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Bnmmsirilk Herald Lslabllahed July i. 1*92. As a Daily Newspaper, fey Jem a Wheeler J. M. STEIN . Publisher RALPH L. BUHL . Editor Published every Afternoon (except Saturday) pad Sunday morning Entered u •eoond-claee matter In the Postoffice. Brownsville, Tens THE BROWNSVILLE HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY 1283 Adame St- Brownsville. Texas MVMRrr OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The press le exclusively entitled la She use of for publication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper, and aim tbs local news published herein. TEXAS oaiLf rust LAAGUS Mauooai AdTsmstny Representative Teaaa &i3 Msrchanms Bank Bids, g.am City. Mo.. Ml Interstate Bldg. CbJcaso. 111. ISO N. Michigan Ave. jjot Angel**. Oalif. 1011 New Orpbeum jfew Tork. M. Y- 370 Lssinfton Are. St Louis Mo. 100 Star Blf San Trandsco, Calif. 150 •UBSCRIPTIOM ■y eamw—In Rrowaavuie and all Rio Oreads Valley atuei Its a weak; 7Sc a month. Mall—hi Ths Rio Orande Valley, la advaaeei WfO{ sis months. M.73; 3 months, R By Mall—Outside <rf the Rio Orende Valleyt •000 per rear; « months. $4 JO Sunday, MArch 24, 1935 The Gateway to Mexico* •an Antonio, so we learn from an Aaeociated Freee dispatch, is to begin a national advertising campaign with the theme song of -San Antonio, the Oateway to Mexico". ft1* all right, we guess, and certainly Ban Antonio la smart, very smart, is thus advertising itself, and probably there is enough truth In the theme song to justify the campaign and its slogan. Not to chide San Antonio do we call attention to the S&n Antonio campaign, quite the contrary— oompilment* are In order. But we cannot help but think of the opportunity being missed by Brownsville, the Valley. Matamoroe and Reynosa. all through the lack of Just a few hundred miles of road. "Brownsville, the Oateway to Mexico’’—when the Kenedy county link in the Hug-the-Coast Highway la completed! "Matamoros, the Gateway to Mexico —when the Victoria highway Is completed! And from 50 mile* or so to 300 miles eloeer to Mexico City for the great bulk of the population of the United States than any other route. wh^!5 the Hug-the-Coast highway and the Victoria roads are completed. In the meantime, it's "Ban Antonio, the Oateway to Mexico”, and the sad part of It is that the slogan win stick. ‘The Rio Grande Delta* Several years ago The Brownsville Herald turned practically the entire Valley on Its ear by advocating, half in aamest. half in jest, that the name of this section be changed to the "Rio Grande Delta". The argument advanced then was along the lines of "truth in advertising". The Valley really is a Delta, and why not proclaim tt as such, was the theme of the argument. Today we have still another good reason for calling this section what it really Is. a “Delta". The Rio Grande Valley Is some 1.000 miles long, stretching from El Paso nearly to Brownsville. And ean the press of the nation be blamed when it refers to "Del Rio. in the Upper Rio Grande Valley"? And can Its readers be blamed when they assume that the "Upper Rio Grande Valley” to which reference Is made is a part of what we call the “Valley”? And still more lately we find a national advertiser referring to the hot. desert winds that sweep the Rio Grande country—a libel on the R» Orande Valley as we call St if there ever was one. but still true as true aan be of the Rio Grande Valley of El Paso. Better make it the "Rio Orande Delta”, there is %Ut one Delta of the Rio Gande, and we are it. Serving the Consumer For many years, the chief criticism of the Bureau of Standards, that great federal testing laboratory on the outskirts of Washington, has been that It eerved business directly, and the people only in directly That is the results of its tests and experi ments were usually made available to manufactur ing companies, with benefits to the people only filtering down in the form of improved products. Perhaps all the recent ooasumer agitation hM had an effect alter all. For as a result of years of ex periments or silk stockings, the bureau has learned a great deal about them, and