Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-09-14
IN OUR
VALLEY

In nominating him, La Ferla gen
tleman whose name was not made
note of at the time, spoke Of Judge
Dancy as the most popular man in the
Lower Rio Grande Valley, and the
friend of the farmer.
Which offers new way out for the
Valley Chamber of Commerce
The business men of the Valley, who
heretofore have been the principal
force back of the Valley Chamber OF
Commerce, have failed to make sue
cess of it.
Then why not let Judge Dancy lay
the ground work of the new organiza-
tion through the farmers. If 800 far
mers each joined and agreed to contrib
ute $40 each a year to the Valley
chamber, it would have a splendid start
ing point.
Then the businessmen, perforce,
would have to come in and supply the
remainder of the sinews of war.
The suggestion has come from sew
eral directions.
The Legion posts of the Valley have
been honored by the Texas department,
doubly so in the case of j. A. Garcia
Post, Mercedes.
Colonel Ralph Buell., editor of the
Mercedes Tribune, who never misses
convention, was named executive COM
mitteeman for the fifteenth congress
sional district, while Alan Hvistendahl
was chosen one of the fifteen Texas
delegates to the national convention,
to be held at Omaha in October.
Both are members of ]. A. Garcia
post.
Shriners of the Valley are making
drive for 400 members for the class to
be initiated at the reunion to be held
in San Antonio in November.
Masonry is growing in the Valley,
along with everything else, and If the
growth continues as it has it is hHe'y
that in the next few years towns Of
the Valley will be bidding for the or
sranization of a Scottish Rite ConslSt-
Ory in this section.
1t is we'll within the realm Of posi-
bilities. Towns may now begin bid
ding for the location of the temple.
On the wall on the highway side of
the commercial club building at La
Feria appears a sign welcoming the
lumbermen to the Valley. The .meet-
ing was held weeks ago.
And short distance outside OF
Brownsville are road signs announce lg
that Brownsville will have trades day
"Dece mber H." The date referred to
was, we believe, December, 1928.
Both should come down.
Says the Weslaco News:
The Brownsville Herald icolyumnis.
chided US last week about saying tnat
traffic in Dallas was the thickest
south of Chicago, when Weslaco .raf-
fic on Saturday afternoon was really
something to brag about. We dill not
mean to slight the old home tOwl, but
it was just case of present company
excluded. Weslaco has the thickest OF
everything, except molasses, mud and
craniums."
How is your skin, Editor Ed?
Thirty inches of rain fell in Browns
Vile in September, 1886, according 70
Commodore Louis Cobolini, the total
for that year being 60 inches, or about
33 inches above the average annual
rainfall.
September, 1926 has had a splendid
start in the same general direction.
Where is Southwest Texas?" asks
the Corpus Christi Caller, which goes
on to say
press dispatches a few days ago told
of q" flood in the Rio Grande Valley.
Now they are telling of one in the Vi
cinity about Brownsville. That induti-
ably, is also the Rio Grande Valley. In
Texas we are all likely to regard that
as not at all strange, but to the reader
in Oklahoma or Indiana or Nebraska
it is all the same, and he is certain to
say, Gosh, another flood-and they
Just had one last week"
Valley citizens-which means to
Corpus Christi, citizens of the Lower
Rio Grande Valley-seem satisfied with
the designation of Valley. At least
when the Brownsville Herald tentative
ly suggested some other name, they
didn't take to the idea at all. But
that is their business. If they choose
to take the blame for all the misfor-
tunes of country hundreds of miles
away. and likewise the credit for the
fortunes of that same country, well an9
good.
However, Valley, is hardly more
misleading that great number OF sec
tional names extant in Texas. Take
for instance, Southwest Texas. Corpus
Christi, be it known, is in Southwest
Texas-or so it is said. That being the
case, where is Ell Paso? From cursory
examination of map, one would say
that it also was in Southwest Texas
Or perhaps in West Texas: But no
West Texas is hundreds of miles from
Eel Paso.
There are a good many similarly
confusing designations. Texas needs
charting, or re-charting. It's size ano
shape make accurate location of any
given section somewhat difficult, it j:
true. But improvements could be
made, merely by sticking to the facts.