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©1? Hnramsuulr Herald Established July 4. im, At a Dally Newspaper, by Jesse (X Wheeler IJ M. STEIN . Publisher RALPH L BUELL . Editor | Published every site moon texoept Saturday) and Sunday morning Entered u second-class matter In the Pustoffice, Brownsville. Texas THE BROWNSVILLE HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY 1363 Adams St.. Brownsville Texas MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PBESS The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use of for publication of all news dispatches credited lo It or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also ths local news published herein ~1EXAS OAILV PRESS LfcAUUE National Advertising Representative Dallas, Tessa 912 Merchantue Bank Bldg, Ranaaa City. Mo 301 Interstate Bldg, Chicago, 111, ISO N Michigan Ave, Lob Angelea, Call!. 1013 Naw Orpheum B.df, New York. N Y, 370 Lexington Ave, Bt Loula Mo, 905 Star Bldg, Ban Pranclaco, Calif, 199 Banaome Bt, SLBSCHIP1ION RATES By darner—in Brownsville and all Rio Orande Valley cities lie a week; 79c a month By Mall—In The Rio Orande Valley, in advance: one year. 974X); ala months. 93.79; 3 months, 92 By Mali—Outalds of the Rio Orande Valley: 79o per ■tooth. WOO per year; 6 months, 94 30. Thursday, February 14. 1935 TRAINING MAY PRODUCE BETTER CIVIL SERVICE One of the quaint American beliefs is that it takes specific ami supervised train ing to be a barber or a plumber, but that anyone at all who can get a certain num ber of votes or wangle an appointment is competent to administer the affairs of a great city or run a federal or state gov ernment bureau. While there have been occasional cries for better-trained public servants, it has been like the weather—nobody really did ' anything about it. Now a beginning is being made toward doing something about it. Harvard for some years has had a valu able school of business administration. Originally it had been intended as a school of political science and administra tion. Now. under Harvard’s new Presi dent Conant. this school is being turned into a school of “public and private busi ness.” It is planned to offer in the new school • a thorough training not only for young men who enter private business, but also for those who aim to devote their energies to the sort of great public enterprises that are beginning to grow' in importance, projects such as the Tennessee Valley Authority, and public bodies such as the Federal Trade Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission, and a dozen oth-1 era. Dean Wallace Brett Donham, who has ably presided over the school w hile it was j training promising young men for private business, is thoroughly in sympathy with the idea that important public business re-1 quires just as thorough training. “It is impossible to improvise a first class civil service,” the points out, and cites the two examples of the World War and the present crisis, when it was neces sary to build great public organizations I » quickly, and many a man put in an im portant positon proved inadequately trained and incompetent. As more and more functions becomej public (and quite regardless of your opinion of that tendency, it’s there) the need for competent, well-trained men to fill those posts will increase. Several schools for training diplomatic and con sular service men already exist. There are several city managers in the country who have made that a life work, moving up from small cities in w hich they i have been successful to larger ones. Why not? If there is any more com plex job, requiring better training and i higher ability than running the compli cated affairs of a great city, it’s hard to imagine what it is. It is encouraging to note that the great universities are not neglecting to do their share toward building this better civil sen ice. and are attacking the problem at the source: that is, in the training of better potential material for this increasingly vital work. LOVE, FOR LOVE ALONE Roberta Nicholson, member of the In diana legislature and daughter-in-law of Novelist Meredith Nicholson, has intro duced a bill which would *iake it a penal offense for anyone in Indiana to file or abet a damage suit for breach of promise or alienation of affections: and the idea is such an obvious bit o£ common sense that one wishes that every state in the Union might speedily copy it. For lawsuits of this kind, in 99 cases out of 100, are utterly indefensible ethic ally. There is no property right in love. For one who lows and suffers the loss, there is no sum in human finance suffi cient to ease the hurt. The “heart