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THE BHOWXSVIIiliE DAILY HERALD
THE BBOWMSYILLE HERALD
By Brownsville Herald Publishing Co. j
31- J. Slattery
Mrs. Jesse O. Wheeler
- Manager ;
- - Editor
Official Coumy and citv Journal. !
-,.a- .-- .o. , ..
vuuouiraaicu m ioju vvim me uany
Cosmopolitan, which was published
in Brownsville for sixteen years.
Entered at the Postoflice, Brownsville,
Texas, as second-class matter.
TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION.
Dally Published every evening
except Sunday, by mail postpaid
to any point in the United States.
3Iexieo or Cuba, or delivered by
carrier to any part of Brownsville,
Texas, or Matamoros, Mexico.
One copy one year. . .$6.00
One copy six months. 3.00
Weekly Published Saturday,
mail postpaid to any point in
United States or Mexico.
One copy six months! . '.75 nolds, who is president of the Con
One copy three months. . .50 tinental Bank of Chicago, in the
Subscriptions invariably due and presence of almost 5,00u delegates,
payable in advance. j Reports of various committees and
Advertising rates on application. of officers of the association, togeth-
! er with the address of welcome and
- :t 'n -lea
sS 'AVasani ,
' President Reynolds' Address.
UNHAPPY CONTRA VERSY j The annual address of President
It is to be regretted that this un- Reynolds was most hopeful in tone,
happv controversy over the discov- i He congratulated the banking inter
, ests upon the prosperity of the coun-
ery of the Aorth Pole has arisen. fry am, activJty and confidence which
It is natural that Captain Peary j characterize financial dealings at
should feel chagrined at being de- ' present. These conditions he at
pnveu of ihe honor for which he i tributed to Uie settlement of the tar
t . ,. .. , iff question, which he said removed
has stnven so valiantly and endured ;tie cMef hamical, to a revival of
such hardships all these years by j ous;ness, adding:
finding that another -laims to hrve ; "With the latent energies of our
found the pole nearlv a year before ! people now fully awakened to activ
, , ' ity, we will, if our efforts are directed
he reached it And. as he found no . b ilUelligence and accomanied by
evidence of Dr. Cook s v isit :tt the frugnlity on the part of our neopple,
pole, he perhaps rightfully believes : soon come into a full fruition of our
that the latter has not been there. ! hopes, through a speedy return to
. . normal conditions in business "
f ,
ur- iook may nave oone an mat ne ,
riaims, and tlie evidence which he !
left at the spot have been coixeah-d
. tj .... m, .,...,! , !
the ice floe it is hardls right lor ,
Cam Pearv to denounce his rival
as a liar. Cook is a man of high
standing and not only is thert no
good reason for doubling his ver
amy. but it would be exceedingly
humiliaiing for Americans to have
to admit that he had lied brazenly j
, , :
and won the great honors '.testowed
upon him by tore'gn courts bj a
gross imposition For the sake of
trulli and American self respect, it
is to bo hoped that events mpy sus
tain Ir. Cook's claim While the
n-anv admirers of the dauntless
Poaiv mav rn;in ( ediiiciv to -ee
tm-ir he;o 1o-j the honor t heins
lii. tm to it.i' i th. Mfib- y.-r !i I1
tv : lir-r- )(. ii in the r:i.e. I.ot'i
ill-, siini iie oulo ie v. tiling to
arknovi ledge it. As Cook says, the
pol ".s big enough for two. and
thciii.li his name may go down to
pout' i i . v as ;. actual discoveier of
tlvn point, Peary's name will also
ai-. i .lent .i.-. being the second ,
rn.Mii fi neiietr-ite the fastness of the i
inwvu iinrili i't its vcrv center and . t
plaie the Ame'-M-an Hag ther"
Tlie entire population of Texas was
MBn'oil for the census of 1900 by!
I .Si' I enumerators The census bu-;
rra.. estimate-, that for 191U at least j
.... , . . . ...
