Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-08-11
I'm OUR
VALLEY


A GREAT problem is facing the
shoe merchants of the Lower Rio
Grande Valley.
Some Of them may have to revise
their stocks considerably to ac-
comodate a new element in the shoe
consuming public.
The average size for shoes has
been small.
The average is due for an increase,
, shoe statesmen say.
!, Negro cotton pickers are the cause.
a Flush with money, derived from
!, dollar and quarter per hundred,
T for cotton picking, they are buying.
Among the things they are buying is
4 shoes. And sizes they demand are.
: more often than not, unavailable in
q Valley stocks.
=, They ask for thirteens, fourteen,
!, fifteens, and even up to seventeens.
n Heretofore sizes have been running
n from seven, in the case of men, 10
: about eleven.
"a Yes, there's new problem for
!, merchants to figure sut. il they
q up the state.
" GEORGE A. TOOLAN Of HarIngen
D. is not only chamber of commerce
u manager. He is also a newspaper
A. editorial writer.
= He is acting in this capacity for
the newly established Valley Dsily
: Globe of Harlingen. of which James
: Marion Bird of McAllen is the pub
Usher.
And it's no new task for the versa
! tile Harlingen secretary. He has
been conducting a column. 1T Seems
10 Me-" for the Harlingen Star for
. some time.
In addition to Toolan. the Globe
staff includes f. 0ren Arnold. who
left the Star TO become managing
editor Of the Globe. and Cal Noble
formerly with the Alamo News. who
becomes advertising manager of the
Globe.
The Globe, which began life last
Saturday. is an afteroon paper. and
will be published six days a week.
1t is the fifth daily newspaper in
the Valley.
THERE ARE NOW twenty-one
daily and weekly English newspapers
in the Valley, and the twenty-second
is announced, this being o new pa
per at Mission. There are rumors
of another weekly newspaper at
Weslaco.
In addition to these. there are two
Spanish language daily newspapers
in the Valley, and three weekly
Spanish language papers, giving the
Valley something like twenty seven
papers.
The payrolls of the newspapers and
job shops is about $4,000 week
Which makes the printing industry
one of the important industries in
the Valley. The labor end of the
industry is certainly the highest paid
in the Valley. as it is throughout
the country.
THE SHORTAGE Of cotton pick
ers throughout the Lower Rio Grande
talley continues serious.
They're being brought from almost
all parts Of Texas. but even so the
fact that the entire crop opened at
almost the same time makes at i'm
possible to get into all fields with
pickers.
There are any number Of fields
along the highway. white with cot
-
Yet the Valley already has ginned
about $4,000 bales, and many fields
that have been gone over once con
tinue to show considerable cotton.
And on the Mexican side, in the
Matamoros district. there il some
thing like $4,000 bales Of cotton 10 be
picked. Pickers there are being
paid as much as pickers on the
American side. Also. the employers
are feeding them. Not providing
rooms with bath, however.
Five cents a pound, or its equiv.
alent, is what the Mexican growers
are receiving. That's cotton in tn,
seed. About SIS a bale.
THINGS ARE MOVING in Browns.
ville./
A seven room house. built OF
Elizabeth street. at Second. about
three years ago, was taken from IL
foundation and moved a mile or sC
TO a new location.
In a short time the site it vacated
will be occupied by a filling station
Several years ago an editoria
writer on The Herald was bemoan
ing the fact that there were no at
tractive filling stations in Browns
yille-or any other kind.
That condition has changed. thanh
you. As matter of fact. little
space is being permitted to remain
for any other purpose.