balm” business is a disgrace to the legal profession: in most cases it is just a polite form of blackmail. It is very hard to think of one good rea son why Airs. Nicholson’s law should not be passed in Indiana and in every other state. i--- —i Your Body in Danger From Slow Gas Leak By UIt MORRIS HSHBLIX Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Uygeia. tbe Health Magatine You probably are well aware of the dangers of monoxide gas poisoning, in the case of automobile exhauit. But this gas is just as serious a hazard, if not more no. .ight ms.de your home. It is in the kitchen wht re the slightest leak of IL luminating or cocking gas. to which you may be ex posed unconsciouly day after day, will cause serious disturbances in your system. Exposure to large doses will result in severe poison ing and not infrequently in death. Importance oi checking regularly on gas leaks in your home is brought out by an Investigation some scientists In the physiology laboratory of Iowa State College made recently with rats They wanted to determine the effect of small doses of Illuminating gas taken day after day, on these animals. The rats were exposed to varying percentage mix tures of air and illuminating gas for various periods of time. The daily exposure varied from 10 minutes on the first day to one hour, at the most, in about three weeks. • • • Tests were made particularly on the blood, since it is known that carbon monoxide affects the blood seriously and may bung about death through chang ing the red blood cells It has been found that when human beings are exposed to carbon monoxide gas under various cir cumstances, severe anenna.s may be produced, and in some case* destruction of the red blood cells may be followed by increases in the number of such cells, called polycythemia. One of the first factors observed in the new inves tigations was the manner in which reproduction was hindered among the rats. The female gave birth to Inferior offspring, which usually died. After prolonged gassing, the young were oorn dead. After still more prolonged exposure the animals were found to be incapable of reproduction. • • • Daily exposure to illuminating ga* proved to be exceedmgly deleterious to the well-being of the ani mals. Their body weight# were lowered, their ap petites disappeared, the hair roughened and fell out. The males seemed to suffer much worse than did the females. Mo>t significant was the manner In which the red coloring matter of the blood increased in proportion to total number of red blood cells. The red blood cells were exceedingly fragile and broke up easily. It has been found, from observation on human be ing • who have been exposed to carbon monoxide poisoning, that the effects are sometimes fairly per manent in lo.vj of power to reproduce and, in some instances, in destruction of sex desire. The experiments on t lie rats confirmed these isolated observations in human beings. , SCOTT’S SCRAI’BOOK.By R. J. Scott t ---— --* ^HAm RtfeN IS -TANNED DONKEY HIDE AND IS GENERALLY CONSIDERED The best leather for drum HEADS u.s. dollar bill. $E.riES of »<r3H , WHERIL . rr$ denomination is SHOVJW If the vv molecules j IM A f'HlMBLE A FULL OF AlR A WERE CHANCED <0 CRA1N5 OF 5AND WE WOULD HAVE s/ A ROAD ONE J MILE WIDE AND J Three feet f DEEP REACHING I FROM IDS ANCfcl# To NEW VORK ^fooLoc^, A zander* WAS STron<5 fcNOU<«rt To CAR^V * A BoY V/EK5HIMO *70 POUNDS — , E*HI &»<**> AT MADRON •^7- .. i^tiARL <5ARDtN.H.V.: »92b^ •» f *- *■» -™~*W t.» - '111. -"-... . li A-iTodayS |1 Almanac: Februai> l-fy 1|24 Gen. Winfield S. Hancock born. VilttodtollSfJowti 1912-Anion x_ad; mitted to the Uruon tVUEMTINE t>FPT.| Koset are ret/; White ii the lily We love you, dear Boy! Are we silly! The World At a Glance BY LESLIE EICHEL • Central Press Staff Writer) NEW YORK. Feb. 14. — Once again wc speak of the theatre for a concert manager we know, Charles | L .Wagner, has brought it up. Mr Wagner has produced plays as well as directed the tours of great ar. lists of the world of music. Mr. Wagner has in mind the or ganization of a permanent reper-1 tory company for the United States. He would, in his own words, pre sent stars of the theatre" as he pre sents stars of the musical world, “by putting them on a pedestal, and build and build." In brief. Mr Wagner would put an aura of publicity behind the stars of the stage, to make them as well known to the people of the interior as radio and sreen stars. Many persons have tried, in the past, to form a permanent repertory company. Sothem and Marlowe came closest to It But the question now arises—if such a company ever Is formed, will it be composed of stage