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PAGE 4 SThc THE BROWNSVILLE HERALD, BROWNSVILLE TBX, SUNDAY, JAN. 16, 1949 Jfcrnlb AJf O. Whtwtor, July 4, 1WI teturdar) Bundftr The Brownsville Herald Publishing Co Thlrutnth Adams StrMU LXO OWlNfl WORMS MOOIIB and Oiatrri Matter at Poitoffiee at Brownivtllt, Act of Congreii of March 3, SubterlpUon RatM By carrUr by week, By mat) In R16 Grande Valley (ptf ytar), By mar up or utit of Ttxag (Mr ywr) 113.00. 773' MKMRKB OF THE ASSOCIATED PBEM Preiia ts to the for rtfmbtleatlon of th ntw printed in this ntwipaptr, ai well aa all AP newt Brownsville Loses Veteran Merchant death of Joseph F. Bollack took from the Brownsville businegg scene a veteran merchant and native ion.

His death followed a long illness which forced him into semi-retirement but when his health permitted, he could be found at his desk conducting the affairs of a business in which he entered as a young man and which was established here by his father, Honry Bollack, in 1878. Bollack's Department Store has been a by-word in Brownsville and the Kio Grande Valley and has maintained a growth from its beginning as a one-room store. Joe Bollack believed in the future of Brownsville, his real estate holdings attesting to that fact. The first evidence of this faith was shown when the present Bollack i i was built in 1910. The passing of this veteran businessman will be i by all who have come in contact with him throughout hto lifetime.

Even Demos Cool To Higher Taxes YORK TIMES carries an interesting applaUHe chart on President Truman's speech to Contfresfl outline his program. It is interesting to note that the greatest applause came when he called for cooperation with Congress, the lowest when he called for higher taxevS, The same inane of the New York Times carries an announcement of the opening of an American A i association office in Brownsville for the convenience of tourists, principally those coming to Brownsville as a gateway to Mexico. The applause chart ranges from zero (no applause) to ten (most applause.) No applause at all was registered when tho President called for higher taxes, nor when he asked for more low cost housing. Going up the chart to the line marked two, which means two-tenths of the highest applause registered, we find stronger anti-trust laws, and control of tidelands oil. At line three, we find inflation control and the St.

Lawrence waterway development. At four, we find higher i i wage and i a insurance. At five, which means half as as the highest a a we find he asked for additional TVA's, and wider social security. At six, there is reduction of debt and universal military training. At seven, we i aid to education and the reciprocal trade program.

Rxcept for the applause that came at the end of the speech, which rates 10 on tho a greatest applause registered is at eight, i rates three- fourths of the highest. At this figure we find repeal of the Taft-Hartley act and cooperation with Congress. Thus the greatest applause during the speech came the President called for one specific and vague matter. The specific project, repeal of the Taft-Hartley law, Is obviously vastly popular with Democrats, for it has become the picture of Repub- i a reaction in the minds of many people. Cooperation with Congress could be interpreted in the same light, for certainly President Truman did in his campaign with the issue of lack of cooperation out of the last Republican Congress.

If8 Liltle Enough To Ask the New Year only one Paris newspaper devoted an editorial to a progress report on European aid. Three others carried a total of slightly more than a column on it, The rest, and they are many, had nothing. That Is bad, but apparently it is not entirely the fault of the press. The European Council for the Marshall Plan has worked in almost total aecrecy. Except for American publications and broadcasts, press and public know little of ERP's operations beyond what they see.

So, on top of all else they must do, it seems vitally nec- fcsaary that America's ERP administrators prod their European colleagues Into giving i'ull publicity to American aid and their use of it. A FINANCIAL expert says Christmas sales may have a far-reaching effect on the steel situation. There's no doubt about the effect they had on Father's pocketbook. foreign policy may not be perfect, but this is not because it is inexpensive. They'll Do It Every Time IN OUR VALLEY Drew By E.

O. OSBORN INFORMATION has reached us, from a source we consider to be reliable, that at leant two AAA offices are suggesting that tourists do not use the Matamoros. Victoria highway when driving to Mexico City. The reason given is due the possibility of high water in the rivers that must be crossed by ferries on this highway. It is true that the rivers in question cannot be used by the ferries when there is exceptional rainfall.

But normal rises do not bother the crossing in any degree. We feel certain that the AAA would not suggest that tourists use highways that were blocked with snow or slick with ice. But they would atate that they CAN be used in normal weather. So far as we know, there never has been a time when the rivers in question are filled with water any long stretch of time. And a careful tourist certainly would ascertain the condition of the rivers before attempting to use this highway.