3.00U w.ll be employed, which would j
indii a'e that an in-rease of popula- ,
tiou oi considerably more than f0
p-r cent is act redited to this state
in lite decade which ends next year.
Tinas is getting to be great in more
vraK than mere area.
Corpus Christ i is justly proud of
t!i distinction she will enjov as
hasten to the nation's chief execu
ti Ttif- beauliful Naples of the
Cult has undertaken a big entertain
ment -tunt, but she will doubtless be
iai' to the octasioa.
j
TOMOUROW. i
VVOIfl.TS END Dl'l
:
T.i-nder f liolv (;host and I's Society j
So Predicts. 1
Sp ai to The Herald. j
?5ortIand, Me., Sept. 14 The
North Pole was discovered just in i
rhe ri.-k of time After 10:J a. m. failed to et-d ur national disaster,
tomorrow there won't be any North j totrm Our Main Keliance.
Pole Incidentally, there won't be Mr. Hill said the farm is o.ir main
MV tt0rld This statement is maue 1 reliance and that every other ac-v-o--
,Mfir of 1 tivity depends on that. He asserted
on the authority of the leader ot howor that the majority of peo
Mi;ne's most famous sect, The Holy ( faJ1 lo rPaiize practically the de
wi ni-it lTs Societv. who predicts I .-tinins status of agriculture in the
l,at the world and all that Is in it country. "They are misled by the
ne wui stqtistic- of farm values and pro-
ill come to a fine and glorious "-nd- annually oy great
BP tomorrow morning. The proph- . eaps ,nto thinking that this abso
h -. was made at Cape Town, Afri- iute increase implies a relative ad-
where the founder of the peculiar ! vance ofthis mdnstry - red
sirt stopped over while on his re- j J JS' the caM- , refer not
tiiiiir completed holy junket He is j nierely to the quality and results ot
the Rev Frank Sandford, alias : liur tillage, but to the setting of the
-Fliiali the Uncrowned Kine." as ' hu-mn tide away from the culti-at-Ktijan,
me .i t l fipld toward the factory gate
he prefers to be known. , Qr cUy glum Ths js something
Today th .oly Ghost and Us so- wnose COnseo.uen es for evil are as
tT follov.e'.- are making prepaia- , ,ertain as if the --ggregate dpo.-its
" f ,mn th - nure white robes, I in all the banks of this country
lM.lB, to don th pure n . ,lt,..ri..A by a fixed per cent-
eo np to the 'musetopi- of their ol- , n t ,
u Shili ! .'-nd await tne areau
moment
lA'uen
t tomes they expect to see
. .. .,-.,.,i
, . L-nv5h TC.e eHTLll Urtsucu
t while all otturs psss J
CI "
j,.. - ;o i "It ircnns tne same uiiug, m nuiu
-ct-., --.i.t'iereens and they them- jnu (.ons&qiienoes, when the agricul--i
iro.-plantcd into the rc-ilnt turax populat'On. the producers and
pRST DAY OF
ANKERS' MEETING
ADDRESS 1JV .IAS. J. HILL THI
IMtlXCIl'Al. KKATl'llK.
National Wealth Depends Upon
Farm President Reynolds Recom
mends Currency Rcefoim and Cen
tral Bank. Government Control
By Associated Press.
Chicago, Sept. 14. Rankers frcr;
every state of the Union, together
with representatives of leading fi
nancial institutions in Cuba and Ha-
i waii, joined in the opening session
i of the thirty-fifth annual convention
bv j of the American Bankers' Associa
tI,e i tion. The convention was called to
' order by President George M. Rey-
responses filled the morning session.
President Reynolds recommended
refornis jn the currency system.saying
we could not hope greatly to increase
the sale of our products in other
countries or secure our share of the
world's trade, "so long as we do not
have a system of currency which will
command international respect and
confidence." The work of the Nation- j
al monetary commission was com
mended by him. A "central bank,
with power of note issue, under gov
ernmental control" was suggested as
a means of establishing a system of
currency to meet the requirements of
the entire business world. '
The principal address
was
by James .1. Hill, president of the
Great Northern Railway company on
"National Wealth and the Karri."
