Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-07-13
I'm OUR
VALLEY

WRITE hS Or iictioh OF iaCt WI"
have never visited Texas sometimes
rake queer statements when their
cory deals in one way or another
, With Texas distances.
John B. Kennedy. writing sketch
. in the last issue Of Golfers. the Ma
tional Weekly, on the subject of the
T. -Four Marx Brothers, slapstick COM
4 edy artists, tells of some Of their ex-
ptriences while on the road.
AT Abilene, Tex" says Kennedy,
zone night they escaped after a par
ticularly painful performance, only
IN be thrown off the train five miles
from Brownsville"
To the Valley-ite this would seem
TO be getting their moneys worth
even though they were thrown off
the train "five miles from Browns
VILE" considering that Abilene is
something like 700 miles by rail from
Brownsville.
1T ALWAYS pleases The Herald
20 receive and print favorable com
ment on Brownsville or other Valley
towns
But TO always print the favorable
and avoid the unfavorable becomes
a bit monotonous. Which is why we
are re-printing the following com
ment on Brownsville, taken from the
MeAllen Daily Press:
"Hidalgo as port has Browns
willie beaten in many ways. 1t Is up
on higher ground. out Of swags'
swales and mosquitoes. There Is
room on both sides Of the river for
commercial activities and expansion.
LA FERIA is the latest Valley
town TO install modern fire fighting
equipment, and has organized vol
unteer department with l.. ID. Mel
son as chief.
serious fire anywhere in the NaF
lev can Immediately draw more thah
enough fire fighting equipment from
surrounding towns to combat the
flames, provided the towns have
standard plugs.
On several occasions towns nave
felt the benefit Of this general IN
stallation Of fire fighting apparatus
THE CORPUS CHRISTI CALLER
hsfieyes with the McAllen Chamber
of Commerce that il Is the proper
thing for Valley towns to include
visit To Mexican border towns IN
their Programs Of entertainment lot
visiting conventions and delegations
Here IS what The Caller thinks on
the subject:
.Harlingen and McAllen. or, rather
the chambers Of commerce IN the TWO
Valley cities, are at loggerheaus'
Harrington has gone on record as op
nosing entertainment on the MeNi
can side Of the river for visnihg
ALLEGATIONS and conventions at pup
lie expense.
..McAlIen advocates such enter
tainment, believing that VISIT III
IN old Mexico is one Of the attrae-
tions he Lower Rio Gande Nailes
has 10 offer its visitors.
"And so the battle RACES. We
rather incline TO believe as the Nc
Allen chamber believes. Despite the
popular jokes. not every person "no
visits Mexico does 80 with thS oD-
iect of absorbing large quantities Oh
certain fluids prohibited on this side
of the river.
.There is a certain novelty. es-
n.cialIv 10 those who live In inland
section, in stepping across an mag
mary line and saying. Now I'm -
a foreign country If one Is IN
clined TO doubt that, check up on
,h. number of postal cards sent
f,am border cities in Mexico to IN
land cities in the United States.
"A good many people are attracted
"a the Valley no doubt by the very
n.arness TO Mexico. The Valley IS
wonderful section: its proximity 70
Nsxieo makes il more wonderful, IN
the eyes of many People-who arr
not always sots, either. Ana, WIN
NIL due respect 10 the Mexican Dor
der towns, the Valley cities are iikely
10 seem doubly attractive when the
tourist returns from the south side
of the Rio Grande.
As 10 whether visiting deiega-
tions should be entertained on the
Mexican side, that seems question
for the entertainers to decide Tor
themselves"
WILL ROGERS intimates in the
katurday Evening Post that Congress
man Garner of Texas and Congress
Y man Green Of Iowa are usually busy
uithinking up things for Speaker
Il Nicholas Longworth to worry about
Z This Rogers seems to have DIS
covered while a dinner guest at Alice
Longworth's home, which OF course
ia also Nicholas home.
THE ONLY SATISFYING thing
about this July weather in the Lower
Rio Grande Valley is to glance al
the weather calendar on which one
notes that the temperature at Tampa
i higher by degrees than 1t IS al
Brownsville.
Also. there is no objection to the
heat so long as it remains dry. Iha'
helps cotton