Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-07-20
I'm OUR
VALLEY

SEEMS TO Be considerable argu-
ment in these political days as to
who gave the Lower Rio Grande Val
ley flood control.
Didn't Hidalgo county secure flood
control during the administration of
Governor Pat VI. Neff? That started
flood control.
Was 1t possible that the State Of
Texas would give one county the
hight to so protect itself from flood
waters as to throw such flood waters
onto an adjoining county, 10 its pos
sible destruction!
What could be more fair, then,
! than to give the adjoining county
the same assistance TO rid itself Of
; those menacing flood waters?
Cameron county, il turned out, had
to fight to protect itself against these
flood waters. Into this fight plunged
score or more of men, all of whom
did heroic work in this connection.
And let's not forget the valuable
assistance rendered by The Dallas
News, The Houston Chronicle, and
some other newspapers whose favor
able interest was obtained as the re-
suit of a visitor to their editors By a
representative of The Brownsville
Herald.
REV. DENNIS MACUNE'S Boy
Scouts of Pharr are going to have an
outing ut Corpus Christi.
They are going for vacation. Also.
In connection with the trip they are
TO come in contact with a bit of bust
ness experience.
The Pharr troop hasn't been organ
lied long enough 10 permit the mem
bers TO earn money in the ways fa-
miliar to Boy Scouts Of long stand
ing. But they'll be financed anyway.
B. +. Johnson's bank at Pharr will
finance each boys trip who hasn't
earned sufficient money as yet. The
boys VIII sign notes agreeing to re-
turn the money. When they get back
home they'll begin re-paying Mr..
Johnson's bank. In this way they'll
have a little lesson in banking and
the moral obligation they have sign
ed to return every cent borrowed,
with nominal interest.
THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE pays
--Q'Brien::
-Tidings via Brownsville from
ireland tell of the death of Dave
O'Brien in his native land. Recent
ly he went to Clonakilty, county of
! Cork, to visit again the scenes he
had known in mis- early youth.
ID. A. O'Brien was a man greatly
beloved by his fellow men. Like most
2 Of the natives Of the Emerald Isle, he
possessed the personal charm that
!. goes with quick wit and good humor.
:. The love he bore his fellow man was
r, reflected in the affectionate regard
:, in which he was held by his fellows.
ITO know him was TO like him. The
world was richer by reason cf his
: smile mad good fellowship sus.ains
7 large loss in his demise"
SHIPPING PALMS from the Lower
Rio Grande Valley to- Florida would
seem like carrying Goals to New
castle, but that's what's being done,
according to the Sun Of Pharr.
Seven carloads of palms and rub
ber plants have been shipped to
Florida and TO Chicago, says the Sun,
which continues:
"The Florida people have fund the
Lower Rio Grante Valley palms far
superior to the Florida palms, and
since last autumn carload after car
load Of palms have been shipped from
here TO Florida. Usually they are
used to line the boulevards of some
choice suburb.
SAN ANTONIO is asking the Mis-
souri, Kansas Texas to consider
proposal to extend its property south
from San Antonio to a connection
4 with the Texas Mexican road, which
. connects Laredo and Corpus Christi.
. Such an extension also would be
likely to bring about the extension of
that road into the Lower Rio Grande
Valley.
Under the existing Esch- -Cnmmins
! act IL will require years TO make
/, the suggestion effective, even though
/, the road were willing to undertake
il.
/, Ii the Katy wants to reach this
:, section in say ten years. II should
begin at once.
l.. F. LOREE is said to be power
IN the Katy. He is also director Of
the National Lines of Mexico.
The National Lines of Mexico own
the Texas Mexican. The Mexican
road also owns the international rail
Il road bridge at Laredo.
= There may be some significance in
the movement started at San An
tonio-and then again, there may
not.
FORTUNATE is the candidate who
has no opposition to worry about this
week.
Gives him an opportunity to spend
the time working instead of cam
paigning.
Enables him to add TO his sinews
@. war for the time when he will face
opposition.
HIT BY BALL
Bishop Clements, manager of the
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