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STORM RELIEF
LEGISLATION
t SAID LIKELY
Favorable action on four bills
designed to aid Cameron county
appears likely in Austin, according
to Co. Judge A. W. Cunningham
who returned from the capital Wed
nesday following conferences with
leaders there.
"So far as I was able to learn,
there was little if any opposition
to the four bills being sponsored
for this section," the judge states.
One bill would remit -to school
districts in Cameron county the
1 cent gasoline tax. The amounts
would be apportioned between the
districts in proportion to valua
tions. The schools would be per
mitted to obtain loans aganist this
fund for the purpose of rebuilding
and repariing school buildings dam
aged by the hurricane. The amount
this would bring could not be es
timated, but Judge Cunningham
was sure it would be sufficient to
repair hurricane damages.
A second bill would remit to
Cameron county state automobile
license fees for the next four years.
This would amount to $70,000 an
nually.
The third bill would make the
$3,000 homestead tax exemption
effective in Cameron county this j
year.
The fourth, perhaps the most
important in money saved to the
tax payers, involves state participa
tion in road bonded Indebtedness
where the debt Is being refunded.
Under it, the state would continue
to pay as under the old debt
agreement, with the county receiv
ing all the savings it could be made
under a refunding agreement with
bondholders.
Mercedes School
Teachers Listed
(Special to The Heraldi
MERCEDES, Sept. 20.— There
has been a number of changes in
the personnel of the faculty of the
Mercedes schools this year, some
of whom are attending institutes
of higher learning, some have mar
ried and others have moved away.
A complete line up of the teaching
force this for the local schools in
clude Superintendent E. H. Poteet,
Principals N. W. Gay, W. Ed Perry,
R. L. Lyon and James.L. Johnson.
Miss Kathryn Fry, director of
cafeteria, Otto Miller, director of
music and Mrs. De la Curl, secre
tary.
Miss Beryl Barber, Cecil S. Bean,
R. B. Caldwell, Miss Louise Carll,
Miss Amy Cornish, Blake Curl, R.
R. Douglass, Miss Juanita Flem
ming, Miss Eugenia King, Miss
Merle Malone, Miss Sidney Man
sell, Miss Mildred Mell, Miss Mary
Norrod, H. L. Schmalzried. Miss
joy Shoffield, Mrs. Kathryn Thomp
son, Miss Alma Whatley, high
school.
Miss Ophelia Byers, Miss Nita
Cullwell, Mrs. Bertie Day, Miss
Mary Heacock, Mrs. Lellah Lyie,
Mrs. Lee Perry, Mrs. L. N. Rice,
Miss Ruth Rollins, Miss Nell Smith,
Miss Anna Smith, Miss Frances
Williams.
Miss Lois Bell,, Miss Dora Pearl
Brown, Miss Ruth Day, Miss Jose
phine Knapp, Mrs. Gladys Lack
land, Miss Margaret Mahon, Mrs.
Edna May Miller, Miss Beatrice
Moye, Miss Goldsby Poag, Miss
Annie Connor Verser, Miss Mayme
White, Miss Grace Wright, grades.
Miss Catherine Commons, assist
ant librarian.
PLANE PASSENGERS
Mr. and Mrs. W. Williams left
for San Antonio Tuesday on the
American Airways plane. R. M.
Combs, Jr., was a passenger to
Chicago.
A mile of wire Is required in the
manufacture of a full-size window
screen.
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MARRIAGE”
with LORETTA YOUNG
Universal Comedy
Merchants Tickets Good
On This Show
Admission, 10c
NOTICE
Effective Friday,
Sept. 15th
Southern Pacific
Train will
Lv. B’ville 7:30 p. m.
Ar. S. Ant. 6:50 a. m.
Ar. Houston 7:45 a. m.
For further informa
tion inquire City Ticket
Office in El Jardin
Hotel or Depot Ticket
Office, 7th and Madi
son Streets.
Phones 1207 - 1205
Hines Funeral Held
(Special to The Herald)
McALLEN, Sept. 20.— Funeral
services were held from Martin
Nelson Funeral Chapel here Wed
nesday afternoon for J. w. Hines,
65, McAllen piano tuner, who was
killed when struck by a truck on
State Highway 4 between McAllen
and Pharr Monday.
Rev. E. A. Hunter, pastor of the
First Methodist Church of McAllen,
officiated at the last rites. Inter
ment followed the services in Pharr
cemetery.
