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_Friday. February 22. 1935
VALLEY AMUSEMENTS
Sometimes it has seemed to us tfcat peo
ple of the Valley have devoted entirely I
too much talk to the proposition of at-1
tracting tourists to our section, and en
tirely too little thought on what the tour
ists were to do wl\en and if they arrived.
A very necessary requisite to the attrac
tion of tourists is climate, of course, but
after the novelty of the first two or three •
days has worn off, climate rather palls :
on one who Is a stranger in a strange land, '
and he begins to want to do something.
Feeling as we do, it has been with con-!
siderable satisfaction that we have noted
the efforts on the part of several Vajley
organizations to supply amusements and I
recreations for the visitors within our .
gates. A notable example has been .the
continuance of previous efforts on the part
of the Browns^JIe Chamber of Commerce,
which institution has set the pace for tour
ist entertainment.
Twic«*a week in the chamber of com
merce building there have been held en
tertainments, card parties and the like, for
our winter visitors. That these are pop
ular is amply proved by the numbers at
tending. Trips to Mexico have been ar
ranged. and visitors encouraged to visit the
•outhem republic.
During this past week, in co-operation
with the Del Mar resort and Brownsville
business firms, the tourist winter fishing
tournament has proven a very popular
feature. Hundreds of winter visitors en
tered the contest, and a good time has
been had by all. We are glad to note
that the contest will be continued on a
weekly basis during the remainder of the
•eason.
At McAllen the same sort of general
program has been carried out with parties
for our winter guests, trips to Mexico and
similar recreational features.
We of the Valley must remember that
when we go after the tourist we are go
ing against the keenest competition in the
world. Florida and California both offer
all manner of entertainment facilities, and
both states have resort* which are fully
capable of attending to the needs and de
sires of their visitors to the nth degree.
Every Valley organization will dp well
to include in its plans for the year a well
defined and rounded out program design
ed to make life more pleasant for those
who will visit us next winter.
BACK FROM THE DEAD
There is something eerie and fascinating
about the story of the Englishman who
died on a hospital operating table, remain
ed dead for five minutes, was brought back
to life—to object that he was happier while
dead and that the doctors had no right to
force him to pick up the life he had dis
carded.
To be sure, a rationalist would have little
difficulty in explaining the odd experience
this man had—his emergence, while dead,
into a light, spacious room, where he greet
ed his dead wfe and other friends who had
died years before.
Any psychologist could think, offhand,
of half a dozen impressive-sounding words
that would reduce the whole matter to a
relatively simple explanation.
But it is doubtful if this would impress
the hero of the odd experience very much.
He died and he returned to life, and he
brought back with him a strange, unearth
ly memory.
The memory will unquestionably remain
greeu and color his thoughts and actions for
the rest of his life.
Fever Can Be Reduced
Ey Sponge Bath
By DR. MORRIS HSHBtIN
Editor. Journal of Ihe American Medical Association,
and of Hygela. the Health Magazine
The most common cause for fever in children is an
infection, such as in the common cold or sore throat
All lnfectionus diseases, as measles, diphtheria, scarlet
fever, mumps, etc., begin with varying degrees of
fever.
One of the simplest ways to lower temperature is
a sponge bath with warm water. The water may be
85 and 90 degrees or even slightly warmer.
A sponge bath should never be given in a cold room
The exposure may be more dangrou* than the fever.
Fever, after all. is one of the signs that the body is
reacting against the disease condition.
• • •
Older children may be given a bath in bed by putting
a rubber sheet under the child and then washing it
thoroughly by the use of a dean cloth wet with warm
water. It is well under such circumstances to keep
those parts of the body covered that arc not being
washed
After any part is washed, it is thoroughly dried,
then the blanket is used to cover that part while an
other part is washed. Sponging the body in this man
ner for five to ten minutes will lower the temperature
anywhere from one to two degrees
After a young child ha* had a fever and the tem
perature has returned to normal, it is well to keep
the child in bed an extra day to be certain that the
tissues are recovered before the child is allowed to
get up.
Whenever there is a fever, the body must be supplied
with plenty of water During a fever more water Is
evaporated from the surface of the body.
