Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-09-20
IN OUR
VALLEY

w where ne ar. Mrs. Hickman are
spending a few weeks, j. A. Hickman
says:
Il am still more than ever convinced
that our irrigated part of the Rio Gran
de Valley should have a distinctive
name. 1t was only yesterday | was III
conversation with gentleman who in
formed me TINT he was moving to the
Rio Grande Valley to make his home.
Upon inquiry | learned that he was
locating at Taft and he is thoroughly
convinced that he is in the finest part
of the Rio Grande Valley.
81 find the eyes and minds of peo-
pie from all parts of the United States
as they gather here knowing something
of the Valley. | also find that real es-
tate men are capitalizing the lands and
climate of our section the full length
of the Rio Grande river.
"E cannot understand the objection
of any residents of our Valley to
name that will distinguish the ,irri-
gated section from the dry land part
of the Rio Grande Valley"
Mr.. Hickman adds that "if people
only knew of our summer climate in the
Lower Rio Grande Valley they certain
ly would head that way in the summer
as well as winter. 7"
As Brownsville grows, local trans
portation is becoming more and more
a nroblem that should receive the at
tertion of the city government.
Large numbers of people who do not
have automobiles live in parts of the
city distant from their work. There is,
therefore, a demand for some kind Of
transportation.
Bus lines, with inadequate cars and
confused schedules For no schedules at
all. have sprung up. Competition is so
keen among them, that often they race
to pass cars ahead, menacing lives OF
passengers as we'll as pedestrians, and
other cars.
Often there are three or four cars,
one back Of the other, resulting in long
intermissions of time between cars.
The city should take a hand in this
transportation problem. 1t should be
regulated. schedules should be required
to be maintained, and the other usual
restrictions placed around them to in
sure service and safety.
Brownsville is to have another fill
imp station. 1t is to be erected by b.
l.. Kowalski at the corner of Elizabeth
street and the State Highway.
The cost of building. $4,000, indi-
Gates that it will be something out OF
the ordinary in the way of a filling
station.
Talking about filling stations reminds
us that some folks complain that gas
oline is always higher at the filling
stations than at the wholesale houses.
They do not stop-to consider the SER
vice offered by the filling station in
addition to the price they charge for
gasoline. There is, for instance. the
free air service; the service If tight
ening the lugs; the little cGultesies OF
the employees in wiping off wind
shields; the distilled vate" for the
batteries, and the hundred ana one orh-
or things that the average motorist
has done for him for which h, does
not pay.
So why begrudge the station owner
his profit of a few cents a gallon on
the\ sale of the only thing he has to
sell. gasoline.
Colonel Frank p. Holland, publisher
of Farm Ranch, has written to
Brownsville asking that suite OF
rooms be reserved for him and Mayor
Louis Blaylock of Dallas when they
come to Brownsville December 3, and
s to attend the convention Of the Texas
Editorial Association.
Few requests are ever received by
Brownsville hotels to reserve suites.
But they will come faster and faster
as the city and section develop. Lar
ger hotel facilities will naturally be
followed by more requests of this sort.
This convention will not be a large
affair. The association has only fifty
or so members, but nearly all of them
are men of statewide prominence. To
qualify for membership. one must have
been a newspaperman, or woman, for
20 years continuously.