Show L LFrank y Frank Francis Southern Texas trea from Austin to the lb Rio Grande han hall ha been cov- cov covered coy cov covered ered cred with from tour four to eight Inches of ot snow W think of Texas as a winter hut tut that part of ot the country ha had not had a much r r winter than has The present winter Inter inter has hns been ex- ex ex exceptionally mild with the promise or an early spring An ea early ly spring s with rains r would give to this an ex- ex ex farming outlook S S 0 What hat a tremendous growth has come to the De BeI Telephone com corn company company pany In fifty years The t Burns Barns cub cele- cele cele celebrated rated Saturday even and o some somo ot of the speakers t told H of ot the part played b by Scots In the affairs 01 olmen men No Scotchman laid a broader foundation for tor Industrial progress than dl did l Alexander Gr Graham ham Bell Dell Inventor of the tele- tele telephone telephone tele telephone phone lieU Bell was born In tn Scotland March 3 1847 and d was only a ayoung Oung 3 Juan mn when hen In March he discovered the secret of con con con- vying con spoken n over ovel the Ires Since the than nell Dell Telephone company has grown n until now I It Jul has 1 r H L oni on oft off were to tomake tomake make a a gu guss ss he would say there are arc more telephones than altos but there era are Or automo automo- automobiles bites biles In tn the United States The successor to the Bell Tele- Tele Telephone Telephone Tele phone company Is the American and Telegraph Which has 3 OOOo An over e of tele- tele lele phorn calls ar ara made every day There are nearly two W wo phones In hi the States every everyone everyone everyone I one In Europe The Tho property of o the tha telephone company company represents an Pon Invest Invest- Investment Investment ment mont ol oj thre billion dol- dol dolAnd dot 1 ar t 1 And Anti to 10 that this thit clevel- clevel ha haS come come within the life or of a man fifty ye yea ot of age age- ageA A A number ot of new ew c locomotives are arc 1 tuilt for on the New Yot Central railroad r They hey are copied after aCer locomotives el ein Operated tn in l Sweden eden and Russia One ot of th tho locomotives will de- de de develop clop 1000 horse T r I and do doth doth th ork or or a team steam e ot 1800 horse horst po veri and und Is guar guar- guaranteed guar guar- guaranteed guaranteed to make 60 mites milts an hour It p Is aid that lint the now Diesel Diesel- an got get away WJ froma from Irom a like a New cw York subway On a mil the engine will consume 15 US In fuel as asae ISO 90 for Cor tb the Kleam loco loco- loco moti molt moll s a an and the th engine doc loe does not require o 0 ov rore than once a 0 a we wc k 1 S S Samurl t t r rr the Hie famous e en York I wyer says ha has hotels built and under construe construction tion Hon which will il 1 the Hie tour lour tourists tourist 1st en I toi or o tI the neSt ten lem var ars and lie he Is 18 a hea deflation In values value In Inthe Inthe Inthe the next six nix Ix i Eu But Bail the rush ruh continue to 10 such an extent that t th tho are not nol able aIJI o i-o 0 o handle taw tn t n freight ht traffic S S New w York City n i ti k t number or of banks bank ach ach with Ith ocr jur a half dollars on depoli Oni Orn or Ih ln- ln o onS has hario- hario rio eta 10 O a billion lo Oi of do- do siti po Thi Th City Nation fhate Na- Na NationaL a lIonaL and hav have close to 0 three 1 ot of de- de de deposits posits third thid of oC l a alth au authe That Is h I to Oil th the gold goM in tn I lh- lh h world und end It Is ismore Ismore more money than was w-u w In the banks of nil all 11 countries one ono hurt hun hundred hun hundred dred years el ears rs ago aeo As ts one means menn of or from ho exactions exaction of oC the th rub rub- rubber rub rubber ber monopoly the do- do department de department o of lr commerce Iran lias sent err an expert o 0 France to study tudy anew a ane anew ne new process for Cor reclaiming u used rubber 9 The Thi old rub ruhr r is to heavy pressure re and a u gaseous mixture de the old Id I t rub rub- rub rubber her ber 1 cr ell eliminating sulphur sul and other chemicals s It Is then tien by immersion In t a and th the tho liquid rub rub- rubber rubber ber her f forced r od through a cloy clay filter which retains the i Recovery of oC In this manner might become so 80 o dent dent- dentas a as to destroy de th mo- mo monopOly mo monopoly which Is making America pay hundred hundreds of oC ot of o dot dot- lar dol-lar lars Jars In tribute t I I Not r Ion Ions London ago London Punch had a cartoon labeled The The lion with the rubber rubber tall tail showing an and eagle with Uncle Sama hat trousers on attacking the tho tall tallor tallo or of a lion and under we was Illa this explanatiOn There was wa on once co an eagle catle who I used u cd to having the best of l on ou l Page lage ge 10 T o NEWS AND VIEWS i Continued From Page One everything And It chanec chanced 1 that tha ho met II a a ion ilon with Il a a tall tail of rub rub- rubber rubber rub ber And a great envy over over- overtoOk overtoOk I toOk the tho eagle because the lions lion's lion taU tait was ot Of rubber And the eagle said 1 r I 1 will wilt see how lion likes ikes to havo bavo hIs tila tail tall twisted But Dut the th lion remaIned remained un- un unmoved Unmoved un moved sayIng Baying My ta tall tail does docs docs not mInd being twisted It is Ix so 60 resilient re- re An And 1 when the eagle perceived ho- ho ho was was waa raving no suc sue sue- coBs cess he was much annoyed and said so 10 But the tha lion remained unmoved This treatment of or Americas America protest forces tores an American to t I because It hits has ila tIns the savIng grace graco of ot humor S The United 1 States I ls Is rot Jot only the tho groat copper producer but butIn butIn bu In almost every m metal tal It stands stand at the tho top Of late lato ye- ye years ue zinc sine has been gaining In service and ami last year the production of ot all countrIes Was Vae tons which Is 30 tons above bove th highest out out- output out put In Iii the past Of Ot this big yield the United States produced over one half Nature has been wonderfully kind to the tha people of oC o th the UnIted Unite States S S S Fifty years ago the banana banan trade trado was beginning to be bo de- de developed In this countr country By 1892 an house was wa as Importing the fruit In carload lots bringing In the green La- La ba ha bananas nanas and ripening them themma In adark a adark dark cellar Last year bunches of bananas were Into the tho th United Stats States S 5 S Maine profited ly Iy the big In- In Increase increase In Increase crease In lit the price of ot potatoes In 1925 1025 The farmers ot of one county received 1 5 from theIr potatoes Tho crop of the entire mUro slate state was value valued 1 at which was an Increase ot of o U over 1924 Idaho Idalo Is gaining a II nation namo for its potatoes but It haa ha hasto to considerably o its Iti acre acre- age acre age before It equals the he production tion ot of Maine 1 |