offers the information directly to consumers in a pamphlet which may be had from the Government Printing Of five at I cents. For instance, two teaspoonsfuls of tluminum auK phate dissolved In half a pint of hot water have been found good for new dockings. Soak, dry, and then wash gently. Washing new stockings before wearing usually adds to the wear. And so on. AH of which is Just an indication of bow valuable the Bureau of Standards could be to tha people as consumers if it were used more generally In that direct eervtoe, and its Information made more easily available to thoee of us who buy and use things. Study Liver aa Body’s Chemical Center By DBk MORRIS FIS HUE IN Editor, Journal of tbs American Medical Aseodalien. and of Bygeia, the Health Magastne The liver la one of the largest organs In your body. Furthermore, you have seven times as much liver tissue as you actually requlrs, and that's of greatest Importance, because the liver Is frequently damaged by polsona of various kinds. The liver Is supposed to be responsible to some ex tent for secretion and sxecretlon of bile, for taking part in destruction of worn out blood cells, for de veloping substances which are ooncemed in coagu lation of blood, for storing of fat which it gets from food and releases as required by the body, and for aid in digestion of some protein substances. It also acta as a chemical factory in chnaging sugars Into a substance called glycogen, which Is used up In the muscles, and also for converting gly cogen Into glucose as required by the body. • • • Ths liver also acts to break down poisons oommg from the itotnach and intestines, as well as other parts of the body, and helps to remove various fore ign substances from the blood. Finally, It Is believed to have a part In regulating concentration of the fluid material in the blood and In regulating heat of the body. Thus the liver la, tn every sense of the word, the chemical factory and storehouse of the human body, and It Is attracting Increasing attention from phy sicians because It Is involved In so many human dis orders. Among recent advances have been development of means for looking at the liver, using the Injection of a substance called thorium dioxide, followed by an X-ray picture. Functions of the gallbladder may be studied by passing a tube down into the intes tines and thereby securing some of the secretion of the gallbladder for direct study. • • • It is possible, by examining blood and urine, to de termine from the substances that are present the ex tent to which the Hver is carrying on Its functions In relationship to the bile. Work of the liver In taking care of damaged red blood cells is measured by studies of the blood di rectly. Ability of the liver to handle fats and sugars may also be determined by chemical tests of the blood after standardised amounts of these substances have been put Into the body. It Is also possible to give drugs of various kinds, which are now known to be broken down In the liver, and thereafter to test the bile, the blood, and the urine for presence of these drugs All these teats are technical, time-consuming, and sometime* expensive, but they give the physician definite Information about conditions concerning which he might otherwise merely have to guess. The tests are being studied In large numbers of esses and after suitable standards have been devel oped they are likely to come Into much wider use than at present I have never been willing to accept the principle of any restrictions of what graduates should hear or talk about —President Ernest Hopkins of Dartmouth. The Constitution is the bulwartt of the poor. De stroy it and they become the prey of exploiters and schemers—Herbert Hoover. One of the things forcing the people to relief rolls ,aa fast as the government can take them off is monopolistic prices which are eating away thetr re serves.