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Brownsville, Texas.—With the trial
conviction and sentencing to jail of
Isaac Amram and Juan Samano on
charges of smuggling aliens into the
United States, it is believed by United
States immigration authorities here
that the two leaders of a far-reach-
band of border lawbreakers have been
disposed of, temporarily at least. An
investigation is now being made to
determine whether or not the smug-
gling organization had ramifications
in New York, Europe and the dif-
ferent ports of Mexico, Hundreds of
aliens, most of them Greeks and Ital-
fans, were clandestinely brought across
the Rio Grande by Amram and Sa-
mano.
Amram, who is only twenty-six years
old, speaks English, Spanish, French
Greek, Italian, German and Turkish
fluently and has a smattering of vari-
ous other tongues and dialects. He
has traveled extensively through Eu-
rope, Asia, Spanish America and the
United States, acquiring his education
in this country.
Charge is $100 a Head
According to his story, his grand-
father, a Spaniard, settled in Turkey,
and he was born in that country, com-
ing to Mexico several years ago.
Some of the languages he acquired
as a youth along the Mediterranean;
others he studied in universities.
Juan Samano was until recently a
FOR SMALL GIRL
A very smart little frock of rose
georgette crepe trimmed with blue
appliques on which rose and blue
flowerlets are embroidered. There are
plaits at the shoulders.
Mexico Palace Addition
Cost Lives of 80 Workmen
Mexico City.—When the magnificent
fourth floor addition to the National
palace is completed, its cost will have
to be reckoned not only in pesos, but
in human life. To date eighty wwrk-
men have been killed in falls and
other accidents resulting from bwild-
ing operations on the upper extension
of the administrative edifice of Mex-
fco’s federal government.
magistrate at Reynosa, Mexico. Ac:
cording to Amram’s version of the
gang's activities, Italians and Greeks
were brought across the river, the
smugglers charging $100 a head for
this service,
Belief that the organized gang of
alien smugglers operating from Rey-
nosa had been broken up by the ar-
rest of Samano and Amram was ex-
pressed by Brownsville immigration
BROAD JUMP KING
Cyrus Spangler of the University ot
Kansas track team, who is the broad
jump champion of the Missouri Valley
conference. Spangler outjumped the
cream of the midwest jumpers with
a leap of 23 feet 103 inches at the
University of Nebraska stadium. His
near-record jump won for him a place
on Uncle Sam's Olympic team.
officers, who assert that through the
activities of the organization many
Greeks and Italians were brought to
this side of the Rio Grande. The con-
fession of Amram and the details
brought out in stories told by the
captured aliens coincided.
Leader Smuggled In.
American immigration officials had
ascertained from several Greeks and
Italians, apprehended after they had
crossed the river, that Samano was a
member of the organization which had
its headquarters at Reynosa and had
been endeavoring for several weeks to
effect his capture. He was finally ap-
prehended at the American customs
office at Hidalgo when he crossed to
get a manifest on an automobile he
had purchased.
Amram stated he was smuggled
across the river at Reynosa two years
ago, Samano aiding him; that he went
to New York, where he was employed
as a musician, and later came back
to the border and became a member
of the Reynosa band.
- DIPPING INTO
- SCIENCE
Iron and Steel
Steel is not a separate ele-
ment, but is made from iron
with carbon and other ingredi-
ents added. The thing making
steel good or bad is largely in
the way it is treated as it cools
and crystalizes. Steel is a great
improvement over iron and en-
ables us to do many things we
could not have done with iron.
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(©. 1928. Western Newspaper Union.)
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FORCED SALES
By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK
Dean of Men, University of
Illinois.
THINK of all the salesmen who come
upon one unexpectedly and try to
persuade one to buy, the book agent
through all time has been the most
unpopular, 1 suppose the reason is
that few people have any innate long-
ing for books and especially for such
books as the salesman going from door
to door is trying to dispose of, If heis
to be successful he must first create
an interest and a desire and then at-
tempt to satisfy it. This requires tact,
a knowledge of human nature and
how it is influenced, and, of course,
persistence, and this last quality .is
ordinarily all that the wandering
salesman of books has developed. If
he succeeds in making a sale it is
usually a forced sale.
