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Laredo Onion Shipment Hike*
Record
Speaking of Texas winter and summer gardens, of
flowers and fruits and vegetables, Texas onion gar
dens challenge the world. According to the Laredo
Times, records of several years for a single night
shipment of Bermuda onions out of the Laredo dis
trict were smashed April 17 when a total of 96 car
loads. necessitating movement of four special trains
to carry them, rolled out of the border city bound
for markets in all sections of the United States and
Canada. This brought total shipments from Laredo
for the first two weeks of shipments to 441 carloads.
Perhaps Wisconsin lawmakers and real estate
■gents will come out of their trance and recognize
the marvelous development that has taken place in
the fruit and truck garden sections of the southwest
known as the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Gov. Kohler
of Wisconsin has appointed an official committee to
Investigate conditions. Why investigate them? Land
▼•lues In the Valley speak for themselves Records
of shipments of Valley products speak for themselves
High quality of these products of the soil, including
farm and garden and orchard, speak for themselves.
It is said that an unknown agent of one of the fed* i
fend departments in the city of Washington furnished ■
the Information to the Wisconsin State Board of i
Realtors which led to the boycott being placed on
Valley lands. This Is not all. The head of the fed- J
eral department responsible for the onslaught de- |
dined to make known the name of his subordinate '
who distributed the poison.
There are thousands of northern men In the Valley.
They are bona fide adopted citizens of Texas. They
are among Its most progressive citizens. They es
tablished homes In the Valley, they invested their
money in the Valley, they are successful as fruit
growers and truck growers in the Valley, and their
yearly dividends tell the story of the superiority of
the summer and winter gardens of Texas over and
•bove those of any other section of America.
Board Given Scare
Board of control members were given a scare when
A report got out in some mysterious manner that a
fire had been discovered In the senate hall, near the
priceless historic paintings of the senate walls. They
left their dinner tables and hurried to the capitol.
They haven’t yet found any trace of a fire or any
one who started the report.
There’s an addition to the list of young capitol and
university people who plan to have their fling at the
legislature this year. He’s Horace Walker, university
student and printing salesman. He would run against
R M. Hubbard in his home county of Bowie
Others who are flirting with the legislative race
Include Oveta Culp, house parliamentarian: Vann
Kenedy, capitol newspaper writer, and Trueman
O Quinn of the highway department.
Olin R. Van Zandt of Grayson county, blind legis
lator. this ’ ear wil run for a senate seat, it has been
announced. It has been many years since a sightless
person sat in the Texas legislature. The venerated
Sen. McCollum of Waco, several years ago, became
almost blind before his death, and while a member
of the bod s'
Mr. Van Zandt. keen constitutional lawyer, wants
nobody's sympathy because of his lack of vision, and
no special cor-lderation. He has proven he can well
take care of himself In debate- And his wife's eyes
are his eyes for voluminous reading of both news and
law.
jThe Once Over]
BrH. L PHILLIPS
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WAR. UNDER THE NAVAL HOLIDAY TREATY
TIME—ABOUT 1836.
NOTE FROM POWER A TO POWER B
This la to notify you that we consider a state of
war exists between us. We have given your Ambas
sador his papers.
POWER B TO POWER A.
Declaration of wax received and placed on file
When do you propose to fight it?
POWER A TO POWER B.
Prefer to begin immediately.
POWER B TO POWER A.
Impossible to begin immediately, as you very well
know. Will require six years.
POWER A TO POWER B.
Six years seems quite a long time to wait for a war
upon which we have set our hearts. Why do you
ask it?
POWER B TO POWER A.
Under London Naval Holiday agreement, have let
navy to to dogs for last six years. Will consequently
need six years to build navy for adequate struggle.
POWER A TO POWER B.
Do you seriously mean that you observed the Naval
Holiday to the letter?
POWER B TO POWER A.
Absolutely. Are we wrong in assuming you did the
same?
POWER A TO POWER B.
This is a war, not an Edison questionnaire. What
ships will you need six years to build, if we are not
too Inquisitive?
POWER B TO POWER A.
Four battleships, ten light cruisers, fourteen de
stroyers. And don't blame us for keeping you wait
ing. If it hadn't been for your old naval holiday pact
we would have had everythng ready.
