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EsUblishro July 4. IH91 A* a Dally Newspaper,
by Jesse O. Wheeler
J M STEIN . Publisher
RALPH L BUELL . Editor
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By Mall—Outside of the Rio Grande Vauey: 75a par
month; $9 00 per year; 6 months. $4.50
Monday. April 8, 1935
Quit Tinkering!
There is just one thing, as we see it. that can pos
sibly hold back the construction of the Kenedy
county road and that Is the very imminent danger
that the project will be choked to death by its
friends
It cannot be said too often, cannot be emphasized
too strongly, that the road is all right. Is in safe
hands and will be built. This happy consummation
of affairs was brought about by the efforts of Senator
Jim Neal, who fired all of the press agents that had
been putting the road In newspaper headlines, and
went to work and secured complete accord among all
elements necessary.
In real plain English, if everybody ei.vr will just
“Shut up’, the safety of the road is assured. The
matter Is in the hands of experts, the rest of us had
better quit tinkering.
Congratulations To McAllen
And Weslaco
Pupils of two Hidalgo county schools sang and
played themselves into the limelight during the past
week and brought credit to themselves, t-heir In
structors, their communities and their county.
McAllen High School s boys glee club came in sec
ond at the Federated State meet at San Angelo, las
ing to Waco by the close score of 95 to 94 for first
honors. In our own South Texas meet held at
A A: I college at Kingsville. Weslaco High School
beat out Corpus Christ 1 by a point total of 72 to 70.
to gamer first place honors
Congratulations arp in order for both and are
hereby tendered
Our School Elections
In only two of the many school elections held in
the Valiev on Saturday was there interest enough
in the outcome to turn out a respectable vote. These
two districts happened to be the scenes of spirited
elections because of competition for places on the
board, with real or fancied Issues at stake.
If the lack df competition and consequent lack of
Interest in the elections of other districts was due to
complete satisfaction as to the manner In which
their schools and their problems are being conducted
•nd met. well and good.
On the other hand, if the apathy which surround
ed most of these elections was due to ignorance of
school affairs and general passiveness towards them,
that is something else again.
A Classified Advertising Record
Some sort of a classified advertising record for the
Valley is being set this week by the ten Ford dealers
of the Valley who began Sunday a senes of 50 inch
Classified display advertisements which will be con
tinued throughout the week In three Valley news
papers. including The Brownsville Herald.
The daily advertisements feature ‘Used Car Bar
gains" of each dealer.
We make the prediction that the classified adver
tising record being set by the Ford dealers will result
in another record for the Valley, that of used cars
aold during the period.
During the depression, the female of the species has
proved herself more versatile than the male. If not
more deadly, by digging up Jobs—unheard-of Jobs—
when tlve standard ones were not to be had — Mrs.
Loire Brophy. New York business woman
The ‘Valley* Again!
Headline in the Corpus Christl Caller-Tunes of
Sunday tells that "Two Are Killed in Valley Storm",
and the story underneath proceeds to tell of damage
done near the "Rio Grande". Who can be blamed
if they put the “Valley" and "Rio Grande" together
and assume that a storm has killed two persons in
the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.
Just another instance of association, and another
instance that would have been avoided had we start
ed long ago to call the “Valley" what it really is, the
"Delta of the Rio Grande".
Mentally Unfit Found
Injured at Birth
I . I.
By DR. MORRIS FISHBLIN
Lditnr. Journal of the American Medical Association,
and of Hygeia. the Health Magazine
Now that so many of our states are considering laws
relative to sterilization of the unfit, particularly the
mentally defective, you might like to see some of the
figures concerning the distribution of mentally de
fective persons in various populations.
It is ordinarily believed that so-called mental de
ficiency represents merely a lessened amount of in
telligence. You should realize, however, that there
are many tj^xs of mental defects associated with va
rious forms of physical disturbances.