stars? I believe ^not. The stars are more likely to be snatched from the radio and movie heavens. The aura that makes a bright world for artists of the music world (and their managers! these days is the radio The stage plays as a sounding platform reverberates no farther than New’ York and London. It u not pleasant to make such a statement, for the stage has reached a higher sphere than any other American art—except, perhaps, the symphonic. • • • The Play Permit a great play to spring from the loins of America, and no reper tory company will be needed—nor will radio or screen overshadow it. Such a play will have to come soon, before the American loses the amalgam that the flow of many peoples made of his being. Yet. it could not come until the man had grown up. till the childish ness and the extravagance* of the youth coining of age had passed Of America. New York know* lit tle The play will come from the In terior. It may find birth on a Little theater stage It never even may be produced during the lifetime of Us author. (Will that matter?! But its an emotional epoch In American life —such as a great economic or social change, which will stir the creative mind to achieve new’ heights. Such an n>och seems to be on Its way now. • • • What Is A Play? One of the difficulties of the stage is the dimensions it puts to a play. The stage draws a pattern—and says. ’ This is a play." "The Green Pastures' overstepped those dimensions and has toured America for five years. No truly great piay can stay with- , in bounds. Like a great symphony It must reach to the heaven*; It must achieve new imaginative flights; it must be of a form too! mighty to fit into any pattern. Its 1 spirit must rise to meet the sky above Yet the play must have form, j t cannot be shapeless Art demands | new and mightier forms, not form lessness. No mere revolutionist, for revolt's sake, can create such a play. The creator himself will be the rev olution. w it h high talent driving him on. giving him no surcease until he creates. In the years to com -, our land may be swept by temfjmg forces and counter-forces. The storm may ioar and the sun may be dimmed for many a year The plav—the play < of America — will have to rise above that, rise to heaven, a prayer for. evermore of the American people. • • • President. Roosevelt may have to oake another "fireside" talk to the :roplr. He may have to speak affirmative ly of uls own plans in order to ne gate the voices of such leaders of the masses as Coughlin. Long. Townsend. The president's difficulty has been in getting concrete plans together. That, evidently, was why the World Court was thrown into the senate as a stop-gap. Sallu’s Sallies In—,.-- -U I Jkef*cpo*tudy o( vmmud * aua. I News Behind the News . - Capita) and world goealpt event* id pern lalltlee. in and aut of the news, written by a group at earlaaa and inform eo news pa per - men at Washington and Mew York. Thu column u puouaneo oy The Herald as a news feature Opinions expressed are moss of ihe writers as individuals and should not be interpreted as re flecting the editorial policy at tbis lewspaper — . WASHINGTON By George Dumo Interest — Admtntstrationites may have bum sleuths making the rounds but they hear hopefully that the American Legion might possibly be persuaded to compromise on the bonus. National Commander Belgrano probably will deny this vehemently but medicine is being mixed on Capitol Hill which requires Legion support as an essential ingredient of the prescription. Cancellation of interest on bonus loans to date is said to be the lure held out as against immediate cash payment. This would help all World War veterans who have borrowed up to the 50 per cent allowed, be cause otherwise the Interest would eat up most of their remaining mon ey by 1045 • • • Choice — Already the New Deal has shoved one block under the bonus Juggernaut. It Is almost cer tain the Vinson bill, which directs the Treasury to find ways and means of raising the two billion odd dollars necessary for Immediate payment, will be reported out by the House Ways and Means committee Instead of the Patman bill, which would pay off in printing-press currency If bad should come to worse— from the White House view — and Die Vinson bill paased. Secretary of the Treasury Morgen thau could promptly advise congress that the only way the veterans draft could be met would be through special taxes. Congress hardly would dare slap an extra 2 billion on the country. Representative Fred Vlnaon of Kentucky is a member of the Ways and Means committee while Repre sentative Wright Patman of Texas is not. which is one reason why Vin son's bill