Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-02-04
IN OUR
VALLEY

DE. (MONTY) MONTGOMERY, edit
= or of Monty's Monthly, who has
been suffering from seriously infect
ed ankle, has been brought to Browns
vile from his home at McAllen, and i:
new at the residence Of his sister, Mrs
Julia Montgomery. on Adams street.
Monty can't see visitors today. is the
word from his bedside, but after tomor-
row he will want lots Of people to talk
to.
Monty hasn't been able to do any
work on his magazine for some weeks
owing to his condition, SO members OF
the newspaper fraternity of the Val
ley have volunteered to help edit his
next issue, if needed. So if Montys
subscribers find anything wrong with
the. next issue, they will know the cause
of it.
>. -
Says Hillary Harrison in his column in
San Antonio Express:
81 have just returned from the Lower
Rio Grande Valley and the strange part
of the whole situation is that | have
been so long in discovering this win
ter garden spot
lone of these days, in the near fu.
ture, others like myself will wonder why
we sat On the gold mine and let the
other fellow come along and dig it out
ITO see it in all it's wonder and
beauty, and hear the truth of it's pre- sent
possibilities is to be convert. No one
can adequately tell the story, GO and
see it for yourself Texas is the ton
of the world"
A little item herr, and there, scatter
ed in newspapers over the country, will
help materially in advertising the Lower
Rio Grande Valley.
And, travellers from the Valley, here's
little tip: When you visit cities in
other parts of the country, get yourself
interviewed by the newspapers. Tell
the reporter about your country, if it's
only q paragraph, It's worth while. But
for goodness sake, don't get involved in
a scandal story. If you do that, tell
'em you're from anywhere except in the
Lower Rio Grande Valley
McAllen is promoting the adoption of
a new charter, the sort that the state
allows to cities of above 5000 popula.
tion. This may be either a commission
form of government. or the commission
manager form of government, and
which also provides for a board of city
development, or a municipal chamber OF
commerce, such as that in Brownsville.
Last Saturday McAllen voted the first
step by authorizing the formation of a
charter commission, consisting of fifteen
citizens. These men will frame the
new city charter, and after it is pre-
pared it will be placed before the peo-
pie for adoption.
II is another step in the development
of the Lower Rio Grande Valleys towns
and cities.
The board of city develoment plan for
financing a chamber of commerce
through taxation is fair to all the cit
liens Of town, and l. the proper
method at least for small cities. provid-
ed the city Rovt rnment. regardless OF
its changes in personnel. realizes tns
great Importance Of always keeping the
board of city development financed. II
it is to he made either a political foot
ball or is slashed out of existence at
one stroke when reduction of expenses
is necessary, then it is failure.
The average Small city always
>finds It difficult to finance and MAIN
tain. a chamber of commerce because
the tArden is usually upon few busi-
ness fSlns or public spirited individuals
If the work of q chamber CT commerce
is benefit to all, the it should be
maintained by all alike. Taxation. it
would seem. provides the simplest and
fairest plan.
Valley business man recently asked
us to give him list of the slogans or
notices used by the. various Valley
towns He already had few, but it ap-
pears that most of the towns are with
out them. or else we have never seen
or heard them.
Mission has adopted "The Home o;
the Grapefruit" Donna uses Center
City." Harlingen "The Gateway,
Brownsville. "The City of Opportunity. +"
Mercedes, "The Queen City," and Wes'
laco "The Baby Town of the Valley,
but Weslaco has outgrown baby pro-
portions by a whole lot and is now
casting about for some expression that
more properly describes this flourish
ing town.
II San Benito, Alamo, San Juan
Pharr. McAllen, Edinburg, Raymondville
or Lyford. have notices or slogans we
have been unable to find them. And
we'd like, to have them.