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Gftie Inmmsu t HeralO * Established July 4, 1892 Entered as seccrna-ciass matter to the Postoffice, Brownsville. Texas. 4—-— THE BROWNSVILLE HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY t" member of the associated press The Associated Press Is exclusively entitfed to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to It or hot otherwise credited tn this paper, and also the local news published herein. Subscription Rates—Dally and Sunday (7 Issues) One Year . $9.00 Blx Months . *450 Three Months . *2.25 1 One Month .%. .75 — TEXAS DAILY PRESS LEAGUE National Advertising Representatives Dallas. Texas. 512 Mercantile Bank Building Kansas City, Mo., 306 Coca-Cola Building. Chicago, HI., Association Building. New York, 350 Madison Avenue, St Louis, 602 Star Building. Los Angeles, Cal., Room 1015 New Orpheum Bldg., #46 S. Broadway, 8an Francisco, Cal., 318 Kohl BuUdtog. w — HARLINGEN OFFICE: Arcadia Theater Building. Phone 1020. f Farm Problems Not Political Farm problems are not political. Arthur M. Hyde Is secretary of agriculture in the cabinet of Herbert Hoover. He appeared before the Midwest Retail Mer chants Council. Kansas City, and made the emphatic declaration that farm relief laws are no substitute for the law of supply and demand. Preaching the gospel of wheat acreage reduction, Beey. Hyde quoted figures to show that domestic pro duction in the last seven years had outrun demand by an average of 43,000,000 bushels annually, piling up A surplus. He outlined the Hyde remedy for the pres ent farm price situation: By regulating production of farm products to the limits of market demand. By balancing production and therefore supply against and within probable de mand. By limiting acreage planted to such as will, Under normal conditions, produce all the foods and fibres needed, plus a reasonable carry-over. Secy. Hyde is a lawyer and a farmer. He is the proprietor of a number of Missouri farms. His con tention is that the economic law of supply and de mand cannot be set aside by politicians or by the en actment of laws. Is he speaking for the Hoover ad ministration? Growth of the U. S. in Ten Years Place this in the record or the scrapbook. Con tinental United States had 105 710,620 people ten years ago. while the nation, with its outlying possessions, totaled 117.859.395 Population of continental United States on the basis of official preliminary census fig ures Is 122.728.873 There was an increase of 17 018.253 people iu the jfleeade. compared with the previous record increase for a ten year period of 15.977.891 made between 1900 ^nd 1910. This was a 36 1 per cent gain, regardless <wjpf drastic immigration laws which have been enacted and enforced to the letter since 1920. Place this in the scrapbook: One hundred millions irt 100 years with an added 10.000.000 for good meas i ore. “That’s the way the U. S. has grown in popu lation.” In rank by states Texas continues to hold fifth place with a population of 5.810.683. an Increase Of 24.6 per cent and a numerical increase of 1.147.455 In the ten year period. Texas has 18 congressmen. Texas will have 21 after the new apportionment has been made. “Texas first.” Do you get it? Morris Sheppard Is a Vote Getter Texas democrats rolled up a primary vote of 833 - t IKK). Morris Sheppard led the list of candidates in vote getting popularity. His majority over all must, be 500.000. As the author of the 18th Amendment and the Joint author of the 19th amendment Morris has won a place in the voting statistics of Texas. His bill to make the buyer as guilty as the seller / fiidn’t appear to hurt him In the least. Now make the total primary vote 900.000 in the August finals and write into the political history of the commonwealth a new high record. California has p voting population of 2.200.000. Why not Texas? California will gain nine additional congressional kepresentatives after the apportionment of 1932. It is tinw for Texas to do some tall sprinting in the pav mei t of poll taxes In order to stagger the ancient po lled minds In the presidential contests of 1932. - __ _ T „ n OUR OWN EDISONIAN BRAIN POSERS CCopyrisht, 1930, by The Associated Newspapers) 1— You are the head of an expedi^on caught in the desert with (1) a bottle of hydrofluoric acid; (2) two guides having a resistance of 4 ohms; (3) a brother who wants to become a poet; (4) two leucocytes in terested mainly in society matters; (5) their six-year old son; (6) your best friend who has been driven only 5.000 miles; and (7) the girl you are engaged to marry, fc feet high by 2 feet wide. You have only enough animal crackers to sustain three members of the party. Which would you elect to save and in what kind of container? 