If the child will not take ordinary water, it may j
aothetimes be encouraged to do so if the water is
slightly flavored with a fruit juice, or a little sugar
may be added. A fever also burn* tissues of the body
and the provision of extra sugar may save some of the
destruction of the tissues There used to be a sup
erstition which adused to ‘ st«rve a fever and feed a
cold.” More scientific study of the way in which the
body uses food has indicated the fallacy of thia no
tion.
Besides control of fever by use of the sponge bath,
there is the possibility of prescribing suitable drugs
known to have this effect.
They should never be taken except under advice of
a physician and should not be long continued unless
the doctor or den. This applies not only to the more
powerful drugs such as acetanilid. phenacetin and
sodium salicylate, but also to the drugs of lesser
strength, as aspirin.
I want it understood that my political future is be
hind me —Patrick J. Hurley, former secretary of war
We had a bully time. And now we get an extra week
of holliday.—Franklin Swenson. Jersey City schoolboy,
one of 40 children hostages of Clnese pirates
The nch men now have the life and happiness while
the rest of us have only the pursuit.—Senator Huey
Long, paraphrasing a clause In the Declaration of In
dependence.
Women of today stain their fingernails in such a
manner that they resemble the claws of a tiger rip
ping up sheep.—Professor Curt J. Ducasse of Brown
University.
SCOTT’S SCRAPBOOK.By R. J. Scott
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RICHEST men in am erica of Hi$'TTme-1
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acres of LAND, and HtS estate ^
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COMPLEX— WHEN HE WAS COMMISSIONED To
Take command of-the conTineniXl army
HE PRorfeSTfeD, AND WHEN HE AT LASTCOXSEJffcD
HE SAID HE DID IT NOT WITH CONVICTION
That he was capable fortheuob , but
that hr considered rr his Duty - he said
rr was for That reason Tft at he never.
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Almanac:
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Lo**?U, American
poet, essayist and
diplomat bom*
ISW‘ Spain cedes
Florida to the O.S.
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- ■ ■ ■——
The World
At a Glance
BY LESLIE EICHEL
(Central Pirns Staff Writer)
NEW YORK. FVb. 22-While ar
guments are going on among con
servative* whether four billions are
not too much to be appropriated for
relief, progressives are demanding 10
billions.
Says Senator Robert F. La Fol
lette of Wisconsin:
The credit ol the government i*
not In danger. Great Britain's per
capita tax debt is three times as
much as ours, with fewer people and
much fewer resources. If we are will
ing to be taxed there is no danger at
all so far as the government's credit
is concerned It is much like a war
If that were to come tomorrow, there
would be no talk about the govern
ment j» credit, nor of balancing the
oudget.” •
• • •
Capper
Senator Arthur £». Capper of Kan
sas. in a quiet manner, is becoming I
talked ol as a presidential candi
date. He is a liberal conservative. I
whose remaiks are quoted ofteu by
progressive*.
For example, here 1* a Capper
statement quoted widely:
“No one questions the necessity j
nor the desirability of having clui-,
dren brought up to take their share
In the work of the home. This (child
labor) amendment is aimed, not at I
their exploitation in factories, mills
or mines—or wherever it occurs. ‘
. . .
Mussolini Strategy
Observers are beginning to believe
that the threat* o! Mussolini against
Aby.ssmui were timed to ward off
economic unrest in Italy.
The lira had been acting as if fi-i
nannal distress wa* at hand. And
the chiel person* called to the col
or* were the young men of employ
able age who probably were unem
ployed.
Thus a “patriotic' call to arm*:
may save a dictator.
• • •
Slogan
The American Federation oi Laoo.r
making a fight on one hand against
giant corporations and on the other
hand against indejiendent worker or-1
ganuation* rising up against it. is
getting into a fighting mood (which
is contrary to its normal demeanon. j
The A. F of L's slogan may be
found in an editorial In the New
York Pest
“What must happen to both the
automobile and cigaret industries if |
the $600-to-$700 annual wage be-,
coxes the new American standard?
“How many automobiles can be
sold to $700-a-year workers, even
with the industry’s sensationally low
prices and easy terms?
