Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-06-21
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} ATHER unkind to Brownsville,

- ATHER unkind to Brownsville,
AN was an editorial in the Tele-
grsm of McAllen. date June IL.
Two years or more ago, when the
University of Texas began worrying
over its crowded condition. and con-
ceived the idea of scattering junior
universities over the state, giving the
complete first two years of university
work, Superintendent T. J. Yoe of the
Browasyille schools began laying
I-ptS1As TO have such a facility for
ztcdents of Brownsville and territory.
All of which is a sort of explanatory
of the following. taken from The Tel
egram. which also publishes a Span
ish language daily:
brownsville has made n presump-
tuous assumption when she ventures
to suppose that il is settled fact
that should junior college he es-
tablished in the Rio Grande Valley.
IL will be located in that city This
rs the conclusion one gets from read
ing the news story in a recent issue
of the Brownsville paper"
And the conclusion one gets from
reading that paragraph is that who
ever wrote il hadn't the least idea of
what he was writing about
As a matter Of fact there is abso-
lutely no reason why McAllen
shouldn't have a junior university,
IL McAlien wants il badly enough.
McAlien has a wonderful school
system, and is preparing to spend
something like 1925. 900 in improve
ments.
There should. in fact. be such a
school at McAllen or vicinity. and it
Is our guess that if McAllen wants
the school she can get it. All that
Is necessary, we believe, Is for Nc
Allen to meet certain requirements.
The establishment of this facility
in McAllen or vicinity will make 1t
possible for students in all parts of
Hidalgo county to attend the junior
university without the necessity Of
leaving their homes.
Insofar as Brownsville's "presump-
tuous assumption" is concerned. this
city is by no means certain that II
will have the junior university. 1t
hopes that it will. The requirements
are difficult to meet.
IL is unfortunate that the McAllen
morning paper. which started out
4 with very broad policy as an "all-
Valley newspaper" should undertake
TO administer a "knock" TO Browns
willie because Brownsville had the
"audacity" to undertake to secure the
location Of a Junior university.
The lists have been closed, and the
candidates are preparing to run it
out on the home stretch.
Thus far the very best spirit of
campaigning has been evidenced on
the part of candidates who have op-
position.
Candidates can even be seen con
ferring together.
There were possibly thousand per-
sons on Padre Island beach Sunday.
IL that number is correct, il proper
facilities were provided, such as a
hard surfaced road. a quick and con
venient transfer to Padre Island
across the Laguna Madre. there would
be anywhere from 5000 to 10000 per-
sons on the beach in weather such as
that of yesterday.
In these piping times of prosperity
and warm weather, the good folks of
the country want somewhere to go.
And why not to the beaches. is the
way they look at it.
Colonel Sam Robertson is doing his
best 10 meet the situation in getting
traffic across the Laguna Madre. His
transfer boat. the Mitzi, is now en-
'route to Point Isabel