POWER A TO POWER B.
Really can’t wait six years for our war. Cabinet
wants to be considerate as possible, but feels six years’
delay excessive. Last time we postponed a war that
long we forgot all about it. Public never forgave us.
Are you receptive to a proposition?
POWER B TO POWER A.
Shoot us the proposition.
POWER A TO POWER B.
If you will consent to war in three years instead of I
six we will loan you enough ships to establish fighting
parity.
POWER B TO POWER A.
Split the difference. Make it four years and we
will try our best to get into condition to fight you.
POWER A TO POWER B.
Four years then. We want nothing to happen In
this war that would embarrass London conference.
POWER B TO POWER A.
One more detail. In our belief world peace would
never be disturbed again, we scrapped all our ad
mirals.
POWER A TO POWER B.
That’s all right. We’ll let you have some of our
admirals.
AND WHY NOT?
F. P. A. wants to know if under the merger Floyd
Gibbons will be merged with Graham McNamee and
Amos and Andy. Probably, the new combine to op
erate as the Gibamos Sc McAndy Fresh Air Taxi
Company. »
And some of the radio programs will, of course, be
spljt four or five for one.
After a man has appeared before a Senate com
mittee he can certainly say he has been Insulted by
experts
Add similes: As helpless as a Literary Digest ed
itor who never was very quick at figures.
The Naval disarmament delegates are packing up
to return to the United States, but they have been
away so long that they may be detained at Ellis Is
land as Immigrants.
The next step Is to submit the limitations treatv
to the Senate where It will be scrambled, reshuffled,
made more baffling than ever and then blamed on
the League for the Repeal of Prohibition by Mr. Cara
way.
A scientist now advances th'Mheory that time flows
I two ways, and that tomorrow may be day before yes
terday or vice versa. Most of us have days when we
feel that way.
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Time, according to this man. flows fin a manner of
speaking) both east and west. Probably the reason
life seems so uneventful Just now is that the east and
west time has stopped on signal to let the north and
south traffic pass.
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CHAPTER 43
Zinnie Confrey had given Elanda
the address of a fashionable lunch
eon club on the East Side. She
had Just driven up In her own
clever little green sport roadster
when Elanda got out of her cab.
Zinnie hailed her with a bright
smile:
My word! You’re on time. I
thought I was the only girl in New
York who kept her appointments
on the dot.”
She hugged Elanda and grinned
up at her:
“I was afraid you wouldn't come.”
“Because—why?” Elanda return
ed her embrace.
“I thought perhaps you’d think
because Whoopee played you such
& dirty trick that we were all alike.
I’m happy you have some faith left
in human nature.”
The head waiter greeted the rich
Zinnie Confrey with such effusive
welcome that Elanda envied her.
There was a sinking in her own
heart when she remembered that
not one of these famous places
knew her. She was an outsider.
Elanda smiled across at Zinnie
when thy were seated.
“I trusted you the minute I saw
you at the beach party. Carmel had
stacked the cards against us. and
told me. oh so sisterly, that you
had been engaged to Greg and had
been drowning your sorrows and
would no doubt get engaged to him
again now that you had met—ac
cidentally.”
“Accidentally?” Zinnie’s musical
laugh was fluted w.th amusement.
“I suppose she told you she didn't
know I was coming. I was the first
person she called. I helped her
plan the party. She said there
would be an outsider. But that
Greg Du Pont had insisted on you
and she supposed he wouldn't come
unless you did and he was a lot
of fun and she wanted him along.”
Elanda shook her head despair
ingly:
“She surely 'id have It in for
poor little me, didn't she? And to
think I didn't see through her.
“I've always known Carmel was
hard and Jealous and spoiled. But
I didn’t think she would so com
pletely lose her head as to do an
unbelievable thing like that Just
because you got the job she wanted
at WWBC.”
“That Isn’t all” Elanda added
knowingly. "That’s only half of it.
She did it because she wanted to
marry Greg."
Zinnie’s eyes widened. In a min
ute she dropped her hands heavilv.
“Oh! Why didn’t I think of that!
I can understand a lot of things
she did and said to me last year
now. Can you beat It? I didn't
think of that! That goes to show
you how suspicious 1 am of people.”
“Where is Carmel now?”