“What market lor factory-made
cigaret*, even at trifling prices, to
workers earning $10 a week?*’
Some of the independent union*
are for direct action—as against ar
guments like this
• • •
.Single Taxer* Gaining
At i* the case when taxes mount,
single taxers are gaining ground.
But men of property, while cry
ing for relief trom taxes, are not
eager for the single lax method.
Read this letter from Whidden
Graham, a single taxer:
“The presidents social security
schemes—employment insurance and
Oid-age pensions—are merely futile
palliatives designed to provide some
*ort of charity, instead of social Jus
tice ...
“So long a* mankind tries to es
cape irom the consequences of the
fundamental injustice of our social
order—the acquisition by the few of
I the land value* created by all the
i>e©pie—so long shall we have wide
spread poverty and misery for the
millions of the unemployed.”
• • •
What Result?
People here arc asking however.;
what the government will gain by
unsettled, or. rsther. unsettling pol
icy.
The government takes just enough
interest to emotionalize the issues—
then darts somewhere else.
What is likely to occur and what
is occurring beneath the surface u
this:
One element is solidif>ing through
subtle propaganda appeal a« a defi
nite Fascist! group.
The other sloe, far larger in num
bers, but weak and for the moat par?
following false trails, eventually wul
be solidified through economic ne
cessity and fear, and may lose its bal-1
ar.ee and fight—and be wiped out. I
Men here who worship democratic i
institutions are fearful that unless
the government does assert itself as
an impartial and strict dispenser of
justice, democratic Institution* will
fall as the opposing forces clash.
Say these mne. In the town where
Tom L. Johnson became the most
widely quoted mayor in America ano
where his wroncs still are a guiding
light:
It la not business that must be
preserved, but human rights—ana
then we shall have business for the
many, not for the few; a better.
suunder business.
Ice patrol vessels of tilt U. 6 1
Coast Guard cover a radius of from
5.000 to 6.000 miles In their search
for icebergs.
Eighty-five per cent of the ’
worlds nickel supply comes irom.
the Georgian Bay region in Onta-I
zua
News
Behind the
News
capital aad world gossip, svsau
id pem aalltlsa la aad out at
tbs new* wnttsa by • group at
earless aad interned newspaper
men of Washington aad New
York. This column la puoiuasd
07 Tbs Herald ss s osws feature
Opinions express »d are those of
tbs writers ss Individuals and
should not be interpreted ss re
flecting the editorial policy of this
iswspsper.
WASHINGTON
By George Durno
Stymie —The boys who should
know at headquarters here continue
to predict that an Indictment of
Senator Huey Long (or income tax
violation is Just around the corner.
As nearly as can be gathered, how
ever. a snag has been hit. A number
of Longs political lieutenants al
ready have been run through the
New Orleans grand jury mill but
what was touted to Washington m
private advices as a grade-A case
against the Kingfish himself seem
ingly has run into a temporary sty
mie
There is talk of sending a special
assistant to the attorney general
down to Ne* Orleans to remove any
gum dr ops that may be lloeiuig
around in the carburetor.
• mm
Break — Meanwhile. Huey's shouts
ot accusation against Postmaster
General Jim Parley make many on
Capitol Hill incline to regard the
attack as a precautionary measure
In other words, if the Bureau of
Internal Revenue slaps a tax indict
ment on him the Louisiana Loud
speaker can then charge persecution
—pointing first to his general break
with the Roosevelt administration,
and secondly to his set-to with Par
ley
Longs break with FDR is now
fust about as complete as possible.
In his recent share-the-wealth radio
speeches the Kingfish bluntly has
barged the president with failing
tc deliver and demanded still an
other national deal with himself in
control of the deck.
• • •
Step* - Internal revenue investi
gators have been checking up on
Long s finances since the latter part
of the Hoover administration The
best men the government has have
been working on the case for months
—a fact of which the Delta Dicta
tor is well aware
But the Canebrake senator makes
no bones of hi* aversion to bank ac
counts. checks, notes, etc. He deals
in cash Always he has a big roll
of bills in his pocket. A friend can
aot get Huey to cash a check for
him Huey prefers loaning the de
sired amou.it on an oral promise to
repay rather than be forced to en-:
dorse anybody's paper for cashing
Certainly he writes no checks.
