Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-12-03
IN OUR
VALLEY

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the underbrush covering the Ad-
ans tract, few miles west .of La Feria.
itswas somewhere in the late hours
OF the evening. He was bent upon
crossing the state highway Heading
apparently for the north bank of the
Rio Grande. An automobile was hust-
ling along the smooth concrete. It's
lights caught the eyes of the lion. He
was dazed. Soon he was dead.
Mexican lions, or other varieties OF
lions. should not attempt to match
their prowess with automobilesi The
latter are much the fiercer.
This fellow was quite handsome, and
of medium size.
For the information of visitors, it is
unusual to meet lions on the highway.
There is no record that the driver
of the automobile stopped to investi-
gate the casualty.
The carcass was found next day by
other autoists.
Persons who are more or less famil-
lar with the libel laws of Texas have
wondered that Texas newspapers seem
ed to have disregarded the Texas libel
laws when they published the Ferguson
statement in regard to Anon G.. Car
ter, publisher Of the Fort Worth Star
Telegram and chairman of the board of
directors Of the Texas Psychological
Institute.
The answer is given BY Mr. Carter
himself in his own paper, in which the
story was also published. Here it is:
The Star-Telegram does not consid-
r. I1Ak ~fxyi-
legged communication under Texas libel
laws but as a means of getting the mat
ter before the public and in a sense of
fair play herewith publishes the entire
statement. kilograms and telephone
messages have been received from
many Texas papers and publishers, ask
ing for the Star-Telegram's attitude.
"The reply has been to each that
the letter is libelous, but that the Star
Telegram will publish it nevertheless
and will gladly extend the same cour-
tesy and privilege to other Texas news
papers"
Worth Jones, formerly Of Browns
Vile, now of Ell Paso, and reporter
on the Ell Paso Herald, writes:
81 am in position to see the harm
that is being done the delta country
by referring to it as the Valley The
Rio Grande Valley extends from north
of Ell Paso to Brownsville. as all river
valleys follow the course of their rivers
and beds.
Residents Of Ell Paso Valley with
its 125,000 population, always refer to
this section Of the Rio Grande as the
valley and rightly so. This section.
has as much right to the term as the
Brownsville section. And this section,
though extremely small in farming
territory, is one Of the richest in the
country.
land this section is gaining fame
throughout the country as the Rio
Grande Valley Delta folks might say
that Ell Pasoans are stealing their thun-
der, but the fact that this is the Rio
Grande Valley cannot be overlooked
Being a newspaper writer here, | have
occasion every day to refer to this
country as the Rio Grande Valley. That
means widespread publicity on this
section as the Rio Grande' Valley.
Again rightly So"
Says G. H. Swallow, developer Of
Alamo:
81 want to compliment The Herald on
its leading editorial in last Saturdays
edition. / wish that other papers IN
the Valley would form the habit OF
writing constructive editorials on the
Valley and publishing instructive news
items. as you do. 1t would be power
full influence for rapid development
1T will probably interest you to
know that | used that editorial in toto
for my editorial advertising in the
Alamo News this week. It was the
best advertisement on the Valley that
could be written. After considering II
and the endeavor to add to it little,
/ found that it was the same as paint
ing the lily or guiding the rose, 50
used it as it was, with little COM
ment ard a suggestion that it should
be printed in every newspaper IN the
Valley and requested the reader to pass