probably will be the com mittee choice. • * • Opiirrut*—Mr Roosevelt, getting back to the reported compromise, has slid he would oppose cancella-1 tion of interest on a public debt for anv organized authority. It will be up to him to change his mind — assuming he has the oppor. tunity — but some of his most in terested advisers think he could be persuaded. The New Deal is out to beat cash payment at all costs. Veteran poll- i tlciaiu are of the opinion that the impending bonus fight will be the biggest one of all. If it Is beaten they predict It will not be resurrect ed for some time. It isn t the first time that s been said. • • • Narrow — If a bonus bill rides j through both houses despite every -1 thing the administration can do to stop it. and President Roosevelt is forced to use his veto power, the ad ministration will then be up against a very close count of noses Senate leaders tell the White House he could command a sure margin of three votes to sustain a veto, but that would be hewing too close to the line for comfort and he doesn t w ant to risk it. A digest of the nation's newspa pers. prepared in the U. S. Veterans’ Administration, shows about two thirds of the papers to be against the cash bonus editorially. That doesn t stop many thousands of vet erans from writing In to their sen ators and congressmen demanding favorable action. • • • Slow — Federal Housing Adminis trator James Moffett is wondering w ho has been Inspiring recent stories lie was twitching to resign 8ome of his friends suspect offi cials in other branches of the New Deal but they haven't been able to pick up any truly definite clues. In private conversation, however, they are willing to name four men. They say each would like to see Moffett out or be in his shoes but they can t make up their minds which one to pick as the villain. Moffett insists he isn't going to resign until he has made the hous ing Job go. That's a big order which would keep him around Washington for many moons. Most optimistic reports are that it will be Septem ber before any new home.buildlng of consequence starts under direc tion of FHA — and If the bankers generally continue to render only Up service to the cause It will be iater than that. • * * Sucre*. — If Moffett hasn’t been 1 able to set any records yet with new ! construction, he at least has sue-1 ceeded In getting business men en thussia&uc about his modernization and repair drive. Actual govern ment loans for .such work are still a bit short of $40,000.00 but the men "ho make the assorted equipment and material you put into a mod rmiraticn job report they have done about $225,000,000 additional busi ness with folks able to pav cash The section of the Housing Act I permitting federal guarantee of re novizing loans expires December 31 next, a movement already is afoot among the industrialists to drive on congress a little later for extenison of thia section. It isn’t thi business they get from the government - guaranteed loans that interests them so much. What they want is to keep FHA pegging away with publicity. The latter is what has done the trick for them. • • • Vivisection — Manufacturers and other employers arr putting their head* together in the hope of beat ing the proposed i*yroll tax to raise an • -^employment insurance fund. The question is raised whether this tax is constitutional, the point be ing that it is not for revenue pur pose* but is a device to coerce the states to enact social security legis lation The Department of Justice is looking into this queetlon at the request of the House Ways and Means committee. Behind closed doors the commit tee will thresh out the social securi. , ty bill and try to report it in ten I A VALENTINE I> \V SENTIMENT TO A LEGISLATOR THIS IS A VERSE OF LOVC THATS PHONEY A SONG OF WOMEN WHOSE HEARTS A«6 COLO . OF BREACH -OF- PROMISE TESTIMONY By Girls who /SRE OUT TO GET THE GOLD; Ladies with tidy little packets OF LETTERS LOADEP WITH PHRASES HOT — letters employed in heart-balm Rackets For putting boy-friends uf>on the spot. THIS I* A CRY OF LOUP OBJECTION AGAINST these ladies who fake their tears Alienation of affection And alimony-ous buccaneers/ Wretches who moan that love is fickle — HERE IS THE POINT ABOUT THESE SQUAWS - /None of them ought to get a nickel? Curb this Cupid-itv! pass some laws! days. Too many social reformers are giving advice. Committee mem bers are very hazy as to the details of the legislation. Like the work-! relief bill this measure stands a chance of easy passage in the house and vivisection in the senate. • • • Triangle — Senator Wheeler is among the prophets who see a three-' cornered fight