There arc. for example, cases in which the brain
has been injured during birth, cases of accumulation
of fluid in the brain, those in which the brain is
smaller than normal: others in which disease has
damaged the brain: some of inherited disturbances,
such as Mongolian idiocy and various forms of fam
ilial idiocy, and cases in which glands fail to function
properly, resulting in degeneration of the nervous
system
• • •
The most significant factor at present involves
inheritance of such defects. , Recently a specialist
analyzed groups of mental defectives with a view to
determining the extent to which heredity is involved.
His conclusion was that there was little support for
the idea that heredity plays an important role in
causing mental deficiency. He feels that Injury at
birth is much more important as a causative factor.
Because some people have felt that the age of the
parents is of considerable Importance in relationship
to the genius of the child, a special study was made
on this point.
Figures in a survey made in Great Britain indicated
that the ages of the fathers of Mongolian idiots and
mentally defective children were on the average
greater than those of the fathers of normal children:
furthermore, that there are usually greater differences
between the ages of the father and mother in the
case of the mentally deficient child than in the case
of the mentally sound child.
• • •
The idea that parents of advanced years produce
more brilliant children than younger parents goes
back to the ancient Greek Aristotle, who said. • Pre
mature conjunctions produce imperfect offspring,
feeble in mind and short In stature.”
The majority of scientific observers today are con
vinced that the influence of the age of the parents.
In the absence of any rare heriditary factors. Is very
slight. The one way In which the age of the parents
may enter directly in the causation of a mental de
fect Is the difficulty in childbirth Involved with very
old or very young mothers
Though It is nice to achieve the perfect marriage,
you lose the struggle when you get it. — Actor James
Rennie, whose 15-year ‘ ideal ’ marriage to Dorothy
Gish faces dissolution.
NRA is not a vaudeville act. It is an effort on the
part of government, business, and labor to get to
get together and work out things for common bene
fit. — Donald Richberg.
War is no longer the avenue to all mankind de
sires. My country, right or wrong, is no longer a
slogan accepted by self-respecting minds. —Htrosi
Saito Japanese ambassador to U S.
We were dishonored for IS years through false
leadership, but such a Germany shall never come
back. — Adolf Hitler.
—
Even at 80. one does not acquire the gift of pro
phecy. out I look forward to a return of normal
conditions within my own time. — Andrew Mellon.
The love to own property must be sustained above
ev^bthing else—Gov. George H. Earl of Pennsyl
vania.
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Neither I nor any one after me will sign anything
derogatory to our honor What we sign we will keep.
—Adolf Hitler.
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^ 1910 )
I
The World
At a Glance
RY LESLIE EICHEL
(Central Press Stall Writer)
NEW YORK. April 8—Some stu
dents of economics are going back to
a book written 52 years ago to find a
way out of present difficulties.
The book is "Social Problems." by
the same Henry George who wrote
the classic * Progress it Poverty”
(which some of our readers wouid
have us re-read).
Henry' George bulks larger and
larger as the years pass. He may go
down into history as the major
American prophet—and his words of
more than half a century ago still
may lead to a new social order.
• • •
Striking Words
Among the most striking words
in Henry Georges "Social Prob
lems' are these tand they might
have been written this very hour):
“Upon the assumption that as
cendants may bind descendants
that one generation may legislate
lor another generation, rests the as-,
turned validity of our land title* and |
public debts.
“If it were possible for the present
to borrow of the future, for those
now living to draw upon wealth to
be created by those who are yet to
come, there could be no more dan
gerous power, none that would in
volve in its exercise a more flagrant
contempt for the natural and in
alienable rights of man.
"But we have no such power, and
there is no possible invention by
which we can obtain it. When we talk
about calling upon future genera
tions to bear their part in the costs
and burdens of the present, about
imposing upon them a shair in ex
penditures. we take the liberty of
assuming they will consider 'such
expenditures to have been made for
their benefit as well as for ours—
which is an ah6urdity.”