This was delivered early during i'io
afternoon session, follow iiig the ad
dress by the comptroller of currency,
i. O. ..! array, on "Problems of the
Comptroller s Of tie." The piogram
for today also comprised an infor
mal address by Speaker Joseph G.
Cannon of the house of representa
tives. A prominent feature of the
first day's session was the discussion i
of practical banking questions hi
different delegates, j
James .1. Hill's Addres-.
"The idea that we teed the vor id j
being corrected; unless we increase !
r!ie agn.ultural non.il;:' io-i tnd f.ei: ,
ii'u 'ii n. i-Miti.- -ii t
I food -i.i) ,!. lioio
'r. lp-
crs0()o ,u. (1es-.iou of c market
tor our nroducts abroad." This was
warning given by .l-..as .1. liiU
at the convention of the American
Bankers' Association toda.v dur'ti-.
a discussion of the decline of ag i-
culture and its consequences.
mil's subjei t was "National Wealf'
and the Farm."
"'e ha." ss.id tht- speaker, "ai
mof-t reached, a point where, owinf
w in,.roasc.d opuiation without in-
c reased production per acre, out
nonie food supply will be insumci
ent tor our needs; within ten years,
iu---?ilil lts-s, we are likely to be
- owe a v. neat -importing naimii, tue
lercentage of the population engag
in agii' ulture and the wheat
I'toduct rr acro :lre ,M)tn falling;
. t tie sane time the cost of livine
. , i.i:-.ed e'.eryvvnere by this relative
i :-cni' ii v of bread, bv a.tifi:-ial in-,-.-"-e
in the price of a'l manufac
tured articles, and by a nabit of ex
i a-::gance which has enlargeed the
' vie-v of both rich and poor of v. hat
ire to lie (onsidered the necessaries
' of lit" These plain facts should
disturb and arouse not only the e-o-
-lomif student but the m'n who are
most intimately related to tne
wealth oi the nation ?nd most con-
ce--nec lhat it shall not siKtcr loss
or decreases.
fir Hill d-"lared that never vet
has enhanced cost of living, when
due to agricultural decline and ina
bility to supply national needs.
loang eri, iuf.reasing by another
penentae just as staoie ion
I would know what catastrophe that
nssured by and by.
- . ;
, depositors in me gieuu uauuuu
treasurv of wealth, is declining year
by year, while the city population,
which thrives only by drawing drafts I
upon the land and cannot live a year j
after these cea-e to be honored,
rises at its expense. Yet not only .
is such a crisis approaching, but it
is being hastened by legislative
stimulation iu favor of other indus
tries while overlooking this.
People Kindt to Citie.-..
"In 17'JO only about 3.4 per cent
of the American people lived in
towns. At the time of the Civil
War the percentage had risen to
.j in 1900 more than 3; per cent
of our population was urban The
change is portentious; and there is
no doubt that the coming censiio will
show it to have proceeded in the
last ten years with accelerated
speed. In spite ot the warnings of
economists, the amelioration of farm
life, the opening of new and attrac
tive employment on the land
through the spread of irrigation and
the growth of the fruit industry, the
encouragement of public men and
the wider dissemination of agricul
tural education, the percentage of
our population who work on the
farm constantly declines. If that
proceeds too far. it is as if dry-rot
had eaten through the timbers sup
porting some great structure. We
should consider now the change ac
coir. Ii-'-ed and that impending.
"With our annual increase of ov
er 1.5 per lent Ui population from
natural causes, and immigration
that has not ucc-n less than three
quarters of a million any year since
1902, there will be lrom two to two
and a half million more mouths to
feed every vear. Having in view
this increase in population, the de
clining average yield per acre of
cultivated land in the United States
aftet it has been farmed for a few
years, Uie rise of per capita con
sumption with a higher cost of liv
ing and the movement of the work
ing population away from tha land,
the time is now approaching when
we shall not only (ease to he a
wheat selling nation, hut will find
it necessary to import a portion of
what we consume.