Webster was telling me not long
ago something of his experience while
in college, He went out during his
summer vacation to sell books. He
had never had any experience before
and he knew nothing of salesmanship
excepting to hang on when he got
hold of a prospective customer, The
territory to which he was assigned
was a pretty barren rural community.
The book he was trying to sell had
no particular merit. The people to
whom he was attempting to sell it did
not want it, if they were persuaded to
buy it in order to get rid of Webster
it would mest probably lie with the
family Bible on the center table in the
sitting room unread and useless. Any-
way they could not afford to buy it,
and Webster knew this as he looked
about him better possibly than any-
one else. When he succeeded in mak-
ing a forced sale he felt as if he had
robbed an orphan asylum or sand-
bagged a blind man. Webster got
Ready to Face Antarctic Dangers
Commander R. E. Byrd and the members of the crew of the Samson, the
supply ship of the Byrd Antarctic expedition which will sail soon.
Rang
Many a
Knell
San Francisco.—Priceless relic of
early days in San Francisco, the
Vigilante bell that used to summon
the people to council and war at Fort
Gunnybags, here in the '50s, has been
hung in the marine deaprtment of
the chamber of commerce, a gift to
the chamber from the First Baptist
church of Petaluma.
Stirring memories of those times
which tried the hearts of San Fran-
cisco’s best men and the necks of her
worst were recalled when Robert New-
ton Lynch, vice president and general
manager of the chamber, announced
the presentation. It was through his
efforts that the bell was brought back
here.
The bell was purchased in 1856 by
the Vigilante committee, of which W.
T. Coleman was then president. It
was oought from a Boston firm of
metal workers, Conroy & Connors,
weighed 1,100 pounds, and cost $1,500.
It is bronze,
Hung in the steeple of old Fort Gun-
nybags, it sounded the death knell of
many a reckless villain, proclaimed
peace and victory to the upright and
struck terror to the hearts of the
vicious when the Vigilantes found it
necessary to take the law into their
own hands.
In 1858, when the bell no longer
Real “Pesky” Critter”
was required, the residents of Peta-
luma bought it from the Vigilantes for
$550 and hung it in their first Baptist
church, There it was used both for
religious services and as a time bell,
sounding the hour at 6 a. m., noon,
and 6 p. m,
When the Civil war started, Union
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Goats to Cut Its Grass
Oklahoma , City, Okla.—The
mowing machine and lawn mow-
er business took a blow at Pon-
ca City, Okla., recently when a
big oil company decided to use
goats to keep the grass cut on
its 160-acre tank farm. There
are on the farm more than 100
tanks, holding about 140,000,000
gallons of crude oil and gaso-
line, and strict precautions
against fire are necessary. As
goats do not play with fire, they
won the contract on the grounds
of safety and economy.
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sympathizers rang it to announce
Northern victories and those friendly
to the Southern cause bccame angry.
To prevent ‘discord among members of
the community, the bell was taken
down and hauled away one dark night
to a warehouse. A few hours later
Northern sympathizers returned it to
the steeple, hoisting the Stars and
Stripes above it.
The next night a Southerner made
his way unobserved into the belfry,
and with a hammer sought to silence
the bell forever. He made a big crack
in it, not unlike that in the famous
Liberty bell, but this had no silencing
effect, The bell remained in use until
1907, and its chimes could be heard
through the countryside within a ten:
mile radius,
Many a man’s good
reputation is due to
the fact that his wife
doesn’t tell all she
happens to know.
Death From Heart
Disease on Gain
London.—The mental and emotional
strain of modern life is mainly respon-
sible for the 400 per cent increase in
deaths from hear. disease in Great
Britain and other countries, in the
opinion of Dr, J. Strickland Goodall,
London cardiologist and physician.
