that remote day I ex
pected to be a doctor. The teacher
knew this so she always assigned
me to the duty of taking care of
Willie. He was my first patient.
I don’t know who told me to do
it but the first step of my treat
ment always was to keep the teeth
separated so as to prevent biting
of the tongue. I kept a wooden
clothes pin for this purpose and
my first effort was to get it be
tween his teeth. Aside from wash
ing his face and preventing his
harming himself in his convulsive
efforts. I recall doing nothing else, j
In fact that’s about all a real doc
tor could do.
Epilepsy is one of the mysterious
diseases, its causes are obscure. It
is quite probable that an infeetton
of some sort may be the root of
the trouble.
It is wise for the epileptic to be
given a thorough physical exami
nation. Every effort must be made
to discover and remove every pas- j
sible source of infection. The j
progress made in the cure of func
tional insanity by getting rid of
body poisons should be kept in
mind in dealing with the epileptic.
The medical profession is coming
more and more to recognize the
serious effect vpon the system
which follows the absorption of in
fections found in the teeth tonsils,
sinuses, generative organs rad par
ticularly the intestines.
It is expected that these poisons
constantly absorbed by the blood
must have serious effects upon tr.c
nervous system. Any poison, wheth
er it comes from within or with
out the body, if taken in repeated
doses is sure to create unpleasant
symptoms. It may well be that epi
lepsy may be founded upon such a
disturbance.
ANSWERS TO HEALTH Ql'ERIES
Mrs. F. W. G. Q.—What causes
an offensive discharge from nose
and throat?
A.—This is probably due to nasal
catarrh. For further particular
send self-addressed stamped envel
ope and repeat your question.
Mrs C. V. Q —Can chilblains be
cured?
A —Yes. For particulars send a
self-addressed, stamped envelope
and repeat your question.
Mrs. J. J. Q.—What can be done
for enlarged pores?
2.—What causes brown spots on
the neck?
A —Enlarged pores may be made
less noticeable by applying hot and
cold compresses to the face, alter
nately, for 10 minutes, night and
morning.
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Molly. Q —What should a girl
aged 14. 5 ft. 2 Inches tall weigh?
What do you advise for pimples?
A.—She should weigh about 110
pounds 2. Correct the diet by
cutting down on sugars, starches
and coffee. Eat simple food. Send
self-addressed stamped envelope for
further particulars and repeat your
question.
1 Grab Bag "|
Who am I? What cabinet post
do I hold? Where is my home?
What Is the outermost member of
the solar system?
Which state is called “Sage
brush?”
“Submit yourselves therefore to
God. Resist the devil, and he will
flee from you.” Where is this pass
asc found in the Bible?
Today’s Horoscope
Persons bom on this day are
sharp tongued when aroused but
usually very’ gentle. They are touchy
but easily placated.
Horoscope for Sunday
Persons bom on this day are
meddlesome and like to force their
advice on others. They constantly
fear calamity and needlessly so.
Star Lore
THE PLANET I RANI'S
By Arthur DeV. Carpenter
Sir William Herschel was the as
tronomer who discovered the planet
Uranus, in the year 1781. The dis
covery was incidental to a general
surveying of the heavens with the
telescope. The diameter of Uranus
is 32,400 miles. Being so remote
from the sun, its disk is not so
bright as that of Jupiter or Sat
urn. Its disk is much flattened at
the pole, indicating that its rota
tion is rapid. It has no distinct
markings by which to determine its
velocity of rotation, but Lowell ob
servatory, applying the spectro
scopic method, found that it com
pletes a rotation in 10% hours. The
period of its oribit Is 84.01 years.
Answers to Foregoing Questions
1. Robert P. Lamont; secretary cf
commerce; Chicago.
2. Neptune.
3. Nevada.
4. James iv, T.
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