This information is available in Brownsville, Matamoros and Victoria, And the local AAA office certainly is ready and willing to offer complete and reliable information at all times. If the two AAA offices in question--and they are Chicago and Minneapolis would question the Brownsville AAA office, we believe the proper information would be forthcoming. And we think this should be done BEFORE such information is given out in any AAA office. IN tho mail: 1 RE: JOSE'S letter in your last Sunday's column. Fie on you! Have you never read a story or seen a picture woven about the stalwart figure of a newspaperman Every boy and girl in America knows every reporter lives a luxurious life of high adventure.

He is ever a knight in shining armor roaming the world clear down to the water front. Always i intoxicated, sneering at the things he admires, he saves in turn and with impartiality, young women in distress, the old homestead, and finally In the last chapter or the last fade-out, his own skin. Perhaps it is the innate modesty of the breed that causes you to pretend unfamiliarity with this hard-bitten lad with The gangs tor patois and the heart of pure gold. In terms of purely physical life, I am referring to your unsympathetic, not to say unprofessional treatment of my friend Jose, who came to you with childlike trust and high hope, And why not? Do you not represent the power of the press To Jose's untutored mind YOU ARE THE PRESS. It is beside the point, that his problem is one that no human mind has ever solved, The press, like the army, asks for the impossible only a bit more time.

Jose asked for bread and you gave him the well known stone. Furthermore, you betrayed the tradition of the Spartan reporter who dies, but never asks for sympathy. Personally, Jose is the man who gets my sympathy. As for you, you have my forgiveness and to some extent my sympathetic understanding. After all, it was Just after Christmas and, no cJoubt, all through your house, as through mine and John Doe's, every cranny was cluttered with holiday bills.

Then there Is March 15th; but let's not go into that. I will carry my own cross, It is Jose who has wronged. Fancy, if you will, a man married; not only married but married to a lady possessing not a mere split personality, but two separate, full-grown personalities, each twice as strong as the other. I leave Jose's problem with you and the press. I have dumped it in the laps of his gods.

JOSE'S FRIEND New Congress Has Plenty Of Good, Raw Material Whoops! Dinner Guest Coming Up --In Washington new House of Representatives has now been shaken down, had a chance to settle In new of fleet, and has taken a look at each other. Also outsiders have had a chance to look at them. The results have not been disappointing. In brief, the new Congress looks good. It has more war veterans, more youngsters who take their work seriously, more promising raw material than any since before Pearl Harbor.

Many never dreamed they would be elected. Many are nervous, shy, and worrid about which fork to. pick up in Washington. But the main thing is that they know what happened to the 80th Congress, and, if they can help it, they aren't going to let history repeat. Obviously, most of the new congressmen are Democrats.

But the new Republicans seems to have a lot on the ball, too. Anyway, here is a cross-section of the Slst freshmen, the men who hold the balance of power on Capitol HOI and who will shape your lives for the next few years: NEWSMEN TO SCHOOLTEACHERS: Harry Davenport, Pennsylvania Democrat--publisher of weekly newspaper; ran against G.O.P. John McDowell of the Un-American Affairs Committee, never expecting to win. Now that he's in Congress --much to his surprise--he'll push hard for the liberal program he advocated. Chuck Gross, Iowa Republican--Popular Midwest radio commentator of Waterloo; defeated reactionary John Owynne in the Republican primaries by going to the voters over the heads of the political machines.

Jerry Ford, Michigan Republican--healthy replacement for Bartel Jonkman, who was one of the most backward of the 80th Congress. Just married, with a new home and a new job, Ford will be a mighty busy Thurman Crook, Democrat, of South Bend, as the only "legalized crook" in Congress, he comes to Washington after 35 years as a high-school teacher. Will work for better educational benefits. NEW SOUTHERN SOL.ONS: Thurmond Chatham, North Carolina--wealthy manufacturer of blankets, tweeds and textiles with outstanding war record in submarine service. Open- minded on major issues.

Charles Bennett, Jacksonville, Florida --a 38-year-old attorney who's proud the real estate lobby fought him, Led troops behind Jap lines during the Philippine invasion--until stricken with polio. Still fighting. Herlong, Florida--great friend of the orange. Will steer middle-of-road course while squeezing last drop of political juice from his district's citrus Carl Elliott, Jasper, Alabama--successfully bucked local political machine with 129 speeches in 35 days --all pointing up need for improved rural housing and higher educational Hugo Sims, South Carolina battled against real estate lobby, and will keep on battling. Among the top nominees for "Young Men Of The Nation" selected by Junior Chamber of Commerce.

