Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-04-06
IN OUR
VALLEY
LOW do you do it,"

GAoW do you do it?7
i - Harry Cohen, publisher of The
Galveston Tribune, asked US that ques
ten when ne learned that The Browns
VILE Herald receives the same news ser
vice as his own paper, The Tribune, and
1t much greater proportionate expense.
Brownsville, Mr.. Cohen was informed,
has about one-third the population of
Galveston, but since the entire lower
Rio Grande Valley territory is Herald
territory, the publishers are endeavor-
ing to serve the field with the best
newspaper the field will pay for.
The Herald, he was informed, is en-
deavoring to meet the needs of the en-
tire Lower Rio Grande Valley, from the
coast to Rio Grande City, and from the
Rio Grande to Raymondville.
1t is doing so at great and growing
expense. But The Herald believes in
the future Of the Lower Rio Grande
Valley, and is content with short, if any,
profits.
But, / suppose" Mr.. Cohen went on,
your colonization companies must be
good advertisers. You are helping to
build pthe country. Certainly the
land companies would want good paper
in their country, and they would surely
do their part in supporting such a news
PAPER as you have
They do not" Mr.. Cohen was in
formed. The land companies spend
practically no money in advertising
in The Brownsville Herald. On one oc-
cason, however, three of them did buy
spaces in special edition.
Or course" said the Galvestonian, Il
realize that possibly to advertise in the
local paper might not bring direct re
turns insofar as these colonizers are
concerned, but a newspaper plays a great
part in the development of the country
IT. that way, the land companies would
receive their return"
Abilene is way up in the northwest
part Of the Texas, 500 miles or more
from Brownsville.
The Abilene Reporter, in an editorial,
announces the arrival of the first red
bird of spring.
Which statement sounds strangs to
u.s. There's tree few feet from the
writer's breakfast table. In that tree,
every morning for the past t hree
months, the writer has been entertained,
while at breakfast, by two cardinals.
There they are, bright and early, every
morning that the sunshines, also on
such few mornings as the sun does not
shine. Perhaps they spend the night
there perhaps not. Anyway, they are
always there.
The Reporter pays quite wonderful
tribute to the cardinal, we'll worth re-
printing, so here it is:
The first red bird of spring was
heard in concert yesterday morning
Sitting on mesquite limb, his brilliant
red coat thrown into relief by the
pale green of the LEAKAGE, he poured out
his matin with al 1.-The fervor and serl-
business of grand opera star.
1T might have been his first open
air concert, yet he handled his lines
like veteran. He probably never had
a music lesson in his life, but away back
in the misty ages of the past the Master
Musician gave him his cue and turned
him loose in the world to brighten it
with his song. He took the high notes
with all the assurance of Caruso and
the trills and nuances with the grace
Of Galli-Curci Where did he get that
consummate grace, that airy art, that
divine gift for song? We do not know;
we only know that he presented a re-
portorie that would have enrapaured
the heart of craven image, that would
have brought blush of envy 10 the most
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