“Haven't you heard?” Zinnie ex
claimed with amazement. “Why I
thought you must know about it.
Her parents came back from Eu
rope on the next boat and put her
into a sanitarium. Nervous break
down and all that stuff. Ha! Ha!
“Nice way to cover up a nasty
disposition. Thev’d rather have
people think too many cocktails
and cigarettes had broken her down
and made her go off her top. If
she’d been anybody but Carmel Pro
vost she would have gone to Jail.
She sure has cooked her young
goose. All of us gills are through
with her."
Elanda was amazed.
“Zinnie! Aren't any of you going
to be friends with her any more?
Just because she did that to ME!”
“Exactly.” the dark-eyed little
Zinnie sniffad. “Yo'j're as good as
any of us—even if you haven't got
money. If she hadn’t told it no
one would have known. Don't you
think our crowd will let that hurt
you any? We re all for you sino j
she hurt you so. W»y, she’d do the
same thing to any of us. I wouldn’t
trust her as far as I could throw
an elephant by the suitcase ”
How was Elanda to know she had
so many friends because she was
engaged to Greg Du Pont? She
took it all as Zinnie had said it.
It added considerably to her con
ceit. They liked her for herself!
Perhaps Zinnie herself didn’t
know it was because Elanda was
Greg Du Pout’s future wife that
she found it so easy to assure her
of their allegiance.
Zinnie was one of the most demo
cratic girls within the pale of the
**400’' in New York. She was honest
and good and liked generally, des
pite the fact that she went so far
and no farther when the scores of
parties she attended waxed too
warm.
She came to talk with Elanda
about Greg and she hardly knew
how to get about it. A great deal of
the luncheon time had been taken
up talking about Carmel and the
outcome of the Jewel theft. They
were ready for dessert when Zinnie
smiled over at Elanda timidly.
“I suppose you know I invited you
to luncheon today partly because I
wanted to talk with you about some
thing else. To explain something to
you that may puzzle you and make
you a little uneasy.”
"Well, you know I’d like to know,”
Elanda was glad they were to be
honest, "why you didn’t marry Greg.
I like you a lot and it would make
it easier for both of us to be
friends—in case anyone talks about
it'to me.”
Zinnie twisted her rings for a
ment before she looked up.
“I—I don’t like to talk about it,
Elanda. But you can bet your sweet
life on one thing. I’m not in love
with Greg. I’m going to marry Tom
my. It’s a secret yet.”
“Oh, I’m gladElanda told her
happily. “I think he's a darling.”
“You bet he is,” Zinnie wagged
her curly head. “Anyway he works
—and that's more than most of the
other boys do: He's getting along
fine in father's brokerage office—
and he doesn't have to, either. And
he will be a good husband and
father and I won’t have to sit up
nights wondering where he is. If I
get married I want a marriage! I
don’t want a divorce in six months.
Some of the girls don’t think he s
anything to write sonnets to. But I
love him. He’s my man!”
It was a long outburst—said con
vincingly. Elanda winced at the
memory of some of the things Greg
had said to her. That was what she
wanted, too. since she had been a
romantic little girl. Would her
marriage be like that?
Elanda looked up with a feeble
attempt to smile.
“That’s what you want—and that
is why you didn’t marry Greg?”
Zinnie nodded—then said to cover
it up:
“But I guess he didn’t care much
for me. He loves you. He'll be dif
ferent now', here was a big blonde
girl who came and tried to black
mail me and scare me out. too. You
know a boy like that always has a
lot of crooked women trailing after
his money. I was petrified.”
Elanda said she suposed so—not
too cheerfully. They ate their des
sert in silence for a moment, then
Zinnie confess^.
“To be honest with you—he began
neglecting me. I supix>se I was too
cold to him. You might say he gave
me the air. But don’t tell anyone.
I'm telling you to relieve your own
111 heart of any fear that he still
pines for me now and then.”
There was an unpleasant sum
mons from the program director
when Elanda got to the studio. Even
though she was the fiancee of the
son of whose business it was to
make the programs a success.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
Secretary Hyde To
Address Convention
PORT ARTHUR. April 2*—-TV
Acceptances of invitations to speak
before the fourth annual conven
tion of the East Texas chamber of
commerce at Port Arthur May 11
13. have been received from Arthur
M. Hyde, secretary. U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture. Governor Dan
Moodv. and Dr. T. O Walton, pre
sident of Texas A. M. College.