—Senator William E Borah of Idaho. There is a temporary excuse for federal assistance to the indigent. — James A Emery, genera] counsel. National Manufacturers’ Association Aspiring poets must learn to hve on bread and water. If they’re good poets, their art will keep them alive. — Herman Wlldenvey, poet-laureate of Norway. Why. Huey isn't the first to advocate limitation of fortunes. I did that IB years ago —J. Thomas Heflin, former U. 8. senator. * t SCOTT’S SCRAPBOOK By R. J. Scott RU5SIA. wAS NAMED FOR -fWE SWEDES By-The Finns SWED»5N -Tribesmen FOUNDED A SMALL ON -rfoE f « onieper and -the FINNS CALLED -HIE cuoTsI , later ros, or ruS. WHICH MEANT ROWERS oE SEAFARERS • < t • Howard L.coiuiTj AND HIS Twig alphabet • l<ToOK HIM MORE! kkAM ^0 YEARS <0 y (oatXiN -the alphabet, '.WHICH IS COMPOSED OP (iV/IOS AND BRANCHES PICKED UP ON H»S FARM NEAR WlkMlNQToN.OHlO L/Wv|@? QHSTU ?OME MAT— Headdress of K PAPUAN DANCER. MADE OF FEATHERS ©F<Mt WHrfE CRANE • COCKATOO. AND Bird of paradise# Built up on A .FRAMEWORK' hi S « News Behind the News Capital ud world gowtpw mo« id peretaailtl—. la and sat at the om, writ von bj » croup 01 '-earlsas and informed omptpr mao at Washington and Nov York. This column la puousasd sy Tho Barald aa a nova feature Opinion* aapiaaaid an tboaa ot the writers aa Individuals and should act ha interpreted aa ia» fleeting the editorial poller of this WASHINGTON By GEORGE DURNO Heritage — It would be rank heresy not to mention poaslbls con tempt of court to even suggest that the rulings of federal jurists are in fluenced In any way by political considerations. Since they’re been buffeted around in the federal eourts recently, how ever. there are any number of New Dealers who feel that the RooeeVelt administration is suffering from a republics judicial heritage. They point out the coincidence that all the recent important re versals of Roosevelt policy were handled down by judges appointed either by Taft. Ooolidge or Hoover Background — Here's the box. score: Judge John T Nlelds of Delaware, who gave the government a Jolt In the wterton steel case challenging Section 7a. was appointed to the fed eral bench in 1930 by former Pres ident Hoover. His first political ap pointment was as Assistant U. 8. At torney under Theodore Roosevelt — a Job In which Mr. Taft continued him He is an ardent prohibition ist and acted as personal counsel for Pierre DuPont in handling chari table matters. Judge William I. Grubb of Ala bama. who ruled TV As power ex periment at Muscle Shoals to be be yond the constitution's pale, is a real old-timer. He aacended the bench In 1909 by appointment of William Howard Taft. Judge Charles I. Dawson of West ern Kentucky handed the New Deal two setbacks. In the Hart coal case he held coal mining to be an intra state function over which the gov ernment had no control, while in the matter of Louisville slum clear ance he ruled the government had no right of eminent domain. Daw son. a former state attorney general for Kentucky and unsuccessful re publican candidate for governor wab appointed in 1925 by Mr. Cool idge. • • • Consistent — Judge Wayne B Borah of Louisiana, a brother of Senator William E. Borah, turned NRA around in an important lum ber case. He started his political ca reer as assistant U. S. attorney for New Orleans, afterward becoming D. 8. attorney. In 192 8Mr. Cool idge put him on the federal bench Chief Justice Alfred A Wheat, of the District of Columbia supreme court, reversed the government on the railroad retirement case just ar gued in the U. 8. supreme court Wheat was a special assistant to the attorney general during the Cool ldge administration and Mr. Hoov er appointed him Judge two months after inauguration. Judge Ouy L. Fake of New Jersey recently granted a corporation a most important injunction forbid ding the U. 8. Attorney from suing in an NRA case. Fake was one of Mr. Coolidge's last appointees. In 1904 he served as a republican mem ber of the New Jersey legislature In 1906 he was appointed countv Judge by the governor In 1918 he ran for congress but lost. • • • Axe — Washington hears that Senator Huey Long has two agents on the west coast sounding out the: situation to see how a speaking tour by the Klngfiah would go. Washington also again heart — as this column has reported so of ten — that indictment of Long on income tax charges is a matter of days or hours. A member of an interested