• • •
Henry George strikes directly ai
the present situation with:
“Public debts are not a device for
compelling those yet to be to bear a
share in the expenses which a pres
ent generation may choose to incur
That is. of course, a physical Impos
sibility. They are merely a device
or obtaining control of wealth In
the present tax by promising that a
certain distribution of wealm in the
future shall be made—a device by
which the owner* of existing wealth
are induced to give it up under
promise, not merely that other peo
ple shall be taxed to pay them, but
that other people's children shall be
taxed for Uie benefit of their chil
dren or the children of their as
signs.
"Those who get control of govern
ment* are thus enabled to obtain
sums which they could not get by
immediate taxation without arous
ing the indignation and resistance
of those who could make the most
effective resistance. Thus tyrants,
and extravagance and corruption
are fostered.
“If any cases can be pointed to in
which the power to incur public
debts has been in any way a bene
fit. they are as nothing compared
with the cases in which the effects
have been purely injurious
"The public debts for which most
can be said are those contracted for
the purpose of making public im
provements. yet w’hat extravagance
and corruption the power of con
tracting such debts has engendered
in the United States is too well
known to require illustration, and
has led. in a number of states, to
constitutional restrictions.
"Even the quasi-public debts of
railway and other such companies
have similarly led to extravagance
and corruption that have far out
weighed any good results accom
plished through them.
"While as for the great national
debts of the world. Incurred as they
have been for purposes of tyranny
and war. it is possible to see In them
anything except evil."
• • •
Henry George has some solution*
We shall quote more from him to
morrow. In the meantime, wb thank
readers for calling him to our at
tention again.
' i
vm uwri I
mean - I
Some women have to do a lot of talking
e explain what they have been talking
about
News
Behind the
News
Capital and world gossip. event*
and peraonaUtlea, In and out of
the new*, written by a group of
fearless and Informed newspaper
men of Washington and Now York.
This column Is published by The
Herald as a news feature. Opinion*
expressed are those of the writers as
individuals and should not be in
terpreted as reflecting the editorial
policy of this newspaper.
WASHINGTON
B> George Du mo
Finale? What with all the tumult
and shouting prevailing over work
relief one bit of news may be
jiassed along to the many who view
our rapidly mounting national debt
with alarm.
President Roosevelt sent word to
certain members of the senate re
cently that the $4,880,000,000 pro
gram would be his last big-scale
tenture in pump priming. Refer
ence, of course, u to the four bil
lion allotted to make jobs for the
unfortunate. The remaining $880,
0 0.000 In the bill is for direct re
lief. which most authorities now
accept as a chronic problem.
Senator Jim Byrnes of S. C.. rec
ognized White House spokesman. Is
said to have conveyed this message
to members of the senate appropri
ation committee when the huge bill
still was in early stages of consid
eration.
mm*
Mystery—As the story now de
velops. FT>R has no hankering to
continue to put strains on our na
tional credit. He is represented as
saying he thought he could break
the back of the unemployment
bogey with one last outlay of four
billion dollars.
Congressional leaders agree that
the issue certainly is up to the pres
ident. Never in history has so much
money and unbridled power to
spend it been lodged in the handa
of one man.
Sociologists who have struggled
for years with the problem of keep
ing willing hands from being idle
are awaiting eagerly for the White
House solution, thus far shrouded
In deepest mystery despite all ef
forts on Capitol Hill to smoke it out.
• • •
Permanent—Men who have in
timate access to the executive man
sion hint Mr. Roosevelt lias a big
surprise program ready to pop.
Dozens of government economists
and statisticians have been busy
since last December exploring ev
ery avenue of approach to the un
employment problem with a view to
furnishing the White House some
spectacular and successful way out.
Their suggestions and findings in
turn have gone through clearing
houses mors intimate with the
White House When the president
last was at his Warm Springs re
treat he Is said to have worked out
the bold outlines of the impending
attack on destitution.
Less sanguine observers hold that
whatever new rabbits may come
out of the New Deal hat they will
not. cannot, start performing ef
fectively before 1936. Unless money
L to be tossed around in CWA
fashion for digging holes and then
refilling them. It takes months for
federal building expenditures to
produce appreciable employment
In the meantime we have direct
relief with us—probably always.