“While the death rate from cancer
has increased rather less than 25 per
cent, that from heart disease has in-
creased nearly 400 per cent,” Doctor
Goodall informed members of the In-
stitute of Hygiene,
“The form in which we take our
pleasure,” he asserted, “is a direct in-
version of nature's demands for ade-
quate rest.”
The habits of vikiting night clubs,
drinking cocktails and smoking exces-
sively were listed by Doctor Goodall
among the destructive pleasures. He
further maintained that “the emotion:
al character of modern plays, novels
and films, with their appeals to the
baser passions, inevitably tends to
overstrain, with results which are re-
flected in the enormously increased
number of deaths from heart disease.”
These deaths are occurring at an
earlier age than formerly, Doctor
Goodall reported. Whereas a few
years ago the common age of sudden
death was between fifty and sixty
years, an analysis of recent deaths
had disclosed that “the age is becom-
ing much less.”
The physician recalled that 12 per-
sons died suddenly in the United
States while listening to the running
account of the Tunney-Dempsey fight
in Chicago, and that seven of these
succumbed when Tunney was floored
in the seventh round. He attributed
all to emotional strain,
A critézal investigation of thousands
of cases of sudden death shows, said
Doctor Goodall, that most of them are
due to arterio-sclerosis, or hardening
of the arteries, a disease often caused
by hard physical work, mental strain
and emotion,
away with the job, however. He hung
on and haggled and argued the ques-
tion until in sheer desperation his vie-
tims signed on the dotted line. He
was broadcast as a salesman de luxe
and his picture was displayed in the
advertising of the company for whom |
he was working, and yet it was really |
poor salesmanship which he exhibited. |
A conservative Englishman, the
head of a large retail establishment,
is said to have announced that he
would dismiss any of his salesmen
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he did not want.
no forced sales in his establishment.
No customer who came into his store
need fear being leadpiped and sold a
gold brick before he got out.
I have been called on once a year
for more than a score of years by the
most perfect salesman I have ever
known. I heard a few weeks ago that
he was dead and I am truly sorry. He
never urged me to buy; he never even
brought up the subject of my buying.
He made an appointment with me in
advance for a definite time, and as
reliable as clockwork he appeared
then. He simply spread his wares be-
fore me, pointing out the particular
merits of this or that, and he did it
all quickly, courteously, and with a
subtle appeal which I was never able
to resist, but it wasn't a forced sale.
When he went away I felt that he
had done me a service,
(©. 1928, Western Newspaper Union.)
SPEAKS MANY TONGUES
Sir George Grierson of London, who
has recently received the Order of
Merit. Sir George is master of 179
languages and 0554 dialects, having
just completed a monumental lianguis-
tic survey of India on which he spent
the past 25 years.
There were to be |
i AMELIA’S |
| REGAINED |
i LOVER |
S MRS. TABOR laid a kindly
hand on her shoulder Amelia
Tanner looked up into the
pleasant face above her, She
was just leaving the Tabor house and
Mrs. Tabor had come to the door to
see her depart.
“I am sorry you got so tired today,
Amelia,” Mrs. Tabor said. ‘But the
work seemed to pile up. I hope you
will get nicely rested before you have
to start out tomorrow. Here is some-
thing for your supper.” She placed
a paper bag in Amelia’s work-worn
hand.
A slight flush of gratitude and ap-
preciation tinted Amelia's tired face.
She murmured thanks and hurried
away, a slight, drooping figure in in-
describably quiet and threadbare
clothes.
Hastening away from the pretty
residence section of the town, where
she was employed by the day, she
turned into Lincoln street and there
was her home. The smile that the
sight of the shabby little brownish
house always brought to Amelia’s face
came now. She loved that house; she
was trying to pay for it, literally, by
the sweat of her brow. All her life
long she had wanted a home, a haven,
a place of her own, where she could
be her own mistress for a few hours in
each twenty-four. It was after she
bought the house that she had given
up serving as a maid and had entered
upon the harder job of being a by-the-
day.