Addresses by these principal speak
ers and deliberative discussions by
delegates of the economic problems
and progress of East Texas, will be
features of the business sessions.
Phil E. Baer of Paris. Tex., has
been United States marshal under
four of the last five presidents.
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NEW YORK
NEW YORK. April 24.—You’re -
not even sure of "free air" In New
York any more
In fact, the value of the air seems
rapidly to be going up. To be sure,
you can have plenty of the carbon
monoxide mixture encountered on
the highways. But they're begin
ning to pay good coin of the realm
for the air encountered up in the
sky-scrapers. The latest quotation
to reach me shows the value to be
89 cents per cubic foot.
If this seems slightly incredible,
please remember that the gentlemen
who build the steel giants today are
showing more than a little concern
over the matter of light and air. If
their buildings are to be shut off
bv some adjoining cloud reacher.
as many a building is, then what
price sunshine and ozone?
Wherefore, the more thoughtful
owners are now buying nearby space
in an effort to protect their 8x10
bit of air against invasion.
Thus, according to a few statis
tics. I have Just received from one
Julius Nelson, he had to buy 2.800.
000 cubic feet of air for his new
45-story "Nelson tower." which hap
pens to be the tallest building In
the cloack-and-suit mid-town sec
tion. This set him back something
like two and a half millions of dol
lars.
It seems that he has set aside
5.000 square feet, of a 20,000-foot
property, "to insure a future circu
lation of light and air." And since
the building rises some 560 feet
into the atmosphere—well, figure
it out for yourself.
This is. however, nothing unusual
in this day and age. since future
builders will be giving cool consi
deration to such problems, as many
have in the past. And ths cost of
air will probably continue to rise as
the skyline grows.
Tom Hoey, New York’s one ana
only farmer, is preparing his sheep
for the "spring shearing."
This, if you please, is tire most
incongruous event in the entire pro
gram of the Manhattan year.
Incredible though it may seem,
there is a good old-fashioned barn
yard sheep-shearing once a year,
within the very shadow* of the
Fifth avenue mansions and within
a stone's throw of points where
traffic congestion reaches something
approximating a madhouse.
For Tom. whom I have introduc
ed before at one time or another,
is the gent who takes care of Cen
tral Parks flocks—this city's one
and only sheep-herder. This flock,
by the way. is generally kept down
to a hundred head or so. A "farm'’
sale is held every year, when the
older sheep are disposed of and the
lambs are retained. After the shear
ing the city holds a “wool" sale,
which invariably attracts a curi</is
crowd.
The shearing itself draws crowds
of pop-eyed natives who haven't
the slightest idea whether this is
done with a lawnmower or a pair
of manicure scissors. Crowds of
youngsters who never saw a farm
are taken out to gaze upon this
spectacle, ijist as country lads are
brought forth to scan some new
fangled dingus brought from the
big town.
By heck, we go rural in this town
every now and then!
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Which reminds me that one of
the piglets in Mrs. Murphy’s farm”
—also in Central Park—haiWt
been doing so well, much to the
concern of the Fifth avenue Faunt
leroys. whose nurse maids let them
gaie at pigs, cows, geese and such
through the iron bars of a cage.
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Intimate Glimpses of the Valley’s Alley
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Along Elizabeth
Bobito Rentfro ... driving a Pack
ard ... back from somewhere ...
John Clark ... telling about a pro
posed golf match ... between George
Desha and Ed Brady ... Bascom
Cox ... striding along ... Frank
Lopez ... going to his office on
Elizabeth ... thinking ... Enrique
Longoria ... going somewhere In a
big hurry ... Chichilieo Leal ...
carrying an armful of mail ... as
big as he is ... Dr. O. V. Lawrence
... riding an elevator ... in the
State National bank building ...
planning a hard day's work ...
• • •
Census
Time is getting dangerously short
for census enumerators to complete
their work in Brownsville and the
Valley. Today being the 24th
leaves but 6 more days in which the
census takers may complete their
listing of the totals.
• • •
Work must come to a complete
close by the first day of May, cen
sus chief L. E. Bennett has said.
