Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-07-02
Val LEY SEEKS 5000 P|CKERS
IN OUR
VALLEY
GONE newspaper readers wonder
~ where the newspaper gets enough

GONE newspaper readers wonder
~ where the newspaper gets enough
stuff to "fill up"
Not the man on the desk in the news
room, however. His bother is how fast
he can throw away enough of the stuff
that comes in.
He spends an hours two hours a day
going through mass of Offerings"
of one sort or another that it would
take scores of pages and an army of
men TO handle if the newspaper used
even a portion of it,
Waste baskets are handy affairs. And
by the close of the working day, they
are full to overflowing. The floors
give ample evidence that even the waste
baskets are inadequate.
Here are some of the things in a days
offerings, all of which are the products
of press agents." and none of which
usable:
A battery concern in the north sends
its radio programs for month.
An article by the U. S. Department of
Agriculture on the fact that further ex-
pansion of the cotton industry in
BRAZIL is unlikely. Predicts no expen-
sion in next 10 or Is years.
The Georgia Tax Clubs want a col.
umn or two of space to urge southern
states into a movement to abolish the
federal inheritance tax. Probably not
foolish movement, at that.
A Chicago concern offers some very
good stuff advertising advertising.
A publicity budget from the Uni
versity of Texas without anything of
particular interest to the Valley.
A three-eolumn article by a govern
ment bureau, with tabulations, on the
use of power on farms. Good for a
farm publication.
Fifteen thousand, one hundred and
three farms surveyed by the IT, S. De-
partment of Agriculture in 1924 show
ed an average cash balance of 1924, the
margin of cash receipts over cash ex-
penses, says another bulletin.
Three columns of publicity from an
electrical feature service. Pretty good
stuff, but no place to put it.
Twenty-eight cities and towns in
Texas have gone lover the top" in the
American Legion Endowment Fund cam
paign, says bulletin from legion head
quarters in Indianapolis.
A Pennsylvania Railroad bulletin tells
about the roads Safe Drivers Club"
now organizing.
A budget of news" from the Ma
tional Board Y. w. C. A.
Don't know A, thur Leslie from
Adams great uncle, but he addresses US
by our first name and tells US that
the fact that MacFadden is making
motion pictures is real news. Not to
us.
budget from Cecil B. DeMille movie
studios, all about new pictures to come.
But Edgar McDavitt, Dave Young, Paco
Betancourt, local movie men, assure US
people don't go to the movies any more,
so we don't think anyone could possibly
be-interested in forthcoming movies.
Cowboy guides make pets of whistling
marmots in Glacier National Park, says
a publicity item from somebody in
Washington. We should worry. We've
a chicken out to our house that was
bitten by a snake and lives to tell the
story to her descendants.
Men and women from every walk
in life have enlisted Tor correspondence
courses at the University of Texas. The
story is 500 words long, but this SEN
tenence tells it.
The Department of Commerce sends
bulletin on how much it costs to run the
city government of Waco, Texas. 1t
was $25.02 per capita of population, or
o total of $l,054 ,444.
The publicity department of "Old
1ronsides," Boston Navy Yard, an
nounces that descendants of men who
served on the famous fighting frigate
are going to raise $4,000 for new
mainmast and rigging as part of the
s5OO,O00 fund to restore the historic
ship.
A war department bulletin announcing
award of diplomas to army students IN
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