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The Valley And Its Railroads
As old as the Valley itself is the struggle of this sec
tion to secure transportation.
At first it was really that, a sight to secure trans
• portation facilities that would really transport in line
with modern conditions.
Most of us know how Brownsville raised a sizable
cash bonus to bring the old St. L. B. & M. into this sec
tion and all of us know' how the fight which has been
waged in recent years, especially, to secure water trans
portation for this section.
For which the coming of the railroad came new trans
portation problems.
On account of the vast arid wastes, non-productive
of any business, that lay between the Valley and the Cor
pus Christi area, the St. L. B. & M. was allowed by law
to impose a differential, (to all intents and purposes a
surcharge) on all freight coming into or going out of the
.Valley between Robstown and the Valley.
When first levied this differential was a fair recom
pense to the road, of later years it has become a curse
to shipper and to fruit and vegetable grower.
So greatly has the tonnage produced by this section
tion increased that another road has been allowed by the
Interstate Commerce commission to build into the Valley,
the federal commission taking the peculiar attitude that
there is enough business here for two railroads on the one
hand and on the other hand saying in effect that there is
so little business that the railroads are entitled to a bonus
for serving us.
We believe we are correct in saying that the offi
cials of the railroads themselves know’ that the Robstown
differential must be removed to enable Valley shippers
and growers to meet outside competition which is not ham
strung by exorbitant freight rates.
The railroads, however, have taken the attitude that
they will not move this freight rate surcharge until they
are forced to remove it, and the logical outcome is the
“short haul” answer now being put into effect by Valley
shippers.
Probably in no part of the United States does there
exist a more friendly relationship than obtains here be
tween railroads and their customers, between railroads
and the general public.
We, like our railroads, are proud of them, and our
railroads seem to like us.
But—it is written in the skies and in the minds of
the customers of the railroads that the Robstown differ
ential must be removed.
Poor Relief—In Church
The Rev. August E. Johansen, rector of the Bedford
(Mich.) Congregational church, has a good idea.
No longer will the plate be passed around for col
lections each Sunday morning. Mr. Johansen figures that
it ia wrong to embarrass worthy parishioners who, in these
days of financial stringency, are unable to contribute.
Therefore, contributions to the church will be made pri
vately hereafter.
Comment being needless, we pass this on to our pastor
readers. It may offer the hint to more affluent church
goers that their contributions are more urgently needed
now than ever before.
New York
_Letter
Salty Paradox
NEW YORK—Notes on nothing in
particular and everything in gen
eral. John Masefield. England's
poet-laureate now visiting these
shores, has written his loveliest
and best known verses about the
sea. He has sung the "sea urge"
and of returning to tall masts and
ship's wheels ... But fact is, he al
most always gets sea-sick and hesi
tates to make long trips by water ..
• • •
News of the Cohans
And one of the more interesting
new year's tidings on Broadway
concerns the decision of George M.
Cohan, Jr., to give his theatrical
talents a try . . . Thus, it is assured
that the grand old “Yankee Doodle
line ’ will not vanish from the stage
. . . For a couple of years, there has
been uncertainty and varied ru
mors . .. Gearge Jr. has been grow
ing up ... He is nearing 20 ... At
school he has shown a tendency to
veer toward engineering . . . George
Sr., while sentimentally hoping to
keep the famous old Four Cohan
clan going, has never used any pres
sure. leaving things to time.
Meanwhile, he saw to It that liis
son grew up with nimble feel . . .
So. when the next summer vaca
tion arrives, George Jr. will make
his bow as an actor in one of the
resort stock companies of Maine
. . . And the tale goes that the son
insists on playing those roles which
made the name of Cohan synony
mous with Broadway for many a
year . .. Such as ,,45 Minutes From
Broadway’ and 'Little Johnny
Jones." . . .
George Sr. had taken to the road
with a new play and was joined
over the holiday period by his st n
... It is then, so go the stones, that
an agreement was reached . . .
m m m
Some Other Sons
Young Cohan is one of several
sons of the theater to step forward
during the year ... Owen Davis, Jr.,
made his bow by collaborating wi'h
his play-writing father on "The
Good Earth" . . . Practically all
the Barrymores and Oolts arrived
either on the stage or screen . . .
The sons of both Gallagher and
Shean teamed up in an act based
on the old Mr. Gallagher and Mr.
Shean" idea . . . The two Chaplin
lads have been trotted out. only to
steps into parental legal squabble*.