Senate committee la quoted by colleagues as saying he saw an Inspector’s re port which indicated clearly Uncle Sam had finally decided to crack down on Huey — after over two years of Investigation. • • • Variety — Field agents of the Na tional Emergency Council — that body presided over by Chief Coor dinator Donald Richberg —» send In confidential reports tending further to confirm the view that NRA lin t working »o well. Administration differences are i hampering NRA in Ohio. South Da kota AlaJbama. Maryland Texas and Nevada Enforcement obstacles are increasing in New Jertev. Ken tucky. Wyoming. Louisiana and Connecticut. Just to get the slant or a silver lining. NEC agents say compliance haa improved In Nebraska. Wiscon Sally s Sallies c WHAT DIP ; ^yoaiAy>.g>^ sin. Nevada, Alabama and South. Dakota. Trouble — Any Idea that the Roosevelt administration won easy sledding along with the prevailing wage fight should be taken with a grain of salt. Privately, even senate leaders concede the reverse. They look for Mr. Roosevelt to have to battle for much at his program step by step. There is trouble over the horiaon In connection with bills he wants and bills he doesn’t. Among them are the bank bill, the economic security program, bonus, the 30-hoiir week, inflation and the Wagner labor dis pute* bill. • e e Phone — Bonus agitation is much stronger in the house than In the senate — the senate will tackle the bonus after having gorged itself on other controversies Despite efforts to substitute the Ty dings-Andrews "soft-soap" bill bonusltes are bent upon ramming through the big htul and then fighting it out with FDR on the veto. Bonus lobbyists have carefully checked the senate They believe they can win against FDR now They were not so hopeful a month ago. If the work-relief bill goes through carrying the M .000.000.000 works Item bonusltes believe they will get their big plum too The treasury will be open anyhow." said a veteran lobylst "They cant keep us out If everybody else gets in." Jobs — Talk of tinmen** region* 1 project* cn the l;ne of the Tennes see Valley scheme is circulating Plans have all been laid for begin ning great work* In the Upper and Lower Mississippi regions. The work-relief bill is to drawn that the President could atart such works for relief purpose*. Tennessee Valley Authority waits with its mouth open for a Juicy slice of work-relief cash. The states in terested in additional dams under the TV A project are pressing for action These dams include Wheel er. $25,000,000: Pickwick Landing. $15,000,000; and tributary dams $10. 000.000 h’otea — Stanley Reed as solicitor general la conceded to be the right man . . . His promotion opens an opportunity for Jerome Prank to go forward . . . Extension of the Public Works Administration to July 1.1937, is taken to mean that Ickes will re main boss ... A provision has been IT’S AN ILL WIND THAT BLOWS NO GOOD I STAMPS spared to bar fold bondholder* from starting suits In the court of claim* . . . The administration ex- J pectc to kill off Thomas' silver-pur- 1 chase amendment to tho wortt-re* lief bill. _«- ■ .. BEGIN HERB TO DA I HILLII'ENT GRAVEN* employer. GKOHI.B DRIB GOLD. irlla In ba baa • roaltHlas U dlriaia a ad naraa kn asalnai a w«a»» ba a Mark rraalaa roat Ulllirrai Itam (ha afflea aal arra aarb a w union Later aka flnda her paraa ha a heea takaa aad a •mllat aaa aabatliaiad. la the eleaatar aha aaeeta a Alalia* •culahed-looklas aaa af aalddla aga. Ketaralas la tha a a lea, ■ ti ller at flada Dtiatcold dead, la paala aha nwhea array aad re« latera at a hatal aodar aa aa aaaaed name. Nasi day aha aaeeta tha etraagev a*aia Ha teila her hla name la JARVIS HAPP Happ aaa da hat ta a heaaty ahop rrhera. la aplte af her preteata. aha la tra•• afurated lata a hraaet. Happ tahea her kaaa, tatredee las her aa hla aeeretarp- ROBERT CAME. Happa atepaoa. aeeaaea Nlllleeat at brlnp the Ctrl aaasht la tha Drtargald Harder. NOW GO ON WITH THE STOR1 CHAPTER HI! ITILUCENT knew tlier# wu no aaa denying Robart Calae ■ so :uaatlon that sHa was tbs Ctrl the pollca were looking tor. In tba first plica, tha photographic ovtdeoes wta damning. In tha sacond plica •ba realtiad tbit to question the conclusions bo bad reached would •Imply make him mora difficult to bandit So aba stared steadily at him and said. “Wall, wbat are you going to do about it?