for the presidency in 1936. He figures that Huey Long will split off a big radical vote from FDRs following while a phalanx of republicans will stand pat at the other corner. If Huey makes gams at his present rate Wheeler will not be surprised to see a republican In augurated on Jan. 20, 1937. The danger of a deadlock appears whenever three strong candidates contest for the presidency. The win cner must have a majority, not merely a plurality of electoral votes. If the election should be thrown In to the house that body would be required to choose a president with in a very few days — and yet Its members probably would split three ways, having been elected at the polling that failed to produce a pres i ident. Could Roosevelt. Long, or a republican capture 25 states out of the <8 in a house vote? To do so would necessitate many members deserting the standard-bearer they supported during the campaign to vote for one of his adversaries How could they do this and rscajie pun ishment from their constituents? Ah. there s the rub! © *033 ME A SE0VICC 'MO BEGIN HEME TODAY GALE HENDERSON, pretty *ad 23. work, la a .Ilk mill, She and krr IB-year-old brother, I’HIE. • upixirt tbelr Invalid father. STEVE MYERS. "ho alio works In tbe mill, noka Gale to marry blm. She promloee to plve him aa anawer la a few daya. Gale poeo ohatlap. brvaka tbrooch the Ice aad la reacned by BRIAN WKSTMORE, who.e la ther. aorr dead, ball! the mill Brin a has come home after two yrnra In Pirlt to eater the mill. Gale disappear* before be learaa her name. _ VICK Y THATCH El*, daughter •f ROBERT THATCHER. «eaeral maaager of the mill, aehemea to captivate Brlna. Gale *oea oa aa erraad for her aeliihbor. MRS. O’CONNOR, which lakrt her lato the eoaatry. H » a atormy alpht aad ahr retarn baa. Rrlaa a.d takea her home. Steve la there waltlap for her. Gale trlea I;*,;.'. ."eve■.bat Brian "«*••• Improve condllloa. »•* **• ’■I" employe#. Sieve acoBa at thla. NOW GO ON WITH THE SIORY CHAPTER XXIV IT was an hour aftar lunch time. Slanting sunshine came through the high windows into the great, gray room where machines, row on row. were pounding and roaring. Spindles whirled and hands moved up and down. Gala, heeling to reach a bobbin, did not see Clyde Fisher coming toward her. She looked up quickly as she heard his voice. "You're wanted up front.” he told her. "Mias Groves. Know where her office is?’ Gale said that she did. “You can go now." Fisher told her. "But see that you don’t waste any time getting back.” Gale walked down the long cor ridor and turned.to the right. Miss Groves was known as the "person nel director." Gale knew Utile about her except that the interviewed new glrlH before they came to work and asked them questions, some ol them embarrassing. Miss Groves had come to the mill since t.ale started to work there and Gale had never been in her office. Suddenly the girl’s heart beat faster. Her father! Could anything have happened at home? No. she wouldn't believe it—she wouldn't! She walked more rapidly. If bar father was suddenly worse—or any thing had happened to Phil! There were accidents in the mill some tiroes. She'd seen Art Morin! taken away with bis arm crushed so that It had to be taken off. And there was the Frasier boy— Breathlessly Osle opened the door of the personnel director's office. It was an attractive office with a green rug on the floor and cblntt curtains over the Venetian blinds. Tbe woman who sat at the desk wore a blue dress with white at the throat and ruffs. She was a trifle stout and the way her hair was fluffed out about her face seemed a bit too young for bar. She had a round face aud a high ridged nose on which were perched spectacles it wasn't a disagreeable face unless you noticed tbe lines about the rather thin Ups. o a • CHE glanced up from the Uttar ^ aha wm reading to the girl In tbe doorway. "Yea—* aha said crisply, “what Is it?" “Are you Miss Groves?" “I am." "I’m Gale Henderson. Mr. Fisher • I said you wanted to aee me— "Oh—Gale Henderson. Yes.