Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-06-17

IN OUR
VALLEY

never have occasion to meet. Acquain-
tanceship is developed. Friendships
are made. Who will say that friendship p
is not one of the elements of business
success?
The Valley therefore welcomes the
Kiwanis Clubs, an organization of
which has just been formed in Browns
vile. Kwanis has $4,000 members over
the country, in l400 clubs. 1t is wide
spread.
Luncheon clubs are a power in the
civic affairs of the communities which
have such organizations. The Browns
vile club is starting out with a MEM
bership of SO. They will be heard from.
There are now three Kiwanis club
in Cameron county, Harlingen having
had the first, San Benito the second.
One guess as to the route the South
ern Pacific might take should it be
successful in its efforts to get into the
Lower Valley seems to have been ex-
plOded.
This guess was that the S. P, if it is
given permission to extend from Fal-
furlias to the Rio Grande at or near
H.dalgo, would then apply for permit
to build southeast from Edinburg to
Brownsville.
Now comes President w. R. Scott, at
a Rotary club luncheon in San Antonio,
with statement that the S. P. wants
to build to Hidalgo, thence down the
north bank of the Rio Grande to
Brownsville
No application has been made for this
latter extension, but wiseacres on rail
road matters declare that this applca-
tion is inevitable.
An effort was made in Brownsville
some months ago to organize a trade
excursion to certain cities in Northern
Mexico.
The only way for Brownsville to de-
velop a port here is to go after that
business that awaits.
The railroad company cannot do it
all. The facilities of transportation
are all that it can offer. 1t is up to
ten city that warts to develop as a port
to organize itself for port purposes.
The city must organize financial ia
cilities to back up the customs brokers'
1t must have the customs brokers to
handle the business.
When Brownsville has made it ad
vantageohs to shippers to use this port
in routing into and out of Mexico,
Brownsville will get the business this
way.
1t would mean added population.
More population means more business.
More business means a buster and big
ger and better city.
Brownsville as port for ingoing
and outgoing Mexican traffic is virtu
ally unknown.
Laredo has been a port for so years.
Laredo is almost entirely dependent
upon Mexico. Laredo has a population
of $4,000, but otherwise it is not nearly
the city that Brownsville is, nor has it
the opportunities.
In this half century Laredo has been
able to organize to handle this traffic
Brownsville, through get-up- -and-get,
can do in five years what Laredo has
taken. half century to accomplish.
The trade balance between the United
States and Mexico is in favor of Mexico.
Mexico last year sold to the United
States approximately $ll9,00O,O00 in its
products. The United States sales to
Mexico were around $100,000,000, or
something less than that.
Which means, possibly, that there is
more tonnage coming out of Mexico
through Laredo, than there is going in.
The difference is likely to be in raw
mineral products. The United States
sends back finished products.
There's great buying and selling
market in Mexico insofar as the United
States is concerned. Brownsville can
not only share in this traffic, it can in
crease it.
But so long as we sit idly by and
watch il 90 through Laredo, just so long
will it continue to use that route.
Someone has complained of the heat
in the Valley.
Here's the record:
deaths from heat prostration IN the
Valley, none. !,
Deaths from heat at points 1000 miles
and more north of the Valley, 500, pos
sibly more by this time.
More Valley cities have recorded
first" bales. San Juan enters the list,
so does Raymondville with bale grown
east of Lyford, and McAllen also has
her "first."
Soon the seconds" will be as numer-
ops. then the thirds" and finally the
thousands"
SAUCY SUE WINS
AsC0T. England. June 17.-Lord As