• • •
Broadway Bartering
That pretty maid seen about these
nights with Jack Dempsey is June
Gale, of the Gale Sister act . . . But
theres nothing serioi*,. they say
. . . Alma McMahon, actress, gets
many of her stage adornments from
the Orchard Street pushcart ped
dlers. because ahe loves to bargain
with them and rummage through
their trinkets.
Speaking of bargaining, recalls
that the "swapping" idea now has
spread even to the elite night spots
. . . The other evening the Place
Pigalle, one of the swankier resorts,
allowed customers to swap sigcii
Christmas presents as they didn't
want . . . And did they want to gtt
rid of the Santa Claus loot? . . .
• • •
Dreams Come True
Boyhood dreams sometimes do
materialize on Broadway . . . Take
George Haight and Allan Scott . . .
They were boyhood playmates in
Arlington. N. J. . . . Went to the
same grammar school and romped
in the same sand-lots . . . When
college came, they went in differ
ent directions, but they had several
plays as good as written right then
and there . . . Years went by and
found them both in the Broadway
belt, following different theatrical
trails . . . But they did get together
on "that play" and "that play" is
" Goodbye Again," which looks like
a laugh hit.
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1 Quotations
We can junk one-half of It
• football under 1932 rules > and
still have more left than is suf
ficient for a college game.
—Oilmour Dobie, head football
coach. Cornell University.
• • •
Perhaps we Americans are over
looking our indebtedness to im
migrants when we practically ck*e
our doors to them.
—Miss Margaret Ferguson, secre
*7 of,t*ie Y w C. A. Inter
nationa] Institute.
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MIDWINTER FOOTBALL TALK
Football coaches at their mid
winter meeting admitted the game
has become so intricate today that
even the players have to get the
Sunday papers to find out what
happened.
• • •
There Is at last a definite feel
ing that the game should be shift- |
ed back to the days of simple foot
ball when at least the referee knew
what was going on.
• . •
College football has reached a
point where it could be placed un- i
der the dead languages department '
for the simple reason’ that it has
become Greek to everybody con
cerned.
• * •
It has been a well known fact
for years that the spectators have
been completely in the dark, but
the speeches at the recent meeting
of coaches in New York was the
first admission that the players i
were also present but not voting.
• • •
The only point generally under- I
stood is that the game Is played
with a police whistle.
• • •
Nobody except the ruies commit
teemen knows all the rules govern- i
ing those gridiron classics and they ]
aren't any too positive.
• • •
The referee and umpire gave up i
trying to master them about four I
years ago. A football official In a
modern college game is In the posi
tion of a master of ceremonies at a
riot in the Polish Corridor.
• • •
•ootbal] was orginally a gamt. j
which students could play without
the least danger of a mental col
lapse. Any injury they sustained
was physical Today a boy can de
velop amnesia during the spring
practice.
• • •
The original idea was to toss a
football to 22 boys and see which
side could get it between two given
points in the most workman-like
manner. In those days it was be
lieved that football and pleasure
could mix.
• • ■
Now it has become a sport for
parliamentarians. Many a great
prospective punter has been ruined
bv his inability to master Articles I
VI to IX. Section 107-B. including
the last minute amendments.
• • •
The coaches are now' declaring
i they want to get back to fundamen
tals. And the public is with them
It would be grand If the cash
customers could follow the general
i plot and know whether the win
ning score was made by a touch- |
down, a sacrifice fly or a carom off
the eight ball.
Our Own Ten I’glieal Word*
1.—No.
2—Stop.
3. — Rent.
4. —Polks.
5. - Listen.
6. —Bill.
7. —Balance.
8. —Artichoke,
9 —Slice.
10—Divot.
Yale has named as Its new foot
ball coach a man who showed Mex
ico City how to play American foot
ball. Now if he can show New Hav
en. all will be well.
Elmer Twitchell. commenting on
that plan to substitute electrical
energy for money, says he lost all
his money the other day in a run
on the power house.
Daily Health
l_ T<d* _
If the ladies think (osmctics are
something new. they have another
guess coming. The word itself is de
rived from a Greek word meaning
| to decorate or to adorn.”
And not only did the Greeks have
a word for it.'but the Egyptians as
well. No doubt, the use of cosmetics,
perfumes and aromatics played a
most important part in the lives
of these ancient peoples. Dr. Char
les Lerner has made a study of
their knowledge.
A manuscript written in Egypt
1200 years before the Christian era.
gives numerous recipes for beauty
which were in vogue thousands of
years ago The hair dyes mention
ed includes “dried tadpoles from
the canal” crushed in oil. and also
“tortoise shell and the neck of the
gabgu bird” boiled m oil.
