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STATE REPEAL
•VOTE TO COME
UP MARS
AUSTIN, Sept. 2L-(/Ph- Texas
Anti-prohibitionists are happy, of
course, over the decisive manner in
which the electorate decided to
vote for repeal of the eighteenth
amendment and approved legaliza
tion of 3.2 per cent beer. •
Dry Until 1935
There was only one disappoint
ment. Opponents of prohibition
regretted a proposition to repeal
state prohibition outright was not
submitted at the same time. A Con
stitutional amendment cannot be
submitted except at a regular ses
sion which means the matter of
doing away with prohibition in
Texas cannot be put to the voters
before 1935.
By that time it is possible the
pendulum will have swung the
other way. Sentiment changes rap
idly in these modern times, as one
frill note after observing the com
plete reversal with reference to
national prohibition. What, 14
years ago, was regarded as a na
tional mind incorrigibly dry, nas
developed into an attitude about as
strong the other way. The most
optimistic anti-prohibitionist did
not dream of such a turn in af
fairs. Pact is many of the op
ponents of prohibition had made
up their minds there never would
be a reversal and a return to the
liberality that at this time seems
rampant.
Might Be Tempered
Texas’ stringent enforcement law
can be tempered by the legislators
or it could be repealed entirely.
With the enforcement statute soft
ened or junked, prohibition would
have lost its effectiveness even
though the constitutional provision
were undisturbed.
Enforcement of the prohibition
laws has not been stringent :n
Texas in recent years. For a while
there were many convictions, jur
ors apparently having no conscien
tious scruples about sending trans
porters, sellers and possessors of
intoxicating liquor to the peniten
tiary. In late months many pros
ecutors have announced it was a
needless expenditure of state and
county funds to bring charges
igainst liquor law violators.
Movie Sidelights
CAPITOL
“Three-Cornered Moon,” the sen
sational comedy hit of the New
York stage which kept blase New
Yorkers laughing for weeks, has
been made into a Paramount pic
ture with Claudette Colbert, Rich
ard Arlen and Mary Boland in the
starring roles and shows Friday and
Saturday at your Capitol, Browns
ville.
"Three-Cornered Moon” tells all
about a typical American family,
idle and wealthy, which is sudden
ly improverished by the depres
sion.
From the flighty, widowed moth
er who invested the family for
tune in a nice ‘metal’ mine because
a pleasant gentleman was very en
thusiastic about it. down to ler
youngest son. the Rimplegars of
Brooklyn are the oddest assortment
ever gathered under one roof.
QUEEN
“Handle With Care” presenting
a story replete with romance and
many laughs, shows today and Fri
day at the Queen. Brownsville.
The featured roles are played bv
James Dunn, Boots Mallory and El
Brendel, and a pair of unusually
clever children, Buster Phelps and
George Ernest, add much to the en
tertainment value of the picture. In
fact, the entire action of the plot
revolves the youngesters.
The story depicts the love of a
man and a struggling shop girl,
whose happiness is ultimately ac
complished by the two small beys
in a climax that affords a complete
surprise.
Summer Doubles Vitamin
MADISON, Wis.—Summer butter
is approximately twice as rich in
vitamin A as that produced in
March and April, experiments at
the University of Wisconsin show.
When cows are turned into pasture
there is a sudden increase in vita
min content lasting through the
summer and even into the winter.
FAVORS ‘VACATIONS’ FOR MOTHERS
ELLA WINTER
By NEA Service
CARMEL, Calif.—Ella Winter i3
a firm believer in the efficacy of a
part-time-mother plan of life.
One year she is off to Europe,
Mexico or Australia for a long stay,
gathering material for a book, ar
ticles, or lectures. The next year she
settles down here, takes over the
management of the house, becomes
a home-maker, gardener and com
panion for her author-husband,
Lincoln Steffens, and their eight
year-old son, Pete.
Whichever Miss Winter happens
to be doing at the moment con
sumes her entire attention. There
is none of this suppressed “I wish
I could be doing something else”
about her that makes so many
American women discontented.
When in Russia, she concentrated
on getting facts for her ‘‘Red Vir
tue," a book on new Russia, with
an absolutely uriworried mind be
cause she knew that Lincoln Stef
fens and Pete probably were hav
ing a grand time batching.
Likes Domesticity
Now, at home, Miss Winter rev
els in cooking, dishwashing, mend
ing, playing tiddle-de-winks with
Pete or riding horseback or on a bi
cycle with him.
