Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-01-27
IN OUR
VALLEY

~ ton. Whatever they may be, carry
them there. Even if it's climate you're
objecting to. tell Washington about it
and get it fixed.
At least that's the belief of G. X.
Riess of Mercedes. Mr.. Riess thinks
the Rio Grande Delta has been unjust
" treated in the matter of weather re-
Gently, and he has written to Congress
man John NJ Garner of this district
about it, not only because Mr.. Garner
is member from this district, but also
because Mr. Garner is, possibly, the
most influential individual in the lower
house.
According to the Mercedes Tribune,
Mr.. Riess writes Mr.. Garner as fol-
lows:
81 am not a member of the Texas
Tax Clubs, formed to sustain state
rights and do agree with you that the
inheritance tax forms the most unim-
peachable tax extant among civilized
man.
"After making this liberal conces-
sion, however, I desire to call your at
tention to the very unsatisfactory
brand of weather the Washington bu-
reau has been imposing on Texas dur
ing the current winter. / use the term
current advisedly. / think our home
grown Texas weather is preferable to
the Yankee product being sent US.
Then, too, there is plenty of weather IN
Texas without that Washington bureau
invading our states rights with their
federal brand. / would not have known
about it had I not overheard a message
in advance by that bureau saying they
were sending sleet and snow and a lot
of other undesirable Yankee weather.
"Why, John, Amarillo can furnish
all of that frigid zephyr stuff the state
needs. And |, for one. protest against
the importation. I have written Flor
ida and California to join US against
concentration of weather authority in
Washington. Yours Indignantly, G. X.
Riess.'
If Mr.. Riess will put that into the
form Of motion, it will have the cor
dial support of every voter in Gamers
district.
Here is something everyone is privi-
legged to argue about. 1t is taken from
the Mercedes News Item:
"We notice on a number of calen-
dars maps of Texas showing that there
is a first-class paved road from Fail
furrias to Pharr and thence to Browns
vile. The road from Pharr to Mission
is given as second class. The map in
question was made three years ago, and
at that time there vas only first
,c<o -
far better road from Pharr to Mis-
soin than there is from Harlingen to
Brownsville-wider and better-yet the
former is advertised to the world as
second class. Buyers of calendars
should not make themselves parties to
misrepresentative advertising.
Speaking of this Valley highway, the
South Texas Motor League at Houston
issues a road report every week, which
appears regularly in the Houston news
papers.
Invariably this report refers to the
highway from Falfurrias to Brownsville
as "fair." If the road from the north
line in Hidalgo county to Brownsville
is only fair" one wonders what a
country would have to do to build a
really good road.
Newspaper tragedies: A "pied" page
at press time.
1t occurred in The Herald press room
just at press time Tuesday afternoon.
And the Black Diamond bus leaving
for up-Valley points at O'clock and
only 20 minutes to spare.
But Black Diamond service is good
service. It's cor the hour and so
there was another bus at O'Clock.
The "pied" page was put together
and press was made again, with the re-
suit that subscribers at points between
Olmito and Mission received their pa
per only little later than usual.
Advertisers: Did you know that
Herald readers in San Benito, Harlin-
gen and even as far west as Mercedes
and Weslaco receive their Herald every
afternoon as quickly as the subscrib-
ers in the suburbs of Brownsville?
That means something to advertisers
That's Herald service-to the sub
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