Golden, Kentucky--one of the few new Republicans elected in the South. Careful, conscientious. THE INDUSTRIAL EAST: Foster Massachusetts Democrat--came up the hard way, washing dishes and waiting on table at Yale, Got a law degree, saw naval action in the Pacific, elected in a G.O.P. district by fighting nigh prices and ba3 housing. O'Neill, Pennsylvania Deriiocrat--son of a Scranton coal miner.

Harry had 14 brothers and sisters, began life as a barber, switched to insurance, is a strong union man, will go down the line for the Fair a Abraham Rubicoff, Connecticut Democrat---Gave up lucrative law practice to run for Congress. Handsome, intelligent, big vote-getter, will follow liberal line. John McGuire, Connecticut Democrat-friendly, small-town insurance agent who's been undefeated in local and state elections. In his spare time, he'll boost Connecticut's new governor, Chester Bowles, for the White House Rodino, Newark, N.J., Democrat--fills the seat of Fred Hartley of Taft-Hartley Act fame, and has political views exactly the opposite, Addonizio, Newark, N.J., Democrat--may have the makings of a new Florello La Guardia. ROCKY MOUNTAIN STATES: Wayne Aapinall, Colorado Dernocrat--furious campaign through one of nation's largest congressional districts.

Crossed 13 mountain passes with elevations over 10,000 feet searching votes. New Dealer, he'll see that the West is heard In Congress--if he has to do all the talking i Marsalis, Pueblo, Democrat--bachelor at 44, a staff sergeant in the war, he learned the G.I. side of the Army. Interested chiefly in reclamation and labor; will vote for straight repeal of Taft-Hartley Beck Bosone, Utah Democrat capable, charming amazon; keen mind, was a good judge in Utah and should make a good congresswoman. Baring, Reno, Democrat--won Nevada's solitary congressional seat by covering 30,000 miles of mountains and sagebrush in eight weeks.

A mild- mannered, easygoing young Westerner, he'll support the Truman Fair Deal and work for development of his state's vast mineral wealth. SOUTHWEST CONGRESSMEN: Harold Arizona Democrat--41-year-old life insurance executive. Son of railroad engineer, he got help from both labor and business, Favors better treatment for stricken Navajo Indians. Miles of New Mexico--former Democratic governor of his state and rn old hand at government. Quiet, mild-mannered, able, Should good middle-of-road congressman.

Gtlmer, Okla- Democrat--came to Congress as a page boy at the age 12. Today he's back after defeating G.O.P. Conservative Jeorge Schwabe of Tulsa. Can deliver fiery speeches. of Enid, Oklahoma--former FBI agent, idealistic and deeply religious.

Heal possibilities. Elected to the seat of Ross Rizley, pocketbook Lloyd Bentsen, Me Allen, Texas--in only 27 years of life he's been lawyer, judge, bomber pilot and congressman; even has a good-looking wife. If he doesn't get spoiled early, he should be Homer Thornberry, Austin, Texas--good replacement for Senator-Elect Lyndon Johnson. Will battle for rural electrification and public power. Steed, Shawnee, Oklahoma, Democrat--former editor of the Shawnee Morning News and Shawnee Evening Star, has served as secretary to three former congressmen, knows Washington inside out, is slated to go far.

Super-Colossal--By Peter Edson Truman's Budget Requests Are Challenge To Congress Hallow rve SOT FOUR SODA BOTTLB3 SENPOVEB FOB TWEM? MdCM BACK OM BACM BOTTLB? IS TMAT ENOUSM FOB A PINT OP ICECREAM? VANILLA AMD PON IP I OVBB THESE I'M WAITING FCC TWE MATTER WlTW TW6 FOQ MOBTtfAtfg COAT, PLAY WITH THE TILL MAMA WAITING A HALF MOUfc ALQfiADV? IN MB? EVE! TMIS IS AN IMPOBTANT CAU.H MORE WEADACMES THAN MBAPACME TJMNX! AND A TIP OF THE WUTLO MAT ID ClIVELAMD OMiO Few people in the United State! can or will read President Truman's 42- billion-dollar Budget Message to Congress. Still fewer people will wade through the full 1429 a six-and-one-half- pound budget proper. Both are appalling things. The mere job of compiling and printing staf- the imagination. Of course the President himself didn't write the message and he hain't read every word of the big book which hia Budget Bureau compiled to support hif estimates.