“I really like housework, you
know," she said, in her crisp Eng
lish voice (she’s actually an Aus
tralian). “And I adore gardening.
Did you notice our Italian cy
presses? They remind Stef and me
of Italy, where Pete was born. And
of course we had to plant all Eng
lish flowers in our garden (which
is a riotous bower of bloom right
this minute). And we are really
proud of our vegetable garden. It’s
the best bourgeois garden in all of
California."
Mr. and Mrs. Steffens have al
ways held the view that a woman
should have her work, just as much
as a man. So Miss Winter always
has had. Her interests are very
broad, having specialized in econo
mics at the London University and
served as assistant to Felix Frank
furter at the Peace Conference. She
later went to Germany and took
psychology with some of Berlin’s
leading professors. Whenever she
decides there is something in the
world somewhere that she wants to
go see about she goes, and it is all
right with Steffens.
“Why shouldn’t fathers have more
part in bringing up children than
they usually have?’’ she answers
criticisms about her leaving her
son. “I think Pete proves that it is
a good thing. He’s a fine iittle
rough-neck, not anything of a
molly-coddle about him. Moreover,
I believe that getting away from
her child gives a mother a valuable
perspective. We have definite ideas
about the education of Pete. And
; they do not call for my being nere
! every minute."
"Absence Makes the Heart—”
Pete himself is 100 per cent boy,
adores playing cowboy, riding and
reading such things as Robinson
Crusoe and Charles Lindbergh’s
story. He gets a tremendous kick
out of having a mother who went
to Russia and wrote a book and
gave lectures on it. And he adores
having her telephone him long dis
tance clear from New York or send
him cables on Christinas or his
birthday. The very fact that she is
not there all the time makes her
seem more valuable to Pete.
“Russia is the only country in
-dragging feet? yes
just a sign of that "tired feeling"
- ft “run-down condition” where a
tonic is needed ... then pause and
reason what may be the cause of this
condition. You know ... that red
blood-cells and their hemoglobin are
necessary to carry oxygen from the
lungs to all parts of the body ... that
when these blood-cells are decreased:
the body is weakened. Then why not
build them back and breeze along in
step with your strong, healthy
friends?
This is now and has been the func
tion of S.S.S.—proved by scientific
research and by millions of users
over decades. A truly time-tried blood
tonic. Start a course of S.S.S. today
and note the happy results. Two con
venient sizes at all drug stores. The
larger size is more economical. Don’t
permit anyone to “switch” you in
your determination to gain better
health and more strength by restor
ing your red-blood-cells. O The S.S.S. Co.
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PETE
LINCOLN STEFFENS
which women really are emanci
pated,” Miss Winter stated, mean
ing all women, not herself. “Al
though they are not so well off ma
terially as a middle-class American
woman wants to be, the majority
are married, have careers and have
children. There is no conflict in
Russia for women. The government
nurseries look after their children
while they work, and no one thinks
to ask a woman if she is single or
married, it is so usual. In Russia
women are coming to regard them
selves as citizens first, and only
as women afterwards.”
MAJ. CARRUTH
LEAVES VALLEY
(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO, Sept. 21.—Maj.
Hill Carruth, assistant U. S. Army
division engineer at New Orleans,
has returned to his regular post
after directing emergency flood pro
tection forces in the Valley for
several days.
Maj. Edwin Marks, U. S. Army
district engineer, Galveston, is ex
pected to return here shortly.
In the meantime Lieut. L. J.
Romaggi of the Galveston office is
in charge.
adoui l.auu persons were busy at
one time patrolling levees and oth
erwise looking after protection of
high water which threatened the
Valley soon after the Gulf storm.
Alarmed Valley citizens asked the
government to take a hand in the
impending flood fight and $60,000
was set aside for this purpose and
engineers sent to direct the cam
paign.
The flood remained within
bounds, however, and a succeeding
nse has not been as high as the
first so that there has been no real
I danger at any point.
Sen. Tom Connally, who viewed
, the Valley’s flood control works
| Saturday, promised before he left
that he would attempt to speed
action on promised governenmt con
struction of additional works. An
appropriation of $1,500,000 for the
first year’s work has been set a«’*,e
for some weeks but work orders
have not been issued for some rea
son. Sen. Connally is anxious for
! work to start as a pair of the relief
I program in the Valley.
Veil of Secrecy
Springing Up In
Texas' Capitol
AUSTIN, Sept. 21. WV-The veil
of secrecy that has pervaded some
departments of the state c&pltol like
an impenetrable fog has grown irk
some to newspaper reporters.