• • •
Cases—The most Immediately in
teresting angle of the international
situation from an American view
point doesn’t concern war threats
in Europe. . .
One day this week Secretary of
State Hull Is going to have to make
a decision whether or not to get
tough with Prance on the object
of reciprocal trade agreements. The
betting is he wilL
Hull has worked heart and soul
tc put ov er the idea of mutual trade
under a ‘ most-favored nation’ ar
rangement—which actually means
that everybody gets the same break
on tariffs, etc. His treaty with Bel
gium was the big opening wedge—
but many American industrialists
are screaming It opens the way also
U an influx of goods from other
countries that haven’t been l»lh*
enough to gather around the dotted
line with us.
• • •
Tough—France was one of the
nations formally warned that tht
benefits of the Belgian treaty
wouldn't accrue long to her also
unless there was reciprocity on re
ceiving American exports.
Secretary HuU spent months be
ing highly diplomatic and making
concessions to put over the start of
his reciprocal arrangements. He is
up against quiet but sustained op
position from George Peek, specif
presidential trade
thinks commerce *h?ultdJ*
ed on a strict ’’Yanke trading bar
ter system. .. . _
Observers say the time has now
come for HuU to get «al tough with
recalcitrant nations if his idea ever
is to go over. His old senate train
ing may come In handy here—and
Prance looks like the first nation
to be caUed Into line, or else.
• • •
Solone-Senatorial debate on the
much tossed around bill *®
consumers of food. d^S^ *^3
metics additional protection was
more than illuminating
Senator Royal S. Copeland of N
Y argued valiantly for the new
food and drug act. ..
Arrayed against Dr. CoP*Uwi
weres senator from a
siate in which is manufactured
ot the nation s most highly ad^er
tised mouth washes; an ^ern
senator whose state P^UGesone or
our best known headache. * ei^;^le® •
a southeastern senator who has as
a constituent the manufacturer©!
l widely known patent cold cure,
» senftuw from ft central wera »"hlch
houses one ot the hlpeftt phermft
ceuticftl housee-ftM •*0u$f2
senator from whose *tate tsows
snake oil. kink remover and what
not. There were others.
• • •
Hands - Off — Two factions art
sss-t 'sssrtSL s%s
£~ aaJssrsJS" *5
S-gffJftt's.iJBSr
gions. especially the to
B The other faction asks nun u>
sav a word that will bolster up
Sisident Cardenas to his
with revolutionists. Hull istoid that
If he would give out a good neigh
bar" and ‘hands off- {jj
revolutionists would fold UP_“»
alleged that former President Oaljes
is stirring up trouble for Cardenas.
State Department people say
there is no evidence that Ameri
cas an wrongfully treated in Max
NATURAL RESOURCES AND HUMAN GREED
(EXHAUST EC
Oil wclls
Ico. They do not expect a state
ment of American policy toward
Mexico.
• • •
Note*—Only one major bill after
three months talk—that’s the record
of congress.The AAA amend
ments have been called in and the
bill is being revamped again.
House members oredict that the
Copeland-Tugwell drug bill will be
c.rasticaliy altered.. Republicans in
the house can't hang together on
any definite program—too many
hands out for administration pie...
Soil erosion experts are considering
several immense plans for prevent
ing western dust storms.
Note*—Conservative eastern re
publicans criticize William Allens
White for Insisting that the party
must come out for social security
—“The West is wild again la ona
comment_A long-delayed storm
against Secretary Wallace and AAA
Is breaking in the senate...Repub
lican* in Washington, from many
states, met Governor Alf Land on
of Kansas and liked him...