Last fail the government sleuths
on the job were sure their case would
be made by the end of the year
They're still working to reach the
highest steps on the indictment lad
der.
• • •
Aggrewion — Farly in 1934 this
column reported the prediction of a
battle-scarred labor leader that
there would he much violence along
the labor front before the summer
was ended. This prediction was
borne out by blood> strikes in Min
neapolis, San Francisco, the south
ern textile areas and elsewhere.
This same seer of the organized
labor movement now forecasts that
the next six months of 1935 will be
marked by a series of ‘'desperate,
sporadic, localised strike* **
They will be sporadic and localiz
ed, he says, because the union move
ment—despite President William
Green and the executive council of
the American Federation of Labor
lacks truly centralized control. They
will be desperate because they will
again be led by "rank-and-filers"
who think the Washington labor
headquarters is not sufficiently ag
gressive in its struggle with the
bosses
• • •
Battle — Green s thinly veiled i
threat of an auto strike unless the i
Auto Labor Board is abolished is
accepted here as a move to mollify
more Impetuous men in the union
ranks who ertve action when a
cause is at stake. Older heads have i
pointed out to the A. F. of L. presi-'
dent, however, that should he carry
through his threat the argument
would be with President Roosevelt
rather than the auto manufacturers.
FDR was painfully specific In the
letter he addressed the A. F of L.
declining to do away with the Auto
Labor Board. The president assert
ed this agenev. headed by Leo Wol
man, was a part of the .government.
He suggested that no minority no
matter how well organized, should
try to dictate its abolition.
A strike called on this issue alone
would be duck soup for the employ
ers to this extent: they have visions
til sitting bark and letting the White
House fight their battle for them
• • •
Riding — Although the United
States Chamber of Commerce has
gone on record in favor of cutting
President Roosevelt’s desired *4.000 -
000.000 work-relief appropriation in
half, business men identified with
l
Love u no longer blind, but judging by
the divorce ■»■*» it » mil wther inort
WHEN WASHINGTON WAS PRESIDENT
Yootae ooiKkc
TOO FAR(
YOO’RB MU1
GOING FAR
ENOUGH*
/Nv /
other national industrial organisa
tions are inclined to let it ride
The National Association of Man
ufacturers, for instance, has pointed
out that *1.250.000.000 could be spent
for direct relief this jear and the
budget still balanced. But they
haven't pressed the Idea.
When directors of the NAM met
there was a general sentiment that
FDR was going to get his four bil
lion anyway so there was nothing to
be gamed at this stage by lighting
his program
Tie-In — The bill giving the Home
Owners Loan Corporation another
tl.500.000 000 is grinding through the
house committee and doubtless will
paw. A fmaU group of representa
tives demanding sn investigation of
alleged Pome Loan Irregularities
and political favoritism is opposed by
a strong majority who are anxious
to push through the appropriation to
save home owners.
Tied in with the Home Owners
Loan Corporation la the new mort
gage system now being installed by
the Federal Housing Administration.
Banks and building aassociatlons are
rapidly learning the advantages of
federal mortgage insurance. Build
ing contractors everywhere are boost
ing the new system, which is releas
ing money for construction. The
HOLC money-lertdlng plan is merely
a atop gap but the n ort gage in
surance system is permanent.
• • •
Notes — Three republicans on the
bench —Hughes. Roberts and Stone
—stood by the New Deal . . . Stone
is credited with having persuaded
President Hoover to appoint Cardo
so .. If the 5-4 decision had gone
the other way there would have been
a demand for enlarging the number
of Judges ... now look out for an ad •
verse decision on some big New Dew]
law. to balance the account.
If the engine Is equipped with •
fuel pump. It is not necessary tc
prime the carburetor If the car
should run out of gas.
BEGIN HEME TODAY
CALK HENDERSON, pretty tad
«. m>rki ta a allk aalll She ait
krr t»-yrar-ald brother. POJL.
support tkrlr laralld latkrr.