2— A rubber ball bounces three-fourths of the height from which it is dropped when it falls; how far into the air must you throw a rubber mat to get it to bounce over a brilliant scientist 60 years old, his wife. Emma, and a couple of young chromosomes? 3— In what countries are the following located: Taj Mahal. Khyber Pass. The Radio Corporation of Amer ica. Two guides aged 36 and 56. 4— Describe a watt. In other words tell what's watt. What? 5— A. B and C could complete a piece of work In ten. twelve and fourteen days respectively. They work togther for two days or until a circus parade passes the building. At this point A and B discover they hare only food and water enough to reach the nearest outpost with (1) a basic patent which will reduce the cost of manufacturing shoes 20 cents a pair; (2) a rubber ball bouncing three-fourths of the height from which it is dropped; (3) Aristide Briand; (4) the girl to whom you are engaged; (5) a church organ, which will play out of tune in winter unless heated. How much would you ask for the motion picture rights? 6— Explain how the energy contained in a horse and buggy would be changed if the horse were put inside the vehicle. 7— What is an atom? Tell the story of Atom and Eve. 8— If you owned the following items, set down the approximate price for which you would sell them: (a) A secret process for taking coffee stains out of a gray mustache. «b) A newspaper photo of Mr Edison on an outing without Henry Ford or Harvey Firestone. (c> A brilliant scientist 60 years old; his wife in terested mainly in society matters; two guides named Max and Olaf; a molecule in a blue suit. <d> One hundred shaups of most any stock bought in July, 1929. <e> A golf ball driven only 5.090 miles. 9— You are 100 miles from shore in a leaky canoe and have only one life preserver. You have as com panions : (a) Henry Ford. One hundred acres of Iowa farm land. <c) Definite proof that the dishonesty of an em ploye L costing a millionaire $200,000 a year. fd> A quantity of ambergris, one quart of turpen tine and their son, a boy 6 years old, who has shown great promise of a scientific career. <e) A young man your own age who is your best friend but who is sitting on the life preserver and refuses to move. What then? Add Summer Ambitions To be with Mr. Beebe In August is my wish So I can sit deep in the sea And simply watch the fish. —Harriet • ... imrn—mmmmmm Add simihes' Weak as a 1930 bull pool. ... Now '.vc know the reason for all those kids sitting in the treetops. They were no fools; they wanted to avoid being caught in an Edison intelligence test. — A woman Arctic explorer has reached Fritzjof Nan : sen Land and will make a dash for the North Pole. Sisters the world over are just crazy to hear what fur the will wear. The United States, after ordering Pnmo Camera, the world. hugest gladiator, home, has decided to let him remain six months longer. Probably moving him ! was considered an engineering job too complicated to tackle in hot weather. Canada threatens to raise a tariff wall, but it will have the old-fashioned swinging doom and family entrance. This year forty-nine girls acted as escorts to the boys taking the Edison test for the title of Mister , Intelligence or something. It’s a bet they could tell the smart one from the dumb-bells long before Mr. ■ Edison. i jOut Our Way.By Williams 4 r * ~ ' ” 1 " 1 " .. ■ THERS WHuT A <3rOtV.lV AM'TriEM WELL \ CCvSCtEucE DOES To VOO- HaFTo WELL \M vniD Tt-V Roar of All T*T Tk Phome « - MACHtMER^ here , VOO "frAEW CM HEAR ^M COOLOMt HEAR Th* FALL A©O^E Tv-V ROAR. OF Rome am* wet he’e> , -nP-TCEiM1 To GET -T-V A PRCn/EM GcilTv \ Baee ©all OoPE om /V before «£•=> dome \t^phome. * — -• CT c *930 nt« stwvicc twc T He foundt the Rirl ; busy with tome new pale-green