O' DARK BLOND
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brr home tairadarla* brr aa bla
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drier away aad lallawa la Robrrt
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dbr walba knar ratrra ibr rbaaf
trar'a paartrra aad flada him dead
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to Robrrt Oolar*a rar will br
foaad lb tbr taaatala pool
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORK
CHAPTER XXI
MI LUCENT kepi her prose not
of mind. Now that she bad I
seen the human side of the offlcei
brought out by Vers Durheoe. she ,
realized that be was. after all. only
I man and one of the kind who
could be Impressed by Vera Do
chene's simulated interest.
“Just what do you mean." she
asked, “by asking me what 1 know
shout this?"
He put the paper down on her
desk, banged It with bis knurklet
by way of emphasis. “This paper.*’
be said, “was written on the ma
chine in your desk. Therefore. 1
want to know Just what you
know . . .*
“Walt • minute." Jarris Happ
said “1 think i can answer that
question. Buchanan. This young
lady knows absolutely potbmg
about It. This Is the first time she
bus sat at that desk. 1 showed it
to her last night, hot she didn’t
have aa opportunity to use tbe type
writer tor the simple reason that
( was la the room until the time I
retired and when 1 retired the
room was locked. There's u par
tlcularly good trade of lock on thi*
room, and Millicent doesn't bare s
ksy."
“Thao who didr the detective
asked.
“Quite a few of the people In tbe
house The housekeeper, for one 1
She comes in bars to clean up. My
wife has a key which she leaves 1
believe, either In the custody of her
maid. Miss Vera Ducbene. or leavet
banging where it Is accessible toj
Vara Ducbene. Robert Cals# has a
key My son. Norman, has a key.
and 1 have a key."
“Hew about the ehauffeurr
• • •
JARVIS HAPP hesitated a mo
meat, then said slowly. "Tea. Mj
chauffeur bad a key."
“Bit keys were found In hh
pocket.” Detective Buchanan said
“Then the keys that are mlssinc
are those of Robert Caise. is that
right r
"Tea. Caise said be left bis en
tire key container in the car. He
doesn’t usually do that He lea vet
bis Ignition key on his key con
Miner, la that way be Isn’t sc
likely to forget It He's ratber
absent-minded at time* It seems
So, If your chauffeur took Cutse t
ear and get Guise’s key* be d have
a way to get Into your study.”
"He didn’t need to do that” Happ
said, "because I’ve already told you
be could get in here any time he
wanted to. He bad a key.”
"Isn’t ft ratber ununual to give a
chauffeur a hip to jour private
study r i
Jarvis Happ ■ tooe was Icily for
mal. "I can assure you. Buchanan."
be said, "that I am not In the least
Interested in tbe usual etlquet ap
plying to chauffeurs, or tbe custom
ary relationships between chauf
feurs and employers 1 manage my
affairs for my own convenience."
"Well, wave got to investigate
this thing." Buchanan said, "and
that's one of the funny facts."
“There certainly la nothing
funny about It." Jarvis Happ re
marked savagely.
“Well, call It queer If you want
to. There are lots of queer things
about this murder For instance
why should Harry Feldlng have
thrown those car keys Into the pool
below tbe fountain?*'
“Too haven’t any reason for be
lieving that he did." Happ pointed
out, “except that someone has sent
you an nnslgned typewritten doeu
menu*
“Oh yes. we have." the detective
said.
He pushed his band down Into hts
coat pocket, brought out the water
soaked leather key container, end
slapped it down on Jarvta Happ s
dnek.
“We drained the pool." he said
“That’s what we found In the hot
tom of it."
• • •
JARVIS HAPP stared at the water
soaked key container without
emotion.
T still say." Jarvis Happ r*
marked ’that you have do evidence
whatever that Harry Feldlng put
those keys In the pooL On tbe other
hand y«u have every evidence that
be did not."
"Wbat do you moan we’ve got
every evidence that he didn’t?"
Jarvis Happ sighed after tbe man
ner of a patient teacher explaining
something to a ratbor dull school
boy.
