Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-08-17
IN OUR
VALLEY

q to have spread over Cameron county
in regard to the flood protection bonds
to be voted on Tuesday.
Voters of Mexican blood who do not
read English have been the particular
target of this brand of information.
This is unfortunate. 1t means that
those who can speak Spanish should, be-
tween now and the voting hours, make
it point to get to the Spanish-speaking
voters and explain the matter to them.
The Herald has every confidence in
the intelligence of the Spanish speaking
voters of Cameron county. Most OF
them have taken part in many cam
paigns. They, equally as well as the
English speaking voters see the signifi-
canoe of bond issues. And being old
time residents who have witnessed the
destruction of many floods, they will
be douhly appreciative of the good eff
fects of flood control.
Even though misinformation has been
broadcast, The Herald believes that OPP
position to the bond issue is small,
that the real danger of defeat will come
more from the voter who favors the
bond issue. yet who fails for one reason
or another to go to the polls Tuesday.
The Business and Professional Wo
mems Club of Brownsville, of which
Miss Julia O'Brien is the president, has
been doing some excellent work in be-
hale of the bond issue tomorrow.
The women will play an equally i'm
portant part with the men voters in
tomorrow's election. Since they form
a large percentage of the total vote of
the county, every woman who remains
away from the polls will cast a vote
against the bonds.
Many voters are still laboring under
the mistaken impression that in to-
morrow's election the usual two-thirds
majority of the votes cast will deter
mine the election.
They are wrong of course. 1t re-
quires two-thirds of the total qualified
vote of the county.
~You know, | didn't know that until
yesterday" said we'll known Browns
willie business man, who is usually well
up on public matters. $ I thought that
it required two-thirds of the vote cast
Yes, ! saw it in the Herald but somerow
the thing didn't impress itself on my
mind"
Get the fact over to every voter. Then
you will Sc the greatest rush to the
polls tomorrow morning.
Somehow we're glad to see the Rio
Grande at bankful stage today. That
muddy river that establishes the line
between Texas and Mexico today is
shining example of the menace of
, high river to the highly valuable lands
OF the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
Though high today, it hasn't caused
any damege. 1t is a normal flood, one
that the banks can well take care Of.
That rise doubtless is from the far
away FL Paso country.
But suppose flood came dowr the
Salado or San Juan tonight. Il would
mean an outpouring of waters IN the
lowlands, and waters that might reach
to the farms and even to soEie Of the
towns.
Irrigation districts would get busy
with levee protection. Expenses would
be incurred. Irrigation plants menaced.
Roads made impossible. Railroad tracks
mt naced and inundated.
When the flood protection scheme is
worked out. these floods Will be met
with gates whicn will >, raised, and
ne flood waters dire ted into artificial
channels, and thus carneh off C sea
No damage to anyone, no fear of high
waters.
It's an elaborate plan tn Valley flooj
.antrol proposition. It is the greatest
flooG control project ever undertaken IN
Texas. 1t will protect million and a
half acres or more of valuable land on
the two sides of the Rio Grande
Up in Oklahoma they are outlining
an even greater flood protection plan.
Valley folks who formerly lived in Ok
lahoma are no doubt familiar with some
of the havoc that has, in years gone
by, been done by the treacherous Cim-
arron and other Oklahoma streams.
Those people up there also realize
the value of flood protection.
San Benito is surely to be ccngratu-
lated upon her excellent paved streets
The Boulevard would do credit to
CITY ten times the size of San Benito.
The esplanade is wonderful. II
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