Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-08-20
IN OUR
VALLEY

)USTON, San Antonio and all South
IL Texas are rejoicing with the Lower
Rio Grande Valley in the passage Of the
flood control bond issue of Cameron
county.
Prediction days brought all sorts Of
rumors. In one community, it was said,
farmers were being exhorted to vote
against the issue because that par
ticular community was never flood ld-
den.
In another community they were
urged, said the rumors, to oppose the
issue because nothing would be done
for that particular district.
Somewhere else voters Of Mexican
blood were told that much Of their
property would be taken from them if
the issue was voted.
1t was all pure bunk, Of course. Some
of the rumors were just rumors, and in
other cases we'll intentioned people were
led astray by misinformation.
But on election day it had been all
wiped out. Everything seems to have
been understood, and the vote against
the bonds was so inconsequential that
one must believe that even the opposing
votes we're really errors in marking
ballots.
Early in the campaign The Herald,
sensing no active opposition to the bond
issue, began stressing the point that
two-thrds of the total qualified vote of
the county was necessary to vote the
issue.
This point was brought out in every
discussion Of the election, and it was
often repeated that the danger was not
from opposition to the issue, but to
possibilities that the voters did not
unde stand the urgent necessity that
every vote was needed.
The fact that 500 persons failed to
vote indicates the danger that might
have faced the bond issue had this
point not been stressed by the leaders
in the campaign and the press Of the
county.
Brownsville will be the scene of the
hearing of the Interstate Commerce
Comission on the application of the San
Antonio & Arkansas Pass railroad (South
eIn Pacific) to extend its line from Fal-
furrias south across Brooks and Hidal-
go counties to Hidalgo, on the Rio
Grande.
The hearing date is October 5, and it
is probable that the place will be the
federal courtroom.
1t is gratifying to the Valley to know
that this important hearing will be held
in the Valley, making it convenient for
all witnesses who will be called, and
the probabilities are there will be a
large number of them.
There will be nothing cut and dried
about this hearing, if the advance an
nounces are to be depended upon
The Missouri Pacific already has filed
its protest against the extension, on the
que tonnage sufficient to maintain two
railroads to the point Of efficiency.
Some weeks after the Sap applied for
the Falfurrias- Hidalgo permit it filed
an additional application for a permit
to build from Edinburg to Harlingen.
The second application, however, de-
pends entirely upon the decision Of the
j. G. G. on the first. If the first is
granted, then it is likely that hearing
will be held on the second. If the first
is denied, then the second dies natural
death.
The Standard Oil Company is using
the columns of The Herald to adver-
tise one of its-products, Fit
The campaign has been consistent
and extended one.
representative of the product met
Herald man on the streets this morn
ing.
Say" callea the Fit" man, your
paper is responsible for my being here
three weeks instead of one. Fit is GO
ing fine in this territory, and it's The
Herald that's doing it for u.s."
Scores of Cameron county men and
women did heroic work in Tuesdays
election.
If they failed to find a prospective
voter, it was because he was so well
hidden that he might as we'll have been
the proverbial needle in the haystack.
Committees of two or three armed
themselves with lists of a dozen or more
>voters, and went out and saw that they
went to the polls to register their votes
It's the sort of cooperation that does
things. It's the sort Of enthusiasm that
|makes facts of dreams.
Every really worthwhile effort in the
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