‘The note." be said, “was deliv
ered to you. It was written for Lht
purpose of enabling yon to find tbe
missing keys Too didn't enter
upon tbe scene until sfter Harry
Feldlng had been murdered Nat
urally therefore, tbe note was writ
ten after Folding's murder. A dead
man doesn’t write letters on e type
writer, even if be does have access
to the room where the typewriter
Is kept.
“Now. oo the other band, some
one knew those keys were In the
pool. Logically the only person
who would snow this was the per
son who threw the keys there Gar
talnly If Harry Felding bad re
tnrned home In the darkness and
tossed those keys surreptitiously
Into the pool be would bare been
the only one who knew about It
The fact that this oote was writ
ten Is proof that some living person
knew of the biding place of those
keys, and Is almost positive Indies
tlon that this person put them
there."
“Why r
“If Harry Felding had those
keys." Jarvis Fapp said, "the per
son who secured possession of them
must have taken them from Harry
Felding They couldn’t have taken
them from him while he was alive
wl’hout a fight, unless It bad been
some person lo whom Felding had
confidence If such a person took
the keys from Felding after his
death, that person must have been
Instrumental in bringing about bis
death, or else most have discovered
his body without reporting ft to
the police
"If. on the other hand. Folding,
hhneelf, did not base thane kayo.
the person who did bat# them
realized that tt would be moat to*
criminating to be found with tbooe
keys since the mere possession at
the keys ties some person op rttl
the snrreptttloas operation at
Robert Caise’a antomooile. That
means that some member of this
bousebold was ont at a late boor
last night, and It ia only reasons bio
to suppose that such a secret nrxv
tnrnal excursion was connected ta
some way either with the death at
Harry Feldlng or the events which
led np to tt."
• • •
OUCHANAN suddenly dropped
^ his attitude of hostility.
"We still ain’t getting anywhere,
Mr. Happ." he said, “because the
person who tossed those keys Into
the pool did tt to conceal them.
Such a person would never uavn
written a note telling where they
were. Therefore, the parson who
wroto the note wasn’t the person
that chocked the keya in. That
means that some other person knew
those keys were thrown in. So If
you’re going to figure two people
In on tt. yon might lost aa well fig*
are Harry Feldln* was the one
who threw them in. as to figure
that soma other person was."
Jarvis Happ nodded his heed
slowly, and said ‘"That of couraat
la true If the possession of those
keys was wrongful."
“What do you mean?"
“The only way that wa know
Robert Caise left those keys In the
automobile." Jarvis Happ aald
slowly. “Is that Robert, himself,
says so On the other band. Isn’t It
equally logical to believt that be
was out last night, didn’t want
anyone to know this and. therefore,
shrouded his absence in secrecy?
Unfortunately, be ran ont of gas.
He ran out of gas at a time when
he couldn’t readily replenish It.
Therefore tt became necessary for
him to leave bis aotomoblla by the
curb. Under those circumstances,
nothing te more logical than that
be would have returned end tried
to cover op the fact that he had
been out In hta own automobile by
pretending he left the keys In hie
1 car and then hiding the keya some
where, such aa In the dooL
“Haring dona that, da would
want tba police to find the keys—
first because be would went the
key* back, swondly, because be
would want the police to find them
in some place where they had eery
evidently been concealed by somw
one who was trying to eoeer up
the theft of the key a”
Buchanan stared steadily at
Jarvis Happ.
“Sold!" he exclaimed at length. |
That's damned good logic Yoa *
get Boh Calae up here and I’m gw
lng to turn him wrong side ouV"
Jarris Happ reached for the tel*
phone on his desk sad said. “I’ll
communicate with the batter.
He
“Just one moment, please.” said
Cynthia Happ’s well modulated
roica. “I happen to nare beep
standing in the doorway 1 bare
beard the last part at four com
rersatlop. 1 don’t think yoa will
send for Robert after you bare
beard what I hare to say.”
Milllcent glanced op a pp rehew
slvely.
The diamond-hard, gray ayes of
Cynthia Happ were boring steadily
Into Hera.
“Close the door.” Cynthia Happ
said, “and don’t let anyone leara
this room.”