Survivors include two brothers,
County Judge Fred Hines of Nobles
ville, Hamilton county, Indiana,
and Prof. L. N. Hines of Terrs
Haute, Ind., a former president or
the University of Indiana; and a
stepson, Russell Moore of Coshoc
ton, Ohio.
KIWANIS HEARS
RELIEF REPORT
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN, Sept. 20.— “The
largest group of professional per
sonnel ever to gather in the Valley
for any reason of disaster or relief.”
Thus was the group of relief work
ers designated by Dr. G. W. Edger
ton, toastmaster at the Kiwanis
luncheon Tuesday noon, at tne
First Christian Church.
Guests included: Dr. William De
Kleine, director for Medical Health
Service, Red Cross, Washington;
Dr. K. E. Miller, Austin, in charge
of United States Public Heait-h
relief work; Dr. Charles D. Reece,
Epidemiologist, State Health De
partment; V. M. EhlerSr Chief,
Sanitary Engineering Department,
State Health Department; Slayton
Phelps, Bureau of Pure Food and
Drugs, State Health Department,
all of Austin; Miss A. Louise Kin
ney of St. Louis, midwestern branch
of American Red Cross, and Mrs.
Wilhelmina Beane, feature writer
Houston Press.
Dr. De Kleme recalled he had
a personal interest in Cameron
county, having been a purchaser
of Cameron county road bonds
years ago. “You have a wonder
ful country here. I am sure you will
pull out. The Red Cross is here not
to supply losses, but to meet just
needs."
“No agency can provide losses
you have sustained,’’ Dr. De Kleine
said, “but we can and will help
those who have lost everything.
The Red Cross will leave in this
community a handsome amount by
the time they are through. Already
they have been committed to the
circulation of some $51,000.’’
Dr. Miller spoke of the many in
quiries he received in Austin dur
ing the past two days. “I told
them all that to me the most out
standing feature of the storm was
the spirit of the people who live
here. They have taken it on the
chin and come up smiling.”
“When this storm blew over a
great amount of wreckage it also
ushered in a danger that was even
worse than the storm itself. The
potentialities for disease and death
far overshadowed the damage left
by the storm, but fortunately the
local medical profession, the Re.:
Cross, the state health depart
ment were on the job at once and
took steps to forestall communicable
disease.”
“Water supplies of all these
towns were out. The large major
ity of people drank water front
whatever source they could get it,
water polluted everywhere. It was
of major importance to get this
water in sanitary condition again,
which Mr. Ehlers and his engineers
have done,” Dr. Miller said. “Indi
cations are that over 60,000 people
in the Valley will receive inocula
tions against typhoid. A person is
not fully protected without having
received three inoculations.”
“We are not past the danger of
malaria,” Dr. Miller continued. “You
have had a health unit for several
years. It was out of commission
Sept. 1, and needed Sept. 5. The
commissioners’ court has had a
considerable change of heart, and
is very anxious to get back on
full time medical service.”
Miss Kinney said that 37 nurses
had served on an average of four
days each.
Mr. Ehlers paid tribute to Dr.
Edgerton and the local doctors: “I
have been on quite a few epidemics,
but I never saw a leader who had
his organization going so smooth
ly as Dr. Edgerton did from the
very start.”
“In our mosquito control work we
had 372 men spraying in four coun
ties at one time. Wc had 330 men
ditching, 4 men ruhning levels, and
there again your engineers contri
buted their time, their automobiles,
and so forth. The State Health De
partment is working in 40 com
munities. We MUST provide a sani
tary way of properly disposing of
waste. The sanitary pit is the only
answer. W’e have already had a
flurry of dysentery. I have asked
i'ie mayor to issue a proclamation
that we will use trucks to pick up
all unclaimed lumber tor the r>ur- ,
pose of building these pit toilets. We
need picks, shovels, implements.
The matter is imperative’”
San Benito Credits
Okehed at Annapolis
(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO. Sept. 20. — All
credits presented by Bruce Agar
Gentry for entry at the United
States Naval Acadamy, Annapolis,
have been accepted, according to
information received here.
This is regarded as a reflection
of the high standard of work in
the San Benito schools where
Bruce graduated last spring and
his own high scholastic ability
since he ranked sixth in a class of
44. He is now at Marion (Ala
bama) Institute preparing for two
examinations required of all en
trants.
He submitted 16 subjects for
credit and all were accepted.
He is a son of Mr. and Mrs.