Amelia did not go In at the front
door, but, taking a few more steps, she
went round to the back of the house
and entered that way. In the kitchen
by the stove sat a woman crying.
“Oh, Sister Dora!” exclaimed Ame-
lia. “What's the matter now?”
“I'm cold,” quavered the small sal-
low woman, hugging herself in her
shawl.
“Why of course you would be. The
windows are open and there is a
draught.”
“But I must have my fresh air,”
sighed the woman. “Fresh air is nec-
essary to me in my state of health. 1
couldn't make the fire burn. That
wood you bought is too green. Barney
would never allow a bit of green wood
on the premises. He took such pains
with his fuel. Oh, dear!” And here
Sister Dora began to weep again,
Amelia had closed the windows and
now laying aside her hat and coat, she
began with quick movements to start
a fire. The helpless and dissatisfied
Dora watched her gloomily.
“I've been thinking of Barney all
day,” she said. “I've been thinking
that if it hadn’t been for you he would
never have gone away and left me.”
Amelia was silent. It was Dora’s
favorite complaint that her sister was
the cause of her husband's vanishment
into the unknown. He had been gone
eight years and Dora, left alone and
unprovided for, had come to Amelia.
Ever since Amelia had provided for
her, cared for her, borne with her.
“Barney was a fine man,” Dora went
on. “We got along good together till
you made trouble between us. I don’t
knew how you did it, but you must
have made trouble or there wouldn't
have been any. I loved him when we
were married and he thought his eyes
of me. I never dreamed it would come
out like this, Oh, I am a miserable
woman!”
She was. sniffing. Amelia, still si:
lent, set on the tea kettle and laid the
table neatly. She cut bread, opened
a can of something, arranged the
peaches temptingly, When the tea
was made she touched Dora’s shoul-
der.
“There, come,” she said, “eat a bit
of something and you'll feet better.”
“I can't touch a crumb,” said Dora.
But Amelia hoisted her from her
chair, made her sit down at the table
and poured a cup of tea for her. Pres-
ently Dora began to eat heartily and
with enjoyment. Amelia, however,
could not eat at all; she was too tired,
too disheartened. To come home to
this night after night, her poor sister
mourning for the worthless and delin-
quent Barney instead of exerting her-
self to get a new grasp on life. Years
before Dora had driven away the one
lover Amelia had ever had, a worthy,
honest, plain fellow, because he did
not match up with the showy Barney.
But Amelia, instead of grieving her
life away, had gone bravely to work,
filling her life with what she could
get hold of. She thought of Larry
Hicks now as she sipped her tea and
wondered if Dora ever realized what
she had done.
Suddenly Amelia covered her face
with her hands, making a shelter for
her poor features, while she tried to
straighten them back into their nor-
mal placidity.
“Well, if you are going to cry 1
shall give up,” said Dora, harshly.
Amelia had resumed her poise.
“I never cry,” she said. “What's the
use? Have some more tea, Sister
Dora?”
Dora was peeping from the window.
“There's a man coming round to the
back door here,” she said, excitedly.
“Maybe it's Barney come back to me!”
She tore to the door, jerked it open
and fell back in her disappointment,
“Miss Tanner?’ she said. “Yes, she’s
here. Come in if you want to see
her.”
The man entered. He was thin, tall,
quiet looking and neatly dressed. His
eyes went to Amelia and as Amelia
lifted her sad gaze recognition passed
like a spark between them.
“Amelia,” said Larry Hicks, une
steadily. “I hope you're glad to see
me. I'm mighty glad to see you.”
Amelia, to whom life had brought
80 many" tribulations that even now
she expected nothing save a fresh one,
made a pot of fresh tea, cut more
bread and invited her old lover to sit
down at the table with them. She even
found a moment in which to open a
fresh jar of preserves carefully
hoarded as a treat.
Larry Hicks ate with enjoyment. He
explained that he had come straight
from the train.
“You are the first person I looked
up,” he said, with his steady eyes on
Amelia's face. “I came back just to
cee you. I can’t stay long. My busi-
ness won't let me.”
