Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-01-05
ORDER ACTION AGAINST OIL COMP ANIES
I'm OUR
VALLEY

ENEkfONE'S HEARD Of the story
OF the hunter who shot a buck and
was so unfortunate - 20 have the
bullet pass on through the antlered
gentlemen and penetrate his lady
friend in the offing. grounding her.
Now comes Dean y. X Dupre
with story Of how his automobile
ran afoul Of buck and doe on the
highway between Mason and Fred
terieksburg. killing both.
The story also serves an adver-
Using purpose. IL was given TO The
Associated Press. and while telling
the story Of the accidcnt--wh:ch the
dean AYERS il was-wili also note
that Brownsville has a junior col
lege.
SPEAKING OF publicity. there
was a time in the Valley when our
patriotic residents objected, some
times quite strennously. over news
stories sent out by Valley corre-
spondents and which appeared in the
big city papers.
10 realize that those stories are
really good advertising for the Val
ley. II freezes and frosts and other
bad weathers were the usual thing.
il would not be news. Since they are
unusual, they become news when
they happen. And as such. they serve
10 advertise the fact. not that the
l.sts hot -
was unusual.
It's like the remark Of Horace
Greeley on one occasion when he
was lecturing on the subject Of
"News." that if q dog bites man.
IL il not news: hut IL q man bites
a dog. il Is news"
UP TO YESTERDAY. the Valley
this season has shipped exactly one
hundred per cent more fruits and
vegetables. in carloads. than were
shipped on the same date last year.
A total az 1929 carloads had gone
4 up 20 Yesterday. while one year ago.
n on the same date. the figure was GA
r. or just ear nore than double.
It's = splendid hop-off for the
spring flight. and perhaps that
mark Of 20.o00 cars for the season
| i not 50 far fetched - some may
| think.
THE HERALD congratulates Mr.
and Mrs. Percy J. Williams of Nc
Allen as the parents ~ the Valleys
first 1927 baby. horn At 1910 a. NJ.
January |.
Weighing twelve pounds. he must
surely he HUSKY young nam. des-
tined. no doubt. 20 enter the heavy
weight fighting lists 81 the world.
Raby Williams will have many
gifts shcwcred upon him. ani his
parents. by BroNnsvillc merchants,
as will be- noted elsewhere in The
} Herald today.
YESTERDAY The Herald carried
! an Associated Press dispatch which
announccd that the first license bad
been issued for telephone service
across the ocean. the permit goire 20
the American Telephone A Tcir-
graph Company.
Which causes one %. wonder what
the new spapcrnan would have
thought. were he alive TODAY. who
wrote the following IN IN eastern
newspaper more than half century
ago:
a man about ss wears az age,
giving the name Of Joshua Copncr-
smith. has been arrested in New
York for attempting 70 extert
funds from ignorant and snrcrsti-
tious pcaple ~ exhibiting de-
vice which he SAYS will convey the
human voice ary distance over me-
tallic wires 50 that Il viii be heard
by listener "a the other end.
ale calls the inStrumcn, "a .telc-
phone. which is obviously intended
to initiate the world telegraph and
win the confidence 81 those who
know Of the success Of the latter in-
strument without understanding the
principles on which il is based
"well informed people know that
Il Il impossible to transmit the hG-
man voice over the Wires. as max hc
done with the dots and dashcs and
signals Of the Morse code. and that.
we're il possible 10 do 50. the thing
would be 81 no practical benefit
~The authorities who apprehcnded
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