STEVE MEYERS. «*k« ala#
works ta tkr aalll. asks Gala ta
narry klai Ska praailaas to |tw
kin as aaawer la a few 4aya.
Gala «oea skating. krr aka
tkrooak tkr ler and la reaeaad ky
BRIAN WESTMORE. wkaaa fa
tkrr. aow dra4. ball! tka aalll.
Brlaa kaa cnm* hoaia altar tat
years la Parla to aatar tka aalll
Gala disappears kafara ka aaa
laara bar on rue.
VICKY THATCHER. daughter
of HUBERT THAT* HER. «eaeral
vnaaiiu of tka aatlU aebeaaes ta
captivate Brlaa.
Gala sad Stars a Barrel. later
■»«H» Brta. rails aad par
aaadra Gala ta «» for *»•;
Tkry atop ta test "f4
Hrlaa takes the *lrl la *la araae
Ha trlla her he loros krr. Oa tka
war koat they aaa RAU.I
TKR. a*frlaad of Brlaa’. Eater
that sight Brlaa aaroaatar. RaUf
■Bate. Vlrky la *"••»«• f-.i!
nay a. -Brlaa. ok.
P, aomhir I saw yoB with this
afters ooaf"
hOW GO OB WITH TB® 1TU»¥
CHAPTER XXXI
BRIAN, lighting a Cigaret. did not
answer Wally for a moment.
Then he said. "I suppose you think
I'd give away my secrets to a gay
dog like you? Not likely!"
A girl with pale gold braids
wrapped around her bead like a
halo cried. "Wally Carter—of all
the nerve! Maybe Vicky Is the
prettiest girl In the room but do
the rest of ns have to hear about
it all the time? Give us a break,
can’t you?"
“Aw, now, Madge-!"
•And only laat night," put to »
contralto voice, "he was telling me
about my flawless beauty. Wally,
Wally, you’ve rained my faith to
men!"
• But listen—give me a chance—
The good-natured bickeriug wen!
on. Only Vicky said nothing. 8be
sat. very still and white, looking
down at the silver bracelet on her
wrist, finrering the bracelet me
chanically.
Brian asked quietly, “Why eo
silent. Vicky?"
She raised her head then, met
bis eyes. “It'a—my head." ebe said,
frowning slightly. "It’e aching fear
fully."
"Shall we leave?” #
Vicky hesitated. Then she said,
"I believe I’d like to if you don’t
mind."
•I ll drive you home." he said.
Five minutes later they were out
side. Brimo helped her into the
coupe and she leaned back, breath
ing deeply. The fresh, cool air
struck her faca. Vicky closed her
eyes as Brian ahlftsd Into first and
ths car moved down the driveway.
Presently she opened them again.
She said. "I feel better already. It
was so stuffy at ths club—"
Brian nodded. "Tee, ft was," be
agreed. "Are you sura you’re warm
enough?"
"Oh. yes." The collar of her fur
coat had slippud to one aid* and
she drew It into placs. She aald
“Let's not go home Jnst yet This
air seems to be Inst what I needed.
Let’s drive out on ths Morley
Road."
Brian turned the car at the next
corner and soon they wars travel
tog long a oountry road with total,
fields ob either aide.
e • e
WIND whipped Vicky's hair back
and a tendril of it blew against
Brian’s cheek. He asked. “How's
the head?
“Much better.* Vicky was silent
for a time. She stole a swift look
at the young man beside her and
tbenp lunged.
“Brian." Vicky said. Tee been
thinking about things.*
“What thiugs?
-Oh—everything. I'm so tired of
doing the same things.—shopping
and playing bridge and golrg to
parties. Seeing the same people
and hearing them say the same
things. You think I'm terribly trlv
olous. don't you? I'm not— I mean
11 don't want to ba I wish I could
do something that really counta."
“But you can. Vicky.
-I hadn't thought much about
it.* the girt went on. “before you
rams You've made me realise bow
! silly and foolish It is to waste time
the way I have, the way almost
everyone I know does. I want to
work like you do.
Brian smiled grimly, -met'*
not much of an ambition," ho aald.
“So far 1 haven't done anything at
alL"
••Oh. but you have! I’ve heard
Father tell about it. He any* It’s
wonderful tbe way you’ve taken
hold at the mill."