“Where do you live?” Dora asked.
And he named the distant state. From
that point he went on to tell about
his work, the home he had built and
surrounded with trees and vines and
shrubbery. A brook ran just back of
it and he raised ducks and chickens.
He had a garden and a peach and
apple orchard. And in these varied
interests he found entertainment when
his day’s work was done.
“But it’s lonesome living alone. I
don’t like it,’ he said, looking wist-
fully at Amelia. “So I've come back
to see if—if somebody I know won't
have me, Amelia.” His hand closed
over hers. In his earnestness he had
forgotten Dora,
A moment later Amelia found that
she and her old lover, who had se
miraculously become her regained lov-
er, were alone. Dora had gone. Pres-
ently Amelia sought her.
“Larry’s got money,” she said. “You'
can live here. I'll send you money
enough every month.”
Dora looked at her queerly.
“Maybe when you're out of the way
Barney will come back to me,” she
said.
Larry, sweeping all before him, car-
ried Amelia away within a week to a
real home, happiness and a life such
as she had never dreamed of en-
joying.
And Sister Dora, alone, comfortable
in Amelia’s house and supported by
Amelia's bounty, is still waiting for
Barney.
Phrase Often Quoted
Is Laurence Sterne’s
Some of the most familiar quo-
tations in our language are, to use
an Irishism, “misquotations.” {he
phrase, “They do these things better
in France,” appeared originally as
the opening sentence in Laurence
Sterne’s “Sentimental Journey
Through France and Italy,” and reads
there as follows: “They order, said
I, this matter better in France.”
The coiner of the phrase was born
in 1713 and died in 1768, three weeks
after the publication of the volume
which this famous saying opens. He
was a parson, but, like a good many
other men who took holy orders in
the Eighteenth century, not entirely
fitted for his sacred office. He was,
however, the great-great-grandson of
an archbishop of York, and himself
became a prebendary of the same city.
The appearance of the first two vol-
umes of “Tristram Shandy,” one of
the most whimsical and unconvention-
al novels of a very unconventional
age, brought him instant fame, and
on coming to London from Yorkshire
he became the lion of the season.
Visitors to the National gallery will
recall the famous painting by Charles
R. Leslie, R. A, entitled “Uncle Toby
and the Widow Wadman,” both of
whom, together with Corporal Trim,
are the immortal creations of Sterne.
—London Answers,
Naval Church Pennant
Search of the records of the Navy
department has not to date disclosed
the origin of the church pennant. On
April 26, 1862, Admiral Farragut, thea
Flag Officer Farragut, issued an order
appointing an hour of thanksgiving
and directing that the church pennant
be hoisted. The “Signal Book” of 18668
prescribes that the church pennant he
displayed above the national ensign.
The “Signal Manual” of the navy now
prescribes as follows: “The church
pennant will be hoisted immediately
above the ensign at the peak of the
flagstaff at the time of commencing
and kept hoisted during the continu-
ance of divine service on board all
vessels of the navy.” The church pen-
nant indicates that divine services are
being held aboard ship.
How Australia Got Name
When, in 1606, De Queiroz landed in
the New Hebrides, he took possession
in the name of Philip III of Spain, in
whose service he was, and named the
land Tierra Austrialia del Espirita
Santo, and wrote: “For the happy
memory of your majesty, and for the
sake of the name of Austria, I named
it, because on the anniversary of your
birth I took possession of it.” He
thought he had landed on the ru-
mored Great Southern continent, upon
which the shade of this name had
fallen.
They Didn’t Pop
George has a fondness for fried pop-
overs. His elder sister one evening
agreed to make a generous supply and
he was to wash the supper dishes, The
sister served the cakes with misgiv-
ings, as they were not up to the stand-
ard. The brother ate greedily with-
out comment.
Returning to the kitchen later in the
evening, the sister found the dishes
unwashed and an explanation was de-
manded.
“Your popovers didn’t pop, so that
lets me out,” said brother.
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