But it can be authoritatively reported that in recent days the President has spent many hours studying it, to get a comprehensive understanding and to pass upon many of its details. And he could now pass a pretty stiff oral examination on its contents, if called upon to do so. At the end of one of his study periods with Budget Bureau officials, he is reported to have remarked that he sometimes wondered why he had ever talked himself back into this Job. To some people, a U. S.

budget of this site is proof only that government has grown too big and is too complicated. Maybe so. But anyone who thinks that the U. S. government ought to go back to the site It waa in the cozy days of Cal Coolidge or William Howard Taft is shouting against the whirlwind.

Whether you like it or not, the world isn't going that direction. Progress is here to stay. Nevertheless, the size of the lob which President Truman lays out for Congress in specific detail through his budget message is strictly super-colossal. It touches every of American life from layette to laying away. Call It soda- lism or what you will.

Whatever it is, it is apparently just the beginning. More Of The Same For the President's message contains an imposing list of other messages he is going to send up later, of still larger appropriations that will have to be asked for in later years. National defense expenditures, up 12,500,000,000 over last year to nearly $15,000,000,000, will be "somewhat higher in subsequent years," says the President's message. Even this does not include appropriations for the proposed Western European Defense Union, for which there will be another request, later. "I shall recommend specific legislation and to the Congress at a later date," writes the President, "for aid to Greece, Turkey, China and Korea.

"In addition," writes the President, "we are considering furnishing military supplies to certain countries in furtherance of our national security." He doesn't name the a i countries." A good guess is that he means the South American Republics. A special message is coming to outline a complete program for broadening social security. It will propose extension of old- age Insurance to 25 million workers not now protected. It will call for government insurance protection against loss of in periods of temporary disability. It will outline the complete a i a health insurance program.

Will Keep Congress Busy The President says he will recommend revisions in the structure of Home Loan Bank Board agencies to let them expand operations. a authority for public housing Yesteryears In The Valley FIFTY YEARS AGO January 16, 1899 John M. Franz is in town from Hidalgo. There is still a great deal of sickness about town. The steamship Morgan is advertised to sail from Morgan City for Brzos Santiago.

Forty cases of small pox have occured during the present epidemic at Laredo and the public schools there have been closed. Matamoros and Brownsville should exercise the greatest vigilance in order to prevent any more cases coming here from that point, An ugly wind haa been blow- Ing today. Among the late additions to our vegetable market are cauliflower and hard-head cabbage Of Books And Authors FORTY YEARS AGO January 18, 3909 Refrigerators and ventialt'ed cars for shipping the truck yield of the Valley this season and the coming spring have been secured by Traffic Manager Willian Dohcrty. He said it will probably require about 2,000 cars to handle the truck output of the Valley this season. Six ebony walking canes and one of Brazil wood were shipped from her yesterday to Col.

Willian Jennings Bryan. Four of these canes were purchased for Col. Bryan by Col. Coleman of this city at his request. Preparations are now underway by several of the young society men of the city to produce about the latter part of this month or the first week in next month an amateur dramatci performance.

TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO January 16, 1924 J.O. Ward of Mercedes, deputy grand master of this district for the Odd Fellow's lodge, will be in Brownsville tomorrow, and will install newly elected and appointed officers of the local lodge. Lawrence Olmstead is attending the District Optometrist Association convention at Houston this week. aids will rise from $85,000,000 this year to $445,000,000 by 1954. A Missouri River Valley Hood control survey report will be sent to Congress later.

If approved, It will cost $5,000,000 a year at the start. No telling how much later. Other valley plans, ditto. New legislation for grants in aid to the states for education will cost $300,000,000 next year, more later. The proposed National Science Foundation research bill will cost $2,500,000 at the start, $12,500,000 later.

All the new legislation actually outlined in the budget $6,000,000,000 a year more. What the unlisted proposal coming later will cost is not given. A fair guess might be another four or five billions. What Congress approves and what Congress turns down ia up to the lawmakers' infinite wisdom and vision, or lack of same. Just to consider all these things means that Congress is going to have to work as it never worked before.

There should be no time for monkey business, filibusters, endlMs hearings, long and empty speeches. Putting things off and then trying to cram through a program at the end of the session would be foolish. That was what the 80th Congress tried to do and it botched the lob. NICHOLAS Nicholas Monsarratt Jteglns, In Brother Denys," of autobiographical Born In Liverpool In 1910, he Mtudtad at Winchester college and, at Trinity, Cambridge, where lie won honors degree In law lit He clerked In a law office and then, equipped with one typewriter and 40 pounds, launched out an a writer. Among preunur novels there were "Thin Is Use Schoolroom," "At First Sljrht" and "The Whipping Boy." Three novels were assembled in a ftlng- le volume, "Depends What you Mean By Love," for American publication.

