Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-02-27
IN OUR
VALLEY

Dio"HsFile SoIlee Sn0p an after
poon or two ago. built tourist hotel
on the back cover of pamphlet relat
ing The proceedings of the American
Society of Civil Engineers.
One of them happened to be a wizard
at figures. and struck out to support
his reputation. Lumber is his special
ty.
well, you've got $685. to give
away" he pointed out. 'Your friend .
talking to the writer who vigorously
declared himself innocent of any such
friendship" gives you $4,000. There
You have $4,000. Then you bond q
s350.O0O hotel for s175,OOO and your
hotel is financed"
And he said it with an air of finalty.
"Bu-bu-but," interposed No in the
party of coffee hounds, 'how the blue
blazes do you know the things goner
bring enough to pay the intrust?"
"Demmit, if you can't pay the in
terest on s175,0QO with s35O,OOO hotel,
you're dem poor business man
"Bu-bu-but," No. 2 stammered again,
whats my friends gon'er do about the
intrust on his $l10,0DO?"
why. demmit, he can wait until the
hotel makes enough money to pay it,,
can't he?"
To which No. 2 agreed. and the meet
ing broke up in more less Of row,
with an implied agreement to meet
again over coffee on another afternoon
and discuss it further-No. in the
meantime to look for his friend with
$4,000.
The Girl Reserves .of the Lower Rio
Grande Valley have their own news
paper.
Volume /, No. /. the February issue,
has reached The Brownsville Herald,
and it is found to have rather unique
title "The Silver Lining" 1t is print
! cd on book paper. and the initial issue
consists Of four pages. Every item is
Of interest to members of this national
Organization.
'The Silver Lining" is published by
the Girl Reserve Inter- Club Council OF
the Young Women's Christian Associa-
tion. Lower Rio Grande Valley. And
here's the staff personnel: June May
berry. editor chief; Dorothy McMil-
Ian. literary editor; Charlotte Snavely.
ut-door editor; Ruby Wells. art editor;
Theo White, distributing editor; Marcel
la Kramer, Pauline Adams. Theresa
Posey, Christine Yarbrough, reporters;
Eugenia L. McMurphy and Mildred Z.
Van Every. consulting editors.
When all this campaign for flood con-
troll in Cameron county is over, the peo-
pie, regardless of. what the legislature
may do. are going to owe a debt Of gra-
titude to a number of public spirited
citizens who have given much of their
time, energy and thought to this mat
ter.
At the head of this list Of citizens
1--we might mention S. c. Tucker. who is
tne me man that viii get up at 4:30 or
s o'clock or even earlier in the morn
ing anu race across the county to at
tend committee meeting-and he'll
likely be the first man there. Mr.. Tuck
er has business that demands his at
tention at all times, but it doesn't pre-
vent him taking a leading part in such
public activities.
He might say, "Well, the success OF
my business depends upon the prosper
ity Of the community; that's why | do
these things"
But the sucsces of every other mans
business. depends upon the prosperity
of the community -but mostly we are
content to let the other fellow do it,
Right alongside Mr. Tucker we might
also mention Bob Stuart of Harlingen.
His is another shoulder that has way
Of getting right up to the wheel ana
showing.
Harbert Davenport is still another
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