Bruce Gentry of San Benito and
received his appointment from John
N. Gamer, vice president.
Bruce was an outstanding play
er with the San Benito High
School Greyhounds and possibly
may follow in the footsteps of Bom
Brooks, another local gridiron
product who is being looked to as a
mainstay in the Navy line this sea
son. Born, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Boyd Brooks who later moved to
Corpus Christi, graduated here in
1929, also ranking high in his
classes. His grandmother, Mrs.
Bellinger, still lives near here.
Students in India Comprise 3.5
per cent of the population. There
ire 227,189 schools there.
NRA EVASION
SURVEYED BY
RECOVERYMEN
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. (JP>—
Steel’s operations under its indus
trial code were scrutinized by NRA
experts today while other recovery
officials studied organized labor’s
newest complaints of employer eva
sions.
Donald Richberg, general counsel,
Kenneth Simpson, deputy admin
istrator and Dr. Alexander, Sachs
economist, traveled to New York
for the first-hand inspection of the
steel industry’s activities, especial
ly with regard to uniform sales and
price procedure.
Simultaneously at NRA head
quarters, documents filed by Wil
liam Green, president of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor, were re
ceiving close attention. Green said
the data contained “evidence of as
tonishing evasions by great em
ployers, some of those so bold and
so hostile to the letter and spirit of
the law that I am certain the ad
ministration must take immediate
and very drastic action.”
“We have had to strike to com
pel obedience to the law,’’ Green
said, “and we expect we shall have
to do so again.”
MARKETS
NEW YORK STOCKS
NEW YORK, Sept. 20. (/P)—
Topsy-turvy financial markets to
day presented an enigma to bullish
and bearish forces alike as con
trary trends appeared in most spec
ulative and investment categories.
Stocks seemingly were inclined
to the hysterical and a series of
slumps and rallies blurred the trad
ing picture in such a manner that
its outlines generally were indis
cernible. Prices broke shortly after
tlie topening under a barrage of
profit taking. The ticker tape ran
behind and large blocks of the re
cent favorites were sold for losses
of 1 to 3 or more points. Then there
was a moderate recvery and an
other sag in the second hour. The
activity tended to die down on the
mild rallies. Grains, cotton and oth
er commodities were rather heavy.
The dollar dropped to a new low in
terms of gold currencies, but stead
ied later. Highest grade bonds con
tinued weak.
Metal shares failed to respond to
another advance in the price of
gold to $32.28 an ounce. U. S. Smelt
ing was off about 4. Other losers of
1 to 3 or more included American
Telephone, U. S. Steel, New York
Central, Union Pacific, Santa Fe,
National distillers, Chrysler, Allied
Chemical, Case. American Can,
Western Union, Westinghouse and
Goodyear. Even the oils were easier.
Financial observers seemingly
were unable to give an explanation
for the weird actions of the securi
ty and commodity markets Economic
and inflationary indications were of
such a contradictory nature, com
mission houses reported, that the
outlook was one of much uncer
tainty.
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
NEW ORLEANS. Sept. 20. (A>)—
Cotton opened weak today, 5 to 15
points down on hedge selling and
lower Liverpool cables. There was
some short covering at these levels
but it was supplied at recoveries of
a point or twro and the market
broke sharply on a wave of selling
induced by a belief that a wide
divergence of opinion existed be
tween the administration and the
southern farming interests over in
flation.
Before the offerings were absorb
ed October dropped to 9.83 and De
cember to 10.05, or 42 points down
from yesterday’s close. There was
a rally of 11 points later in the
first hour but the undertone con
tinued unsettled.
COTTON FUTURES
NEW YORK, Sept. 20. (ff)—Cot
ton futures closed barely steady 40
to 46 lower.
Open High Low Last
Oct.10.27 10.27 9.84 9.85-87
Dec.10.48 10.48 10.05 10.10-11
Jan.10.58 10.58 10.12 10.20
Mch. ...10.77 10.78 10.30 10.35-39
May ...10,92 10.92 10.50 10.52
Jly ....11.05 11.08 10.69 10.71
Spot barely steady; middling
10.05.
CHICAGO GRAIN
CHICAGO, Sept. 20. (£>)—In
fluenced by weakness on the cot
ton market, all grain values under
went material setbacks early today.
Downturns were in the face of a
sharp advance of British exchange.
Opening 7-8 - 2 cents down, wheat
afterward held within the initial
limits. Corn started 5-8 - 1 1-4
off, and subsequently altered little.