This Egyptian manuscript men
tions remedies for moles, treat
ments for gray hair, remedies for
baldness and hair dyes; and after
all these thousands of years, people
still search for remedies of this
character. Hope springs eternal in
the bald-headed men's breast.
• • •
The Egyptian lady of 4000 years
ago had a dressing table with Just
about as many fancy mirrors and
little jars filled with all sorts of
colored creams and pastes as the
lady of today. She used to shape
her eyebrows and tip her eyelashes
Cleopatra had 15 different kinds
of perfume. It was customary in
ancient Egy pt to dress the hair
every 10 or 12 days, just as today
the common people get along with
a hairwave once In two months.
The Roman women tried as many
silly prescriptions as are offered to
the credulous adolescents of our
country. They used to put on their
faces bread and milk poultices to
soften the skin They would rub
their bodies 1th creams, and be
lieved implicitly in the whitening
virtues of the milk of the she-ass;
and in those days the Roman satir
ists like Martial were Just as caus
tic as the skeptical men of today.
It is s< that Galen, one of the
fathers of modern medicine, who
lived about 1800 years ago. develop
ed the first formula for cold cream
consisting of four ounces of white
wax and a pound of oil of roses
mixed with some water and per
fume.
Today, the manufacturers of coe
metlcs offer not only the cold cream
that Galen described, but also
thickening creams foundation
creams, vanishing creams, and doz
ens of others in little white boxes
with brass lids, which make a quar
ter's worth of cold cream so artsto- I
cratic that It i« saleable at S3. I
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BEGIN HERE TODAY
SHEILA SHAYNE. whoa* par
es ta were well kaewa eaadertlle
•atartalaers. Is la New York look
lap far a Joh. Shelia la a daaeer.
Alter aiach dlaroarapeaiaat aha la
hired te aabatltato fee DAISY
GLEASON, aaether daaoer. who
has apralaed aa aakle. While re
bearslap at JOE PARIS’ sea#
•hep Sheila aieeta TREVOR
LANE aad DICK STANLEY, rich
aad socially promises!. Dick
antes Laae to taelade Sheila la
the propraw of eatertalaaieat at
a party he Is plying. Sheila de
rllaea bat Dick eoaira to the the
ater later sad persaades her to
eoaie.
At the party ahe aieeta aereral
celebrities, laeladlap GORDON
MANDRAKE, well kaewa e re
dace r. She seen Dick freantatly
darlap the aezt few daya and he
tells her Maadrake la latereated
ta her aad to polap to oRer her
a part la a play. However. Maa
drake does aot do so.
Preaeatly Dalay Gleason U able
to daaee apsis aad Sheila Sada
hemelf oat of a Job once more.
NOW' GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XII
OHEILA reached home one after
noon after a fruitless round of
agents* offices weary, hot. yet
with that unmistakable feeling
that sooner or later something
pleasant was going to happen.
Could it be that Dick was back
and had telephoned? Dick bad
been out of town for some time,
writing Sheila a careless line now
and then.
She descended into the odorous,
tidy kitchen which was Ma s lair,
only to find it empty. The kettle
on the cold stove was dead. Cur
tains blew on the mild breeze full
of dead heat at the window. Care
fully washed milk bottles stood
in an orderly row. The clock
ticked importantly.
Sheila sack into a chair and
fanned herself with her hat. Mi
Lowell was “down the block"
probably, seated in a rocker In
someone's back yard, idly and In
nocently gossiping. Times were
slack in summer among theatrical
rooming bouse keepers.
. But Ma always left a pitcher of
iced tea in the refrigerator and.
pouring herself a glass, Sheila
lingered gratefully.
Then suddenly she spied It. A'
scrap of paper propped against
the sugar bowl on the red check
ered table. A telephone message,
a nickel carefully placed in a
prominent spot lest Sheila might
not hsTt the change. Dear Ma!
She knew that lack ot a nickel
could spell downright disaster!
• • •
rpHE note read: “Sheila call Mr.
* Mandrake at Bryant 0025. It
may be a job.—Ma.”
Ma had taken messages before.
Scrawled in the corner, as an
afterthought. Sheila found. “Must
of phoned around 2:30."
( It was hardly *:30 now. If
Mandrake wanted to see her that
afternoon she bad time to reach
his office even allowing a talf
hour in which to freshen up.
