Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-21
I'm OUR
VALLEY

DON'T WANT TO disparage Cor
pus Christi and Laredo as banking
centers.
At the same time Brownsville
can't help but gloat a bit over the
fact that il continues to be the lead
ing financial center Of all South Tex
as, Houston and San Antonio ex-
cepted, Of course.
Bank deposits in Brownsville more
than $l0.00O,OOO.
Bank resources in Brownsville
nearly sl2.000,000.
There are towns up in Northwest
Texas that seem to be as large as
Brownsville in every way except in
bank figures. Brownsville exceeds
Lubbock and Brownwood, for ex-
ample, by more than double.
Even beats Sherman, Temple,
Creenville, and isn't so far behind
towns like Abilene.
The banks of Brownsville are 10
be congratulated for their splendid
showing.
HAVE YOU A LITTLE gas stove
In your home!
II not. why not!
Merchants all over the Valley are
showing displays OF gas stoves for
every purpose.
They are offering all sorts of in
ducements.
Buy a stove, they will urge. pay a
dollar down and we'll collect one
the next time we catch you. And
send In the old stove.
EIGHT THOUSAND persons a
few weeks ago gathered around The
Herald office OF hear the story Of
the ring battle being staged by Tun-
ney and Dempsey in Chicago.
Which was a pretty fair percent
age Of the population of this city.
you'll admit.
But there's n federal law against
transporting prize fight movies and
n state law that says they can't be
shown.
No law against megaphoning the
results, the story, or showing them
on n screen.
Hard to differentiate between that
and the actual pictures, isn't IL?
II all came about as a result of
the negro Johnson's victory some
years ago.
Now rovnnw a wurrep,a souv4 fuv
tice in New York state who says its
no crime to show such pictures.
THIS WRITER SAT- in a theater
IN San Antonio some days ago and
viewed the Photographic reproduc-
tion Of this fight.
Thousands were inside seeing the
ssme thing.
Additional thousands were outside
waiting for an opportunity to get in.
Same thing in Dallas, and prob
ably in thousands of other cities and
towns an the United States.
There are elements in this Tun-
ney-Dempsey picture that are draw
ing thousands where another fight
picture wouldn't pay for the show
ing.
AND If YOU WANT TO see men
exert themselves to another sort OF
purpose 60 out on the Southern Pa
cific right of way today or tomorrow.
Right at the city limits, near
Buena Vista cemetery.
You'll see men fighting to move
ereosoted crosSties rapidly.
Other men fighting to move steel
rails that weigh ninety pounds to
every yard.
Still others holding squirming
compressed air hose. They're boiling
fish -lates TO bind rails.
An. others with hefty sledge ham
mers. driving spikes. Never miss
lick.
THE WORK TRAIN Of the South
ern Pacific will be "struttinv its
stuff" in the Brownsville yards TO-
night or Saturday.
IL will be the realization OF an
undertaking that started back in the
EANAH Hafb VI AS~o NNtn the CNUtn-
ern Pacific first applied for permits
sion to extend its San Antonio a.
Aransas Pass property into the Val
ley.
Really. though. II goes back even
more, back some seventy-five years
when the Sap started for the Valley,
but never got any farther than
Falfurrias when laws forced the
Southern Pacific to relieve itself of
the Sap.
Later laws permitted II 70 reac-
quire the property. Times and laws
do change. What was illegal a few
years ago is now legal. The public
comes 70 realize that il must have
the corporations, and the corpora
tsons have come 10 realize that they
must play the game right with the
public. That's n realization all over
the country. especially 80 among the
utilities and the transportation COM
panies.