CAMERON RECORDS
Criminal District Court
Grand jury in session. Court
hearing non-jury cases this week.
Jury trials to get under way be
ginning Sept. 25.
Civil District Court
Piled: T. O. Ballenger vs. J. M.
Baden, garnishment after judg
ment; R. W. Briggs & Co. vs. E.
C. Brand, state banking commis
sioner, et al, suit for debt and in
junction.
Because snakes in a San Antonio
reptile garden showed a preference
for brown rats, children collected
15 cents a pair for rodents delivered.
LAST TIMES
TODAY
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BAN BENITO
City Briefs |
E. C. Pierce of Harlingen is
spending several days in the city
on business. He arrived Tuesday.
San Antonians in Brownsville on
business include R. C. Paul, W. M.
Bowes, W. V. Thomas, I. W. Hu
man, E. G. Wilkerson, W. B. Smith
and W. R. Alford.
Conrad E. Broden, formerly as
sistant director of Dr. Stout’s
Laboratory, now located at 203
State National Bank Building,
Brownsville. Phone 53.—Adv.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold A. Carr of
Corpus Christi are spending sev
eral days in Brownsville.
S. E. Ross of San Benito was in
the city Wednesday.
Window glass, roll roofing, nails.
Brownsville Hardware, former
Cloetta location.—Adv.
Difiner every night at The Grill.
—Adv.
Here from Dallas is G. S. Rob
ison who is registered at a Browns
ville hotel.
Tires on credit—Firestone. Adv.
T. J. Bloomer of Columbus, Ohio,
arrived here Tuesday to spend a
few days.
From Boeme is J. L. Calloway
who arrived Tuesday and plans to
spend a short time here.
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VEGETABLES TO
MOVE JAN. 20
(Special to The Herald)
WESLACO, Sept. 20. — Valley
Vegetable Co-operative association
expects to operate four packing
plants in as many Valley cities
when the winter vegetable deal gets
under way, according to F. E. Em
bree, general manager of the as
sociation. The packing units will
be located at McAllen, Donna, Wes
laco and San Benito.
The vegetable season is expected
to open about January 20, Mr.
Embree stated, the delay of 60 days
resulting from the hurricane of
Sept. 5-6 which wiped out virtually
all seed-beds and otherwise play
ed havoc in the vegetable-growing
industry. Except for a few seed
beds, Mr. Embree stated, vegetable
damage in the Valley approaches
totality.
The size of the coming winter
crop, he stated, probably will de
pend upon the amount of money
loosed in the Valley by govern
mental relief agencies. With 88 to
90 per cent of the citrus gone with
a loss of about $5,000,000, few farm
ers will be able to help themselves,
Mr. Embree declared. Most of the
growers used the first money from
their citrus returns in setting out
seed-beds and preparing for the
vegetable season starting about 60
days after the citrus crop begins
moving. Nearly all growers lost
heavily in the citrus catastrophe
without being able to salvage or sell
any of their fruit. This setback
will prevent a big vegetable crop
without governmental assistance.
Mr. Embree stated he found
growers looking forward despite
their great losses, and that nearly
all of them are making such plans
as they are able to consider with
out much money. He believes gov
ernmental assistance is the only
salvation for the vegetable grower
in the light of present conditions.
CARD OF THANKS
In memory of my dear husband
William H. Stevens, want to ex
press my gratitude to friends and
neighbors for the kindness shown
me in sorrow; also the beautiful
floral offerings; especially the ser
vices of Rev. Crowe and the City
Firemen, especially Captain Fred
Lerma and Chief Sarran for the
wonderful work in recovering body.
With grateful thanks,
MRS. W. H. STEVENS
ZOO HEAD SEEKING MARKET
FOR PAIR OF BABY HIPPOS
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (JP)—A Century
of Progress exposition offers so
many things that N. J. Melroy, su
perintendent of the municipal zco
here, hopes it will offer a market
for two baby hippos.
While attending the National
Zoological convention at Chicago
he hopes to interest some other zoo
in the offspring of Venus and
Adonis, the “first family” of the
Memphis Overton Park zoo.
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BOOZE PLANTS
PREPARE FOR
REPEAL DAYS
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. (JPh
Thousands of retail merchants pre
paring to protect themselves in the
sale of spirituous, malt and vinous
liquors upon the apparently certain
repeal of the 18th amendment have
organized the National Association
of Retail Beverage Dealers with
headquarters in Washington.