** Ho suited to say something, then paused as ba beard tha rattle of tba door knob. "Nothing,* ha laid. “Sit tight. ** Ha turned and waa. apparently. Just tearing tba room as Jarvis Happ and Dick Gantry entered. “Just getting soma stuff." bs said, keeping his ayes srerted from those of Jsrrls Happ. “Hope I’m not in trudlngT" "Not nt nil.* Jarvis Hspp said, but Mlllloent noticed there was something about his voice that was not entirely cordial — a certain harshly strained note ot suspicion Whan she glanced at hla face, bow ever, aba waa able to sea nothing In his eyee. His face was s perfect mask. Hs indicated a small tablt "I think," be said, “you’d batter sit there for tho present. Mis* Grabet Tomorrow HI purchase a secretarial desk and bars it sent up hern Then you can get at things in a businesslike way.* She aeated herself and the two men lit cigars. Jsrrls Happ went on ulktng In his smoothly eloquent volcw—a voice which seemed so car uln of itself, so soothing to tired eardrums. “Dick and f ba said, "each put in 95000 as capital and started speculating In stocks. 1 may aa well con faaa to you that wa ware selling stocks short I ass nothing whatever wrong with that type of business transaction. However, of lata there has been a oertaln public sentiment against It “When one realises that oo«n modules are going down, there is no sene reason why hs shouldn’t caplullst upon that knowledge Moreover, were ft not for the so called ‘short* sales, the market would soon pyramid Itself op to such a trsnsisd peak of hysteria that when a crash cam a as it would bs bound to do soonor or latsr. tho entire Investment structure of the country would be Jarred to its foundations. “However, the tact remains that our speculations wars very profit abla Dick has been handling tha business and of the venture. We’ve taken a great deal of money out. and thore’s still s large amount In undistributed profits. Soma of this ws hava put into a manufac turing business which has been one of the law manufacturing bus! nesses to show a profit during ths present period. I telephoned Dick this svsnlng and asked him to bring all of ths books and data which hs baa and turn them over j MiUtcent realized that Wenfared her rvon withoat tnockma. to ro*.' • • • JARVIS HAPP nodded forward a suit cam In the corner. MI want yon to take all the data that’s In there,” Mr. Haw said, “and open a set of books.” -When shall l start?” Am mood mm you conveniently can." ha said. Ton can opts • sat of books an right?" "Oh yes," sha said. Tn eaparl •need as a bookkeeper. I worked In the office of a certified aceount ant for more than two years.* Gentry removed the cigar from his Ups. stared thoughtfully at the smoke which curled upward from the end. “Jarvis,* ha said stowty, let's not rush Into this thing too hastily. Frankly. I’m not In favor of open ing op a sat of books on this thing. You've got commitments and so have L I’d prefer to keep this as a Uttla Informal partnership^ Jarvis Happ shook his head and said. "The deal's too big, Dick We’re going to get la tumble with the Income tas people and yon know it." Gentry nodded slowly. "When can yon start oa the books?" asked Jarvis Happ. "Right now," lllllicant said, and, pushing back her chair, moved over toward the suitcase. "No* Happ said, "not tonight. Miss Grabea. You’ve had a strenu ous day." Ifilllcent shook her head, picked ap the suitcase and said. "It would he a relief to have something oa vhlch I could concentrate. Woul^ ran mind very much If 1 started looking things over tonight?" "Not at all," Happ said. "Suit ronrself. If yon’re going to start working yon might prefer to toko thorn Into your own room." "I think." nho said, “that I would." 