Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-08-31
IN OUR
VALLEY


OF youth were expected to go into a
weeks session of the annual institute,
at the Brownsville high school today.
. The number is startling.
Just few years ago a teachers in
stitute in the Lower Rio Grande was not
such large undertaking. We recall
that one year they went to Corpus
Christi, the numbers in the Valley be-
ing so small that it was believed a joint
meeting with the Corpus Christi dis
trict would innure to the benefit of all.
Two or three years later it was made
Valley institute, Cameron, Willacy,
Hidalgo and Starr participating.
Then the numbers became too large.
So they separated, Hidalgo and Starr
going together and Cameron and Willacy
holding their institute together.
Now each institute has an attendance
of about $50.
Just shows how the school systems
of the Valley have developed in the past
few years.
The Valley is proud of it's teaching
corps. The individual school systems
are directed by highly trained execu-
tives. All have splendid school struc-
lures.
Everywhere the teachers meet the re-
quirements of their work. There are
probably no more efficient school teach
ers anywhere than those who have in
their HANDS the mind-training of the
youth of the Valley.
f. K. Butler, former head Of large
harvesting machine manufacturing COM
pany, and heavily interested in real
estate in the Brownsville community, is
interested in the recent activities with
reference to the Padre Island beach,
writes E. A. Monsees of Brownsville as
follows
Not long ago | read in The Browns
vile Herald of your trip to Padre along
with some of the other pushers and OF
your inspiration of the worlds ocean
beach drive to Corpus Christi, and since
then number of articles have appeared
\ indicating its completion in the near
future to a practical result that will
perhaps do more to advertise the Valley
than any one thing which likely to
happen in the near future
1T is especially interesting since it is
forcible reminder of my conception
some fifteen years ago gained through
various interviews with the late Captain
FeIly who had the experience of driving
1 over that beach when transportation
otherwise was not accessible. This led
me to discuss the matter with the late
Colonel Alba Haywood who was a far
seeing and broadminded man who did
things. He was about the only man in
the Valley at that time who had an
automobile, enabling me to persuade
him to join efforts and take a machine
to Padre Island and test the drive. We
went some Is or 20 miles, possibly
farther, where we met with some bad
luck and retreated as gracefully as we
could, but never lost faith that some
time it would be a reality | am pleased
that you are to be leader among the
bunch to bring it about.
Mr.. Butler also commented on the
passage of the flood control bond issue
by handsome majority"
Brownsville optometrist advances
the opinion that automobile accidents
often bring up the question, Was che
driver intoxicated?" but that some
times the accidents are really caused Ly
defective vision.
To test out his belief he examined the
eyes Of a driver in one accident, he says,
and found that the driver had only one
fifth of normal vision.
Something to think about, anyway
Cameron county will sell $1,500000
worth of flood control bonds to the high
est bidder on next Saturday.
The gates have been thrown open to
all bond buying concerns. At least two
hundred have been notified of the forth
coming sale, and advertisements about
the issue have been carried in the bond
bulletins that are issued daily in New
York City.
The easiest way to sell anything is to
advertise it. Tell all about it. Give
its quality, its price. Tell why it is the
best article on the market. And be
honest, truthful. Soon you'll get a
reputation for telling only the truth in
your advertising The truth pays.
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