The latest bureau commission or
department to dose Its doors and
transact public business in exec
utive session and then hand to the
press what it cares to give out is
the newly-created state racing
commission.
Taxpayer* Should Know
There is the argument that exec
utive sessions are justified where
desired and that some things that
happen are not public property
there is the public’s side, as well.
Taxpayers will argue they are en
titled to know what goes on. just
as stockholders of a private cor
poration feel they should be kept
advised.
The Texas Highway commission
always opens its bids and listens
to delegations of those seeking to
discuss local problems in the open
but it transacts some very impor
tant business in executive sessions.
The minutes, or portions of the
•minutes, are ultimately made avail
!e to the newspapers but discus
si on* that enter Into their making
never are revealed.
Offioial Greeter
The board of regents of the Uni
versity of Texas likewise holds
closed meetings and later gives to
the press the results, or, maybe in
some cases, partial results.
State Sen. John Hornsby of Aus
tin long has been the “official greet
er” for visitors to the capital. “Wel
come to your capital city,” is his
salutation.
He has a rival now in the person
of Tom Miller, the new mayor. Mill
er is deeply concerned with affairs
civic, state and national. He took
a leading part in the recent $20,
000,000 state bond issue unemploy
ment relief campaign.
Walter A. Koons, one of Atty.
Gen. James V. Allred’s assistants,
lately had an attractive offer from
the federal government to do legal
work for it during the relief emer
gency. Koons’ knowledge of a cer
tain branch of the law and the ease
with which he applied it attracted
the admiration of federal officials
while the assistant attorney general
was in Washington on business con
nected with the attorney general’s
department.
Koons pondered the offer, try
ing to decide what to do. It got to
be a subject around hit horn* .
One day Kooks' nine-year-old
daughter said:
"Daddy I know exactly how /ou
feel. I remember when I first en
tered the grammar school they
wanted me to play in the aroheatnt
, —either the drums or the Xylo
phone. I couldn't make up my
mind which one to take and It wor
ried me.”
CROPLOANS
SHIFT MADE
(Soecial to The Herald)
MCALLEN, Sept. 31. — Ed P.
Onset., Lima supervisor in Hidalgo
and Starr counties for the crop
prodVtion loan bureau of the
United States Department of Agri
culture, has been ordered to remain
in the Valley, and will henceforth
handle all matters pertaining to
this governmental agency for six
South Texas counties.
This announcement was received
here Tuesday from the regional
office of the crop production loan
bureau in Dallas, which operates
under the direction of Owen W.
Sherrill, regional director for Tex
as. Oklahoma and New Mexico.
The new arrangements senda
Eugene Torbett of Harlingen, sup
ervisor for the past two years in
Cameron. Willacy. Brooks and
Kenedy counties, to Mount Pleas
ant, in east Texas, where he will
act in a similar capacity in Titus,
Franklin and Morris counties.
Onstot will maintain his South
Texas headquarters in McAllen,
and will conduct the bureau s busi
ness in Cameron, Hidalgo. Starr,
Willacy. Brooks and Kenedy coun
ties henceforth.
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WITH THE LAWS OF OUR STATE
WITH THOSE WHO KNOW THAT
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MOT A SINGLE BOTTLE
OF S^ecVlC BEER
WAS OFFERED FOR
SALE BEFORE SEPT. I5T.H
The San Antonio Brewing Association
believes in abiding by all State and Federal
laws. As a Texas institution we conform to the
laws of our State. For this reason not a single
bottle of PEARL BEER was offered fcr sole
before September 15th.
On June 1st, under permission cf t!,e Gov
ernment, we started brewing PEARL BEER,
and on August 28th we were permitted to
start bottling it. Since that time our bottling
plant has been in operation 24 hours a day
-bottling "FULLY-AGED" PEARL BEER.
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wi do ova Mif
ALL &fecut/ BEER IS
FULL-STRENGTH.SUPERBLY
AGED TO THE PEAK OF
FLAVOR AND MELLOWNESS
The same standards of brewing that have
made XXX PEARL Texas' favorite beer have
been carefully and continuously maintained
for more than 46 years. Our plant has been
in continuous operation and the same skillfull
and experienced hands mak^ sure that every
bottle of PEARL BEER is brewed from the
same fine ingredients, according to the same
famous PEARL formula, under the supervision
of the same brewmaster and mellowed pre
cisely as it has been for 46 years. Every time
that you raise a glass of sparkling, crystal
clear PEARL, you will know how well we
have "Kept Faith"..
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