Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-12-27

IN OUR
VALLEY

- former United States Naval Radio
Station at Point Isabel is to be leased
for private use, bids to be received
January 4, has been broadcast over the
nation by the navy department.
The New York Times has carried it,
SO have Washington, New Orleans and
Brownsville papers.
The mechanical equipment was dis
nlantled some Is months ago, and the
navy department arranged with the war
department to take over the Fort Brown
army station at Brownsville, handle
the army work well as the navy. And
Z S175,O0O is being spent just now on new
and most modern equipment
The property includes some 20 acres,
Dnmber of very good buildings and
two immense towers
All of which moves c. Dutton of
Raymondville to suggest, in a letter to
The Herald:
This affords an opportunity for
some Valley-wide organization. or COM
bination of organizations to take over
She property and use it as a super-p pow
er station exclusively in the interest
of the Valley"
Just how would we make use of the
Station. Mr. Dutton?
This from the San Antonio Express
~Think" Column.
This is not crowng-not even cack-
iing-but it seems that every president
of the United States during late years
must have one or more Southwest Tex
ans for his intimates-or near-inti-
n1afac Wnndrou, Mor
dell House of Austin; Warren G. Hard
1ng--R. b. Creager of Brownsville and
T. f. Scobcy of San Antonio: Calvin
Coolidge. the same Creager. To put
capstone to this observation of things
on the Potomac, Mr.. Coolidge recently
had Col. House as his guest in the
White House and Mr.. Creager as his
companion on a cruise aboard the May
flower"
just as there are two sides to all
questions, there two sides to this Delta
business.
There ere many firms in the Valley
who use the name valley" who might
find change in name unadvisable In
addition, there are a number of firms,
particularly vegetable and fruit ship
pers, who in past years have borne down
on the Fact that their produce comes
from 1.-The Lower Rio Grande Valley
of Texas.''
However, it would be much easier to
bring change of name to the attention
OF their customers than it will to i'm
press upon the l0O,0OO,0OO or 50 per-
sons in the United States the fact that
the "R'o Grande Delta" is a country
that is different in climate, soil and
other conditions from any other terri
tory bordering on the Rio Grande
Come to think of it, one hears very
little or nothing about Pensacola in
connection with the Florida boom
Pensacola seems to be strictly out Of
the boom area. All one hears is Palm
Beach, Orlando. Miami, Coral Gables
the latter in two page spreads in the
leading magazines of the nation.
This from the Corpus Christi Caller:
THE temperature in the Rio Grande
Valley dropped to II degrees above zero
yesterday morning. This freeze will be
of benefit in the Valley since it will
kill the pink boil worm.
NO, this isn't from The Brownsville
Herald, the San f'enito Light or the
McAllen Press-it is an excerpt from
an item in the Fl Paso Post"
Thus, does the Brownsville Herald
keep alive its agitation for distinctive
name for the section in which it is To-
Gated. ''Valley." The Herald contends,
doesn't describe the section, for other
areas use the same designation. What
people here regard as the Rio Grande
Valley is really the Rio Grande Delta;
and The Herald is anxious that it be
known by its right name
A name may not mean much. but it
also may mean a great deal at times.
For instance. Ell Paso may tell the
world that the temperature in the Rio
Grande Valley was 81 degrees. The
Delta, if it uses the term 'sValley" in
advertising itself, gets the blame.
"We hope The Herald continues its
fight, for the fight is in an unselfish
cause.
''Some day we may know the delta
as the Delta" and Corpus Christi as
Corpus Christi instead Of Corpus Both
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