Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-01-15
IN OUR
VALLEY
u AY your poll tax. Get your receipt
= Prepare yourself to vote.

i Prepare yourself to vote.
Important issues may be decided dur
ing the present year. A governor is &c
be elected. congressman. state SEN
ator. representatives, district and coun-
ty judges, sheriff, county attorney, dis
trict attorney, collector, assessor, ana
all other state offices.
Every community should see to i
that every possible voter qualities TINS
year.
It is quite within the province of the
chambers of commerce to organize and
conduct poll tax payment campaigns.
The business houses should be made 100
percent in qualified voters. The cam
paigns can be carried into church con-
1regations, into associations of every
sort, into every phase of our life.
Cities can be cut into districts. Com
raittees may be appointed to remind
men and women to pay their poll tax.
If you have no poll tax receipt,
don't howl about the sort of govern
ment you are getting. You failed to do
your part when You bad the opportrn-
ity, therefore "close your trap"
Every once in so often someone fig
ures out that it would be nice thing
II new county could be cut out of an
old one, or several old ones could be
relieved of strips of territory to create
a new one.
With new county, there would be
new county seat. a new courthouse,
and Of course new Jail, a set of new
officers, or some of the old ones.
Sometimes. in the case of a county
that has grown bulky for one reason
or another, there are certain advan-
tages in creating a new one There
was a time when Cameron county was
40. 1t has been cut into at least half
dozen times, the last jusc a few years
ago when strip was taken off to ere
ate Willacy county.
But Cameron county has been whit
tied down to the quick. Probably it
Will not again be so bothered, because
county must have at least 700 square
miles within its bounds, and nothing
can be taken from it that will result
IN reducing its square mileage below
that point. It's present area is some
where around 900 square miles.
And to create a new county, there
must be available at least 700 square
miles.
few days ago there appeared in
TINS column paragraph dealing with
the success in carrots of G. J. Dietrich.
Of north of Weslaco.
The itam wac orad;+aJ ~ 49,
Irrigation News. Now comes the Weslaca
News with a correction. 1t seems that
the Weslaco paper originally printed
the item. The Gravity Irrigation News
overlooked the credit to the Weslaco
News, and this column innocently fol-
lowed, having missed the item in the
Weslaco paper.
Anyhow. it was a very nice item. and
worth reprinting in any Delta news
paper.
Clarence E. Gilmore, chairman of the
Texas Railroad Commission, has an
nounced that he will attend the hearing
before the Interstate Commerce Com.
mission on the application of the Sou
thern Pacific to extend into the Delta
Mr.. Gilmore sat in the hearing be-
fore Commissioner Woodlock in Browns
vile in October, and took an active part
in its proceedings.
w. r. Montgomery of Edinburg viii
represent the various Hidalgo county
towns which entered as intervenors.
The hearing opens on January %.
When the Brownsville hearing open
ed, Houston paper, in covering" the
opening, referred to the attendant pub
lie interest in somewhat facetious vein
telling Of "parade," "circus day,
etc. There will be nothing like it at
tending the Washington hearing-bu
only because it's too far away. anc
railroad transportation TOO expensive
Otherwise, the Valley would be there
with bells on" as the saying goes.