She was trembling as the nickel
[chimed in the pay telephone in
the street floor hall. Sheila gave
the Bryant cumber without look
ing at the paper in her hind. ,
Early in the season she bad mem
orized It.
"Mr. Mandrake’s office? This 1*
Miss Shayne calling. I bare a
message asking me to phone."
The telephone operator s voice
sounded aloof. noncommittal.
"Paine? What do you want to
talk to Mr. Mandrake about!”
Sheila frowned unhappily. This
! seemed a bad omen. The entire
office should, she felt, have been
electrified to receive her call.
"Shayne!" ahe repeated pa
tiently. "Sheila Sbayne. Mr. Man
drake called me an hour ago.”
After an Interminable strr.tcb of
heart beats and telephone clicks
another more decisive click sound
ed in the receiver. A voice.
• • •
T>UT it was not Mandrake. It
was a woman’s voice, clipped
and haughty this time, asking
what Sheila wanted.
“Mr. Mandrake called me at
about 2:30 and asked me to call.
This Is Sheila Shayne speaking."
There was a silence.
“Mr. Mandrake was In confer
ence from two until three,” the
voice announced as if that settled
the matter. Roses to reacn great |
producers are not uncommon and
It is a secretary’s business to keep
such calls away from her em
ployer.
• The—the time may be wrong,"
Sheila stammered. "But that was
the message I received—**
"Sorry!" This time the voice
dismissed her. "Mr. Mandrake
has gone for the day." The con
nection severed sharply. In a daxe
Sheila hung up the receiver.
Whatever the chance that bad
dangled before her for a brief In
•taat. she had lost It. Lost It by
a few hours, while making use
less rounds among useless agents!
"Well." Sheila thought, trying
to laugh. "1 wanted a shampoo
and I can wash m> hair now."
But it wasn't funny—losing the
chance of a Job with Mandrake.
No matter ho* she tried. Shelia
conldn t persuade nerseir tnai it
was.
Flitting downstairs, she lighted
the re* under the water tank,
waited 15 minutes, turned It off
and flitted upetairs again with an
armful of towels The neit hour
she devoted to aplasniag. rubbing
and rinsing her daik hair dill-1
gently.
Outside the bathroom on the
second floor was a root. Ma al
lowed an occasional roomer to sit
there on a chair taken from the
bathroom a. d view the beauties
of a dozen backyards while re
cently shampooed hair dried In
the wind or hosiery fluttered from
a tins. Shelia belonged to the
elect and she clambered through
the window. Her hair, already
half-dried, curled in tight ringlets
about her forehead.
• • •
npHE telephone rang, sharply. In
sistently.
There was no one else In the
housfr—unless that young man
who had Just taken the parlor
floor had come In. Another sharp
peal sounded.
“Gee. I hate to go down there
Just to tell someone that Miss Bell
ISO l uerw muj -
grumbled- Miss Bell *m a popu
lar young woman who had recent
ly departed and for whom the
telephone rang constantly.
Of course It couldn’t be a mes
saga for Sheila hersalf. Dick
never called In mid-afternoon.
Phil Short was away. An agent
wouldn’t call at such an hour.
But there was no help for It.
Shells would cave to answer.
•'Hello,** shr said Indifferently.
Then her face changed, bright
ened.
It was Mandrake hlm.e't whose
voice she heard. "Mlse Shayne?”
the voice fcald. •’This Is Mandrake
speaking. 1 called you this aft
ernoon—from the club. You
weren't In.**
•’Ob. Mr. Mandrake! Shell*
felt auddenly week, ber throat
dry.
*‘l saw you et Lane's the other
night,” the man went on. (He
bad seen ber fully three month*
ago but that didn't r atter.) ”1
liked those songs you sang. Clever.
I vender If we couldn’t get to
gether on a part for ny new
ebow?”
There va* a pause. Mandrake
teemed to be welting for her to
speak.
—i—that would be fine, Mr.
Mandrake.”
••You aren’t signed. X take It? (
If you aren’t I’d like to talk to
you thia evening. Let me aee”—
there was a pau?e—“it’* five now.
We both have to eat. Why not
have dinner together? Suppose 1
■end my car for you at sevenV"
Sheila drew a deep breath.
“Thank you ao much. I’d love to
go."
‘Til bring a contract along and
we ll talk it over. If we can com*
to terma I'd like you to go Into
rehearsal tomorrow.”
Sheila hunr up the telephone
tn a daze. Mandrake—a job—and
rehearsal tomorrow! Oh, could II
all be true?
