Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-11-30
I'm OUR
VALLEY

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hiila.
Retail merchants ail over the Val
'ey will appreciate their charge
trade baying their bills on the first
Or December, or within a few days
thereafter.
When customers pay their ner-
ehantss then the merchants may, Ii
turn, pay their own bills.
Mostly, it all comes in and prompt
II goes out. Travels in circle.
Yours will come back to you from
ne other fellow, II everybody adopts
the plan.
Retail merchants, and other lines,
are seriously concerned about the
"hot cheek" wave.
It's so foolish, really, TO issue a
-hot check" It's certain to come
back Costs your banker money and
makes him angry. Should.
Why skid" yourself by giving q
not check" in payment OF a bill!
TOMORROW, THURSDAY, Is the
last day Of the Valley Mid-Winter
Fair.
It's Harlingen Day. also Southern
Pacific Day.
And it's the day on which Har-
lingen will see the return Of it's
football hero, Carroll Baize, the
RED Grange Of the Valley"
Babe Is playing with the Shreve-
port Centenary College team. which
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Junior College on Harlingen ground.
It's fine time to see a coming
big time" player in action.
And don't forget that on the fol-
lowing day, at Brownsville, the
Palestine I1nior High and the
Brownsville Junior High teams will
meet.
FIRST FOG Of the fall season
rolled over the Brownsville area on
Wednesday morning. Perhaps win
Ter II coming. Ihatli make the re-
tail merchants glad.
PROF. BEN ID. Wood, psychologist
Of national reputation, graduate of
the Brownsville ard Mission high
schools, and now educational re-
search specialist Of Columbia Uni
versity. New York, continues 10 make
the welIgin ring on this question OF
diagnosing individual capabilities Of
youth.
The st. Paul (Minn.) Dispatch re-
Gently carried the following on Prof
Woods visit 70 the University OF
Minnesota.
"An educational physician who
believes that the job Of diagnosing
individual capabilities Of youth be-
fore sending them on the college is
q more complex problem than the
physician faces in diagnosing n pa
tient's nilment, came 70 the Uni
versity OF Minnesota Monday "a pre-
sent his findings 10 the faculty AZ
twelve conferences.
"He is Professor Ben d. Wood.
psychologist and educational re-
search specialist mt the Columbia
University. who Is nationally recog-
nized mn one of the foremost ex-
moments Of the trend in higher edu-
cation that stresses the fitting Of
college training 70 individual tai
ent."
Mr.. Woods idea. boiled down, is
that II Ia n waste 20 spoil a good
boilermaker by trying 70 make =
doctor or lawyer or a banker OF
him.
THE BoRDERLAND furniture
store, Ia planning a little heautifica-
zion scheme Of its cwn.
There "a q space between the side
walk and the building at the cor
nsr OF Tenth and Washington. Span
iah darrers have been Set out At
several points. and along the Tenth
street side Manager Hamilton il
planting flowers.
A little flowcry heaaty right up
against masonry and stucco, in the
business district. will certainly at
tract attention.
SINCE WRITING a paragraph up
above recording the first fog Of the
fnli season. and forccasting winter,
word comes over the wires of SHOWS
,n Colorado and Kansas, and north
ar at San Antonio.
Due 70 reach the Valley tonight,
unless II happens 20 sidestep as.
IA win be welcome, just 80 Il
doesn't interfere with those sched-
nled football games Mt Harlingen ard
Brewnsville. Thursday and Friday.
WET NoRTHER will. be Of
.mt ahrefit "a the Valley. which