“Then your tether's not as ob
serving as I thought be was. Whet
do you want to do, Vicky? la there
anything special you have lu
mini?"
"Well, there te—" She hesitated.
"1 wanted to talk to you about tt
I’ve been thinking I’d like to know
more about tha people who work at
‘the mill. You’re so Interested in
them. I’d like to—well, get ac
quainted and aee tt there aren’t
ways I eould help them, little
things I could do.”
"1 think that’s a great idea.
Vicky!"
"Do you, really? Oh, I’m ao
glad. Then will yon help me irttb
itr
“Of course 1 will."
Vicky touched his arm. “You ere
sweet,” she said. "I thought if 1
could get acquainted with some
girls about my own age ad first
that would be the easiest way. Yoa
moat know some at them, don’t
yon? Will you taka me to the mill
village and introduce me?"
“There’s one girl," Brian aald
[slowly. "1 might taka you to aee
her—"
| Vicky’s ayes were watching him.
narrowed, cat-like. "Then tt*a set
tled." she aald. “When can we go
—tomorrow?”
"No, not tomorrow. 1 could take
you Tuesday."
"What time shall we go?"
"It will have to be Tuesday eve
ning. Tm busy all day, you know."
”1 can hardly wait." Vicky told
him—and meant every word of It
“I can hardly wait until Tuesday!"
f • * •
ALE looked at tb* dresses hang
^ Ing limply tn the clothes closet
There was very little choice—the
black dress with tbe red buttons or
tha blue with the lighter blue col
,*«• The* wen the am* «P© that
could be considered.
Gale took oat tba blae draw and
bold It op before the mirror. K
was older than the black ooet baft
rosily more becoming- Ten. It had
bettor be the bine. She'd rip off
that collar and bnste In n freak
whits one.
There was a knock on ike doer
and her brother opened tt.
"Gale." be asked. “could you lean
me n dollar?"
She took her pane from the
dressing table and opened It. There
were three crumpled dollar Mile Hi
the parse and aome silver. 8ke
held oat one of the Mils.
Phil took it "Thanks." be sakL
Til give It back to yon au pay
day."
“That'a all right"
When he was gone the grtrl soft
for a moment staring nt the floor.
Oh. well, there was no aae worrying
about Phil. Not tonight, at least
Tonight—
Gale began beating the white col
lar into place. Even Phil's myste
rious absences, bis frequent need at
money didn't seem so alarming to
night For two days Gale had bean
living In a dream world.
• • •
'THERE were time* when As
couldn't believe the glorious se
cret locked swsy in her heart.
There were timet when she told
herself that was a dream.
But H wasn’t—It wasn't! Brian
Westmors had said, *1 love you.
Gale. 1 think I’ve been Hi love
with yon from tbe very first time
I saw yon—"
Hs had said that and he waa
coming tonight There were so
many things Gale should have
dona Her father, of coarse, would
have to know. She should have
thought how aba was to tell him,
how she was to maks him under
stand how really fine and alncera
Brian waa There were things her
father waa sure to say—objections
—and she should have thought bow
to meet them.
The collst was Hi place now.
Gale laid the dreaa aside and stood
before the mirror. She brushed
her hair nntil the bronse high-’
lights in ft flickered like gold Her
cheeks naeded no rouge; the ivory
skin glowed with the Are beneath
It She tonebed her face with a
powder puff, studied the effect. Shu
wanted so much to look her best
tonight
The blue dress want over bar
head. Tea the white collar did
make H look freeber. It waa a
cheap Mttle dreaa one Gale had
made herself. Bhe thought of thu
frock she would Uka to wear to
night tbe sort to be seen In shop
windows at the other aide of town
—sapphire satin or Maek velvet
with sliver buttoue, slim and so
phisticated.
She beard a knock on the outer
door and for an instant her heart
ceased beating. Then sbe hurried
into the living room. 6be opened
the door, said "Good evening."-'
and than stepped back.
Gale's eyaa wide searched the
shadowa Vicky Thatcher was fac
ing her and behind Vicky, half ta
darkness, stood Brian Westmora