Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1922-12-14
DlSCOURSES ON
OPPORTUNITIES
FOR EDUCATION
Governor Neff, in Dedicatory
Address, Points Out Great
Value "f City New School
Buildings


Speaking before large audience OF
citizens Of Brownsville and a number OF
students of the schools. Governor Pat
NJ. Neff of Texas yesterday afternoon
delivered the dedicatory address of the
new school buildings which have been
constructed in the city this year.
The program was featured by the ad-
desses by Governor Neff and Mexican
Consul villalpando. while +. X. Good
rich, Superintendent Yoe and Miss Pa
checo also made talks. The program in
cluded singing by the chorus of the
junior high school. II was a fitting and
buildings which have been constructed
n Brownsville.
Governor Neff's Address
Governor Neffs address showed the
interest he is taking IN educational ad-
vsncement in the state, and he compli-
mented Brownsville upon the progress
this city has made in recent years. Fol
lowing is his address in full:
Friends, fellow citizens. distinguish
ed representatives Of the Mexican Re
public:
American people the most progressive
and powerful in all the world. The
church house and the school house
have been the landmarks of civiliza-
tion. These two institutions have made
this republic the banner-bearing ma
tion ia the civilization and evangelical
tion Of the human race. Our forefathers
that first came to American shores
brought not wealth nor royalty nor
honor. They left the old world with
but one thought in view. and that was
To find somewhere on this wide earth
a place where man could worship God
according to the dictates of his own
conscience. They landed on the New
England shores and, with the Bible
i'm their hands, knelt in reverence 10
the King Of Kings and dedicated this
western continent TO civil and relig Gus
liberty. Before they would even build
rude huts TO shelter their heads from
the cold sweep Of the Atlantic storms
they built the church house IN which
they gathered each morning for relig-
ious devotion.
"The first continental congress tina
met on this continent was opened with
prayer. That was the first time in six
thousand years of human history that
a legislative body was ever opened in
asking the. guidance of a Divine hand
i'm legislatinR for people The first
contin ntal constitution written on this
continent commenced In the name OF
God Not in all the mach of human
life had people ever Incorporated in
to their fundamental law the name OF
God until your forefathers and mine
gathered on this western world. The
Declaration of American Independence,
the sublimest document ever written by
an uninspired hand yields in its first
and in its last sentence a trust and u
belief in the guiding hard Of tbe King
of the skies.
Charch and School Blaze Way For
Civilization
"By the side of the church hofe.
beginning on the bleak New England
shores, American people have always
built the school house: and the church
house and the school house have blazed
the way of American civilization a
cross the continent: IL spead across the
Alleghenies and the MisSss ppi; it
walked in stately tread to the banks OF
the Rio Grande and 10 the golden gate
Of the Pacific slope. and those two
spirits. the spirit Of religion. the be
lief that every man had IA right 10 20
out under the clear. blue skies and
worship God just as he wanted to
without the state saying how he
should worship his God. and the spirit
of education have been the two great
propelling powers that make the
American flag honored around the
world; and we come on this occasion. in
this religious land of ours. in this land
to dedicate another evidence of Ameri-
can citizenship and American progress
by dedicating 10 God and to humanity
these beautiful school buildings erected
by the patriotism Of the citizenship Of
this southwestern part of TexHs-
Education Guardian of Democracy
"As a native son of Texas. am hap
py in the thought that our Texas fore
fathers eighty-six years ago wrote into
the Declaration of Texas Independence
that they would not live under gov
eminent that made no provision foi
the education of the boys and girls OF
that government. And from the council
chamber to the battlefield they marched
10 give 10 this generation the thought
that the highest and noblest duty ol
a government was 10 educate her peo.
ple. and in the dawn of the Texas Re-
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