"Our loreign trade in the past has
rested mainly on our exports of pro
ducts drawn from the earth directly,
or only once removed. Our manu
fa tures for export ure to a large ex
tent natural products subjected to
a few simple processes. How are we
to meet the immense trade balance
against us, how prevent financial
storms of frequent occurrence and
destructive force; how feed the com
ing millions, if the farmer, who pays
most of the bills, has retired to the
city or the country town in order
that his children may the better
enjoy their automobiles and enter
into the delights of tlie -.-ocial game?
"A stationary or declining pro
duct, a soil becoming annually less
tirodmtiv e, a revolt against the life
of the farm and a consequent rise
in wares amounting, since 1895, to
.",.". 6 ;.- cent with board, compel
such rise of all prices as bears, ru
inously upon town and country
alike. Our real concern, is not so
much to save the home market from
the inroads of the foreigner as to
keep it from destruction by an en
larged city life, a crowded artisan
population clamoring for food and
a foreign demand for the product of
their wages limited to fields where
,ae competition ot all the world
u.ust - e met and overcome.
"TI-" consumers of bread through
out tiio world in rease by probably
Iron: lour to live millions every
vear. In oi-r own country we shan
require from 1 3. f 00,000 to 1 ."i.nOO.
UO'J bushels more annually for seed
and home consumption. The domes
tic supply cannot be maintained by
present methods. Not only is the
cultivation of the .-.oil being neglect
ed, but it is also notoriously inef
fective. Our vheat product per acre
from the older lands falls steauuy.
Our national average is less than
half that of England or Germany,
both of which have soil inferior to
our own. Only by bringing rich new
land under cultivation have- we pre-.ent-d
the fall from becoming ao
upt. Good farms in the Mohawk
v alley in New York state forty years
ago were worth $100 to $150 per
acre; now many are sold at from
$' to $30. This is not because
wheat has become cheap, for It
is dear; not entirely because of
Western competition, but because
there is neither good cultivation nor
enough cultivation. The younger
generation throngs the cities; and
the land, rented by its owners to
tenants careless of evrything but im
mediate profit, is abused and robbed
of its fertility. In New York State
0,000 farms are for sale. The
southern central portion shows a
progressive loss of population. If
anybody imagines that this process
of exhaustion and auanaonmeni or
transfer to other uses is peculiar to
the East, let him look at Iowa,
whose average wheat crop in the five
vears 1883-S7 was 29,G2S,-tJ0 bush
els, and in the five years 1904-08
was 9,976, 4SS bushels. In 1908 it
was 8,068,000.
"All this has come about notwith
standing economic changes favorable
to the occupant of the farm. The
perfection of our transportation sys
tem has made a market accessible
to everv fanner, and carries bis pro
duce at the lowest rates in the
world. His life has become more
comfortable and desirable. But the
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end or phons for what you need: il will be promptly delivered. We have everything a
Drug Store carries. What we want now is to carry them to the people.
ELIZABETH STREET M. C. Shoemaker, Proprietor
EUREKA PLUMBiMG &
Sanitary
Gas Fitting, Architectural Sheet
P. O. Box 123
BROWNSVIJ -uE, TEXAS
STATEMENT
Of condition at close of business,
September 1st, 1909, condensed from
report to Superintendent of Banking
RESOURCES
Loans $144,126.48
Overdrafts .26
Furniture and Fixtures. . 5,184.77
Ccsh 68,897.31
$215,208.22
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock $ 60,000.00
Undivided Profits 3,36138
Deposits 154,847.44
$218,208.82
20 Gain m Deposits
111 KI VUJO
ROWNSVILLE
ANK & TRUST
COMPANY
Sl. 00 starts an account
increased cost of living bears most
hardly upon him, While it entices his
children to the centers where thev
think that the larger income now
found necessary may be won more
easily. And while the enhanced
price of grain may induce him to
enlarge his wheat acreage, it does
not lead him to more careful tillage.
"You deal with wealth in its
most condensed and aniversal form.