curtains which ' Anne had that day bought tor the kitchen. Begin Here Today Through a letter that he re ceives Horn a friend in New York. Dan Rorimer. Hollywood scenario writer and foimer New York news paper man, meets Anne Winter, who has come from Tuisa, Ok!a., to try to get extra work, in the mo vies. Dan finds her charming and takes deep interest in her. She learns from him that he works at Continental Pictures, and she gath ers that he is not quite satisfied with conditions there. She has worked only one day as an extra herself, having been there but a short tune, but a few days after their meeting she gets extra work r.t Grand United. Her first day there she meets a £rirl named Mona Morison, and im mediately likes her. Mona is living in an apartment with Eva Harley, and Anne lives alone, and Mona suggests that the three occupy a bungalow that she and Eva have seen. Now Go On With the Story CHAPTER VIII Anne Winter had moved and was j now’ living with Mona Morrison and Eva Harley in the little furnished oungalow on the western fringe of Hollywood. It was a modest' place of pale-green stucco, but it was I cheerful and well-lighted and j "homey”; and Dan Rorimer, con trasting it with Anne’s former quarters, could well understand her enthus.p-sm for the change. *‘A place to live in.” Anne said, “rather than mere storage for one’s body and one's belongings.” And she had added: “Even if it is too close to the tracks to be fashion able. it's a heme at least; which is i more than I could say for one room and a kitchenet.” I Mona won Rorimer’s liking in stantly. She was as vivid as her flaming hair, w’hich was curly and bobbed, and she didn’t look a day T>ver 19. and she was slighth tough in a pleacant, boyish way tnat he found altcge‘her delightful. She was considerably shorter than Anne, and more rounded, and Dan suspected that Mena mieht occa sionally have to pay careful atten tion to her diet. He discovered be fore he had known her more than a few minutes that she was quite — a tease and that she seemed to take Keen delight in plaguing her friends and receiving their banter in return. Eva Harley lie liked, too, but with reservations. She had been neither cordial nor Unfriendly In her greeting, but after a brief smile and a murmured commonplace or two had quietly withdrawn from the conversation, and Dan sensed a guarded aura about her that left him a little ill at ease in her pres ence. She was a striking looking per son. though—tall and slender and lithe of figure, and languorous of motion—and crowned almost spec tacularly with abundant pale-gold hair. Gorgeous locking, Rorimer thought, at the same time remark ing that her mouth was just a little too wide and thin of lip to be beau tiful; her cheek bones a trifle high. and marring the oval contour of her face. And he judged that she was older than the other two girls. Anne had said. “Eva's Just a lit tle uncommunicative and mysteri ous, but I like her—she minds her own business, and that's saying a great deal.” • It is,” Dan agreed, 'for a girl." “Well, ycu needn't be uncompli mentary,” she said with a grimace, and Dan grinned. ‘‘Where is she from?” he asked. ‘‘Somewhere down south, with that drawl. You can’t fool a Tennesseean.” “Eva comes from New Orleans,” Anne informed him “Mona says she has been in Hollywood almost th*-ee years * Doing ex*ra work?” Anne hesitated a little. “Eva hasn’t been very busy.” she said. ‘Mona tells me she sometimes models clothes in one of the Los Angeles denartment stores. She has ! a beautiful figure.” Rorimer thought: "Yes, but there's something .fust a little wrong about her. She's—she's hard to figure.” And he had the strange thought that Eva Harley ought to hare a foreign name and sneak broken English, and this, somehow, would make her less difficult of exnlanation. He thought; “There’s something about her voice; something—dis anneinting.” It ought to be. he felt, low and vibrant, like a low The Main Stem Intimate Glimpses of the Valley's Alley • BY J. R. Along Elizabeth Go To Church.A Big Transaction . Bend Issues and Prof. Blinkus.The Air Derfby.Flying Houses Streets practically deserted Sun day morning .. cars parked around the various churches .. the main stem bare as a bald head .. business houses closed .. weather