Already state organizations have
been set up in Illinois, Iowa, In
diana, Ohio and a number of other
states, and association officials said
indications were that 200,000 of the
750,000 licensed beer retailers will
join.
Officers and the board of direc
tors gathered here at a luncheon
today to further plans to complete
the organization. Frank Clark, for
mer Florida representative in Con
gress, has been elected president;
S. Wallace Dempsey, a former New
York representative, is general
counsel. Frank Dudley of Buffalo,
head of the United Hotels of Amer
ica, is chairman of the board of di
rectors.
“It is realized,” said Clark today,
“that the beverage business after
the repeal of prohibition will face
many problems, and it is manifest
that upon the conduct of the busi
ness will depend entirely whether it
is to survive or perish. The purpose
of the association is to promote
through organization the develop
ment, the ethics, the reputation
and the financial success of the
beverage business.”
RELIEF DELAYS
(Continued From Page One)
other. Bureaus and bureaucrats,
politicians and job holders, all have
told us what should be done and
we are quite sure that in a great
many instances these authorities
would help at once if they could.
The way how things seem to stand
now, all these friends of the Valley
can only suggest and recommend.
These recommendations and sug
gestions pass from one buieau to
another and the further they get
from the person w'ho made the first
recommendatio'n or who wrote the
first order the less force they seem
to have, until at last they become
so involved through political ac
tion and ineptitude that they grad
ually peter out and die from inani
tion, after a lot of money has been
spent in offices and bureaus and
investigations and surveys without
end.
The people of the Valley are far
from satisfied—and this is putting
it as mildly as we know howr—with
the present situation. Our people
take the attitude that Oe hurricane
was none of their seeking, that the
terrible damages it inflicted upon us
are beyond their control. They do
not ask for charity; they seek not
something for nothing; they only
take that attitude w'hich every nor
mal self-respecting citizen takes
under identical conditions. They
want quick and certain relief, shorn
of political chicanery, red-tape, and
useless formalities which consume
valuable time and prolong the suf
ferings of the people. They are look
ing for some energetic individual,
empowered by the Federal govern
ment to bring relief to the farmers
of the Valley at once, not in a week
or two or a month or six months,
but IMMEDIATELY.
Every Delay Fatal
Every day that passes without
permitting our farmers to plant a
crop or prepare the land for it
means large sums of money wasted
for this region. These are wonder
ful growing days right now, the best
days of the year, but they are going
to waste simply because our far
mers ar' consuming their time mop
ing about, filling up forms for statis
tical purposes and application forms
for relief of some kind, or a crop
or regional credit loan, only to
realize that all their hopes have
foundered in a sea of vain prom
ises, where the gods of HOLD
YOUR HORSES and DO NOTH
ING hold sway.
MONEY ON THE BARREL
HEAD, and quick, is what the
fanners of the Valley need most in
this tremendous crisis if we are to
survive as a self-respecting people.
Money first of all for seed and
feed. Let us plant first and while
our wonderful sun and balmy air
are taking care of the young plants
we can talk about our other prob
lems in which we have a right to
expect some relief. Money at a
low rate of interest, say, 2 1-2 or
3 per cent, or the interest which
the government pays itself for
money and no more. Security: the
crop from the seeds for which the
loan is made; and if something
wipes out that crop, then the next
crop or successive crops, if still un
paid, would be security.
Citrus Condition Grave
As for the citrus grower pure
and simple, the man who had all
his eggs in one basket, his position
is indeed grave. How is he going
to live until the next crop of cit
rus? How is he going to pay his
debts, his taxes and insurance; his
notes or other obligations; or send
his children to school or college
respectably? How can he buy in
secticides, spray his groves, pay for
the necessary labor, meet his water
charges and bond tax, even bury
the rotting fruit polluting the at
mosphere around his own home with
out money? Remember that a
great number of our people were
just about at the end of their re
sources when this tragedy descend
ed upon us. They have gone the
absolute limit and can go no
further. As one grower said to me
who has a young grove of 40 acres
in which all his available capital
has been expended to bring it to
bearing age, and which was a
Niwy
YORK
ria steamer from GALVESTON
with a day at MIAMI enroute
RATES FROM BROWNSVILLE
$111.70 *°t£?
Using steamer both ways, including
rail to Galveston and return.
-OR
Same rate applies for Rail-Water
Circle Tour: rail to Galveston, Thence
steamer, returning all rail—or reverse.