That wealth is the slow accretion
of many centuries. It changes its
form and occupation with wonder
ful facility; but, so slight at all
times is the margin between tne
world's production and its consump
tion, that' its savings have been ac
quired almost as slowly and painfu.
ly as the miser's hoard. Practically
only a few montns lie between a
universal cessation of produrtion
and the destruction of the human
race by starvation. The marvelous
diversity of modern industry and its
products blinds us to the bare sim
plicity of the situation. Those who,
like you, are main factors in sup
plying to industry the means to car
ry it on, who open up th main -tnd
lateral channels through which tne
fertilizing stream of capital may be
turned upon the otherwise barren
field of labor, should be always
mindful of the first great source
and storehouse of national wealti ,
and the most sensitive whenever it
is depleted or endangered."'
The Joker
One On Hubby.
'.Vhen hubby telephon-.-i to
"I won't be home tonight
Till after twelve I've loth to do."
.'u-t say. "Dear b"v, all righ'
I'm going out myself tonight
And won't be in till late."
Will he come home on-time? You her
He'M also come home straight.
New Orleans Picayune.
Automobiles Make Catti Ilusiiieos
Profitable.
"No use of talking, ' drawled the
freckled youth on the roadside
fence, 'thar' certainlj is money in
cattle "
ln the stock raising busine-F,
young man?" asked the tourist.
"Xo, not exactly, but an automo
bile ran over that spotted calf a
few minutes ago and the man with
the big spetacles got out and hand
ed me a 55 note."
"Uut the calf certainly mupt have
been worth more thaw $5."
'Ypp, mister, but the calf wasn't
mine. Xow, if 1 can only stand in
front of another calf, while he gets
run over I'll be right in it, be gosh."
A Mystery
Mr. Newlyvved The moths have
eaten every single thing in the c'os
et, Ida. Mrs. Xewlywed I don't
see how they could get in. I've kept
the door locked al summer long.
Brooklyn Life.
The IIolxi.
Mrs. Goodheart Ail the way
from Chicago r Didn't you find it
very hot traveling Dusty Trax
Not at all, madam I always take
a refrigerator car in the summer.
Uie.
e Drug xorz
SHEET METAL WORKS
Plumbing
Metal Work, Tanks, Cisterns, Etc.
Phone?221
fr
1T:tTrrwW"-'t
Take a dde through
Browns
You'll
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BROWNSVILLE. TEXAS
Capital and Surplus, $150,000.00
FREE TO THE BACHELORS, HOMELESS ONES AND OTHERS
Beginning August 15th we shall repair all men's underwear, darn all men's socks
and sew on all men's buttons, without extra charge. And the goods will be
laundered in the very best manner, too. . . . It's good laundry service. Try it.
Telephone No. 2
WARREN & CROSS
Maps, Plans and Estimates
Irrigation Engineering one of our Specialties
Rooms -1 and 6, Puente Building, Brownsville, Texas
Running water In all rooms Clean, cool and modern in alt respects -;-
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Good Eating Our Specialty
I THE WIKDSOE HOTEL
G. O. TURNER, Prop.
f SPECIAL RATES BY
3- Rates:. S2 and S2.50 per. day
3
Screen Doors, Galvanized Wire I
Cloth, Bronze Wire Cloth
16 MESH
PAINT BRUSH!
Frontier Lumber Co,
American
P.. eta3
ine Groceries
Elizabeth St, between
12th and 13th Sts.
We keep the best iii town
Everything done brown,
At the Texas Confectionery
We have everything- to date,
Onr lines are all complete,
At the Texas Confectionery
We have legal blanks to sell,
And magazines as well,
i At the Texas Confectionery
SEE cJTWE KNOW cJME
( H. MAGILL, Proprietor
uJ-afi-CTT?-r-p-lw--- ..-miiiiB-n-
St. J 9seplis College
The FallTerm Opens
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like it
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The Model Laundry
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Civil and Hydraulic
Engineering Architects
WEEK OR MONTH
American plan and American cooking
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Tuesday, September 7, 1939