Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-12-13
lNDlCT FOURTEEN ON PEONAGE CHARGES
i'm OUR
VALLEY

The McALLEN PRESS announces
that the Southern Pacific has let
contract for erection of freight sta
tions in McAllen and in Edinburg.
Evidently then, contrary to ru-
lmors that have been going around,
the Southern Pacific has never had
any idea Of changing its McAllen
plan.
Instead of that, according to the
Mission Enterprise. the Southern
Pacific has in mind another appli-
lcation which would carry its line in
to Mission.
! Mission has supported the plans
Of the Southern Pacific right along,
and was among the intervening cities
} at the time the original application
/ was heard in Brownsville.
n All of which seems to bear out the
rly announcement Of the Southern
,cific that il expected eventually
to serve all the Valley.
WELL NOW, what do you know
about this, from the Mission Enter
prise:
"The Brownsville Herald doubtless
knows its business, but as an ordi-
nary paragraph writer. We believe
that it could increase its circulation
by remembering that everything OF
value to the country does not orig
mate in Brownsville. Events of i'm
portance have time and again orig
mated in Hidalgo county. but have
been written up under a Brownsville
date line. Recently The Herald has
had something to say about the
Longhorn Band coming to the Val
lev. hut failed to mention the fact
the idea originated in Mission and
that Mission was the first town IN
the Valley to sign the contract and
Edinburg second to accept a date.
"The Herald has failed to ever
mention the fact that the NJ. p. tram
Is run from Mission to st. Louis and
il so scheduled on the time table
It may be hard TO admit that the
"stub" runs to Brownsville, but II
The F.fald is to be Valley daily II
6nust give up the news and all the
news without regard for the troubles
IL may cause the advertising man
ager."
THE HERALD surely is glad to
know that the Longhorn band IL com
ing to Mission upon its invitation
and that Mission was first to sign
the contract.
A we understand it from dis
match sent out by the publicity de-
nartment of the University OF Tex
as. n dispatch received not only oy
this paper, but a great many Others
the Longhorn band will visit many
towns between Brownsville ana
Mission. 1t won't be. the first time
the Longhorn band has visited the
Valley. And we are delighted to
know from the Enterprise that it is
the enterprise of Mission that has
resulted in a return.
About that VI. r. train, frankly we
didn't know it operated from Mis-
sion to st. Louis. We did know,
however, that the Missouri Pacific
operates a sleeping car from Mission
to st. Louis. via Houston where IT
is "hooked on" the Sunshine Special.
Likewise. a St. Louis sleeper leaves
Brownsville every evening on "The
Pioneer" II is transferred to the
San Antonio, Uvalde & Gulf at Odem,
is carried into San Antonio, where
the next morning it is hooked on
the Sunshine Special for st. Louis.
About that "stub" that "runs to
Brownsville" the epithet depends
upon where you live. II you live
between Harlingen and Mission, the
train to Brownsville is the "stub," T"
but to residents between Harlingen
and Brownsville, the train between
Harlingen and Mission is "stub."
But whatever it's name, well ad-
NIT it's pretty good train either
way.
THE CAMERON county commits
sioners will award a big flood con-
troll contract on January IL. next.
This contract will cover a major
part of the flood control work. since
IL has to do with the construction of
the north fioodway. which is de-
signed to carry off huge volume
of flood waters.
All of which brings to mind again,
the Rio Grande has been kind to the
Valley since flood control was first
made possible. And by the time the
next flood season arrives, which will
be in June, the work should be so
far along that well have flood con-
troll.
And it will be interesting to OBJ
serve its operations.