And the merry month of May is
not so very far off.
With the Brownsville total hover
ing around 19,000 names to date.
1.000 names a day must be regis
tered by the enumerators if the
25.000 is to be reached or even ap
proached.
• • *
And a thousand names a day was
a good average during the early days
of the month, when everybody was
census meat and the enumerators
did not have to walk far or ask
many persons if they had been tak
en yet.
• • •
What is being led up to Is that
every man. woman, and child in
the city of Brownsville who has not
been counted be sure and telephone
700 and ask for Mr. Bennett. Give
him your name and address and you
will have done your good deed. And
The Brownsville Herald is so anx
ious to 6ee the total population
reach the 25,000 mark that it is
offering 10 cents for every name
turned In.
• * •
Is Brownsville a village or a city?
A town or a metropolis? The only
thing that will decide this is the
census totals.
« • •
The boys up In Kalamazoo do
not know that we have stop and
go lights on the main stem. They
Judge us by the census figures. The
folks up in Goose Creek. Wisconsin,
do not realize that Brownsville has
miles upon miles of paved streets,
and that these paved streets are lin
ed with so many electric street
lights that at night they look like
New York s white way. They glance
at the census returns, and if it reads
19,000. they may pass on in their
glancing.
• • •
And up around Kansas way, they
don't know that Brownsville pos
sesses the largest international air
port in the United States; they
don’t know that it is one of the
most modem and up-to-date little
cities in the country. They have
nothing but the figures of Uncle
Sam to go by.
• • •
Brownsville wants 25,000.
• • *
April 24th
1494. Columbus got as far as
Haiti, and continued his voyage on
April 24th.
1558. Mary, Queen of Scots, mar
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ricd the dauphin of France. On
exactly the same date but in 1567
Bothwell abducted the queen.
1704. The first continuous news
paper in the New World appeared
in Boston. The name of the paper
was the News-Letter. And look at
its offspring now.
• • •
1894. Prolonged strike between
miners and coke-burners began in
Pennsylvania. They used to bum
coke ... now we drink them.
1898. Spain declared war against
the United States.
1911. French aeronaut flew from
Paris to Pax
• • •
1914. Mexican troops set Nuevo
Laredo on fire. When the Mexicans
attempted to set fire to the inter
national bridge, American troop* ’
fired upon them and killed several.
• • •
1916. Revolt in Dublin. Ireland,
began.
• •
1918. The Germans attacked the
whole Somme front but were repuls
ed. The British line held.
1920. The United States recog
nized Armenia as a state.
1921. The Irish had a grand old
time in Connemara, Ireland. “Is
this a private fight, or can anyone
Joi’. in?’* The Sinn Fein and the
police tangled, the former forced
to retire.
640 Animals Taken
SAN ANTONIO, April 24—</F>—
Six hundred and forty predatory
animals were reported taken in
Texas during March, the monthly
news letter of the bureau of biol
ogical survey. United States re
port of agriculture, revealed.
Virginia cotton mills kept 669 923
spindles active during February.
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BANKING SERVICE ...
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Business institutions,
no less than individ
uals, use the First
National Bank as an
appendage of them
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partment of finance,
ever ready with ex*
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pert counsel and as
sistance.
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First National Bank
Established in 1891
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS
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TITLE INSURANCE j
When yon barrow money on real estate, many loan companies re
quire the title to be Insured. The best test of whether a title ti
Insurable. Is to hare it insured. Require a title insurance policy
when you buy.
VALLEY ABSTRACT COMPANY
Prompt Title Service
Brownsville
Opposite Court House
Phone 11M
Fdlnbnrr
F. Harriman Bird.
Phone 93
1911 1930
Skelton Abstract' Co.
Abstracts of Title Title Insurance
Merchants Bank Building Brownsville
CARNEIRO, CHUMNEY & COMPANY
Certified Public Accountants
Income Ts* Service
BROWNSVILLE SAN ANTONIO CORPUS CHRIST1
State Natlcnal Ban* Smith-Young Tow® Nixon Building
Dependable Phone 353 Prompt
BROWNSVILLE TITLE COMPANY
BROWNSVILLE. TEXAS
Abstracts of Title Title Insurance
We eover all lands In Camera* Coast?