8ho itartod for th* door, bat Dick Gantry gained bar sida In two rwlft •trldas. "Permit ma." ha said, "to carry tha anlteaaa (or you. It's haary." TH1 seltoase was Indeed beery. A and aha surrendered It to him with a ami la, landing tha way down tha corridor to har room. Bba open ad tha door. Gantry a tap pad In swiftly aftar har. dropped tha salt case m tha floor, and kicked tha door shot "Listen," ha said, "how did Jar ▼fa happen to pick yoo up?" She faced him defiantly. "Mr. Happ." aha said, "employed me aftar haring made an inrastlga tioo of my references. If that's what yon mean. I assure yon there was nothing of tha ‘pickup' abort It" She mo rad as th.agh to open tha door and Gantry grabbed bar shoal der. poshed her back from tha door, than suddenly shot an arm abort har waist, bald bar eloee to him. "Now wait a minute, sister." ba said, "don’t get axel tad. I’m not trying to pull anything fanny." She realised that she was help lass, and simply quit struggling, staring np at him with har face a cold mask. "Whan you bars gotta finished.' she said, "with your care man tac tics. perhaps you'll . . .* "Forget it." ba told har roughly That's not what I’m aftar. Dsa your bead, you Uttla foot" She saw that his eyas drifted uneasily toward tha door. "Listen." ha said, "there's ao res son why you aunt be sitting pretty to this thing. Do ftm undone stud r “Whst do you moan?" •Tou rs not • tool." bo said, •and 11 fours • girl who's had a bit of sapsrloDOs working tor a living foo understand that It's a Ufa that doesn't gat fos anf place. Ton can r aks a living, 1 grant foa that hot that's alL You’ll put tn all of four youth slaving ovsr a tfpswiitar somewhere. and as soon as four foutb has gons yoaTl find that foo’rs crowdod Into tbs back ground bf a crop of foungor girls with mors pop. mors baaotr. and mors vitality, who can stand tbs gaff and k««p smiling You’ll got •bovod back into a eornor so mo where. got a lot of gray hairs, and wind up by bolng . "Wind up by bolng a woman whs baa lived her own llfo and boon truo to borsclt." sbo Interrupted him. uyon (tin don’t cet me.“ tan said. -*■ "Tours young, you r* beautl* foL How would yon Ilk* to travel whtlo you to got tbo beauty to ot» tract men? How’d yon Ilka to toko long ocaon trip* wbaro yon worn thrown Into contact wltb man oI money and Influence, where f ay would bora to notice your beoutyf How would yon like to toke io the awall placee of the world, aee Monte Carlo, Europe? How would you like to get your gowno la Parle, spend your winters In the eout.hr How would you like to really lire Instead of managing to barely egietr* “Are you* she asked with a sneer, “proposing marriage tc me?* Gentry’s eyes slid over bar fea ture* as a woman’s flnrers slide over a pair of silk hose she la con templating buying “I might.* be said, “at that." “Are you erasy.* she asked, "or drunk, or both?* He looked down at the eafloeoa and laughed. *Tou didn’t have me bothered ad alt* he said, “until yon told me that you’d worked for a certified publio accountant Now I know what's going to happen, and we may as well hare an understand* lng now as later* •^■blch lsr she asked, making another Ineffectual attempt to free herself from his arms. "Ob damn itf* be said. "You’re going to find It out within another 34 hours, and 1 don’t want you to run and blab to Jarvis Happ. You wont be looking at thoee books rery long before you’ll realise that you can make me do anything you want. Ton sea. I'm . . Ha waa Interrupted bp a kooeb at tha door. Abruptly ba poabad bar a wap from him. turned and twlatad tha knob of tha door. Jarrli Happ waa standing on tha threshold. HI* aye: wara cold. "I waa lust wondering." ba said, with anara urbanity. "If yon bad found tha room all right 7" “Ob ye*. I found it an right/1 Oantry aald. "and waa Joat giving Mias Ora baa ooma lnatruetlona In regard to opanlng tha hooka. Ha turned and flung a meaning fiance over bit thou Id ar as ha atappad out Into tha corridor. “Re member.- ba aald. “what I told you. Think It over carefully when you a tart to open tha act of hooka.* The door eloeed. Mill leant Qravaa Jumped toward the suitcase, curiosity fllltug bar mind, determined that ibe would find out lust what Dick Gentry bad meant Her thought* wara Interrupted by tha click of tha door catch. She realised that someone had entered bar room without knocking. (To Bo Ooatlanad)