Meals and stateroom accomr. odations
at sea included.
Big modem linera with outdoor swimming
pools, dec^ sports, orchestras, radio, movies.
Sailings from Galveston Every Saturday.
Apply Railroad or Tourist Agents or
CLYDE-MALLORY LINES
Geo. FvHomer. Gen’l. Agent, Galveston
Just a Friendly
Reminder
it seems foolish to talk about cold
weather when it is still so warm. But
we just want to remind you that North
ers sometimes come down on the Val
ley a little earlier than they are expect
ed.
Then you will either be warm and
comfortable with quick, convenient,
Natural Gas—or you will be cold and
miserable without heat.
Right now is the time to settle that
question. See that your Room Heat
ers are in condition to burn GAS econo
mically. If you need additional heat
ers, now is the time to buy them and
have them installed. The prices on our
heaters are low and the terms are con
venient.
Why be unprepared for the first cold
weather, when for so little time and
money you can be ready for any kind
of winter weather.
I'"’—- I
t
Rio Grande Valley
Gas Company
"—If it’s done with Heat, you can do it BETTER with Gas"
beautiful sight up to the afternoon
of September 4—“I am all in; I
can pay no taxes, its out of the
question. I have no money; it’s all
rotting away under my trees. I’m
going on the dole!”
Multiply the above case by oh!
so many throughout the Valley,
and we obtain some idea of the
true situation prevailing. These
people must be helped; they are
looking to action which n :ans real
help. To use an old Army expres
sion: they are “fed up” with the
declarations of first one official
and then another. They are tired
of hearing expressions of sympathy
unaccompanied by definite action.
Like the Chinaman, who said,
when an urchin threw a stone
through his laundry window, and
the mother of the boy offered an
apology—and nothing else: “Muchee
simpatee; no cashee!”
This is just about the situation
so far with us. Our farmers don’t
want any more sympathy—they
have a bellyfull of that already;
they want the only thing which
talks in plain understandable lan
guage: MONEY. This is a region
where money is in greater demand
than in any other farming region
we know of. We have millions and
millions invested in our citrus
groves. Millions have been spent
in bringing our bearing groves to
the maturity of today. It is for
this reason that a citrus grove of
bearing age constitutes the best
possible security for a loan.
Needs Money Now
The citrus grower must have
money quickly, for pressing needs
of various kinds. He must have
money for the bare necessities of
life; he must have money at once
to set about rehabilitating his or
chard to the end that it be given
every possible chance which care
and attention will bring in making
a crop next year. More than ever
j is this care Ukkcuuon needed
because of the damage done to
the trees.
Everywhere hi the Valley .one
hears complaints on the delay in
getting relief. Why cannot emer
gency regulations be brought into
force that would obviate the usual
filling up of blanks without end
and passing from one bureau to an
other and one official to another
for this or that approval or sanc
tion.
The outworn and hackneyed ex
pression about Nero fiddling while
Rome burned could surely be in
voked with good reason in the
present crisis. Who will loosen up
the bureaucratic chains which are
dragging down the agriculture of
the Valley to a critical point where
even relief, when it does come,
might be too late to do much good?
Is there no man connected with
the government who is powerful
enough and wise enough to size
up the situation with a discerning
eye and then to cut the Gordian
knot which up to now has tied up
all these boards and bureaus with
out end which have, in theory,
been set up to help the fanner and
home owner to help himself but >
which, in practice, have proven to^
be colossal stalemates, thwarting p
at once the will of those who en
acted the laws and the desires and
aspirations of those for whom they
were intended to relieve?
Will someone answer this ques
tion?
JOHN ASHTON
Emergency Building Re
pairs That Are Permanent
All kinds of repairs, large or
small contract ‘
HOMER FITCH
Phone 1083-J
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1240 Elizabeth St.
Phone 1181
STORES
CLOSED
ALL DAY
THURSDAY ,
The following stores in Brownsville will be
closed all day Thursday on account of
Jewish Holiday.
THE FASHION
Perl Brothers
BERWALD’S
Shoe Store
H. MARKOSS
The Tailor
BOLLACK’S
Department Store
DORFMAN’S
Jewelry Store
SHAPIRO’S
Shoe Store
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Storm
Sufferers
Auto Repairs
On Any Make of Car on
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or rebuilding on easy monthly terms. We will—
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RECOVER TOPS
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PATTESON MOTOR CO.;
Elizabeth Street at 9th
Phone 888 Brownsville, Texas