--o-THE INDUSTRIAL DEVOLUTION 1760 1830, by T. S. Ashton (Oxford; $2). Americans who had their own special reasons for disliking George III have not been reluctant to suppose they could blame his period also for some of the undoubted misery and suffering which accompanied the Industrial Revolution. Generally elsewhere, too, it has been supposed that the introduction of steam power and the machine was responsible at lesust temporarily for starving families, overworked children and overcrowded and filthy slums.

But the picture is nowhere near so black, Ashtjon claims in this little volume in "Home university literary of modern knowledge." Passing quickly over the fortuitous development of conditions that helped the revolution a such as land enclosure, an increase in available labor and capital and lowered interest rates, he notes, to legin with, that before the revolution a 11 was far from well witfc the poorer classes. Industry such as textiles and mining was rural, not urban, set up in the countryside near supplies of fire wood or coal or the fields where sheep grazed. The workers were paid irregularly, some were in debt all their lives; their back-breaking and occasionally hazardous jobs were carried on in environments as unsanitary as many of their homee. With Watt and Arkwright and Cort and Wedgwood, with the early use of the steam engine, the process of and rolling, the growth of a canal system, the expansion of railways made possible by flanged the worker's lot improved measurable, It's true4, Ashton says, that the air was heavy with smoke, that some new towns were laid out hastily and built shoddily. But employers often privWed excellent quarters for thrir labor, which also benefited a better diet, a rise in family earnings, a removal of some occupational hazards.

The population increase and the lower mortality rate art some of the signs. MY BROTHER DEM'S, fcjr Nicholas Montarrat $2.75) Two brothers, separated by just a few years, follow very different ways of life in this biographical and autobiographical "memoir." The father was a Liverpool surgeon who, after a difficult struggle to establish himself in his profession, became prosperous enough to privide his wife, two daughters and two sons with a city home, a country home, new cars, boat and the life. Denys, the youngest, was born one summer after the family left for its usual vacation on Treard- dur Bay, about as far north as North Wales goes. One sister, Molly, was old enough to be pretty much out of the way; the other, Felicity, stuck close to Nicholas; and Denys was sort of an outsider, reduced to the role of follower and not always permitted even to follow. When Denys was grown, his friends had more success than his family in drawing him out, and as several remarks testify, his dry.

tart wit made him worth drawing out. Nicholas attended college at the time when the father waa at the top of his profession and earning power, and the boy waa allowed plenty of money to dulge in escapades and the further money to avoid their occasional consequences. Denys went off to study when the depression had net in and the Monsar- rats were having to sell some property. Nicholas tried to be a lawyer and turned into an author of novels and plays and, during the war, a naval officer; Denys was meant to be a doctor, but joined the artillery in World War II and lost his life In Africa. This book is not only a memoir but also a memorial to a brother whom the author loved with a love of which he now can never tell him.

And also, besides being often a merry picture of a happy, irresponsible kind of life, It Is a charming record of a family. Monsarrat's most i pages show father, mother and children gathered in the yellow lamplight of the sitting room, sewing, writing, reading, playing patience or ludo, having biscuits and tea, walking off to bed candle in hnnd, falling asleep to the sound of the waves washing the rocky shore. If pictures of thia quiet, fireside comfort are infrequent, it may be. because our anxious world provides so few models. THE ROMANTIC BALLET CONTEMPORARY PRINTS, with IntroductJoa and by SachevereU Bit- well (Batwford; $2) (Batuford; $2) Sixteen colored plates picturing the leading dancers of the great period of romantic ballet, 1840-50, supply the principal appeal of this charming little book.

The name of Sit well, thanks to Dr. Edith and Sir Osbert as well as to the present author, who appeared in print recently in "The Hunters and thsj 1 leads us to expect a very personal and flavorsome prose; but on this occasion find merely a simple, factual, descriptive account. And no doubt that serves the purpose best. Illustrated tart is perhaps the most renowned feminine foursome in ballet history: Marie and the younger Fanny Elssler, Carlotte Grist and Fanny Cerrito Taglloni's father produced "La Sylphide" in Paris in 1832, with his daughter in the title role, and Grist was- the first "Giselle." Others ftp. resented are Lucile Grahn, Marie Guy Stephan, Flora Pabbrl, Louise Fafrbrothtr, Celine Oel- este and two men: Saint-Ltxm and Pcrrot, "most remarkable male dancer between tlMi tlmt of Veatrts and Nijlnakl.".