cooler and more pleasant .. golf in the after noon will be enjoyed .. but this morning we have persons dressed up I in their snappiest togs getting relig ion and going to church .. Rev. E. P. Day. Presbyterian pastor .. driv ing to his Elizabeth street church with family .. the Tandy’s stopping in front of the Presbyterian build ing and getting out of the car .. J. T. Canales .. all dressed up .. on hand early for the services .. and then we find many cars with fishing poles strung along the running board .. some with outboard motors thrown in for good measure. .. m m m A Big Deal At last the Barreda tract on the highway between Brownsville and i San Benito has been sold and will | be developed. For years this stretch of cactus ! and mesquite has been undeveloped — possibly the longest and largest stretch of highway-fronting acreage in the Valley outside of the Adams tract. Drive from Edinburg to Mer cedes. and there is not a stretch of raw land over a mile long. It is all under cultivation, either citrus or truck. Homes on either side, prosperous looking. Drive from San Benito to Browns ville. and the bare undeveloped land is a black-eye to this section. • • • But now this is past, and the James-Dickinson company, Browns ville, will cut it into 5, 10 and 20 acre tracts, build roads r.nd a club house, and make it a beauty spot. It will be remembered that the same company took over a dump nil* near the city limits of Browns 1 ville, and fconverted it into the Val ley's prettiest residential district— Los Ebanos. • • t A Favorable Vote Not so very long ago the lean and sorrowful Prof. Blinkus made the statement that voting a bond issue i was a habit in the Valley. * Brownsville voted favorably on a $170,000 bond issue Friday, snowing that th3 renowned professor was just about right. % • • • Air Derby Dick Allen, well known (so we heart pilot and manager of the National air derby from Browns ville to Chicago, will arrive in the former city in the near future to complete plans for the derby, which begins Aug. 19. It is said that no less than 5 planes will start for Gangland on the 19th, and that the total will possibly be 10 or more. Publicity for Brownsville and the Valley will be invaluable if the race goes over in a big way. • • • A Fifing House A flying house visited Brownsville Friday. J cost the own~r, Dan Mo ; ran. api*>ximateiy $105,000. The plane was a de luxe affair which had a kitchen, dining accomoda tions, berths, showers, card tables, etc. This reminds us of a remark made by a local wit not so long ago. He said that if airplanes started hav ing bath tubs it would be just too bad. He said that to releas. the water after a bath, the stopper would be pulled out and the water allowed to drop out and down. ‘•Everyone will have to carry um brellas,'’ he said. And he's just about right, unless a law is passed prohibiting oathing over the city limits. SPEAKING OF “SUPPLY AND DEMAND” ■ strung guitar; and it was unex pectedly high ana wrongly keyed, and in disharmony with her per sonality. Dan had gone over to the bunga low one evening to call on Anne. It was shortly after their remora!, and he found the girls busy with some new pale-green curtains which Anne had that day bought for the kitchen. And it was that evening that he asked Anne about Eva; but first he had been put to work hanging curtains. It was Mona who opened the door for him, and she said. “Anne, it's the boy friend from New York.” She said, “Come in. and wipe off your feet and take off your hat; the butler is off duty this evening.. ..My goodness, you’re all shaved up this evening, aren’t you?” Rorimer said, “Pipe down, nui sance!” and followed her in. “Gooc evening, Miss Harley.” he said tc Eva, and held out his hand; anc the girl smiled as she took it anc said, “Good evening, Mr. Rorimer,’ and bade bim welcome. “You're Just in time to do som< interior decorating,” Mona Morri son told him. ‘ Take off your cca if your suspenders don’t show, anc come out in the kitchen....TVhal does he wear, Anne—suspenders o: a belt?” “How should I know?” Anne asked with a laugh. “Well, you’ve known him almosi two W’eeks, haven’t you?” Dan said. ’’Suspenders, Redheac —but the better shops call then braces.” “Yeah? Well, down on the farn we call ’em galluses. Did you knov I was bom on a farm. Dan?” “You’ve never seen a cow li your life.” I &ay, i ve milked more cot than you’ve ever seen! That': ' right; I was raised on a farm dowi near Urbana, Illinois. And ther ; the little gal went to the big city.' “Chicago? Do you call that j ! big city?” Mona tossed her red head lr I disdain. “Just another fresh New j Yorker,” she said. • Hows the Job coming?” Dar asked. Mona said, “All washed up; 1 was through today. Anne’s stii: working, though. Isn’t that great?’ Dan thought: “And she reallj means it, too. She gets as big t kick out of Anne's good forcum as if it were her own.” Mona went on to say that sh< considered herself lucky. “Nlm straight days of work is pretty ho for little Mona." And in a lowe: voice that only Dan could hear, fo: j he had followed her out to th< kitchen, she added; “You keep you; eye on Anne. I wouldn’t be sur : prised if she got a break.” Rorimer felt a swift elation, a i the same time, though, he wa: aware that he was struggling witl a vague sense of uneasiness, anc with a question on his lips he hesi tated. But Mona Informed him in i thrilled undertone: “Gary Sloai noticed her today; he picked he out of the crowd and talked witl her. And Anne’s so excited sh j doesn’t know whether it’s Thurs ' day or Sunday. Gosh. I don’t blam ; her! Imagine what Sloan could do. Anne and Eva came in then. am I Mona said nothing more abou Sloan; but the matter sat on Dan' mind, and it remained there be neath the light banter he and Mom I exchanged while he hung the cur > tains. Later on he suggested to Ann 1 that they go to a movie, and h j named a picture that Anne had sai< she wished she might see; but sh pleaded tiredness and an eight o’ clock call at the studio, and Dan remarking her preoccupation an< feeling curiously unwanted, sail that perhaps he had better rui along. But Anne looked up quickly a his tone, and her eyes reprove< him. “You’re a dear. Dan.” sh said. “Please don’t mind if I don' feel like doing anything, will you? Dan felt a little cheap. H thought: “After all. she came ou to Hollywood to get into pictures not to go running around at nigh with anybody who comes along. He thought: ’What a big chump am to complain because she insist on getting sufficient sleep before i hard day’s work!” So he remained a while, am Mona suggested cheerfully that the; hare sandwiches and coffee. an< went out to the kitchen. Eva rosi with a faint smile and said. “Ycu’< better let me help you. Mona,” anc followed her out. Anne turned to Rorimer with i little laugh. “Mona,” she explained “is almost useless in a kitchen She cuts the bread too thick fo sandwiches, and she doesn’t know < : '.— . the first thing about making cof fee.” Eva, she said, was different. ‘ She's very capable." • • • Dan said. “Looking at Eva. you'd hardly think she was domestically inclined"; and he expressed some curiosity about her, and for some minutes he and Anne talked In low tones about the two girls whom they could hear moving about the kitchen. ‘They're dears—both of Ihem." Anne said after a short silence. "But a strange pair to be such good friends.” Dan remarked. Anne agreed. “Perhaps that'! why they get along so well—they're so utterly different. Mona's so blithe and gay, and Eva...” She paused, and Dan said, “Eva gives one the impression that she hasn't found very much to be happy about. Do you suppose it's because she’s disappointed in not doing well in the movies?” “I think there may be something else, too,” said Anne, and Dan felt that she didn't care to discuss the subject further. “Mona tells me.” she said pres ently. “that big things may be in store for you. Here's hoping. Anne.” At the same time, though, he knew a feeling of injustice that Gar ry Sloan could do so mu.' for her without half trying, while he, who wished so greatly for her success, could do nothing. X Friends X 1 ♦ Our principal objective in the pursuit of ♦ ^ our profession is to so render a service in the ^ t ♦ care of the dead, that the living who remain ▲ ▲ to mourn will remember us as friends. There ▼ ♦ + is nothing greater in^ife than friendship. J ♦ X ♦ HINKLEY MORTUARY ♦ ^ “Brownsville’s Funeral Home” ^ : \»»»111tmn♦<<!*♦♦♦♦♦♦>♦♦«♦♦♦«♦« W. O. 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