(To Be Contained)
VALLEY SCOUTS 1
MEET JAN. 21
|
MERCEDES. Jan 17,-The pro
gram for the Sixth Annual meeting
of the Lower Rio Grande Valley
council, Boy Scouts of America h<?s
been completed, according to W. Ed
Perry of Mercedes, chairman of ’he
committee on arrangements. The
meeting begins Saturday. Jan. 21. In
the senior high school in Mercedes,
with Floyd Swallow of Alamo, presi
dent of the council presiding
Group meetings will be held when
the various departments will dis
cuss the years record, and form
plans for the coming year At b c -
clock the groups will hold a joint
meeting when final reports are giv
en by all committee chairmen.
The following program has been
arranged for the 6:30 dinner at the
high school cafeteria.
Assembly. W C. Gilbert. P.ay
mondvillc. presiding.
Invocation. Scoutmaster O E
Sanden. La Ferta
Colors presented. Asst. Scoutmas
ter Paul Law. Mercedes.
Dinner service
Cello and Cornet numbers. Prof.
Otto Miller. Mercedes
• The Boy's Side of the Picture."
Eagle Scout Carl Griffin. La FVri.v
•'The Bugler," Eagle Scout I May
berry. Mission.
‘ How the Ten Year Growth Pro
gram Affects Mothers and Daugh- I
ters." Mrs. Lake Fan* Card, Mu*
• Selling Mr. Jones," Scouts and
former scout*.
Awarding of Eagle Badges and
Palm*. W. Ed Perry. Mercedes.
Awarding of Training Awards. Dr
R. E. Utley, Harlingen.
Awarding of Silver Beaver
Awards, Floyd Swallow. Alamo.
•Scouting Tomorrow." Rev. J. D.
Boren, Weslaco.
Announcement of Troop Nation
al Award*. F W. Halstead. Miso.on.
Election of officer* for 1933.
Introduction of officers.
Movie Sidelights
CAPITOL
Immediately upon the heel* o!
the most amazing international
financial swindle in modern busi*
ness history comes First Nation
als dramatic picture, ‘Tne Match
King,” showing Tuesday and Wed
nesday at your Capitol. Browns
ville. paralleling in screen drama
the astonishmg story one m«ns
skillful manipulation of matches
into a colossal bubble that broke
onh when general business de
pression revealed the crookedness
of the financial machinations.
Seldom has the screen offered a
more dramatic subject than "The
Match King, ' played by Warren
William.
Lily Damita. Glenda Farrell.
Juliette Compton and Claire Dodd
all share in the wearing of gorgeous
gowns created for this picture.
Hardie Albright. Harold Huber.
Spencer Charters and numerous
others were all selected for their
roles with particular care.
QUEEN
A cast of compelling screen
personalities, coupled with an
unusual murder mystery from the
pen of the increasingly popular
Tiffany Thayer, makes ‘Strangers
of the E\enmg.‘ the Tiffany pic
ture which shows Tuesday and
Wednesday at the Queen one of
the outstanding murder mysteries
of the year.
Zasu Pitts in her never failing,
mournful comedy; Lueien Iattle
field as the happy gentleman who
has last his memory And with It
his name; Harold Waldrldgr as the
frightened undertaker, assistant;
and Eugene Pallette and Francis
Savles the two bewildered detec
tives. furnish a riot of comedy
that lifts this murder story from
any chance of becoming morbid.
Minam Seeg&r and Theodor von
Eltz are m the romantic leads
RIVOI.I—SAN BENITO
Starting Tuesday, the Rivoll at
San Benito offers bargain nights
every Tuesday and Wednesday with
admission prices of 5. 10 and 15
cents -We are going to give the
people of the Valley the best attrac
tions that money Can buy. at these
bargain prices.'' manager Brady
said Tuesday. Our first offering on
Tuesday and Wednesday, a powerful
southern epic. "The Cabin in the
Cotton." with Richard Barthelmeis.
! Dorothy Jordon and Bette Davit,
i The romance of this story is set
THE GROWTH OF PUBLIC RESPONSIBILITY
1928
1032
against a background of cotton
fields where the planter, the shire
cropper. the negro and the • noor
whites’ work out their lives and
destinies.
TONIGHT
t BEECH NUTS sensational new
drama of the SOUTH SEAS • A
gripping story • BROADWAY ,
ALL STAR CAST • ADVENTURE .
ROMANCE . TRAVEL . A THRILL
A MINUTE . DON'T MISS IT!
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