* The liersonnel manager's manner un bent slightly. "Yes, I did want to see you. Sit down, won't you? In that chair—there." Miss Groves returned to her let- j , ter and Gale sat in the chair beside the desk. She felt relieved. It couldn't be an accident or anything that had happened at home, she l was sure. Miss Groves wouldn't have kept her waiting If It had been anything like that. Miss Groves put down the letter ( then and sorted through some cards on her desk. She picked up one. "Your ns me,” she said, glancing at the card. "Is Gale Henderson?" j "Yes." "And you've been employed in 'the mill for two years?" “It's a little more than that I now." Miss Groves pursed her lips tnd studied the card. She went on as •though Gale had not spoken. "You live In the mill vlllsge, do you not?" "Yes." "With your father and brother?" Gale nodded. "Are there any other members j of the household?" "No." "Your brother works in the mill, too. I believe?" Gale said that he did. • • • 1I11SS GROVES laid the card on |ifl her desk. "What I have to say to you." she went on. “Is. of icourse. just between ourselves. We have our little talks here—my girls and I—and afterward our lips are sealed." Miss Groves smiled, a smile which to Gale was somehow repellent "T like to call this room our 'Confi-corner' because it is here I learn how to know my girls and they learn to know me. I don't 1 believe you’ve beeu here before. 'Gale, have you?" "No." "Well, wc must get acquainted. I want to be friends with all the girls in this great mill. All of (hem! There are so many ways in which we can help each other. 1 want them to come to me with their little secrets and their problems j and know that I will help them. You see. I love girls so! I feel that , It Is a great privilege I have here, coming In touch with so many young lives. Wonderful young lives! Youth is such a wonderful thing my dear. Don’t you think so?" *‘I suppose It is." Gale agreed. Miss Groves put a hand on the girl’s arm. ”Of course It Is. There's nothing in the world so wonderful as youth. And you have it You're youug. 1 want you to tell me your problems, my dear." "But. Miss Groves—" "Now. now! Of course you have I problems. Everyoue has his or her problems and it does us good to talk them over. That's why we have our *Confi corner* Such a lovely young girl was here, eltttng in the same chair you're sitting In. half an hour ago. She came to me because ahe wanted advice and 1 gave it to her. It seems some of the girls she works with have taken up some very dangerous ideas. Dan gerous for themselvea and tor otk era! Tney’ve lamed 10 tnis girt, tried to make her dissatisfied with conditions in the mill, telling her the workers are underpaid and the hours too long and I don’t know wbat ail. "She didn't kuow wbat to do. Sha heard there was going to be a meet ing to organize the mill worker* in opposition to the company. These other girls insisted she must come to the meeting. She was afraid of wbat might happen if she didn't go —and of what might happen if she did. Night after night ahe worried about ft and finally she did the right thing—she came to me. Do you know what I told her?" Gale shook her head. • • • ..I TOLD her to go to the meeting * and hear what was said there. I told her the best way she could help these other employes was to let me know what is going on. Be cause it’s my work to help our girls, even when they’re in the wrong. But how can I help them unless I know juat such things? I told her she and T would work together to stamp out (his dangerous, un-Amer ican propaganda. She left me, com pletely reassured. She’s taking the right eourse and knows it." Miss Groves looked at Gale and went on in her purring voice, "You see bow a few words at the right time ran mean everything? We aren’t going to let employes of this mill stray into dangerous radical ism. We’re going to keep our great big family happy and intact. Tell me," her eyes narrowed, “do you know of any such meetings that have been held?’’ Gale thought of Leota Bollar. Laota had said there was going to be a meeting—but not that there had been one. "No. Mias Groves." "Has anyone asked you to join a group with the idea of opposing the company?” "No.” Miss Groves sighed. "I’m glad to bear It," she said. "Of coursa tt’a important to know how far tbia disloyalty has gona. Frankly. I waa worried. I called you in because I knew you were one of our steady, reliable employee. I’m aura you understand that rebellion of this sort will demsnd discipline. The company will be obliged to punish those who defy them. And it dis tresses m because I love young people and I know that, underneath, none of them are really wrong headed. They only make mistakes* Gale shifted uncomfortably. Sha remembered Clyde Flaber had said. “Don’t waste any time getting back.* He would be angry because abe bad stayed ao long. And why did sha hava to alt there, listening to Miss Groves? How could she get away? The personnel director went on slowly. *A bright girl—a girl who keeps bar ayaa open—learns a great many things. And I’m sure you're a bright girl. If yon have anything to report, from time to time. I hope yon'll come to see me. I assure you I can make it—well, shall we say, to your advantage? Can I count on you. Gale?" <£• Bo OoaUssedj